skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is not going to provide a crypto version of its currency. The Chinese government is all about centralisation and control. It will go for electronic transactions via a few tightly-controlled banks combined with the elimination of physical cash.
Where do you propose such environment? I'm considering starting a meet-up to call "Pink Programmers". No men would be allowed, and we can all chat about how to attract more female programmers.
The year zero does not exist in the Anno Domini (AD) system commonly used to number years in the Gregorian calendar [1], so the first decade was years 1AD-10AD (ten years). This means current decade started on January 1st 2001. and ends with December 31st 2020.

From Wikipedia Decade[2] article:

There are two main methods of counting decades in recognition. One, called ordinal, counts decades starting with the first year 1 CE (For example, the years 1981–1990 is referred to as the 199th decade or the 9th decade of the 20th century), while the other, called cardinal, groups years based on having the same digits (For example, the years 1980–1989 is referred to as the 1980s, or commonly known as the eighties).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade
Original title lacked a date -- and comment pointing out the omission gets downvoted. Such downvotes are destructive to the quality of information on HN. @dang?
Lions are also unaware of radio waves. We could be unaware of self-organizing ripples at the scale of subatomic particles. That's a life form that could efficiently colonize the universe hitching rides on rocks.
> if you're not able to support your thoughts with data

Likewise.

That article is a highly anecdotal puff piece, focusing on a few exceptional inspirational stories from a single tribe. I could find all sorts of non-UBI rags-to-riches stories too.

AFAIK, despite no end of UBI pontification, no real study has even been done about existing native UBI (correct me please).

What we do know is that Native Americans consistently have 25% lower median income [1], double the poverty rate [2] [3], and nearly double the unemployment rate [4] of the rest of the United States.

Either UBI doesn't work, or it does work and without it Native Americans would be almost unbelievably terrible -- even compared to other historically oppressed groups (blacks, Irish, Japanese).

[1] https://www.epi.org/blog/2016-acs-shows-stubbornly-high-nati...

[2] https://theredroad.org/issues/native-american-poverty/

[3] https://census.gov/library/stories/2018/09/poverty-rate-drop...

[4] https://thinkprogress.org/the-unemployment-rate-for-native-a...
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> playing the game well is now front and center

As it always has been and ever shall be :)

I agree that social and communication skills are incredibly important in groups and generally more important than technical skills outside of deep specialties.

One of the key points of the post is:

> Developing your thoughts and a clear position in a written form that you are comfortable with people reading and using as the basis of a discussion is a terrific quality bar for those thoughts.

The more you develop your thoughts and position, the better you'll be able to play the game in a discussion or another forum. You and your colleagues can win through deeper understanding of customers & stakeholders, the problem, and solution space. I expect your colleagues will recognize that expertise and understanding even if they don't want to admit their position is 'wrong.'

Of course understanding the landscape and the 'right' move does not guarantee success. You still need to influence decision makers to give it a shot, and then you'll see whether the idea works or not.

I learned a lot about how to do this from books like 'How to Win Friends and Influence People', Influencer (Grenny), and 'Getting More' (Diamond) I also benefited tremendously from an 2-day workshop on public speaking.

There's nothing like doing this where the outcomes matter and it's a challenge for your current skills. So in addition to the publishing challenges outlined in the post, you can develop your ability to influence by:

Changing some minds

Present your ideas at user groups and conferences. You can ground the talk in material you an expert in and/or written about, but the important bit is to practice developing and communicating a point of view that influences people in some way: challenge 'conventional wisdom' or help people understand when to use or not use 'Best Practice'. My colleague Bob Lalasz has an _excellent_ series on developing a point of view: https://scienceplusstory.com/tag/pov/

Changing your org

Plan and execute some change within your team or organization, scaling up the ladder of "we don't do X" until you're satisfied. I recommend starting with small numbers of people/HiPPOs: convince the one or two engineers you're working with to adopt unit testing or static analysis for this one project to see how it goes, then convince the team to try continuous improvement via retrospectives and 20% allocation to improve daily work. And work your way up.

I don't know if this counts as 'playing the game,' though I do think developing and executing strategy is fun.

I mostly think of these practices as making things better for myself, colleagues, and customers.
From what I understand scan rate depends on exposure time which is quite a bit high for such a sensor.
Really? Honestly I hate generation-based generalizations. Each group is the result of different circumstances and faces different generational challenges.

That said, if anything, a cursory glance at my Facebook feed reveals the boomers yelling the loudest.
But why do you call them Pi-Days? Pi Day is 3/14 because that's somewhat similar to 3.14, which is Pi to 3 significant digits..
Yes, async functions are natively available in python3.6+ and node7+, and requires a gem in ruby. Ruby can also use fibers and eventloop to do concurrency using just the standard library, but it is missing the async/await syntactic sugar.
You could argue 0-9, 10-19, 11-20 as an equally vaild grouping.
>As an example, imagine you are on your own, completely outside of society, out of contact with others. You’d need to build and maintain shelter. You’d need to forage or grow food. You’re not free to do whatever you want, until you have accumulated enough resources to not need to do the work to provide what you need for everyday survival.

This is true, but it's not the only perspective, and it misses out on a lot of normative social theory. J.E. Roemer would argue that because we are part of society, measurements of wellbeing should be taken relative to the wealth generated by society. The question is not if someone would be better off if they withdrew from society with only their own wealth, but if they'd be better off if they withdrew with a per-capita share of society's productive capacity.

>I don’t think we’d call this slavery, yet it has the same shape as what you describe.

Slavery isn't the word for it, but necessity is the word for it. It makes much more sense to talk of the freedom/necessity dichotomy than it does to talk of the freedom/slavery dichotomy.

"The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class."
Not so much as fooling yourself, but I agree with the OP your method isnt really 'original' in the sense that it's indeed exactly the same as the 'standard' one, just a tad different in how you explain the math. E.g. 'if not ending in 00 throw away...' is really just the same thing as 'except when divisable by 100'.
>China will fall

>Saudi will have a violent revolution

Very very unfortunately, this sounds more like wishful thinking than a reasonable prediction. The ways in which modern states can maintain power and suppress their people is overwhelming. China can and has built perhaps the most oppressive totalitarian state ever to have existed. Saudi is diversifying its absurd wealth to resist downturns in oil, and the "first world" is still hapelly grovelling and kissing the rings of that disgusting despot, selling them weapons and propping them up diplomatically. All in all, I don't have my hopes up.

It's all rather depressing.
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Exactly the reason why pickups are so popular. You never know when you might need to transport your washing machine or a fridge.
FWIW, I think UBI only makes sense in a context where most people cannot compete in the economic system (against corporations with automation) and so the alternative (to just giving them money) is some kind of nightmare (take your pick.)
As someone who has worked on online learning (the machine learning discipline), and who is young enough to have taken a few Coursera classes in high school, I must dispute your claim :)

To me, "online learning" has nothing to do with classes on the internet. I still think of those as "MOOCs". I don't think it's a stretch to say that the author wasn't aware of the other usage, as I'm certainly not.
In my view being optimistic about the future is in conflict with believing that China will become the dominant power. There are many concerning signals from China, not least the situation of Muslims and also the surveillance state. There is much we don't know about the true situation of debt, public and private, in China.
This has already happened AFAIK.
UBI is not a panacea. It does help move some key micro needles (i.e., employers needing to be more mindful of employees).

On the other hand, at the macro level (read: federal) there is risk. That is, elected officials will mistakenly see it as a replacement for opportunity; as a cure of institutional injustice. The native Americans got screwed. Their culture and pride destroyed. Simply tossing money at them isn't enough. But that's what we've done. We shouldn't be surprised.
And yet Apple's OS collects more information than Google's. You cannot even write an app for your device without handing over banking details like a credit card. You cannot get your location without also sending that location to Apple. If you're in China, everything in your iCloud is accessible by the Chinese government.

Edit: this is not whataboutism. People are seriously suggesting using Apple devices instead for privacy, when doing so is worse, as I have shown. If you believe anything I've said is false, go ahead and point it out. I've stated these claims multiple times on Hacker News and not once have they been refuted, so I'll be happy to get corrections before I state them again.
This is the general issue in software management.

For every hand wringing blog on the subject of "hiring is broken", you rarely see anything about what to do with people when they are hired.
VAT is usually much higher in the world. 10% ish would put the US in the lower quartile. So not worth dodging the VAT and then to transport over still
6 is a big NO. The most part of diseases of this decade are caused by plant based diets. Humans need meat, without it we get sick. B12 can't be found in plants, there are plenty studies that shows how sick we get if we eat ONLY plants.
So much facepalm. I've decided to rather not answer to your comment even if I have replies to any of your claims, because it would be a waste of time.
Right. This is also the argument for Earned Income Taxes, which is a cash mechanism without the social or political baggage.
Any prediction of decentralisation of the Internet, or anything built on it, needs to explain how this will overcome the economies of scale (1 big data centre is cheaper than 1000 little ones) and the network effects (everyone buys and sells through Amazon because thats where you find the most buyers and sellers).
Most electricity in the US isn't carbon-free, and isn't likely to become so in the near future.

From a climate perspective, living close to work, and carpooling, bicycling, or riding a motorcycle are all much more effective than buying an electric car.

Heck, even in a city like New York with a good (electric) mass transit system, the main climate savings is that people are close together and go shorter distances. (The carbon emissions per passenger-mile are not very impressive.)
the pertinent question is, can it simulate a cellular grid?
> I can see UBI causing more resentment on both sides, the receivers and the payers.

But in this case (Yang's Freedom Dividend), everyone gets it. Doesn't that essentially solve the issue?
When Russia and America Cooperated to Avert a Y2K Apocalypse
They are unbelievably performant! I think he needs to join the Android auto team and make their car software run smooth like this!
According to what years mean. Years are not 0 indexed.

A "decade" of apples would be apple #1 to apple #10
The second "decade" would then be apple #11 to apple #20

Ergo, 2020 is the ending year of the second decade of the third millennium, which started on 2001 :)

It's essentially the difference between celebrating a new chunk of time defined by our collective radix, and celebrating a year because of the way it looks.

We are now in "the 2020s" but not the second decade until next year. Therefore, it is inaccurate to say we are in a new decade.
what do you recommend using instead? I don't know of any good alternatives
Certainly. I believe we largely agree.
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A very well written and inspiring post. I haven't used Godot much, but I feel 2020 and the next decade is going to continue growing much more :)

> This was an extremely hard decision to make [work full time in Godot], because at the time, my experience (...) was paid a lot more, and I was receiving extremely good job offers(...). [T]he same happened to Rémi (an Energy Engineer), who also changed his life plans and profession to work full time for the project.

It really speaks of the love for the project. I hope the motivation and joy for writing the engine is balanced with the right compensation.
`iter` can be used to convert from a repeated function call with a sentinel to an iterator:

for frame_stab, frame_org in zip(iter(stream_stab.read, None), iter(stream_org.read, None)):
...

This line replaces the first 12 lines of the loop in the example.
“A system that will concentrate that much power will be inherently evil”

It’s always puzzling to me when people equate wealth with evil. Why the unnecessary moralizing? Just say “concentrated wealth in the hands of the few has the potential to cause systemic societal harm”

No need to paint it as a battle of good vs evil, it severely diminishes the substance of your point.
Curious why you are recommending against swallowing tincture drops. I typically swish the drops around in my mouth for 30s-2min depending on how quickly I want the high to onset, then I swallow. There are also times where I only swallow and I still get high.

Sure, drops will last longer than smoking/vaping, but the high is much milder and less intense (holding the amount of THC/CBDs constant). As someone who used to get anxiety and paranoia from weed, I can say that drops are much more benign in that manner.
They made the first prototypes/scripts for Bandersnatch in Twine, but they later moved to a Netflix-internal tool called "Branch Manager".
It's written in the style of a rhetorical diatribe ("indoctrinated from birth", "defeating the CCP's ethno-nationalist agenda", etc.) This isn't thoughtful conversation, it's nationalistic battle, which the site guidelines ask you not to use HN for.
i might categorize protocols (or even combining ipfs and dat as the basis of interesting solutions) as fuel. not sure they are the spark that lights the fire.

maybe that sounds like semantics, so to propose a rough taxonomy of different types of actors:

a. nation state level superpowers

b. nation state level challengers

c. large business / incumbents / leaders

d. small business / startups / challengers

e. individuals / consumers / social groups

f. possibly horizontal groups across combinations of the above

it would seem at least one of those groups would need to believe they can reap move-the-needle level benefits from decentralized internet in order to spark progress?
Aren't there a lot of people currently following vegetarian diets and not getting sick?
Not if you're counting years, since years are not 0 indexed
Congratulations on that choice! I lost 60 pounds over 10 years ago and it was the first step to completely transforming my life!
At Christmas, I unplugged my parents Google Home Hub as a condition of my participation.
> substandard health care

Yang proposes nationalized health insurance, outside UBI.
personal blogs are still crashing as if it's 2010. that must mean, not much happened

Edit: ok read the rest.

- according to his admission, the subscription model did not scale

- missing is the effect of planet-level monetary policy that massively benefited shares and their largest owners
What will happen in the 2020s: “Error establishing a database connection.”

Yep, sounds about right.
> it doesn't make any sense. According to who?

The year numbering in the current western calendar starts from one (AD 1), not zero (it jumps from 1 BC to AD 1). So the first decade would be from AD 1 to AD 10, the second decade from AD 11 to AD 20, and so on (and the same on the other direction, with a decade from 10 BC to 1 BC, another one from 20 BC to 11 BC, etc).
What you’re perceiving as aging is merely an illusion created in your mind when you look in the mirror. You think you must be aging because most people do, in fact, age.

What you need to realize is that Gen X is stuck in a crack in time that halts the aging process for them. All of them. A side effect of this is that while they can interact with the world and almost be perceived, they actually have been forgotten by the rest of the world.

On occasion a regular aging schmuck will notice a wild Gen Xer and be able to interact with them whilst the Xer is within their field of perception, however these interactions are invariably fleeting and almost immediately forgotten for it leaves the regular person’s body and mind in a strangely exhausted state. Interacting with a forgotten person stresses the body, and so while someone may not exactly know why they wish to flee from this person that seems like another person, at some point the brain sends the neurological equivalent of a kill -9 to end the conversation. It is estimated that about 200,000 Gen Xers are killed a year in this way, but nobody has been convicted since 1. nobody has been able to find the bodies again and 2. Even if they were, it would probably be ruled as self-defense and 3. All memory of the events that transpired invariably slips away from the living.
As you pointed out, special interests will just raise the value of a politician so the $100 disappears in value. That or buy out ads to convince people to spend on their corporate sponsored candidates rather than the ones seeking direct support from voters. Both of these already happen, so why wouldn't they happen more? Solving this issue of corruption in campaign finance requires a solution that only publicly financed campaigns can give. Make it so that voting is all that matters in deciding an elected official and sterilize campaign funding so it's not easy to corrupt.
Yep, and the thing is that most Chinese don't even mind the high level of control for the time being. I don't see any significant large scale instability as long as the material quality of life continues to improve for the average Chinese.
Drat! Thanks
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While there is a correlation between smartphones use and social networks, fundamentally I consider them as two separate topics. I am not a heavy social network user, therefore I’ll comment only on the first part.

I downgraded to a flip phone about a year ago. It’s a mostly positive experience for me. Although, it’s important to say that other people you care about are going to be to a certain extent affected as well.

I’d like to highlight a few nuances:

- No ad-hoc access to online Maps means I need to plan my trips including back up routes and memorize city by heart. I cannot get off a subway, open a smartphone and figure out how to get to a point B. This is a two-edged sword and while I can experience surroundings and explore cities, sometimes I need to ask people for directions.

- My flip phone’s battery lasts for about a week. It’s generally great, but sometimes I forget to charge it. It’s not a big deal for me as a flip phone is already an emergency phone but I communicated to my close friends and family that if they cannot reach out to me this very moment, I’m still safe and no one needs to panic.

- I hate writing text messages on a flip-phone, it’s slow and painful. As a result I send less messages to people I love. It had a minor impact on how they feel, but they got used to my downshifting choice in about a month.

- I used to heavily use Notes app to write down my thoughts. Now, I always carry a small notebook and a pen as a replacement. Whether I read something in a book, hear a funny story, make a grocery list, it always goes to a paper form.

- I cannot do quick fact-checking and look up something using online sources anymore, there is no ad hoc internet option. Whenever there is something worth checking, I make a note in a notebook and get back to this item when I’m in front of a laptop to do more thoughtful analysis.

- I cannot make dumb photos. Again, if I see something worth remembering, it goes to a notebook. It’s not perfect, e.g. when I am at a museum then a visual media is a much better option, receipts cannot be digitized instantaneously, which is especially handy at business trips, etc. On the positive side I got rid of my Dropbox subscription since I don’t have a continuous photo stream anymore.

- In a moment of boredom, I cannot skim through messages, news, or articles. Now I carry Kindle in my backpack; this year I managed to read two to three times more books than the last year.

- I cannot use QR codes, e-tickets to check-in. Everything is either paper-based or I forward them to my wife who uses a smartphone.

- I don’t listen to music as much as used to during commute time.

- This could be specific to my flip phone, but sometimes it cannot properly render text messages from iPhone users. It shows them up as blank.

- I still keep my smartphone at home and use it as a Google Authenticator device.

Ultimately, the whole experience is not about the technology, but about changing addictive unintentional habits.
>1. China will fall to internal strife of some kind. Still may maintain power, but famine and mass executions / disappearances will occur.

>6. Saudi Arabia will have a violent revolution

why do people make these kinds of predictions. they're so uninformed it's beyond the pale.

china and SA are two of the most authoritarian and simultaneously well-funded (effective and efficient) governments on the planets -- we're not talking libya here (let alone syria, venezuela which still stand in their pre-upheavel form). how do you practically imagine either of these things happening? like a superhero comes down and leads the charge?

do you know what it actually takes to organize on such a massive scale as to bring down a state? here in america we can't get enough grass-roots organization for free health-care and tertiary education. and you think somewhere in china is a political mind so brilliant that they'll be able to organize some portion of 3x the population to violent revolution (since they don't have elections)?
Python has multiline inline functions--perhaps you mean lambda?
I’m not sure what you’re getting at, but these are privacy settings that people choose, and they shouldn’t be constantly worrying if an update will violate their privacy.