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I'm confused here. What is the Bystander Effect?

> The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that one of them will help. Several factors contribute to the bystander effect, including ambiguity, group cohesiveness, and diffusion of responsibility that reinforces mutual denial of a situation's severity.

Does that mean each individual is like likely to help _individually_ or does it mean that each _situation_ have less intervention?

Because if we're measuring individual response, then sure, I agree - if I'm hurt, I don't want 10 people rushing to me anyway.

i.e. if 1 bystander with 1x persons intervening = 100% response and then 2 bystanders with 1x persons intervening = 50% response...... I think this is a terrible way to measure it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
I understand that software costs money to maintain and cloud syncing requires infrastructure. But they didn't need to act the way they did in response to someone asking a reasonable set of questions.
Me on the other hand i remain very skeptical with the new Microsoft.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20412905
Swimming’s not really analogous to the NBA because the peak comes so early (for example, Phelps was an Olympian as a high school sophomore); women’s gymnastics is the same. Swimming is also a low joint-impact no-contact sport with no sudden unpredicted movements.

The point from the NBA’s perspective is not that the US players who are not specializing are better prospects, but that the guys who eventually do develop the running and jumping ability good enough for the NBA would
have been better off not specializing until a much later age. In this case, the NBA’s interests in rookie health and long careers for stars are well aligned with those of the players but not aligned with those of AAU coaches and/or parents trying to get a college scholarship.
I worked with excel for some years early in my career. I did not know how to program back then beyond if else and for loops.

We used it for budget estimation at multi million / up to 100 m. I have seen other uses in Corp world in many departments.

IMHO I think it’s good for specific use cases. But it is routinely abused beyond that.

The key shortcomings for excel uses by non-programmers for key business applications:

- How do you test that your calculation is correct after update. The same argument holds for business applications without tests?

- how do you maintain the knowledge of the inner workings without having to follow the arrows around cells. Probably there are good practices but how likely are you to ensure them in your product / team.

- the data / computation is spread in user space. In case your app is useful many people would like to use it. How do you manage the updates and bug fixes beyond it’s the user’s
Responsibility

- how do you avoid the black box effect: mission critical software that no one knows how to touch inside without a full rewrite?

- how do you convince stakeholders that they need to migrate to an adapted solution while they have a working one now and often are oblivious to the hidden costs of users copy pasting data / reformatting for hours sometimes to fit an existing tool that is no longer adapted.

The data frame structure in R or python solves a large portion of these issues. Yes you need training. It’s the same for excel if you want to avoid in inferno machine case you need the same concepts.

Why not train for programming with data frames and have the option to gradually extend to web app without a full it project that needs 3 levels of validation.
That's a classic, definitely to be watched!
Me too! What are you working on?
The only complex systems I'm really comfortable trusting my life with are aircraft. Why is not the absence of accidents but the NTSB response to them and their public reports.
Can not pass tests from armv8l, the site seems no bug report links. is anyone know how to let bellard know this ?

make -j8 test
./qjs tests/test_closure.js
./qjs tests/test_op.js
./qjs tests/test_builtin.js
Error: assertion failed: got |2e+1|, expected |3e+1|
at assert (tests/test_builtin.js:17)
at test_number (tests/test_builtin.js:307)
at <eval> (tests/test_builtin.js:589)
They want silicon valley out of Europe. The European Union have wanted this for a long time.
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The claim is that when there are several people standing around and some emergency arises, everyone will just assume someone else is going to help, and no one will end up helping.
It is a question about useful information. What problem are you trying to solve? What is useful to the user? And: is the information actionable?

Information that is just displayed, or something to be informed about does not necessarily need a dashboard. This is called reporting.

Something that screams "Action!" is useful as a dashboard. It should help guiding the decision making process.

You might also consider automation. If a machine can do what a dashboard asks for, an action step, then you actually don't need a dashboard instead you can do reporting ("X steps done during Y period").

Build something useful and have fun!
MS hasn't just considered it. They have done it. This is called Visual Studio Tools for Office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Tools_for_Office...
I once asked my high school teachers why, on the multiple choice tests he gave, if one answer was "all of the above" or "none of the above" it was always the correct answer.

He laughed and said because the students needed all the help they could get. Years later I realized he probably was trolling me.
an active community of developers organically building decentralized apps and playing around with tools, you can see a lot of experiments but can still end up with a graveyard of apps that no one uses.<a href="https://www.techsupportdubai.com/led-tv-repair/">Tv Repair</a>
That's the user traction phase which I do not think we're in yet for Web 3 / decentralized apps. I remain confident that as the UX of these apps gets better and as security
Securing cloud buckets on application level
Well Google lost about 70 billion recently
Hmm, searching around for the type of statistics you are talking about, I get articles to a couple of anecdotal stories that are frequently repeated on sites like Jihad Watch, Voice of Europe, RT, etc.

Unless you can provide some actual statistics, I would dismiss this as unfounded far-right propaganda.
Really disappointing to see so much bootlicking in this thread. Yes, 1Password is a great product and, yes, AgileBits is a great team of developers. But this change sucks and spits in the face of long-time paying customers who have come to rely on 1Passwords's local features.

1Password can be both worth paying $3 a month for an also making a really bad anti-user decision here. These are not mutually exclusive.

As a former long-time 1Password user, I recently moved to using pass [1] after using their cloud features for some time. At the time I mostly moved for better change tracking with git, but I'm feeling pretty glad about the decision now that they've made this awful change. I'd highly recommend moving to pass or some other FOSS for this class of tool. Why trust your passwords to something outside your control?

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org
bitwarden_rs is free to selfhost
Public cloud storage buckets are still exposing sensitive data. This is one way bucket objects can be secured with granular access controls.
I've tried Upwork in the past and the platform made me miserable.

I've been using Codementor for the last year or so and been very happy with them. For the past year I've worked for a US client and since a few weeks I work for an Australian client.

Why I like Codementor:

- The payments are done on time and they don't extract some platform fee as far as I know for the freelance jobs. Or it's invisible to me (perhaps more likely). What I ask per hour is what I get.

- There seems to be a decent amount of jobs available every month and not too many people respond to the same job as me at the same time. So there's a good chance that if I respond the job, I at least will be invited for a video call with the potential client.

- The rates on the platform seem decent (they advise setting somewhere between 40 - 80 USD, no race to the bottom imo). I'm based in Thailand, so these are rather nice rates for living here - I can save /a lot/ of money every month. My costs of living is currently around 1700 USD per month, everything above I can safe.

- I don't have to install software on my computer that spies on me to make sure I put in the proper amount of hours. And I actually tend to work more hours than I bill my clients, but I don't need software to keep me in check.
What method do you use? Group Policy, a third party program, or just renaming needed DLLs?
If I was going for "establish a connection as fast as possible" I'd go for `autossh -R`. Maybe "inlets" has better naming, is that the reason we need to use it?
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I worked as a spreadsheet DevOps in a financial company. We used to have a python script to spin up windows vms with the exact version of windows that was known to be good, with the exact version of excel and then automatically kickoff the computation.

The reson for this was someone once got the order of execution wrong and screwed up a couple billion dollars worth of trades.

Excel is great until you have to maintain it. Same reason why you don't let people build bridges with Lego.
1password has the option to give access to your passwords to whoever you choose after you die. The way it works is, you define the person and the time limit and if they request to get access to your passwords and you don't decline it for the defined time limit, they get it.
A proof of concept for an end-to-end encrypted web app
You can definitely still buy the standalone app license, but they use a pretty dark pattern to hide it. They don't really talk about it anywhere, in the forums they will just push subscriptions, and they constantly change how you get a new license.

In the past, they moved the standalone license page from 1password.com to agilebits.com, and made it purposely difficult, if not impossible to get to.

Now here's how you do it for the most recent version:

Download and install the app. When it asks you about a subscription, there is another link that you can click, but I don't remember what it says, but it should be at the bottom of the pop-up. It will take you to a checkout page where you can get a standalone license.

They'll probably change it yet again in the next major release so YMMV in the future.
Societal norms are constantly evolving; what is normal today might have been unthinkable in the past when these studies were conducted.
> I remember one method I would use is to simply memorize thousands of multiple choice questions from the test bank. That way when you took the exam, you would already be familiar with the question on the exam and how to solve it.

That's not cheating per se, though, just studying with previous exam questions as practice material. I'd wager all students that can access old tests do that.
Mahomes was a third/fourth round draft type out of high school and the MLB draft is a loooong way away from even making it for a single day in the majors. Claiming that he could “certainly” be an MLB MVP is ludicrous.
Even with flawed studies aside, the word science is used very liberally to describe these fields. Even psychology’s most robust and well tested theories can’t come anywhere close to making accurate predictions.
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Sharepoint or Office 365
It's not, really. It's even cited on the Wikipedia page as a well-known DSL. Give it a read, there's a lot of DSLs that maybe don't seem like one at first blush.
Speaking for London, although many feel safe in the city. Most people (including me) aren’t stupid enough to get involved in a violent altercation if you happen to stumble across one.

It’d be foolish to get between 2 gangs fighting.

Alternatively if someone just collapsed on the street during rush hour, many will come over to help.
Ya, I do not believe in an elite group with "native" talent granting them superiority. That might make you the best person in your home town but means nothing on the national level. By the time you are looking at nationals, all the non-talent people have been filtered out. Everyone now has the correct body type. They all have near-perfect reflexes. There is also no grinding. The guy who wins nationals doesn't do so because he tried harder than the guy in second place. Everyone is trying as hard as is humanly possible, to the point that trying any harder means inevitable injury. What matters is strategic training, good coaching, and access to resources.

Want to be a good swimmer? Join a club and try hard. Want to be the best swimmer in your city? Get a private coach and a 50 meter lane all to yourself every afternoon. Want to win a medal? Be rich. Live across the street from the 50m pool, have control over that pool's water temperature, have 24/7 access to a full gym, a dietitian, and a sports medicine doctor who won't make you sit in a waiting room.
If it's O365 Excel, then you can share and work on the same spreadsheet in a similar way to Google Sheets (seeing other peoples real time cursor in your spreadsheet etc).
I took one look at BitWarden and, as a security person, ran the other way when I saw the CLI expects you to enter your password on the command line in order to operate it. This password gets exposed in your shell history, to anyone who can view a process list, etc.

If a company writing a security product can be this incompetent about something so basic, I don’t have any interest in gambling that the rest of their product is any better.
Hi HN!

I'm Matt, co-founder of Pactflow and core contributor of the Pact Testing Framework (pact.io).

Two years ago in front of the inaugural tConf (http://tconf.io) crowd in Melbourne, we launched a free hosted version of our Open Source Pact Broker to make it easier for developers to get started with Pact and API contract testing.

Earlier this year we finally got our act together and created a company dedicated to creating a commercial offering to progress the needs of our community.

Our vision is to transform the way teams test and release distributed systems, and we saw this as the best way of achieving that.

The initial launch is focussed at existing Pact and Spring Cloud Contract users, providing features above and beyond what is provided in the OSS version, such as:

- A shiny new look and feel
- Social authentication with GitHub, Google auth and SAML
- API key authentication for all your CI and automation needs
- An improved Webhook setup experience
- Visualisation of test verification results
- Provider-driven contract testing support with OpenAPI Spec (Swagger)

We are particularly excited about OpenAPI support, as it's one of the most common topics and pain points we hear from teams.

We'd love to hear what you think, and what we can do to help you test and deploy your microservices at scale

- Matt
Being good at what you do does not excuse shady removal of features once your user base is big enough to drop functionality.

Or more precisely it makes a person wonder what the next step will be to alienate users which aren't aligned with the vendor's interests.
> What city do you live in?

A small town with about 7000 citizens some 50 kilometers away from the city I work in in southern Germany.

No colleagues living near me, so no carpooling. Public transport, while arguably a lot better than in the states, is so fractures that it means leaving at 5 and returning at 21:30 - unless you need the "flexibility" of attending late-evening meetings or after-work activities, then it pretty much becomes unusable. Biking in? Sure, takes even more time (I average some 20 km/h, this is hilly terrain), and I am completely finished when I arrive. And moving here? I would pay four times what I pay now in rent for the privilege of living in an industrial wasteland.

Without the car, I could not do my job.

That being said, I am lucky that my employer provides a parking ramp at the location I currently work at. When they make us move locations again, there is a good chance streetcurb parking is the only option available to me.

What we need to do is to make cities places where cyclists, motor vehicle drivers and pedestrians can coexist. I think playing the cheap, political "divide and conquer" card by diminishing one side for the other will make them worse for everyone involved.

For starters, we should check if we can just move vehicle traffic underground for major arteries and use the space above for cyclists and pedestrians.

> I thought we were talking about commuting?

Ah, here's the misunderstanding. I am talking about access to the city, regardless of frequency. The problem does not go away if you prohibit commuting.
> really violent crime is happening as now in Western European cities, London, Berlin, etc.

Can you elaborate? Judging from statistics these both seem like reasonably safe large cities.

I wouldn’t recommend getting personally involved if two criminal gangs are in the middle of a knife fight or something. Getting the hell away and then calling the police from a safe distance seems like a better idea.
Maybe jupyter is some middle ground. Ready to pass around, modify and replicate, but the full power of a programming language and libraries.
TL;DR: code review from a spreadsheet is a nightmare.
My biggest problem with Excel as a "solution" is that document control is kind of an afterthought. You've got X number of people in your organisation and they each have these adhoc collections of Excel spreadsheets. Usually the devil is in the details and you'll have one person who has calculated gross revenue one way and another person who has done it another way. The two approaches are never reconciled, but their output will invariably be compared as if they are discussing apples and apples. I've seen so much analysis done that was really just garbage because nobody understands where the data came from and what it means.

It's not really fair to blame Excel -- it's a calculation tool. However your solution space needs to address this problem and I very, very rarely see it happen.
The article only uses footage from a few cities of Western culture. Good Samaritan laws are not universal and the lack of one can have a chilling effect on whether people will help. This is especially prominent in China where there are a number of famous cases where the victim sued the Good Samaritan claiming they caused the damages. It’s so prevalent that Alibaba is trying to help promote social good by offering insurance in case you help the elderly and are sued for it: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-china-good-samari...
The infamous murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 was reported the medias as 38 witnesses in an apartment block saw or heard the murder but none did anything to save her, not even call the police. In 2007 someone digged into the story and discovered that this was wildly exaggerated. Only a few witnesses has seen the violence and they did in fact call the police - the police just didn't respond in a timely manner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese

Of course the original story resonated because it played into the eternal narrative that people "these days" don't care about each other, society is falling apart etc.
>The backup/recovery options are just terrible

This is not the case if you are using a corporate controlled account
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I have quite actively tried to avoid excel lately (which means also avoiding to learn new tricks...), and I am not that familiar with tables. Do the tables:

1. Enforce same data type per column. I.e., if you have a number in C4, you can't enter text into C5?

2. Enforce that if there is a formula, it is applied identically to each row?

(By enforcing I mean that there is _no_ way around that short of copying the data to new sheet)

Give me those two things (preferably within sheet context instead of table context) and a decent version control and I can reconsider that I do anything but disposable ad-hoc in excel again.
> And that's pretty much it

uh, honestly, i put a stick on my laptop just so i can tell it apart from the other macbooks in my office.
Thanks I actually didn't know that.
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Although you're trying to appear logical, you're not. There is no black or white in health care.

For example, most men who get prostate cancer die of something else first. The treatment often destroys quality of life, so is worse than the disease.

Also, you can't compare women's diseases to male diseases. Women have all kinds of body changes that men don't experience.

And doctors generally don't signup for heroic measures after retirement. They know when your time is up, prolonging life in an ICU is not living.

You're not going to live forever.
Or the surveillance cameras have pushed people to act because it looks awesome on youtube.
Sharing Excel sheets is extremely easy - you just mail them, or host them in some online place, like SharePoint if you've bought into the whole MS ecosystem like many companies do. Not sure what your point is there.

Versioning is of course more difficult, though Excel does support diffing in principle. I expect though that what most people end up doing is simply keeping track of versions manually, same as they would have in the days before excel.
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Yep, IVPN user here. Couldn't be happier. Have used 3 other VPNs over the years, IVPN's privacy, features, speed, and corporate policies are the best I've found.

Just a satisfied user. Its 2x what I used to pay, but IMO it's worth it. I don't think it's /always/ true "you get what you pay for", but sometimes it really is.
Until border security finds out about travel mode and demands you disable it.
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They really do have a good system
Ask HN: Why did you do/or not do startup school?
Just curious about the experiences people had in the 11 week startup school program by YC.
I don't think SMS is real 2FA, because many site can reset password by SMS, meaning having the phone number = controlling the account = 1FA. So, it is not better but worse to have SMS "2FA" since it depends on competence of mobile provider, which may be absurdly weak at preventing social engineering.
Microsoft would also like to see that change, that’s why they tried to kill VBA. The reason for not following through (in killing VBA, because they definitely support and prefer other extension mechanisms) was pushback from users.
LIC is already gentrifying extremely rapidly. There are high-rise apartment blocks sprouting like weeds, it’s not going to be industrial much longer.

If anything it’s a poor place to put jobs, because unless you live in Queens itself the transport links are extremely poor.
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Unfortunately the answer is "no" to both #1 and #2.

It does do something close to those. Column data types are automatically carried over to the next row when inserting or appending rows to an existing table. But you're free to override it if you want for a particular cell

Same with formulas. When you enter a formula in one cell, Excel will automatically copy across the whole column. But you're able to undo that auto copy if you really just want the formula in that one cell. It'll also flag cells that have inconsistent (compared to rest of table) formulas.

So, no, it doesn't enforce. But it does encourage.