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No, the point of calling them "artificial persons" is that they lack many of the rights, such as freedom of speech, that real persons have. It also means they cannot, like real persons, be sent to jail.
Definitely not but I would certainly buy a phone that isn't running background processes all the time or doesn't have to be connected or pinging the internet all the time.
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They have even older documents in Simancas

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo_General_de_Simancas
It's the Hobbesian view of the social contract, which is often contrasted with the Lockean view of the same subject which underpins both the US system in particular and arguably Western liberal democracy more generally.

It's not a particularly popular model, even though it was influential in developing views that remain popular today.
The technique behind deepfakes will rapidly improve the quality of CGI actor re-skins. One of the early (safe-for-work) demonstrations was a recreation of young Princess Leia's scenes in Rogue One, which was arguably higher quality than the film studio's best efforts despite being the work of a lone hobbyist.

Completely fabricating an actor in CGI will still look weird, but using a stunt double / character actor and transferring a big-name actor's appearance onto them is rapidly becoming faster and cheaper.
I assume this article is directed towards people new to neural nets who think they mastered AI. However, in neural network research noone cares about of the things the author is making fun of. These are examples from tutorials beginners learn in the first week, not what experts are remotely concerned with.
"continually working to improve" means "we haven't actually gotten there yet". And that's from one if the few companies that is actively trying.
> Have you tried Nix? It's like Bazel, but without incremental builds.

Well, depending on how granular you expect your incremental builds to be, it can indeed have "incremental builds". Any build step that produces a derivation that ends up in the nix store will be lazily evaluated and not regenerated if its input parameters haven't changed. You could go down the route of outputting each compiled object file as a derivation...
World War 1 ended. The entire premise of free society is that war comes to an end, there is a such a thing as peacetime. Somehow that idea has died, and with it morality and social conscience. Comparing our spat with a few mountain dwelling cavemen on cellphones with a global War to threatened the existence of civilization itself is beyond ignorant. It's criminal intellectual negligence.
Very interesting.

I heard of Benford's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Accounting_fra...) that is used to detect accounting fraud.

Are there other known mathematical models to detect fraud?
> This is the main thing preventing adoption of home servers.

I don't agree. There'd be someone at least even tackling the problem, if there was actually a value proposition in it. The closest I can think of is Synology NASes, I suppose you roll the edge gateway into one too and that's your home server?

Thinking about what I use my home server for: media library, and backups. Both of those have been (mostly) supplanted by streaming and online services respectively, so I'm struggling to justify the home server even for the electricity to run it... but it is shortly to become an "IoT" gateway too (running Homebridge) since I agree with the top comment that it's best when as little data as possible leaves my local network.
I certainly also looked through MathWorld but I failed to make some - in hindsight - rather obvious connections or did not pay enough attention. I certainly knew what the discrete logarithm problem is and that it is hard but I did not realize until a few minutes ago that finding the multiplicative order is just that only with a different name. And now being aware of that the MathWorld article spells exactly this out in a way that it seems impossible to miss.
It worked for the UK and the British East India company , it should work fine for America. Tesla can set up mining camps on Mars and eliminate ten percent of it's "underperforming" population every year, just like it does at it's factory.
Simplicity yes, but as someone who worked in uni with both 3.11 and Solaris (SparcStation 5), stability wise 3.11 was one of the most frustrating experiences for a user that I ever went through.
I believe so. The worth of your portfolio is the worth of the assets. Bitcoin dropped a ton in even a month. There are still changes of a few percent possible in less than a day, so yearly balancing sounds insanely dumb to me.
I fear that there’s some secret forum where are all the supercoders live and I’ve been left behind because I’m too dumb.

20 years ago it was all people trying to maximize. Now it’s about people wanting work life balance and such.

My alternate theory is that pretty much only really dedicated developers were in web forums in the 90s so it was a lot of self selecting. Now the industry is much larger and the Internet is the default and everyone is online.
Doesn't it also mean that when things go wrong, they go really wrong?
Thanks James! More documentation to come for sure, but this section on Prisma architecture should already give you a good understanding https://www.prismagraphql.com/docs/reference/introduction/wh...
Yes, at the most general level highly volatile assets should be rebalanced more frequently. However, that isn't going to be a universal rule. It will depend on what is causing the volatility and whether that is more a product of the market or something specific related to the assets. Rebalancing too frequently is also a very real possibility so more is not always better.

Another consideration specific to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is the relatively high transaction fee. You don't want to see your investments be whittled away by frequent transaction fees doing unnecessary rebalances. I haven't spent enough time researching cryptocurrencies to know how all these considerations shake out when it comes to this specific index fund, but as a pure gut instinct the annual rebalancing was less frequent than I would have expected from this type of fund.
Yes the money trail would have been quite crucial in tracking them down I suppose. I don't think they could be accepting Bitcoins on a govt. looking site.
If you want the biggest possible benefit to your baby's brain, read her a book on data science or machine learning: as a result, you will have $100,000 in extra disposible income[1] by the time she's 12. Save that up, and spend it on laboratory equipment for her of whatever kind she wants and is interested in at the time.

(In case it's not clear, I mean only pretend to play with your baby now, while putting that time into improving your career secretly, as I have described.)

[1] I assume you're a programmer, if not, read a read a book on Javascript instead
Fast fashion is when clothing companies quickly latch on to fashion trends and then manufacture quickly and often really cheaply clothing. H&M are famous for this, they are often out with the latest trends, selling super cheap and usually not of great quiality. And thus essentially making clothing disposable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_fashion
A (very simple) regex text might exclude some randomly-entered garbage or inadvertantly invalid address. Even then, the scope and reliability of such tests is minuscule.
By what metric? American life expectancy is declining. Suicide rates are stable. And the cost of healthcare related to either of these issues is increasing.

Meanwhile, wages remain stagnant and automation threatens the jobs of everyone without an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering or a PhD in computer science. And literally every internet-connected device in our lives are surveillance tools being exploited for some corporate interest.

Yet there are piles of laundry in my home that aren't washing or folding themselves. Anything other than a TV dinner won't cook itself. Cars...might eventually drive themselves, I suppose, until enough bored teenagers poking around on Shodan decide they'd like a turn at the wheel.

Tech has risen to meet the needs of the average household by providing us...cellphone apps that put us in contact with some desperate human willing to perform tasks for those who can afford it, invisible money whose value fluctuates and gets stolen in more ways than is possible to spend, and gypsy cab/delivery services.

I can't think of a recent technological development that has made my life any better or easier. Instead, I spend more time troubleshooting half-assed, overcomplicated black-box shitware (with even less support!) than ever before. No thank you. It's been a race to the bottom since the late 2000s.
>>For the same reason that, say, transferring your wealth from an Irish bank account to a German bank account doesn’t trigger a capital-gains event in the US?

If there's a currency change, it absolutely does trigger a capital-gains event, unless you have a truly terrible accountant. Just like when any other asset is disposed of, the value is calculated at that point. If you move USD from one bank to another that's different, but try to move USD - EURO - CAN - USD and you'll absolutely be taxed on any gains that happen (if they catch it).
I doubt that's the case. MS knew IE was broken and outdated but so many people rely on its implementation at that state, they couldn't move it forward and they had to reset before they lost every share in the browser market.

They certainly didn't want Edge to look as broken when people had,

if(browserType === 'IE') doIEWorkAround()
else doNormalThings()

So I understand their disguise.
That's a really, really bad idea.

I watched an hour long video about a youngish technologist who died in auto accident. His wife lost control of their i-devices. Some of his encrypted devices that he maintained for clients were also equally inaccessible. The only way the wife regained control of her own digital and financial life was to tap technologist friends who called in favors with Google / Apple. Even they could not decrypt the miscellaneous client owned devices. Neither could the clients. [Edit: I searched for this video and unfortunately could not locate it.]

I put my parents on 1Password. Begged them actually. I quote "how about we just try it for like a week while I am here? if you don't like it, I won't ask you again." My Dad had a crazy so-called method that was supposedly simple to follow, but every time he tried to explain it to me as executor of his & my mom's estates, it was incomprehensible.

After 1 week, Dad was a convert and Mom had her first reliable access to the joint online bank accounts.

For myself, I have a technical hand over plan for somebody to follow to break the encryption on my devices. I also give an accounting of my data, what is where, both financial and sentimental. Most data can be immediately deleted, but some thing like my photography and music collections may be wanted by somebody in the family. The executor of my estate gets the financial records.
I am the exact same! Also, if it is some mindless donkey work that is pulling out modules from certain places and refactoring it just so as to fit with a new pattern, I procrastinate, waste time on the internet and question the meaning of life. But if it's a challenging problem, or even writing code from scratch, I will bulldoze through it and finish stuff super quick.
I feel like the most useful feature a distributed social network needs is the ability to grant/deny access to people based on decentralised identifiers (such as the person's email addresses, although people may prefer to use a dedicated email address for this purpose).

If such a distributed ID system were available, then it should even be possible to move away from one web host to another host, and still have access to your friends' pages, and have them find you. Alternatively you could instruct your current host to broadcast an "I'm about to move" message to your friends before you move your data to the new host.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle standing in the way of this is the spam / privacy issue, since people don't want to have to prove they own a specific email address in order to read your posts on the niche site where you're hosting your profile. Also, if your posts are being pushed out to the sites where your friends have accounts, then you have to implicitly trust the privacy policies and security of all those sites.
Thanks ojkelly - this looks super cool! I'll take a closer look tomorrow :-)

Did you already use yoga and bindings? I think you might find it inspirational.
If you look at the death toll in proportion to the population at that time, even that 50 year period will be less bloody than some others in the past.
Personally, I do not believe the hype around Huawei as a major security risk, as in tech level snooping or crypto defeats. Market capture, dominance, and concern over the corporate structure, I can and do believe exist as reasons to movitate the regulation of national, international trade and public infrastructure.

Basically: the five-eyes posture is bullshit. We believe Cisco and Juniper installed backdoors for the US government on demand. Claiming some higher moral ground in a trade war because Huawei is competing on price for fiber and 5G systems is .. weak.
I suggest those interested in Crypto Index Traded Funds to look into Crypto20. This fund provides a way to track the performance of the crypto markets as a whole by holding a single crypto asset.

"Crypto20 is a tokenized, closed-end index fund (CEF) which passively tracks the top twenty cryptocurrency assets by market capitalisation.
All profits are reinvested into the fund."

Here is the link to the whitepaper for those interested:
https://static.crypto20.com/pdf/c20-whitepaper.pdf
Legal corporate personhood is exactly the original differentiating factor of the corporate form vs. other business structures (which basically consisted of sole proprietorships and general partnerships at the time, most other forms are newer inventions than the corporation.)

That said, Constitutional corporate personhood is a distinct thing; it is quite possible for legal corporate personhood to be observed without the protections granted to “the people” or “persons” in the Constitution being extended to private corporations (they generally are not extended to juridical/artificial persons which are not private corporations, such as public bodies, despite those bodies also being legal persons.)

The contentious issue about “corporate personhood” is about Constitutional, rather than juridical, corporate personhood. So while you (and the WSJ article you cite) are correct about legal corporate personhood, that's also a bit of a non-sequitur and equivocation in the discussion at hand. (Though it would help if articles like the Atlantic one would expressly identify Constitutional personhood as the issue and contrast it with juridical personhood, so as to clarify the problem domain and forestall this kind of distraction.)
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The car gets towed.

But asylumseekers and refugees get some money from the state they are doing the legal asylum/refugee process.

Oh, and you can push a car by human strength. Preferably at night, to somewhere else.
You have me questioning my reality now.
Ask HN: Why is output still popular in debugging?
I noticed that output debugging message is still the go-to method for many programmers even though they are aware of the presence of more advanced debugging tools such as break-point based debugger, which are often integrated in the IDE. I can only assume that stubbornness played a role here where printing message is a habit formed from early stage of many programmer. However is there other reasons for one to choose such methods than alternatives?
So what?

Being a citizen is not a license to do whatever you want. Nobody argues that people should be able to ignore posted parking restrictions when it suits them. Yet the negative externalities from people camping and living in their cars are way more significant than from parking in a loading zone or not paying the meter. Just ask anybody who lives in a neighborhood with a significant homeless presence.
I think public libraries are the single best investment any municipality can make in its children. I frequented mine very often from age 4 to 12, dropping off due to advent of the Internet. Even then, I was there often enough through high school. It’s the best way to ensure free and open access to information.
This is a good point, but it can no way be worse than what we have now.
> Worldwide incomes

gotta buy that shit they're selling now that WORLD TRADE is here. thank goodness for foreign products instead of whatever came before that.

> GDP per unit of energy consumed

using this metric presumes that GDP is the goal. fortunately or not, there's no quantitative measure of well-being. certainly we could suggest that not dying during childbirth is an improvement... but if you're instead spending life under the thumb of an extraction economy established by colonialists with the explicit intent to remote-rule thru division[0], then... well, it's at least not so crystal clear that foreign tech comes from the hand of the savior.

> Deaths due to warfare are at all time historic lows.

I like this statistic, too, but I suspect it's inflated by medics around battlefields not letting people bleed, or rot from infection, to death.

anyway, I just wanted to make the point that it's not so clear cut. I think technology is largely good... and whatever it is, it's not going away.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization
Reminder people. Crypto exchange tokens held tokens means counterparty risk.

You don't hold the crypto. They owe you it and they may not pay out due to court orders, bankruptcy, hackings, they think you are laundering money, a terrorist etc.
Exactly. Again, I will use Switzerland as an example and give a few typical salaries:

Banker in Zurich with 10y experience: 12k USD/M

Engineer in Zurich with 0y experience: 8k USD/M

so far it probably sounds pretty normal for people used to SF / NY levels right?

Here's the difference:

Mc Donald's cashier in Zurich: ~3500 USD/M

Median Salary in Zurich: ~6000 USD/M

Median Salary across Switzerland: ~5600 USD/M

These give you the low and mid points of the salary spectrum. It's just much more compressed than in the US - this Patagonia jacket should be <10% of anyone's monthly salary, probably affordable for >90% of population. If it isn't, then it would be if you take social services into account that are designed to correct for such market mistakes that leave people behind in poverty.

And this is Switzerland, mind you, probably the most US-like libertarian and decentrally governed place in Europe. All of this would be affordable to Americans if your government wouldn't just pander to the big corporations and throw out money by the boatloads for insanely overpriced defence contracts.
Again, your assumption is wrong, I am not American.
> Secure the shit out of those private keys

Well I hope they are doing that already.

Initial coin buy is part of those 4 / yr.
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> Yeah, but then Google, Facebook et al started throwing six-figure salaries to CS graduates to steal your data and, well, that's what happened to hackers' ethics and technology morality.

I think it's more than the money. Many engineers view FB and Google as kind of a rite of passage in tech. Ex-Googlers and ex-FBers are highly regarded. Your startup is safe hiring them because they have been vetted already.

I turned down an opportunity to interview at FB in 2008 when they were just starting to build their native mobile team. I was even offered a free flight from Chicago and was told I'd get to meet Zuck. Some of us have refused to work for companies that exploit user data and have always put ethics first. But "person who refused to interview at Google" doesn't sound as nice as "ex-Googler" to most.
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The point of market cap weighting is that rebalancing is mostly unnecessary. The only events that require a rebalance is when a coin is added or removed from the index.
A fund weighted by market cap doesn't have to be rebalanced. With crypto assets, you only have to adjust for newly mined coins. The Bitcoin supply, for example, is currently growing at about 4% per year. But if the other currencies in the Coinbase Index are mined at a similar rate, yearly rebalancing should be accurate enough.
I'd be interested if it also had pages for different technologies used by multiple cryptocurrencies.

E.g. : a page on PoW, a page on PoS (or possibly multiple pages for the different versions of PoS), any other similar mechanisms, ERC20, different styles of handling balances (e.g. Bitcoins UTXOs vs. Ethereum's using a merkle tree of balances), merkle trees in general, ways of doing anonymous transactions (e.g. Zksnarks and such), etc.

Edit: I mistakenly called ERC20 EIP20. I have corrected this.
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"When I die, I hope I am forgotten"

On the other hand, now, that's bleak.

I would view that human relationships are like strings that connect human beings. Grief of loss is the process of cutting those strings - one-by-one - and it hurts like hell. Because, if the relationship was an important one - I think it's supposed to. And after the grief has done it's job the living move on.

After the grief has done it's job, memories become bitter sweet. There are always complications, of course, and for example unresolved issues make it difficult to let go.

We begin to die the day we are born. It's only a matter of time, really. All of us are mortally ill of a condition called life. Every precious relationship must end in time.

There is a zen-story about this. A wise man was asked what was happiness? He answered, a man is born, a son is born, a grandson is born. Man dies, son dies, grandson dies. It sounds horrible the first time you hear it, but then you realize it nailed it completely - any other order would be worse, and having no children would be even sadder.
yet our stories of their past don't include any history before colonial forces, slave capture, or the faintest possibility that anything other than improvement could have come with the civilizing forces.
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I would like to hear the same demands on business people. In the last few decades it has slowly become accepted that business should behave like total psychopaths that should only be concerned with enriching themselves. In the end the people with power (money) will always find people doing dirty work for them, be it tech or something else. I think that's the real problem that needs to be addressed.
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> women, children, and minorities have far more freedom and privacy than they ever have historically

Zoe Quinn, black men getting shot at traffic stops and victims of cyberbullying might all have a different opinion about that.
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This entire comment doesn't make any sense.

> Look away from your personal circumstances for a minute and consider the trajectory overall, for everyone, and not just you.

Arrogance much? Very presumptuous to assume you're doing this while the rest of us are not.
That's funny because I was just thinking how much I appreciated your comments.

Edit: but of course I didn't see it before the edit ;)
Playing video games over the internet is nothing new, because hey, people been doing it for decades.