skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m skeptical that there’ll be any action just as there has been no action after similar stories elsewhere in pretty high-profile media outlets.

The Washington Post ran the op-ed "China’s attacks on Uighur women are crimes against humanity” almost a year ago. [1] Foreign Policy magazine ran the argument "China Must Answer for Cultural Genocide in Court” in December last year. [2] The Atlantic ran a piece headlined "Saving Uighur Culture From Genocide” a week ago, too. [3]

And I think ’see it and nod’ is about right. We can’t say we didn’t know, we just decided there were other things that we prefered to be doing than stop it.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/21/chinas-at...
[2]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/03/uighurs-xinjiang-china-...
[3]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/10/ch...
> If the people as a whole can't be trusted to make sensible decisions and judgements then abolish democracy and copy the Chinese system.

Wow, I've never seen an argument for fascism so casually mentioned. I'm talking about 'abolish democracy'.
McEnany claims Twitter holding her 'at gunpoint' until she deletes NYP report
Probably a reference to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Zulu_Nation
You’re at a disadvantage today if you prefer reading on paper, it’s too slow. I’ve tried to go back to paper and I can’t. The information density is low and it’s too hard to maneuver paper quick enough to make up for that. Computers create a “Mary Poppins bag” of information that would take huge desks and rooms to match.
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"...separating new borns and kids from parents in camp, sending kids to brainwashing schools, sexual abuse..."

So nothing like those concentration camps the US is running for refugees/"illegal migrants", then.
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This is the major humanitarian issue of our time. It's time to put aside profits and apply economic pressure to end this (and other crimes against tibetans, mongols etc). Does the enlightenment project in the West have any energy left?
just „The Origins and History of Consciousness“ by Erich Neumann and lots of meditation. i say go fo it =]

also man LOL .. i got it =D yeah it was too much. but it got to a few people. =]

made me smile. thank you!
No. The point being made is that if your speech is being suppressed for whatever reason, you will care about free speech.

If you're not being suppressed, you won't even realise you have it, and will happily advocate for censorship.
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It's not mine, either. Your comment seems grammatically correct. It's just that your use of "now" kind of implies that over-engineering things on the front-end is a new thing but I think it has been going on for quite a while.

No big deal.
That is a sweeping generalization if I’ve ever heard one. Do you really think most Americans are like that?

I think you’re inflating the views of the few outspoken fools too be that of the majority.
“Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.” ― Ronald Reagan

I think it's becoming clearer and clearer that this strategy has to be adopted with China as well. They are out to win, to dominate the world, and they won't back down, and they will use any method to do it. And ask yourself if the world you see inside China is what you want spreading.
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How is compressed air any different from houses with large natural gas tanks? My father in law bought a house with some property and no gas like. The tank is like 20+ years old and it’s filled every few years.
They have plenty of standards! - appsociey/jet direct, postscript, pdf , pcl, pjl , ipp, AirPrint, etc etc. Although AirPrint is pretty much just this.
Bottlenecked on Haskell's Text Library
Tibet is done.
Quite the contrary. Because that would make the underlying idea, but not the specific legalities, of free speech completely useless for you.
Not true I don't follow iphones super closely but I remember they reduced thr battery capacity at least once.
It's a patch a best, and I wager many people here see the side effects already on the horizon: faulty algorithms tagging actual information as misinformation, news organizations continuing to skid by while spewing misleading claims, videos and channels deleted without recourse.

All of this is painful. Youtube's ineptitude specifically has been painful to content creators in the past. Censorship of a "public" forum is always immensely painful, and heavy handed attempts by Mega Corporations at controlling public discourse always feel dystopian.

The most painful aspect of it all is that I have come to personally agree with these measures, purely as an immediate firefighting response.

But this is not a solution. As a society, our mental immune system is weak against disinformation and even the most obvious unscientific propaganda. These traits are even welcomed by the powerful in other contexts, that's why it's such a big deal that the people who started those fires are so closely related to those putting them out right now.
The problem with censorship is that it "proves" that there is a "conspiracy" and it is like putting gas on a fire. I know this from people around me who believe in that stuff. If something is taken offline, than that "damn mainstream media is trying to hide a truth".

EDIT: IMHO, it would be much better option to flag/warn that video as misleading and provide link to resources with correct information.
I can't agree with the grandparent about type + swipe being anywhere near the speed of a keyboard, but in my experience, writing in other languages using swipe is just as fast as in English (at least for other languages that use the Latin alphabet). I frequently use swiping for bilingual English + Romanian (a language which tends to have much longer words than English) conversations, and it generally works very well, even bilingually. I would note that I'm using some Microsoft keyboard for Android, I forget its name, and it is explicitly configured for both languages.
First mention of Hacker News is 2014, does this makes sense to anyone?
https://usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp.misc&g=5199&p=0
If you haven't read it already, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/why-paper-jams... is a lot of fun.
One way I fixed this in a small gamedev forum I help maintain was by letting users view shadowbanned comments created by the same IP. There's still the chance of the user using Tor/VPNs, but it's rarer.

Shadowban is not perfect by all means, but it's still a good deterrent in my experience.
Given the time right now, silicon valley hasn't woken up yet. It's currently mostly Europeans here who have a deeper connection to authoritarian history.

Once the Americans get here, expect to see more support or at the very least the tired "actually this is a company therefore it's not censorship"
There’s a default “view” clusterrole (don’t let the name fool you - you can bind it in a namespace with a RoleBinding instead of ClusterRoleBinding and provide view only for that namespace) that K8s defines, that specifically excludes read permissions on secrets. Use that.
It's a constant uphill battle, but it seems the harder a platform is to use, the less likely it is to gather big crowd and thus the marketers. So perhaps an old style BBS, IRC , or a newsgroupserver, and a client built intentionally with bad UI
Social media is currently poisoning our country

Poisoning how? Can you be specific? What impact are we seeing outside of social media that can be directly attributable to what happens online?
Exactly, and we should keep in mind they're exporting their totalitarian surveillance model to a lot of countries https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/ecuador-survei...
Judges do when a lawsuit happens under a civil rights violation case.
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Occasionally, usually late night reminders of things I just realized or thought of.
No, they pretty much lied. The CDC was for example recommending n95 usage for medical personnel and surgical masks for infected people during the first SARS outbreak.
There's a very lively market of refilled / aftermarket cartriges which lowers the incentive to fix these issues.
Collectivism can find a justification for almost any atrocity. Collectivist ideologies (which includes Nazism) have a pretty well-worn track record of inciting mass murder and Chinese communism was a clear example long before the oppression of the Uighurs. Hearing about the reality of enforcing the one-child policy was enough for me to make up my mind on the CCP.
And after that, Taiwan
You mean like when tibet was invaded, and the whole world immediately joined forces to stop that. Hmm. I think it is more "what is close to the west is important to the west". People dont count, not even today. Money and economics count. People are born every day. It is a cruel world that claims humanity exists to cloud its own shortcomings. It is sad to watch.
Didn't China just get on to the human rights committee too?

Edit: yes, the human rights council, joined by Russia and Cuba. What a time to be alive.
>it would be cool if it was just in Apple Maps ready to go

I have been to some Westfields (or perhaps it was a Simon property) where this is already available. I can attest that it is very helpful!
Further, despite the Mongols comprising a good part of the population, China is forcing Chinese language onto them (the Inner Mongolia state) and has begun to gradually phase out their native language.
Yeah. printing on a single hand-fed sheet: probably "easy". Reliably going through a random pack of 500 pages, not so much.

Something pen-plotters don't do (they typically want paper to be placed down for them, or work of a roll of paper), and the maybe 3D-printer equivalent of preparing the print bed and removing prints from it is a well-known source of problems and manual work.
The Security Council nations all agreed that rules didn't apply to Security Council nations. The issue here is the UN has zero power to stop this and that's by design.
What can the world realistically do? China right now has enormous power over the rest of the world (by means of economical dependency), and I don't see that decreasing.

To be clear, I certainly support human rights, but I personally see the situation as so bad, that I'm worried about how China's influence will extend to the West.
Perhaps both. A tool to make it easy for casinos to navigate you past the things they want you to encounter while trying to get to something else. Much like the careful planning that goes into arranging supermarkets and similar to encourage impulse buys.
Agreed it's a move to stop the threatened anti monopoly actions
By the original maintainer of CUPS too it seems.
I guess it works well against non-malicious jerks. They come, they don't get the social reward they are expecting, and leave. And maybe later they will retry but with a better behavior.

And maybe the malicious/non-malicious ratio is low enough to make this method efficient.
There is nothing scientific on the politics of science then. With that strategy you will have less and less people listening to you, because a subset will always find out you have lied.
Though a lot of elementary schools and junior high schools provides basic coding classes, but no sewing ones.
Once you give people the power to censor things, you can't assume that the people with that power will act in good faith forever, even if they do currently. Would you want to give that power to your political opponents? If not it's better than nobody have that power.
> Will the GCs (since ARC isn't really a GC) be deprecated at that time?

Not sure why you don't consider ARC a gc - it is, with the caveat that it doesn't break cycles on its own. If you have cycles you aren't going to break on your own, use ORC.
I'm not outraged by the suggestion, but I'm not sure it's true either.

Maybe race and theology play a role for a few people, but I think the vast majority would be just as apathetic if they were a white, christian group, as long as they were as socially distant from us as the Uyghurs are from us (imagine some kind of Amish-style group that had been living there socially isolated from us for centuries)

Of course this is hard to verify empirically, but I think it's an important distinction.
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What value does an award from journalists awarded to other journalists have?
The issue is the technology not the job board. Most job boards have terrible search which either weights "featured" (increased revenue generating jobs) higher which is wrong, or - as in the most case, the job board uses shit matching and doesn't return good enogh ranked results.
Or the China-relations zeitgeist only has room for one story at a time and the rest get ignored. It's very hard to know these things deeply when we don't speak the language or understand the history. This story might be the first time readers find out about China caring about Mongols at all
Its funny because the most hardcore in open source and security would argue that good techniques don't rely on obfuscation and secrets because those cats can get out of the bag. Never purrsonally subscribed to those as I agree with the cat and mouse perspective. Information assymetry is effective.
This has to be one of the most frightening proposals I’ve seen.

How would this body be formed? What body currently exists that is completely unbiased?

There have been numerous examples of Western gov’ts outright lying to the more citizens, often for decades. That would be the official truth, with any dissenting opinions deemed “illegal”.

This literally sounds like 1984 and the Ministry of Truth.

Edit: replied to subcomment, not parent comment, very regrettable.
I didn't necessarily mean "learn to code" in such explicit manner with my original comment. More like learn technology itself and some strong basics of how everything works so people would be more equipped to grok this new world we're living in.

To get a driver's license you need some basic knowledge of car internals. I'd argue that computers are infinitely more important in our society than a car yet majority of people have absolutely no idea how computers work and are expected not only to live in this world but to ace it too.
Tsk, tsk. Ever heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_voting vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungentreue ?
Would you do that tinkering if you could just buy a 3D printer cheaply that didn't need upgrading and worked perfectly?

You can probably adapt a printhead from a printer to your 3D printer today if you want a crappy DIY 2D printer and go from there.
Why does it need a special format? Just make a layer in regular maps
The internet used to be a suspicious, sarcastic, and rather disbelieving crowd, but that has changed for newer generations. I do thing there are many people for whom this is news. There 's just too much fluff feel-good marketing content going around that one forgets the motives behind it. Old style blogs and comments made it obvious that there were tons of spam, nowadays it has gone covert because major distribution platforms remove obvious spam.

Unfortunately this means that if you want to promote your side project, there's just no way, most topical subreddits will flag u as spam, and you are left with niches like r/sideproject. Or you do this kind of social media/content marketing
More like:

Yet Another "Format" Built Around JSON That Will Never Have Proper Validation, Schema Evolution or a Standardized API.

Tooling for N languages would come for free if they just used the JSON serialization of e.g. Protobuf 3
In my view: yes. You can say whatever you want, and if you say stupid things people will think you are stupid.
The future looks scary if China is going to lead the world. Our best bet is to share wealth and innovation to all the other countries to try and reduce economic power of a single country.

Having India, Pakistan, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea and Japan grow enough to create a sort of "buffer zone" around China.
The very best retro games can be better than most above average modern games, especially if you like particular genres. For instance, the other day I played Fallout New Vegas (11 yr old) for 50+ hours and had an experience I wouldn't trade for any modern game available at that moment (please note I had already played Fallout 4 for 100+ hours, all expansions etc)
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For many brands you can easily buy off-brand cartridges, and nowadays quite a few sell printers that work of ink tanks and don't even have cartridges.
Also check out Simon Schneegan's spectacular work on FlyPie, OpenPie, Gnome-Pie, and his Coral Menus and Trace Menus:

https://schneegans.github.io/news/2020/08/13/flypie

http://schneegans.github.io/news/2020/10/10/flypie3

http://schneegans.github.io/news/2018/05/31/openpie

http://schneegans.github.io/gnome-pie

http://schneegans.github.io/news/2017/07/09/gnome-pie-071

https://schneegans.github.io/news/2012/10/10/bachelor-thesis

https://vimeo.com/51072812

https://vimeo.com/51073078
Often in discussions like this, someone claims that the Uighur crackdown is necessary “because Islamist extremism”. I strongly encourage everyone to familiarize themselves with the history of the Uighurs under Chinese rule, because this isn’t really about Islam.

Namely, there used to be a very strong secular movement among the Uighurs, whose main complaint wasn’t the inability to practise Islam (some of these activists were atheists, even Communists themselves) but rather defending the use of the Uighur language in public and in official usage, and resisting the heavy Han Chinese settlement that would lead to the Uighurs becoming a minority in their own province. What happened is that Beijing cracked down on these secular activists, either imprisoning them in China or forcing them into exile in Turkey or the West.

Thus by the early millennium, with the secular activists out of the way, the only forces remaining within Xinjiang that could organize were religious ones, with some support from other Muslim states. Beijing was pleased with the US War on Terror around that time, which allowed it to frame its crackdown on the Uighurs as a reaction to Islamist radicalism, but as I said, the roots really go back to ethnic and linguistic pressures, not religious ones.
> In other words: progressive taxation destroys wealth creation.

No, progressive taxation destroys wealth concentration.

I understand that when the pockets that wealth is concentrated in are your own, it might feel like destruction in a "who-moved-my-cheese" sense, but the fact is, no wealth is destroyed.
You can always contact the moderators in private if you're unsure, or do lots of research, like Troy did here.
IP-based recognition is annoying for people leaving in third world countries[1] though, because there little IPV4, they are many behind the same NAT.

Also, with tethering it's really easy to circumvent, without needing a VPN.

[1]: IIRC, the whole Laos only has a /32 subnet… yes you read it right: a single IPV4 address for end entire country. And many country only have a few /16.
Here is a business idea: the printer that just works.

Requirements:

- laser printer that works with non-proprietary toners

- USB plug & play on all major operating systems

- Network printing via WiFi and ethernet

- No 2GB bloatware installation required, i dont want your shitty photo management software, just give me the driver

- Replaceable parts
You can reference external resources by name and not bring the resource into Terraform domain (or manage by different Terraform project).
I have not had a problem running multiple Terraform projects and sharing a few resources (e.g. SQL database)
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Giving up liberty for a bit of security?

A certain Philadelphian would say your deserve neither.
It absolutely boggles my mind that a science web site, reporting on a science breakthrough would report the result in such antiquated units. WTF, people?
Well, it's kickstarter, so if the goal fails it doesn't cost anything. So I'm chipping in $20 - I don't need this for anything particular, but I'd like to see more open source in this space (maybe we can eventually get a replacement for electron that doesn't eat 50% of my ram?)
No, too busy dumpster diving into woke culture
Quite surprised that the Al Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS, et al Global-Islamic-Caliphate forces haven't tried anything at this aggression against Muslims in China.
I think you meant to reply to a different comment.
Any evidence for that claim?
> Anyway, why do you claim any of that is specific to OOP?

There is no need for Mocks or Fakes with pure functions.
What needs to happen is prominent people the Chinese population pays attention to need to call out and embarrass the state. The NBA taking a stand would have been great.
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It should be acknowledged that this strategy ultimately ended up with the Taliban and our 20+ year occupation of Afghanistan and various massacres throughout central america.

> The presidency of Ronald Reagan in the United States was marked by multiple scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment, or conviction of over 138 administration officials

Which was (still is?) The most for any president.
That is true, but it increases the probability of a theory being valid. The exception to that are most notable, but I think it is nevertheless the rule.
China has extremely powerful group of lobbying. They have ability to control a nation. They have silenced a peaceful protest condemning Uyghurs treatment in germany - "...Think about your family" they said.[2] I doubt even Germany could do anything. Just yesterday, they raised concern of referring Genghis Khan as mongol, shamelessly trying to rewrite history.[1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/china-insists-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/think-of-your-...
Which of these countries operates the Guantanamo Bay detention camp?
Because no video EVER will reach the medical expertise needed to make any informed decision.
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Casinos have two goals: keep you inside as long as they can, and maximize the amount of that time that you spend gambling. If they can make it hard for you to find the exit but easy for you to find the craps table, that's a win for the house.
Is the US really much better than China? We do similar to black, Native American, and immigrant people. I'm not sure I want either winning in their current state.
The CCP has a history of repressing Christians and continues to abuse Christians.

https://bitterwinter.org/
Because I didn't have to build Krita myself just to use it, and I appreciate that fact and wanted mention it.
Finally there is a possibility to shop efficiently in a mall or grocery store:

Convert the indoor map to OpenStreetMap, import the map to OSRM (http://project-osrm.org) to make travel time calculations (for the time to walk between shops/isles), export travel-time matrix from OSRM and import this matrix to VROOM (https://github.com/VROOM-Project/vroom) for fleet optimization calculations (Me, wife and kids).
I wonder why Turkey (Uyghurs are Turks) has been so quiet about this.

Oh yeah, they are busy finishing their own genocide...
US style free speech isn't seen in other democracies, so I don't see why this argument applies.
A utilitarian perspective judges morality based on total improvements in human wellbeing. From that perspective, is it appropriate to say that the Chinese government is the best government of all time? The sheer numbers of people who are improving is somewhat mind boggling.

Yet, they make moral tradeoffs. We all make moral tradeoffs. I think it is important to keep their moral tradeoffs in context, lest we risk hypocracy or worse, oppositionalism (creating needlessly damaging power struggles).

What is the shared vision of the future where our moral priorities align? Can we realize that future, together?