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Ask HN: Strategies for Cannabis Withdrawal?
I'm a longtime recreational user whose consumption increased greatly during recent periods of isolation. For most of my life I was never a 'wake and bake' type but nowadays, having a job I can perform well in while under the influence, no other restrictions since I work from home, and being obliged (partly by pandemic effects, partly just from being a middle-aged suburbanite with strong introvert instincts in the first place) to focus on pastimes that I find strongly complementary to cannabis use – e.g. gaming, movies/tv, home exercise, cooking – well, the upshot is that I eventually found myself partaking morning, noon, and night.

As drug habits go, it's... pretty good! I still enjoy being high, though it feels way less special now that I indulge so often. There's been no adverse effects on my work or home life, but I got tired of spending the money and I resent the feeling of dependency – much the same reasons I gave up cigarettes decades ago. So I'm cold turkey this week after a couple years of heavy use. For me the sense of withdrawal is, unsurprisingly, far less intense than it was with cigarettes, but it still nags.

I am curious about experiences other HNers may have had in making a similar transition away from frequent cannabis use. For what it's worth, aside from staying home a lot, most of my habits are pretty healthy – I do a fair bit of exercise, eat well, drink alcohol sparingly, and on top of all that I am lucky enough to have a healthy work environment and a supportive partner at home (who doesn't use cannabis but is about as perfectly neutral on the subject as anyone I've ever met). That is all helpful and good, but leaves me with few other options for swapping in healthier habits or making other compensatory changes.

Has anyone else here had this goal of trying to cut out or at least greatly diminish their use of cannabis, where one's use has gotten rather out of hand but you're still far from feeling the need to engage with professional help or sobriety organizations? And also – where it's your last real vice, no one is forcing you to quit, and life is pretty mundane otherwise?
If there is a native Vulkan backend there is little reason for an API emulation layer with an identical before-and-after to not just forward the calls on as much as possible - especially with an API which makes its state a lot more explicit and keeps less internal state.

With that said, as a game dev, Vulkan - along with DirectX and OpenGL - are second-class citizens already. The large bulk of gamedev is concerned with content, gameplay systems, and UI, with graphics being on the long tail of things that can make a title look truly unique and great, but the prevalence of Unity and Unreal make the actual rendering pipeline a thing of secondary - hugely important, but not primary - concern to most titles.
Here are some of mine...

Non-fic

- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman

I used to be a member of a cult, and toward the end of that experience, I laughed when I realized I had read this book more than my cult's holy texts. We used to ask each other how many times we'd read those books, and I'd always think, "don't ask me about Feynman," as his experiences really get at the analytical-intuitive mind and takes it to a spiritual level that's not really allowable or approachable from within a typical spiritual text. I still think this is a pretty remarkable feat.

- Alone in the Ocean by Slava Kurilov

Something of the opposite of Feynman's book above, this is a very spiritual feelings-oriented book but it's grounded in a very real experience--the author defected from the USSR by jumping off an official "cruise to nowhere" ship and swimming to the Philippines. It helped me consider the concept of personal freedom and how much it overlaps with feelings for some people, long before it overlaps with objective logic. I learned that my feelings can be an important early-alert system, far from an unintelligible mush.

- Around the World on a Bicycle by Thomas Stevens

This book got me back into cycling exploration after a long hiatus.

- The Mind Map Book by Tony Buzan

I can't put a number on how many helpful and even liberating mind maps I created since buying this book in 1996 or so. I eventually spun off my own system that's similar but with various extensions.

Fiction

- The Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian

Reading this series I realized how much depth, detail, and subtlety can really do for a work. It blew me away. Previously I had been of the mind that it was best for an author to act something like a professional communication robot, serving the reader and relentlessly cutting away any fat. But I think that kind of reverses itself if you are able to get at the human aspect, the us-fascination of your work--once it's there, it's probably more fun for both writer and reader to celebrate it.

- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

While reading, I was excited and horrified to learn that my psychology overlaps with this fictional kid's psychology in more ways than it was comfortable to admit. I decided to hold onto that, and explore it. It helped me open up a world of functionality I now use over and over in journaling and problem-solving.

- Watchmen, writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins

Wow--what _do_ you do, how do you act, what is your response in this general kind of a situation? It's an incredible setup for such a question, one in which the ideal situation has ended up on its head, completely upside down with the good looking totally bad, and the totally bad coming out even worse than before.
Oh, I didn't realize it ended. Bummer, I enjoyed keeping those on my desk to read occasionally.
Surely there would be some limitations to that. Eventually you would run out of other people's money
They do agree, but if you only read the editorial you wouldn't be anymore informed than you were before. Except now you may think "Trudeau bad" with little to back up that opinion.

At least Geist goes into the substance of the legislation and the very real risks it poses.

You forgot the third leg on the Canadian oligarchy stool: banks.

FPTP can't die soon enough.
Nope, L5 here (SDE II) and my base is currently 185. I breached 160 in march of this year. I am confused where the 160 number came in. Maybe Lab126 has different pay bands?
I think the discussion is far enough along here to cover a lot of the bases. Just to add a bit of clarity, Scala's APIs were a bit more influential than Rust, but, yeah, it's similar to both.
Aren't plastic Costco tables now the new door desk, for startups? Maybe due to earthquake safety?
So basically "If you are a proponent of the free market economy, you shouldn't complain about things a company does as long as they're compliant with the letter of the law."

That's an especially rich take considering the controversy is over actions a company is taking specifically to address other peoples' complaints.
Announcing Bluesky PBLLC
Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles
> I'm curious why you think he's "hiding"

Because that's what he's doing. His nation is in crisis, his capital is in blockade, and what he did with that? Made "several damning statements" from some undisclosed location? That's not leadership that we need right now.
> Amazon attrition is really bad, even in AWS (Amazon employees all agree that AWS is a much better place to work in tech than Amazon retail).

This one is interesting to me, as my anecdata is the opposite. People tell me not to go to Amazon, but if I do choose to go, refuse any job with AWS on the basis that they refuse to staff it properly.
I’m surprised there aren’t some great tools out there that help with this. Seems like a niche to fill as it’s inevitable that peoples free storage hits limits over time.
This is the funniest thing I've read this year
Learning to separate empathy from sympathy with a conscious choice is part of adulting, a facet of establishing and enforcing (emotional) boundaries.

Those who lack that ability are quite vulnerable, it's one of the most rampantly exploited human flaws. "Bleeding Hearts" are a hugely exploited demographic, where people largely experience reactionary emotional sympathy and effectively lack empathy as a distinct observation they may then deliberate on what response is appropriate.

The psychopaths are the ones who either after deliberation never care, or can't even bother to deliberate on what they're seeing, which to the observer is tough if not impossible to disambiguate from a lack of empathy. Psychopathy is a pretty blurry thing though IMHO.
If the API is easy to use, then I assume Apple's own software would get it right, but they don't, so it probably is not.
> If the only remaining difference was price I don't think it would cost much at all to maintain.

You are thinking about marginal costs. Even if there is no marginal cost for a "free" priced tier, that doesn't mean the operating costs of the tier go away and that the tier isn't likely losing money. We don't have transparent data on how much in terms of operating costs Google was eating for these grandfathered in free accounts, but it doesn't take a lot to imagine there were some operating costs that Google was possibly eating for some time now. I would imagine they ran they ran some sort of analysis on the pros/cons of goodwill/marketing versus operating costs and a price raise made sense.
The 3d printer you mentioned is on sale right now, for $189!
https://www.creality3dofficial.com/products/official-crealit...
How does the system tolerate vulnerabilities outside the TCB? I thought unikernels often didn't have protections that would shield a TCB from app vulnerabilities.
We need to figure out how to educate people enough for them to be able to separate the government from the people.

I don't know how, but it's a common theme in the US (and probably elsewhere but I don't have as much context outside the US). From Japanese internment, to 9/11, to COVID, to China and their [gestures vaguely], we can't see to get it right.
An SDR radio.
I can now spend hours listening to HF radio and discovering more about signal processing in a funny way.
It feels like being connected and listening to another wireless transmissions world, no need for metaverse uh :-D
One thing I find irksome is all these ideas are put under the general category of "liberal" when really it's a bunch of leftist ideas with a few neo-liberal/centrist concepts thrown in for good measure. Credit where credit is due.
I don't know the job posting that the author had read, or what guided their expectations, but here is a current Shopify Senior Frontend Engineer job posting:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wxk6Q4...

This job posting sounds like it lines up with author's experience at the company, and knowing Shopify is a Rails-heavy company, I would safely assume most Shopify postings look similar to this. I don't think author was bait-and-switched, author just didn't get what they _wanted_.

Note: providing a google cache link since I don't know when the posting will expire
I'll add that caveats do apply to these benefits. Many of them are outlined in https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/against-railway-orie... - which is a response to an excellent functional programming talk (see slides or video linked at https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/) that walks through why you'd want a Result-type thing to exist in the first place... and eases you into the larger world of monads!
If I said "the government needs to fund NASA" or "NASA needs funding", you wouldn't assume that they currently have no money.
on the other hand, road maintenance is also quite expensive, which wouldn't be an issue if there were no - or at least far fewer - cars. parking spots are lost to all usage except for parking; it costs me 100€ per year. on the other hand i pay taxes for road maintenance, which is partially financed by taxes on fuel.

people often mention that bicycle paths need maintenance too, which leads to the fourth power rule: "What these researchers found is that damage to the roadbed is proportional to the 4th power of the axle load of the vehicle, and they called this “the Generalized Fourth Power Law.” This means that if you double the weight on an axle, your vehicle does sixteen times the damage to the road.

...

You saw that, right? A tractor trailer causes roughly 6500 times more road damage than a Prius.

...

We see the Prius does 38,000 times more road damage than a bicycle."

see https://camdencyclists.org.uk/2020/06/the-fourth-power-rule-...
You need a GMail account to use an Android phone, so I'd say the chances of that happening are pretty slim. There are a sizable margin of Android devices that exist for the purpose of being cheap gateways into other paid services. If, overnight, you suddenly needed a subscription service just to use the phone, I'm willing to bet a substantial number of them would immediately go into the trash.
Unikernels are interesting, but as long as people treat them like "linux without linux" they won't go far.

The real potential of unikernels comes from making apps that are more self-aware and take up some of the functions previously handled by linux (such as monitoring memory usage).
ugh yes, also a "sync right now" button
It can very easily shut down a big part of fake news : https://www.counterhate.com/_files/ugd/f4d9b9_b7cedc05536047...
We know we just have to turn off a few faucets to clean a vast majority of the oceans. It can actually solve a significant part of the fake news problem because an insanely small amount of people/entities are responsible for this mess.

Concerning Inforwars :
People using facebook/twitter/youtube alternatives are a very small minority. Infowars is the past, they've been banned from almost everywhere.
I think the last only one infowars door to mainstream is their scam pills store on amazon...
They use a lot of alternative platforms, but does it really matter ? ... They used to have youtube videos with dozens of millions of viewers, now check the selfhosted/bitchute/etc IW channels, they're a few videos hitting 1 million, at best.
I think the last only one IW powerful tool is Telegram. I just checked the IW "social" page, the two IW Telegram only have 30k followers... Pretty much everything else are shady twitter alternatives filled with bots.
Alex Jones problably still earn a significant amount of money, no doubt about it. But his massive influence started to fade since the 2018 bans.
His income has gone down these last years and there's a good possiblity that the Sandy Hook lawsuits are going to shut him down. Can't wait.

BTW, I don't think we should shut down Joe Rogan. I don't care if people wants to listen to the biggest moron on earth having a conversation with a dumbass psychologist about hard sciences, but Spotify should definitely set public serious rules and factcheck their content as much as possible.
The situation is pathetic. Daniel Ek act like everything's ok with his libertarian bs statements, but we know Spotify is currently removing dozens of Joe Rogan's episodes. The last sources talks about 100 removed episodes... I guess the users/subscribers stats and the -20% drop stock are starting to bring Daniel Ek back to earth. Eh.

Being honest, COHERENT, and rules/warning intros/factchecking/etc could be a good start.

(there's probably a lot of broken english, sorry about that, I'm french)
Also device age. My Series 3 originally lasted about a day and a half but is under a full day now with a couple years of cycles on the battery.
I quite like Moments in graphics by Christoph Peters - http://momentsingraphics.de/
Not that simple, and that was something missed in the original article - not all citations are equal. You have to know the context of each. Like, it could've been 1 positive citation, and 349 calling it bullshit... or vice versa.
I agree completely with criticisms of the journal - clearly their process is flawed in a multitude of ways. But regarding "shopping around for a respected authority to be taken seriously" - I think this is actually an important lesson.

The problem with the vision of an egalitarian meritocracy in science (or any other field, honestly) is that reviewing, understanding and critiquing someone else's work has a non-zero cost - actually quite a large cost if done correctly. Also, the people most qualified to do this analysis generally loathe doing it, as they'd rather be spending time on their own original work. Inevitably, people develop heuristics to estimate the credibility of every new email or article that comes across their desk, to decide which is even worth reading.

Understandably, one of those heuristics is credentials/authority - the ratio of good articles published by non-experts in their field is extremely small and massively outweighed by crackpots. So what does a smart non-expert with a good idea do to hack this system? "Bootstrap" your authority, by first finding someone with more credentials than yourself, but not so much notoriety that they're too busy to read your email. If you can convince them, they'll bring it up the chain to the next-highest authority they can convince, and eventually it'll have some important names behind it and people will pay attention. Brown was able to accomplish this with only two collaborators, so I consider him a master bootstrapper for this :)

Everyone wants to be the patent clerk slaving away in isolation who pops out with a new revolutionary theory of the universe, but it's just not realistic these days. On the internet, a non-expert trying to rapidly gain credibility on their own is indistinguishable from social media hucksterism/"influencing". If you want to break into a new field, find some experts in that field and work with them!
I grew up in the classic space era (of course the best, but then again everyone's childhood pop culture is "the best").

The #1 thing that should be emphasized is that lego is cheaper than it was back when I had it. I think that's a good thing.

What would I really like? I'd like Lego to do re-releases of old sets that are 20 or 30 years old. Or maybe megasets that re-release the entire year's sets for a line (Take my money for a UCS millenium falcon-pricepoint of all of the classic sets from 1980/1981 re-released)

I bought a ton of used legos on CL (too much of course) when my kiddo was born. Then I sorted them to get a feel for the new pieces. I think wheels are better (there's basically 2-3 axle standards which I think is an improvement).

I think the main bad thing is that there are too many colors and shades, due likely to over-perfecting a branded set or something like that (or its a conspiracy).

The minifigs are a bit much sometimes, but I don't think it's that bad. THey still are largely minifigs.

The amount of cool MOC/custom builds on the internet is great. The other great thing I didn't have was digital photography: I didn't want to take apart my own models as a kid because I know I'd never be able to rebuild them. Now you can take a whole bunch of pictures to remember it and rebuild it if I wanted to.

I do think the overbranding of sets leads to them not being deconstructed. But I bought a ton of "spare bricks" so I don't think we'll have that problem.

When lego does an occasional "classic space"-ish set like the mars rover or the mech, it is amazing. The creator sets are great.
was there a pricing structure for buying one's freedom, or was it up to each master?
> Who needs this, and why?

Investors (as opposed to speculators) and anyone interested in general economic efficiency.

After the IPO, a stock ultimately represents a claim on a future revenue stream, and as such the "proper value" would be the (proportional) NPV of the company's future income. To the extent the market price doesn't reflect this, it represents inefficient allocation of investment resources.

Unlike bonds, an equity's future income is very hard to predict, so providing that pricing information, along with liquidity, is what ostensibly distinguishes Wall Street from a casino.

Personally, I don't care about short selling. I trace the root of the problem to the fact that dividends are taxed much more harshly than capital gains because capital gains don't incur taxes until sale, so they compound better. This incentivizes mature companies to retain earnings and grow through M&A (including of competitors), leading to this glorious present of megaconglomerates and oligopolies we are now living in. My prescription would be to incentivize dividends and discourage retained earnings so that some connection to reality is re-established in the market.

Another of the many problems with megaconglomerates, aside from them being anticompetitive, is that it is much harder to accurately predict the combined future income of 100 aggregated businesses than just one, so their very existence distorts prices all the more.
> Perhaps worst of all, I find so much of Web3 deeply inaccessible. When I took the time to set up a crypto wallet and participate in the new economy, the experience was devoid of thrill. I didn’t feel that sense of hope and potential that came when I first logged onto the internet, logged into Facebook, downloaded a song on Napster, or held a smartphone in my hand and checked my email away from a computer.

This is why it feels like hype. In reality, all this web3 stuff doesn't actually add value for the additional complexity it requires. There are no new experiences, just finalization of the existing ones. (Barring the few non-crypto blockchains that are making meaningful contributions)
Ask HN: How can Skype be so bad?
Yea, how?
I'm glad that the decision was reversed. Sometimes speech is hurtful to groups, hard to hear, and even disputed but still important to share. I have strong feelings about the stifling of free speech by the CCP at home and abroad but I will stop at saying again that I am very glad the decision was changed and hope that this marks a turning point in the kowtowing of companies, universities, etc. to CCP demands on speech.
Your link doesn't actually say the same thing as your post. The charges weren't dropped. He was tried and found not guilty.
Do you mean this quote:

"A Chilean business-consultant named Marcial Losada, 'who had begun to dabble in what had become his passion: mathematical modeling of group behavior,' sent her an out-of-the-blue email."

The article seems to ignore it, but Losada had a PhD in social and organizational psychology from the U of Michigan [1].

[1] http://losada.socialpsychology.org/
Iunno, my inbox gets increasingly useless every year. Facebook emails me about a message but stopped including the message in the email.

Online sellers email me that order #2748747284933938 has had its status updated. Click link and yippee, it’s gone from order received to processing. That’s the email. Thanks.

It’s really annoying and turns me off using those products.
It took me about 3 years of off and on attempts to get past page 20 or so, but it was worth it when I finally did. Eventually the lingo clicks.
You can't just go to a factory or manufacturer contracted to build ThinkPad keyboards and ask them to build some of those for you, as that's proprietary Lenovo IP which can't be sold to third parties without their permission.

Same how you can't go to TSMC and be like "hey, you guys are making millions of M1 chips for Apple, ca you sell us some of those pls?"
The recent antiwork thread was definitely not difficult to peg as purely political.
I love working from home and it has made made me at least 1.5 times more productive.

That being said… some people lack the mental fortitude and responsibility to sit by themselves at a desk and deliver their work when no one is watching. I notice people all the time that must be slacking a lot! There can't be any other explanation. They simply can't work by themselves.