skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> manage access to probably ~100 services our employees use everyday

Is single sign-on an option, instead? Something like Okta is a much better experience for less technical users (and, well, engineers too) where possible, and also lets you trivially manage credentials access as people on/off board (no need to rotate credentials if you're worried folk may have written them down on paper somewhere with malicious intent). That said, it doesn't help folk with personal credentials management, which can be useful for good security policy in addition.

1password is my favorite to have around for services that don't support SSO. I like it so much I pay for a family account, even.
And I should perhaps say that I agree that CNBC's reporting is pointless.
depends on which store you are in the comparison
The exhaust is CO2 and H2O. CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O
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Do you work for Hawaii emergency agency?
:D
And if that's not enough, Eric S. Raymond has written a bunch of absurdly powerful tools for scenarios like this one:

http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/

https://gitlab.com/esr/git-debubble

https://gitlab.com/esr/git-weave

Some background information provided by ESR, in addition to what you can find on the homepage:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/golang-nuts/WstriK...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22304131
Show HN: MonoLisa – A new monospaced font for devs
Hi HN, we are Marcus Sterz, Andrey Okonetchnikov, and Juho Vepsäläinen from Vienna. Marcus is a font designer while Andrey and Juho are more on the web development side of things.

Today, we're launching a new monospaced font called MonoLisa (https://monolisa.dev) to the public.

After Marcus saw me (Juho) and Andrey working, he was curious about the fonts we use. In programming, we're stuck with the monospaced format as code has to align to a grid in order to be readable. For a font designer, that's an interesting constraint as you'll have to make compromises to fit the format.

Roughly two months after our initial chat, Marcus came back to us with a font he called MonoLisa. It was a starting point for a collaboration results of which you see here.

To deal with the size constraint, Marcus did something interesting. Instead of going with the regular character width you see in monospaced fonts, he went 7% wider. The small change has implications for the design because now you can:

* Design characters such as m and w to be more readable.

* Be more careful with the space. Marcus went for a balanced design so both dark and light part of the font is roughly equal per character.

* Put more emphasis on terminals (the ends of a glyph) to make sure they are both distinct and they flow to each other.

Although the font is a little bit wider than what you might have been used to, in practice it's not a big deal as these days displays are wider as well. I feel Marcus did a good choice there and it shaped the font and it stands as something unique compared to the others.

Now, after a year of effort and collaboration we're happy to launch MonoLisa after private testing and rounds of feedback. You can test the font online and learn more about it at https://monolisa.dev.

Feedback is welcome (comment below or send us mail, info@monolisa.dev)- I hope you enjoy using the new typeface!
Discovery points to origin of mysterious ultraviolet radiation
I think you might be misremembering something else - we haven't invented anything to replace fractional reserve banking, our economy wouldn't work without it.
I think it's tracked under https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604492
It's still open, but it seems people haven't been able to hit the bug on the last few nightlies (this is also my experience), so it's possible the bug was quietly fixed as a side effect of some other patch.
I suggest withholding payment until they fix the problem.
These kind of voluntary schemes completely miss the point of government and UBI.

There are certain systems that work well only if they are universal. There is a reason why we don't have car insurance where you only pay voluntarily. Government and taxation is similar system. It's not charity or free money. It's more like insurance scheme.
Though you should have options. Don't retire in a down year. Start moving things to safer investments several years before you retire. Don't spend as much that first year. Still the numbers given are good examples and something to keep in mind.
That's not what he (and I and many others) are asking for.

The site linked to is not assigned to any container. It opens in the old container, while it should open in the default container.
My Entrepreneurial Engineer class I took said that. Investors regard 1) new IP, 2) new product, 3) new marketing channel as risks not advantages. Selling a better mousetrap is the ideal startup from that point of view.
A generous slathering of bear fat or whale blubber is all it would take. Maybe a vinyl outer suit so the viscious liquid methane rain doesn't dissolve your insulation.

On second thought, some kind of heated space suit sounds more comfortable.
> we supposedly have control, but “no cookies at all, ever” is not an option

I browse the web with cookies off for sites by default. It's an option in almost every browser.
It's going to be hard but if Italy is any guide we will manage it after it becomes a catastrophe.
This is supposed to be a trasnscription of some Whatsapp calls between medical personnel in the north and south of Italy where the northerners try to update the southerners on the situation

https://files.catbox.moe/3ns6c1.mp4

This file is several weeks old by now, a search on the 'net finds a number of pages where the link is mentioned (including one from the 21st of januari 2020 - according to Google that is - hoax alert? if so a prescient hoax in that they knew it would start in the north of Italy).

This being the internet it it hard to ascertain the veracity of the thing. If it is for real it sounds way worse than e.g. the situation on the cruise ship 'Diamond Princess' which saw 700+ infections but only a few deaths as far as I know, nor does it tally with the situation in Korea. In the (supposed) transcription they talk about a larger number of cases in younger people without existing medical conditions, again something which goes counter the current narrative. One of the possible explanations given for the higher mortality in Italy (~4%) compared to Korea (~0.7%) is that Italy has a generally older population (the oldest in Europe) but that does not explain the mentioned incidence of cases among younger people. Of course the way countries count 'cases' can also differ so there is another possible explanation but this still does not explain those cases among younger people.
Not necessarily. Excess panic can easily create more destruction than the disease ever would have. Look at the hospital that was burned down in Iran because of misinformation about the coronavirus.
Programming can be so easy: "Oh hey, it fixed itself!"

Programming can be so hard: "So then what was the bug?"
Sorry, that has be acquiesced

Times Literary Supplement:

[...] Reviews were normally anonymous until 1974 [...]
does it still come with google tracking on the welcome screen and a ton of unapproved communication to mozilla servers?
Show HN: Waved Grid – Generative Art on Turtletoy
Its not only the lack of good infrastructure. The schools don't have the necessary skills to maintain these kind of systems and often don't have enough money to outsource
For context, around 60% of men in China smoke. Your proximate interpretation of the numbers is correct, but I think the real question is where are there so few smokers in the data. (And whether smoking confers some sort of protective effect by upregulating ACE2 receptors.)
I would recommend anyone looking for long term guidance about what comes next read this article from Bloomberg's excellent John Authers.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-09/oil-cr...
Apple Endpoint Security Framework
We use Okta and I'm happy with it. You sign in once to mycompany.okta.com and there you see nice icons to click and sign in to any service you have access to.
> She spoke to the press anonymously which means she would not be able to benefit from the press coverage in any way - 100% downside for her.

Tons of bad anonymous reviews on glassdoor from people who got fired. I wrote one myself :D . Money is not the only benefit for bad mouthing your old employer
No, one must provide the same service with or without tracking.
Mars is definitely the easiest place to colonize, by far. It's much closer than the gas giants, there's no craft capable of taking people to Saturn even devised, let alone constructed. Meanwhile, we have SpaceX actively building a rocket for Martian colonization.

Second, the Venusian atmosphere is oppressive as hell, you'll not be solving that problem anytime soon, as we can't even solve Earth's much easier atmospheric GHG problem.

Martian colonization will be tough. 30% gravity, 3% atmospheric pressure, radiation, very cold, very dry... however, building a base is conceivable and we think we know how to do it.
They have, it's suspected to be caused by a race condition with memory pressure events [0][1]. It looks like the patch is not included in Firefox 74 though.

[0] https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2020/03/02/moz-gfx-newslett...

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617083
A visual representation: https://media1.tenor.com/images/3adcbb8cc711b0c9a4cc2e3b90b0...
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Please see the W3C Patent Policy regarding Web standards.

https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/

> The goal of this policy is to assure that Recommendations produced under this policy can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis.
It says a lot that there's a new feature bullet for Facebook alone. I wonder if at some point Firefox is going to be so effective at hampering FB's goals that FB decides it needs to be crushed
It's entirely possible. Earnings are historically high, and the Fed has been pumping money into the economy for over a decade. But it hasn't translated into higher consumer inflation, which has actually been below the Fed target. So the companies are earning money without raising prices, at least on the consumer basket of goods.

FAANG, as you say, are B2B and don't show up as inflation. It's entirely believable that that's all fake money that will disappear from the market when the going gets tough. Whether it will come back... well, you probably don't want my complete unfocused brain dump which all comes down to "I dunno".
Something something Schrodinger's Bug...
then the tail ends even before then, but that doesn't mean insurance companies don't pay out billions in case of an economic crash.
Only if he has a liberal mead-while-at-work policy
This is an interesting thought and a different perspective on the situation.
I was thinking something of that kind, that, instead of being able to rely on very high quality components and very high expertise for power supply design being centralized in the PSU, everyone else (motherboard / graphics card / harddrive ) manufactures must now become able to design, and willing to implement, high-efficiency, high-quality power-regulation circuitry in their own products.

This also affects the price of those components, while it probably does not make the PSU i get to buy in a webshop any cheaper.

From an engineering viewpoint, it probably does make sense, especially for the lower voltages, as less copper may be required.
I've met a few quantitative ChemE folks who did optimization for the chemical industry (exactly what you described, except not limited to petroleum products). They said it paid well, was modestly interesting, and they all work in ML at internet companies now.
Doesnt bother me in the slightest. Sitters seem happy and protected, I'm happy and protected, the vendor makes what they can. Not everything needs to be a fight against the injustice of middle-men.
This station was on relatively thin drift ice. It seems that the soviets could have sunk it with some bombs or maybe an oil fire. Or drill a hole and drop in the sensitive equipment. Maybe they didn't think the secrets were worth the effort. I wonder how much of the mission was driven by a desire to deploy the skyhook.
The article is about human colonization, so Fahrenheit is more appropriate unit because it represents human compatible temperature ranges better than C or K.
Yep, we use Bitwarden at Emvi and personally. Really nice and easy to use tool.
I've used LastPass. I'd say it was fine, but I think quality might be slipping. They were recently acquired by a private equity firm, which I consider a bad sign of things to come. Service incidents are seeming increasingly frequent. Just yesterday, I was trying to onboard a user and their servers couldn't be reached during his initial password reset. I'm sad to say these problems are common. I want to like it; but if I'm being honest, it's got a lot of problems right now.

I see BitWarden mentioned a lot in r/sysadmin, but I haven't really tried it. Might be worth looking at.
+1 for SSO. I doubt all 100 services could use SAML or OpenID but you could get a ton of coverage.

A password manager isn’t required here because it much better to control access with SSO. The user can have one password, preferably just logging into their workstation, and then SSO will sign them into whatever apps they are allowed to. Much easier than having a password manager keeping 80-100 passwords.

In the past we used a safe credential manager that our NOC could access to get admin or other management credentials for networking devices when problems occurred. You could use the same for DB or server passwords where you need the text and combine it with a password manager if you can auto fill them. Only use these options for systems that don’t have SSO.
n=45
Link to study: https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(20)...
Is reference equality ever useful in itself, in a high level language?

Of course reference equality is a straightforward optimization for structural equality, as mentioned in the post. But it is not required to make it visible to the programmer.

Reference equally is mandatory for the garbage collector. Again it may not be visible to the programmer.

Finally there is the case of two data structures sharing a reference to a single instance of some data. Usually that is a bad idea if the pointed to data is mutable, and often makes the program leaky.

The paper reads: "So reference equality is a sensible default in a language which supports mutation.". Is it not a bad reason to support reference equality?
All it takes to avoid that is looking into commit histories of projects in each language and figuring out how they mark bugfixes. If it's suspiciously reliable you would know you made a mistake classifying bugfixes somewhere or your sample is too small or the programming practice in the language is unusual and needs closer look.
Terraforming Venus Quickly [pdf]
To expand a little bit, Bitwarden with your own hosting
We use 1Password in a startup of 40 people and it works beautifully. Great product.

We are also now starting to use Okta and SSO extensively too.
I'm impressed there's so few, they're everywhere these days..
Plenty of companies selling a good product cheap fail though. As the OP mentions, one reason is that customer acquisition can be really expensive regardless.

(A theory certainly could be that customer acquisiton was cheaper when Warby Parker was started and there were fewer direct to consumer businesses, it was more novel).

If the difference between companies that succeeded and failed was just "do they have a good product at a good price" there wouldn't be much to write about!
Ask HN:covid19, What tools/services offering free/discounted for remote work?
I quit FB as a new year's resolution. The main problem is that it's evil and I don't want to be encouraging more friends into the addiction. Something like TikTok has its evil, but it seems more trapped by their choices. Facebook has had their clear ethical choices and they prioritized growth every time.

I feel we're approaching a sunset of companies that blatantly violate privacy. It's similar to how cigarettes and sugar were king once and suddenly society strikes back at them hard.

As time goes by, bad stuff will gain traction faster, like a global virus, but we'll also develop antibodies for them faster.
Hackers Send Fake HIV Results, Coronavirus Emails to Infect Computers
But their total loans can only be up to some percentage of their total assets. So in that sense they still have to get the assets first, before they can create the loans.
> slowly turn your solar array

Sure that's nice but the angle of sunlight is very low so you are limited in that respect, e.g,. available surface area.
If it requires a lot of effort, how can you say you don't actually lose much?
Theft doesn’t happen in an ideal world. They’ll discover the flaws at some point. Id say theft and hacking scheemes could make this unfeasible or a big pain in their rearend
I'm going to try and remove any kind of political talk from this as I can.

To be honest, with Brexit looming and uncertainty around a possible election, I've spent the last year preparing myself for a recession. Over the last few years I've noticed a few businesses in Bristol contract their operations back to the capital, and salaries for software engineers overall have dropped, so I've largely been preparing for what I thought was the worst-case scenario:

1. A bad Brexit, lots of uncertainty, job losses, etc.

2. Increase in price of essential goods. We have a cupboard full of long-life essentials to last a few weeks, so we definitely won't starve. We're lucky enough to have enough room to store things in bulk, so we don't need to panic buy - and quite frankly I don't see a point in buying a ton of stuff I might not need when there are loads of people that will definitely need it.

3. A quick access fund with enough money to last me and my wife a few months, if needed.

4. In the long-term, increasing my skills in case I need to find a new job in short notice.

Many of these steps will help for Coronavirus, but a concern of ours is what our "worst-case scenario" looks like with a Pandemic AND Brexit.
If you are that badly off you couldn't afford to retire. For most of the US you have a big spending problem because SS is enough to provide food and basic house/vehicle maintenance. (I know a few people who opted out of SS and then did bad retirement planning - but most people didn't even had the option to opt out of SS)

SS isn't much I'll grant. However it is enough to provide the basics.
Sorry, I barely understand, what insurance against economic crashes?
With the base multi account container extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... you can right click in any page and have it remember the container for that domain. For example you open abc.com in container "Personal" once, then you can tell it do remember to use that container whenever you go to abc.com.

The Conex extension https://github.com/kesselborn/conex goes beyond by (optionally) prompting you for which container you want. The best part of this extension is that it lets you hide tabs that aren't in the same container, effectively giving you tab groups based on container. Once you get used to it, you won't want to go back to having 80 tabs displayed at once.

In addition
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What hardware are you using for the gateway/AP? What's the backhaul, a USB LTE modem? Do you carry it in a handbag with a USB battery pack?

I've been thinking about doing this and scrapping all but one of my data plans, and having a robust default-deny whitelist of allowed IPs/netblocks/hostnames on the phone vlan/ssid, but haven't worked out all the details yet.

How are you doing it?
I like the quote under the video:

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts — for support rather than illumination.

-- Andrew Lang
Ask HN: Coronavirus: any open source WebRTC conferencing website without login?
I beg to differ.

This is not like our ancestors have done it.
They spread as far as they technologically could, simple as that.

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

Some settlements survived, some died and got revived centuries later, but humans have continuously tried to settle further away, in a complex system that you can't reduced to "establish more or less independent [remote camps] that can survive without [base camp] indefinitely".

Space is more difficult only in it required more technology and resources, but it's the same (complex) expansion process that is hardwired in our specie since we were mere apes.
Multi-account works great with containers, far superior to chrome.

What you mean is probably multi-profile. I have never used that with chrome, but with FF I can go to about:profiles to open a new one or (according to a quick search) have a shortcut to the profile switcher or to a specific profile. What does Chrome do better?
Which about:config options specifically would you recommend?
Certainly for a company between 25 people, 1Password is great. As an added bonus, you can give staff a 1Password families account for free.

Not totally relevant to the question, but how well does it scale to enterprise? I found the need to create and manage individual access to vaults to be complicated, even at a few users. I can't imagine how you'd manage 1000s of passwords accessed by combinations of 1000s of users, including third-parties, contractors, etc. Are there any better password management solutions in the enterprise space?
I just can not agree with this concept. Using the standard you propose, architecture for instance is a social science, and I’d argue most non-computer engineering fields would be classified as social sciences as well. Computer Science is by traditional applied mathematics, at least the theoretical courses of study treat it so. But there is a reason Computer Engineering is the predominantly understood title of the overarching software field. Programming languages do not exist in some philosophical vacuum, they are created to be implemented in the real world, on real hardware, and deal with the very real physical capabilities and drawbacks of that real world hardware. While programming, and software design as it is generally practiceD, is not as rigorous as other engineering fields, it is the application of the sciences to create or implement technology. So I just can not agree that programming languages and programming are in any way a social science.

Also, just to be clear, there can be social science fields which inquire into aspects of the engineering field of Computer Science, but that doesn’t effect the underlying character of the field.

Also, also, I would strenuously argue against the proposition that mathematics is in any way ‘human independent.’ But that argument is not entirely relevant.