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Headline doesn't match article. the article explains how it's easy to fake residency for tax purposes, buy putting a few cheap props I the low tax state. Judges don't understand that things that are precious to low wealth individuals are easy for wealthy individuals to buy, cheap relative to the tax bills. The first example was the $400K tax cancelled because the guy hired a dogsitter in Texas.
One user research task is often to give names to ideas that we don't otherwise know how to describe. Like in bookmark research they distinguish between bookmarks that represent something you saved, vs. bookmarks that represent some navigational shortcut you are creating for yourself.

For tabs, I can imagine different ways of thinking about them:

1. An activity you have to complete. Or start.
2. A piece of information you think you may need to be aware of.
3. Something that interests you, but you are leaving for when you are in some particular state of mind (e.g., ready to read something long and involved).
4. Something shared with you, that you feel obliged to respond to.
5. One of a set of things that represents some pending task.
6. Something information you may need to revisit. Or you may have finished it, but it's yet to be "garbage collected". MDN pages usually fall in this category for me – I'll quickly come back a couple times to the page, but I only know I'm "finished" because I don't come back. So it sits there.

And for each of these there's the state of "maybe". Maybe I'll need this. Maybe I'll need to be aware of this. Maybe I should reply to my friend about this.
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>Public servants

All public servants or just those paid by your statea and/or federal governments? Could you find out how much someone made at the NSA, for example?

>Sweden.

Tax returns are not the same as pay transparency. In premise, yes, in practice, no, because a tax return is based on taxable income only. So, let's say I have tax credits for having three kids. My taxable income would be vastly different from yours, if you have no kids.

>Buffer

Overflow...?
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What do you mean? https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/ includes formal specifications.
Yeah, this isn't what we're talking about at all.

Outcome: Women working as programmers at FooSoft comprise 10% less of the workforce than men working there.

Possible reasons

1. Hiring bias

2. Not as qualified

3. Less applicants due to disinterest in programming as a vocation
> accurate opinions

You can have an accurate or inaccurate belief on a question of fact, but “accuracy” is not a measure that applies to matters of opinion.
There are many factors to consider in order to interpret the stats.

The data indicates that women are underrepresented in STEM field, but we can also argue that men are underrepresented in educational field. Why aren't there more women in fields like firefighters, oil rigs, dangerous jobs?

Fundamentally, men and women are different both biologically and psychologically. To generalize, men are more interested in things and engineering and women are more interested in people and relationship. But that doesn't mean their intelligences differ. Intelligence expresses itself in different ways.

If a little girl says to her parents that she likes math, it's not like her parents would say, "no, you can't like math, you should go play with your dolls, math is for boys".

We can't equalize outcomes, there's no way we can have 50/50 across every field. What we can do is to equalize opportunity and level the playing field. Accepting women or men for a job just for the same of equal representation at workforce instead of evaluate their abilities for the job is just plain irresponsible.
It's one thing to fight against blatant sexism which I'm for, but this is turning into something else.

Maybe it's the result of individuals asynchronously but collaboratively acting to get the most for their class of people. Since there isn't a "council of women in technology" that meets bi-weekly to decide what each speaker should do for each conference, the women speakers act independently much of the time. To get the best for women they know they have to ask for stuff: fees, travel, tickets for other women. Men are not going to just give it to them. They try to do their level best there every time they get an invite. Every so often -- through casual conversation, meet-ups, online communities, articles in magazines, letters to the editor -- there is a chance to communicate about what worked and what didn't. There isn't an easy way for communication to happen about the net effect of speakers' actions for a particular conference when it's happening, or even afterward. There is a ratchet effect and in, addition, a general sense that "there is still more to be done" for women in technology. When the next conference rolls around, still more is attempted...
> The worst part about USB-C is that it can be implemented so wrong it bricks your device!

The miswiring that bricked his device, swapping GND and VBUS, could also happen with older USB plugs. There's nothing specific to USB-C about it, USB plugs have a defined polarity for the power pins since the very first version of the standard.
Maybe, it could also mean that Google go to another state who will offer a tax incentive, and the state loses out.

Or, as AOC would say: saves $15m.
I dunno, but turning my home circuit breakers off does make me feel better
It is not progress at all. The pendulum of who to discriminate against has been swinging back and forth for hundreds of years. And every time a new group is targeted, it is to the cheers of some other group.

It's difficult to have a factual debate around workplace discrimination because anyone who suggests that women are being favoured, is instantly attacked by social justice activists who rely more on moral outrage rather than facts or logic. A lot of the discussion on this thread today would not be something that people would say out loud near coworkers.
Let me get this straight: When women are hired less, it's because they're simply not interested. But when men are hired less, it's because they're being discriminated against?

I think my hypothesis is simpler:

- Women are discriminated against in the industry as a whole

- Google actively discriminates in favor of women

It's discrimination both times.
What large scale white & Christian discrimination has existed historically, in the US? When were white Christians not allowed to vote or paid less? What's wrong with a conference for women, how exactly is that different than a conference for engineers, or a store for pet owners?
welcome to the HN paradox.
Moreover we’re all consuming censored results. One is more heavy handed than the other, but we’re all consuming curated results, to one extent or another.
There is a reason to encourage this, it encourages taxes and their results to be levied and spent closer to the same place. Across states, it allows for experimentation in our government with different programs and balances.
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If corporations are people, then laws are corporation's moral compass. The solution would likely be to produce regulations to provide a moral compass to corporations so that they are required to exhibit the behavior we would like them to have. Corporations are legal automatons, and need to be treated as such.

This doesn't necessarily mean we need more rules - we could easily improve regulation by creating rules with fewer, broader commands. Certainly, this would create some inefficiency, but it would be inefficiency on the commercial side, rather than the legislative one. (i.e. simpler, broader laws make certain commercial activities illegal when there might be nuanced reasons that they should be allowed, vs detailed and exhaustive regulations create more corporate opportunity but also more loopholes and regulatory surface area.)
> Those justifications you lay out are real, but if you pay google for them in the form of a tax break it all balances out. It doesn't create value from nothing.

Only under the assumption that $15M is the exact maximum amount that the city would pay for the listed benefits (i.e. the exact break even number). Probably it is worth more than that to the city (or else they probably wouldn't do the deal), so the reality is that Google is capturing some of the surplus value, and the city is capturing some.
I'm honestly quite taken aback by this.

I want to say sorry, and I will, but I know it's not personally my fault and I know it won't make much of a difference to your circumstances now or in the future. But still, I'm sorry you've had this experience.

I have to be honest and say this, but I think what you've experienced is very much an American culture kind-of-thing. Every time I read a comment like this, besides making me sad and angry, it tends to always come from somewhere in America.

I'm sure something similar has happened and continues to happen here in Australia, but I've seen little of it. That being said, as I sit here now in a very large, well known company, my line of sight gives me a head count of about 30 men and 2 women. This makes me sad and angry, too.

I don't know what to do about this besides encouraging women to come into the industry and protecting them in a none condescending, white-knight, women-are-weak sort of way...
Yes, I mean re-characterizing most income taxes as payroll taxes.

E.g:

Alice lives in Incometaxifornia, she makes $100,000 and pays 10% income tax ($10,000) to Incometaxifornia. The federal government wants to tax her on $100,000 even though her take home after state taxes is only $90,000.

Bob lives in Payrolltaxifornia. He makes $90,000 and his employer pays payroll taxes of 11.11111...% ($10,000) to Payrolltaxifornia. The federal government only wants to tax him on $90,000, which is also his take home after state taxes.

Payrolltaxifornia gets the same tax money as Incometaxifornia, but its citizens are taxed less by the fed. Clearly Payrolltaxifornia is a better place to live.
I'm curious to know where one gets such "heigh-support" data from?
OH sorry to hear that are you on Dialysis yet?
Well you will need plenty of states to vote this change, and I think they would vote against it, even if on paper it gives them more economic power and independence.
You get this through informal channels - basically this is just a group of friends where someone offers to babysit the kids free-of-charge one day when their friend really needs it, and then the friend reciprocates, and they each bring in a few more friends that they know are trustworthy, and so on. I'd imagine thousands of such groups of friends exist (I suspect this is the primary form of support in many immigrant communities), but you wouldn't really hear about them, because it's all word-of-mouth through social connections. My wife and I have certainly done this for our friends, though, and it's come back to us.

For more institutionalized settings, there's co-op daycares, but we looked into this and they're largely incompatible with having two working parents since the schedule usually requires volunteering in the middle of the workday.
I'm part Cherokee. I'm trying to learn about that aspect of my heritage. My father was very white passing and I believe he actively tried to convince the world to perceive him as white to sidestep the horrifying impact of racism.

I imagine Natives probably don't feel so positive about the success of the homestead act.

A thing I wrote previously that really opened my eyes to how insidiously Native land and wealth was stolen by homesteaders:

https://1001histories.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-little-known-...
I'm sorry you've had shitty experiences. No on deserves that.

Honestly I'm terrible at names and people only remember mine because it's ethnic. I wouldn't read too much in clients not remembering your name correctly. Humans are generally just bad at names and it might not have anything to do with their perception of you.

I have to ask though, why do you think you were often one of the few/only women/woman at these shops. Did they actively try to recruit women? Did you see women get interviewed but who just didn't make the cut? The last time I was at a shop where they made me go through resumes, I rarely even saw women in the application stack.

I worked with an amazingly talented woman who started back in the day at RealMedia writing C++ codecs. She told me about several cases of harassment or even things like asking her to wear a certain dress a manager liked when she was at trade shows/booths.

I also worked with an English woman at the same company several years my senior, who's been both a developer and product manager, and who says she hasn't experienced that type of harassment while in the tech sector.

I hate anecdotal stuff like this though, because it just doesn't build a big enough picture, which is why actual studies are insightful.

But going back to my question: do you think these shops were actively discriminating against women, passively (subconsciously) discriminating or there simply weren't enough women applicants (they do tend to get sucked up by the big players like Google/Facebook/etc.)
Fyi, I'm definitely stealing your analogy.
Cloudflare still seems to operate pretty similar to a startup despite now being huge. These days, it seems like a lot more companies that begin as startups are preserving more of that experimental, innovative culture to their later stages. Y Combinator, and others, definitely deserve credit for positively influencing the industry.
I don't think you're listening to the above poster very well; or giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Boys are statistically over prescribed ADD medication in schools because, studies show, teachers are more likely to write them up for being a distraction to class.

So, this thread says the daughter is being pushed to like math over animals, yet, you doubt that a son (there is no gender gap pre-high school in math, infact, females earn higher grades) is being pushed to study math over animals, recess, or babies.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the...

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/women_and_m...
Not really. Take a look at this blog post written right before the 4.0 release by kdesktop's maintainer who founded Plasma:

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/01/talking-bluntly.html

To quote:

KDE 4.0.0 is our "will eat your children" release of KDE4, not the next release of KDE 3.5. The fact that many already use it daily for their desktop (including myself) shows that it really won't eat your children, but it is part of that early stage in the release system of KDE4. It's the "0.0" release. The amount of new software in KDE4 is remarkable and we're going the open route with that.
It was one of the universities in Germany, but I cannot find the source now. I was primarily reading material on the postgraduate studies. As a semi-reference, this Spegiel article[1] explains how important the perception of gender equality has become in German academia in recent years.

[1] http://spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/potsdam-university...
Weird! That doesn't come from us.
To be fair, UML runs at such a low level (raw syscalls rather than calls to, for instance, malloc and free) that it really limits what valgrind can tell you.
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I like their "dirt".
> Okay, so what to do with this when I don't want to do any harm? I have contacted abuse@ for the given addresses, but unsurprisingly received no reply.

shutdown -h now
If people are sharing their own PII in HN comments, they agreed to HN's T&Cs when signing up. Such T&Cs state (heavily trimmed for length):

By uploading any User Content you hereby grant [..] a nonexclusive, worldwide [..] irrevocable license to [..] distribute [..] your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form [..]

Agreeing to the T&Cs and deliberately sharing information publicly covers the GDPR's "consent" lawful base.

Even under GDPR this is not a situation where someone signed up for something else and then happen to have their personal data shared as a byproduct. They signed up to a site, agreed to T&Cs, and then explicitly and deliberately shared their personal data.
> I'm not saying that people don't have the right to morally object something like this project, but it's kind of baffling that many are loudly voice their concerns while looking the other way when tweet from their Chinese made iPhones, and write dissenting articles in their Chinese made computers.

I don't get it — following your logic people shouldn't be protesting anything China-related because they're using chinese goods? I mean, this isn't a binary issue — you can buy chinese computers because most computers are made there and regret that Google is building a search engine to censor political queries.
Any chance that was a limit of your version of TurboTax and they were trying to sell you a fancier copy?
> Instead many women just avoid HN—which in turn means that it becomes more male dominated, with more upvotes and mindshare to comments about experiences of "the other" that may not by particularly well informed—because it's not worth the time of a woman to even chime in.

So how do we solve this? How do we be more inclusive from day zero? Where does it all begin?

I think you'll find these problems stem much earlier in a man's life when the education system helps teach them to be men and helps women be women in the traditional sense. We're all placed in boxes and told to be a certain way.

So what do we do?
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Having worked with a few different standards before, I was pleasantly surprised by how easy to understand and ergonomic (https://github.com/google/mundane/blob/master/DESIGN.md) the WebAuthn spec was.
Strongly agree with this. I live in Europe, my tuition was free, and the paradigms are hugely different to the US, with things like: free health care, and such.

And still, the article reads to me like "upper middle class kids have it so hard today because they can't get as rich as their parents too easily".

The economic shift is real, but the wealth of our MIDDLE CLASS parent generation was an oddity in itself, not comparable to the reality of most people now OR then.
I bet they have apps they could require people to stick in their phone which do the same thing.

If not, and you feel like contributing to the dystopian hellscape we live in: business oppos!
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Because fundamentally, the DRAM is a major component of the computer, just as CPU cores are a major component of the computer.

Now, I'd personally explain things in a far more simple manner than what was described in the PDF. Here are the facts that programmers need to know:

1. DRAM stores data in very tiny capacitors. These tiny capacitors have two properties: they run out of electricity in just 64ms. And second, they run out of electricity after a SINGLE read operation.

2. DRAM has a temporary location called "sense amplifiers" where data is stored during a refresh or a read. These sense amplifiers can hold data permanently.

3. This "temporary read" is called Row-open (or RAS). Reading from an already open row is called a Column-read (CAS). Sending the data back to DRAM proper is called Precharge (PRE). Remember, the sense amplifiers must be clear before they can read from a new row. (The old data in DRAM was destroyed when you read it with the RAS operation)

4. I guess there's a periodic refresh you should know about: instead of trying to fix all RAM every 64ms, you're supposed to do it in small chunks at a time. Every dozen microseconds, RAM will self-read / self-write to refresh another row. Don't be surprised if your memory-reads randomly stall out an extra few hundred nanoseconds because of this refresh.

The end. Not so hard, now is it?

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DRAM is faster when you stream, because you open a row once, fill out all the data in a row, and then send the row back to DRAM. In effect, you only have to do a bunch of "column" writes to sense amplifiers, as opposed to opening-and-closing a bunch of different rows.

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So yeah, programmers should know it because its really not that hard to learn :-) And if you start measuring your program at the nanosecond level, you'll actually see these effects and start to demand explanations.

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EDIT: Hmmm... the more I think of it, the less its something "programmers" need to know and something "SysAdmins / DevOps need to know". An advanced Sys Admin can use these profiler tools to figure out whether they need that 6x Memory Channel computer or the 8x Memory channel computer on the next purchase.

Is your code memory-bound? Or is it CPU bound? Should you buy more cores? Should you buy more LRDIMMs for higher amounts of RAM? Or is your program latency-bound and actually benefits from the lower latency of RDIMMs or even UDIMMs ?

The programmers kinda don't make those decisions.
This, I see burnout in college athletes because they didn't actually want to be good at their sport, but mom and dad made them.
Despite the article stating in the beginning that "company officials acknowledged that it did not address whether women were hired at a lower pay grade than men with similar qualifications." Completely ignored by everyone jumping to conclusions and yelling "told you so". Tech still has a problem with sexism. It's getting better. But you're right that women aren't debating and fighting those battles in forums like this where the most vocal are those who insist no problem exists.
>Google is promising to bring 50 full-time positions to the area. The company also projects that it will create 2,300 jobs during the 18–24 month construction window—a far shorter period than the 20 years of tax relief they're requesting. After construction wraps, with 18 remaining years of tax abatement, there will be a $270,000 tax shortfall for every full-time position created.

I read that paragraph from the article to read that after the 20 year term google is looking for this tax relief, the town will be net negative 270K for each of the 50 employees Google creates. If that is not what that paragraph means, then I agree with you, but, my interpretation is that for the state to break even, google has to generate an additional 270K of economic return to the state per each person at the google data center. I find that number to be unlikely.
> this unwillingness to play ball may just result in the companies fleeing to other countries rather than other states

If they could they will do it. But it is not possible as you need data locality. If your data center is in China, it cannot compete in speed with a local data center. And this is true in different ways for a lot of businesses. That is one of the many reasons why all business are not already in India even that everything is way cheaper there.

And how a small company can compete with this kind of deals? Google is already having a scale advantage add to that tax breaks and it's impossible to compete with them. These tax breaks have a very bad impact on any capitalist economy.
Whatever unfair advantages you think your women colleagues have, unless you are black or latinx, it is unlikely you will ever experience the feelings of isolation and otherness that most women deal with throughout their tech careers.

Are these two things mutually exclusive? Women could both have the advantages outlined by OP and feel more isolated.
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Can you list any data showing datacenters increase land value? Or have boosted an economy? Or are these theoretical benefits?