skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I go hiking. Sometimes it's with camera gear. Sometimes I go camping, or hunting. Sometimes I go into my garage and lift weights. Sometimes I take walks around the neighborhood. Sometimes I sit at home with a glass of scotch and music on. Sometimes instead of scotch, it's pot. Sometimes I have friends over, and we start making our way through my alcohol collection, and the music gets turned up, and we're dancing around like idiots in my kitchen. Sometimes I decide I want to try new things and I make half a dozen cocktails so I can have them in my repertoire while entertaining, and end up quite drunk, even while home alone. Sometimes I get high, sit on my couch, and play video games. I go out plenty (or did before the pandemic), and that frequently meant indulging in these previously mentioned vices. A favorite of mine over the pandemic has been to play the solo journaling RPG 'Thousand Year Old Vampire', and to keep the drinks flowing while I do it. I enjoy all these things, and could not replace any one of them with another.

And while I tend to not imbibe much of anything while out in nature - largely because I'm already clumsy enough - I also know hikers, including thru-hikers, who smoke every night on the trail, and talk about how wonderful that experience is. Not so much on the drinking side of things, for the thru-hikers, but I expect that is more about weight than anything.

Obviously, everything we do has some sort of impact on our bodies, and I suppose you can make an argument about the objective relative health impact of any of them.

But to try and argue that someone's subjective experience is an objectively worse one? That's silly. People can enjoy different things than you, and that doesn't make them "depressing"
Are you using BankID on the go?

I use it mostly to sign contracts, view kivra (IE; check payslips and official mail from companies), sign automatic payments and check my bank account.

I don’t need to do those things on the go, but maybe I’m missing something, since currently I have an iPhone with BankID and I could be forgetting a time when I use it.
Thanks a ton! Ripping good site!
I think having some people daily driving other systems may be beneficial, providing a fresh view

but if majority of your lead designers never in their lives used the taskbar they are surprised when replacing it with a dock causes outcry
I think they are implying OP has used weed as a crutch and accidentally obscured a real condition.

A bit like using painkillers to avoid having knee surgery. A crutch, not a solution.
Stepping down as the maintainer of Subtilevitatus
But then, who is paying all that nice money for politicians parties, fun ones and organisational ones?

Like always when it comes to politics, these things boil down to "who gave the tribal chief bigger spoils". We as a civic society should eventually learn that corruption is maybe the only way to get to where we want to be.
once i did so too

guess it's simply just rather good SE not on the top class (google, amazon, yandex, bing etc)
Call me crazy but you may be onto something. I don't think it's necessarily foreign actors that would take advantage of it though, moreso multinational corporations who need a sated and pliable workforce who don't think too much about their poor living conditions, lack of societal progress, lack of upward mobility, etc.

I do find it interesting that as cigarettes have waned in popularity and weed has gotten more popular, we're finding that people are less creative and innovative than ever before and there seems to be a persistent monoculture throughout the West that's extraordinarily drab. Might it have something to do with nicotine's cognitive-enhancing ability versus cannabis diminishing cognitive function? Probably not, and there's likely no way to do a cohort study on this subject, but it's an interesting question to pose regardless.
Libre Office also offers an optional ribbon style interface
> For any UX/UI designer out there a delay is perceived when it is greater than 200ms. Those are milliseconds.

Delay is perceptible at around 10ms, and considered tolerable for generic apps (not realtime games, obviously) to about 100ms, and that's been established for quite a long time. 200ms is...too much.
It's very common that people take the behaviour of one or two people they actually interact with as the behaviour of the "community".

Jumping to conclusions is a favourite past-time.

In this case, Y actually affects a lot of members of the community, but I guess most couldn't be bothered to express their opinions. I don't know if the proposed change has strong enough motivation to break backwards compatibility in a language that values backwards compatibility extremely highly (or am I jumping to conclusions too?). But feels like, on the surface, the change is cosmetic and hence uncalled for?
Russian Central Bank Proposes Banning Crypto Mining, Trading
Well, we are social creatures. Even the most introverted of us (finger points at self). So no surprise that being around parties/other people has a positive effect on moral.

The health benefits of the social contact almost certainly outweigh the negative health impacts of a tiny amount of alcohol.
Humans aren't the only mammals on this planet that consume alcohol.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/07/01/drunken-monkeys-and-our...
So far I find it even worse that 1. You're forced to login with a live account, and 2. IE is banned, no more legacy activeX allowed. I may have to take it off my new laptop and go back to 10
Don’t you want to operate in life at your cognitive best

I'm over 40 and have worked crap jobs most of my life. It isn't like my increasing my cognitive abilities being "best" - whatever the heck that actually means - is going to make a huge difference in my life. To tell you the truth, I'm much more worried about cognitive decline as a side effect of MS than I am the effects of getting high.

It isn't like it makes me stupid. I simply think differently and that isn't all bad. Cleaning house and other mundane chores are less bothersome, and my life is full of this mundane crap. It also isn't like being drunk and I can still participate in society (I personally don't drive and just use public transport, sober or not)
I count 6 holes in the row on top and 8 holes in the row below, perhaps it's a mancala board.
Senet has three rows.
More ancient board games are listed here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/best-board-gam...
I looked at notion and this app and don’t see clone similarities? Do you have specific concerns?
Don’t forget the sensitive egos!
Thanks! Tried it but it just made me sleepy but not able actually to sleep. I very much appreciate the thought.
it's simple, apple users want ugly and confusing UI while windows users want pretty and practical UI, bringing the apple one to windows will never work
Is this version the same as the one that's going to be released on paperback?
A big difference is that caffeine is a stimulant, or "upper". Stimulants have a very different role socially. They are little good as excuses: No one is going to claim the reason they hit on the boss' wife at the Christmas party was because they got too high on coffee, or that the reason they got low grades in college was that they spent all day in their room drinking red bull.
One thing I've noticed when people complain about Windows 11 UI changes is they don't seem to use keyboard shortcuts. For example, Kliksphilip (youtuber) complained about things being difficult to rename. Considering that he seemed to do a lot of renaming it seemed baffling he didn't know the F2 shortcut. Know your tools.

Admittedly it's terrible for your cursor muscle memory to have the start menu button shift around, but most keyboards have a dedicated button for opening it. Why not use it? I know I might be in the minority here, but I vastly prefer the start menu popping up in the middle of the screen instead of the corner. That way I don't need to turn my head / redirect my gaze as much.

Although I get it. Most people just want to work the way they've been working and treat changes to their workflow with hostility. And of course taking choice away from users ("authotarian minimalism" as some comment here put it) is a bad thing. Many of my friends liked to have a vertical taskbar and I'd imagine they're not happy taskbar repositioning being removed from Windows 11.

edit: formatting
I'd rather have features rely on user-controlled software than hardware-vendor-controlled software.
> Why waste time with Jazz and jeans? Much more efficient to be reading didactics or working in a factory.

Considering the level of social infrastructure in the former DDR exceeded that in the BRD at the time of reunification, they might have had a point there. More public hospitals, more research facilities, better public transportation, more affordable housing. Sure, none of it had the flashy elements of Western capitalism, but it mostly worked.

Note that I'm not endorsing the Stasi or the many other things the DDR did to keep its population oppressed. But real life is full of grey areas.
Yes I appreciate the snark and understand what I'm saying is going to be like water off a duck's back to the average boglehead.

It's being priced in over time. The market doesn't immediately price in future events. We've only rolled back the last 2-4 months of gains so far.

I've already reacted accordingly. There's a lucky Boglehead or stonks investor who was happy to catch the falling knife when I sold. I feel sorry for them but what can you do? People want to believe simple market themes and not look at the driving forces. I'll go back to buy and hold in 6-12 months depending on the fed.
Plenty of animals consume alcohol (e.g. fermented fruit), presumably to get high. Is that natural?
Near daily smoker, these days pretty exclusively of the high potency stuff.

I've quit cold turkey multiple times for a variety of reasons, sometimes for 6+ months at a time. I've never noticed any withdrawal symptoms, thankfully. Or cravings on days/weekends/whatever where I don't smoke.

It's anecdotal experience, obviously, but it leads me to believe that there's not some near-universal withdrawal process that pot smokers go through that you would see with someone who is going through opiate withdrawal or similar.
I just write things down on a piece of paper; or just "yolo it". It works well enough, although lack of GPS can be inconvenient at times, I find it's not a huge deal – this is how almost everyone got around up to ~10 years ago.

I never used taxi services anyway; bus services are pretty good here, and I cycle.

A bigger issue is that a lot of services are "smartphone-only", and can't be done with a regular computer; sometimes this makes sense, sometimes less so. I partly get around this by running Android emulator on my computer when I really can't avoid it, which works "well enough". This will only get worse in the future.

I dislike telling people I don't have a smartphone; people look at you like you're some sort of freak. Recently someone told me that "I do not belong in modern society" shrug. I guess it's not inaccurate, as I dislike a lot of technology and feel it makes our lives worse in many ways (in spite of working as a programmer, but that's just for the money at this point; very hypocritical, yes).

Right now I have a "true" dumb phone (or at least, as dumb as you can get), which can just call and SMS and that's it. Oh, it also has snake, of course, and curiously it also has some other games you need to "buy" for €5 or so. IIRC the EU will switch off 2G in 2024 or so, so I guess I'll have to buy a slightly less "dumb phone" by then. We'll see.
When I first visited the Bay Area in 2005 Hummers were all over the place. And not just the smaller H3s but the massive H1s as well. The next time I visited in 2013 I saw exactly zero Hummers on the streets.
Right, because human existence is entirely to "improve GDP". People have lives beyond making money for their bosses, you know?
LOL, for sure. Gitlab or gittee page then ;-)
For C#, there's https://github.com/spectreconsole/spectre.console

I use this in a lot of my "quick apps" for status monitoring
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-...

(Lewis Herber is pseudonym of Murray Bookchin)
Just a tip -- I use my apple watch and leave my phone at home. I can listen to podcasts and music, call and read emails and texts, use maps and the fitness app. I save up all my emails and texts for when I'm sitting down and with my ipad. Turns out, when I'm with friends or my girlfriend or commuting i don't need a phone. And when I'm at work or home or in a cafe I have my ipad or computer.

It's not for everyone, just saying there exists devices between dumb and smart phone for those of us who wants to tune out a little bit.

Edit: Re battery, I’d say 12 hours. If i use it a whole lot, which i rarely do, i’d say 6 hours. Whenever i come home, i put it on the charger by the door, next to my keys.
I don't think that misstates the lancet article, and i also think this information in the lancet article is useful.

There is a long belief that e.g. red wine is good for the heart, or in many places there are some herb liquors that old people drink thinking it will bring them benefits. Here the lancet unequivocally states that to our best evidence no alcohol is best. You're from now on not drinking red wine for your heart but for pleasure.
Government-granted spectrum monopolies... two wrongs make a right I guess.
I can confirm, I have known some people who smoked Cannabis basically the whole day long for several years. They lost certain cognitive abilities, e.g. they were not really able to do calculations in their head anymore.
They also got severe problems with their biorhythm by the way.
No. One of the biggest lie I have always seen is that market moves accordingly to the users wants which, as developers, we must understand is absolute bull crap. Users aren’t binary vessels that act accordingly to if statements. They make compromises and comply with the default until the default inconveniences them extremely. One of the things businesses and we as developers have gotten really good at is hiding this until it’s too late until the Consumer is trapped and locked in.

People will do whatever it takes to use these big apps so long as the friction is perceived to not be to great and by the time the cons are experienced we will all be too entrenched. And no the law will not move to protect consumers, not until it’s far too late, just as this bill is.
Ah, duh, PoS. But but, what a lovely acronym that too.
No, it’s not. If you are really comparing weed and coffee either you never tried weed or you are posting in bad faith.
to any sane desktop environment so basically windows (except the 11 abomination) and KDE
Old article. Please, be advised that the push for independence referendum in 2017 was illegal, as the autonomous communities can’t organize referendums (as per the Spanish Constitution).

Note that the nationalists have made no proposal for a Constitutional change in that way.
I tried moving to a proper dumb phone, a Nokia 105, a few years back. I found out that it’s a massive social disadvantage, very isolating and means you have to carry more crap around all the time and keep more context in your head. It’s ten times more difficult to adapt to changes without information at hand. Experiment ended after three months and I’m glad it did.

I get the ideological thing here but realistically smart phones are a really really good bit of tech and I adore mine.
What was the treatment, I presume medication, but was anything preventative-proactive or non-medication prescribed or suggested first re: lifestyle changes like cleaning up diet etc?
> That reason is either incompetence or market segmentation.

Yes

Or simply because most people don't record longer videos. Or because that heat has to go somewhere and a bigger heatsink might heat some areas (or the user).

Or the current heatsink is an existing part and it was "good enough"
I agree.

I also have the taskbar on the side of the screen, so there is absolutely no chance of me going to W11. (That and their TPM2.0 insistance for DRM purposes)

Hopefully by the time W10 is EOL there will be a Proton/Linux alternative for gaming, combined with all the malware some games require installed to work.
As the author points out, buying a simple a android phone and disabling most of the "smartness" is a much better option.

This is what I did and it works surprising well. I still have a decent camera and can use my banking app etc.

You could say that I actually have a pretty decent phone I just disciplined myself to use it as little as possible.

Edit: the part I am really missing is the compactness of a dumb phone. Years back I had a tiny Xperia Mini and liked the size of it. I would love to see a successor at around $300-350.

Please make it happen Sony
No I don't think so

Actually, I was wrong: it looks like there's no longer an option to do that from Gmail :(
Sure, but what if you tripped and sprained your ankle? Yeah it hurts in the moment, but would it cognitively impair you the next day? It certainly might; maybe when you're thinking about something while in the shower, you put too much weight on the ankle and the pain makes you drop your train of thought. I think the point that GP was going for was (or what I read at least) that there are many human experiences which cause some form of cognitive impairment; it's more important to see how deleterious the impairment actually is to the individual and to society before judging it.
It then makes the site unreadable by yelling about ad blockers.

Plain old Pihole works though.
I had no way to punch holes through a bunch of nested ssh sessions on a tightened down production environment
Certificate transparency doesn't solve this issue fully.
> It's a complete mess. I sympathise now with the people who keep every file on the desktop.

The UI in regards to navigating files in Windows is indeed a mess. A personal gripe that i have with it, that's even worse than some of what you named is the file open/save dialog - there's not just one (that would let you write the file path in the bar and thus allow you to copy paths from Explorer to it), but many different ones for different programs! This essentially makes it so that using some software like GIMP and navigating around the filesystem with it is needlessly annoying!

Add on small annoyances like Windows search by default trying to look into the contents of many files, thus making search needlessly slow and also things like it not supporting mounting remote directories over SFTP (which should get at least a bit of attention) instead of always having to use SMB or whatever, and you have a somewhat problematic daily experience.

Of course, there are also things that it does better than some other systems/configurations, like having the whole recycle bin concept, with ctrl+Z allowing you to undo file deletions, file moves or even renaming files, which makes dealing with user error on your part more easy! Just checked on Linux Mint - the recycle bin works as you'd expect, but there is no ctrl+z to restore the last deleted file automatically.

> Every time I go back to Linux, I feel a wave of relief: I see my files in a single dir tree under /home, searching works predictably.

About this, i'm also somewhat torn. The filesystem structure on most Linux distros also just feels weird, although it's for historical compatibility reasons (not quite as bad as Windows having two oddly named Program Files directories, but still). I doubt that we couldn't structure things in a more reasonable manner, than having all of the following for just executables, for example:

/bin/
/sbin/
/usr/bin/
/usr/local/bin/
/usr/local/sbin/

In case anyone wants to learn more about these, here's the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard document, which is actually pretty well written: https://www.pathname.com/fhs/

Throw in /opt and /usr/share and whatnot and it's a recipe for different bits of software out there using different configurations because of differing opinions about what would be suitable for their use cases. The same mess actually extends to what's in the /home directory - sure, in most cases you can back it up and restore it, but once again every piece of software will have its own opinions about how to structure its data, be it in a visible/hidden config file, a visible/hidden folder for the application itself, or something else.

Of course, Windows also has a similar mess going on with Program Data and AppData folders, as well as Documents and whatnot, so Linux isn't the only problematic system here.

In short, i think that all have their advantages and shortcomings, here's hoping that things improve in the following decade!
My go to example here is 3D printers. The basic way that 3D printers work (FDM) was patented in 1988. That patent finally expired in 2009, and the explosion in 3D printing is entirely driven by the open source community. Most of the designs and firmware for consumer grade hardware came from the RepRap project, including my Creality printer. Heck, my printer uses an open source firmware designed for the RepRap project straight from the factory.

It's probably a good thing that the inventors of FDM got compensated in some way, but it's also hard to not come to the conclusion that Stratsys owning all the 3D printing patents basically held back 3D printing for a long time.
These are not replacements - you cannot replace one with the other. You simply might find you don't enjoy being inebriated. With this advice, honestly, most folks that smoke would ask if you have ever smoked pot regularly and how long that lasted.

To tell you the truth, I'm more likely to exercise and eat healthily if I'm stoned.

Taking a walk while stoned is pretty wonderful, and more taxing exercise aren't as bothersome. I think this is why pot is popular among some bodybuilders: Get stoned, lift weights and enjoy life. (I worked with a competitive bodybuilder, and this routine was pretty popular with non-steroid users). Food tastes really good while stoned, too, and this includes healthy stuff.
The IMF is literally a way for a country to acknowledge their mistakes and a process to get better through loans ( in a lot of cases).

Greece was especially bad for example and at the state out was then, it should have never been allowed in the EU either.

The IMF helped in return for reforms which Greece didn't really liked and isn't visible in the short term.

But it is a long term vision and not a short term one.

Greece is an example that there's no difference between the west and others. The IMF, is believe, makes no difference.

( Just my opinion)
> unchecked use, might put a whole society in danger.

So you mean that if, for example, over 50% of the population was using a known mind-altering drug, society might go to shit?

Do prescription psychiatry medicines count?

You might want to take a look at what % of the western world has such a prescription. Between opiods, amphetamine, and anti-depressants, I think the US passed the 50% mark some time ago.
Of course they are natural.

I have adhs and I see my weed more like glasses.

Ever thought about that not every brain model/mode is as balanced as the other?

If I can't sleep properly for years, I get depressed. And yes of course I tried everything.
Catalonia hasn’t been trying to separate from Spain. Some Catalans have been trying to separate from Spain.

In the las regional elections party with the most votes was a non-independence party: Ciutadans.
remote learning and colleges remove the element of physical social interaction between students (and to a degree, teachers). This element is important for learning imho.

remote working removes this very same element, but because nobody cares that an employee doesn't learn, it is irrelevant.

But certainly remote working affects on-boarding new people, and not just knowledge wise, but also team cohesion and ability to align together. However, i am willing to give all that up, because i do prefer remote working myself - purely selfishly, because those problems it causes aren't mine.