skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why does a young person need to drink alcohol?

I think there is a cultural aspect. As a kid in Italy (>10yo), it was "ok" to have a glass of something like beer+sprite or wine+sprite during a meal. Maybe 1-2% of alcohol, it was cool and would obviously not get you drunk nor tipsy.

Having a glass of wine during a family meal, or a beer with your pizza with friends, was likewise pretty common and done mostly because of basic gastronomic pleasure.

This is _very far_ from the binge drinking/getting wasted culture which has been prevalent in the anglosphere for a while, and that has sadly expanded to a large part of the world since.

It's not drinking that should be shunned, but getting drunk.
Perhaps slightly TMI, but it's HN so let's share some fun ideas I have about this.

__Stress is most likely super linear__

Not a doctor, but from what I know, the biggest negative effects of alcohol occur with binge drinking. From a logical perspective it makes sense that the negative effects are super linear, because that is the case with many forms of stress. When it comes to stress, there is always some threshhold value that you need to reach. When it is just over that threshhold value, you hurt, but you hurt a lot more if you reach 1.5threshhold value because there is 0.5threshhold value to wreak full havoc on your body while 1*threshhold value is being occupied with your body. Obviously, this way of thinking is simplified, but I think that's the intuition as to why many (but not all) forms of stress are super linear.

__Effects of alcohol in small and large quantities__

I think I've learned this particular fact about alcohol in my psych classes though, I can't fully remember so I can't cite sources (!). Another thing that I have learned is that alcohol is an upper at low quantities (1 to 2 standard glasses of beer), it gets your heart rate up, etc. It is a downer at larger quantities (e.g. drunk people at 10 standard glasses of beer). If you don't drink much alcohol, then you are most likely experiencing it as an upper, it doesn't continue that way.

I like to drink 1 to 2 glasses as well because of what you said, but also because it's an upper. When I was in my drug experimentation phase a few years ago, I've noticed I like uppers more.

__How to create upper effects without alcohol__

You don't have to drink alcohol to create an upper effect, when you go to a party, try this the next time: exercise beforehand, like a 3 to 6 mile run (if you have the stamina for that otherwise build it up). That will also produce a mild upper effect like alcohol. Another trick you can do is to present yourself as a hugger at the party (well maybe not with corona) and hug everyone you meet, that will also produce an upper effect. Also, dancing at parties will produce an upper effect (any aerobic exercise really).

My workshop on partying is open again in the summer, applications are open :P I guess I miss that time of my life. Partying sober is something to get used to, but it's possible (before I started experimenting with drugs, I started experimenting with partying sober, I've seen both sides).
> I kind of liken it to Serverless, which is great where it fits your application architecture, but hasn't really become ubiquitous the way some predicted it would.

This. I would really like to hear the opinion today of all those 2016-2017 gurus that were telling us "serverless is the only future".
My laptop upgraded to Win 11 recently and I am absolutely annoyed at the new start menu.

I loved the one in Win 10. I had all my shortcuts pinned, sized, grouped and arranged and in my 3 years of using it, I never once had to scroll the program list or search to get to a program.

I don't understand why MS$ has to mess up what is good.

This is definitely 10 steps back, because you can list out things the new menu cant do but the old menu can.
I don't know if the "gateway" concept is true or not but this fact (if true) doesn't dispute it. If you imagine hard drug use as a funnel with an optional step at the top - marijuana, with a very low conversation rate, the fact the conversation rate is low doesn't mean it's not the top of the funnel.
I read Personal Knowledge back in college, and was impressed at how he'd managed to reintroduce the Aristotelian concept of telos back into science via the disciplines of biology and technology. That is, biology and technology are disciplines which study processes, and a process cannot be understood without a concept of goal or purpose.

For example, a liver is defined by a particular process of filtering blood, moreso than by its material components. That's why we can talk about artificial livers (or other organs) as still being a liver even if it is made from completely different material components than a natural liver.
This is not issue for me at all, since I like grouping.

BUT,

I'm sad that they removed the option. It took me considerable time to come to a realization that different people like doing things differently and that's okay and there's not right or wrong way of doing it. The thing is, this realization came with personal, not professional growth. You can be a developer/designer for 30 years and still not understand why some people are unhappy with your decisions.

Someone in Microsoft's decision making chain who has enough weight has to acknowledge that removing an option that people have used for long time for just... for what exactly?... is alienating users.
Singer Meat Loaf has died
You might try rosemary and sage oil for your panic attacks after weed (should help if this is caused by AK1 gene).
US charges four Belarus officials with aircraft piracy over flight diversion
The only things that keeps my kids off a playground when there's a sign saying they're not allowed because of COVID, but I'm sure it's safe are:

- Shame and social pressures from other parents' judgments about us.

- Desire to instill rule-following behavior within my kids.
Studying the effects of alcohol and pornography consumption is difficult because they're so widespread within some cultures, that you can't have a representative control group.
I wouldn't be surprised if many people have gotten therapy from their friends while on MDMA without even knowing it.
Designers who could tolerate a Windows laptop in the Win7 era are probably not good designers. They were mostly inexcusably ugly, and Adobe software support was known to be not ideal until late Win8.
A persistent high can be achieved by living mindfully with kindness and regular meditation (speaking from direct experience). Hence, I'm not surprised that any high induced with a substance instead, impairs the brain as brain starts depending on the induced experience, without having developed its own mechanism to have such an experience.
It wouldn't be so funny if it weren't totally true, dude!

Speaking of Californians Speaking:

Q: How many Northern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Hella!!!

Q: How many Southern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Totally!!!

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6492j904

http://people.duke.edu/~eec10/hellanorcal.pdf

Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California

Mary Bucholtz, Nancy Bermudez, Victor Fung, Lisa Edwards and Rosalva Vargas. Journal of English Linguistics 2007; 35; 325. DOI: 10.1177/0075424207307780

>Abstract

>This study provides the first detailed account of perceptual dialectology within California (as well as one of the first accounts of perceptual dialectology within any single state). Quantitative analysis of a map-labeling task carried out in Southern California reveals that California’s most salient linguistic boundary is between the northern and southern regions of the state. Whereas studies of the perceptual dialectology of the United States as a whole have focused almost exclusively on regional dialect differences, respondents associated particular regions of California less with distinctive dialects than with differences in language (English versus Spanish), slang use, and social groups. The diverse socio linguistic situation of California is reflected in the emphasis both on highly salient social groups thought to be stereotypical of California by residents and nonresidents alike (e.g., surfers) and on groups that, though prominent in the cultural landscape of the state, remain largely unrecognized by outsiders (e.g., hicks).

Extra credit question:

Can you locate the isogloss designating the "101" / "The 101" line?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogloss
Did the anecdote provide any evidence or argument linking cannabis use to presistent cognitive impairment? I must have missed it. Can you quote the relevant parts?
It would help for acceptance that if they ask about building a profile on you. That is especially a problem for said protected classes or anyone that diverges from a corridor of contemporary opinions. This data is sold and you have no control over it.

As it is, no I don't like any form of targeted ads and I have never responded to them. But mostly I don't like their invasive behavior and unregulated business incentives.
I got a 300% hike but some peers earn more. At what point is the FOMO unhealthy?
No, it's me alone. Thank, I know where I'll migrate to!
> Mmm sounds like American individualism.

Having rights to one's own physical body has nothing to do with America.

If we don't have ultimate physical control over our own physical body, to do with it as we please, we can't really be said to have any meaningful rights at all. All other basic rights as an existing entity stem from the fact that we are ourselves, and others are not.

It's absolutely not individualism to say that every adult human being should have unrestricted rights over their own person-as-object, to enrich or damage as one sees fit. That seems plain as day to me. How can you even have the concept of a society of people if the societal group claims ownership rights over the bodies of the people that supersede those of the people themselves?

(If you think society shouldn't be spending money to repair damage caused by individual choices because it's unfair, we're in agreement there, but your broken leg case is a bad example, because you end up illustrating a point which I don't think you meant to make: that healthcare costs, something extremely variable based on individual choices, probably shouldn't be borne by society as a whole but by individuals themselves.)
The people that I see doing it are doing it because of anxiety reasons. I think there are a variety of people with a variety of reasons for smoking weed.
Please excuse my ignorance, but here goes:

Been a Go dev for almost 3 years now. I am basically shitting myself over the prospect of all the Go code out there turning from something I understand, to something riddled with generics, of which I have no concept whatsoever. I've built some pretty complex stuff entirely without them and never felt there was anything missing, but maybe I just never knew what I was missing.

Now, I also don't know what a ring buffer is, so perhaps this is the perfect time for someone very generous to explain to me what a ring buffer is, why generics are what enabled this and how on earth it's multiple times faster than channels, which have been a first-class primitive in Go since the beginning (and should therefore have had the living daylights optimised out of them...)

Many thankings :)
This is akin to adding types to dynamic languages. It just doesn't work.
Try quitting Coffee / caffeine.

The most horrific withdrawal ensues (at least for me).
Can you share more advice for a 23 year old who wants to dump the "social internet?"
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Exactly, I'm also on mac and I don't really like some individual design choices, but when taken together, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Copying some individual elements is just really dumb. For example, Gnome 3 copied the mac menu bar. Except menus don't actually go there (windows still have their own menu bar), negating the very meaning of having an unified menu bar.

The result is that my desktop now has a ugly-ass, useless, wasteful black bar on top. Why.

I have to agree with the OP, it's the triumph of form over function.
Ah, coool. But it's still fair to say it's solar powered, right ? Just not our sun ?
They are both drugs, but the side effects of caffeine are a lot less bad per usage compared to weed per usage. Perhaps I should phrase that a bit better, but I hope you see what I'm getting at.
Yeah, I mean that's just a normal `assert()` from <assert.h> and it doesn't solve the problem because nobody runs debug builds in production neither it is possible in a reasonably complex software predict in what ways your users are going to be using it and therefore cause bugs you'd never have imagined that could happen.

But speaking of asserts, there could be a runtime assert but which is also _kept_ in release builds. On detection of invariant not being valid, it would just crash the program. That approach works for some fields in engineering but not so much in others however it could be considered as an alternative.
It's difficult to compare kubernetes and WASM.

Also WASM doesn't look very mature to me, and chrome and apple can decide to stop supporting it if they want.

I'm also curious how well WASM works on mobile. I wish WASM could replace mobile apps somehow.
I'd argue the opposite is true, which is why we need some evidence one way or another that the patent system works at all, and we don't have that. So why do we have a restrictive system that doesn't have any real data to support its existence?
I'm also in the process of hiring a Senior Brand Designer. I use https://dribbble.com and recently launched Polywork.
Are you lying on purpose? Or just ill-informed?

In the last election, the parties with the most votes were PSC (23,04%), ERC(21,3%) and JxCat (20,04%). PSC is unionist, where ERC and JxCat are separatist. Ciutadans (radically unionist) merely got 5,57% of the votes.

You can check the results at https://www.lavanguardia.com/elecciones/autonomicas-cataluna... or https://resultados.elpais.com/elecciones/2021/autonomicas/09...
unless jury nullification is banned. Noting that there is a trend in this direction.
Same with dogs and cats. It's just slavery.
What's "recently" for you ? The last time I had to write Xorg modelines must have been before Ubuntu 6.04
All of which would equally apply to alcohol or tobacco. And the data to support such a link for alcohol or tobacco is apparently just as strong, if not stronger.

But this whole line is a canard. The question is, would prohibiting any or all of those help anyone? Does prohibition help or not?

Because prohibition is the one part of the equation that a debate could actually have any affect on.

But I think it is quite clear why so much time, energy, and dubious argumentation is spent avoiding that question.
Did you never get a smartphone (in a way most people do) or have you gone back to good ol days ?

If former, what other ways you've adapted for essential stuff that need a smart device.

If later, do you ever plan on getting a smartphone again ?
Why is eating your tentacle useful when "stressed"?

Eating your tentacle is a net negative in "calories" long term, and there is probably the opportunity cost of not having said tentacle (for some time?)

I guess maybe they want a quick snack for the high energy jet propulsion predator escape that they are preparing for when stressed.

But then Hesoid is kid of right, they do eat it because they need more energy.
I was hiking pretty often in my twenties and can attest that nothing is better than getting messed up on alcohol and weed in nature with your friends.
Commenting just to say that I appreciate your writing.
Humans need an audience at all times. Think Wilson from "Castaway".
I mean, dogfooding is good but not everyone has to make the pinnacle product?

If someone is selling something that's out of reach, financially, for most people, then making a cheaper and worse product available can still be good. Doesn't mean you prefer it.

I'm guessing Microsoft don't want to think of themselves as "the poor man's OS" however. And, they're not, it costs something like £120.
I didn't dig deep, but this block has been really effective for me.

On my phone, I use uBlock to block roughly the same sites (plus many distracting elements on other sites). It's trivial to turn off, but it gives me some time to reconsider.
The nature of rough physics back-of-the-envelope (or quick on-the-shell) estimation is to get a rough idea of values and quantities involved. My expectation is that my estimate is somewhere within an order of magnitude of actual values, and suspect it's well on the high side.

Modelling the specific events and characteristics of seawater infiltration to magma vents and chambers is well beyond my pay grade. I'm not representing to any extent that I've done this realistically. I'm simply showing what the maximimum potential vaporisation magnitude might be given a 6 MT energy input using a very naive heat of vaporisation conversion.

I'd noted the circularity in my note --- I'm estimating vapourisation effects and consequent blast yield using estimations of energy release which are based on the observed blast characteristics. Circular circularity is circularly circular.

The Axios article ... provides minimal insight on NASA's estimation methods. Though the comment on kinetic (blast) energies does suggest modeling based on the size, and probably rate of expansion, of the steam and ash plume. A forensic analysis of the 2020 Beiruit explosion discusses how total explosive force is estimated by blast diameter (see: https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-...).

On thermal vs. blast effects: my estimate is based on the conversion of applied thermal energy into blast energy through vapourisation of water into steam. The 1,000-fold volumetric expansion provides that blast capability. It would then be much of the observed blast that the original 5--6 MT erruption energy is based on. My understanding is that "thermal effects" would refer to additional heat radiated from the erruption, exclusive of that heat which triggered the steam explosion itself.
Obviously he didn't create the projects as he claimed in the Modular AI website, except mlir.
I wasn't really consider space overhead, which as you notice is small, the encoding just something I noticed. Just json+bloatified binary+compression seemed the epitome of solving problems with a hammer when you know the hammer really well.

But as commented to me, that was incorrect, the payload in the files I saw was actually binary-encoded metadata. The actual archives are stored only in extracted form in the client and .tar.gz in the registry. Not that putting binary metadata in JSON is really optimal to me either, but maybe there are terrific reasons for doing it. Just check /var/lib/docker/image/overlay2/layerdb/sha256/*/tar-split.json.tar.gz; the fragments seem to be straight from tar, so maybe tar is used to interpret them?

Certainly .tar.gz files are not the most optimal for the purpose of incremental updates either. It's difficult to say how much a more sophisticated transfer protocol/storage format would benefit registry servers, though some clients could benefit a lot from it.

If a space-efficient merkle-tree-hashed archive-format suitable for efficient incremental updates doesn't exist, then someone should make one ;-).
Anarcho capitalism is an oxymoron because capitalism is heavily based around centralization and inevitably leads to monopolies. Corporations are less democratic than the government and the competition argument doesn't work for monopolies.
The consequences of a statement are irrelevant to the truth of that statement.

My point, as I wrote, is that it may or may not be true that marijuana is a gateway drug even if few marijuana users actually go through that gateway.
https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/blob/main/server/se...
That's interesting! I never heard of caffeine withdrawal before, but it makes sense when I think about it. I know a lot of people who say they that can't function with caffeine.

I'm not a big coffee drinker (and usually mix it with decaf, because too much makes me feel weird). So I'd probably be okay on that front.

How much coffee do you drink daily? I drink maybe one cup, and that's mostly for the taste (hence the decaf).
I'm from the Balearic Islands, Catalan (from Minorca) is my mother tongue. I aced the highest level Valencian (Nivell Superior) exam without studying. You judge if it is the same language or not.
Let's say the App Store improve security and privacy ( and in many ways it does )
And now the it is often argued by proponent of going to Android. And let just say this is fair argument.

But no one have suggested how they solve the current issue with App Store, Apple's power of Digital ( App ) distribution. Where it has 50%+ of Smartphone Market in US. When Apple's App Store practice and policy have been found to be Anti- competitive, Unfair ( while at the same time crying foul of 4G/5G agreement ) and inconsistent for years. Rent-Seeking in App Store fees. A Flat 30% on all categories. Did you ever see that in retail? ( The answer is no, considering 99% of HN dont know much about Retail )

Apple wield so much power, that politicians around the world are un-happy. But as far as we are aware, no body at Apple think it is a problem. They are still thinking about it as a money problem.
Those are wildly different actions though, unless you're modifying live production code for a pacemaker or something like that.

Doing a bit of inebriated coding that you verify later might be just fine. I'm almost certain that the resulting code won't be better, but there may be situations where a clear head would have produced no code at all due to mental blocks.
Personally I use an app/domain blocker on my android phone, and I block social networks from /etc/hosts on my laptop, I also use the command "chattr +i /etc/hosts" to make it harder to unblock the social networks I blocked.

Now the only social network I still use is Linkedin.

But I also "waste" my time on other stuff now, so I don't know if it's better, the brain always find new ways to procrastinate I guess.
Taking drugs doesn't affect anyone else. Having psychotic episodes doesn't affect anyone else. Doing already-illegal things that violate the rights of others during psychotic episodes, that affects other people.

Taking drugs doesn't affect anyone else. Getting cancer doesn't affect anyone else. Receiving cancer treatment doesn't affect anyone else. Using public funds to pay for that cancer treatment, that affects other people.

Those things should not be conflated, or treated as identical.
> Another trick you can do is to present yourself as a hugger at the party (well maybe not with corona) and hug everyone you meet, that will also produce an upper effect. Also, dancing at parties will produce an upper effect (any aerobic exercise really).

This advice is not very productive for people who drink because they have social anxiety at parties though :-)
Meta AI: Fist high-performance self-supervised algorithm for multiple modalities
Most of the beneficial effects are because of the complex chemistry of roasted coffee and not solely because of Caffeine.
AFAIK cannabis has also a multitude of complex phytochemical elements that are beneficial to human health.
There is a Basque newspaper called “El diario Vasco” [1] so I’m afraid that your assessment is incorrect.

[1] https://www.diariovasco.com
That’s a very reactionary attitude… you’re simply blaming all the “unknown” “new stuff” for everything negative in life.

I bet people blamed excessive reading of books, or “a materialistic point of view” during the Romans, the Middle Ages… modernity… hey, who coined the phrase “o tempora! O mores!”
HN's search is not that great. For those who don't know about this, you can tell search engines like Google or Yandex to search for your keyword only on a particular website with the search filter site:www.example.com followed by the search term. (E.g site:news.ycombinator.com home network ).