skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KSP's solution to the graphics problem is what they call "scaled space". Basically, nearby objects like your spaceship, the planet you're on, etc are rendered normally, but there is another copy of the solar system that's scaled down to 1/10 scale on another scene, and composited in behind everything. This is where things like orbit lines are drawn. It works well enough for KSP's solar system, which is rather small, but there are rendering issues with modpacks that add other solar systems far away from the sun; I suspect that since KSP2 is adding interstellar travel they are going to need to come up with another solution.
Deflation causes a positive feedback loop of reducing trade. If it's better to hoard currency so you can buy 10% more things next year, everyone starts hoarding currency and reducing trade, leading to suppliers dropping prices to encourage purchases, leading to further deflation, and so on. Trade grinds to a halt as everyone holds currency in anticipation of buying more later.

Stake: 0.05 BTC, 1.2 ETH
This is called the Agency Problem and is a fundamental challenge of organizing humans. If you start separating who makes decisions (e.g. the board) from who benefits (theoretically, shareholders), then over time the former will subvert the latter. But there is no simple fix if you want investment returns without managing the company.

This is one of the better reasons to bet on startups in a world where power accumulates advantage. During the growth stage of a startup, the incentives of owners, managers and team members are much more aligned than they will be later in the trajectory.
Even if the costs had been obvious from day one, unlike cryptocurrencies they also had value.

Many things do. Cryptocurrencies don't.
The title is very misleading and so is the spin the author of the article is trying to put on Gates' point.

In the article he is actually quoted as saying that suspending patent protection would not be useful because that is not the problem, which is lack of factory capacity and safety issues should a random factory try to recreate a vaccine on its own.

That's very different and, I think, a very sensible point.
Read a paper: Plugged vs. unplugged programming lessons
Seeing as you can start a node yourself and download the full blockchain it's clearly stored somewhere.
It's not really a straw man because the most vocal advocates of cryptocurrencies tend to be libertarians[1]. Obviously not everyone is like that, but it's still the vocal crowd.

That being said, I'd be curious to here pro-crypto arguments
from someone “believ[ing] in having a government with police, roads, and schools”. This is especially interesting to me, because “school” appears in this list.

[1] which cannot really be qualified as anarchists IMHO, but that's another topic.
> writing code would be trivial or even could be automatically generated (there are UML tools that can generate code)

Ironically, a lot of documentation systems now do the opposite: take your code and produce UML diagrams from it.
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What are the useful things that are being built on Ethereum?
The PDF you linked was high level and didn't really provide any specific applications.
Sorry, I couldn't help but read this as an ad.
A lot of people are not comfortable with the fact that a secretive club of bankers can produce more of these at will, and give them to who they like. The moral hazard here is off the charts, and it's too much to expect that they won't keep producing more and more until it's worthless as has happened to every fiat currency in history. See the current prices of stocks, bonds, real estate, and education for examples, and yes even the current crypto market.

Crypto may not be the answer, personally I'm sure Bitcoin is not. But the problem is real.
I'm surprised they still bother. I think with all the concerns surrounding it it's better to just agree to cancel the contracts and move to better vaccines. The mRNA ones in particular seem to work a lot better with less issues.

Or perhaps this is the goal of the lawsuit? I would assume AstraZeneca would object to cancelling the contract even though they're not delivering on schedule. Perhaps they're planning to use this as leverage.
> February 8 2012, last updated February 7 2013
Here I thought it was from portraying Ethereum as solving the problems with Bitcoin but hand waving past the part where that’s remained vaporware for years and making the same kind of unspecified claims about innovative useful things Bitcoin salespeople have been making for the last decade. It should be easy to point to something real if it is that different.
My understanding of a good CEO is that the main work is to build and maintain business contacts that lead to future large revenue streams for the company (which is de facto networking to build contacts with customers in the first place, closing deals is the job of the sales department). I don't think that creating a strategy has that much value, most like it is wrong anyway¹.

¹ https://hbr.org/2010/01/why-most-ceos-are-bad-at-strat-2
I would guess that the size of the pharmaceutical industry relative to the population is the main factor.
What they mean is that with Payments 2.0, Telegram can facilitate a transaction without sharing credit card details with your merchant.

An underlying premise is that a user may have an established trust in Telegram and their services, perhaps more trust than the merchant.
I think there is a place for crypto, and I say that begrudgingly, ‘cuz ego, since I’ve been calling it all Tulips since a Bitcoin was $8.

The biggest reason why Bitcoin works, and other established coins work, is because of demand from the developing world. If you don’t have reliable banks or governments then Cryptos are at least as good or better than your local banks because even if it collapses you can still access it. For a lot of countries with unstable governments and banking system this is the differentiator. Bitcoin will never be a “currency” but a long-term “store of value” seems quite likely.

It’s pretty clear to me now, long term, Musk knows/thinks that the energy used by the coins’ networks will be free from renewable sources.

I don’t think cryptocurrency is an abject disaster. I think it’s something with a lot of potential to do good and a lot of potential to do bad. I can agree we’re just gonna have to wait to see...
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For those who can't read the article, here's a summary:

> Brandi Levy sent a profanity-laden post to her friends on Snapchat in 2017, venting her frustrations with cheerleading and her school. When coaches at the Pennsylvania school discovered the post, she was barred from the squad for a year. The case will determine whether schools have the right to punish pupils for what they say off-campus. It is being viewed as a major test of the US Constitution's First Amendment, which protects free speech rights.

As for my own thoughts... I'm hoping the outcome of this case can be used as a litmus test for related bannings/cancellations when people express an opinion "off-campus" (so to speak).

Edit: More info about the case here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahanoy_Area_School_District_v....

Edit2: Looks like HN can't handle URLs that end with a period. Clicking the link above won't work; you have to manually terminate it with a period before loading (should end with "B.L.", not "B.L")
With a truly crypto/defi setup, nobody would have to pay taxes. Everything would be zero-sum and no one would be incentivized to have to pay taxes to a central party to ensure the things you just listed exist.

If you are rich and have 1000 BTC in various wallets, able to avoid capital controls, etc... why would you pay the 45% biden cap gains? Thus society loses out and rich whales get to hodl
yeah it's just a rehash of the standard advice you always see in these kinds of articles/threads.

> Simply put, be casual, not creepy, and read the room.

this line gave me a chuckle at least. pretty sure this is the actual root of the problem for many lonely people.

here's my guide to making friends:

1. have good social skills.

2. talk to people.
Getting rich via investment depends on having income above a threshold which is set by the cost of living.

If you spend 50% of your income every year and stick the rest into the stock market and get 6% or so after inflation, you can sustain your spending without working after about twelve years.

If you spend 90% of your income every year and stick the rest into the stock market and get 6% or so after inflation, you can sustain your spending without working after about forty years.

It's all to say that being a shareholder matters in a hugely different way depending on your income. The disparity is worse when you look at how you can sustain higher volatility once you're already wealthy.

You're asking why can't people just be shareholders, but I think you're asking why it isn't enough that everyone can be shareholders. The reason is that being a shareholder only matters for those already making a ton.
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> Who is wrong, the programmer trying to speak the language or the language itself?

This is more complicated a question than you think.
If the language is such that you always have to look up some particular feature, then it's likely the language is wrong in that the designer chose that syntax poorly. OTOH, if the programmer just "threw something together" that happened to be incorrect, then obviously the programmer.

This latter example is actually where having good error-messages can come in: pointing out what is wrong, and perhaps some relevant location in the language-definition. — Compare and contrast Ada and C++ error-messages (for "typical implementations") here as an example.
This sounds reasonable on the face of it, but actually it’s not. I can’t think of many policies that might not introduce some inequality somewhere in society. That’s an unrealistic standard.

Increasingly inequality is of course something we should be mindful of when designing policy though.
CEOs play important roles, but I agree they are very much overpaid. It's inefficiency in the specialized labor market being exploited by a small group of people. Equity based compensation is a big factor. They shouldn't be rewarded for riding the sector-specific or broader market rally.

I feel there are ways to be more targeted in calculating contributions. I also feel the hiring process for CEO and executives are inefficient.
what makes you think this isn't already the case? CEO comps often include stock options.
> This is really a complaint against Proof of Work based consensus protocols.

I wouldn't say so. The multi-level marketing ponzi scheme things would still be present.

> "Cryptocurrency" is also kind of a dumb term.

Yes, but "crypto" means something else.

> Everyone seems to still think this is about creating new currencies.

It's not. It's about greed and creating money for yourself. Currencies are just more direct.

Everything else is just either incidental, or propaganda.
> For my part, I held <$10,000 USD worth of Bitcoin prior to 2016, plus small amounts of altcoins.

LOL ouch. Selling prior to 2016 must sting. It makes sense that somebody who made this mistake would be bitter.

This guys take of:

> It has failed to be a useful currency, invented a new class of internet abuse, further enriched the rich, wasted staggering amounts of electricity, hastened climate change, ruined hundreds of otherwise promising projects, provided a climate for hundreds of scams to flourish, created shortages and price hikes for consumer hardware, and injected perverse incentives into technology everywhere.

is so bad and off the mark and missing the reality that is it even worth a well-thought reply? This reminds me of people who would shit on the Internet in the 90's because of porn and scams and this and that. The Internet had and will always have negative components but it's worth fighting for because of all the good. Crypto and decentralization is exactly the same way and in many ways even more important.
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> The thing is that "improvements in engineering, materials, process, or design" should make it cheaper, not more expensive.

Only if you’re optimizing for cost, which public infrastructure very obviously isn’t. It’s optimizing for safety.
The EU countries manufactured a similar number of doses as the US (110M Vs 160M at the end of Q1). The difference is that the US effectively prevented vaccine exports, while the other big producers (EU, China, India) exported roughly half their production
I did not learn anything from that post, it mostly read as an advertisement for ETH and the linked websites. If you are going to toute the actual legitimate use cases for blockchain, please name at least one.
I agree, I have never made a long standing connection with someone I've met while going to a store in a city. I've gotten to know store owners for stores I've frequented over years but not just randomly running into customers. It seems like most cities I've lived in you don't really just start talking to people randomly, maybe I'm just not very friendly but it seems like a survival instinct to avoid crazy folks.
This was a troll blog. Cannot believe people keep beating this dead horse. This is a troll post to promote Rust.

We are not doomed. There are no such thing called "save"

That Rust zealot claimed in the other blogs that using C or C++ violates human rights.

He claimed memory safety issues in Rust are impossible however https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=rust
shows there are a huge amount of memory CVEs in rust.

Sure modern C++ does not prevent all memory safety issues, neither Rust did.
My thoughts exactly. There may be no "right way," but I'm pretty sure there's a least wrong way.
Big difference.
Yeah i'm not disagreeing that individuals in gov or buisnesses are benefitting from the run up.

But I'm saying that crypto is built on the stability and infrastructure that was created by fairly well-run and well-intentioned centralized govs etc.
Then why is he the richest man on earth and you're not ?

It's always obvious and easy when you look back at history ...
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Visions of Johanna is my all-time favourite Dylan song. I've listened to it so many times, not least because in the winter of 1972 in a very cold flat in Edinburgh the _only_ album we had to listen to, for reasons, mostly poverty, was Blonde on Blonde. Still, if you are going to be stuck with one album, that's the one to be stuck with.
>Free market is good for mobile phones, cars and so on, but when it comes to general health or your safety I don't think it is the most optimal way to push progress or spent your $$$.

Pharma is product development, manufacturing, sales and distribution. Bear in mind nationalised pharma would want to sell their products abroad even if they are free at home, so you'd still need marketing and sales operations. That's all much more like a nationalised mobile phone or car maker than it is like a service organisation such as the police or health care.
There's just an absolute glut of entertainment now, the market is saturated.
https://archive.md/UJQq2
Semi-related: I suspect a big draw of social media is that it resembles actual human communication while also conferring a lot more control to all parties.

Vulnerability is not required. Communication is stripped of almost all of its context, and is often asynchronous. There is little expectation of any sort of real commitment. People are easily muted, unfollowed, and blocked.

In sanitizing away the messiness of real relationships, we’re left with an empty shell that puts us more in control and yet also more lonely. It would seem that we cannot simply pick and choose which aspects of relationships we want, nor can we relate to others at the scale that social media enables us to.
The US government has been using cryptocurrencies to deliver aid direct to Venezuelans, for whom previously traditionally bank-wired funds were been pilfered by local (government-controlled) banks.

The aspect of direct "peer to peer" electronic cash, coupled with plausible deniability of ownership and no need for trusted parties, are tremendously positive characteristics in poor, corrupt and developing nations where everyday crypto adoption is running high.

There is nothing else available to solve many of these problems, hence Bitcoin and others filling the void.

There are many other potential positives too, but to say there are none - even right now - is ill-informed.

https://decrypt.co/49088/us-government-use-usdc-stablecoin-b...
I don't know if this is so surprising. It took a little longer, but Google is basically becoming what Yahoo! became. A gameified search engine with a decent email and chat client for the era it was dominant within. As their search results get worse, people will migrate somewhere else, (like DDG), and the cycle will continue.
The web apps are super interesting. Its light and fast. On par with the desktop client. Meanwhile, Facebook Messenger takes eons to load, Discord's web client's initial load will hog up my CPU. It will be interesting to see the technology behind this.

edit: Links for those interested

Web Z: https://github.com/Ajaxy/telegram-tt

web K: https://github.com/morethanwords/tweb
golang is a colored language since "context.Context" needs to be passed to all asynchronous calls. This is explained very well in the Zig talk: https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/
Why do you think this is happening? I've noticed a recent decline, but people have been saying this place isn't what it used to be for years. I've been attributing it to a change in myself.

I wonder if you could do some analytics on comments and measure whether things have actually gotten worse. Finding a metric might be difficult. I suppose you could measure what percent of comments are from newer users over time, which is probably correlated.
> If crazy tax schemes are legal, that's the politicians' fault for not fixing them, not Apple's

100% agreed.

> who has a duty to shareholders to, you know, not pay more taxes than they have to

I don't believe they have any such duty. Corporate charitable giving is a really big thing.
When there’s a link to an ad-funded site, HN complains. When it’s to a paywalled site, HN complains.
The first article that you linked was a news article and said "Near capacity" not "Over capacity" and the second link you posted didn't have ICU numbers that I could see.

ICU's run "near capacity" all the time, so the news source you linked is simply stating a normal situation in a sensational context.

See here:
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-flow/2-healthc....

What I mean by Covid zealot is people who believe things that aren't real about Covid based on poor critical thinking and/or poor understanding of the data or some other reason that I don't understand.
CEOs are expensive because they form a clique, They sit on the boards of other companies and install CEOs who are on the board of the company they themselves CEO. Normally you would call this practice embezzlement, but because it only requires the most tacit of collusions to pull off, we call it shrug.
Honestly I just think it has barely anything to do with the topic and is just derailing the discussion. There might be things to criticize about Cloudflare, but that doesn't mean one can't rally behind their efford to fight parent trolls – because that has nothing at all to do with the points you mentioned.
This is one of the reasons I'm so quick to suggest Hackspaces to geeky adults looking for social contact. Due to the massively varied nature of activities there tends to be a couple of sub-groups that cater to your specific interests (even if it's only an interest that month) and overall tends to be a group of decent people that you can easily progress through the smalltalk phases and into actual friendships.
The real problem is tractors aren't designed correctly for slopes, you don't need quite automation as much as a vehicle with lower center of gravity.
Why would investors vote for board members that waste their money?
It's funny how this type of FUD is practically on a trigger (when derivative of BTC price < 0 then post FUD).

And what do you know? Less than 24 hours later and we're back into mid-50k territory.
My take on this:

Red and blue functions, and async / await, are a good thing when implemented well. It's much better than implicit every function can be async (e.g. python's gevent). Because it 1) makes it clear what is and isn't async, and 2) lets the programmer convert async to a callback when necessary.

The real issue is that some languages have bad implementations of async / await. Specifically Rust, where afaik traits can't have async and that makes using async really convoluted. And most languages don't have async-polymorphism, and maybe other features I can't think of, which ultimately create the problem "I have to call an async function in a sync function without blocking". With a good implementation of async / await and half-decent architecture you shouldn't have that problem.
This is because the original article talked about a couple different things under the same title of a "coloring" problem:

1. JS has no way to wait for results of async functions in a sync context. This creates hard split between sync and async "colors". This is what most people agree is the major problem.

2. C# can avoid the split, but the syntax for using sync and async is different. The original article wasn't very clear about why this is bad, other than it exists.

The second case gets interpreted as either:

2a. Programming languages should be able to generically abstract over sync/async syntax.

2b. Programming languages shouldn't have a different sync/async syntax in the first place.

Rust's case is consistently:

- It generally doesn't have the problem #1. Sync code can wait for async. Async code can spawn sync on a threadpool. There are some gotchas and boilerplate, but this kind of "color" isn't an unsolvable dead-end like it is in JS.

- It has distinct syntax and execution model for async, which still counts as "color" (#2) per the original article. However, Rust can abstract over sync and async, so it doesn't have the problem #2a. The syntactical distinction is very intentional, so it doesn't consider #2b to be a problem at all.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/06/technology-is-changing-the-l...

There may be more validity in this whole approach than it would appear at first glance.
I think you're referring to the "Earliest Potential Priority Date" column, some of which are older than that? But, e.g., Patent 6,954,431 with the priority date of Apr 19, 2000 (i.e. more than 20 years ago), if you click through you'll see has an "adjusted expiration" of Apr 11, 2022.

I'm not sure why that is, but looking in the timeline I see that "first worldwide litigation filed" was Apr 13, 2020, i.e. a week shy of 20 years, so I'm guessing they filed while it was still just barely active. And I wonder if that granted a bit more life to the patent, because it now expires two years after that.
I guess it's not a shortcoming if privacy isn't their primary selling point. It seems more like they want to be like wechat, packed with all the features you need to never have to leave the app.
It is not a very challenging game, but that is the core idea of Spiritfarer [1]. You care for spirits, help them come to terms with their finality, and take them to the afterlife. They give you enough of their back story to explain why their behaviors and preferences are what they are. You figure out their favorite foods, try to keep them happy with their accommodations and care, and then have to say goodbye forever.

It is done very, very well. It's easy to get attached to these characters and then have to let go of them.

10/10 in my book.

[1] https://thunderlotusgames.com/spiritfarer/