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Can't believe this makes it to HN, although I feel politics is off topic I can't help but to feed to this because it means so much to me. Over a million people

Can't believe this makes it to HN, although I feel politics is off topic I can't help but to feed to this because it means so much to me. Over a million people, or 1 out of 5-7 people walked out against this tighten grip. The whole Hong Kong island is dead lock now. China has been subtly (or so much with this attempt) trying to erode our freedom, rule of law and culture. Shamefully I'm not physically in Hong Kong. Thank you for your effort, that's the least I could do.

heraclius 7y ago
Not sure that turnout is over a million. Even HKFP are being cautious and only switched from “tens” to “hundreds” of thousands about an hour ago. I do hope that you are right though! And even 1 in 10 or 15 would be remarkable. Edit: the SCMP has some turnout figures. As usual they vary wildly.¹ 1. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3013725/hong-kong-edge-crowds-gather-ultimate-showdown-against https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3013725...
- utbabya 7y ago
  I just gathered it from live video, local forum posts, news and my intuition of the size of Hong Kong island (it's all full with people still being stuck in the train system from Kowloon side). From images, it's also visually much bigger than the previous ~500K turnout protest. But yeah it's intuition after all so I could be wrong. Still, numbers in the 60K range is just impossible. Edit: By gather and intuition, I mean I'm getting quite a volume of confirmation bias from forum post, video comments and the hosts of the protest.
  - heraclius 7y ago
    One of the pan-dems doubts it’s more than the aftermath of 6/4 which was ~a million, but the opening of all the roads etc. suggests more than the art. 23 protests, yes.
- A2017U1 7y ago
  Drone crowd counting needs to be basic part of modern journalism. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327765209_Scale-Adaptive_Real-Time_Crowd_Detection_and_Counting_for_Drone_Images https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327765209_Scale-Ada...

heraclius 7y ago

Not sure that turnout is over a million. Even HKFP are being cautious and only switched from “tens” to “hundreds” of thousands about an hour ago. I do hope that you are right though! And even 1 in 10 or 15 would be remarkable. Edit: the SCMP has some turnout figures. As usual they vary wildly.¹ 1. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3013725/hong-kong-edge-crowds-gather-ultimate-showdown-against https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3013725...

utbabya 7y ago
I just gathered it from live video, local forum posts, news and my intuition of the size of Hong Kong island (it's all full with people still being stuck in the train system from Kowloon side). From images, it's also visually much bigger than the previous ~500K turnout protest. But yeah it's intuition after all so I could be wrong. Still, numbers in the 60K range is just impossible. Edit: By gather and intuition, I mean I'm getting quite a volume of confirmation bias from forum post, video comments and the hosts of the protest.
- heraclius 7y ago
  One of the pan-dems doubts it’s more than the aftermath of 6/4 which was ~a million, but the opening of all the roads etc. suggests more than the art. 23 protests, yes.
A2017U1 7y ago
Drone crowd counting needs to be basic part of modern journalism. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327765209_Scale-Adaptive_Real-Time_Crowd_Detection_and_Counting_for_Drone_Images https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327765209_Scale-Ada...