skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's very different than what they're attempting to capture here.

Bribery is a little different than coercion by force. Bribery is something even the freest of institute is susceptible.

Edit: it very explicitly defines this in the article. Media's ability to provide unbiased journalism independent to the state is not a metric. Indeed in a relatively free US there is terrible journalism everywhere you look. It's just not under the thumb of the state.
Pressuring CEOs and executives by compelling testimony is not confined to Congress. Civil court - including small-claims court - has the power to compel the testimony of relevant parties, regardless of how many billions of dollars they happen to have.
That's right we need to act!
Narratives can be correct or incorrect (and this one is mostly correct insofar as it makes specific claims about the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.) Calling a set of claims a narrative for the purpose of pointing out some people don’t agree doesn’t entail that those claims are wrong.
Going all the way back to the cultural revolution, China's goal was to unite the world under communism. They have been the antagonist from the start.

Now, I don't think China is a comic book villain - I doubt many people within the government are hatching nefarious plans to convert America to communism in 2021. But with all the horrible shit they do it seems like it sometimes.

America has a huge rap sheet of bad shit it's done, but at least in Western democracies we make (slow) progress towards being more moral and equitable societies. I'm convinced China goes the other direction.

With that going on I don't think neither China nor America will ever be able to overcome the current us-vs-them mentality. And tbh while I don't want a war with China, I don't think we should just accept their actions and move on.
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Yep, the social media wumaos always appear to try to change the narrative, to add twisted views and to add false or irrelevant “facts”. It’s very frustrating, and it happens on all platforms. I wish HN could add a tag “Account affiliated with CCP” or something along that line. And to the people who thinks that this event wasn’t coordinated by the government - you are incredibly naive or actively lying.
You expect China and Myanmar to attack journalists, but we've seen journalists arrested live on TV in the USA [0], we've seen police attacking journalists in the UK [1], and we've seen attacks on journalists encouraged by so called "leaders of the free world" [2][3]

It feels to me that things have massively regressed in the last 10 years ago and we're in a far more dangerous world

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52854980

[1] https://twitter.com/MatthewDresch/status/1375606889740898305...

[2] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/16/repor...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/23/vilify...
> Why is autism one of the few conditions it's OK to condemn people for?

I’ve been listening Quirkology (the audiobook version the book, not the YouTube channel, though both are by Richard Wiseman), and I suspect the distrust of Autism spectrum is because the outward displays — limited or no eye contact in particular, though it isn’t the only one — are what most people think indicates dishonesty.

Extra bonus irony: the behaviours don’t even really correlate with dishonesty, people just think they do.
came here to post this!

He was a minor celebrity, (or a major celebrity for kids back then) and was a staple on network TV shows and commercials.

https://youtu.be/OtraMSOgsnU
> Are we calling everything we disagree with

My comment is not a statement on whether I agree or disagree.

"Narrative" is a neutral word. Something can be a narrative even if it's true and I agree with it.
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I just found out about that account yesterday and it took me a minute to realise it’s not an onion spinoff.
Honestly the level of discussion on HN when it comes to these issues (speech and tech) drops fast.

However it is a question that is pretty open to objective analysis, provided you don’t start at ideological positions.

Right now around the world, in autocracies and democracies, nations are working to manage tech and speech.

1) Media (social/new/cable) and Democracies have been having a falling out.

2) Tech simply accelerates that process, and creates its own new patterns.

Define the problem further, break it down and then solve.
"I think they let some intern fresh out of college write that one." - I think it was intentional; They probably had a tool to generate that code.
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The obituary would read "danjac, village idiot" rather than "danjac, bank robber". At some point, possibly the moment you draw the water pistol, you aren't making a serious go of it.

If the standard is that low then the US has coups semi-regularly. As in, maybe annually. It should realistically be more often than that, except most violent protesters protest government actions by targeting random businesses rather than the government (eg, Occupy Wall-street as opposed to Occupy the Offices of the People Handing Out The Bailouts).
This isn't the first boycott in China. There have been lots and lots of boycotts in China. In all of those instances, people don't lash out to those who stay quiet.

Given this track record, why do you believe that this time is any different?
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Ask HN: I don't want to do this depression cycle anymore
I started a new job towards the end of 2020. It's in a part of software engineering that I love. I'm very lucky to be able to work with incredibly smart people, and improve myself and my skills. But I'm not happy. I've been in a depressed slump for months at this point, and I can't get out of it. I'm on medication, seeing a therapist, and otherwise doing everything "right." But things aren't improving.

I've noticed that I go through a cycle of being hyperproductive, being able to hammer out high-quality things at work, and then turning around and doing the same in personal projects, only to "crash" months later into suicidal depression, where it feels like the antidepressants and other psych meds are doing nothing. When I'm "up" I love my personal and professional work, I can easily spend weeks hammering out code non-stop, and so on. But when I'm "down," I can barely get out of bed before noon.

At this point, I'm stuck really far down inside of the suicidal-depresson stage, and I don't know how to pull myself out. Since I'm in America, I can't just go get committed for a while, because I've done that it before and it was one of the most traumatic things I've ever gone through. I plan to call my doctor ASAP to get my meds adjusted and see if I can make any other changes to improve things. But it all feels so hopeless.

I feel incredibly guilty, because this is affecting my output at work. I can't keep staying in bed hopelessly until past noon, and I need the job to be able to keep myself and my partner afloat. I have some savings, but not enough to take a year to myself. I don't know how it'll go over if I ask for a month or so off at work, so I'm hesitant to ask.

What do I do? How do I help myself?
Incompetently attempting to do something is attempting to do something.
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I meant that there are no actual repercussions.

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1...

repeated incidents where US killed citizens of other countries with impunity and no repercussions for the perps
It’s a common thing in German schools and kindergarten, we’ve been through that twice at least. I’d be surprised if that was different in Moldova, I’d rather expect that there was more stigma attached and less people talked about it or similar effects.
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My comment was in response to the question why would anyone want a child like that. There seems to be pressure to terminate pregnancies with Down Syndrome. Fear of the unknown drives the decision, and it is a non-controversial decision because society seems to expect it. Once you see past the disability and humanize them, it does seem cruel to terminate a pregnancy due to Down Syndrome. That said, I'm pro-choice and always support the right to choose.
I don't think your argument is very valid based on what they say their metrics are. Listing the relevant ones: Pluralism, Media independence, Legislative framework, Transparency.

These are the metrics relevant to the examples I gave earlier. I don't think the score is fair. I did a bit of diging on their website and there is some coverage on many of the examples I listed, which surprises me. It may truly be a visualization issue
> Modern CPUs are monstrously complex, for example.

But not all of that complexity is good. For example, things like branch-prediction vulnerabilities exist as a result of that complexity, which makes it extremely difficult to reason about the entire system and predict which interacting systems might lead to security issues.

And it looks as if some of the complexity of the x86_64 instruction set is a liability with respect to performance compared to "simpler" instruction sets like ARM.

Also with regard to Rust, the more that I write, the more that I wonder if some of that complexity is due to unsolved design problems in the core of the language. For instance, once you start introducing data structures with references inside, this starts to introduce all kinds of complexity, which baloons when these kinds of types start interacting with other systems like async.

I am not expert enough to know what the solution would be, or to know if these types of problems really could be avoided, but Rust sometimes feels like a language which is missing that one key piece which would keep all of this complexity under control.
funny how the site talks about freedom of expression and then puts a paywall up for it's comments. Bravo
Current US law is extremely clear about the third-party liability that various internet companies have due to user speech. It's limited by Section 230 to knowingly infringing copyright and conduct by the platform that rises to the level of criminal activity (of particular importance is distribution of child pornography). If someone defames you on Twitter or uses it to send you death threats, you cannot successfully sue Twitter, their hosting provider, or their ISP.

The only thing Section 230 has to say about filtering is that you aren't allowed to sue websites over their moderation decisions. The protection of liability for third-party speech is in no way dependent on whether or not the platform does filtering.
Yep been there done that two months ago, took me two days (at least) to find the issue as a corruption which happen in -O3 but not in debug build which neither valgrind nor ASAN can find is pretty mysterious..
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Ctrl-F'd for that exact phrase. I remember that system being introduced - I was in high school at the time and my mum was a teacher. It was down for the entirety of the single government-mandated training day, and when it finally came up everyone could tell from a mile off that it was a steaming pile of shit. I don't think we ever used it after the initial session, ever.
No, Qualcomm is responsible for that. It's their device. The idea that a third party is responsible for supporting thousands of different devices simply doesn't make sense.
I think he successfully highlighted a certain lack of competent leadership, which therefore makes is difficult to do the deep regulatory Q&A you had hoped for.
Here's Mona Lisa:

https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010066723
I couldn't find a weather forecast formatted in the particular way I wanted, so I made it. The forecast includes the previous two days so you can compare it to the current/future temperature.
I don't see the fact about the Uyghur celebrity you singled out as interesting, for the simple fact that she's in China. As is painfully well known outside of China, they have a way of making businessmen disappear: https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/14/investing/china-missing-exe...

So I really don't see how any of your points make sense, about companies being private and all. The truth is there's no democracy in China.

Anything that comes out of there must be taken with a truckload of salt. Kind of like the ridiculous Covid numbers, that put the total number of cases in China lower than countries with a population 500x smaller than theirs.
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> It's amazing how often giant IT projects like these go off the rails. Exploding costs and garbage implementations. If you start the sentence with: "A 5+ year government IT project that cost over 100 million-" I already know how the story ends.

People don't notice when things go right.

What about all the 5+ year, $100M projects you didn't hear about, because they never made the news, because the project went smoothly?

Even in general conversation we tend to vent about how bad our day/week was, and not how awesome something went:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
That's a pretty cool approach! Alas, the interface seems to have gotten stuck on step 9 for me.
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Yes very true. Also press freedom in a lot of states includes stuff like media ownership and local law. I know for example Ireland was ranking quite low considering it's pretty safe for journalists physically but libel law and media ownership are problems here.
> Going all the way back to the cultural revolution, China's goal was to unite the world under communism. They have been the antagonist from the start.

Why do you think this? Yes I know they're called the "Communist Party", but going from that to "unite the world under communism" is a big step.

Kishore Mahbubani, ex-UN Security Council head, ex-Singapore diplomat, says that China is communist in name only. In reality, the CCP is more like the "Chinese Civilization Party", Mahbubani said. Their goal is to advance the interests of China, not to promote world-wide communism. The opening-up since the 80s have been relentless. It's been going on for decades and they're still further opening up.

Why do you believe that their goal is to unite the world under communism?
> Many do not agree with the western narrative of forced labor cotton.

Which implies that they haven't read their country's criminal law (which requires all able-bodied prisoners to work) or didn't think through it's implications (of course there's forced labor cotton, the same way there's forced labor rice, forced labor coal and forced labor textiles.) Mechanization doesn't negate that, since being forced to operate the cotton-picking machines or a sewing machine is still forced labor.

But part of the blame lies with the "Western narrative" not trying very hard to be believable. E.g. using "Xinjiang" as a shorthand for "Uyghur forced labor" when 1) there are other ethnic groups in Xinjiang 2) forced labor affects at most a few percent of the population (to be clear, that's still hundreds of thousands of people) and 3) it's not limited to Xinjiang, but applies to all of China (as I said, prisoners are required by law to work.)

In the West, Western reporting on China operates in easy mode: hardly anyone has the background knowledge to notice imprecise or even incorrect reporting. But Chinese people are going to notice a disconnect with their daily lived experience. That disconnect can be explained, but I've yet to see a Western journalist do a good job explaining it, or even realize that there's something to explain.
Good read.

So, dumb question, I had never considered that assembly would have ‘network access’, so are there other ‘higher-level’ systems accessible in assembly?

It just seemed like a different level of abstraction to me.

[edit]

I get it now. I reread the last section and looked over the assembly. ‘Mapping’ to syscalls on the OS.
I think you're misinterpreting those metrics, though. This is entirely about the states ability to suppress freedom.

Are there more examples you left out? Because freedom does not preclude the susceptibility to bribery.
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When your only opinion is China=Bad, everything else are psy-ops. Can't be helped.
Yes exactly - and I think it's compounded by the somewhat greedy approach that these organizations take in terms of trying to manage content delivery with the least amount of human hands possible in deciding what you should see. This kind of blind algorithmic delivery is what led to this really strange, anti-social content appearing on "children's" youtube a few years ago.

These platforms are literally designed to command your attention as much as possible. We have a history of regulating things which are unreasonably effective at hijacking the human reward system - like gambling, and narcotics. Sometimes I feel like we're an equivalent period to when you could buy cocaine or heroin over the counter at the chemist because society hasn't yet recognized the cost of failing to put some controls on it yet.
Many projects push technical debt and cut the wrong corners to stay on target.

It looks like a success until you ask operations and people maintaining the deliverable.

This is usually not factored in and ends up at at different cost center.

You almost never get the full picture of continuity when dealing with a project organization hence it’s really, really hard to judge.
> the reason why NFTs exist

Money laundering.
I'm sorry you're struggling. There's a process that has worked for me and might work for you, but it takes some patience and effort. Would you be willing to try an experiment that requires 30-45 minutes every day for, say, a month, just to see if it works? If so, the process is described in a free book called "The Path to Nibbana" by David Johnson.

It may seem religious, and that might turn you off, but if you prefer, it makes perfect sense to think of the process as just a psychological training technique, something like CBT.

What I've found is that my basic happiness level (not dependent on any life circumstances) keeps increasing. The vicissitudes of life keep bothering me less and less. My mind is full of kindness, to myself and everyone. This kindness makes it easier and easier to genuinely love life. Whatever you do, I hope you feel better.
Colour is, by definition, superficial. This is great colour got the story and makes it more readable.
It's crazy out here in DK. The most embarrassing example of such crazy targeted laws is the "hand shake with the mayor" requirement for new Danish citizens, clearly target at a certain ethnicity that would hesitate to do just that. The intent is to make it difficult to that ethnicity, the result is just a veiled law that makes them "appear" just enough secular and non-discriminatory.

There's a lot I love about life in Denmark. This is just to say that no place is perfect and DK also has stuff that all Danes should be rightly embarrassed about.
> rarely (never?) discussed in the west

I don't know, I see it talked about all the time, but nobody seems to be able to do anything about it.
Have you seen what some of the people were wearing? And the improvised weapons?

They might as well have had pitch forks. And they definitely had gallows.
> The trick is to make your projects tiny, not big.

Gall's law:

> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.[9]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)
*UNIX systems have COW which is an amazing technique to save memory when you're doing a fork(). Unfortunately, python GC will not respect read only memory and effectively write to those memory addresses, triggering a copy when the process attempts to read that memory due to reference counting.
That rules out iPhone as well, then.
One element being a soft eng that I struggle with is the extended periods of physical inactivity ('productivity'), which also lead to poor diet choices. Initially addressing these makes things worse but it's a commitment worth making, one I'm on the wrong side of at the minute and desperately need to resolve. I'm unsure if it'll help you, but I suppose it's worth reading my experience just in case!
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What’s being done in Xinjiang is indisputably awful. It’s also clear that the Chinese response is heavily coordinated by the state for its own political benefit.

On the other hand, I reckon the average Chinese person on the street hears about corporate boycotts like this and just thinks: you Westerners are a bloody bunch of hypocrites. This week the Georgia legislature disenfranchised innumerable black people and there were two mass shootings. In the past 12 months alone, hundreds of thousands of people have died in America alone in large part due to malignant political influence, and a sitting President incited a riot in the Capitol.

You can see how the issue devolves into crass nationalism pretty quickly.

Anyone with any sense has been warning about Western countries allowing or causing the erosion of their own soft power in recent decades, culminating most recently with the awful person that was Donald Trump. It’s well and truly coming home to roost now.
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How convenient that you ignore what was happening the day of the coup: the confirmation of a new President.

There was literally a mass rally, hours before the event, where the President and his cronies whipped a mob into a frenzy with lies about fraudulent voting systems and conspiracies to steal the election as the culmination of MONTHS of similar disinformation. They encouraged supporters to take Congress via “trial by combat” in order to prevent the legally elected President from being confirmed.

An attempt to block the legal transfer of power in order to illegally maintain your own is clearly an attempt to overthrow a legitimate government: a coup.
A list of dependencies:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-tree.html

Download all dependencies locally:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-vendor.html
It makes sense to ask the individual directly to delete a Tweet deemed illegal, since Twitter seems to not act within the laws of their country.
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