skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Policy change was in response to violent 2008 Tibetan and 2009 Ürümqi / Uyghur riots (~200 deaths). The blame was placed on then relatively unfiltered western social networking sites which solidified ethic identity that was nominally accepted under old MingZu policy. In the case of Uyghurs, easy dissemination of foreign Islamic texts led to pockets of radicalization (Turkistan Islamic Party) turned violent extremism. Incidentally post riot was when Facebook and twitter was blocked. Western narrative was information control, but additional domestic rationale was to prevent escalation of violence since the riots targeted Han Chinese, and Han nationalists (who hated minority affirmative action privileges - we truthfully are cut from same cloth) were calling for violent retaliation. Basically, the CPC wanted to filter the internet to prevent race wars.

Twitter and Facebook took the moral high road only to be confronted with the same problems now and converging onto the same solutions. Anyway these incidents led Chinese thinkers to reexamine the ethnic policy based around oblast multiculturalism + carrots which was suppose to produce stability but ended up challenging serenity. Now the policy is forced integration via work camps. Somewhat tried and true. Chen QuanGuo was appointed Party Secretary of Tibet, he began security policies that enabled Tibet to see some of the highest GDP growth in the country. He was moved to Xinjiang a 5 years later to replicate his work, expanded the security architecture into the camps (however people want to label it) and increased anti-terrorism efforts. There's been no attacks since his reign, many before. Got promoted to political bureau member for his work.

MingZu policy change is not well known, mostly information disseminated between China scholars. TBH most western reporting on China is naive because western news room simply don't have sufficient assets covering China which is already a very difficult reporting environment. It doesn't help that foreign desks are full of white dudes who can't speak the language. Regardless, since the subject is justifiably mass human rights abuse, I think people don't really care about nuance even why something is happening, just that it is. Which is fair, you can't expect much on Chinese reporting when folks exposure to Chinese affairs outside of MSM are two youtubers playing the clickbait game. It's a ridiculous state of affairs.

I don't know about future timeline, Xinjiang is 7x larger than Tibet which took 5 years and is still ongoing. CPC probably hoping to do a reeducation "lite" policy in HK via CPC textbooks. They blame the current protests on a generation raised by British civics textbooks. I think the summation is, we focused too much on 2 systems instead of 1 country. Salad Bowl instead of melting pot.
This article discusses a very interesting, and surprising, study on political correctness. [1]

The paper found that Americans' views could be typified into three major groups. About 25% are traditional or devoted conservatives, 8% are progressive activists, and the other 67% are an "exhausted majority." The exhausted majority was typified as Americans who don't belong to either extreme, and "share a sense of fatigue with our polarized national conversation, a willingness to be flexible in their political viewpoints, and a lack of voice in the national conversation."

And most of everybody had a disdain for political correctness that transcends politics, race, and even age. The following think political correctness is a problem in the country:

- 80% of the general population

- 74% of those aged 24-29

- 79% of those under age 24

- 75% of blacks

- 79% of whites

- 82% of Asians

- 87% of Hispanics

- 88% of American Indians

There's a reasonable argument that perhaps people don't agree on what "political correctness" means, and indeed the poll part of the study did not define it for participants. However, the study engaged in various focus groups as well as individual interviews and found that individuals were "concerned about their day-to-day ability to express themselves: They worry that a lack of familiarity with a topic, or an unthinking word choice, could lead to serious social sanctions for them."

The reason this is important is that a lot of the political correctness stuff is carried out in domains that are in no way, shape, or form representative of the general population of America. This [2] poll from Pew lays out social media usage in the US. Twitter is a good, and surprising example. Only 22% of Americans use Twitter. And of those that do, 58% use it less often than once per day. Yet I think it goes without saying that our 8% from above are nearly all on Twitter and using it constantly. This results in an extremely misleading image of American society in general if you go in with the assumption that platforms like Twitter are even vaguely representative.

The point of this is that cancel culture not American culture. It's something propagated by a vocal minority on deeply unrepresentative platforms. By contrast South Park has been an American institution for more than two decades. And it continues to draw millions of viewers per episode. Cancel culture largely targets individuals who are unable to defend themselves or those for whom the "progressive activist" group makes up a significant share of their potential influence. For South Park, this couldn't be further from the case.

[1] - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo...

[2] - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/10/share-of-u-...
The lint tool in create-react-app does this out of the box. :)
In some Muslim country Google forces you to use the Hijri lunar calendar. There is no option to switch to Gregorian. Google knows best and everyone in that country wants Hijri.
Transitioning a typical engineering ops team into an SRE powerhouse
Spring-Heeled Jack
Can we stop submitting political links to hacker news?
And this is why I stopped using Adobe. Unfortunately, they've made so much more money milking their users than the customers they've lost so cloud stays.
I was only pointing out that the new MSFS has whole-planet terrain and many thousands airports, like X-Plane.

Whether the terrain looks better or not I don't know and frankly don’t care that much, it probably heavily depends on the setup as well.

I heard clouds in MSFS look better. If its weather doesn’t momentarily glitch out as it is being updated in accordance with real-life conditions, like what happens in X-Plane sometimes, that’d be nice to have too.
I see, I just checked, mine has the ZP region (Hong Kong & Macau), so that would explain why I still have the Taiwanese flag.
That last bit breaks the HN guidelines badly. Would you please re-read them and follow them?

Such cheap accusations of brigading get made all the time from both sides and have proven to be completely unreliable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Aw, thanks! I was mis-parsing this as '5000 Redis jobs per second' instead of the intended 'needed to use sharding when sidekiq is scheduling more than 5000 jobs/second'

Thanks!
That still might run into issues due to people not being familiar with sounds that aren't used in their native language. While this could theoretically be fixed by teaching all sounds to children early in school, my pessimistic guess is that at least in the US, large portions of the population would resist in the same way that they resist proposed changes like using metric units.
I've tried to download and install Catalina 5 times now and every time it errors out and stops with no explanation.
Maybe I did read more into your comment than you were intending. However, one part of your comment indicted 'the system we have,' and at the very least, one of the things I was trying to say is we have multiple, competing systems, as you also now are suggesting in this comment.
That surprisingly shows just how old the pyramids are - very cool. This idea from from @hanoz really has legs :-)
> Any comment can trigger the Chinese

Not only the Chinese, I assure you.

Nationalistic flamebait like this is a bannable offense on HN—not to mention racial/national slurs. The users who upvoted and (later) vouched for this comment have abused this site by doing so.

People routinely accuse us of being somehow pro-China or secret communists for moderating HN this way, but that's not true at all. We don't like bullies or mobs, and any time that dynamic springs up here—which unfortunately is all the time, this being the internet—we instinctively take the opposite side. What's surprising to me is how so many users, who I'm sure are decent people, engage in that kind of thing. I know it's largely a matter of their background but users with the opposite background also belong here, and deserve better.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21188577.
Your assertion for designed isn't backed by your source, and had California fully deregulated the market, the swindle by Enron likely wouldn't have been possible, as public opinion would have goaded the legislature into action - but because the end consumer wasn't feeling any pain, no change was possible.
You just don't want to listen, do you? It's a basic fact that criminals use basic communications like phone and text messaging all the time. It's a fact they get caught because of that, all the time (sometimes even the most sophisticated and organized ones). It's a fact that using less susceptible means of communications, like walkie talkies and encrypted messaging, is more difficult.

Which of these basic facts are you disputing?
Here's a very nice forth implementation for the C64 (not z80-based, it's 6502, but close): https://github.com/jkotlinski/durexforth
No, I agree. There is a minimum level of etiquette that should be followed when terminating someone, even if it is for cause, and even if they are a volunteer.
Where is VideoLAN's VLC
> People who are blind should have the same access as everyone else

let's shut down rental go-kart places then.
The bitcode requirement was driven by the Apple Watch launching with a 32-bit ARM core, but Apple knowing they would move to AArch64 3 years later and not wanting to make devs recompile their apps (or have to support both ISAs on the Watch). The ABIs were designed to be compatible, and apps in the store were statically recompiled to AArch64 for the S4 launch last year.
Republican governor Pete Wilson and Republican author of the bill Jim Brulte.

'Democratic State Senator Steve Peace was the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy at the time and is often credited as "the father of deregulation".'[0]

Again, Democrats controlled both the Assembly and Senate throughout the process, and ever since. Bill contents are amended at will both in and out of committee, and "gut-and-amend" (removing a Bill's language wholesale and replacing it with that of a completely different bill to avoid rules about committee review) is so common, that term was coined for it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis#...
> Off topic, but I enjoyed seeing the leaders of the various GNU projects listed in one place as signers of this letter. I don’t agree with them but it is good to see their names and projects listed.

Notice that for most of the big projects, it is not the leader name that appears on that list, but only a particular developer.
Funny how some people still fear MS controlling Linux (with intent to kill of course), although RedHat/IBM is much more real danger.
On a related note, our app has a lot of charts. What are the best practices for making time-series graphs accessible? I'd imagine just listing the values wouldn't be particularly helpful for graphs with hundreds or more points - and being able to programmatically summarize the interesting takeaways from an arbitrary chart would probably be useful for our sighted customers as well.
Very cool! I'm surprised that they orbit so quickly!
I'm not sure if this changed, but as I recalled, Domino's site was a Flash application with a pretty non-standard UI. Their lack of accessibility may be a consequence of that technical decision.
A. Whoever has the most $$, or B. (More likely), whoever is in charge of the element/component that is blocking accessibility. Since recaptcha is an embed that would be Google.
I don't think we know it was unanimous. The orders list doesn't say anything to that effect, and the justices rarely publicly dissent from denials of cert, so their silence doesn't mean anything.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/100719zor_m6...
Yes. CodeWarrior flies on modern hardware, even with the CPU being emulated.
that was helpful, thank you. somewhere else in this thread I mentioned that I had just updated to Mojave about a week ago. during the upgrade, the stock standard warning message about the upcoming 32bit noncompliance apparently did not include all the non compliant applications on the laptop, discovered Adobe, missed Steam.
Your example is from 2000/2001. The same year OSX was first publicly released.
Typically suits that do that without warnings or asking things to be changed are thrown out immediately. The plaintiff usually has to show that they tried getting it changed through normal channels before filing a lawsuit.
Solving complex adaptive problems with rubber ducks
Solution: Reserve cool user ids and sell them yourself later if your service becomes popular?
Not going out of your way to accommodate someone is discrimination? Nice newspeak. Where do you draw your arbitrary line of totalitarianism? Are you discriminating against people with ADHD for not having a clean version of the website for them? What about the 33+ languages in this country? Are you discriminating by not supporting them? Do you have to have a website for each religion?
> In my opinion there really is no reason for even mom and pop sites to not provide even a base level of accessibility, it really is just setting tab indexes in correct order, as well as making sure items have alt and title tags so that the readers can pick them up and actively describe the page.

Not every disabled person is blind. It's not enough to set some tab indexes, add alt tags and call it a day. It's not a process that can be automated and not a simple matter of turning off your screen and using a screen reader (again not all disabled are blind). And as a small business, even if you think your website is accessible (after paying that accessibility dev who you thought fixed it), if you were pursued by a law firm and your options were to try to fight it in court or pay a settlement, you'll likely only be able to afford the latter.
Nvidia Joins Blender Foundation Development Fund
Ask HN: Did you manage to earn from your side project during your PhD?
Can confirm! I'm typing on a WASD keyboard right now that has a custom-printed layout that I designed myself (reflecting some assorted remappings that I'd been doing in software anyway—until I got this it had been almost two decades since my keycaps reflected the actual key layout I was using). You download either a template or a complete graphic, edit it, and reupload it with your order. Super easy, and after accounting for the fact that the keys are mechanical, not even that expensive. (Way more expensive than a commodity keyboard, though.)
I use Media Rage to tag my mp3 since ever, and there is no hope that it will be updated. The application does just what I need.

I am also about to buy RockSmith on Steam, but it's 32 bits at the moment. I currently used it on my PlayStation but want to have it on macOS to access more songs.

It looks like you find many games on steam that are 32 bits only.

On our side when OS X was introduced we trusted Steve when he said Carbon is there to stay and will be 64 bits. We took a few years a few years ago to do the switch...
SIP had numerous exploits over the years, basically. The new volume provides additional isolation and utilizes native mechanisms in APFS to make it transparent to the user space. 'Defense in depth'
What kind of amateurs use basic phones for criminal activity? Well, apparently a whole lot of them, looking at criminal convictions based on such surveillance. Are you disputing that basic and obvious fact?

Sorry, but this is not a fact based argument any more. You are somehow trying to convince me that, despite all evidence and data, wiretaps are useless in prosecution of criminals. I'm not having that, anymore.
A quick little story.

I had a oil refinery client in the Louisiana swamp (Port Barre to be exact). They bought some software and I was there to train them and do the config. When it came time for lunch someone suggested Exxon. I asked if the Exxon refinery had an exceptional cafeteria or something, they clarified that it was the Exxon gas station up the road. We went and there I sat enjoying the best Cajun meal I have had to this day.
Just research how 1900 London was like for the average worker and then tell me you'd want to live like that.
Relax, he was clearly talking about the Chinese government, not Chinese people in general.
RedHat/IBM already won now that SystemD is everywhere because Gnome requires it.
That is completely irrelevant to the discussion because such a rate would depend on a huge number of more significant factors.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have a Renault in France with navigation, but set it to use the English (British only unfortunately but I'm getting used to it) voice. It can still pronounce the streets correctly, which after living here a while is exactly what I want. So it doesn't seem too hard but lack of prioritization.
I'm not sure. I only think this works if the local economy declines, to where enough people don't want the houses any more and the price naturally reduces. I can fully see Seattle simply charging the same or more rents as housing is added if the economy keeps growing.
Yes, I think different countries require different solutions during different stages of development and threat. US media environment and online culture does magnify and sensationalize statistically insignificant threats. I like to think we have a slightly healthier media environment in Canada, but people here seems irritatingly OK with censorship as well. Aat the end of the day, it's up to the west who values things like freedom of speech to produce a working alternative for the world to emulate. But given how things are going, I don't see anything forth coming. It's crazy how society is shaped by .01% of self-selected active online participants. I was hoping divisive culture war is just part of the growing pains of first wave of ubiquitous inter-connectivity, that people will get fatigued and adjust their behaviors eventually, a regression to mean of common decency. But it's been years and it looks like eternal September really is eternal.
Just because I have a license to run a program does not mean I have a license to sub-license it to Microsoft.
Blind person here. While I definitely appreciate any efforts towards accessibility, I believe this is not the way. What people don't realize is that, at a certain point, most companies do accessibility anyway. Some of them, like Apple or Microsoft, even turn it into a marketing advantage. There are exceptions, sure, but this doesn't justify government regulation. I believe the days of John and Chuck, two dropouts from MIT making a tech startup and becoming billionaires are almost over. There's more and more regulation introduced around technology, first the absolutely ridiculous COPPA, then GDPR, then California's privacy initiative and now this. I believe that, in five to tech years, our tech landscape will consist of a few big companies who will have the resources to comply, and many walled gardens, as each country will have their own laws, wildly different from any others. The UK is already starting to go this way, i.e. with the proposal to ban Facebook likes for users under 18 and introduce mandatory age verification. I think that a small company making a website in 2030 is as likely as a small company making their own car or drug now. Some groups might benefit from this, but, ultimately, we, as a society, will be worse off. This one particular case seems beneficial when consideret in separation from anything else. The wider trend is not.
I haven’t tried it but it must be one of their top priorities to get it working soon, as Mac/iPad hybrid apps are one of the use cases where SwiftUI makes the most sense.

You can of course write regular (non-Catalyst) projects that share a lot of the same code between Mac and iPad. In that case you may not even need Catalyst, so maybe Catalyst is only UIKit-on-Mac.
I can't verify this part first hand, but they indicate in the article that before the 2018 model iPhone XS was released, the region code of Hong Kong was “ZP,” but it was changed to “ZA” after the newer model iPhone XS was released.

So users with newer devices would be impacted.
They've à Teams thing that probably is for this.
You Godwinned up a huge flamewar with this. That's seriously not cool—political and nationalistic flamewar with Nazi overtones is a failure here. We'd appreciate it if you'd please read the site guidelines and take this one to heart:

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I haven't used those reddits, and I don't have a reddit account anyway.

I think the fact it occurred to you to ask, suggests an answer. If you would feel safer testing the water with a different account, then I'd recommend you do that.

People have an annoying habit of attributing expressed thoughts to a person long after the person has openly changed their mind, as well as misunderstanding the intended meaning of a stated view anyway. Same if the person was just constructing an argument for the purpose of thinking things through (for example as in devil's advocate).

Personally, I would also recommend a "listen first" approach.
The second from the top post is about Adobe cutting services to an entire country, yet here we are, twisting our knickers over a flag emoticon.
what about bullies that bully bullies?
It would be interesting to see a report from Steam on how many 32bit only OSX games are in the store. According to the stream hardware survey [1], OSX represents 3% of their install base.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
I'm curious. How do you handle typos in code? Say you're working on a team, and they've got a lot of foreign devs who mis-spell words like color with o u r.

Or they just mistype something and leave it... but your screenreader reads it and you hear/know how to spell it so you introduce bugs because you're using correct or localized spellings of a variable name when everywhere else in the code uses the incorrect or other-localized version?
macOS Catalina Now Available to Download for Mac Devices, How to Download
Please stop and don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21189201
Does anyone know if Trey and Matt own the IP? What's preventing them from walking away from Comedy Central if the channel kowtows to China and just distribute it online?
Now imagine if the league had said that about Palestine.
BTC is an excellent value holder for international money transfer, and imo BTC price is not dictated by supply but by perceived liquidability.
Reviews have changed now and you can leave an overall rating (at least somewhere, they may be A/B testing).
The reaction from Hosts has been negative. They should read your comment as they fail to understand the logic behind the change.
Please don't cross into personal attack, and please do assume good faith. This is in the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Maybe you don't owe the other commenter better, but you owe this community better.
I'm amazed at their leadership in calling out complicit US-based groups like the NBA.
Do you mean Warchestersauce? Sponsored by Blizzard?