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This is a vexing problem.

It seems that many here would want Apply to defy China. This will result in Apple's expulsion from China/HK. Those users will then move to other phone mfgs/services providers, with higher probability that it will be Chinese, thereby granting the PRC even more power over HK'ers.

Contrarily is the "seat at the table" approach. Apple could comply with China, while continually introducing features/functionality that fundamentally block them (Apple) from complying with PRC demands (encryption, privacy, etc etc). Apple would not be able to announce this, and it might ruin their reputation in the meantime. It also allows Apple to continue hoovering up that sweet, sweet China/HK cash.

What is the best approach? Most of the comments here are signficantly oversimplifying the options available to Apple and the calculus that goes into making those decisions. Additionally, most opinions being posted are heavily centered on Western values/viewpoints.
There isn't really, you can hit 60fps on both, especially on current iPhones. The main thing missing on the web is an equivalent to Metal (they are working on it) so it is not possible to built 3D apps without sacrificing a lot of performance.
reviewers don't exist to detect groundbreaking work (we live in an area where every scientist touts their paper as groundbreaking... beacuse they wouldn't get published otherwise).

reviewers exist to find the dumb, obvious errors in papers that should prevent publication so as to not waste too much of other's people's time.
It’s an interesting hypothetical. Even in a world where people went for it, I’d worry about the implementation, though—for I don’t know of a single example of a country where wards of the state (i.e. children in orphanages or “in the foster system”) have even average educational attainment or lifetime salary growth. Governments—even the very nice ones that top the OCED indices—don’t seem to be very good at producing educated, productive wards.

(Which is strange, actually, because the outcomes are completely different for kids that go through most governments’ military academies. Maybe no government is held to a standard where it needs to take the civic education of wards seriously; but is motivated to train the members of its military regardless of extrinsic motivation?)
>We are at a place in history where we can fight not with fists and bullets, but with entertainment.

Not sure if sarcastic or genuine, but er... you know that this used to be called "soft power"? As in America used to have all this soft power and made the whole world worship how awesome American life is? Like, even Rammstein sang about how "we all live in Amerika / Amerika ist wunderbar"?
The app still uses the internet... What would hinder them from just blocking the API endpoints?

The app is probably just much more convenient.
Is there a risk in genetic engineering that you're not only hurting yourself but also potentially any children that you have? I don't know the answer to this, but intuitively it seems like a possibility that you could accidentally introduce a genetic trait that won't become apparent for generations.
Check out the setup guide here: https://www.pushcut.io/homekit

I also posted a quick demo video on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/dfvcal/in_my_gre...

I hope you can use this for many DIY home automation projects with HomeKit.
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No. That would allow objects to gain energy by quantum tunneling, which (as far as I know) quantum mechanics doesn't allow.
> they saw the futility of taking some hopeless, simplistic, you-don't-even-live-here side, decided this was not the hill they wanted to die on, and pulled the app

This is the problem though, that the CCP can strongarm corporations into these decisions. China poses a huge risk to any company that does a lot of business or does production there. Today it's just pulling an App, but what is it tomorrow?

In the states this risk is predictable: The FBI can demand what it wants, and Apple refuses when they can, because they know they can weather a legal challenge. The risk is NOT predictable in the case of China: the government can demand what they want, and Apple's only choices are to play along or run home and tank the company. If things sour between nations, who knows what ultimatum is next.

Moreover this unpredictable risk spills over into a chilling effect: to avoid even receiving an ultimatum, Apple and any other company will bend over backwards to always be in the good graces of the government.
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Weirdly I relate to some of your experiences in a lot of ways.

- Middle school was really the only time in my life i had the free time to learn instruments. I played a lot of guitar and even played with friends. Never had the time after.

- Morrowind. I loved this game even though I was too young to really know what I was doing.

- My passion for math and science was ignited at this time which led me on the great path of focusing on math/physic in High school. Double majoring CS math in College and programming today.

- Was able to compete in chess tournaments regularly, never have had time since.

Socially, I had some friends, but they were nerds too. Honestly I'm glad I wasn't "popular". The kids I know who were became just boring popular people who started drinking and doing drugs way too early, obsessing about sports that they'll never play again, and never advanced their lives in fulfilling ways (in my opinion, though i think getting distracted by over socializing early in school [ie partying] distracts one from the good grades/drive needed to achieve good a good career).

Being popular and good at sports in middle school is a curse! Nerds ftw!!
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I find that checklists, written plans and procedures, etc. can be a good way for the introverted to substitute for chatty, high-contact direction (and they are good for other reasons anyway). When you do a 1:1, having a previously agreed on list of objectives for that person (quarterly goals or whatever) that you can review, allows that list to do some of the talking for you (in some cases, it will deliver some of the bad news for you, i.e. "you did not accomplish this").

Similarly with vendor calls and other meetings, a published agenda beforehand helps to keep things focused and moving, and you don't have to do as much of the "let's talk about this now" direction of the conversation.

Also, if you have a more extroverted direct report, having them take minutes for the meeting helps to push some of the talking (e.g. review at the end of the meeting for who signed up to do what) onto someone else, in a way that doesn't undercut your authority. Also, if a detailed agenda has been published by you (e.g. by email) prior to the meeting, then you can even have a second run the meeting to a certain degree, while you focus on answering high-level technical questions that require your expertise. This still makes it clear that you are setting the agenda, but puts some of the talking onto someone who is happier to do that (and provides him/her with an opportunity for career growth).

Of course, not all of these are allowed or encouraged at a given organization or with a given customer, but I'm just throwing them out there as a possibility to consider.
Besides the aforementioned browser(), try() and tryCatch(), you would check the packages assertive and assertr to guarantee the expected inputs, and testthat to create tests for your scripts. All awesome.
Hmm maybe my written English caused some confusion, why you interpret it like that? Are you saying the more powerful ones don’t have to give in anything? In current world I don’t think such landslide advantage still exists

I’m saying negotiations and better strategy are needed. Ignoring feelings and demands from millions of people won’t work beyond keyboard, virtual or physical
Looking right at Adobe with Venezuela, U.S based company is taking an executive order at face value and cut off anyone there to using their products. It's worse now since Creative Cloud must be active to use the core tools, at first they weren't even going to refund anyone that just paid a year but luckily due to the outcry they will now allow refunds at least.

Being a software engineer I side with consumers more as I use a ton of services, but that's the flip side to the convince the consumer has absolutely no ownership to anything.
> The most predictive stat for educational attainment is household income and parental educational attainment

There is weak correlation with income & a stronger correlation with parental educational attainment. If you club them up & say "most predictive stat"...not such a good idea. The marginal Rsqs are quite different.

> so if you want to fix education, you need to fix income inequality.

Heh heh. This doesn't follow. At all. Yes, high income inequality is recipe for all sorts of ill-will, and maybe education is affected as well. But maybe you should regress inequality with edu attainment & see what you get. You may be surprised.
Take a look at Object Shell: https://github.com/geophile/osh
> I think the incoming inequality is a red herring, and people are focusing on the wrong problem.

I grew up moderately well-to-do and attended public school in a lower- to middle-class area. Most people's parents were doing "okay"; some obviously weren't. What has stuck out to me is that the folks who I am least surprised to see having a rough time of it as adults, twelve or so years on, are the people I distinctly remember coming to school in way-past-their-prime clothes or not having money for lunch at school.

Which is to say that the idea that it's a "red herring" may be well-meaning but is pretty clearly not true. We know that parental income and stability (and they are interrelated) factor heavily into both educational success and generational affluence. Kids don't learn when they're hungry and they don't learn when they're afraid everybody else is judging them for being poor and having shitty clothes.
It's not the A-team of Chinese law enforcement working the case over here in Hong Kong, so simple measures like these can be effective.
> Probably, but also a quick google finds dozens of supporting papers and articles.

Disclaimer: I _believe_ in antropogenic warming, but i'm not qualified to judge

One of the arguments that I find compelling, from individuals who would advocate for a less dramatic reading of the climate news, is that there's A LOT MORE MONEY available for researchers to find out how bad the situation is & not a lot of money (or encouragement from peers) available for folks who consistently find that there's less reason for alarm.

Bit of a confirmation bias, there? Maybe.
But then what? Roads and police, that's it?

It seems like many Americans view the government as some external entity that imposed itself on the people and now the people have to keep them in quarantine. A bit like how we felt in Hungary when the Soviets were sitting on us. They came in and now are taking our stuff away.

But a country's own govt isn't supposed to be "those guys who came in and took our stuff for themselves", but rather a network of institutions that help organize society for things where market forces are not appropriate for several game theoretical reasons.
I spent a few summers making a living photographing weddings. It was really hard.

For what it's worth, a lot of the best photos out there are from amateurs (probably the vast majority, there's just more amateur photographers).

The pro, however, should _always_ be able to at least get _good_ photos, while an amateur might, or might not, who knows? This is why people hire a pro for a wedding - you know that there's exactly one chance to get that first kiss, etc. and need to have someone reliable. My favourite wedding photos are from weddings I didn't get paid for but attended as a guest, though I wasn't worrying about running through a standard shot list (and the group portraits, which I never liked compared to photos of people having fun at the reception)
Also, who’s to say they “developed” that? That makes it sound like they’re dealing with something completely new (fits into man-made climate change narrative). Is it possible that through millions of years of evolution the earth had many such warming experiences and they developed this technique well before we arrived on the scene?
Ah, no, I was just quoting the field strength of what used to be the largest magnet. Personally I used a 600MHz. It's still weird to have your head below a massive magnet and have to tune analog electronics for impedence matching because there aren't any shielding techs for digital electronics that can survive the field strength.
Using Alabama is a flawed analogy. Hong Kong has always enjoyed greater autonomy than other Chinese cities. A better analogy would be Puerto Rico citizens aggressively protesting their lack of rights electing members to congress in the federal government. Do you think the US would react the same way as China?
> wants all these rights others don't have

This is exactly how the United States is setup. Notice how pot is legal in some states and not others? I don't see the National Guard marching on Colorado.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> If the title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
A better example is Puerto Rico. If they had a referendum that showed a clear desire for independence, the US would almost certainly let them leave.
>Now here's a thought ... could video games and entertainment be tools for generating change in countries?

Been there, done that. It was called "soft power", and the US used to wield it in spades.

>To offset potential cost to companies, could this behavior be subsidized by our government?

Your government used to. Hollywood wasn't built in a day, you know.

>Could every game developer and internet service pulling their services from China completely compel the population to try to change their regime?

I'm dying here...
Fixing income inequality != "giving people money", and great teachers still can't help a ton if the kids they're teaching have precarious backgrounds.

Regardless, as you mentioned, we need to do both; but based on the research out there and my intuition, my inclination is that lacking income strikes lower on Maslow's hierarchy, and as such probably takes a certain degree of precedence as a prerequisite for benefiting from a stronger education system; and that some classes of money problems can be addressed in more sweeping, efficient way than improving education, which involves a great deal of training and waiting.
Isn't causing other people pain a pretty basic thing that you aren't supposed to do? If I went around delivering electric shocks to my friends, the best advice would be for me to stop, not for my friends to achieve a level of zen so high that pain didn't bother them.
Aussie/British here so YMMV if you’re from somewhere less white.

Go to the States. It’s amazing. Almost none of what you read here actually happens. I’ve been a bunch of times in the last few years and the border people have been nothing but lovely.

The countryside is amazing. The food is ridiculous. The people are extraordinary — and I’m a leftie who happily says that of the good folk of Alabama.

We can’t wait to go back. Next road-trip will probably take us from Washington state to Chicago.
The destination field of some of those is pretty amusing. Some I came across in the netherlands (translated):

- A better future
- The other side (this was on a ferry, so fair enough.)
- Underway
- Tomorrow
- Oh hi

Seems like it's more or less a free-form text field.
It's nostalgic to see someone using googlegroups.

Too much secrecy here, can you share your personal email id?
> get nothing in return, for people you don't know, and you know _they_ hate you

The sentiment expressed in your post is dangerous populism against an imaginary "other".

In case anyone actually believes this and is not just trolling on a throwaway then check at least the broadest of breakdowns of public spending to see "what you get" [0].

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-public-spendi...
A neat synopsis of why the system is broken. Thanks!
Wait. They did ban it. Then they approved it again.

Have they banned it again?

See BoingBoing article from Oct 4th:

"Apple reverses ban on HKmap.live app tracking Hong Kong protests & police"

https://boingboing.net/2019/10/04/hkmap-live-hong-kong.html
That's the gist of it. Of course I left out a lot of things, and not all of them are in the protesters's favor.

> early on the police were ordering people to disperse even though there was no violence at that time.

But did the police use violence first?

> late in July there were increasing attacks on protesters in which police stood by as people were attacked with poles. It seems that in this case, it was the police that were allowing violence and destruction, not the protesters.

When you treat the police like your enemy, how do you expect them to rush to your help the moment you need it? And seeing that the protesters were more than capable of violence themselves, why would the police rush to help?

> the first bullet even fired in this whole situation was a police officer shooting an 18 year old high school student.

The officer was under attack and fired in self defense, you know that better than I do.

> Peaceful protest is definitely better when possible, but in many cases throughout history it simply has not been feasible.

In a place without law and order, it may not be feasible. In Hong Kong? It's definitely possible.
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I'm by no means an expert, but my understanding is that China's debt problem is not external debt, but internal debt. To put what the more negative takes are saying in US-related terms it's as if the mortgage-lending practices of the mid-2000s were done on a much larger scale (involving not just housing loans but almost everything funded by borrowing, including industry, infrastructure, etc) and for a much longer time.

As a result, there are lots of loans on the books that will never be paid off as things stand, and unlike the US there is no mechanism in the financial system to acknowledge any of that on a gradual basis (loan writedowns, etc), so the loans keep being rolled over instead.

At some point, reality will need to be faced, at which point there will be either massive financial system issues, much worse than what the US had going on in 2008, or huge government bailouts. And in the latter case, that implies even more financial repression or taxation, or both, than is already going on, with resulting decreases in economic well-being for urban areas in China, which is the thing that _really_ worries the CCP.

If the economy grows faster than the "bad loan" burden, then this problem is basically temporary, and rolling the loans over until the economy has grown enough to just deal with the issue is the right strategy. It's hard to come by plausibly correct (or even unbiased) estimates of either economic growth or the size of the "bad loan" burden, but almost all the estimates I've seen seem to agree that for a long time the "bad loan" burden was growing faster than the economy. Whether that's still the case, I don't know.
Google does it too, but at least you can install from other sources in Android.

But shame on you Google/Apple. Shame on you.
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Because the government is democratically elected.

Tyranny of the majority is a bad thing.
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1 in 5 Americans are dumb as a brick
In Sweden ? more or less yes.

It's very hard to deposit cash, you can withdraw cheques you got from Swedish companies (for a high fee) but otherwise it's difficult and expensive. A lot of physical bank branches are closing down, and many won't accept deposits everything is done online.

Your day to day banking is managed by Mobilt BankID which is mostly a mobile app, it's also used to identify yourself in everything official towards the government or commercially.

If you really want there are physical mini-keyboards to replace it, but they are rare.

And then there is Swish, and other applications, that allows instant, free person to person transfers backed by a consortium of banks.
It's much different that that, as Alabama isn't a recently acquired former colony of an old empire, that have been enjoying an autonamous status due to that.

The biggest different in metaphor is:
-> state/city want something
vs
-> State/city doesn't want something removed.

The origin of the manifest is due to HK losing some of its autonomy, it was a condition unique to it, it's not someone wanting to be special, it's someone special not wanting to be normal. There is a very huge difference in mental state.
I’m sorry if that sounds harsh, but that’s at best a naive view. In practice you cannot just fork the codebase and continue maintaining it, that has a high cost that a lot of organization cannot afford. It’s technically true that you can fork the project but in practice forking something that big doesn’t really happen without a big player leading the fork (or some motivated people with enough time and money to dedicate to the fork, which is possible but unlikely).
> And in one fell swoop, Apple has made it effectively impossible to install this app on your phone

You mean years ago?

Not that I support this move by Apple, but ... how is this different from them rejecting any application for any reason? We've had a ton of stories on HN of them doing that (for various different reasons)...
That we cant use Apple phones? Boo fucking hoo.
> In principle code signing is a good idea, this way Apple can ensure an improved security standard over their competition.

There is nothing wrong with code signing. There is everything wrong with making Apple the sole arbiter of mandatory code signing. It's the difference between being against locks, and being against someone else owning the keys to your house.

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> I won't blame Apple, they aren't people [...] I blame people/consumers

No, you can't blame people. It isn't the individual consumer's job to consider the ins and outs of how they may be limiting their free expression in the future. That's not realistic.

Corporations are not robots; Apple is run by people, and specifically people who should be considerably more knowledgable on this subject than the average consumer. They should feel some level of social responsibility.

This will not be the last time Apple ends up in this type of situation. I hope we have the right conversations about them, and I hope they make Apple hurt. Because this was entirely predictable, and entirely of Apple's own making.
> The press in the United States is and remains free to publish (virtually) whatever it wants about federal, state, and local government.

This doesn’t mean much if they don’t use this power and instead publish random bullshit. The western way has never been censorship, it’s been straight up lying.
Eh, it looks decent, but it isn't really what I want. For one, its cross-platform nature means it has eschewed greater integration with the system. One of the great strengths of PowerShell is how it treats pretty much every system interface as the same kind of object as everything else. Linux has these weird text based interfaces in /sys/ and /proc/ that it'd be nice to wrap.

Secondly it looks like it depends on a fair amount of typical userland being available. It'd prefer something I could slap on top of busybox and be done. Something that only depended on the kernel.

But, maybe with some tweaking...
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