skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLC[1] mostly does what it says on the tin: it limits the liability to the company, not yourself or other owners. Without this any debt or judgement against your company can consume potentially most of your net worth (subject to bankrupcy, etc.). In practice for a freelancer this means you can limit your liability pretty strongly, if you are passing everything through as payroll the asset value of your company can be quite small, and it's value without you nil.

On the other hand various types of corporate insurance cover you for particular risks. Depending where and how you operate you may have to have them by statute or by practicality. So you may have to carry liability insurance by law if you have an office where people visit, or a contract may require that you hold E&O insurance up to a certain amount. In a way the latter is actually your customer protecting themselves from your use of a LLC. Without it, in the case of a settlement against you, you could easily just turn around and say "fine, the corporate account has $5 in it, here you go" and then fold up the company leaving them with no recourse. With E&O coverage for certain types of errors, they know they can get covered in a settlement up to a certain amount.

E&O covers you for particular failures in providing the service you are contract for. Say you were an electrician and did some work on a new building. They sue you claiming your work wasn't to code and caused them $100k in trouble with the city - you disagree. E&O insurance covers your court costs and potentially your settlement if it goes that way. It isn't going to cover you if you get sued for libel because of things you said about them, etc.

This is also why, for example, it may be hard/impossible to get underwriters for some software consulting. Because there are not professional standards groups that are well recognized and because potential damages from software can be difficult to asses (your script change cost us $10mm in AWS fees) insurance companies may not want anything to do with it.

So that leads to a third prong of protections which you didn't mention, which is you need to pay attention to your contract terms (and set them as much as you can). Depending on your situation this can range from easy to impossible, but can have a huge impact. For example, I've successfully added clauses to limit all liability to actual spend on previous 6 mo.

[1] this is hugely dependent on jurisdiction, particularly with single member variants.
I don't understand why the author is so upset? Seems like someone wanted do buy something of his, they couldn't reach an agreement, and both parties stopped talking.

"I started to understand that Mr. Wolfram simply needed a good information designer -- not another domain name. I tried to tell him that. I tried to offer my services, which at the time, I thought were most excellent. But Mr. Wolfram's assistant insisted that they needed my domain (I know, I know -- it's the marketing people...)

So I went to my calculater and figured that those 44 domains they already bought had cost them $3080 to buy plus $1540 per year to maintain! Wow, they have a domain name budget! So I decided to base the price on Dr. Wolfram's net worth (I figured $100,000 was a fair point to start), and, in addition, I decided to ask for perpetual use of the email addresses eric@wolfram.org, eric@wolfram.com, and the web domains eric.wolfram.com and eric.wolfram.org."

Honestly my response would be pretty similar to the assistant's: "no thanks"
I'm only a little hesitant to believe this because people say this about lots of places in San Francisco ("don't go there, it's dangerous") etc. and my parents in their 60s go there quite often and they don't think it's particularly bad. And I recall people saying that about London too and the so-called no-go zones were not really that.

I don't think it's political. I think some people have just grown up in very safe environments and have a smaller comfort zone.

Of course if you're intimately familiar with this by living in France or something I wouldn't question it, but if you're just looking in from the outside, then it's all shadows on a cave wall.
I worked with people in your situation. They had to stay on 12 months after acquistion, each made millions. The former managing director was stripped off so much power she decided to work as customer care staff instead. CTO saved all his holiday days (25 in Germany) so he can take the last month off instead of going to the office. The third found had a deal to get promoted to vice president international and more or less jet-setted from one office to the next, as far as I remember he didn't accomplish much but he switched so often people didn't notice. None stayed a day a longer than contractually required.

Can you try becoming an outside consultant to the company instead?
The short answer is yes. The long answer is that the Supreme Court would have to get involved. And they are very reluctant to make any kind of new interpretation of the Constitution for something like this.
FWIW I did not downvote anyone in this thread. I feel like the worst motivations are being assigned to me throughout this thread. If anyone cares, no, I do not have bad intentions. I saw some claims that were hard to reconcile with the data I had. That's really all. I don't want anyone to suffer, and I know blacks disproportionately suffer police violence and ordinary violence.

My takeaway here is that people simply care A LOT more about police violence than ordinary violence, something like 20X.
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Nice reply. Thanks.

I suspected MITM is now technically feasible. Although I wasn’t quite sure how widespread it was.

The stingray is indeed worrying. And it’s been around for nearly 20 years now.

So everyone with a cell phone, or using WiFi over a cellular hotspot, can now get caught up in a MITM exploitation attack, if they browse a non-https website.

When will the network providers now issue a blanket ban on browsing over plain http?
I love this kind of software meta-analysis. I have idly dreamed of setting up a site that essentially did literature review of existing solutions and approaches.

I thought it would be a good contribution for a language with strong academic roots like Racket. I suspect a lot of good libraries remain unwritten in part because ecosystems tend to grow organically. Organic is good, but I’m positive that even basic meta-analysis like linked article would lead to better libraries in more languages, with less labor expended.
This is a speech on Islamic separatism in France, by current President Macron (in French, obviously):

https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2020/02/18/proteger-le...

He is using multiple times the expression "quartiers de reconquête républicaine" ("suburbs for the Republic to re-conquer").

If the President of a country considers he needs to reconquer parts of his own country, don't you think there is a bit of a problem, beyond whatever Fox News might say?
Holy shit indeed. Any new thoughts as a result of this?
> "The barrier to entry for GHC development remains impossibly high"

Could not agree more. I've put in a couple merge requests to the ghc Haskell compiler, and it's very difficult to even figure out what's going on, nevermind make a meaningful contribution.
Canada considering internet link tax
On the contrary. Many of these actions are illegal, sometimes even unconstitutional. There may be other laws that make it difficult, or impossible to actually enforce laws against police brutality, but that doesn't change the fact that police officers are breaking the law.
>Tedious to set up, tedious to maintain.

It took me maybe 10 minutes to set up for my nginx setup. Debian and OpenSUSE both package letsencrypt's certbot. Tedious to set up and maintain is essentially the opposite of my experience.
Thanks for replying. What is the size of the data for these 1.6B rides?
I'm assuming the data is on disk (SSD?) and not in-memory. Or, is Quest an in-memory DB?
Couldn't easily find the "releases" page.
No infection, in the history of infections has EVER infected 100% of people. So already I can ignore you as an alarmist. But I won't.

I will say that being susceptible is not evenly distributed across a population. This is why prisons, meat packing and old people homes are more likely to have outbreaks. The corollary to that is that R0 is not consistent in a population. The R0 for people who live in old folks home is far higher than a bachelor who works from home.

So when the person said that they ran out of easy people to infect, that is absolutely true.
Low information density means "less clutter" for somebody new to the interface, but it means "many more steps" to provide all the information that a dense design allows for. So much design fails to take into account human expertise, and our ability to learn complex interfaces. They get the A/B treatment which optimizes for beginners, which always leans towards the simpler, easier design.

This is why we'll never get a better spreadsheet design. In the hands of experts it's already perfect.

If modern UI designers were responsible for building musical instruments, there would be a lot more kazoos and recorders, and a lot fewer cellos and bassoons.
The closing paragraph of poorly disguised SEO keywords related to Mathematica is a nice touch.
This does not belong on hacker news.
Yes I mostly agree.

Also I suspect a lot of the Go executable size comes from "initial" runtime overhead that does not scale linearly with the project size.

Rapid scaling in a "Superbowl ad" or similar situation is affected heavily by cold boot time, which, as you point out, is a result of many factors, including your platform. If you use something like Lambda, your bundle size plays a much bigger role than if you fire up a new EC2 instance.
Searching for an issue was disorienting.
> State border closures are unconstitutional in the United States

I'm not an expert, but that doesn't seem to be the case.[1]

> interstate commerce clause

I thought that just gave Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. Again, I'm not a legal expert.

1. https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2020/03/18/29607...
The point is that it’s like mathematics in set theory.

Type theory is an alternative foundation.
What someone else considers to be "idiomatic", you might not consider to be "idiomatic".
Wow, Aphyr is on a roll! Mongo, PostgreSQL and Redis-Raft analyses all published in a window of ~5 weeks!

I really enjoy the Jepsen analyses and they've made me think a lot harder about distributed systems. Thanks!
Url changed from https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/23/21300365/segway-self-bala..., which points to this.
They're not though. New England starts at Massachusetts.

New York and New Jersey are mid Atlantic states.
> First, they are driven significantly by amount of testing.

But that's not the only driver. And when you increase testing and the percentage of positives you find goes up from 5% to 20% (as it's happening in some states) instead of going down you really have a problem.

> The people getting infected now, the out-and-abouters, are much, much lower risk of complications.

But the people that will now be infected by them (relatives, coworkers, customers) will be closer to the general population and have higher risk.
Huh. I've never been involved in high-stakes domain name negotiations.

Is $100,000 actually at all unreasonable an initial counter-offer for the .org of the company's primary tld? Might be a bit high, but $4K seems way too low. To be expected. It's a negotiation.

I feel like I would've countered $4K with $400,000, both of which seem like they're the extreme points in a negotiation with a company with $50 to $100 million in annual revenue (according to glassdoor, for whatever that's worth). Maybe would've agreed to $40K?

Giving a random person subdomains or email addresses on your corporate domain name is legitimately a complete non-starter, so maybe that's what they considered the counter-offer "unreasonable"?
In the state of the union they mentioned an Apple hypervisor
I'm not familiar with L1 but I was referring to H1B. Many intern/entry-level positions in tech are assumed by H1B workers. In every company I have worked at (large corporations + startups) in SV, the overwhelming majority of these entry-level type positions were assumed by H1B workers. Many US grads from CS programs are forced to take on low paid jobs irrelevant to their training.
NYT subscribers: to cancel your subscription online, change your address to California and a button will appear allowing you to cancel immediately. Unsubscribing won’t change much, as they can afford it. What will is freezing them out.

By RTing #ghostnyt you commit to not talking to NYT reporters or giving them quotes. Go direct if you have something to say.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ghostnyt
123K and counting.
Dang. RIP Segway. The butt of so many jokes..
Oregon locked down over what was happening in Seattle. Seattle didn't become NYC because their pols listened to their public health experts.

Since we "crushed the curve" we've learned what masks are good for, and how they should be used. We've developed a lifesaving protocol for the most sick patients. We've gotten into the summer which plays somewhat in our favor.

In fact, it looks like universal masking and a bit of care is sufficient to get R0<1. Problem solved, eventually. Unfortunately... leadership matters.
In other news social distancing caused a dip in deaths, so we should all go mingle again so we can cause a rise in deaths?

This article is ridiculous, the author is simply upset that many sports are closed for a season, and is looking for any justification to reopen. Yes the media blows things out of proportion, but the author even has a graph in the article that shows covid19 kills old people more effectively than flu and pneumonia!

The last few days have seen global upticks in infections, maybe they'll get their chance to write another article about the media being fearmongers once a few hundred thousand more people die and the death curve hits another flat spot.

Absolutely absurd.
Latest studies also indicate potential brain damage:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200622-the-long-term-ef...

So definitely not something to get infected with, especially as it is still not clear if surviving an infection gives you immunity.

If it does not - you might get infected repeatedly until it "rolls the dice" just "right" and damages your health and possibly even kills you...
That's weird. To me, it makes perfect sense to horse-race total case percentage increase.

Young people are generally on the front lines now. Both voluntarily through outings, bars, etc, and front-line jobs, so they are a leading indicator that "things are getting worse."

And while that doesn't guarantee that most "at risk" people will get sick and require hospitalization, it's a safe assumption that the probability of that occurring is increasing.

It's the same reason you get a mole checked out. Might be nothing now, but it could be something much worse in the near future.
Maybe, the "Don't ever talk to the police" rule is also good for journalists. "Don't ever talk to journalists." Just like in real life, if you need to talk to the police, you hire a lawyer whose professional job it is to talk to them on your behalf, so if you need to talk to a journalist, you hire a publicist whose professional job it is to talk to them on your behalf.

This has to do with incentives. Police, no how nicely they talk to you, ultimately want to close the case. If they can do that by having you take the fall, they will do that. Journalists, no matter now nicely they talk to you, just want to create an article that will optimize for engagement from their readers. If they can do that by a misleading portrayal or something that otherwise harms your reputation or safety, they will do that. It is just business to them.
> you cannot eradicate this disease unless you turn the nation into China.

Or India? 4x the population, 1/5 the deaths so far. Although they'll catch up eventually - this disease is simply too contagious. But they have a national strategy, everybody is making plays from the same playbook.

> nobody wears a mask

Why not though? If it's been proven to reduce transmission, it seems stupid to not do it.

> that will do it.

All that's done is take the US to the top in lives lost to this disease. If that's where we wanted to end up then mission accomplished, I guess.

> The sky has not fallen, they are exactly on the same track as the US.

See above.
They never did fix the batteries self destructing if not charged every other month problem, did they?
The plan is...

Riot iOS will be transparently renamed.

Riot Android will be transparently renamed and upgraded to be the app currently called RiotX.

RiotX will nag users to switch to using the new app (sorry :/)

Riot Desktop will be transparently renamed

Riot Web will continue to work on the existing URLs, but also exist on the new canonical URLs.
Sorry, that's just not correct. Microsoft or Google does not intentionally try to hire people at lower levels based on their immigration status. They do outsource some IT work to companies like Infosys or TCS which are Indian sweatshops but not their FTEs.
The 'revolutionary' impact of the Segway might still come to pass.

It'll just be on conventionally-oriented two-wheeled electric mobility devices: scooters and ebikes.

I hope it happens!
Not sure if it’s part of the new design or just a feature I haven’t seen before, but converting links to a line of code into a code view displaying that code in issues is great.
The US is at 121K deaths atm. I made an estimate a while back assuming 60% of the population becomes infected and came up with 350K deaths. Bad, but not catastrophic. And I don't think we will get that high.
Literal KKK members feel like they need to "go
outside the system" to harm black people, does
that make lynching okay?

Absolutely not, of course.

My initial post said nothing to indicate that cancel culture was a good thing, or that it always represented a just cause.

Nor did it say that "going outside the system" always represented a just cause, etc.
> How many times would LE have to accidentally issue gstatic.com or fbcdn.net before they get the Symantec treatment[1]? Too big to fail: It's not just for investment banks. And that should give anyone seeking a decentralized internet pause.

I agree that some problems are unfortunate. But let's contrast for a moment. LetsEncrypt has demonstrated track record of quickly fixing issues. Symantec has a demonstrated track record of hiding issues instead of fixing them.

It's wise to consider options carefully. LetsEncrypt isn't the be-all end-all service for TLS and your needs might not be compatible. But I don't think it's fair to shove LetsEncrypt aside just because it's had its share of problems.

For a free service it's pretty damn reputable.
The only problem I have with the design is the repo header not being centered. I'll fix this with some userstyle CSS but it's a terrible design pattern. Other then that I actually really like how it looks/feels/works.
Wow. I want to leave a thoughtful comment but I’m going to have to come back later. I think the word “progressive” has been hijacked, like “hacker” has been too.
The irony is that the Lighthouse site itself scores really badly! Can you accept its advice?
Looks pretty interesting!

I've been using Cloudcraft [0] for a while now for AWS diagrams, and I'm quite happy with it - it even can do some cost estimation stuff based on resources you have in your diagrams!

[0]: https://cloudcraft.co/
That's pretty old data. And I realize I said Gold when what I meant was Reddit Coins, ie. the currency that lets people gild posts with various things like flames, and other colors.

I'm deeply interesting in learning what % of revenue that is for them and how quickly it is growing.
I can never resist bringing up that the company's owner died on one of these things back in 2010:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654
Totally. When I make Oculus friends, I hate that I have to tell them to find me as [my husband's username] because he signed up on the device first, so now I can never have my own Oculus account.

I solved the Beatsaber highscores problem by being really really good at Beatsaber, so I only play on Expert+ and he only plays the lower levels. That way our high scores are separate. :)
Yo send this thread to your representatives. They may help change the law. They're leaving GDP on the table
PBS Kids and Mister Rogers are wonderful educational TV. Almost everything else in the "20 minute cartoon industry" is garbage.
If you have to maintain any highly optimized assembly/intrinsics code, it’s a very good idea to also maintain an “as portable as feasible” C version for comparison testing.
> the single worst change is that you can't see the latest commit status from the repo screen

Maybe they are trying to push towards using badges/shields inside the README [1]. But yeah, I agree that this makes monitoring repo health less convenient.

[1] https://shields.io/category/build
> There are many countries in the world. You're making an assumption that in exactly none of them could something crazy like this be enforced.

Licenses should not attempt to optimise for hypothetical legal systems that may exist somewhere and do not follow the laws of logic. "Put it in, just in case" could be used to justify literally any absurdity.

> and a tiny one for GS to include this language.

As a sibling comment by @wegs pointed out:

> [L]egal language like this is just absurdly poorly-written and stupid. Whatever you want legal language to say, you want it to be clear and unambiguous. That protects everyone involved[.]

Which is to say, Goldman Sachs is entirely welcome to spam their license with absurdities. But don't expect anyone else to come along for the ride.
They're not the opposite, and both are correct.

Sutton is saying 'over a slightly longer time'.

You can wait 20 more years and super-duper-deep-NN-on-steroids, and hardware a million times as big and powerful, would rediscover all of theoretical physics.

Or you could inject some theoretical physics acquired by humans and make DNNs smarter today.
This cannot possibly be more efficient than lithium batteries...
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Countless lives were saved by California shutting down, that’s WHY the death rate isn’t like Italy.
Thank you, this works perfectly.
This is not true. New Zealand has done an exemplary job. Taiwan has done a fine job. Hong Kong? Japan? South Korea? All democracies. All competent.

Sweden's seen way more deaths than its neighbors, and being on the same track as the US should be an embarrassment here.

Also, no, that will not do it. That will see a huge fraction of the population infected. Adding masks would help a lot, though.
Does this need to be here? Do we need the equivalent of /r/SubredditDrama on HN?
Stick with PBS Kids and Sesame Street and Mister Rogers reruns.