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With the proliferation of mobile devices, you'd expect there to be an increase in footage of such sightings with an equivalent increase in quality. Yet virtually everything available is low quality, grainy rubbish. On the other hand, the accessibility of video editing software makes such claims dubious at best regardless of quality or presentation.

I agree with others who've suggested this is either a counter intelligence effort or the military is doing something and wants to involve others in "sightings," probably to gauge the success of certain programs. If it's not some sort of clever projection, those UFOs probably have US markings on them. Otherwise, the belief it has something to do with aliens is probably wishful thinking.

I'd recommend listening to John Michael Godier's top 10 lists regarding alien messages, first contact, or SETI [1] if you want a healthy dose of realism. In particular, his "10 SETI messages that we may not want to receive" [2] is especially good, even if the first part is rather depressing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEszlI8-W79IsU8LSAiRbDg/vid...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKVpHTMj3XM
>> "drag-and-drop tools never fully provide"

Really? How many of the machine learning "specialists" actually write custom codes for matrix operations done by the ML engines?
What about the first part I wrote? Do you find CRL a useful feature in CAs/WoTs?
It's worth reading the comments on the original HN article about Firefox extension signing becoming mandatory. Some of them are eerily prescient:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10038999
Forbes’ tech coverage is shameless clickbait, especially when it comes to Apple.

The amount of articles they pump out along the lines of “Apple’s new phone/os release/computer/service/whatever has a nasty secret.” is ridiculous.
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Because it’s a “new world order” kind of project, not a religious one. See Celine Dion’s new brand, that sells death-designed clothes for babies, or anything new really: The goal is to change the world for the pleasure of change and loss of roots. The goal is to lose any attachment to any tradition, custom or legacy, and make every country the same mix of multicultural pot.

Upside is, you won’t need to travel in 2030, all countries will look the same.
That belief leads to some really ugly conclusions really quickly. I'm not saying it's necessarily wrong, just that it needs a very long list of caveats if you don't want your country to become a cautionary tale.
First time I hear that it is hated as well!
I think Californias would go for this. A lawn service that just brings goats to your house once a week.
Thanks for the detailed response! I think your team is handling this the right way.
OK, so... I right clicked, saved-as and then ran the XPI... and that worked. So thank you for that suggestion.

As for the studies image, that's only half of the fix according to the blog post [1], mine is only verification-timestamp, not signing-intermediate-bug.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-...
Good information, thanks!

I've been on the timestream preview list for months...
Well, for what it’s worth, I like it. Old buildings aren’t always that old - they are added to over the centuries, with parts reflecting the tastes of their individual times. Why not add something reflective of our times?

I sometimes think there is an “English” approach to conservation in which history is something to be preserved with utmost fidelity - and a “French” approach, where history is something you are part of.

This idea seems very French.
This is a great question.

> "You don't need to memorize code. Just Google it".

This is the same as saying "you don't need to memorise english words, just look them up." Just imagine what the flow of the conversation would look like. Or how one would engage in commenting on HN.

> Would like to know how you overcame this?

I guess the answer is the same as with learning any other skill. Practice. In a dedicated learning setting, not at work.

And as a side note, I still believe a formal education, as oppose to self-taught, has some merits.
For those who balk at the mentioned 192kB of memory - the addressable memory was 32 kilo-words (each 48 bit), and the ma vc one was equipped with virtual memory so actual physical memory was larger.
>> > predatory unions

> Whoops ;-)

That's not taking sides. I didn't call all unions predatory. Regardless of how prevalent it is, it is most certainly possible for any organization to be predatory. I'm not claiming if that is 1% or 99%. Just stating that it is X% that Right to Work laws are trying to address.

Are you saying that it is impossible for people with power to abuse their power or that union leaders have no power over their members? To me there is a clear disparity in power between union leaders and union members. In fact that disparity is why unions exist because the same disparity exists between employer and employee.
Studies are installed and their data sent to Mozilla without my knowledge or consent. Updates are installed with my consent. Pretty big difference.
>In fact, Java is so far behind C# with true Generics

It's not "true Generics" it's a different generics tradeoff (tradeoff not just for backwards compatibility sake).

And LINQ is not that important in the grand scheme of things. Are Haskell, CL, or Smalltak also "far behind" C# for not having LINQ? It's just another feature. You can most of the same things with a fluent interface, streams, and functional composition, and without straying off the regular syntax of the language into a LINQ DSL.

Besides, last time I've checked, Java still has the performance edge over C#.
That would be viewed as undermining the trillion dollar higher education business. We need universal higher education. What if the next Einstein couldn't afford college?
What a ridiculous over simplification. Those are great qualities, but they also describe most dogs.
Also due to similarity of languages. After short time Ukrainians can speak Polish well enough to communicate with just a bit of Eastern accent.
>My guess here is archive.is feels they have some need to restrict what content is provided to where in the world

Couldn't that be done later, by blocking the actual HTTP TCP connections instead of blocking the DNS requests? Maybe it's an efficiency issue, that they want the higher-efficiency blocking by DNS rather than lower-efficiency blocking during HTTP TCP, but that seems a little strange to me.
The "way it was" is a 19th-century reimagination from people who obviously did not follow your advice.
An example of something that Cloudflare's approach provides some protection from: http://dnscookie.com/
Interesting. So there's both ability and motive.

It doesn't surprise me to be truthful. I believe the plurality of so-called "UFO researchers" are selling something. Be it books or speaking engagements.

I confess my opinion may be colored by the fact that I live not far from the Roswell UFO museum.
I think one of the problems of the modern "gig economy" or the general "job hopping" approach to the job market, is that teaching and coaching doesn't work.

Why should an employer risk with the education of a worker that may then leave for another company?

Such approach worked in the past, when you entered a company when you were 19 and left when you retired (unless the company blew up, of course). Then, you could expect to get 100% training on the job, by your company.

Now, you need most skills before entering. And you should expect minimal training.
I wish I could upvote the half of this comment that questions the wisdom of seeing good docs as a bad signal, and not upvote the part about not disclosing these issues earlier.

This same question comes up when people reveal abuse (of any kind) or other traumatic experiences.

People need time to process some events, and when you're going through some interpersonal trouble, you may think this (is your fault|will go away|is not a big problem|has been solved).
It has nothing to do with privacy, as the next thing following DNS resolution is establishing a TCP connection which always leaks full IP address to the same person or organization controlling authoritative servers. Basically EDNS is just a convenient way for DNS-based CDNs to provide a better edge node. But this is directly competing with Cloudflare, so Cloudflare invents excuses not to implement something that helps other CDNs.
The users of the app like the ease of access on their Mac, ie. no tabbing around, always in your menubar.

Many users also use it as a quick way to compile to-do lists.

Lastly, the carousel in the menubar, which is the original idea, is a novel way to keep your notes in a just-obtrusive-enough manner.
I bought a Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 for about $600 earlier this year to replace my old iPhone and I'm quite happy with it. iPhone is sticking with that notch design that I really hate, and it made me started to explore other options. Mi Mix 3 and Honor Magic 2 has a sleek slider design that removed the need to put front facing camera directly on the screen. It's nice to have more options
Compiler speed is a fantastic tradeoff. I'm made of meat that runs at maybe 0.0001 MHz after coffee, so I want to offload anything I can to the compiler!
Judging by this thread, I might be the only one who likes this design so far.

It's pretty neat in my opinion to try to have a bit of our century represented in the notre dame for future generations.

I'm curious which one they will end up going for in the end.
Typically, if you experience that, it’s because DNSSEC fails. 1.1.1.1 enforces DNSSEC. As does 8.8.8.8 in most, but not all, cases. Many other DNS resolvers do not enforce DNSSEC. Archive.is (and its directly affiliated sites) are the only exception like this I am aware of. And, to be clear, as a policy the 1.1.1.1 DNS does not block any sites from resolution.
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Food franchises, nightclubs, hospice, etc.
They only point out the opt-in instructions for the few people that voluntarily opt out of Shield studies and wish to get the fix sooner.

Most Firefox users have that checkbox enabled by default, and so most Firefox users received the fix within 0-6 hours of the blog post's publication.

HN readers often take special care to prevent Mozilla from updating Firefox, but that in no way represents the wider population of either all addons users or all Firefox users.
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> In effect, you're doing your sharding client-side?

Correct. Some ETL inserts to specific nodes when sharding is necessary, in other cases Kafka engine tables on a group of nodes subscribe to common topics, and we simply let the whole cluster participate in queries. This works just fine when table scans are acceptable.

Rebalancing is a missing option here, short of moving partitions manually. But in my specific use cases, I have not yet needed to rebalance across nodes.

Note using native Clickhouse replication is still an option if we need it. One cost to it is the extra work needed in the database cluster, so addressing it in an eariler layer works for us.

> How do you handle cross-node queries like joins?

If I understand your question, since we are using the Distributed view type across the cluster definition, a query on any node will receive data from the others as part of a join-less SELECT, and federate on the node with the client connection.

We are not doing any database-side JOINs currently. Plans are to augment data in ETL, or join data post-query (potentially Spark). Clickhouse dictionaries handle simple cases.
Honestly, I suspect to minimize the support load, see how many questions I got here as just a dude suggesting it unofficially that no one should really trust? It's fine at HN scale, but it's probably not fine at Mozilla scale.

They'd rather that the people who are having issues with it just wait for a new build than waste engineering time. Probably rightly so.
It is done quite often and has been done in California for decades. Every few years a reporter finds out that goats are used for fire control for the first time and writes something that makes it sound like a new thing.
Trades are taught in apprenticeships, IT and SWE can be taught on the job and in boot camps. Barge captains are taught out of high school on the job, same with construction, retail, hospitality. What cant be? Doctors, lawyers, and a few other deep knowledge niches. Some jobs require lots of formal education, most jobs do not. I’d never recommend an MBA to someone now that YC’s Startup School is available online.

A gross simplification doesn’t mean the thesis is wrong.
thank you sachin18590!
Is it that hard to admit that Apple products can no longer command a premium among its competitors? The company is now in a great trouble into irrelevancy because of years' inaction.
I am sure an update will be pushed quickly. I'm waiting too, as a testing user.

You can fix this temporarily via setting "xpinstall.signatures.required" to false. Toggle it back to true once update is released and you install it.

Meanwhile I'm hijacking this comment that is to the upper parts of the tree to state this: the way the community treats Mozilla and Firefox is horribly, inexplicably, unacceptably unfair.

This is nothing compared to innumerable other fuckups in software history, and even recent ones like goto fail, heartbleed, or Chrome logging you into Sync w/o notice.

This is a mistake, an easily recoverable one, and is not intentional or malicious. Firefox is developed in the out and open, all the processes are public. And people, with an absurd entitlement and malice, go as far as to call things backdoors or malware. Meanwhile the alternative actually is a backdoor ridden malware.

Please don't be this ungrateful.
The mere mention of the word "extraordinary" is presumptive and asserts a line of reasoning that must be defended if one requires claims to be interpreted through it.
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> It makes it feel like a zero-sum situation, although I know that according to economic theory freedom including the freedom to migrate would allow greater efficiency and wealth for all.

It should but in reality it doesn't. Corruption and crime in developing countries makes them less attractive to investment and migration, so migration only goes in 1 direction. Developing countries lose skilled workers and in western countries real wages go down.

For freedom to migrate to actually create greater efficiency, there would need to be no barriers to migrating to lower-cost areas (developing world), that way workers and small-business owners (and not just massive multinationals) could take advantage of lower costs in other countries.

Right now the situation is far from ideal, hence why you see anti-immigration movements in every western country.
Goats fuck your ecosystem and can go feral and permantly fuck the ecosystem.

If a car hits one and the person dies it's a lot of paperwork.

Judas goats are interesting ( you GPS lock them in for land clearing ) but I 100% doubt they are very effective in general.

Goats are not cheap when used this way.

Goats are quaint and make life interesting and provide a jobs, but until people stop dieing from simple things not convinced 100% on arbitrary job creation.

IMO this is performance art, which I enjoy but do think should have limits on money spent.
Try photographing a bird with a phone camera. Then try it with no advance notice, whipping it out and shooting as fast as you can. You'll get a blur, just like the crappy phone camera photos of "UFOs" all over the Internet.

It's an extraordinary claim, sure, but it isn't impossible that some fraction of UFOs are someone else. "They are here but are not making overt contact" is one potential Fermi paradox answer. The apparent abundance of possibly habitable planets demands some answer here I think.

There are many rational reasons an alien intelligence would avoid overt contact with some being altruistic (prime directive type thinking), some neutral (same reason we decontaminate space probes), and some selfish (we are aggressive and capable of rapid technological progress).
> we never get any sight from them with verifiable data

This is false. In the above example of the Nimitz, we have sighting by two professional pilots, and radar/scanner readings. This is not a lone example.
Every browser I used has managed to lose my open tabs, chrome did it most frequently and with no obvious way to restore them. Hurts every time, but the only actual answer you will not be happy to hear is you shouldn't depend on browser saving your current open tabs, that's just asking for trouble.
I have created a flashcards app for Android that tries to use sort of a spaced repetition system, just if anyone is interested in trying:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flashcards.wor...
I have a lot of biases in my vision. Optical illusions are clearly one example of exploiting those biases.

I suspect there are a lot of biases in processing return signals from radar, an expectation of motion like things actually move.

So, if i had the resources of a nation, and some idea of how radar actually works, i could build a device that actually made a steady turn from, say west to north, look like something else.

I know very little about how radar works in the nitty gritty details, but i know a little bit about how our eyes are fooled by optical illusions. dynamically changing color, and maybe some little helper parts that fly away and change color or produce smoke would really mess with my eyes.
it's weird how fireworks always fly right toward you no matter where you stand, right?

Extending that to radar and infrared seems totally reasonable. Also, my eyes have a lot of evolution both adding biases, and ensuring those biases don't mess up very often.

Automated systems don't even have 80 years of engineering effort to accurately represent what's happening.
Cloudflare does support EDNS. They just don't forward the client's subnet due to being privacy-oriented, doing which is optional and perfectly valid.
Non sequitur. An installed addon could be signed with a certificate. Mozilla can push out a revocation for that certificate if it deems it appropriate. The revocation can pop up a modal telling users it wants to disable the addon. The user can click 'Disable addon' or 'Ignore (dangerous)'.

This doesn't need to be done through a dead man's switch (expiring certificate) that someone will forget to renew.
It seems a strategy so obvious and obviously doomed to fail, but I have to assume Apple know what they're doing.

I think they're taking the same route on other product lines, the MBP particularly stands out for me - most don't seem want recent "innovations" used to justify runaway price increases.

I'm certainly watching this space with interest.
https://twitter.com/bad_packets/status/1124429828680085504

Looks like someone was scraping for `.git/config`
Glad to hear it worked.

You're right about the image, that's weird, I can't think of any reason why the verification-timestamp one would be necessary.
Could they send "generic" subnet or even better could they let user choose the subnet?
The GPS tracker can't be easily removed or the thieves would simply remove it. Ideally it's located inside each hive so that you can't reach it without disturbing the bees.

If they're on the pallet, the thieves will simply move the hives off the pallet and onto their own. The thieves have already proven to be highly informed about the market so they will know how the GPS trackers work.
One of these days I gotta write an in-depth discussion of my teaching logic. The reasons I have for starting with PlusCal are fairly complex, and there are also disadvantages to it, too. But I still think that for many engineers, it's easier to learn PlusCal and then TLA+ than to go straight to TLA+.
Come on man. That's a childish thoughtless response. If you actually read my responses to these nutcases you will agree that THEY are the ones damaging the community by mindlessly supporting this third world dark age of censorship.
Too late to edit the above, but this reminded me of the infamous in-joke about category theory use in Haskell: "A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors. What's the problem?" [1]

[1] https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-...
> what would you call slavery but terrorism? Violence to achieve and maintain a political objective. What is war but terrorism really?

So by your definition, the Union fighting a war to free the slaves was terrorism. So your argument is basically to fight terrorism with more terrorism.

> paying southerners to free slaves, is tantamount to paying a kidnapper to release their hostages. If you're smart, you just don't do that. The only thing it does is embolden other kidnappers.

This claim is obviously false when applied to paying slaveowners to free slaves. Great Britain and other countries paying slaveowners to free slaves did not embolden other slaveowners. In fact it did the opposite.

> paying someone for land you live on, you farm, and you make valuable, but they take the profit off of it with no input from you at all?

Huh? We're not talking about the slaves buying their freedom. (Although that did happen in the South--it wasn't common, but it happened.) We're talking about the United States Government paying the slaveowners to buy the freedom of the slaves, in exchange for the slaveowners' agreement to outlaw slavery. Just like Great Britain did with its slaveowners. Do you even understand what actually happened in the latter case?

> you and I just think differently about these things

As far as I can tell, you are thinking not about what I actually proposed, but about straw man versions that you have made up.
Good point - I’ll repost without the “show”. I figured that it was a list of texts, each of which can be “tried out”, but if - as you suggest - the criterion really only applies to code, then I’ll change the post

Update: removed the “show” from the title - thanks for the policing (I don’t want to use hacker news improperly, I love this site)
Well, I agree, and I don't work at Oracle. So? Any other conspiracy theories?
There are several goat services in my area driving around with trailers full of goats in Minnesota.

They deploy them in parks to eat / manage invasive growth, or just "mow" overgrown areas for private folks who have a lot of land. They're really handy for steep hilly areas that need to be cleaned out.

Before that when I grew up in a rural area if you had a horse(s) you'd just tie them to the fence along the road and they'd trim the ditches quite nicely.
Could you use your own subnet in the EDNS that matches client's country or could you let user configure what data would be shared?
When has the human instinct ever been to give away an advantage over others?
I (random HN user) happen to know of lancaster.ac.uk (there was a comment thread a while back where this was mentioned).
Anyone can prefetch data into the cache, but letting programmers control cache eviction would open the door to all kinds of user errors which would kill performance.
Heh, I joined as a S/E at my current company when there were only a few engineers at age 19 and am still there six years later.
The appears to be an argument about semantics, enabled by Sagan's failure to precisely define "extraordinary". For the sake of argument, I'll define it here as "breaking the laws of thermodynamics". A reactionless thruster, which is one of the "scifi" technologies alluded to by the article, breaks the first law of thermodynamics.

Thermodynamics is so fundamental to physics that it is "extraordinary" that anything violating it is correct, i.e. the prior probability of the supposed violation being correct is extremely low, and low enough that we have to consider unlikely alternative explanations, e.g. failures of the research process itself. For non-extraordinary claims, we can assume that the scientists are not lying or insane, but when the prior probability is low enough, these possibilities are no longer ignorable.