This is actually huge.
I keep hearing the narrative that many people in China don't have social insurance: that's not true, virtually everyone in China does, BUT - up until now - you were only covered in your Hukou, your official hometown on paper, even if you hadn't lived there in decades.
Which was a big issue for the 357 million migrant workers in China who - if they had a health issue - either had to go back home to get their healthcare covered or pay out of pocket where they lived.
This is now over 👇: China's State Council just announced that workers can now enroll in social insurance wherever they work, regardless of their hukou. 357 million people just got healthcare where they actually live.
It's also huge with respect to what this means for the Hukou system overall: every reform like this chips away at it further. The direction is now unmistakable: the hukou is being dismantled, one benefit at a time.
China’s first AI-powered escalator step inspection device for rail transit has officially been deployed in Beijing. Combining laser and AI technologies, the device enables full-coverage monitoring, automated inspection, and real-time diagnostics of escalator steps. It completes a full inspection of a single escalator in just three minutes—30 times faster and 10 times more accurate than manual checks.
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
Sorry if this is woke or whatever but it is FUCKING INSANE that the DoD is explicitly, publicly trying to create an AI powered mass surveillance program of American citizens, attempting to destroy a company for refusing to comply with that directive, and *bragging about doing so*