skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, what do you suggest should be done? Build more mental health wards? Put everyone behind bars? For how long? What do you do once they're released from prison? Or maybe there should be some sort of camps where they could be rounded up and concentratred away from the city? You obviously have something on your mind, say it.
Pure shakedown
An unlicensed image is something you consciously include - every image you don't explicitly have the license for is considered unlicensed. You can then get a guarantee in writing when you buy a license for an image. Nothing like that exists for accessibility. There is no 30 second test that will guarantee you that you are not going to get sued over accessibility problems on your website. Now imagine if that even has the possibility of bankrupting you. Would you even consider the risk of making a website? Now it's not just the people with disability that can't use the website - nobody can, because the website doesn't exist.
How science has shifted our sense of identity
> but it's not a particularly productive pastime

> picking up an instrument or spent more time on my drawing skills.

As a pastime, I am not sure I see the "productive" part of playing an instrument or drawing. For the instrument part in particular, while any piece has an interpretation part, does it warrant a "productive" label, more than paying a game a specific way ?

Drawing can have a commercial aspect, but then is it a pastime ? (we'd also then have to take pro gaming into account if we go into these length)
> older Plextor drives, which CD-ROM preservationists have the ability to acquire, although they are quite pricey

How could such a drive be identified? Is there an exact model? How pricey are they?
Uhm? Facebook is the first thing that non-Western countries will block for political reasons.
I think GP was responding to the way you said “codified into the constitution” as if that were the main differentiating factor (whereas it’s clearly not, because China also codified freedom of speech).
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/08/we-good...

"'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology after show reportedly censored"

Well all publicity is good publicity, fair play to them for standing up to their principles
I was at this conference today. The keynote was Kevin Mitnick giving step by step demos on how to steal gmail session cookies and clone prox access cards but apparently discussions of anonymous digital dropboxes are out of bounds
Hong Kong drops £32bn bid for London Stock Exchange
Berlin is a bad example and a complete failure, there the drug dealers get assigned special spots in parks so they don't disturb other visitors too much.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/09/berlin-park-sets...
I don't think it will, really, because as a Chinese stooge with access to Chinese market, you have ample money to spend on PR & marketing that makes you not look like a Chinese stooge.
Oh true. I'm a bit surprised about the claim of the CSA censoring an episode since it doesn't have this power at all (it can only act once something has been broadcasted). Looks more like TF1 and Gameone decided not to publish those. I wonder if another publisher could acquire the right and actually publish those.
You can see subway too. Both Toei and Metro operated lines. Their colours are faded to indicate underground.

I was impressed to find the JR train I am currently sitting on. As my train started moving out of the station, its simulation moved immediately. I cannot tell whether this is realtime data or just because the train is perfectly on schedule.
Make them choose between the two markets.

I'm tired of the idea that the Western and Chinese markets can both be appeased the middle of the road morality.

What is happening in HK right now is wrong, and the west has fought wars over this very issue.
Why all the cigarette designs?!
I mean, you're not making a very good case for yourself here. You won't say what your product is, and the examples you give are things that blind people would in fact be interested in.
Is it easier to get motorcycle license than a car license over there? In the States you must have your normal car/truck driver's license before you can get a motorcycle license. Or at least, this is the case in the three states I know well.
Oh, not block for political reasons (some copyright issues apparently).

My friends in Hong Kong and Canada couldn't watch the official stream for some reason, and got some copyright page instead: https://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s23e02-band-in-china
So, are you going to argue that the developer needs to now be held legally responsible for this? Because I can foresee how this makes lots of front end devs stop providing services.
I think it's fair to say this isn't clear enough (it's the ToS rule they're citing):

>Engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image will result in removal from Grandmasters and reduction of the player’s prize total to $0 USD, in addition to other remedies which may be provided for under the Handbook and Blizzard’s Website Terms.

For example, if similar language were on Hacker News I don't think I would think it would include offending the government of China.

What do others here think?

EDIT: someone has now quoted what was said. It was "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age!" I must say, it does change my opinion. If I read and understood the original text I quoted, and was agreeing to abide by it, I probably wouldn't post something so strong. I thought it was something much milder.
Do not mistake a giant faceless corporation’s product marketing decisions for anything other than the soulless money grubbing than they are.

If Blizzard actually were so politically progressive, perhaps they might not be in this situation of backlash.
The restrictions are weird. The link you posted isn't available from Sweden.

The irony of anti-censorship episode being only available in select countries...
And what’s the problem with paying for software you use?
IBM Hackathon winner helps fight rash of wasted food
The trick is that it’s not really a technical problem, the people receive the download just fine, they just don’t like the game, or get tired of it after a few minutes, or never had any intention of paying in the first place - so they do a charge back via their credit card issuer. That is successful just about all the time unless the cardholder and merchant have the same bank, or it is an oil/gas transaction (petroleum companies have some special arrangement where the card has to be reported stolen in order for a chargeback to be successful). I always thought that giving away a couple level demo of the game was the best way to weed out the first two categories of people. I don’t think there is much you can really do about the third. As much as it gets abused I’m glad the chargeback system exists, I’ve needed it a few times.
Decade of cybersecurity data could predict future malicious online activity
I've only used Photoshop very rarely but always disliked its UI. On the other hand i used PSP since the Win3.1 days up until PSP7 and then switched to GIMP which i used for 15+ years.

I never really had an issue on doing anything with GIMP, but in terms of UX i vastly prefer PSP7 which IMO is the last good version of PSP. After many years of using GIMP alone, i reinstalled PSP7 on my PC and i immediately felt much better using it than GIMP (even though GIMP is better on a technical level - faster filters, better alpha support, etc).

I still cannot use Photoshop - or Krita for that matter since they copy Photoshop a lot.
This is really unfortunate. I don’t game a ton, but when I do I pretty much only play Starcraft or Overwatch. Long time fan of the GSL as well.

I know it’s nothing but a drop in the bucket but I will no longer support Blizzard - time to find another game.

Perhaps we should organize a day of protest across all blizzard games.

I think it’s pretty telling that I don’t feel comfortable posting this on my main account.
Innovation relative to what had come before it is equally impressive. Gotta crawl before you walk, and its a marvel how babies somehow learn to do it.
Will it be regulated, its profits are a reward for controlling a section of the population when their hormone levels make them hard to control? Do you not think the military and law enforcement like citizens staying still playing a game so they cant get into trouble? Of course, what future opportunities are lost because society took an easy option and kept them dummed down? Its like parents who don't like their kids being hyperactivity when consuming Sodium Benzoate in drinks and foods even though hyperactivating is a sign the kid is healthy and Sodium Benzoate (cinnamon) is a nootropic.
The NPM fiasco should no longer be possible

If you want to unpublish a package after 72 hours have passed, contact npm Support. For more information about why we don’t allow users to unpublish packages after 72 hours, see our unpublish policy.

https://docs.npmjs.com/unpublishing-packages-from-the-regist...
I see, thanks for the explanation.

Maybe I should've rephrased the title of the post better to prevent it next time.
Only because they are not facing any consequences back home.

It needs to be clear to them that this is a binary choice, you either support totalitarianism or you are against it.
Bosque Pinos. Pinar Del Tiétar
That would be hell of a day for Intel
> Corporations love sitting the moral grey area on issues like this

It sure doesn't seem to me that bending to the will of an authoritarian state is "sitting in the moral grey area." They've made their decision.
Because the actual outcome isn't that you now have a website that's accessible. The actual outcome is that you now don't have a website at all. I suppose that does mean that everybody has equal accessibility - none.
What the hell are bezier curves: Visual understanding
War dead.

If they start to allow one country to commemorate their war dead then they have to allow other countries to do the same, and as said these can be very political and sensitive issues. And then if they allow that why not another commemoration? Thus it is sensible not to allow anything.
Agreed! But (in the example of the Georgia boycott) who exactly is going to use the tactic you mentioned of forcing a company to bow to China? In concrete terms, how do you see that playing out?
Not every group interaction requires every member of the group, not sure what's hard to grasp about that.

The manager has plenty of other ways to gather status updates and feedback as you note.
R, the master troll of statistical languages
The title is perhaps missing "... for spoken and/or non-English sources, preferably not at all".

If we should stop using this test, what should we start using? In the author's comment on the study, they noted "There are ways to study linguistic complexity".

I'm aware, for example, of this python project which provides F-K scores along with 7 other readability metrics to consider: https://pypi.org/project/py-readability-metrics/
pretty obvious he was talking about the global relevancy of the restaurant and theater scene; not like he expected ancient subways!
This has always applied in the UK since the disability act.

The chain of liability is similar, the requirement for clause in supplier contract is similar. Yet the third-party (OpenCart) appears to be where liability rests. So she needs to counter sue her supplier. That's just how it works.

So I see no difference at all for an aware store owner who wants a website.
That’s kind of the point - it’s gotten worse since then. Windows has become more bloated as they’ve added on more layers and refuse to drop backwards compatibility.
Pakistan to introduce RFID number plates in Islamabad territory
Not Blizzard, but in pro Dota, one of their champions, PPD, was wearing his MAGA hat with no repurcussions during last election cycle. Valve is also pretty bad about bootlicking Chinese authorities, so I don't think this comparison works.
As usual, Stallman is right about software.
> and the west has fought wars over this very issue

Which ones?

Also, China has nukes, we probably don't want to see that war starting. I don't think there's a good military option available.
This comment sounds like you agree that they're doing fake political progressiveness for marketing purposes. So do you rescind your previous comment?
Are there any good books/podcasts/documentaries about this? Sounds fascinating.
It's rather an alternative name, not a "short term"
> Although everything is "notorized," the Safari extensions aren't installed on app start up like it's supposed to in most cases

Unfortunately, the only way I’ve found to figure out why this happens is to sprinkle breakpoints throughout Safari…
Morally wrong, but technically not wrong. Many a dumb law was only changed after some politician ran afoul of it.

If you're going to take "direct action" you should probably try to keep it fitting to the issue at hand. Swatting someone because they are in charge of something you don't like won't make your cause any more likeable to most observers.
>because our highly regulated world sometimes seems like it is actively designed to make it impossible for people to make their lives work (without being part of a megacorp -- and what if that doesn't work for you?).

I thought that everybody being part of megacorps was the intended outcome of a lot of regulations. Isn't that why there are no clear guidelines and limits to a lot of regulation? It's particularly ironic that the government themselves can't even seem to keep up with a lot of regulations (reminds me of GDPR and how the EU commission's websites didn't follow them).
In Canada, The Comedy Network has exclusive rights to South Park (and several other Comedy Channel properties).
In the early 2000s I had to interface with a credit card authorization and settlement system for a major credit card. I opened a socket, sent a perfectly formatted transmission, and got back gobbledegook.

Fortunately I had a computer history background and realized I was getting a perfectly sensible response...in EBCDIC.
Two of the laureates are Swiss. This brings the total number of Swiss laureates to 28, making it the third country with most Nobel prizes per capita.

The first two are Saint Lucia and Luxemburg, which have 180k and 600k inhabitants respectively.

Among the bigger countries, Switzerland has the most per capita Nobel prizes.

Interestingly, UK is on number 9 on that list and has a significantly bigger population than the top 8 (I'd say 10x more people than the average top 8 country). Super impressive. Of course, Germany (14) and the US (16) are also not half bad, especially since the US has 5x the population of UK.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_lau...
They're truly geniuses
On the contrary, the power dynamics is completely different. It's one thing to come up with a ridiculous policy (which is easy for a politician to do) and put the onus on minority of affected people to fight it, while the majority is neutral. And it's another thing to ask everyone to vote on the policy before it's enacted.

Fighting the status quo is immensely more difficult than keeping it, even if the effect of that status quo is provably harmful.
Gotcha, thanks. Calling that “forcing them to bow” is strange to me, but I think your reading is right :)
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is absolutely fundamental. Another book I found fascinating is Capitalism without Capital.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Capitalism-without-Capital-Intangib...
Swatting someone will make them seriously consider whether or not they want to continue in that job, and will make their future replacement wonder whether or not they want to be swatted themselves.

In the end this isn't about opinions, you can very much coerce people to do what you want. Even the executives of BigCos.

Nobody should be able to sleep easy at night while running a company taking active measures to support the CCP.
Indeed. X32 is beneficial for an application that

- Never needs more than 4 GB RAM (because it's not worth the usability downsides from having two binaries and letting the user choose which to use, just for a small performance boost)

- Is performance critical

- Performance is bound by memory and/or cache bandwidth

- A large share of the program memory usage is due to pointers

The intersection of all the above is just vanishingly small in reality. X32 was never more than a gimmick to score a few extra points in SPECcpu. And thus people rightfully ignored it.
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Don't try to build a brand name if you're aiming to remain a one-person shop. Your name should be the brand. Having to push ACME Corp. pretty much doubles the required branding efforts, and potential clients / partners might be put off by the unnecessary front.
No, you're dead wrong. PG&E conducted unnecessary maintenance at, and/or didn't perform proper maintenance before, the peak of fire danger, causing the Camp Fire and let it get out-of-control. They must be held completely responsible for their intentional negligence and the deaths of 100+ people (only 90 or so were identified, it's likely unknowable how many more were burned to ash because most homes were so completely consumed that only metal remained) who were cremated in their homes. Right now, they're lying about it because money and using the taxpayers to bail them out also because, you guessed it, money. And how'd they get the laws passed in California to give them favorable treatment? You also guessed it: money (in politics).

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/31/reuters-america-update-2-pge...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bankruptcy-pg-e-idUSKCN1L...

These power-cuts are safety theater, virtue-signaling tokenism. More people will die from lack of air conditioning, medical device power and lack of communication during emergencies than will be "saved" from these pointless, alert-fatigue-inducing CYA/retribution power-cuts.

PS: Printed in Paradise, CA on recycled electrons. I'm still chipping away at the remnants of a blue wheelie bin that melted and burned into a puddle/ring on aggregate concrete. Oh and insurance wouldn't pay to replace dirt which became toxic below what was shed... more socialized costs, $600 just for that.
First you lie about constitution then you make even more claims. Before making more claims answer why did you lie in the first place? Is it because you have no idea what you are talking about and are just parroting what you have heard?
It's the authoritarian Chinese government insisting on censorship. Not so much the Chinese market.
Because it actually works.
Uncleftish Beholding – A Text Written in “Anglish”
Completely agree. Despite all the signage of empathy (philanthropy, speeches, etc.) I struggle to think of more “real” people in Hollywood.
Pretty much the whole of Europe marks remembrance day. It is about reconciliation and as far as it can be made so, is apolitical. Politicians of all sides and nationalities, including the "other" side have and do attend different country events. Perhaps less so with this generation of politicians who will make a cup of tea political if they can, but that is not the act of remembrance.

Not to mark _a_ war, but all war. That point is important.
I feel like social media is the best legal venue for it.

Start sending messages to every game dev, project manager, and director at these companies asking them why they support the totalitarian oppression of HK. Ask them what they are currently doing to limit the influence of totalitarian regimes on their corporate policy.

Make the issue personal for the companies by fomenting discontent from within.
Uncleftish Beholding (1989) is a short text written by Poul Anderson. It is written using a form of 'Anglish' or pure English, using almost exclusively words of Germanic origin. Where most of the Germanic languages retain their own words for scientific concepts, English has adopted a huge number of words from other languages. This essay was intended to illustrate what the English language might look like if it had not received its considerable number of loanwords from other languages, particularly Latin, Greek and French.
The point of the standup is to figure out you need that design session, not to conduct it then and there.

Take ownership of the standup, don't just passively sit there and then complain afterwards what a waste of time it is.
oh wow, well this is a very silence of the lambs like scenario. thanks for sharing. i, too, have witnessed other animals being extra aware of death in the past.
I put on my wizard robe and hat...
That's...exactly his point. You just 180-ed.
About everything, which is why he must be silenced.
> Anything anti-China gets buried or discredited or shouted down using whataboutisms.

Interesting. The only time I see whataboutism and China/Russia brought up in the same HN thread is when somebody tries to defend China/Russia by pointing out similar problems in the West, and that person gets shouted down and accused of engaging in "whataboutism".
You're right but still, I don't think it is difficult to realize that a particular process is only using one core. If you think it is, you should probably consider another application to monitor system usage.
If your are solely data driven, without any higher vision ( eg creating enriching experiences ) then this is what you get ( and Coca Cola and high sugar and fat burgers and fake news ).

The question is - is it solely buyer/user beware or do the vendors have a duty of care? Note these games products are often aimed at children.

The opioids and tabacco lawsuits would suggest people expect companies to have have some duty of care.

In the gambling industry, governments tend to strongly regulate, and place duty of care rules on companies.

As data and machine learning leads to optimization of exploitation of human weaknesses for gain, what do we do?

There are already open source games - how would you manage that? make it illegal - imprison people?? ( like for drug use )?

This problem is at the heart of the question of freewill/or whether the strong should be allowed to ruthlessly exploit the weak.
Cultural movement would require people who are not themselves in the middle ground in the road to morality.

It's hard to imagine people stopping using Uber, Lyft, Twitter, Snapchat, Fox News just because Saudis are heavily invested.
Could you just publish garbage instead?
Users can still E2E encrypt their messages. As long as they choose not to store them in iCloud, they’re safe.
Einstein Analytics and Go – Salesforce Adopting Golang
It was never possible without "admin" intervention. That whole inccident was NPM's sole responsibility.
Properly trained in accessibility is basically impossible. Freelancers are not going to be trained in it nor are people from all across the world.
Nike already pulled all their Houston Rockets merchandise in China.
Having been in China around 1983 and recently there are more social freedoms now but still a long way to go.
Not sure how npm works in detail, doesn't it pull directly from devs' repositories? In that case can't the devs just publish an update that breaks everything?
The endpoint accepted incoming ASCII but responded in EBCDIC? Or was this a binary packet with some EBCDIC-coded strings?