skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The npm dependency issue is a serious concern, but I'm not convinced that gcp or aws would mitigate the issue. If the problem is unaudited code that could be potentially compromised, gcp and aws will run that compromised code without protest.
Just noting here that there is no necessary contradiction between the probability of at least one bystander helping increasing with number of bystanders, and the individual propensity of helping going down with an increasing number of bystanders, even assuming that people have the same propensity function.
>The central government was fixing it

I really don't want to start a political argument on HN but this is nonsense. How exactly was the central government fixing it?

> However it lacked sufficient support from the state

Since the state's Chief Minister Jayalalitha passed away, the state government has been in the central government's pocket. The central government could have gotten away with virtually anything. And the AIADMK is officially part of the NDA. So, there is no way I'm buying the 'no support' theory.
True, but isn’t it also true that a catamorphism on any other data structure still operates one piece at a time? If so, I think this would imply that you _could_ concert your tree or whatever to an array and still get your result with Array#reduce. (Not saying you should, just speculating that it might be always possible.)
The first problem with agile is that false dichotomy - "It's either agile or waterfall". Sorry but that dichotomy doesn't exist. Waterfall vs Agile is just a good-bad binary. Surely you want to iterate quickly and stay in constant contact with customers, if that is all agile is then I am all in. However, I can't subscribe to robbing developers of ownership of a domain. I would even do microservice arch if it meant dividing things up into domains and assigning developers microservices that they own. I want to keep developers and giving them responsibility and ownership is a good way to do it.

Its funny because, in Agile you hear "You don't want one developer leaving with all the knowledge" now instead we have all the developers leaving with all the knowledge.
The whole point of the "bystander effect" is that this diffusion of responsibility leads to nobody intervening. Nobody cares if the chances of a specific bystander intervening goes down when there's a crowd, all that matters is whether someone intervenes, and the bystander effect claimed that a crowd meant the chances of intervention would go down overall.
Hagiography aside, Newton, the Man was also mean-spirited and would go to great lengths to ensure his "opponents" would suffer. I remember reading that as President of the Royal Society, he politicized the Leibniz Calculus issue so much that even our politicians can pick up a lesson or two :-) [1]

Why am I telling this? Well, I'd like people to realize that our heroes also have flaws and we don't fall to blind hero-worship. There are, after all, lessons to be learnt on how not to be as well :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculu...
You could also argue the opposite: That because the bystander effect is well-known now, surely that means other people in the crowd will be more willing to act, and therefore you don't have to.
Does the paper account for whether bystanders knew the individuals involved? You can't treat a group of people on the street as an unstructured independent sample...
I'm assuming the "reading assembly" part is verifying compiler output matches what the programmer thinks and signing it off as a "blessed binary".

Some safety critical areas of software are done this way, in aerospace for example. But run-of-the-mill automation jobs aren't.
Because dairy farms go under all the time. These days, the well fed happy cows just stroll over to the next field, where there are massages on tap if the stress of eating grass in the sunshine gets to be too much.

To put that in non-cow terms, the rewards of just getting straightforward compensation these days are really good. So good it's not obvious that starting your own thing is worth it monetarily.
Many of us, at least here in the US, are not that secure. Votes are very highly politicized, tensions high, establishment vs people, social right vs social left.

Here, we have fraud, but we have a high degree of anonymity. People don't seem to really get it. I am confused as to why.

I am reasonably secure myself and could make the same trade off you did, but an awful lot of my peers would not.

Super interesting observations. Thanks!
This is the absolute reality with closed source proprietary software: the user has no say nor ownership in the product; they are in effect granted a revocable license to use a set of features for some indeterminate period of time. The owners of the software licenses may modify, without the user's consent, or even knowledge, the software for any reason and any purpose. On modern closed source operating systems with automatic updates, it's often even impossible to revert to a prior version. I'm not against this type of software, it has its place and purpose, but why trust it for something as critical as personal identity management and authentication? Especially when there are so many free (as in freedom, not price) and open source alternatives on the market?
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One result that disagrees with other results does not "debunk" anything. It merely changes our confidence in the hypothesis.

It's not even clear that this result contradicts that social psych result.
If "certainly had a chance" means "played baseball and was an OK prospect", sure, but then you're not saying much of anything.

The truth is that it's a lot closer to five thousand guys, a shoulder, and an elbow between a third/fourth round high school pitcher and an "eventual MVP". Take a look at the third rounds of 2010 [1], 2011 [2], 2012 [3] drafts, which are fairly representative: only ~40% have made the majors at all, and there's one All-Star reliever (zero chance at MVP) and one reserve All-Star catcher (with zero MVP votes in his career) of the lot.

There are 750 active MLBers at any one time and the odds are 60-40 against a third/fourth round high school pitcher, the riskiest kind of prospect, joining them. And of the 58 league MVPs awarded since 1990, exactly three have gone to pitchers.

[1] https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?draft_round=3&year...
[2] https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?draft_round=3&year...
[3] https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?draft_round=3&year...
Perhaps too many small dental practices though (or there is a massively underserved need? There seems to be a new dental practice every week in Seattle...).
Youth helped me for sure but I did it later in life than most people.

I was motivated because I believed my effort would pay off. That may be easier without the experience of age but I don’t think anyone is excluded from that possibility.
Here are the direct links to buy the standalone licenses:

https://1password.onfastspring.com/in-app/1password-7-for-wi...

https://1password.onfastspring.com/in-app/1password-7-for-ma...
Be very, very careful with this. There are some update/race condition bugs in Excel Online that result in multiple users causing bulk updates to incorrectly update the filtered/sorted view of other users.
I'm personally attempting to transition away from Windows altogether, but it's a long-term organic process driven by hardware changeovers and decommissionings (including a recent involuntary one) rather than remove Windows function X by date Y.

I have Windows on a VM that I remote desktop to for things like budgeting and banking that I'd rather not keep on a "throwaway" type device. Two things that keep me on Windows is Excel (I use enough features that LibreOffice doesn't support) and Remote Desktop (it's just better than alternatives I've tried - I use xfreerdp to connect which support multi-monitor). Admittedly, I haven't looked into alternatives to Remote Desktop as the remote access server for a long time. Whilst vnc was always serviceable, it was never quite the "real" desktop experience that Remote Desktop provides.
I don't think that you being a moderator changes my statement. And no, I don't find relief in the frustrations of others.
This morning I was just thinking how spreadsheets are a great tool that would be worth an blog post.

In the past I built server dashboards on Google Sheets that consume live data through JSON and automatically refresh.

I wrote a real time labeling system for ML to categorize images in less than a day.

I even wrote a behavioral reinforcement system to build good habits that shows in real time the results on an Android widget.

A spreadsheet is a relatively very simple tool that most of the people understand (and often undervalue). It has a lot of flexibility in it and let you build "good enough" interfaces for internal tools in a fraction of the time that takes to build a web UI and they are are easy to iterate on.

You get a lot of value for time invested on a Google Sheet. They are free and from a user prospective do not require any infrastructure to run them.

"Keep things as simple a s possible" is my motto.
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>1Password X is perfect for Linux and a great solution to the distro fragmentation problem.

Yeah, no. 1PX has no means of data export. After 10 years on Lastpass, tried to give 1P a shot. Quickly grew frustrated within a month of the linux experience, and decided to move to Bitwarden. Turns out 1PX has no means of export, and I was stuck having to migrate each account by hand, and redoing the TOTPs. Bitwarden is substantially worse in terms of the UI, but at least I don't have to deal with vendor lockin.
The warning you receive when a formula is not consistent is a nice feature, and an advanced user will quickly learn to be very sensitive to those warnings, will spot them quickly, and avoid causing them when possible.

To strictly enforce that the formula must be the same in each cell of the column would not be very excel-like, I can't see it being done.
That was what I was thinking, the bot augmenting a human's playing ability rather than playing itself.
It's a different thing really. The old theory is not bystander doesn't intervene because it's dangerous but that they thought otter people would help.

In the UK when it's dangerous the police protect themselves as a matter of priority often retreating. This led to one situation of the knife terrorist attack on London bridge where the public did intervene and risk their own lives when the police stayed back. However it's not the case all the time with groups of people and the bystander effect and that example actually disproves the bystander effect too!
> Sharing Excel sheets is extremely easy - you just mail them

Unless the other computer is set to a different locale and your data contains formatted numbers and dates. Then everything breaks.
I imagine psychologists care a great deal about that difference.
Nothing in the Agile Manifesto says anything about robbing developers of ownership of a domain. The first line of the manifesto is "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools", which suggested to me that individual work satisfaction is right there at the top.

Whoever is running your team is doing it wrong.
Possibly interesting, but the writing style makes me question if the facts aren't over-exagerrated or twisted to fit the narration.
You don't have to believe it for it to be true. Maybe swimming is an outlier, though I kind of doubt it. TFA is about basketball. It's obvious that a 7' athletic guy with good coordination will be a better basketball player the first time he touches a basketball than a slow 5'5" dude with poor balance would be after ten years of grinding.

The long tail dominates competition. All elite swimmers look the same to you, so we can safely conclude that you are neither an elite swimmer nor an elite swimming coach. You seem to think it's possible to buy one's way into swimming dominance. It's not. Michael Phelps didn't win 23 gold medals by being rich and getting better coaching than all the competitors in 23 different Olympic fields. He is the child of a teacher and a cop (divorced), who held a national record by the age of 10, having learned to swim at age 7. He is a supremely talented swimmer.
As I recall, this is what you saw when customizing privacy settings, back when Windows 10 first came out:

> 1. Go to Start, then select Settings > Privacy > General.

> 2. Turn off Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future.

I didn't verify what it actually sent, but that's what I remember seeing.

I got that here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/03/microsoft...

For current Windows 10 versions, it's become a local database:

> As part of inking and typing on your device, Windows collects unique words—like names you write—in a personal dictionary stored locally on your device, which helps you type and ink more accurately.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468250/windows-10-...
Both jumping ship for raises and other things are also true according to multiple sources. Job satisfaction is another leading cause. The tech industry has to fix the issue of turnover, its costing too much money and careers are being diluted.
I don't understand what you really gain with this setup. I mean, this extreme vendor lock-in situation is so short term. The absolute wrong strategy if you ask me. I would be curious to see this company in 5 years from now.
+1 for Bitwarden.
Got a link for the instructions on how to do this?
It's conflating a couple of recent examples (london bridge knife terror attack trial reports is one) where the police protect themselves and wait for backup but the public try to intervene against their orders and trying to imply there's an agenda by the police to let these things happen.
I am not sure it is false if you want it loaded on startup.
Whoever said agile means no testing and no requirements is doing it wrong.
The link is to "You Suck at Excel" by Joel Spolsky, which is an excellent tutorial.

I sincerely wish it had a different name, though!

I would love to send this video to some of my business colleagues inside a large enterprise. They need this information and they would enjou everything about this video. However, it would not be acceptable to send them a video entitled "You Suck at Excel."

If it had a more enterprise-friendly name I would even have a link and description to it in my email footer inside the enterprise. It would really help a lot of people.
Gee, I wonder if this tweet is in any way connected to his previous one about weakening the USD to match the (alleged) currency manipulations of the Euro and China?

Please hang on to those US dollars. They are very solid, strong and stable. If the S&P 500 hits all time highs, its certainly because everyone is getting so rich, and not because we are inflating the currency. ;-P
when i went through the coursera course "programming languages", i did part a in standard ml (what the course uses) but also in f# and in typed racket (using racket's pattern matching). the code was practically identical across all three languages. now, that's for someone simple programs, but i was surprised that the translation from two MLs was basically trivial to typed racket.
>The baseball draft is somewhat clueless; that's why they have 40 rounds rather than two or seven like a sport that has any idea at all about who's going to succeed.

That is just factually wrong. The MLB draft has 40 rounds because there are over 5 thousand players in professional baseball which is more than double the NFL and more than 10 times the NBA. Athletic skill traditionally follows a normal distribution which means the similarity in players' skill levels converges the deeper you go into the bell curve. The result is there is generally a smaller gap in talent between the 500th and the 1000th player selected than their is between the 1st and 100th player selected. If Mahomes had the skill of a 3rd rounder, there were way more than a 100 guys in front of him for an eventual MVP.

Here [1] is an article looking at the value of MLB draft picks that supports my point.

[1] - https://blogs.fangraphs.com/an-update-on-how-to-value-draft-...
This is all anecdata, but the article and the study are totally contrary to my experience.

Over the years I've witnessed a variety of incidents where bystanders did nothing -- however once someone makes the first move, it seems to become easier for others to lend a hand.

When I was a teen, I dated someone who was a red cross volunteer, which prompted me to take a couple of first aid classes. This has easily been the most useful subject I've ever studied.

I've been witness to a suicide attempt, a cardiac arrest in a bar, an elderly lady who fell down the stairs at the opera, several cases of guys beating on their wives in public, two drunken attempted robberies, a variety of (literal) gay bashing, random subway violence, and oodles of shit I can't recall. The latest was two weeks ago: a hit and run with a teen victim with a very nasty headwound.

In every one of those cases, no one did anything. The old lady at the opera was the worst, I hadn't seen it happen, but I noticed a crowd of people on the staircase on my way out. Maybe 20 people standing around her in a circle. I asked if anyone had called for an ambulance yet, and no one even gave a coherent response...

I've also been the victim of a random assault, in a very busy park in broad daylight, and no one helped out. No one even dialed the emergency number, no one even approached me to ask whether I was ok afterwards. There were probably around a hundred witnesses.

I don't know whether this is a regional problem; most of these incidents occurred in Belgium. Belgians aren't the most outgoing or the most eager to take risks in general, but still.

Don't count on others to make the first move. Learn first aid and help out whenever someone is in trouble. Even if it does mean you'll be late for that important meeting or you could get blood on your shirt.

Violence is a bit trickier; what's worked well in my experience is to walk up to the aggressor, but to pick someone else from the crowd and plainly tell them "give me a hand". That gets the ball rolling.

Edit/addendum: every time something like this happens, I get an adrenaline rush and am scared out of my mind. I'm sure this happens to the other witnesses as well. I get it, it's hard to push through that, but do it anyway.
So was I (San Jose location.) One of their mistakes was requiring "classes" before using any equipment - then restricting the hours to 9 - 5. I phoned in a complaint but nothing was done.

Tip: the members who can afford it are working so they have disposable cash.

Also - the location was prime downtown. Better to find an industrial park.

It was weird seeing the active members making Stormtrooper costumes mainly.
This is cool but seems to be "just" the output from IDA with the functions renamed in the output? If that's the case I'm wondering why we don't see this sort of thing more often (other than the effort required of course)
I'm not as confident as you that they "do not correlate with not in danger." And I'm much less confident that they don't correlate with "perception of danger."

They definitely correlate with a lot of things. They correlate with buildings and power lines. And other things. And I think some of those things correlate with perception of safety.
Yep. Crime statistics actually mean it's safer to be in these cities than a small village. Safety in numbers! Oxford Street in London may have the most pickpockets operating but it also has vastly more shoppers making it safer than your local towns shopping area.
Fair and interesting point. The same outcome is irrelevant to the supposed phenomenon that causes it, though the study wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
Yes, so researchers must be very careful to caveat their findings. Not only as footnotes in the middle of the article but also in general terms in abstract and introduction as those are the sections copied into newspapers and such. My 2c.
They are not "both linked with Israeli intelligence".

Do note though that Google, Facebook, apple, did disclose that they work in collaboration with the US intelligence.
> I would probably pay a flat $40 again for an upgraded version with a standalone license if such a thing were still available.

The v7 standalone license is still available.

https://1password.onfastspring.com/in-app/1password-7-for-ma...
At least when I tried 1PX earlier this year, there was no data export options, which is only on native desktop (ie, OSX & Windows) apps.
It's true that I can't, because that was years ago. But I do remember what I read. And some searching will find others who say the same.

All of the angst about Windows 10 spying did force Microsoft to be more transparent. At one point, they were facing legal action from France and Brazil, and very likely other countries.
It's the same for any other language . With java with c++, dot net, PHP and even with Erlang. None of them force you to use governed central repositories. And that's a good thing.
I agree. Both https://airtable.com/ and https://www.smartsheet.com/ in my option add some value on top. Unfortunately they are not omnipresent as Google Sheets and Excel.

> Half of the mess that makes excel hell comes from the fact it's too easy to put two tables of data + some random constants on a single sheet and refer to them by H3.

That is a feature. If you can keep in a screen all the data you need, you reduce the cognitive overhead of having to switch back and forth between tabs. Of course if you start needing to add more data you need to "refactor". But it does not seem a lot more different that starting with a prototype and having to change everything to support the features of a real product.
my understanding is that that will change. it's just that pyret's current primary use case (education) demanded that it run in the browser first.
Which is why we use hardware password managers and randomly generated unique passwords for every account.
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What I hate about excel is if you now need to do a very similar task, again, it can involve a lot of messing about with the GUI.

Versus changing a few parameters in the Python script.
I used to always think I would have a local copy of my passwords but that suddenly became not true based on someone else’s whims.
Haven't noticed this problem with GIMP on my Thinkpad X100e.
There's a tool that been in win10 for a while now that shows exactly what data is collected. It shows exactly what component of the OS is collecting it.

Go in to the Settings app > Privacy > Diagnostics & Feedback and scroll down to the "View Diagnostic Data" section.

Its not really all that sneaky or deceptive or dishonest or any of that. Its just being portrayed as such by anyone writing about it in the press for some reason.
yeah. What the table needs is a column of how to mitigate each risk. Besides MFA, there's also all the things that the very first para says aren't important, e.g. avoiding password reuse (HIBP is now a Microsoft thing)