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More than Russia and NATO I blame Ukraine's poor political leadership for the current pathetic situation of Ukraine. If Ukraine's politicians believes it can ignore either Russia's or NATO's security concern, they are fools. They are also fools if they believe either Russia or NATO can be fully trusted. What is needed is not false bravado, but the pragmatism to realistically understand one's position in the world order, and act accordingly.

Look at how India walks a tightrope while managing its relationship with the super powers USA and Russia and emerging power China. Whenever any of these countries raise security concern about the other, we weigh our own positions realistically and carefully (both security concerns and our own soft and hard power) and then try to balance that while trying to address the concerns raised. And that's why today we are part of both BRICS, which is seen as an anti-west organisation, while also being part of the Quad, which is perceived as an anti-China and anti-Russia outfit. At the same time India knows it needs to be economically and militarily self-reliant, and has never ignored that aspect and thus has military relationships with both the US and Russia, and economic relationship with all three.

People mock our non-aligned foreign policy, but the far-sightedness of not allying with any super power continues to serve India very well even today, and something that the Ukrainians need to understand and embrace too. If they play their card well, they could very well replace Russia as the major power in that area, with the right leadership and patience.
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Apache Arrow DataFusion 7.0 released
Highlights from new release

- Significant performance improvements

- Memory tracking and spill to disk

- Support for decimal type

- New datafusion-contrib organization with python implementation and s3 support

- More math functions

- Public expression simplification api

- Arrow2 branch

Currently in the works

- More features for working with limited memory and large datasets

- Ballista improvements on context, state management, extensibility, and file system access
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So in workplace the gender-death the split isn't 50:50. Why aren't we very hard working to make it reality? By either making some work more dangerous or forcing people the gender-split on dangerous work?
Good Job, I hate you for tempting me to play more.

I'm afraid to play more because I think a bunch of random objects will pop up and make me go crazy, and its a little too late at night for me to start doing that and get sucked into something.

Otherwise excellent execution, and I think you pulled off a nice, simple runner style game with a classic look and good polish!
Refugees of Indian and African origin aren't being allowed to cross borders or board trains. I presume that is what OP is referring to.
Heh! I agree.
Nice..

minor feedback...sometimes I mistakenly tap `Follow Me on twitter` which opens up twitter app :(
Why not? They're dirt cheap right now and eventually things will straighten out. I would buy more if I could but I'm not allowed to right now ;)
Hey Vijaye, will Statsig support diff-in-diff / SEO Experiments in the future? I saw that you got Multi-armed bandit out the door and I'm hoping to see more kinds of experiment pop up on your platform.
Dark souls has been on my list of games to try for some time. Sounds like they went the route of the grind which I'm fine with as a compromise (in some games I even prefer to be over-leveled). I'm still trying to decide between playing on PC or console though. I know the PC port had issues, but there have been plenty of times when a mod or simple console command would have saved me from bugs if I were on PC instead of a console.
Note that Briar's darknet nature makes it not have a shared/social store-and-forward system.
However, it does exchange messages with contacts whenever possible, recently added a file-based message transfer method (think dead-drop USB/microSD), and gossips message DAGs in forums and group chats (forums lack a leader; groups chat leaders can kick a member out but have to personally invite every member).
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Only as a result of a successful movement against casteism in only a couple of Indian states.
Why almost everything you thought about running is wrong (2019)
It’s lazy policy making. Affirmative action should be based on generational poverty.

India has had caste based reservations for a while. There is no going back. Now sometimes 60 to 80 percent of government jobs or higher education seats are reserved.

A sad joke.
I think they're saying that India's affirmative action against the caste system is a good idea, not the caste system itself. For a while now, people from the lower castes have gotten preferential treatment when applying to universities, and it seems to have reduced some of the stronger stereotypes against the lower castes. However, I'm not sure it translates well to the case of racism in the US.
Part of this might be nepotism and networking. Maybe we should ban those from recruitment. Can't recommend anyone anymore. Just purely blind system, maybe text or voice changer, so visuals involved...
there's the inspire implant[1] for sleep apnea which sounds like what you're describing, but I'm not sure how much help it'd be in the case of muscular dystrophy.

[1] https://www.uhhospitals.org/services/Ear-Nose-and-Throat-Ser...
Defending Freedom and Democracy Sure Requires an Awful Lot of Censorship
> And the bottom half, most of those aren't the kind of shitty parents you're suggesting they are, either.

Well, the black bastardy rate at last count was 70%. They're not exactly model parents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_struct...
This is already done with first-gen college students having advantages in admissions. Income is highly correlated with race, but also confounded by the cost of living (say, cities vs. rural areas). A waiter in San Francisco might make $50k (well above the median US income) but basically be at poverty quality of life while raising a child in the city. Colleges also have access to databases on high school qualities, and so they have an idea of the rigor and depth of high school programs around the world, and thus know if a 3.8 GPA was hard earned or inflated. Basically there is a vast number of factors that adcoms try to control for, but it's not easy.

If you read College Confidential forums, you'll see how adcoms are well aware of all of these considerations and have been struggling to integrate them in an equitable and rational way for their entire careers.
Unclear, but someone should submit this to Hacker News.
I've heard somewhere that docx is actually gzipped xml. But I never really confirmed that myself. But it's binary once gzipped, so your point still stands.
> This raises some accessability issues, definitely. I'd love to see Fromsoft games take that challenge on next.

> Especially as I'm getting older, I definitely feel like I have a lot more "knocking the rust off" to do...

I would definitely appreciate novel takes on accessible mastery. I likely [1] have visual memory (immediate + delayed), subtle but measurable visual motor difficulties, and ADHD:I. Having zeitgeist games feel so thoroughly inaccessible is alienating.

One thing that feels like it helps (no concrete data, placebos and all that...) is high refresh rates. My guess is that it frees my visual memory from being used for interpolation. Ironically, From Software seem almost antagonistic to providing this.

[1] Measured definitively ~15 years ago; who knows what's happened since then.
I can understand this yeah, but why would you register your new legimate business under such extension. Sure everything was probably not bad but do they have Soviet Union hairstyle salon or what :)
Interesting to see this and the gp--especially how others are thinking/communicating about them. I have been picking at something that uses css in a similar way, but I've found it difficult to put what it is into words.
Well, multiple people means you split the rent/bills for starters.
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> At the risk of deflating this highly-charged discussion, I think the reason for the "executive staff" carve-out might be a little more ho-hum: they are often employed via the same contract as the executive they support.

Huh? The VP of Engineering has a hefty stock plan, a guaranteed bonus, and a three-year contract. Do you really think that her secretary has anything comparable? Heck, her secretary doesn't even have a three-year contract.
We'll see if you still think line that lowering the bar is a chance for America when you have to take a plane designed by a 2.1 GPA.
i am basing these "assumptions" based on what matrix offers. why is matrix the polar opposite of these "issues" then?

what benefit do you get from "centralization" of signal at the hands of moxie that you cant get from a decentralized nature of matrix which is similar to what we call today as "Email"?

sure, that is why i said "complying with open source" but at the same time not being free software. sure its not actively hostile towards users like whatsapp is but it isnt much better anyways. i m not asking for a right to submit bug fixes. the reason i am sticking to that is because they grant me that right and for me, that is a big deal. the whole concept of "free software" is about the community helping each other to build software that can solve problems, not comply with the letter of the license and sticking with that.

>The company owns the code copyright, so they can choose to release any part of the code they wish; they can delay as much as they want.

so tomorrow there is a severe flaw found in the code of the app or the server and the company can decide to wait it out and internally fix the issue after a long time without users knowing about it and then they release the fix as a normal thing, sure they have every "right" to do that but is it really fitting to what we today associate with free software community? imagine that with say the linux kernel. people would sit on zero day bugs with fixes just because they "own" the copyright.
Wonder if they are deleting their loans to oligarchs? No.
Unless it is joke or some sort of museum or history website, using Soviet symbols is extremely frowned upon in the countries that used to belong to the union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_communist_symbols
> but I can’t imagine that would ever be put into practice because it would hurt the wealthy too much.

It definitely would hurt their bottom lines, since most of the private elites also provide non-loan financial aid out of their endowments to people who can’t otherwise afford to go. That only works if only a few poorer people make it over the bar.

Public schools should step up more here, as it is their mission.
I find it hard to believe, proof?
I've long been a big fan of "more is different" myself, but perhaps you and I have different takes. I think that essay elegantly defines the quintessential nature of emergent behaviour, and the limits of reductionism. But not by refuting Feynman's claim; rather by exploring why it is that when a lot of stuff follows simple rules, the results aren't at all in keeping with the character of those rules, and appear to be better described by rules of their own.

In other words, once there are enough pieces on the board, you get blindsided as your queen is captured by a rook in a move you never saw coming, even though in retrospect you can go back and see that, yes, the rook really did move in a straight line.

That's why, even if biology really is "just" applied chemistry and so on, you'd never predict the wonderful behaviour of biology if you had only studied systems of less than ten molecules.

And I don't think Feynman would disagree at all, nor would he claim that knowing just the basic laws of physics would let you anticipate the character of cell biology or turbulent fluids, or all the other wonderful systems that have nontrivial degrees of freedom.
The look of Obsidian put me off too but after I got into it I realised the whole theme is totally css-able. It's really easy to make it your own.

I do agree though, they do themselves no favours with that ugly black / purple website. They need a much better, much prettier default.

All that aside, I'm delighted with my switch to Obsidian. Just an amazing tool, and total reassurance that it's just markdown with all the benefits that brings. So glad to be rid of Evernote...!
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And there are things you can do to make it harder too! Like limiting yourself to certain weapons, speed running or even doing a no hit run.
TL;DR:

"You can’t power a whole grid with solar and wind, because the sun and the wind are inconstant, and currently existing batteries aren’t even cheap enough to store large quantities of electricity overnight, much less across whole seasons. "

Summarize the gist:

"Germany" and "... the U.S. must stop shutting down nuclear plants and start building them."

Which is about as much depth on an energy/policy article as you're going to get out of a substack article.

The reality is that fossil fuels are dead. You can't get financing for new well development as you need about 10-15 years of guaranteed buyer contracts in hand to de-risk the investment. Go talk to any Shell/Chevron/Exxon/etc. project manager/product manager/business dev person. Exploratory wells have been dead for 5-10+ years, let alone provable reserves.

Renewables + Batteries are killing fossil fuels for energy use because they are far cheaper than anyone thought they would be 10 years ago.

Germany didn't kill off their Nuclear power because it wasn't "green" they killed it off because a not insubstantial number of their legislature was politically funded by oligarchs wanting to sell pipeline gas to Europe. Fukushima was a nice scapegoat.

Germany's "Green Delusions" did not empower Putin. Germany shutting down clean energy in favor of Russian fossil fuels empowered Putin. Bari Weiss is trying to somehow call relying more heavily on natural gas pipelines "green" when nothing could be further from the truth.
Remember when Flappy Bird was making $50k a day (or something like that [0]) and the creator should shut it down? Ah, memories. You could potentially recreate this to put on the mobile app stores and see how it does, I think a lot of people would play it.

Oh, and soon you'll see people here on HN competing to hack the top score as with previous games [1], either though writing an AI to play the game or by modifying the JS itself on the site.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/no-flappy-bi...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29921419
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declaring that js is poison & ruins everything is so overblown. no languages deserve this unmeasured raw malice.

TermKit is an excellent set of ideas to try to push further, but there's so much friction to just getting started with it, just trying it out. where-as the rwgular terminal is just there, single process, on our systems.

as for growability, community adoption, there are more hurdles. js isnt one thing. it's a vast vast sea of libraries & tools. even if termkit does show promise, so many js developers wont quitw understand or enjoy the particular tool/library choices made. TermKit is just before React, node.js is still quite new; it's just as JS started really settling, but barely. it's hard to imagine it would have been an ideal, modernly hackable form of js.

i still think dis-unity is a strength, that it's good that we're exploring widely, that we havent fully settled & let ossification set in. but it does mean new radical ideas have much smaller communities to support them.
Yes, everyone fights to be backward in India and every other year a community is added to the OBC (Other Backward Communities) list. So eventually once all communities are backward, we will once again in the future have equal opportunity.

Many people get out of India to escape this nonsense. Sad to see USA follow the backward path.
Yes, but it is not $500 expensive. LCD wasn't cheap but got 10 times cheaper in 15 years. eInk is around more than that yet still super expensive.
Hell yeah man! Just going back home.
100% this is poltical properganda. Asians are conservative gold-mines in Australia. Somehow our version of the Republicans have convinced them they are on their side, while also playing the jobs saviour for the working class and being anti-asian. its a schitzophrenic relationship underscored public debts subsidising private profits.

The only this article points out correctly is that "Elite" universities, and therefor most modern day research in every field, is tainted by Racist Aristrocratic idealogies. They protect their own kind at the expense of all others.

If you are dreaming of an elite school, you are the problem. You give them power.
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I do this too.

It works half the time to make me disengage - the other half of the time it's on HN or Telegram with friend, and I have a lot to say.

The importance of the content varies.
I think there is clearly a problem of inequality of opportunity in America, and Affirmative Action is probably a necessary bandaid to heal the legacy of slavery and racism.

However based on the evidence presented, the admission policies at Harvard (and other schools like it) were absolutely appalling. The systematically lower "personality" scores for Asian applicants and the dean of admission's testimony about "geographic" diversity[1] paint the picture of a school that did not ask Asian American applicants to make a sacrifice in the name of the great good, but rather told them they did not deserve a spot on merit because they were boring, foreign grinds.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/opinion/affirmative-actio...
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> Russia ranks close to the bottom of the Press Freedom Index

Yes, there are independent mass media, but almost none left on TV or radio.

> whose main source of information is basically propaganda, as there are almost no alternatives?

Social media and other free platforms, no matter how much I dislike the ad-driven near-monopolies, appears to be right now the only way people find 'unofficial' information about the war and express their sentiment by e.g. sharing Hitler quotes with attribution at the end (drawing stark parallels with Putin's speeches).

Russian gov is understandably being dissatisfied with that, and the infrastructure to censor Internet like China does does not appear to be in place. What seems probable in near term is disconnection of Russia. (At Russian government’s initiative, if that is not clear.)

As a Russian, I say do what you will but please do not load a shitload of JS that will make vital information take ages to load on increasingly brittle connections.
It’s pretentious by almost overtly missing the message of this article, which is: you don’t have to be the best home chef, your food doesn’t have to be the best. Part of that is that “best” is subjective, especially when it comes to food and taste, but more so: Kenji promotes an idea that having some basic kitchen skills and an understanding of the ingredients you’re cooking with is more valuable than the “best” recipe, because it gives you a foundation to develop a dish that is the best in your subjective option.
I’ve watched around an hour or so of gameplay and reviews, mostly with footage from consoles (I think almost entirely PS5) and while I noticed some frame rate inconsistency and some image quality weirdness on like shadows and vegetation, mostly I’ve found the game to be extremely impressive visually. Sometimes jawdroppingly so.

To compare it to low budget free to play games from 10 years ago honestly makes me wonder if your setup is majorly borked somehow. I’d love to see footage straight from your system to know if you’re seeing something very different or if our ideas of what looks good are truly so fundamentally different. Maybe the PC version is uniquely terrible or something?
Every single Russian citizen is in a position to protest the war, they are just too spineless
Could it still be possible to do a 51% attack on various crypto and seize any coins owned by oligarchs?
This development changes “transitory” inflation into a potential long term problem. Do not disregard that: inflation is what causes democracies to fail.
Someone saying 'No, it's less effort than that '?
I agree. Google Docs is mediocre at WYSIWYG and interoperability, but boy does it solve long term storage. I don't have to worry about paying for Dropbox or having local files that I can't search quickly unless I am on a Mac with Spotlight or have full indexing on Windows or the Linux equivalent. I don't have to worry about the folder structure and the files can't vanish with an SSD failure.

And, unlike text files, it's easy to insert images and tables in a Doc file.
I'm guessing... Fiji?

I don't think ignoring the impact of the British being in charge and how that advantage flowed on to the Indian population, that they imported into Fiji to work for the British, is helpful at all.

The British turned up, imported a bunch of Indians, and fucked up the local social structure.
They are planning to open the Small CPU core, the packet processor and the vector processing unit. NOT the actual high performance RISC-V core.

I also think the high performance here is a relative term to their small core.
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Caste system exists in Muslims in India albeit at much lower levels than mainstream Indian Hindus. Muslims have been more steadily organizing as Sunnis, Shias and everyone else.

But invisible cultural barriers exist when it comes to language even though caste barriers have gone away.
Why that sounds very familiar. I'll have to see what I can do about increasing refresh rates, seeing if that helps.

Weirdly, what I've found helps is restarting games. Like, play 2-3 hours, go offline for a day, then come back and replay those 2-3 hours. I find I have a lot less "newness" fighting for attention, and my subconscious has had time to assimilate a lot of it subconsciously, and then I have a much better "second play" experience, and then I can continue on happily after that.

Also, same tactic for boss fights. Sometimes I'll be stuck on a boss for an hour or so, and all I really need to do is go to sleep and try again tomorrow. I actually spent like 1.5h on a miniboss in the first major castle, then the next day, came back and beat him first try. Feels bad to set it down, feels great to smash through that barrier later.
Oh, please. The Ramayana and Mahabharata endorse caste based on birth. Vedas are irrelevant to how Hindusim is practiced on a day to day basis.
What 400kb of RAM on an MCU?! That's a huge amount for an MCU. Arduino's started out with 2kB of SRAM. Linux also requires a MMU to run, which most's MCU's don't have.
Out of curiosity, when will your affirmative action actually stop ? At what magical point will diversity be considered as "complete" ?
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