skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I was spoiled, I had the mat for track and field. Although that always had it's special quirks to get to go fast too
You are indeed correct to point out that the article is about two eukaryotes which are vastly different organisms, separated evolutionarily from bacteria by hundreds of millions of years, or billions of years, depending on how you measure it.

Similarly, humans are quite different from whiteflies, although the difference is put into perspective when you consider that we have something like 40% commonality of genes, depending on how you map homologues.

How the plant gene got into the whitefly is a deep mystery that happened long ago.

If we go back even further in evolutionary history, insects, humans and other eukaryotes are descended from prokaryotes. The organelles of eukaryotic cells such as the mitochondria of animal cells and the chloroplasts of plant cells were once individual prokaryotes which merged into colonies and formed eukaryotic cells through endosymbiosis.

Even today, eukaryotes live symbiotically with prokaryotes in a way that is impossible to disaggregate. You have as many prokaryotic cells living inside of your shirt and pants as you do eukaryotic cells, with trillions of gut bacteria responsible for keeping you alive by pre-processing the food you buy from the supermarket and restaurants into nutrients and amino acids that your actual body can utilise.

Whiteflies also have parasitic and symbiotic commensal bacteria that are integral parts of their organism. Perhaps one of those gut bacteria, or a respiratory parasite transferred that plant gene millions of years ago in a freak occurrence. Or maybe it happens regularly and systemically.

With gene sequencing only becoming widely available in the last decade, scientists are just beginning to isolate and identify examples of gene transfer like the one in this article.
You probably know how patriotic Americans are, right? Well: Chinese are the same! Chinese nationalism is a thing. Although I'm not sure whether you believe that.

In fact, nationalism is a thing in many Asian countries. In South Korea, there was recently a backlash against a K-drama for depicting that certain cultural elements may have originated from China. I don't know anything about the historical facts surrounding that case, but this is an example of how strong nationalism can be in east-Asian countries, including China.
I'd go direct to the source for this one. Kinda helps explain more of the reasoning about it.

https://rsf.org/en/ranking

At Security First (https://www.secfirst.org), we build an open source mobile app for journalists and activists to learn about digital and physical security topics ranging from phishing to kidnap. We also do training for journalists and activists all over the world. At present we suspect that 2021 is trending towards being one of the worst years on record unfortunately. Myanmar for example has proven to be a disaster.

For those looking at such things. It's always worth considering the wider civil society also.

For example,

Attacks on human rights defenders:
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/

Attacks on aid workers:
https://aidworkersecurity.org/incidents/report

Attacks on environmental Defenders:
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-act...

Often for example we may be doing an analysis of risk in a country and while there may not be currently some on journalists, there may be some on human rights defenders so that may frame how we view things. Let's say we know NSO Group is used in the country against activists or that local intelligence puts civil society members under physical surveillance.

Of course risks tend to be quite different. For example journalists more likely to be arrested or intimidated, aid workers more likely to be kidnapped etc.

There is also a lot of under reporting. This is because of the nature of each sort of position. For example environmental defenders tend to be more local, say someone defending their land in the Amazon, compared to a journalist. So those attacks are often harder to record.

Also, people sometimes may wear multiple hats. So an LGBTIQ+ activist in Russia might also be a blogger. It might be difficult to figure out exactly why some threat to their safety occured.
> This is a very typical operation by the propaganda ministry.

Needs proof
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> I think mutually assured destruction thanks to nuclear weapons has ended large scale warfare.

Needed to fact-check this claim.

Wars [1] since the first and last nuclear weapons used in war - the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 - roughly ordered by death toll:

Bangladesh Liberation War, 3M
Second Congo War, 2.5M..5.4M
Vietnam War, 2.4M..4.3M
Korean War, 1.5M..4.5M
War in Afghanistan, 1.2M..2M
Second Sudanese Civil War, 1M..2M
Nigerian Civil War, 1M..3M
Rwandan genocide, 0.8M
Soviet–Afghan War, 0.6M..2M
Angolan Civil War, 0.5M
Ethiopian Civil War, 0.5M..1.5M
First Sudanese Civil War, 0.5M
Iraq War, 0.4M..0.7M
Algerian War, 0.4M..1.5M
First Indochina War, 0.4M
Syrian Civil War, 0.4M..0.6M
War in Darfur, 0.3M
Burundian Civil War, 0.3M
Somali Civil War, 0.3M..0.5M
Iran–Iraq War, 0.3M..1.1M
War on Terror, 0.3M..1.3M
First Congo War, 0.3M..0.8M
plus some 4M combined from wars smaller than 250K

TOTAL 23M .. 41M

The estimated death toll of the last big war before that - Second World War - 56M .. 85M people.

For comparison, over 100M people died in warefare in the middle ages.

Checks out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll#Mod...
I downvoted you, not because I'm Chinese (I'm not) but because I think your post violates HN's guidelines.
> Only the policeman and the shot women are indicative of anything coup-like.

We still don't know what was the Officer's cause of death. But after weeks of fake news stories about him being beaten to death with a fire extinguisher, this probably doesn't matter.
Also that the "Proud boys organized and coordinated groups with zip ties" is an additional misleading point. Those arrested for possessing zip ties, didn't bring them to capitol hill, they picked them up there after the law enforcement dropped them, the prosecution has admitted this itself.
There is conan or vcpkg. I do wish crates.io and julia would make it easier to develop on non internet machines. The ease of dependency management has bred staggeringly deep dependency trees for rust and julia. If I could run a cargo command to get a human readable dependency list that I could then go to an internet facing machine and run a cargo command to put into a tgz to drag back over that would be helpful. Is there any progress on making a crates mirror for offline networks?
I actually don't mind this.

Isn't it much more annoying when someone is pushing an agenda and pretends to be objective? At least I can relax and not get trojan-horsed by opinions.
Well comparatively there are a lot of places in the world were journalists are murdered so I guess context matters.
It's a question of liability. Are the platforms liable for the speech of their users or are only the users liable?

If the platforms are liable for the speech of their users, then they must filter. If they filter, they might be liable.

But if they do not filter, they might not be liable.

I think that common carrier status means that a platform isn't liable if it doesn't filter.
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This isn't about nationalism. Propoganda can also consist of censoring alternstive opinions. Chinese govenrment dont have to coerce celebrities to say something because it's totally sufficient for their regime is coerce everyone who not agree to keep their mouse shut.

Yeah you can tell something like "opinion majority of society align with government anyway", but if it was the case they wouldn't need censorship in first place.
> P.S. I assume you are Chinese, and I cannot believe somebody with that level of intellectual achievement to make it to the West can't see a banal lie, when it is a joke material for local taxi drivers.

That personal attack is totally unnecessary.
The US owns 5 colonies iirc so by your argument we should be sanctioned
The linked blog post at http://findplanetnine.blogspot.com/2021/02/is-planet-nine-fi... has some more detail, though it's from the proponents of the theory rather than someone trying to be neutral.

It looks like there are two things going on:

- With the current set of observations, the evidence for clustering is fairly strong, but well short of strong enough that it can't just be chance.

- The new survey was including one data point (which doesn't fit in the 'cluster') that Mike Brown doesn't think counts [1]. With the numbers involved, it seems to me that one additional data point is likely to be making a big difference.

[1] « there is one additional object that Napier et al. include that was never reported to the Minor Planet Center; we restrict our analysis to objects whose detection history we can track; that one unreported object is down in the lower left of the lefthand plot »
Microsoft does release microcode updates for windows, here's an example: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb4494454-intel-mi...
I don't comment on whether you should care. I am merely stating some facts. It's up to you to decide what to do with it.
Of course!

There was a nice discussion on hacker news recently about Martin Nowak's research on this topic that was largely funded by Jeffrey Epstein, and as a result was likely designed to serve as a foil for a billionaire convicted child-rapist who was facing impending federal charges at the time for the sex-trafficking of minors:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25442060

Nowak's punishment for his role in aiding and abetting an accused sex-trafficker?

https://harvardmagazine.com/2021/03/martin-nowak-sanctioned-...

Claudine Gay has decided that Martin Nowak only needs to serve two years of probation for openly aiding and abetting a convicted child rapist and accused child sex-trafficker by conspiring with fellow accused child molester and Harvard law professor (and also Epstein best buddy) Alan "Dershbag" Dershowitz to help Mr. Epstein evade prosecution on pending federal racketeering charges ... in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to Harvard from Epstein's estimated $500 million estate, that was laundered in part through other members of Mr. Epstein's billionaire child sex-trafficking ring that included Les Wexner, Leon Black, and Glenn Dubin.

Hopefully there are a few like-minded students at Harvard that will keep the pressure alive on their university's administration like these brave souls over at MIT are doing:

https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op...

Nowak used to write papers on how punishment "serves no noble purpose" as part of the interference with the legal process that Nowak was running for Epstein.

Actually, one of the principal reasons why the courts can sentence folks like Epstein and Nowak under the federal RICO statute for up to a lifetime sentence in prison, in addition to seizing his assets (and possibly those of Harvard and MIT as well) under the criminal forfeiture provision of that statute, is not just for "punishment."

It's for deterrence.

The message that law enforcement sends by not prosecuting Epstein's co-conspirators at schools like Harvard and MIT, that include Nowak and several others, is that there are no real legal consequences for this type of behavior.

And so what again we see here is a prime example of how the real discrimination that takes place in the United States judicial system regarding who gets punished and who escapes scot-free has less to do with skin color than it does with the size of your bank account, and in Nowak's case, the size of your culpable employer's bank account too.
What's the low-level rabbit-hole?
"let countries manage their own affairs instead of continually attempting to be World Police and stirring up conflict"

What about Cambodia or Rwanada? Those were internal conflicts as far as your definition goes? Was it alright or not? Where is the line?
There is absolutely a place, and even a critical place, for level-headed assessment of the advantages and disadvantages anyone brings to any role.

That's not what I'm criticizing. I'm criticizing the general acceptance of treating people with autism as though they're deficient as human beings.
I'm not the person you're replying to, and I don't have the evidence you're asking for.

However, China isn't stupid. Rather, they've often shown to be rather cunning, and it's impossible to know all the times they may use their weight and nobody notices.

I'd liken it to cold war era techniques from the US and Russia. Both sides would often do things wrong on purpose just to muddy the waters or throw red herrings. People at the time thought that the US was clumsy and stupid when a top-secret document was "accidentally" leaked, but it was done on purpose to track spies, waste Russia's resources, etc. I do not put it past China to have multiple prongs here, with the clumsy antics simply a smokescreen for the real propaganda. Obviously, this cannot be proven, but like I said, there are lots of lessons in history of this being the case with other states. They have lots of textbook examples to follow.
In some ways we have already hit the singularity. Some random ML has changed the lives of thousands of people to play tetris. Imagine the other similar situations. It's very scary to me that people live their lives inside such tightly controlled "algorithms".

Then throw on the human element how Google gets to ban certain topics from the algorithm and it just feels dystopian. Is there any light at the end of the tunnel?
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Yes, and in both cases that makes people easily led into boycotts or panics by propaganda.
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A negligible amount of source code when placed against the amount of C , C++ and Objective-C written daily across the globe.

Those browsers are part of the 11% mentioned above.
Finally! I have this problem when I was a kid and teens and it hurts. The back of my brain would be in pain whenever I have ice cream. The effect seems to have lessen as I age though. And my teeth is surely not in great shape as when I was young.
I would agree with your point but there is a problem on the scale. The scale starts from 0 and goes to 100. It is thus imperative that when you see a country near the 0 zone you think "Ah! Things are good there!". So the visualization is missleading, that' why I said I want to see the dataset. I don't want to see it in relative score, but in absolute score. If every country on earth is on the red zone, then paint it all red.
Given that Americans have committed more war crimes and human rights abuses than all other countries combined and has caused unimaginable destruction, pain and suffering in the world - I find it funny people complaining that China’s acrions are apparently affecting the world.
Well what does that have to do with journalistic freedom, which is what this list aims to measure?

This is about how states treat the media, not how the media independently behaves.
OK, I'll bite. I'm thinking about those, but I don't see the corruption. Care to elaborate?
Most of his specific insinuations/inferences are simply wrong. Parler was not removed because some MoC said for it to be removed. It was removed because it was hosting calls for violence. Greenwald is a crank, looking for attention. He's not worth it.
No, I assume a significant amount is Tesla stock. Which could be used as compensation for workers, if Elon weren’t threatening to withhold it to prevent them from unionizing.
I don't see anything in your second link that explains what the "legality" issue is, could you clarify that for me, please?
So China will allow loads of Western journalists to investigate without hinderance? Excellent!

Access has been heavily restricted so far, so I’m eager to see the results of China’s new-found forthrightness on the issue.

If it’s as China says: show us.
> The idea that intelligence agencies and governments would coordinate such a campaign is absurd.

I don't think it is absurd. FUD seeds only need to be planted and social media and news outlets will be more than happy to make this viral by themselves. Once public opinion is perceiving things in a certain way the situation becomes very difficult for companies, which obviously do not want their sales or image hurt and the facts become irrelevant. This is the subtlety our Western system where influence and fabrication of narrative still exist but are much more subtle than the blunt tools used in countries like China.

It is quite likely in my opinion that the Xinjiang cotton 'issue' is at the very least massively overblown. This is a modern, mechanised industry and China is not exactly short of labour so the idea that Chinese cotton is produced by forced labour seems far-fetched and it is 'interesting' that this somehow suddenly becomes such a global issue.

Shooting down Chinese cotton would not only hurt China and perhaps foster unrest in Xinjiang (people would lose their jobs), which can be useful to the West, but would also serve the economic interests of China's adversaries. After all it so happens that the top 3 cotton producers are India, China, and the USA, in that order. So this is very possibly a geopolitical powerplay.
"Exact scale (1:1) illustration of a 5M⊕ PBH."¹

¹ https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090
"""Approximately two thousand Nazis marched on the [building] in the city centre, but were confronted by a police cordon, which resulted in the deaths of 16 Nazi Party members and four police officers."""

That’s a description of the Beer Hall Putsch, just for comparison to the events in Washington.

There is plenty of evidence that the people who invaded congress wanted to overthrow the election results and keep Trump as President, that many refused to believe that Trump had even lost, and some appeared to be “heavily armed” (though given America’s gun fetish, I don’t know what that means): https://apnews.com/article/us-capitol-trump-supporters-1806e...
People should keep an eye on the "BN(O)" Hong Kong visa. The UK has, perhaps surprisingly given all the anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric, decided to make a slightly easier route for HK nationals to emigrate to the UK. China has started to retaliate: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3127111...

https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/2021/01/29/media-factshe... (£250 for five years, plus the effectively mandatory £600/year NHS surcharge, per person, plus any additional test or permit fees)
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I see your point. From what I understand though, your point contradicts a western study on Chinese censorship. This study was even featured in HN some time ago. The study states that censorship's goal is to limit controversy and to limit the ability of people to rally together, independent of whether the topic at hand is pro-government or anti-government. The censorship censored pro-government messages as well as anti-government messages: the only thing that mattered was whether it had the potential for lots of people to gather for activism.

This is not a criticism of your comment. I am truly curious about what you think of that study, and how that fits in this situation.
Greece's government paid millions of euros to the mainstream media so that they allign with the government's narative on how the pandemic is being handled. They also give out non-papers to prevent media from saying bad things about the president. The police recently heavily restricted the freedom of journalists covering demonstrations. Is it clear now? That's just the tip
Nice writeup.

Reminds me of a famous 'intentional buffer overflow' by AOL in 1999 to determine if the user was using a 'genuine' AIM client, this came after Microsoft had added an AIM client to MSN Messenger.

https://www.geoffchappell.com/notes/security/aim/index.htm
Yeah, it is pretty obvious that he is trading legal consequences in exchange for reputation loss. The way he speaks didn't surprise me at all. The court case against that GME investor was also filled with robots. The Robinhood CEO was the most robotic of them all, because he had a lot to hide.
This doesn't make any sense at all.
In a 1,317 word article, the author used 195 of them to describe Zuckerberg's affect (14.8%).

I'm confused as to why the author would devote around 15% of an article to something they thought was superficial and/or extraneous.
In case anyone wants to read some research on the success rate of IT projects Standish Group's Chaos Reports are a good place to start.

I read the 2014 one as a part of our project management uni course, but couldn't find it with a simple Google search so here's the 2015 one:

[pdf] https://www.standishgroup.com/sample_research_files/CHAOSRep...
As pointed out in the article,
”According to a map showing the economic impact across the country on Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II website, the only states that do not have at least one supplier for the aircraft are Hawaii and North Dakota. This gives all but two representatives and four senators more than enough incentive to not only keep greasing the wheels,[...]”

https://www.f35.com/f35/about/economic-impact.html
Simply because if they don't, the app will be attacked by the mass.
> Various people have pointed out that they do not believe the forced labor stories, because over 70% of cotton in Xinjiang is picked by machines. Whether you believe this statistic is up to you — I'm simply saying that this statistic has been mentioned.

The point of forced labour in these situations is not the efficient picking of cotton but as a form of punishment.

> western narrative of forced labor cotton

Are we calling everything we disagree with a "narrative" now?

We don't have all the facts on Xinjiang because journalism is prevented there - which in and of itself should make us suspicious.
I mean, WW2 still counts, right?
Not to pile on, objectively they are not facts but partial observations with concrete conclusions
You say they've shown to be rather cunning. In what way? I've followed this topic for a long time, and from what I can see China is absolutely and horribly incompetent when it comes to media and propaganda. I know people who would be called "pro-China" in western circles, and even all of them think that the Chinese do a very bad job at propaganda and marketing themselves.

So I'm curious: what makes you believe that China is cunning? Is there anything you can show me?
The license plate topic went all the way to the Supreme Court: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooley_v._Maynard

where the court found 6-3 that you could not be compelled to display a state motto that you morally objected to.
The paper is pure science. I’d argue that the Life Sciences are entering a Scientific Revolution 2.0. We are on the cusp of learning how many living systems work. The scope is broader than genetic engineering alone, IMO. This revolution is shaping up to be multidisciplinary; computation will be a critical aspect.
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Ideally, it's also for sharing with guests.
It's interesting to me that the one country that markets itself as "land of the free" is the only one with homeowner associations
I would suggest compare this incident with the Boxer Rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion. Majority of the Chinese mentality haven't changed since the Qing dynasty.
People talk about disastrous contracts in the pub all the time. Actually getting sued is very rare.
Workers can also be compensated with stock.
Why aren't stone foundations more common? There's lots of modern cutting methods and everything is done anyway with an excavator. Why is it always concrete? Concrete can't handle water.