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> "The criminalization and banning of cannabis is an instrument of racist and colonial policy"

> How is it racist?

American History and British History.

Initially, the marijuana prohibition in the US was a useful happy accident that served some very particular interests (including anti-mexican sentiment) and was largely forgotten in the midst of the Great Depression.

It was slowly being rolled back (Kennedy, etc) until Nixon. Nixon was an outright racist, which we know via various quotes from his Presidential term (we have audio too - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-rea...) and his advisor's have admitted as much - “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

There's also the "colonial" aspect from Britain's playbook. Cannabis prohibition began earlier in Britain's colonies than in Britain itself; attempts at criminalising cannabis in British India were made, and mooted, in 1838, 1871, and 1877.
Can you explain more about the ‘root ash’ issue please?
Oh but you can! Paris, London, and I'm sure countless other cities in Europe have pedestrianized or reduced traffic in large areas. The Netherlands has done this in most cities.

99.99% of suburbanites couldn't afford their lifestyle if it weren't for obsurd gov subsidies of infrastructure / petrol industry.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0
Maybe no system results in the best possible outcome every time? Government owned bridges have collapsed because warnings were ignored. Privately owned apartments collapsed because warnings were ignored.

The common factor here is that the warnings were ignored by humans. Creatures that reached the peak of their evolution on the plains of Africa.

Whilst masters of the earth, our cognition just isn’t tuned to dealing with low-probability high-consequence events that may occur on a time scale outside our life spans.
Why are Blazor and Livewire a new solution?

It seems like if you are developing solely to meet "SEO friendly" criteria, you aren't exploring many alternative solutions.

Does all this framework tooling exist to just avoid inspecting a user agent and serving from a different upstream?

Having to maintain a large set of template files, with a dependency on a separate language or framework seems contrary to your premise that Vue is specifically better because it uses "HTML templates by default"
> If they're taking public money of course they should be accountable to the public.

Really? A public profile for all... military personnel. FBI, CIA, NSA employees, government contractors, employees of corporation that accepts government subsidies/grants.
"The WIP feature for merge requests has been renamed to "Draft", a more inclusive and self-explanatory term."

English is not my native language and I am outside current American culture trends. Can anybody explain briefly what was wrong and non-inclusive with ”WIP” term?
> If it was me (it was not)

Sure…
In VFX for film, color is a huge issue too. What companies mostly do is to try to use a 'linear-to-light' color-space internally, pre-linearizing turned-over footage before working with it, and then post-transforming the final composites either back to the original colour space, or something similar. Doing this allows images to be freely filtered, resized, defocused, color-corrected etc whilst within the pipeline without it creating incorrect results because of non-linear color.

Kinda seems like it might be quite nice in a web/css world to be able to similarly work in some kind of fairly neutral 'linear' color-space in the code, and let the platform and hardware translate that as well as it can?
For the past 20 years we have been focused on what it costs us to remain. Leaving has shown the cost to others for us to go. No matter what you think we should do, that cost is a bitter pill to swallow.
Well, at least they’re upfront about it! Saves people the hassle of finding out after joining.
It belongs under microfluidics. I don’t understand like you would make it sound like that field doesn’t deal with surface tension of water, that’s one of the most central elements of microfluidics.
Archeologists and historians can see it. Mass tourism often does have a detrimental effect.
> Does anyone in America actually care about what style of government Afghanistan adopts?

I don’t think too many people care out of compassion for individual Afghans, but the original reason we “liberated“ them was because the Taliban was providing a safe haven for Al Qaeda to train and launch terrorist attacks. The USA created a democratic government in the hopes that the troops could be withdrawn and the local Afghan government would maintain its own affairs and keep terrorists from operating in its country. There are many Americans that care that after 20 years the Taliban will take over again shortly after the troops are gone. Nothing changed, the next OBL could be operating out of Afghanistan and Americans got nothing for their 20 years of wasted tax money except thousands of casualties and a lot of broken families.

So I don’t know if too many Americans care exactly which government Afghanistan adopts, but I’m pretty sure anyone paying attention is disappointed that they didn’t get literally anything different.

Edit: to be clear, this wasn't me critiquing the plan, saying whether it would or wouldn't work. This was me responding to GP's prompt about whether America cared about what style of government Afghanistan adopted. Yes America cares, not so much about the style of government but about the outcome. They were told that Afghanistan was going to get a new government that wouldn't allow terrorists free reign to operate as they please; as a result America and the world would be safer. They didn't get that. Yes there are other places that terrorists could operate from, but removing Afghanistan from the list would have been nice. Yes, democracy would be nice, but America would have accepted if Afghanistan had adopted a limited monarchy ran by a Grand Poobah. What we're about to end up with is the Taliban running the government again and probably handing a few of the recently vacated facilities to terrorists as new training camps.
News are terrible at that kind of writing. For instance with traffic incidents, it's always "a person getting hit by a car", not "a driver ramming their car into a person". So they write it like as if the driver had no agency, and the incident was completely non-avoidable and no one should stop to think about why it happened or how it can be prevented in the future. For good measurement they also use the word "accident" a lot.

Wording matter.
It's not necessary to drag USA, but it's just an example of how stupid these arguments are. Historical facts needs to be analysed with the lens of what was considered normal at that time not with the lens on what we consider to be normal today. As many slaves were used also to build the pyramids for example or to some extend modern slavery is a thing in some countries (look at how Qatar is handling the construction of the stadiums for the 2022 fifa world cup). Why aren't we offended by what happen today as we've the right sensibility to understand this things?

If that was not a great similitude is this a good one instead:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_of_U.S._Marines_urinat...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_priso...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_post-invasio...

This are pretty much modern and new example, instead of paying so much attention to what happened 2000 years ago you should consider to fight in order to avoid this things to happen again. Instead of doing some empty consideration on pretty old facts.
So price the negative externalities of not having the tree and send it their way.

Maybe people aren't entitled to live in suburbs where trees are a threat
The automobile industry can do some amazing engineering. Examples: lowering emissions, increasing safety, and switching to electric engines. The main thing they need is some pressure from the public. Accessibility for disabled people is an engineering problem that the industry can solve if they feel enough pressure.
Thanks for sharing! One small suggestion: add an UI screenshot in the repos would be nicer
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Preservation. Research. Also, it's not that beautiful, it's basically large crumbling catacombs without a ceiling. Visitors could already walk directly above them and see most of it.
> Embrace, extend, extinguish. They've done it before and they'll do it again.

Truly a valid concern.
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yet we're here to discuss how many gladiator and lions were killed two thousands years ago

Actually, it appears that you are here solely to bring the US into the discussion with every one of your comments. Maybe give it a rest?
/r/msp is having a real "spartans what is your profession?" moment right now. https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/ocggbv/crticial_ransom... See also https://youtu.be/aNa3Co83_gk?t=71
You make it sound like the Teamsters Union could do something bad to the attackers, so attackers gave up, but in reality Teamsters just rebuilt from archives, which was perhaps an economical decision:

“Ultimately, the union decided not to pay the ransom based on advice from its insurance company, and instead rebuilt its systems based on archived materials, NBC reported.”
Maybe a nation state is already behind it?
https://cryptome.org/2021/06/Peck-Barb-1974.pdf

Was Edward Snowdon "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GtVt6quoD8&t=78s" or a psychologically manipulated patsy for the good/bad guys & girls?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance isnt just about hacking a few computers, its about getting inside the brain of each and every one of us/you like a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7DGMgfOb8.

Or is this line of thought just a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw&t=48s ?
Good related reading, including a demonstration and detailed comparison of interpolation in various colour spaces: https://raphlinus.github.io/color/2021/01/18/oklab-critique.....
just use html templates in normal html? There's no need to use strings. eg <script type="text/x-template">
If the government wants my data, they can just raid me and take my home server. I trust that google can secure it from random hackers better than I can.
My job is definitely not essential (I work in ops for a category of app where nobody dies even if it is unavailable for years at a time). "Essential workers" are the flipside of "bullshit jobs". If grocery stores aren't stocked, if docks aren't open, if crops aren't planted and harvested, people die. It actually matters. Nobody dies if the marketing department for a craft brewery can't work for a year, or if the design team for free-to-play RPG #20,345 fails to release a new kind of in-game currency.
Having trouble finding the Android version.... :-(
Not really. Preservation creates job and history inspires people, especially when it can be experienced directly like this. I seriously doubt it inspires many to build their own though.
In my area there are a lot of pine forests around, and if you walk through you would probably think "what a lovely natural forest". Except the native trees were all cut down and replaced with these ~75 years ago.
I don’t want to be too dismissive of your claims, because the sentiment is well placed- lots of apps present security concerns. But the location of every FOB and COP is/was well known to the locals. Hopefully Pokémon Go isn’t revealing the locations of more sensitive locations, but the people running clandestine operations aren’t letting E-3’s play games on a cell phone next to them. There may be other vulnerabilities but Pokemon Go isn’t too big of a problem since it only reveals where people have been congregating for a while. So it’s different than a terrorist revealing their camp’s location because Twitter geotagged a post.
Great article. Necessary now more than ever.

Those of us in the FOSS community now need to also move away from GitHub. They are taking our code and putting it into their ML-based copilot product to allow proprietary developers to use FOSS code without having to conform to a FOSS license. This practice makes GitHub is hostile to the FOSS community. Decentralization is key to preserving our software rights.

https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1410037309848752128
But then the amount would be 1/1000 and it wouldn’t be financially lucrative enough
>self-coups are well known things that I guess you weren't aware

Nah, I'm aware of them, believe me. This just wasn't that. I think we're going to talk past each other at this point.
RSS is great for content like newsletters. Though I must admit with filtering I find an email inbox works great too.
This is about the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. It is probably doomed to "Live fast, die young" but it is still amazing.

(Also, AFAIK it is the only installation of Linux on another planet)
Right, but the demonstration gave zero context and came up with the original function. It would have been interesting if it were instructed to produce the function in Haskell or some other programming model.
I am glad Google is finally trying to catch up with the basic features of AWS infinidash.
They have still got a lot to do!
I find both IRC and bittorrent to have a superb UX. It's minimal, highly interoperable and programmatically accessible. I've had sketchy experiences getting a connection between two specific peers though. I presumed it was NAT traversal being finnicky.
I think arguing RSS versus Atom is like reorganizing deck chairs on the Titanic: It's a stupid waste of discussion points, because they are so interchangeable. Let's focus on the general concept of getting feed readers back in to vogue, then push our preferred format.
I don't care if this is canon or not, I like it enough that this is mine now and I'm using it
It looks low cost, until you realize you want to store your data for the rest of your life. 10 years, 100$ / year. And after 10 years, you either have nothing, or an old synology (or similar) + enough saved up for a new one.
Same reason I stopped netflix at al. Imagine you're 75, retired, you either have a massive collection of films (digital) or .. nothing.
In a lot of cases it's easier, true, but for other cases it makes things a lot harder. E.g. - how do you conditionally wrap some elements in another element? It's easy in React (assign the subtree to a variable), but impossible to do cleanly in Vue.

That is a general theme, I've found - compared to React, Vue makes the easy things easier, but the hard things harder.
Once is enough because it sets a precedent. But AWS taking down Parler is an example, as is AWS taking down America's Frontline Doctors. You may not like those websites, but if it can happen to them, it can happen to anyone.
Here is a summary of similarities and differences on Git and Fossil functionalities: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/gitusers.md

Also quite interesting the general comparison: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki

Both sites are written from Fossil guys, so they may not be 100% neutral.
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Yes yes I know the scriptures, and yes I'm possessed by the secular-devil (who is that today? Putin? Hitler? Trump?) for not unthinkingly reciting them verbatim.
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> 2) The sequence of COVID-19 does not yet resemble any of the sequences associated with the lab research that was being conducted.

This doesn't discount the possibility of a lab leak if you take into account that some sequences appear to have been deleted[1].

We shouldn't make assumptions based on lack of evidence if that evidence was tampered with. And given China's history of deliberately concealing facts to save face, this raises far more questions than it answers. We need a serious and trustworthy investigation into what happened that puts politics aside. Alas my hopes for that happening are slim to none.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/science/coronavirus-seque...
For debug purposes you throw away security and define a fixed seed, which implies the ordering.

Equivalence checks on unordered containers are different, and any framework which cannot check equivalence of unordered containers are worthless. Forcing ordering on inherently unordered containers does have it's price, it's certainly not free. You can pay that price at serialization, or for testing, but it makes not much sense elsewhere.

Unordered maps don't hate you, you are just not equipped to deal with it. Insertion ordered maps were a thing in the 80s with lisp property lists, which did hold your environment of symbols properly. But since then everyone switched over to proper hashmaps already. Just some not yet: Emacs, python, PHP, ...

You cannot get rid of old sins easily
The government should not be in the business of policing NDAs. NDAs will go the same way as non competes in California.
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But wouldn't a public Blockchain make the private tracker not private anymore?
> this should be the death knell of these "remote monitoring and management" tools

Yeah, sure. We should have a person on each of hundreds of sites whose only job is to check manually every router, switch, and vending machine. Maybe in the best HN traditions you will train the necessary workforce in a weekend?
This is like a weekly thing now.
If I am up to date TypeScript doesn't actually provide LSP and the 3rd party implementation is a wrapper around TS language server custom protocol and is worse in comparison. (They have/had plans to change this but it's been years since I saw the issue raised and not much progress from what I saw, haven't checked in last couple of months since I'm no longer in TS space)

IMO TypeScript is VSCode strongest use case - I would use VS code over VisualStudio for example on C# projects when I had to edit fronted parts - it was so much better. IntelliJ TS stuff is the only thing that comes close/is on par maybe and I'm a happy camper in that ecosystem for the last few years.

None of the LSP plugins I've tried with neovim worked nearly as well as they do in VSCode (the few times I tried to spin it up for old times sake).
It’s as opposed to db driven design, or object oriented design
It will remain blue screen of death nonetheless :)
Can you expand on "without backend" in regards to SQLite, or rather its shortcomings?
I have just started to play with neovim and the first thing I did was to define a function:

function bindKey(mode, keys, command, options)
options = options or {noremap = true, silent = true}
return vim.api.nvim_set_keymap(mode, keys, command, options)
end

With that, remapping looks like this:

bindKey('n', '<Tab>', ':bnext<CR>')

Which is in my opinion better than Vim syntax. I definitely see the potential in having Lua as scripting language.
It’s not terribly common in general, but in content about HTML, if you put things like HTML tag names in titles, it will get mangled by some (most?) feed readers if the feed is RSS. I’ve seen such titles that are broken because the publishers didn’t use Atom more than a few times, and written a couple of titles myself that show up fine because I produce Atom rather than RSS. (I also put things like <em> and <code> in my titles for italics and monospacing, though most feed readers will strip that out and reduce HTML titles to plain text. The almost universal convention that titles are plain text with no formatting is silly.)

RSS is worse than Atom in real, practical ways. Unless there’s a concrete reason for you to use RSS (which largely means “it’s a podcast”), you should use Atom, because it will protect your content against being mangled when you have things like less than signs and ampersands in it.

Returning back to the matter of the naming: I think there are two sound reasons to stop calling it “RSS” and start calling it “feeds”:

① Using one specific, inferior technology to describe it is factually wrong, and perpetuates the wrongness and inferiority, because people hear of RSS and so implement RSS, rather than Atom.

② When someone isn’t familiar with the stuff, “RSS” is just a meaningless name (or could remind you of other organisations that use the acronym, e.g. in India it means commonly-extremist Hindu nationalism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh), but “feeds” invokes a concept that is more likely to be familiar and immediately understood.
As I understand it there is often a lot of discourse that takes place between the hacker and the hacked - agreeing prices, haggling, proof of files etc.

Yes much can be automated but there is usually a human element to these deals and that costs the hackers money.

They also want to be careful to limit their hacks to companies their handlers are happy for them to hack. Go too wide and you risk hitting a company directly or indirectly linked to your state/handler/patron.
Ask HN: Literature for mathematical optimization?
Hi!
Do you know any books on math optimization that are essential for anybody getting into this field? Is there any classical literature for optimization related to ML? Thanks!

My current list includes:

1. Numerical Optimization by Jorge Nocedal Stephen J. Wright

2. Algorithms for Optimization
- introduction to optimization with a focus on practical algorithms

3. Algorithms for Decision Making
- a broad introduction to algorithms for decision making under uncertainty

[2] https://algorithmsbook.com/optimization/

[3] https://algorithmsbook.com/