skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is bowing to China woke? Not following.
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Discovery of Extrasolar Planets
It is about our agency as players. Being forced to show all bluffs and or body language as cards received, depending, means being more transparent than likely intended.

There are things a player would rather others have to work for, or at best, infer at a coarse level, that RFID card play make known.

And that data is out there for future players to benefit from too.

This may impact you as a player.
Yeah until it comes back and bites you in the a$$. Even toy projects take longer than supposed because we devs think it's a one time thing only. My experience is most of the time software lasts much longer than expected.
You have to ask the question as a company, to allow politics to enter your space.

Now it is supporting HK, next time it is against nazi's, next time maybe against Trump. Once you disallow one, you will "pick a side".

I'm not saying this ban was good or bad, I'm just saying it's more complex than picking side in that debate. Maybe they just don't want to get into the shit of any political debate.

But for the rest, all the support for HK. Maybe this ban brings it even more in the news.
First, free != "free". You pay for it with either fees or taxes.

Is the concept of a public benefit collecting fees for its own operations that strange to you?

And of course not everyone is better off the more people use it; regular business commuters will be turned off by "problem riders" (See above comments for details. Having a nominal barrier to entry reduces the percentage of problem riders.

One of the main reasons people elect not to use public transit is personal safety and comfort. ( https://transitcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/TC_Whos... )
I saw a "dupe" tag on it.
Didn't the NFL had an issue with kneeling a while ago? Did they fire the players?
Blizzard is 100% fine with their games having a political message when they think it gives them free brownie points (announcing various characters as being explicitly gay), but are complete total cowards when it might cost them something.
> Into your message is built the assumption that all "politics" is the same.

Don't say things like that on HN. They don't like it...
They interview the player/person, what they stand for is their own prerogative. It isn't up to Blizzard to dictate what people should think or are allowed to say on issues such as human rights. It is their right to ban someone for what they deem 'misconduct' though, so yes they are in their rights doing what they did here.

They will also have to deal with the consequences of that decision, a lot of people are cancelling their subscriptions and deleting their blizzard accounts.

This will probably not impact them much, but hopefully there will get big enough that it does.
I have some meta advice, having done a bunch of really fun consulting gigs over the past few years:

* Flexibility is super important to a lot of people. I like to tell clients “one of the best things about hiring a consultant is that you have no long-term obligations to me. You can cancel our contract on a day’s notice if you want, and I won’t be the slightest bit annoyed.” I’ve never had anyone actually do that, but folks always always react positively to that offer and appreciate it.

* Bill by the week, do a one-week minimum, and pair that with the above. You’ll be surprised how often that week turns into six months (or more).

* A lot of full-time folks get very threatened when a consultant arrives on the scene (particularly if you’re a generalist, but even if you’re a specialist). This is just a natural protective instinct. Don’t be put off by this - go out of your way to reassure them you’re there to help, work with them, and help them do their jobs better. The defensiveness will often turn into supportiveness and they can become your biggest champions.

* Think of yourself like a business, not an employee. Make sure you can be independent, go over-and-above on documentation, and communicate like a professional. Don’t get mixed up with company drama or gossip. You’re above the fray (and that’s why you should be paid accordingly.)
You don't get it. It is not woke. That is the fun part. To make them dance morally in the chase of profit. To put them in between the blue checkmarks and the china government and to end pissing off both sides.
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It shows the current political climate is unusual.
Spec is great for validation. For example, we have a HTTP API built using https://github.com/metosin/reitit where we have specs for each endpoint. We have a coercion middleware that checks each request (and optionally response) conforms to a spec (and coerces things like integer ids from path to the correct type). And there's a swagger handler that automatically generates a full documentation of the API just from the route tree and specs, including samples of input and output for all routes.

Similarly you can do HTML form validation, etc.

We even use honeysql with nice helper functions that ensure that data-changing SQL queries are of the expected form. Say, you want to update just one row, you have a helper function that checks the honeysql data has a where clause with a unique column and only then runs the query. Someone should maybe blog about that sometime.

What I've found, though, is that trying to use spec like type checking is usually not a great idea. I expect better from static analysis / compile-time checking, with clj-kondo being the most promising tool atm.
Isn't the term moon devalued too much by now? Isn't there terminology to classify these newly found 5km natural satelites differently from the massive moons like ours, Ganymede, Europa and so on? Something like dwarf moons or micromoons?
Absolutely nothing, because in the US we have freedom of speech codified into our constitution.

Unlike China.
I would have guessed "puh-yall-up".
Massive Streisand effect incoming.
I'm arguing that everyone should be living as close to how they want as possible
One way to make the most of your country of residence is to exploit the timezone difference as a positive. Look for companies that have 24/7 operations and need to have someone available for troubleshooting when their main team are asleep.

Two things that worked for me are firstly having a technical blog, which shows off not only the skill set you have, but also that you can communicate well. It also shows that you have the enthusiasm and curiosity to go beyond the day-to-day work of cranking out code.

Then secondly, go through agencies to find your initial contracts. Many companies in big cities will accept remote employees if they can find good ones, but it's hard to find those companies if you are not local. The agency essentially does that for you in exchange for a cut of your day rate. Also, they usually (in London at least) pay weekly so you don't have the big financial dry spell before your first invoice is paid. Once you have a bit of cash built up, you can go direct to companies as an independent.
Very satisfying to watch.
Locally we have this: https://spoorkaart.mwnn.nl/
eBay had itself removed in version 5: https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/1375881/diff/4/5

The reference to Uber was also removed in version 8. PayPal and Facebook don't seem to mind so much?
People should start boycotting western companies that perform this kind of humiliating bowing to China, Saudi Arabia, etc. Yet of course, most companies are doing that...
Cool, cool. When is full compatibility with Java 8 be available? I mean Java 8 SAMs, Java 8's Stream, Optional and CompletableFuture...
Make Azeroth Great Again [0]? You could by them at https://shop.esfand.tv/ before, but it’s currently under construction (the website’s <title></title> still has it in the name).

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=494dkjXL3p4
An excellent article that beautifully summarizes the frustration of many residents and highlights obvious policy solutions to address them, such as Proposition Q.

>>>Providing the mentally ill with the “liberty” to decompose on the streets is cruelty, not compassion.

The policies employed by Breed’s government misuse resources in a quixotic effort at fighting addiction by providing more means to be addicted. The “need more housing zoning” argument is absurd and employs a fallacious premise that homeless people need to be housed in-situ.

This article provides great relief for residents, homeless folks, and drug-dealing scum.
Youtube surely knows I have watched thousands of English language videos without subtitles. Yet they insist on sometimes giving me horribly translated video titles, seemingly at random. I don't know why and I don't know how to make it stop.
Being gay isn’t political.
In what way? I'm trying suggest to address the root cause, albeit very long term, rather than just moving poverty out-of-sight.
A huge amount of Indie games do not require a powerful (or even decent cpu). Many of them have Linux and Mac ports. Those are the same kind of games whose developers do not have a lot of spare resources to stay on the endless treadmill of deprecation.

It also kills any hope of wine powered support for proton in steam as many many windows games will be still 32 bit for a very long time (mind you, metal already had put a big dent in that).

Interestingly Linux users are indirectly getting affected by this: for many developers supporting Linux was just a byproduct of supporting macOS. As the latter is being dropped, support for the former is getting harder to justify. Luckily Proton seem to be a very viable alternative to native games.
Ironically refusing to speak can also mean that. If the rest of the players would refuse to speak at all (in interviews or whatever), they could still be banned for that.
No, being gay itself is not a political decision, but making a big deal about how progressive you are as a company because your game has gay characters is very much a political statement.
When the web and HTML pages first started up, they were all designed in such a way that accessibility software would have been able to navigate.

Since, a lot of time and money has been invested in making the web less accessible.

Not all discrimination requires a special effort to not serve a specific part of the community. See Google Photo's gaffe identifying a black skinned person as a gorilla. This is discrimination through a lack of consideration or effort.

A similar process has occurred with accessibility (and more) on the web. A lot of time and investment has occurred to 'improve' the web for specific groups and interests, without considering the impact on others.
Can we please start a cultural movement that forces large corporations to choose between appeasing Chinese censors and looking like fools to the rest of the west or getting banned in China.

Really seems like a win win scenario.
It’s reasonable from the perspective of maximising profit, sure. And it’s true that they’re (as far as I know) consistently applying a rule they set out a long time ago.

But that doesn’t make it the right decision, morally. Sometimes rules should be broken.
The other way around. Woke Inc. want to stay woke, but they also want to not be on the bad side of the Chinese state due to business interest there.

Hence, the woke company needs to do pretty un-woke things, and their hypocrisy is exposed.
Original Phoronix article:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-G...
I’m sat on the Eurostar as I type this coming back from a long weekend in Paris. I’ve been before, but this time spent a bit more time on the roads.

1. I completely believe that the French think that somebody should be able to drive without any training

2. This is not a compliment, and something really needs to be done to manage drivers and traffic better in France.
The Profitability Challenge for Challenger Banks
I guess what I meant - I looked at these issues differently, others probably too.
Apple, Google "selling out" to be in China? Oh well - that seems reasonable since its a big market.
South Park put it into different perspective. I guess that is what art does
> Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.
Then there would be arguments that a certain symbol or action is political. Then any hint of something that might, conceivably be a stance or salute. No patterns, pictures or logos of any kind, unless it's of our sponsors.

Like FIFA ludicrously deciding that a poppy on a Remembrance Sunday international is political. They deserved every bit of anti-FIFA vitriol the popular press and internet managed to come up with.
That doesn't sound like a problem with a) or b) at all but purely with c).

Also, something is wrong with your example. Cost of buying the original platform is $X, sales (not revenue) for multiple years is $3,500, fixing it or replacing it by a compliant platform is $Y. A "fix" is clearly not more expensive than $X and that was much, much less than the revenue from the sales.

Also, it seems to me that the original product was defective (illegal), so why should she have to pay for the fix?
I've used Photoshop so much that the GIMP interface is unusable. It is close enough that I think I know what to do, and far enough that I am always wrong about what to actually do.
The whole point is that it is considered as political in quite a few countries. (and even where it isn't, it is considered as such by quite some people)

(yes, this might change in the future, but we're talking about today)
Well... so you "estimate" via GA that your users do not reach your site. Fair enough. So do you get a grip on those "Firefox Users" that reported a DNS Error? The DNS error will probably lead you to your solution...
NSA whistleblower dropped from Australian cyberconference at govt request
Making characters in a video game gay probably shouldn't be a political statement, but at least today it still is.
Human rights aren't political! (of course they are)
How they choose to enforce the rules is completely at Blizzard's digression though. There's giving a slap on the wrist and then there is banning the player and the casters. That sends a pretty clear message. If a player had advocated for gay rights, that would've technically still broken the rules, yet somehow I doubt Blizzard would've cared much if at all.
There was a time when the fact that they’re Americans would definitely protect their right to do stuff like this, but these days I’d worry that China will invalidate some Ivanka trademarks, and the creators will find themselves under very heavy pressure from above.
Actually it was 5+2+5. If I find something sufficiently interesting I don't have a problem with focusing on it. Learning the maths was definitely the hardest and perhaps on those days I didn't perfectly stick to the schedule but when it involved implementing that into a solution, so long as I can see the solution beginning to come together I can stay motivated long enough to work on it.

Perhaps I do have a "monk brain" as you've put it but I certainly wasn't born that way, I actually have very little in the way of formal qualifications and barely made my way through school. I believe I was able to achieve this when I started working and began seeing results as my skills improved.

My life is a bit more complicated now and I couldn't imagine doing something similar today. The best I can do is a few hours over the weekend trying something new. I'm glad I took the opportunity when I did.
People do not want to live on the streets in tents. Tents are just not suitable for permanent life even at the latitude of San Francisco.

The UK and Ireland have the "traveller" community. They are basically non-Roma gypsies, the descendants of nomadic Irish tinkers. Even they do not live in tents. They live in caravans. A few still have the traditional wooden painted horse-drawn ones, although generally those only appear for special occasions like funerals. Mostly it's modern caravans and motorhomes.

There used to be fields provided for them on the edge of towns, but the inevitable social conflicts have caused those to be reduced to almost no provision.
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> I made a lot of friends playing and making video games, but it's not a particularly productive pastime if you're only playing them. Of course, you can disagree, but I am personally a little regretful that I didn't end up picking up an instrument or spent more time on my drawing skills.

Sounds like you had a very similar experience to me. I was addicted to MMORPGs from around age 14-18. Almost every moment of free time I had I was playing these games.

I realised when I got to university how much time and potential I had wasted and I was becoming more interested in entrepreneurship which helped shift my addiction to something a little more productive.

That said, I also regret spending most of my late teens and early twenties working on hopeless startup dreams fuelled by the delusionally over optimistic self-help books I was reading at the time.

After going through a bit of a crisis in my mid twenties I finally feel I've reached a good balance between, but arguably I've wasted many of my best years. Even productive addictions can be bad. You often hear professional sports stars and business people echo these feelings about not prioritising the important things in life: family, friends, etc.
Unless someone is directly employed for social media PR, a clause that broad is not justifiable.
>And it’s true that they’re (as far as I know) consistently applying a rule they set out a long time ago.

Have they ever enforced this rule in the past? If not, it's difficult to speak of consistency.
No, cruelty is _causing_ the problem. Not being unable hide it.
X32 is dead exactly because, where 64bit is not needed, x86-32 is perfectly fine. I.e. the only practical reason not to go 64 is backward compatibility.
Not according to the pro diversity. For them having gay characters is a bid deal.
> But the Domino's site didn't have "labels on forms," it was a whole goofy animated game where you'd drag ingredients on a pizza to order.

I've ordered a couple dozen of times on Domino's, mostly custom(ized) pizzas, and never seen a drag and drop on their website; possibly because I use their French website. Instead it's pressing buttons to add or remove ingredients.
So it's possible and they already have the code to do it.
It's a bit of both mixed in with games companies explicitly using techniques in honed in gambling industry to keep kids attached to their product.

I've worked in videogames for 25 years and the industry is "oblivious" to the harm it is causing because it's very profitable. There has been little innovation in games for the last ten years compared to the innovation in the business model used by the industry which has seen rapid change to grab children attention for as long as possible.
It's really no wonder. Way too many games are straight up designed to create habits in the players.

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131494/behavioral_gam...

Rewards and punishments are used to create schedules. They make player do the things the company wants them to do when they want them to do it. A simple example:

- playing every day rewards the player with bonus items

- taking a break punishes the player by making them weaker relative to other players

And of course there are those wonderful companies which reward players that spend money and punish those that don't.

WHO already recognizes the existence of a gaming disorder:

https://www.who.int/features/qa/gaming-disorder/en/

It's only a matter of time before this industry is regulated.
Thanks for the detailed response, I'm going to take a look into the videos.
Clojure is a different language. Being "fully compatible" with (more similar to) Java was never a goal.
What is happening there is literally what has led to revolutions in several western countries over the last couple centuries.

The Chinese are correct to be afraid, they have spent the last half century cleansing the concept of freedom from their society and they are terrified of what comes next.

People are going to start dying publicly in HK very soon, and the rest of the world will have to decide which side of history they want to stand on.

The American's needed allies to succeed in their revolution against a much more powerful nation, HK will need allies too.
What is wrong with a) and b)? Remove c) and this sounds like a great intended outcome: "Notice stuff is broken. Notify. Stuff gets fixed".
So it is society to blame for one’s decision to not be employed, be addicted to intoxicants, and behave feral? The grandiose entitlement certainly is real.
Is it irony that the episode on censorship isn't even available outside of the States?
Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to 3 scientists
China has been leveraging their power "quietly" for some time now. Anything anti-China gets buried or discredited or shouted down using whataboutisms. Even here on hackernews you'll see tons of posts on negative chinese news from month old accounts fuzzing the narrative saying some variation of "it's not easy to understand if you're not chinese etc etc"

The hong kong issue is just bringing the issue into the mainstream
And your comment is completely contentless. The author may be ranting, and it may be conservative, but it is clearly not "drunken".
Is it safe to say we're in the middle of the Software Wars? The headlines have been littered with stories like this lately. From major open source contributors taking down their projects, to Apple, Adobe, and Blizzard.

It's only a matter of time until it's a critical piece of software that can cripple a nation or beleaguer it's people.

If you're looking for positives, maybe this will finally force people to rethink digital ownership.
Adventures in parametric textile pattern design
That's kind. Thank you!
Building the kernel itself is non-trivial.
From who? Trump?
>Into your message is built the assumption that all "politics" is the same.

Not really: there are politics I agree with and politics I disagree with. That doesn't mean that I believe Blizzard should give a loudspeaker to those who agree with me. I think that's stupid because it could turn against me at some point. Some people seem not to think ahead.
Oh, okay. It seems to me like being critical of the Chinese government is popular with both sides of the American political spectrum. Maybe even more so with conservatives!
> Can we please start a cultural movement that forces large corporations to choose between appeasing Chinese censors and looking like fools to the rest of the west or getting banned in China.

But what about the share-holder value?
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I am completely unaware of blizzard tooting their own horn for being progressive about having a gay character.

Undoubtedly they’ve used gay and lesbian characters in marketing, but marketing towards gay and lesbian people is, again, not a political statement in and of itself.
so it's a MUD on Reddit?
Considering how Trump bowed down before Turkey about the christian Kurd fighters issue(basically abandoning people who were promised aid in exchange for dismantling their border security), I don't think he's going to care about Hong Kong too much
is this the next thing
If you've just heard it that does not make it a fact just yet.
What’s wrong with pi-hole?
Not sure why this is downvoted. I think it's great and we may see users deliberately do such things to get companies to ban them, which leads to bigger publicity and awareness at little expense.

In this case, the player sacrificed the prize money and some e-status, but for the publicity it got, it was probably worth it.
The homeless in NY are extremely pleasant relative to the ones in SF(this wasn't the case in the early 90s though). And NY has multiples of the SF population.