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I think this is probably true of all people, no? Academically, socially, family wealth, etc... I may very well misunderstand this because I am not Indian and I appreciate it'll be more nuanced but in its most raw form is it not similar to the British class system, Ivy League vs non-Ivy League schools, etc?

To me this is one of those things people really care about when they're involved and slightly better off - so someone in the upper-middle class, someone from a good school, etc - but the majority of people don't really care. The only people who care about what school they went to or what class they identify as are those slightly above average without other notable accomplishments yet. Professors at Harvard care less about their school prestige than the fresh undergrad entering the job market. So, to take this as an example, I'd assume the only people who care about the Indian caste system are young, in a caste slightly above average whatever that means, and yet to really progress in their career to have more notable accomplishments to base their identities around.
The wider West is only too happy to pay the price of accommodating refugees and reducing fossil fuel dependency .. and may even be happy to risk all out nuclear war to defend our "way of life" and liberal freedoms.

We now have the perfect excuse to unleash all the decades long pent up hate of Putins regime.

Ursula Von de Leyen seemed to capture the zeitgeist when she slipped up and said "Ukraine is part of us" or words to that effect. Attack on Ukraine is felt as an attack on the West .. even on the other side of the world.
i tend to make an exception for sqlite, but otherwise i’m much the same.
They’re not, while Europe keeps buying their energy.
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I don't think any one would be threatened by asking where they are from, even in India unless you grew up around in the same state or region, location is not a nuance (in the caste sense) you would be able to easily get. For example some one from the south, won't know anything about punjabi castes or where they hail from, even one state over it is hard to know they would usually speak a different language after all.

A foreigner asking is generally not considered threatening, they however might be worried you would say something to another indian colleague without understanding the implication and that can be difficult for them.

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Most of the article is certainly true, it is important to note that all groups discriminate not just ones on top, disproportionately high representation of forward communities among the Indian diaspora makes it seem it similar to black racism here it is more complex than that [1]

There many groups collectively known as dalits, form one end of the spectrum, other castes form the middle, and forward/dominating castes a the end, every group discriminates against everyone else, and there are sub groups within groups. family, lineage, language, color, religion[2], region and dozen other factors to break into further sub groups.

It shouldn't be that surprising, India as country has as much or more diversity and double the population of Europe. You find similar discrimination of Europeans too, by country (Poland,Serbia etc), region of a country, language (Catalans), groups (gypsies) race/skin, religion (even with Christianity: Catholic, orthodox, Protestants etc ) and so on and on.

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[1] This happens because these groups have access to more funding/ education, relatives already living give a boost and so on

[2] Caste is not limited to Hindus, there are plenty of communities where you will find mix of Hindus and Christians, or Muslims , depending who is dominant the others would be discriminated
That's so insulting, as a female.

If I found out I got any job or role due to my genitals, I'm immediately quitting because that's a terrible way to run a company. For so many reasons.
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I've been using iA Writer for all of my text and writing needs for many years, couldn't be happier.

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Swap out whatever "class" you want and many of the same processes arise in various places. Not disagreeing with you, but it's sometimes frustrating to me that even when there's obvious discrimination, people still question it, and when they don't question it, they often don't see how the same processes play out in other ways with other less obvious group memberships.

I've always said, when you see some kind of "obvious" discrimination going on in an organization -- sex, age, race, caste, whatever -- I almost guarantee that's manifesting in some other ways as well.
It's 2022. You're pointing to a declaration that is 14 years old. Do you have anything more current? Why the invasion now?
So essentially, as long as he says he is only making all of this money so he can donate it, he gets the prestige of having already donated it without having done so yet, as well as a free pass to make the money however he sees fit?
https://www.aljazeera.com/videos/2019/12/2/power-of-siberia-...
Having a woman in the room when other women are getting interviewed isn't discriminatory. Telling a woman she can't interview someone because she is a woman (or other protected class) is.
I’m not sure if this is a legitimate question or an attempt to make some sort of “but also not-the-West is bad!” point; if the latter, this is a comment on an article about caste discrimination in California, which is probably why the its observation focuses on the West, instead of talking about parallels in other cultures.
> without the low hanging strawman arguments?

Like yours, you mean? Yes, please try.
I think it extends beyond Indian folks. I once worked at a company where, Manufacturing engineers were overwhelmingly Vietnamese. Safety staff was Chinese, Engineering was mostly white, and the machine shop was entirely Hispanic. In each case the manager of the department was of the aforementioned race.

There was also a son of a bitch who was an aggressive baptist. He though I was a baptist because I had dated a baptist once, and knew some of the lingo. I really liked him until I saw him treat a Chinese person like crap for no reason. He treated anyone who wasn't a Christian like garbage.v
There is no hardware capable of running Shor's algorithm.

However, the current worry is that a statistical attack will be found that will run on current quantum annealers (DWave).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-14/the-machi...

Whoops I meant this article.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arthurherman/2021/06/07/q-day-i...
> So like under one director, every senior manager will have been from the same part of India.

Just because people are from the same part of India doesn't mean they have the same caste.
Right - the old rule of thumb used to be an Ethernet collision domain should have a maximum of five segments, with four repeaters, and three populated mixing segments (i.e. buses like 10BASE5 or 10BASE2), the other two segments being link segments (i.e. point-to-point like 10BASE-T or 10BASE-FL).

I think the idea was that anything more than this was likely to lead to long enough round-trip times between devices at the far ends of the Ethernet that the CSMA/CD algorithm couldn't be guaranteed to work.
Ukraine Universities Hacked by Brazilian via Finland as Russian Invasion Started
I tend to go for (simple) markdown rather than pure text files. It can be rendered into some fancy format, but the source code is also readable to humans. With chat apps like Slack and Discord taking it up, even non-technical people tend to understand what it means to put emphasis on something. You get the benefits of plain text with the ability to empathise, without fancy formats. Such a format also enforces paragraphs and lists to be consistent, which is great for easy of reading.

There are other, similar slightly-more-than-plain-text formats (RST is common among some communities, for example) with the same benefits, and everyone can pick their favourites and use them freely because in the end these formats are easy to parse as a human.
I used SwiftUI for a side project and after 6 months binned the whole thing and switched to flutter. I was finding that a huge portion of my time was spent trying to get the project to compile (it generally just needed many recompiles so presumably there's race conditions in xcode or the compiler) and the previews induced several minutes worth of spinner every time I went near them.
Meta’s new ‘system cards’ make Instagram’s AI algorithm a little less mysterious
Silicon Valley companies often do this, especially when something as newsworthy as this comes out.
That, in itself, is another nice feature of F-Droid. It allows you to add additional repositories of your own choosing.

It's so refreshing, especially compared to $megacorp <strike>control freak</strike>, er, security measures, yeah that's it!
Why is Russia invading Ukraine?
What happens at the point of enforcement? Is NATO going to shoot down Russian planes? That would pull NATO into a war, which is what we want to stop to begin with
Just last month I was contact by a company I had interviewed for a whole 3 years ago. They actually made a great offer that I accepted.

But something like that has only happened one other time in the dozen or so interviews throughout my life so I would say it's pretty rare.
At what point in time in a company's history is it a good idea for the founder to just pay themselves market rate?
> Experimentalists finally made a device that could image the atoms in the glass

Is this x-ray crystallography?
Hey team, great to see someone tackle this project, and the idea to scan for new potential issues based on the code that changed is cool

Initial impressions when visiting the website though is I can't understand how it works exactly, for example the learn more page at https://socket.dev/integrations says Socket helps improve the posture, but it would be good to explain (perhaps with screenshots an actual example?) of it catching an issue.
Is there a modern text editor that only supports ASCII, so I can take my plain text notes and store pages and pages of them in one or two KB?
I know of a guy who got democratically elected in Germany a while ago, whom the Germans would have done well to get rid of in a bloody revolution.
> Sounds like poor security if their client isn't doing the encryption, not an issue with encryption itself. Regardless, the point of encrypting email isn't to worry about what happens on the receivers end. If the receiver messes up then that is on them.

No matter what encryption you use, if your recipient gets compromised there is nothing you can do except don't sign the message with a published public key and send the message anonymously. Then, at least, it would be more difficult to trace back to you unless you include personally identifiable information in the encrypted message.

> I was mostly thinking subjects and traffic patterns itself. PGP trivially leaks both.

First, when it comes to traffic patterns I have no clue what that means. You can hide the recipient with GPG, so they have some plausible deniability as long as someone else doesn't have their secret key and passphrase.

You can encrypt the subject line pending email client support to decrypt, but really it seems pointless. Might as well just say `hello` or `secure` in the subject line. I imagine you could also create an RFC to add an encrypted subject to the header if one doesn't exist already.

> As I noted elsewhere in this thread, PFS doesn’t work for PGP’s normal usage model (without a lot of hassle, as you noted, with subkeys). I don’t think it’s that people don’t want PFS for asynchronous communication; it’s that email doesn’t make it easy to do.

It doesn't have to be a lot of hassle. If I remember correctly, Keybase may have had something similar for messaging. It just hasn't been done because instead of using GPG, a lot of people want to implement something else, which is fine as long as it is secure. GPG is secure though which is why people throughout the intelligence community use it frequently and journalists that want security.

Maybe for PFS something like age makes more sense, but GPG has been around and is more tried and tested.

> think that’s a fair characterization. But if you, as a software or product person, want to improve user security, the first thing you have to do is make usable secure products. PGP is almost never usably secure; it’s arguably not usable most of the time, and that’s doubly true when used securely!

GPG is usable and usably secure, if you know even some of the basics of what you're doing. Really, just looking through the docs on GPG's website provides a vast resource of information. It can be overwhelming for grandma, and yes sometimes the docs are confusing in certain areas, but it is not challenging for people in tech that have a little patience (doesn't require a lot).

There certainly isn't anything stopping GPG from being the default except competing solutions. It has been pretty much the default for email security for some time.
It's getting worse and worse in my opinion. There's so many perverse mechanics now, Gacha games being at the forefront of it. Money is always necessary to develop games, but we've gone from a situation were money was a resource to creative genuinely creative works that had merit to a point where the game itself is just a mechanism to create revenue.

In the process the games themselves degrade. Addictive mechanisms are added, stories are dragged out or split into DLCs, money distorts competition between players, games are designed to waste the players time, and so forth.

And the problem is not just the industry or 'capitalism' or whatever, I think culturally we also have lost the ability to talk about entertainment critically. Games that are glorified slot machines should be called out for it, parents should tell their kids not to play them, and people need to start valuing their attention.
Because it is on-topic.
Haha indeed. At least they do change the sheets and so on but I try and avoid Airbnbs for that reason since they aren't really monitored.
Very well written, I have similar weird feeling that the start of this war was important point in multiple plans which were designed for years and meant to be realized for decades and in the end can result in totally different world than we have now.
> Are you saying (for example) Stanford is ranked higher than Yale for tech companies in the Bay? I feel there is an implication this is somehow unfair which I find ridiculous

Yes.

And yes it is ridiculous because the jobs don't require anything unique from Stanford from employees, and neither should it matter for potential members of the C-Suite or Board, or clients.
Conversely, I sit at about 50cm from my boring 24" 1920x1080 monitor, and HN is hard to read below 130% zoom. On my laptop, higher resolution and less inches, it has to go up to 150%. I can't imagine using HN at 50%, I need my eyes for other things.

Edit: tried it just for kicks. The mouse cursor fits three lines of text. Something is seriously different between our setups.
This is good advice, but (as he notes halfway through the post) "plain text" comes in a lot of forms.

I would also add that for life-long storage of "whatever" you do probably also need attachments. (I guess we could say “plain files”. And for those, more JPEG/PDF than .doc/.cwk (Hi mom! :) )

For a couple decades I used my IMAP mail server's "Drafts" mailbox as a kind of poor man's Notion|OneNote|Evernote|Blahblahnote. It supported plain text, and attachments. It was enough, and more importantly, not too much.

Today, I do use things like Notion and other locked-in products, just to know the landscape (sure has gotten better since the 1990s! wow!), but if it is anything more important than a grocery list (such as, say... scraps of my novel, baby name lists, pet name lists, boat name lists...) I make sure to use something like Logseq, Marktext, Obsidian, or yeah, just .txt.
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You think it’s easier to undo the effects of total war than it is to undo the effects of sanctions?

Between a shooting war and an economic war I suspect that the former is far more likely to get out of control.
I write a lot of markdown files. Almost all my writings are on text plain markdown files.
A progressive web app does not require you to download an executable. You simply install it from the browser.

Here is an example https://mdn.github.io/pwa-examples/js13kpwa/

You should be prompted to install or add the app to your home screen, depending on the platform and browser you're using.

Another big example of a pwa I use is Twitter on the desktop.
The CCP has long been building a database on people in all countries of strategic interest (U.S., UK, Austrlia, India, etc etc). And not just the prominent people. All the people. [1][2][3][4][5]

But hey, tell us again how China is only interested in the Chinese.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-a-...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/china-spent-years-coll...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/xg89aj/china-has-been-doing-...

[4] https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/94493-china-has-st...

[5] https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/969532277/china-wants-your-da...
This seems like a supremely bad idea.
Yes. I bought a M1 Macbook Air a couple of months ago. Living in a cold climate, I came to realise this is an unexpected drawback in the winter.
Which one has the best DPI?
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The project has stalled it seems
You don't think the EU would be motivated to lend at competitive rates in this scenario? If not, i would love to understand your logic.
They dropped support. The update to Android 10 removes it. Probably because 16.04 is EOL and they should have paid Canonical again to make X11 and possibly other systems work on Android. The number of users of that feature was probably low.
I use plain text because there is no multimedia equivalent that is universal and end-user controlled, and there are no multimedia equivalents to Vim, Grep, regex, etc. Text is great, but an image, table, or diagram are sometimes irreplaceable.

We think we are great innovators, but we are stuck in 1990. Notice also that there are no Vim-equivalents for phones, even though that platform has been widely used for 15+ years.

Sorry Bill Joy; sorry Bell Labs; sorry (many more); we let you down, and we let down the public, which now has no integrated multimedia format beyond WordPress or Instagram.
That's a reasonable take. But on the other hand...

It took 20yr to replace the Taliban with the Taliban and that was without much external meddling. How's Syria doing? This could very much turn into "Iraq for white people" and unlike Ukraine does not have strong internal race/religion animosity (well it kind of does, but those regions left in 2014) that can be harnessed to keep the pressure off the invaders and puppet government.

With the west providing the people of Ukraine with financial, material and ideological support this has the potential to become an incredibly bloody conflict. Ukraine is 40million people. If even 1/10th of that say fuck it that nation is a level of ungovernable that is hard to appropriately quantify. I don't think many people appreciate the kind of "once in generations" abyss eastern Europe is staring into.

Or I could just be wrong and Ukraine could roll over. After all they were ruled by Russia historically and it hasn't been that long. Time will tell.
readers of HN, any good geopolitics analysis to read (websites, channels, books, else) ?
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Wow, some of those comments.

> The sanctions not only made it impossible to pay the employees, but the disconnection from the banking system meant that we couldn't even pay rent or the electric bill on the office space. And Russia requires foreign companies to maintain an office within their borders in order to do business there. If we can't pay rent on the office space, we can't legally operate.

That gets a WTF from me in like five different ways.

It totally sucks that the leverage points being used here are going to pit huge numbers of newly-financially-destroyed people against the very societal structures designed to cause them pain for being overly expressive of their frustration. What a catastrophe for those affected by the conflict wherever they live.
The phenomena are related, though. One could argue that the social sciences, with greater latitude in definitions of measurement and thresholds for statistical significance, had been building sand castles for decades. Eventually, the entire rotten edifice will collapse.

In contrast, the greater restrictions of theory and measurement in physical science didn’t easily allow researchers to do pointless hand-waving that looked good. In some sense, the “crisis” in physics is less embarassing, as it is simply theorists bumping into limits enforced by reality. They didn’t make it up as they went along.

I’m also doubtful the lauded “open science” movement will accomplish anything besides the mass transfer of intellectual property to centralized data platforms, to be mined by replication specialists.

I’m biased, admittedly, after watching an APA zoom conference on the advantages and wonders of open science, and why researchers should join in. The lead presenter’s #1 reason to join open science was “that I didn’t lose my data anymore, it was all nicely and neatly centralized on the OSF server.”

Speechless.
Wait until this person hears about Markdown.
When you are discriminated on the basis of age, caste, race and sex - how can I really pinpoint which discrimination is the most prominent?
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