skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a couple songs called “Fuck the Fire Department,” but they’re jokes.
Aah yes you're right on both of those of course. It was like 25years ago I studied 20th century music. So weird to think that...
High Resolution Test Patterns for testing imaging systems
> Drop down menus are so much quicker to scan

Another commenter mentioned OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) but i'd also like to suggest LibreOffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/) as a capable and reasonably compatible alternative to MS Office, which retain the old look of dropdown menus.

If you don't have the need to support very particular features of Office, then it might just be suitable to retain your preferred way of navigating the UI of an office suite app - on my personal computers i have just LibreOffice (with which i finished my bachelor's and master's thesis), whereas on my work computer i have both LibreOffice and Word, for those few exceptions when the latter is necessary.

That said, i can understand why many would also find the ribbon UI to be easy to navigate, should they get used to it. That's why some Office clones, like WPS Office (https://www.wps.com/office/linux/) and FreeOffice (https://www.freeoffice.com/en/) seem to copy it with varying degrees of success. That said, personally i like the open source nature of LibreOffice too and the file format itself not being proprietary.
It's not really evident you've actually held an iPhone or operated a Mac based on how strangely off your complaints are. Gesture and hot corner features and complexity hasn't really changed in over a decade. Getting to the home screen on any iOS device is still just one click or swipe and has never necessitated multiple clicks or allowed apps to override the OS level gestures.
The key word is ‘globally’. MacBooks are expensive, and because they are hardware they cannot be pirated. I’ve worked with Eastern European designers who were excellent but could not afford Apple hardware. You only have to look outside North America and Western Europe.

It’s tragic that because of elitism Microsoft does not hire those designers and instead hires designers who don’t care about their product.
Heck yes. Whenever I find myself saying "sorry I can't do that with my phone" and I pull out the Nokia to illustrate, people swoon over it.
There are project X and project Y.

X is a critical, core library.

Y is a very popular project.

X and Y are both open source projects with permissive licenses.

Y depends on X.

As a convenience to X itself, X makes a change that causes warnings in dependent projects (basically every project in existence). To fix the warnings, dependent projects must rename their sub-project identifiers. For Y, this means the `Y-module` identifier must change to `Y/module`. (Alternatively, you can keep `Y-module`, but you have to split apart and slightly restructure your build system files.)

Y does not want to do that because Y's project has been working fine for a decade. The change does not benefit Y. As a user of X, Y would prefer to keep the systems named as is.

X does it for them anyway and makes a PR.

Y rejects the PR. Y does not want this change. Y even believes that X should be motivated to stay backwards compatible
because a popular project like Y doesn't want to change.

X writes a post smearing Y. X also lambasts the Common Lisp community at large for not jumping in to support X's call for changing Y.

I absolutely fail to see how the Common Lisp community is complicit in anything wrong... or anything at all, for that matter.

I don't feel like I'm a poor community citizen because I don't get in the middle of my neighbor's disputes with the water company we both use.
Nicotine and caffeine are both mild stimulants and have nootropic effects. Weed hasn't done anything for me besides give me bad panic attacks and making me feel like I'm detached from reality. It does not have the same kind of nootropic and cognitive-enhancing effects of caffeine, not at all.

Like David Lynch, I'll stick to the coffee and cigarettes (even if the latter will probably kill me eventually, at least I can think straight)
What Is the Sublime? (According to Kant and Schopenhauer)
Yet, the government does not recommend against non-essential driving. So yes, you're technically right it's a false equivalence, but one can easily modify the scenario to make it a fair comparison.
Interestingly, this is the reason I decided many years ago _not_ to drink (or consume cannabis).

Like the parent, I don't find the reported results especially surprising - the part that would have been most interesting would have been how long after intoxication the observed effects last. Also, unfortunately, it's also clear that not everyone is as prudent with their cannabis consume as them, taking their performance even on the day after into account. I respect that sense of responsibility.
> Correct me if I’m wrong but you can do BankID with a chip and pin device from the major banks?

You’re right, but there’s no way I’m lugging an additional widget everywhere I go.

Now, the Apple Watch doesn’t have it either (yet) but it’s a good enough compromise where I can take a walk or run an errand without needing to take my phone with me.
i exercise a few times a week and eat well (take out/eat out once a month or so, everything else cooked at home, and vegetarian). That doesn't mean I don't want to have a few beers on a weekend still!
If hams are fungible from a customs point of view (why would they not be?) you could try pre-curing the hams and have them ready just across the border. Ham in, ham out, ham in again, no extra trip to Spain required.

Then you sell the uncured hams you needed for the stamps to a pet-food factory or for German “salami” or whatever.
Fun to see this come up because it is one of my biggest annoyances when switching between MacOS and Linux.

I have focus follows mouse on Linux so it might be an exaggerated problem, but it’s annoying to click a text box and it not actually select the text box.

There is an option in yabai for focus follows mouse, but I had to disable yabai because it’s really awkward and perceptibly slow on macos.
Ask HN: Am I using it wrongly or is HN's search engine bad?
This is not a rant rather than a serious question if I a) use the tool the wrong way or b) in case not, if it's possible to change it.

Yesterday I searched for an article I read 2 or 3 days ago (this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30007856). I was 70% sure that the words "home" and "network" appeared in the post, so I searched in "Stories" in "Past Week" for these keywords and didn't find it.

I had to switch to "All" and noticed that the search engine didn't take the word "networking" into account which appeared in the title. I would argue that stemming and searching for root words is a basic feature of a modern search engine, if I type "site:news.ycombinator.com home network" into Google, I find the article without any problems.

So to sum up: What is the intention behind the way the search engine works? If I would type in "home network" in a full-text search engine, even that would give me the correct article but for some reason HN's search engine is not capable of that.
Sure, if it doesn't affect anyone else. Sadly that's not always the case, e.g. if you are prone to psychotic episodes from consuming said thing or just having society paying for your cancer treatment later on
Re-read the subthread. The only place he reacts is in the "non-constructive feedback". All the constructive feedback is promptly ignored.

Chrome team couldn't give two craps about any amount of constructive feedback from other browser implementers, framework authors and web developers on most of the stuff they ram through standards bodies. Why start now?
Unless incredibly severe I think the consequences should not impact it’s legality.

People will use it legal or not. If it’s legal you can charge taxes and spend that money on addiction prevention and treatment. Help people with addiction problems instead of putting them in jail.

Addiction is often a symptom of underlying mental health problems, you don’t solve those with punishment.

And that’s even disregarding the amount of crime and violence illegality creates.
> If you're unable to be civil about this, maybe you should avoid the threads.

I didn't read my tone as uncivil, just harsh. I guess it came across harsher than intended. I'll try to cool it a bit more next time, but I have to say it's not like the rest of HN is taking this advice to heed when they're criticizing AWS. I realize that this isn't a defense (whataboutism), but I guess it's fine to "speak truth to power" or something? Anyway point noted and I'll try to keep my snark down.

> Amazon seeks to avoid common-mode failures between AZs (and thus regions). This doesn't mean that Amazon attains this goal. And the larger point: as I'm sure you're aware, building a distributed system that attains higher uptimes by crossing multiple AZs is hard and costly and can only be justified in some cases.

Right, so which common mode failures are occurring here? What I'm seeing in this thread and previous AWS threads is a lot of hearsay. Stuff like "the AWS console isn't loading" or "I don't have that problem on Linode!" or "the McDonalds app isn't working so everything is broken thanks to AWS!" I'd love to see a postmortem document, like this, actually uncover one of these common mode failures. Not because I doubt they exist (any real system has bugs and I have no doubt a real distributed system has real limitations); I just haven't seen it borne in real world experience at my current company and other companies I've worked at which used AWS pretty heavily.

While I don't work at AWS, my company also publishes an SLA and we refund our customers when we dip below that SLA. When an outage, SLA-impacting or not, occurs, we spend a _lot_ of time getting to the bottom of what happened and documenting what went wrong. Frequently it's multiple things that go wrong which cause a sort of cascading failure that we didn't catch or couldn't reproduce in chaos testing. Part of the process of architecting solutions for high scale (~ billions/trillions of weekly requests) is to work through the AWS docs and make sure we select the right architecture to get the guarantees we seek. I'd like to see evidence of common-mode failures and the defensive guarantees that failed in order show proof of them, or proof positive through a dashboard or something, before I'm willing to malign AWS so easily.

> And the larger point: as I'm sure you're aware, building a distributed system that attains higher uptimes by crossing multiple AZs is hard and costly and can only be justified in some cases.

Sure if you're not operating high reliability services at high scale, it's true, you don't need cross-AZ or cross-region failover. But if you chose, through balance sheet or ignorance, not to take advantage of AWS's reliability features then you shouldn't get to complain that AWS is unreliable. Their guarantees are written on their SLA pages.
If we didn't try new UIs we'd still be punching holes... Progress comes with a price, it always get a little worse before it becomes better.

Adapt, improve, repeat.
As a fairly regular consul cluster admin for the last 6 years or so, but not on that scale i can safely say that you generally have no idea if rolling back will work. I’ve experienced everything up to complete cluster collapses before. I spent an entire night blasting and reseeding a 200 node cluster once after a well tested forward migration went into a leadership battle it never resolved. Even if you test it before that’s no guarantee it’ll be alright on the night.

Quite frankly relying on consul scares the shit out of me. There are so few guarantees and so many pitfalls and traps that I don’t sleep well. At this point I consider it a mortal risk.

That applies to vault as well.
Which is why wide spread use is so important. Same for secure messaging. Same reason why free speech applies to and is protected for everyone and not just selected journalists.
Not even alcohol (one of the "dirtiest" drugs as far as physiological effects go) kills brain cells. I wish this myth would die. The issue is in the way they affect your dopaminic and serotonergic regulation and how this can fuck up your brain chemistry, not that they're literally killing off your brain cells.

> My concern with modern (incredibly strong) Cannabis/THC is that some regular users seem to struggle with withdrawal if they don't smoke their bowls regularly, run short on weed etc.

That said, this is a very legitimate concern I have as well. It doesn't help that a lot of stoners seem like they're in denial over the fact that they gasp have a dependence on this substance like an alcoholic or smoker does.
The whole 11 is an annoying step backwards, first begun with 8.
This article is really, really poorly written.

The headline implies that the "country" (El Salvador) "switched" to Bitcoin, but this isn't what happened. They passed a law that allows BTC to be used as a legal tender, and apparently 46% of the country now has a BTC wallet[1]. As far as I can tell, USD is still accepted there (I've been to SA but not El Salvador so I don't have first hand experience, let alone recent experience given the pandemic). Also worth noting that "as of 2017, only 29 percent of Salvadorans had bank accounts."

TFA goes on to meander about on how El Salvador's bond situation is bad, is asking for an IMF loan, and the BTC price is volatile. Day that in the English language ends in "y" I suppose.

Anyway, I'm still bullish on crypto for a couple of reasons but this from the wiki about their BTC law caught my eye:

>In the early hours after the law took effect and the official launch of new technologies to deal with a major change to the national currency infrastructure, the government had to take its bitcoin e-wallet, Chivo, offline due to excessive load. The Bukele government increased server capacity and brought the e-wallet back online by mid-day.

I've wondered before about how in order for BTC to properly function ... (setting aside the inevitable and boring arguments about "is it a currency?" or "no it's a store of value!") you need to have modern and robust internet infrastructure. That really seems to be a bottleneck for adoption here that in my mind keeps BTC and other crypto gate-kept behind the physical infrastructure that exists in your country. I don't know, maybe that gets governments to invest in modernizing their networks but I'm skeptical. Suddenly if modernizing your internet infrastructure means your citizens start rejecting your sovereign currency ... that presents some, well, problems. Unless you fully embrace it, which is what Bukele seems to be doing with this experiment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Law
Why shouldn’t the language be called Spanish? What about Italian or German?
The article mentions that "Unlike most SBCs, the Pinephone contains a rechargeable battery intended to power the device. Correct configuration of the charging circuits, including various safety features such as thermal protection will not be enabled by the current OpenBSD kernel as of the time of writing."

Is that really the case? If so, that seems like an unnecessarily dangerous design. I would expect safety features not to rely on (user-replaceable) software.
I want taskbar, not a dock, I also want it improved to disable grouping (who even thought that it was a good idea to be unable to put buttons in the order you want?)
I want start screen (yes, I actively used full screen and yes, I made use of tiles grouping)

and I want to get rid of all these attention stealing animations, all these readability degrading blurs, pre-neon 10 was great, why break it?
By any chance could you (or bbolt folks?) update README to include this information?
It's great that this exists but also sad that this has to exist.

It looks like this is relying on what are essentially hacks (injecting DLLs into the explorer related processes -- something that apparently can trigger AV false positives) to patch the proprietary DE in Windows, which might break after some future update, costing much of the stability that would go with something proprietary like Windows (at least what stability there is left to have...)
How about we ban ALL targeted ads, dear political representatives, thereby removing one of the primary incentives to collect all that information in the first place?
To cut it short, I think a tiny amount of alcohol can be a superb bargain. It allowed me to stay a bit neutral in parties (instead of crippled by anxiety and phobia). And being around people, even like a wallpaper had strange positive effect on my moral. I don't know if doing that long term (even tiny amount of beer) would harm your body, but having zero social life is also very very damaging.
> Nobody in the art space has a worse experience when using NFTs

What about all the digital artists getting their art stolen and sold as NFTs? NFTs are hardly a solution to anything, let alone a better solution. There's a disconnect between NFTs and the real world that many of the proponents fail to address.
You can always do what I do. Delete 90% of the pre-installed apps from a Smartphone and disable most notifications. Then be really really discerning about what you then install to that base from its App Store. Effectively turning a smartphone into a dum phone/feature phone.
> What does Iroquois style participatory democracy actually look like?

If it’s anything like California’s direct democracy ballot propositions, I wouldn’t be very enthusiastic. A lot of decisions end up being short sighted “voted X because of a month long ad campaign at the time” things that sound good but lack nuance for the long term repercussions that the citizens themselves face for decades. See prop 13 and ~11% sales tax in some Bay Area counties. (Don’t you want X good thing?! Only 0.5% tax increase [10 times]. Taxes too high? Stop them going up [and distort your real estate market forever]) It ends up being schizophrenic rather than consistent sound public policy, but hey that’s kinda democracy in general.
In me, it's partially a coping mechanisms, and a method to to silence the brain demons. It's interesting that you brought up food, because I'm an emotional eater too.

I've had them under control for a while now, but the emotional eating is a struggle sometimes. I need to trick myself into not doing it.

For weed it's less of a struggle because I genuinely notice the "persistent" effects (no more than a few days in me), which effect my mental performance and emotional state.

Also, after quitting the binge I had withdrawal (I'm told for weed it's very mild, but it's horrendous nonetheless). More details to this in this video https://youtu.be/7u_cm5b1s7Y

I now smoke weed when I plan/want to for fun, and it's very occasionally...
Pomme Devlog: Making a Powerful Synth in Rust
If you are a major oil exporter, is that a bug or a feature?

https://www.npd.no/en/
There's a theory that drug use is often about self-handicapping:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-handicapping

E.g. if someone in college does poorly because they got high all the time, maybe the reason they got high all the time was that they felt (rightly or not) that they would have done poorly anyway, and now they have the drug to blame. And maybe those who smoke a bit and still do well, do it sort of to have the excuse in reserve.

I've not much experience with cannabis, it's far less popular where I live than the US, but I can certainly see that alcohol is used as this sort of "flexible excuse", both short term and long term.
Hence my timeline of a few years, right now browsers have coupled accessibility with the DOM but that is going to change.
Cannabis absolutely affects brain development if you use it consistently throughout adolescence. Don't get me wrong, I still favor legalization and decriminalization, but the number of people who like to pretend like it's some super happy wonder drug with no downsides whatsoever bother me. Like any drug, there are side effects, and this is one of them.
It only needed a pandemic to get back up again, when it went from 20 k -> 4,5 k.

Pandemic is almost over now.

PS. Almost no one had BTC 10 years ago, that's why it rose...
> Yup, so true. People think redundant == 100% uptime, or that when they advertise 99.9% uptime, it's the same thing as 100% minus a tiny bit for "glitches".

Maybe this is the problem. 99.9% isn't being used by AWS the way people use it in conversation; it has a definite meaning, and they'll refund you based on that definite meaning.
I didn’t expect to see a Powertoys rant in this thread. Seemed like one of the few teams at Microsoft that’s clearly power-user-focused and eats its own dogfood. Has made my life easier in several ways. Very difficult to live without once you become accustomed to it, has a number of features that should be shipped with Windows but aren’t for some reason.
Check out https://primer.com. It's an education site where kids learn interesting things through collaborative projects.

I don't know much about your situation but I would still try and focus more on in-person activities.
> Whereas remote work is an extreme aberration from the norm.

No it’s not, it’s just new to you so it seems scary. Companies have been dealing with this for decades with branch offices, contractors, etc.
Surely the entire W11 experience is an annoying step backwards in terms of useability, customization options, power-user "empowerment" and in a sense 'ownership' of the computer/experience.

This is a journey that MS began with during W8 and continued much further with during the W10 reign.

It would not surprise me that the next iteration of Windows there isn't even an admin option and you'll be in a walled garden at the mercy of MS' even more so than now, where you can at least block and disable some things.
Any other aranese speakers in HN?

Beth aranés més per ací?
Once you learn the quirks of JavaScript you get used to it. Also you should not use forEach in JS, take a quick look at this page.
https://phoenix35.js.org/good-practices.html
That’s not true. The Community of Madrid gives more money to the central government than Catalonia.
More and more people are beginning to care because of data privacy. There’s even a group of people who cared from the beginning.

The rise of “privacy friendly” or “we don’t share your data” marketing messages IMO is a sign of growing desire towards privacy preserving methods of consuming software.
Happy to see that community here mainly considers Hobbes to be "a villain". I'd like to point to the very enjoyable book by Rutger Bregman - Humankind[0]. In it, the writer discusses the differences between two important philosophers - Hobbes on one side and Rousseau on the other. First one has a general idea that "people are bad and need to be contained", while the latter is opposite.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52879286-humankind