skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn’t you just open PowerToys and disable the feature though, or does that not restore the other shortcut?
Ehhh.. there are 3rd party tools free and commercial that fix the taskbar so it can go back to the sides if you want. Windows 11 really isn't that bad at all - although I'd rather they have simply fixed Dark Mode in Windows 10 than to go through this exercise and yet still somehow miss important bits all through out the OS in terms of Dark Mode once again.

I was hopeful they fixed it, but they didn't. Finally just decided to make Linux my new home and remote into Windows from there. Pretty well just cutting macOS out of my life entirely, although I have reserved the ability to remote into macOS seamlessly as I do with Windows more or less. I can careless what happens on any OS - I can switch btwn them all with relative ease and no hotkey weirdness as this point due to my personal project (kinto.sh).
Somewhat of a hot take but I think about this every now and then - simply put, Marijuana is a drug that makes people lazy. It tanks personal productivity. So we extrapolate where large swaths of populations in various states where Marijuana is legalized, wouldn’t that have a huge negative impact on the GDP? Literally neutering people’s productivity. It’s not just careers but I’ve seen addicted people (including myself) that have had serious negative impact on life and fulfilling responsibilities.

Where am I going wrong with this?
I recently posted some info and links about Mark Weiser to the HN discussion of "Calm Technology":

Calm Technology (calmtech.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29115653

https://calmtech.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29117340

>Mark Weiser was my friend and mentor at the University of Maryland, so I've posted some stuff about his work and life here in the past.

>As usual, I've checked and updated the broken links to archive.org. (One of my favorites is the 1995 Computer Chronicals video at the end with a profile of Mark's band, Severe Tire Damage, the first band to ever perform live over the internet, who upstaged the Rolling Stones over MBone, using up half the bandwidth of the internet on Friday, November 18, 1994!)

[...much more at the article I linked to, and in the HN discussion of Calm Technology...]

Also some recent comments I wrote about the term "Pervasive Technology":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29931283

I've also mentioned his work with Chris Torek on the Maryland Window System, which was based on Gosling's Emacs display driver:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457846

And only yesterday there was an HN discussion about the Mesa Programming Language:

Xerox PARC Mesa Programming Language 5.0 (1979) [pdf] (bitsavers.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29976630

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/CSL-79-3...

I posted to that about his work on PCR (Portable Common Runtime, for porting Cedar apps to Unix) and conservative garbage collection, and linked to an HN discussion of a video demo of Cedar and Tioga running on Unix with PCR:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30003729

Demonstration of the Xerox PARC Cedar integrated environment (2019) [video] (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375449

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4
So a write than doesn’t “win” just gets silently discarded?
I have a decent amount of first-hand experience myself, and while I agree with you (there are definitely benefits!), the sort of creativity that cannabis can induce is of a particular variety.

Specifically, cannabis-induced creativity for me, while tons of fun, tends to be very myopic. I focus more on minutiae and more immediately rewarding things like satisfying textures than on a overall composition and development. How appropriate that is for any given creative task and whether it’s worth the downside described in this paper (which are pretty obvious and also very real) are difficult questions if you enjoy it.

Personally, the output of cannabis-induced creativity often ends up being less rewarding for me in the long run.
Thanks.

You can hide features from the menu, so it's shouldn't matter if it does a lot (I hope).

I think there is only one click needed to close the task (the "X" on the top right, or "Create").

Filtering by day is something that is missing, true. Maybe there could be some defaults to be set for the starting/ending times also.

The tasks that are "due today" or "due in a week" will appear in the main page, so they should be easy to see.

Thanks again!
The language is not diplomatic, in my opinion, since there doesn't appear to be any attempt at diplomacy. To me it reads as an over-worked individual who tried to do something he believed was good for a project he's not affiliated with, but it didn't go according to plan because that project's maintainer didn't agree with his approach, and hence feels extremely frustrated.

Likely as a result of his frustration, he is casting part of the blame for his troubles on a entire community of programmers who had absolutely nothing to do with his personal quarrel, because said programmers didn't come out of the woodwork to assist him in his goals. (The only way they could assist anyway is by pitchforks or dog-piles, which are hardly appropriate anyway.)

I felt that the maintainer of a fundamental piece of Lisp infrastructure judging and chastising an entire community of uninvolved people was completely inappropriate, and it was airing out dirty laundry to the wrong audience.

If he instead said something like:

> I have been working hard to push this critical piece of infrastructure forward, but it has been especially difficult with certain downstream maintainers of popular projects who refuse to upgrade, like So-And-So. As a community, this piece of software infrastructure is only valuable if we all upgrade. I don't have the energy or desire to repeatedly argue my case with all downstream users, and as such, I feel it might be time for me to step down from this project as maintainer.

then it would be completely appropriate and well-received. But instead he wrote something divisive and almost paternalistic.
The valuations today are just so much higher though. Pets.com, the poster child of dotcom era excess IPO'd at a $250mm valuation.

Companies today are raising 2x or 3x that in their series C these days! 1Password picked up $620mm in their series C just the other day.
> Not god's fault I'm lazy.

It is though isn't it?

[Insert free will debate here]
> struggle with withdrawal

Anecdata, but for big smokers they'll notice more cognitive decline for a couple of months if they quit abruptly.

Alcohol is even worse for teenager cognitive abilities, I don't believe weed is as harmful that it would produce as much neuronal damage.
This is a great post-mortem - thank you to the Roblox engineering team for being this transparent about the issue and the process you took to fix it. It couldn't have been easy and it sounds like it was a beast to track down (under pressure no less). gg
I’ve been using Fly for my new startup that offers notifications as a service [1], and the whole setup is super easy and efficient.

Since fly deploys at the edge closer to the users, our response times for notifications are 20ms on average which is mind blowing since I haven’t spent more than 1 hour on infrastructure setup.

1: https://usenative.com
Times New Roman is for normies. Comic Sans is best code font.
Pushback will get you a bad review, smaller bonus, and a performance improvement plan. The company has been too dysfunctional for too long. Fixing it would be like boiling the ocean.
How do you explain shoplifting among celebrities? Winona Ryder, Amanda Bynes, Lindsay Lohan, etc.? Many had the money to pay for what they stole.

> The contrast of what is actually available on an upward path is much more preventative of crime vs the marginal discouragement of more punishment below.

Or, to put it simply, criminal intent is a cost-benefit analysis. And, despite you're implication, there isn't a particular level of income or lack thereof required to make that calculation.
Weed withdrawals can last months for me, severe depression / anhedonia / executive function impairment; duration depending on how much/long I used.

I'll bounce back but man does it suck going through the repair process. Nothing is enjoyable, life just feels dull and flat, and it's hard to get anything done.
Your words remind me this is happening everywhere.

Relentless focus on minimalism but they don't know where to stop.

Apple is doing it.

So is Tesla. Their cars have fewer and fewer dedicated controls, removing control stalks and putting critical functions on a touchscreen (for petes sake).
If people were less career obsessed, it would vastly reduce the amount of evil in the world tbh. Most large scale evil is done by career obsessed freaks.

I heard a talk show host once speculate that one reason weed has been illegal for so long is it would make the various motivational sticks and carrots the ruling class uses with white collar workers less effective in aggregate.
Does anyone know how this worked with regards to visas? I know some countries are visa-free to EU residents for shorter stays; did she just stick to those, or did she have to get visas for some of them?

Also, are you able to just fly a small plane to an overseas airport and request landing, or do you have to make arrangements ahead of time for that as well?
Related: how will the correction in the crypto market impact (crypto) startup fundraising?
That sucks, I empathise. If it’s any help the same thing happens to me and I smoked and drank very rarely. There could be a link between substance use and cognitive impairment but part of it could just be getting older.
Very cool site.
It's a bit distressing how many people don't think weed can be addictive, clearly it is, just not in the same way as something like cigarettes.

That said, my friend, 10 years of life make you forgetful sometimes.

That's just called living.
And that is why you should only take one or two puffs and not smoke a whole joint like 15 years ago. Also, I'm strongly convinced you should not be consuming it everyday, maybe 3 times a week max and even then that is hectic. People are way to chilled out about cannabis/thc dosages.
> Globally you probably have to go out of your way to hire a designer that wasn't Windows based.

That, likely, highly depends on your industry. Designers doing mobile application design, as well as web design from my limited experience tend to steer towards Macs. Even within my college the entire graphics design department was Macs. Of course if you are working on a Windows based product you'd in theory expect the designers to use or be familiar enough with Windows but you may be surprised.

I'd be curious to know if there are regional (country) differences in this.
Chop wood, carry water.
A frothy discussion along these lines is a big part of why we have -Wextra.
I’ve sat in the back of a Jimny, the rear seats might as well not exist.

Anyway here’s a popular video of a 660cc Jimny towing a large truck that’s stuck in snow during the great Tokyo Blizzard of 2014.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek5OebM4BC4
I live in a smaller city in Europe where wages aren’t anywhere close to what you often see mentioned on HN, with the shift to remote, should I start considering a full-remote position? How do you find these positions? Any advice on this topic would be appreciated. (For context I have 2 YOE, mostly backend, kubernetes, aws and I currently earn around €50k a year which not a bad salary for my area)
Seriously. Am I supposed to just work and have a boring milquetoast existence hiking or whatever to make it to 80? When it really comes down to it, the most euphoric moments and best memories of my life have been messed up on weed and alcohol with people and music. Itd be depressing to move on and just reminisce about when times were better…
That’s crazy man. I’m very career focused and I want to improve the world. I work extremely hard, all day and everyday. I’m evil?

Here is some context, I commented elsewhere on my work ethic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29895639
Awful compared to what, if I may ask?
God is your supplier, I'd say he was at fault for sure. You're probably out of the warrenty period though...
Yes, the same level of skepticism is definitely warranted when it comes to proposals by big tech companies. That doesn't mean all proposals are bad.
Should PdMs “Write Tickets”?
What about databases? Is there a postgres-type-thing 'closer to users'?
That is not withdrawal. That is a preexisting condition.
When someone refers to “Linux”, they are generally referring to the notion of a distro and not The Linux Kernel. People who willfully muddy those notions pedantically are exactly as annoying as people who say stuff like “Oh, you’re from America? So like, Canada? Because that’s part of America, right?”

I’m pretty sure you understand the difference between a Linux distro and the Linux kernel so why are you pretending like you don’t understand what Snetry means? Android and Chromebook both use the Linux kernel but neither of them are anything like a typical distro from the user perspective.

Honestly, it’s also borderline nonsense to say “Android is Linux”. It’s the sort of pedantry that’s annoying because it’s unnecessary but also because it’s really not correct. Android “is Linux” in the same way that Europe “is France”. A part and the whole are not the same.
Exactly, you mention beliefs, while the point was (is?) one of science. By the way, have you ever heard of banning coal BBQs? I'm not sure at all that the exposure is less severe. Say you are at a party, there's a BBQ 20ft away, and some annoying guy lights a cig 10ft away. I'd bet you money that the BBQ harms you more, or at least emits more than 4 times (you need to scale by the square, diffusion of a fluid) PM2.5 than the cigarette.
I don't think the problems that plague remote learning are technical in nature. They are fundamental. It's just hard to learn in a non-collaborative environment.
+1 We want an improved W2K... Linux is probably the best way to get it (with many tweaks... start by not using Gnome).
Is this the same as the O'Reilly dead tree book of the same name?
I hated the Ribbons. Nothing was categorized where I expected and none of the icons or sizes match their use or frequency of use.

Drop down menus are so much quicker to scan
I'm happy that one can, at least, change the default centered bar to left-aligned. There was an early beta where this was not the case. I can imagine, if I was using a tablet, I'd probably prefer it centered, and I guess its "new" that way, which looks better in screenshots, so I wouldn't really complain.

The single inexplicable change, to me, is not only the removal of labeled windows (which is annoying, but bearable): its the removal of separated, non-grouped windows. You have to hover over the application with multiple windows, to make the popup appear, to switch the active window. Or alt-tab.

Its how MacOS behaves (with non-minimized windows)! Its how Gnome3/Ubuntu behaves (iirc)! And its baffling! I don't know how anyone, let alone every major operating system vendor, has come to the conclusion that the best way to handle the insanely common use-case of having multiple windows open, is to force the user into not just another click, but a hover. Heck, I'm fine with it being the default; just give me an option to enable it.

It really is my only major complaint about Win11 right now. Which is, I suppose praise. Taskbar search is obscenely slow after the computer has been inactive for a bit; search has always been slow, but it also took a step backward (Ryzen 5800x? 64gb of memory? 2TB gen4 nvme drive? just heading off the low-hanging fruit if any Windows engineers are reading this; its not my computer, its your code). That's roughly it; its a fine OS.

But; its still painful. Not just because the functionality is missing, but more-so because their insistence on authoritarian design makes me, a customer, feel unwelcome. Its hard to make things configurable; but you have a billion users. You can't dictate one experience that works for everyone, despite whatever the macbook-toting designers say. Even asking customers doesn't work because if you make a change that angers 0.1% of your userbase, that's a million people. So, just... keep things configurable.
I totally agree. Have recently decided to abstain from smoking on nights before work. I’m never as sharp the morning after and edger going several weeks without smoking, the productivity differences are pretty noticeable for me.
I get a kick out of the new weed addiction ads and billboards

I would like to know more about it but I just can’t find anything objective

I am very skeptical of my friends that make weed use their whole identity, Its not fun when they’re not doing it “recreationally” like the rest of us, but they seem decently functioning even though they use the term “microdose” quite liberally and abstractly. Not judging yet, I just know I wont consume weed that often. They all are suppressing anxiety or depression, from unrelated things theyve told me.
Those suggestions might hold up for some people but even those seemingly innocuous avenues might cause things to go awry when used as tools for emotional regulation. And, maybe my counter-arguments falls outside of the scope of the qualifier "healthy". But, I'd be mindful of the two devolving into exercising too much, which isn't fun to deal with (persistent injuries), and eating disorders that cause anxiety of their own. At least, that's what happened to me.

For some of us, the way to deal with numbing stuff means changing our lives so there is less numbing needed.
I’ve always thought of cookies as that American food thing you dunk in milk while biscuits are that British food thing you dip in tea.

When I was young, I dipped my biscuits in Milo.
Pushback can be done with being so personal and insulting, and it's easier to read that way too.
Of course I could, and I did, eventually.

The problem was that in the moment, I did not understand why my Alt+Space shortcut that had always worked before instead brought up this weird launcher window instead of the standard system menu I was expecting. After fiddling around for some time, I gave up and rebooted and lost data.

Once I learned what was going on, I switched the shortcut in PowerToys.

That does not excuse the PowerToys team for disabling a fundamental Windows shortcut key combo.
Kubernetes on DigitalOcean scales pretty well.. fixed monthly cost. If I run out of capacity I just add an extra node or switch to more powerful nodes. Kubernetes takes care of provisioning the nodes.

Google APIs OTOH... I went from $0/month to $450 the next because of their stupid per-unit pricing and hidden API calls.
"Do you have any apples?"
I switched from an iPhone to Nokia 515 two years ago and vowed never to go back. If I wrote a blog post like this it would probably just be, "Living smartphone-free in the 2020's is like having a superpower, it's utter joy and freedom and and everyone still with a smartphone is a total sucker."

Then a couple of weeks ago I felt the social pressure and lack of a good camera so I bought an iPhone 12 mini. It was awful. I returned it 48 hours later and am now back with my beloved Nokia.

The grass really is greener this side of the fence.
I believe true stoners (not one myself, but I like them) would say that "impairment" is just a higher state of consciousness.
Thanks. Have you hired from HireVue? What platforms do you use for contracting?
I stopped drinking three years ago. Not because any problem just decided to stop. Started working out 3-5 days a week, heavy weightlifting. It’s been great and I feel happy, more motivated and it have split my focus, given me some much needed perspective. The only downside seems like I’m not getting tired as much as I used to which sometimes effects my sleep. No regrets.
It wouldn’t conflate the state of Windows 11 with macOS at all really. Just because you dislike macOS doesn’t mean Windows 11 is like macOS because it’s kind of bad.

macOS isn’t perfect but Apple hasn’t mangled core features like the task bar and start menu for something that is superficially prettier but lacks a bunch of actually useful features that used to exist.
Joi is nice and readable: https://joi.dev/
Your comment strikes me cause I’ve been doing the same with alcohol - not to get drunk but to impair some of the logical thinking and analysis in the evenings.

Funnily enough I started to deal with ADD/ADHD in my family recently and learned from the doctor that this kind of behavior is symptomatic in adults.

Recently doc even shared this with me:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32489193/

Not directing this at you particularly but starting treatment helped with my family life so hoping it can nudge someone to their own benefit.
Agree. Most people our senior (boomers, silent generation) never smoked or smoked briefly and what they smoked was very weak by modern standards. Yet many from those generations also suffered with cognitive decline despit little to no marijuana use.
Another view, is that, except for the extremely strong willed, getting used to a serene state of mind is addicting and kind of counter productive.

Perhaps, addictive is not the right word. But it seems to me (purely from a human nature perspective) its similar to obesity (Eating food is not "addictive", but there is a definite element of "craving" and inability to overcome that craving).

All in all, such substances are not natural and, with unchecked use, might put a whole society in danger. This is the reason I am ambivalent about the whole movement to legalize it.
It's amazing to me all the data we have collected on this. Academically I know we have satellites, sensors, cameras, models, effectively infinite storage, and mind boggling compute resources. But this event specifically it has really clicked for me how much we actually know now, and our capacity to learn. It's the first time I have been excited by technology in a long time.
Designers strike again. They have what, two applications open? One for illustrator, another is the browser. Maybe one more for outlook. Of course they don’t see the need for any of this crucial functionality.
this might be just me - i find people that alebriate every once in a while more normal than those who claim otherwise
For example parts of AWS itself. us-east-1 having issues? Looks like aws console all over the world have issues.

You constantly hear about multi zone, region, cloud. But in practice when things break you hear all these stories of them running in a single region+zone
This reminds me of Swift/Xcode's documentation comments:

/// Does something.
///
/// - Parameters:
/// - bar: A description for bar.
/// - baz: A description for baz.
///
/// - Returns: Something fancy.
/// - Throws: Throws `SomeErrorType` if `bar` is invalid.
func foo(bar: String, baz: Int) throws -> Bool { /* ... */ }
> It's known a CA was breached some years back by a state

Last time I bothered to check over a third of all CAs were directly owned by some arm of a government (national telecom, postal services, etc).

Certificate Transparency is the solution to this problem. To be trusted by browsers the malicious CA has to publicly publish that they generated a cert for facebook.com.
This is a big issue with a lot of ML algorithms - it causes issues with consistency. Prioritising apps in auto complete search should be done with a simple tally of how many times the user has opened the program, perhaps as a rolling n days or something. Either way, that causes consistency. If you have some ML algorithm that takes into account how long the window of the app has been visible or in focus or a bunch of other weird features will cause poor UX the moment the baby projectile vomits across the room while the dog has diarrhea that the robot vaccuum spread all over the room. Suddenly you have some esoteric app called PhotosResizer2000 stay in focus for 8 hours while you deal with the emergency from which point onward the ML algorithm will suggest this app whenever you start to type Pho...