skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine once you're locked out of the account whatever that is, relying on GDPR will mean getting a lawyer and all that - by no means a quick or cheap way to sort out your problem. GDPR will only be helpful after applying enough fines and lost processes, finally forcing Google/Stripe/etc to rethink their support strategy. Which means continuous hassle for today's customers and blaming GDPR for being "toothless" (blame set usually by the same people which claim the invisible hand would sort it out automagically).
Avoid them most likely. As people in these circles say, respect the mushroom, and avoid it like the plague if you have a history of psychosis or schizophrenia.

It's very unlikely that any studies will be done with such patients as they probably won't pass through any committee.
Lots of posts here along the lines of "it's not good when you need to resort to social media shaming to get customer support", but I'll take the contrarian view, or at least explain why this dynamic exists.

The past 20 years has seen an explosion in Internet services, but a fundamental (often unspoken) quality of these services is that they must keep individualized customer support costs very low in order to be profitable. I mean, just look at Google, which has billions of end users. You can argue that Google takes in a ton of money, but it's not hard to see that if every Google user just had a single support call requiring 30 minutes of a support rep's time a year, that Google's profitability would tank (never mind the difficulty in hiring that many reps in the first place).

So all these services invest a ton into automated support and systems to ensure the vast majority of users never need support from a real human. That usually works well, except when you get some of these edge cases, and, very importantly, these edge cases are usually the worst when the customer behavior, while totally legit, "looks" pretty similar to malicious usage.

So, in that case, I'm glad that these back-channel avenues still exist when someone gets stuck in the machine. I wish there were a better alternative, but I really am at a loss to think what that could be. The social media channel essentially acts as a filter, as only things that are real problems are likely to get upvotes or lots of visibility. A trade off for users being able to get tons of value for (relatively) very cheap prices is that the "tail end" of support requests is usually pretty nightmarish.
They should call it 12x. I'm at the point where I just don't do these small monthly subscriptions anymore. I'd stop short of saying it's predatory. More like it's insulting. The smaller the payment, the more like I feel they're counting on me forgetting I'm paying them, or not wanting to go through the cancellation process.
> Clickhouse the company is now providing a hosted solution. We are in India and were waiting for it to land in the India region to try it out.

FYI - ClickHouse Cloud is now available for self-service in ap-south-1 (Mumbai).
That wouldn't reach the end of his track. Probably he rolls out the bins they mean to collect that day, and puts them back himself.
Well luckily for us we are big enough to be able to handle this, but a lot of smaller companies aren't able to. These are 6+ year old accounts that have been very steady, so it wasn't like we just opened our Stripe account last month and started doing large volume. Overall it was very frustrating and time wasting. That's the main thing. I was confident that we didn't do anything wrong and that we would get it figured out eventually. But, other people might not have the ability to wait as long as we were able to. We definitely had a couple accounts go negative before we loaned money into that accounts though.
Well yeah. Simply throwing a link at someone with no context is always going to come across as combative.

I've had a lot of luck with "Hey, I appreciate that you always ask how I am when you're reaching out to me, but when you need something from me you can just ask upfront. You don't need to say Hi and wait for me to reply before asking. That way I don't keep you waiting and I can answer you as soon as I see your message"

You don't have to tell them that you actually want to prioritize them based on their question, and absolutely will keep them waiting if you don't think it's urgent.
if you've actually sent this website in response to someone chatting you, i guarantee that they think you're an ass. self-improvers too
It's as if JavaScript had shipped a non-compatible update, browsers had on a magic day stopped supporting the old JavaScript, and all of a sudden her crossword website stopped working because that site's developer didn't update the JavaScript. This grandma sure complains a lot about broken websites for someone who supposedly doesn't know what JavaScript is. What an entitled grandma. Why doesn't she just build Linux from source and check out a previous release of the browser from git.
A lot of people are missing that it's per child and it's not just the ¥1m / $7500:

"The payment – which comes on top of up to ¥3m already available in financial support – will be offered to families living in the 23 “core” wards of Tokyo and the neighbouring commuter-belt prefectures of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa."
I think most adults are in a steady state for their habitual behaviors around diet / exercise / drinking / drugs. Would be surprised by anything larger than 10% change in control tbh
It’s advised to not seek psychedelics in those cases as they can introduce psychosis and exacerbate symptoms. It’s interesting actually because it may be helpful in us understanding and treating schizophrenia since it CAN introduce temporary psychotic like symptoms.
There's no better way to make companies fix your issues than publicly dragging them through the mud.

I had a relatively minor issue with a paid battle pass in Paladins, a F2P game by Hi-Rez. After they had stonewalled me for over a month, until the battle pass itself ran out, I tried to stir up a shitstorm on like 5 relevant subreddits. My post failed to really take root on most of them, but it got to frontpage of the Nintendo Switch sub. My issue got resolved within a couple of hours.
Exactly this, thank you for articulating it so well.
Funny. And yup - definitely follows the "breaking news" scheme.
As a depression treatment, it far exceeds the state-of-the-art SSRIs, which perform only slightly better than placebo. It's cheaper, more effective, and lasts longer. ~10% of Americans suffer from depression, and more than a third of them don't respond to SSRIs at all. Dramatically reducing the suffering of 3% of the population at net-negative cost is a big deal.

For comparison to topics-de-jour, in the US 0.3% of the population will get an abortion in a given year, 3.5% are gay/bi, 0.3% are trans, <0.03% die from gun violence (and over half are suicides potentially reduced by this treatment) each year, and about 1/40th of them are killed by law enforcement. Improvements in these areas will have a smaller effect size (ie. protecting gay marriage will not improve the lives of gay people as much as curing someone's depression will, gun control will not end all gun violence).

Big caveat here is that this treatment is relatively new, and depression treatments tend to be promising initially with results that fade in the long term. Additionally, the legalization of that treatment does not mean everyone who needs it will get it. On the other hand, depression is only one of the many issues that can be treated with psychadelics. We'll have to wait and see
Google did not grow through advertising, but through word-of-mouth because they were actually better than the competition. I discovered the soda brands I'm now primarily drinking (Fritz, Premium) the same way.

So much of human society works through word-of-mouth. In fact, I'd argue that the type of megacorporation that can only exist grow through advertising is in fact damaging to society in itself. Small, localised SMBs is how we should go into the future.
I’d argue that women’s rights, from Suffragettes on, has a widely documented history of… reasonableness, for want of a better term. Men’s Rights doesn’t yet. It’s a much newer movement, things may change. But right now I’m struggling to think of the sane, sensible organisations out there promoting men’s rights.

I’d also question whether /r/askfeminists is “the equivalent”. It has 100k followers, /r/twoxchromosomes has 13 million followers and from a brief read through doesn’t feel like a particularly toxic place, despite discussing feminism/women’s issues. Maybe the key here is that women’s issues are mainlined into general conversation while men’s issues are sidelined to their own area where toxicity breeds.
It'd be cool to get an occasional email digest with the best ones from the week/month.
With the right controls applied, aged milk is quite a good thing. Same goes for drugs-- crude and refined alike.
The one guy I knew who'd consistently turn a quick async 5- or 8- message Slack between two or three people into a 15-minute scheduled phone call also double-booked a whole lot of his time and didn't seem to do much aside from say one or two not-very-useful things in meetings before leaving in the middle of it for the next one.

I think he just wanted shit to stick on his calendar for the sake of having a (more than) full calendar, which I'm guessing he found useful for advancement or deflecting criticism. Given some of the other stuff he did and said I think an awful lot of his behavior was one kind of career-hack or another.
Right, but I think the thing is the "protocol" is (or can be) stronger than the policy.

Which is why over there I'm presently unpopular with lots of people on many sides of issues, because (this is rough, but hey) e.g. too many white people are going "ooh, no racism discussion here please, I'm too delicate." and also too many black people are like "if i see the slightest thing that looks a little bit like racism defederate and block that whole server!"
The results reads like an Onion article!
I felt suspicious as soon as I saw Jon Carmack’s website being mentioned in a conversation about Microservices.
Customer support is a liability and every large company will allocate absolutely minimal possible resources to any liability.

This of course can backfire via social media into negative reputation and some repeated bad behaviors can landslide into class action.

But large companies are willing to accept such risk and will continue such pattern.
I mostly agree.

I feel like some people will gravitate back towards self sufficient activities. There are a lot of people on this site doing stuff like building their own furniture, gardening, etc. Of course I do think there will be a subset that use their time for more destructive things, as happens even now.
Someday it’ll be cheaper to suppress negative views on social media than to address them. Until then I’ll enjoy the good times that come with being able to shame big companies in public.
Making the post is not enough, you also have to get it to the front page of Reddit or HN
> neither Carmack nor Blow are notable authorities on systems that have to be maintained by changing teams of hundreds of people that come and go

Most systems don't have to be maintained by hundreds of people. And yet they are: maybe because people don't listen to folks like Carmack?

We like stories about huge teams managing huge codebases. But what we should really be interested in is practices that small teams employ to make big impact.
I edited my comment before you hit post, but I’ll still reply to LOL at that. Think about what you just said for a sec. Then blame that on a python2.
How to cook spaghetti properly and save money
x86 is Turing-complete with no registers (2014)
Is it really that hard to understand the difference between a historically oppressed minority and the minority that historically was doing the oppressing?
I’ve gotten downvoted for mentioning this on HN before but I’ll say it again - all we would need to do to largely stabilize housing prices would be to secure our borders. Our population growth is largely due to immigration, and right now we’re letting in over a million immigrants a year who will statistically have more children than the people that are already here.
> I seriously felt like "society had no interest in me".

I'm pretty sure society is not obligated to have an interest in you (I'm not trying to put words in your mouth however).

I think you become truly actualized only when you decide what it is you want, what you imagine for yourself. If what you want is in conflict with what society wants of you, you have to decide then whether it is important enough to you to take the road less travelled.

Watching biographies of various artistic people ("The Art Life" about David Lynch comes to mind, also "Crumb") it's clear that some people are just "a certain way" and will choose to live that way - society be damned. (Of course, that there are documentaries about these luminaries tells you that a few at least have found societal acceptance after all.)
> (can one do payments in the 10-100$ USD range on the blockchain? What if you don't want to go through an exchange?)

No, you can't because there's no dollars on the blockchain, only varying degrees of unregistered and unregulated money market fund ranging from something fairly reasonable (USDC) to the Reserve Primary Fund that broke the buck in 2008 (USDT, UST).

To send dollars you have to go through an exchange - well two, actually.

BitPay is an exchange. They just sell crypto on behalf of the merchant and send them the actual money. This is the point where you'd run into AML/KYC/etc issues. Getting money on and off exposes you to massive counterparty risk that could just leave you a creditor in the Bahamas.

You have to combine blockchain fees, exchange fees, forex risk, counter-party risk and legal/compliance risk - plus all blockchain transactions have to be reported with their cost basis on your taxes. If you're trying to do it 'right' you will pay wildly more for anything on the blockchain because decentralization is significantly less efficient.
> So how well is a static site generator suited for this? Do I want to build thousands of pages every time I start the site locally?

Take a look at Astro[1]. Astro comes with a development server and it will not build a thing unless you want it to.

Also, in contrast to classic static site generators Astro relies on components instead of templates which reduces cognitive complexity dramatically (to me anyway).

[1]: https://astro.build/
Thanks! It's a great idea and on my todo list.
If that number is just for age 20+ with no upper bound, then the missing ones are the retirees, there are a lot more survivors past age 65+ now than in 1948.
That’s a blatant straw man fallacy. No one here is insinuating that financial institutions are pure and innocent.

If anything, crypto news over the past year has proven one thing: that the crypto space is just as corrupt as “traditional finance,” but with none of the guardrails that make it harder to commit blatant scams.

Society developed immune responses to financial fraud in the form of regulations. They are insufficient and evil people still take advantage of loopholes in the system. However, crypto right now is a living example of how much worse it could be.
we'll see how this "don't repeat prior mistakes' thing will play out with maxed out inflation, raging corruption in western democracies, moral wars in Ukraine, rising distrust in media and a laissez-faire approach to white collar crime after the financial crisis in 2008.
It seems to me that modifying the world so that the oppressive policy becomes irrelevant is always preferable.

And when that's not possible, heck yeah, stand up to power with truth in hand.
Hence the "no fallback" point. Bad guys can always block entire IPs, and by not having a fallback to insecure SNI, that's their only choice.
I'm sure there will be no press release if there are no tomatoes.
Making up fake quotes to overplay mundane events? Clearly it's already a journalist.
Kurzweil's "Singularity" is upon us, but he's now being cagey about it.

He says it's still years away. His interview with Lex Fridman[0] was pretty tame - I didn't learn much new from it. Kurzweil deflected the Singularity segment to be a discussion about the history of computer power.

Remember that Kurzweil is Director of Engineering[1] at Google, with the mandate to "bring natural language understanding to Google"[2]. He started there in 2012, just after publishing his book, "How to Create a Mind"[3], and that's exactly what he and his team have been doing for ten years. Publication of his new book, "The Singularity is Nearer"[4] is now pushed out to mid 2023. Maybe he'll change the title to "Here" by then. (It's hard to believe that OpenAI is actually ahead of Google.)

Fridman made the point that maybe we won't realize at the time that the Singularity is passing, and only understand later that it did. Kurzweil didn't disagree.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykY69lSpDdo

[1] https://archive.is/vVEBv

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil

[3] https://www.amazon.com/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed-eboo...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=kurzweil+singularity+is+nearer
I'm not sure who would be willing to build a PCI, AML, KYC, compliant payment service that can accept credit and debit cards from most countries, for $11k USD.
I just found the paper:

https://doi.org/10.2478/V10059-010-0008-0

"Thirty-Five Years of Research on Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP Research Data Base. State of the Art or Pseudoscientific Decoration?"

Polish Psychological Bulletin, 2010, vol 41 (2), 58-66

Oh, but I saw that on the paper itself the author's name has an asterix:

Tomasz Witkowski*

This leads to a footnote at the bottom of the first page that says:

*Klub Sceptyków Polskich [Polish Sceptics Club]

(Followed by a physical address and an email address.)

So he's a Skeptic. In other words, he's probably strongly biased against NLP from the outset, eh? I'm no longer sure that reading this wouldn't be a big waste of my time.
This is counter argument always comes up but no one ever has numbers for all of these people in shitty environments turning to cryptocurrencies. In theory they might do so but the majority have not. At best are anecdotes about some small number taking payments in crypto.

In a country with strict currency controls crypto is little better than foreign currency. They need to pay their bills in local currency. Their corner grocer wants local currency. Their taxes will be in local currency. Crypto users are in a worse situation than people using foreign currencies since they have to deal with not just black market exchange rates but wildly variable crypto exchange rates. They don't get to just HODL because they need to pay bills. They have to accept whatever that day's wild value swing of their crypto holdings.

The places with broken currencies don't have strong rule of law. The authorities will shake people down for their wallet passwords as effectively as they do anything else.

The masses in broken economies turning to crypto is a fantasy.
> Lots of issues the biggest one is that munmap has a mutex and you incur a lot of contention.

But the alternative we have suffers from the same issue, doesn't it?

malloc is implemented in terms of sbrk and mmap/munmap, both of which are guarded by locks. And malloc will also have its own user-space locks on top of the ones from the kernel. I checked glibc and jemalloc implementation.

> mmap prevents you from a tight control of memory ... when you want to have your memory overhead to be constant and not sizeof(data).

I am not sure I understand this argument. It's trivial to implement the user-space custom MMAP allocator that gives you no less control over the memory than other "types" of allocators. Actually, it can give you more power because you can avoid the locks from user-space malloc implementations if you know that the use-case you're crafting it for is single-threaded. I used this technique in the past for short-living objects and in certain workloads it improved the performance by a factor.
We are reviewing our options.
Some of what is in the article is about exchanges losing massive amounts to hacks, in which case I would be inclined to agree that regulation of this space is needed, at least as far as ensuring customers get their money back in this case.

But most of what is in there is about things like stealing Bored Apes, which is basically just phishing, or NFT value collapse, which is just a speculative bubble popping. In the first case, I don't see any way that regulators are going to be able to stop phishing. And in the second, that's just a standard bubble. No fraud involved. Not much different that the Beanie Baby speculative bubble. I don't really think there's a government role in preventing speculative nonsense like that. Fuck around and find out.
Big Tech under pressure from cost-conscious cloud customers
There's also the proposition of Antinatalism [1] / The Case for Not Being Born [2] - about the only sure way to guarantee the absolute absence of pain / discomfort. Where one David Benatar argues that we shouldn't feel pity for the missed pleasure / happiness / meaning of somebody that isn't born / doesn't exist, vs the inevitable pain that any human is bound to suffer at some point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism [2] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-ca...
I don't know, I have a "serious" education and using it to help a corporation make a little bit more money doesn't really seem that much more valuable than raising my kid. The opportunity cost for many with serious educations is maybe not that high.
They have their "A" team on social media, but not the "A" team you are referring to. The marketing department runs social media and they have importance/power, unlike the customer support line you get to call.
Blockly isn't really a Scratch competitor since it just provides a block editor and no runtime. Scratch actually uses a modified version of it.
Probably a lot of FIRE too, if I remember right.

Edit: Why disagree?
Whatever tripped their alarm, not offering customer support for reviewing it is disgraceful. And this is the complaint here: their automated support scripts which send the user to /dev/null.
That we cannot know. But what we do know is that Germany pledged delivery of the Iris-T anti-air system (which btw is among the newest systems on the market) back in May and it being delivered in October of last year.

But given that and that Poland initially agreed to the delivery and only afterwards started changing their tune, I don't think the PR angle is that far-fetched?
There are literally hundreds of payment gateways/processors available in the US.

Stripe is like the Heroku of payment gateways -- great to start up quickly, great business, very profitable... but customers need to be very wary of various lock in strategies, and generally plan to have multiple providers as the business scales.
Brute force is no longer useful to our economy.

We continue to replace male labor with machines.

The last vestige is the trades, mostly in the construction industry.

It's only a matter of time until the technology industry gets around to disrupting male labor out of the trades.
I'm in the US and I use checks for some bills because they charge me a fee to pay with other methods (off the top of my head, my property taxes and electric bill have these drawbacks). I tend to use the bank bill pay system for these instead of writing an actual check though.
I agree. It’s just a rehash of things already known and reported on with absolutely zero additional information or even an attempt at research.

This is probably a better example of a “win-win” compromise than intense legal wrangling.

The NYT seems to care more about Wordle than actual reporting.
Very hard to effect that change if working culture is built on the 'visibility' of late hours and long nights in the office.
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