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This one will be emotional as this destroyed some of my today's work.

F you Mozilla. I lost all my tabs opened in other containers. The containers don't work too, so I cannot reopen them.

This bug has been known for 3 years, and you did nothing to fix it. You get so much money, and what you do is basically provide a pathetic software (thunderbird) and a nice browser (which you just stopped from working) and you show me banners asking for more money.

You should be ashamed. 3 years. And no, I'm not going to listen things like "this is open source, you are free to fix it". I will just go and switch to another browser. I need a browser which works, not a one which suddenly decides that my stuff should be broken because all the developers and managers have been ignoring a critical issue for a couple of years.

:( I know, this will be flagged, and removed. I don't care, I just need to get all my tabs in containers back. I have never thought that a browser can just close my tabs because a certificate expired.
Yes, it's the reason I bought the p20. I'm just not comfortable spending 1k on a phone. It's not just the total price but I just feel duped for being charged 100$-200$ more every generation for something that only improves very marginally.

I always felt that good technology makes things cheaper, faster, and gets out of your way. Increasingly high end smartphones don't feel like this at all.
Show HN: A Styleguide for the Galactic Empire
Ask HN: Best mask for wildfire smoke / extreme air pollution, children included?
Wildfire season for California and the US West is drawing near. While I have a pair of effective air purifiers for my home, as well as central AC, I want to be better prepared for unavoidable outings than I was during the Camp Fire last year. I have a 3M P100 ("Dust") mask that I wore outside last year (with replaceable filters), which may have been overkill (though having lived in Beijing previously, I'm inclined to err on the side of caution).

Does anyone have recommendations for less ostentatious (but still effective and certified) masks suitable for wildfire season, or even just high PM2.5 days? Especially for small children? (Have an infant and would like an option just in case an outing is absolutely necessary.) Reusability would be great, if it's possible without compromising effectiveness.
Mozilla, what ever the fuck your trying to fix, at least fix the add blockers asap & let us get tat fix before you work for hours on the rest of whatever the helm your doing.
My uBlock has been good on my android for years, there is no reason it shouldn't be good now. Your reason for blocking as I've seen is that other develoers may have hacked your shit or done such but if you block our use of our ad blockers then we can just easily get infected all the more.
Fix it now please & let us get those working then continue to fix whatever the hell else your see as problematic.
Ive read some of the book "The Art of Empathy", in which the author describes anger as "the prideful sentry." I like this way of thinking about it.

Clearly, any emotion when taken to the extreme is bad, and anger is perhaps the most obvious example -- yet I would hesitate to call its existence useless, even in a modern context. Anger & pride both have functions as "alarm systems" for circumstances which would be detrimental to certain things we value.

EDIT: I now realize that your original comment was not presenting such a black-and-white view of the subject as I originally perceived. Keeping my comment above in tact for historical purposes
I use JupyterHub on my laptop because it makes the process of starting a server automatically a lot easier.
An IT recruiter type recently told me that while January and February hiring demand was just fine, March demand was simply abysmal for whatever reasons, only to have things bounce back again in April. News stories (if you believe those) are claiming record low unemployment levels now, and that any fear of a coming recession (as was being discussed a few months back) has largely disappeared, at least for the time being.
Some of them did!
Actually 2-3 nights is a better estimate, in practice, as I understand it.

OK, so apologies as this is literally a second-hand shaggy-dog story, but here goes:

I coordinate the maintenance of a privately maintained road in the Sierra foothills. I was chatting with the equipment operator we use while waiting for the new tire to arrive to repair a flat on his grader. Anyway... his sister-in-law does goatherd contracts for CALTRANS to manage roadside vegetation. His wife's family is Basque heritage, so there is multiple generations of sheep and goat herding expertise there.

Usually, she deploys 2 or 3 big sheep dogs along with the goats to deter predation. One time on a contract along I-5 she wasn't able to bring the dogs for the first night, and lost two goats to mountain lions overnight.

The cats are out there... they hide well.
There are numerous studies you can find showing how learning a new language helps the brain in various quantifiable ways such as increases in white and gray brain matter. But these can be discovered by a simple search, so let's consider other things. To start with only 372 million people speak English natively, with 611 million adopting it as a workable second language. A total of 983 million. Putting these numbers into context, the total worldwide number of English speakers is less than the population of China. The world today has around 7.7 billion people - 87.2% of them do not speak English.

This has implications beyond just communications. Many of us tend to think about things on a global scale. But when you learn another language, especially from a different language group such as Chinese/Arabic/Russian/etc, you'll find that our views and values tend to be very different than people in other nations. I mean I think we all intuitively realize this, but there's a difference between realizing something and actually seeing and experiencing it - such as by participating in discussion sites in a different language. How can we speak of ideas on a global scale with so generally little knowledge of the rest of the world? Suffice to say that our stereotypes of other nations (from which one might hope to at least glean some insight) tend to be no more accurate or insightful than foreign stereotypes of Americans!

The web is also rapidly reflecting this difference in language. The internet was 'born and raised' English, but non-English usage on the web (which currently makes up about 45% of the internet) has been growing far faster than English usage. Probably to be expected as English is likely near saturation, but it doesn't change the point that we're going to be trending downward for the foreseeable future on the internet. And perhaps far down if English's role as the 'global language' does not persist. By speaking only English you restrict yourself not only to a small slice of the real world, but what will also be an ever shrinking slice of the digital world.

And finally there are the typical arguments. Many other nations have incredibly rich cultures and histories. And these can all be unlocked with little more than the learning of a language. I'm not even really talking about books or arts from hundreds of years ago. This change and cultural difference is ongoing - movies, games, television, etc somehow have such a sharply different feel between nations. In the process of seeing these differences, you also simultaneously learn more about yourself and how your own experience has shaped who you are - which can also help you try to see things more impartially.
That's not quite how these things work.

There's no incentive (other than a bit of ephemeral fun) for a person to drink until they pass out, but people do it anyway.

Humans are not perfectly rational utilitarian beings - and we shouldn't be. There's nothing wrong with a bit of fun here and there.

But when that fun negatively affects others (and tens of thousands of fume belching cars driving through your street as a rat run certainly falls in that camp) we should act.
I find it very exciting that spaced repetition is find some interest here recently.

There recently was another discussion related to spaced repetition[0], and at the time I dismissed it. I mostly thought "huh, bad memory never really held me back in software engineering, so I don't really care", and that with the fact that my factual memory is probably the worst it has ever been.

Fast forward a month. My biochemistry university studies have started, and I'm absolutely in love with spaced repetition. It's been one of the best learning experiences of my life. I don't think I've ever acquired that much (factual) knowledge about a new field in such a short timeframe, though there a probably other factors at play too, like motivation.

I write Anki cards on my computer and sync them to my smartphones, and then do them on my commute and before I go to sleep. Every time I go through some of my course material and encounter something where I'm not sure what it means, I note the word (with context) down in my notebook and then later sit down to write a Anki card for it.

The first exams for the semester are still to come, but largely thanks to spaced repetition, I feel very confident about them. Really looking forward to applying it in other parts of my life in the future!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529236
If you re-read the ad copy included in the article, you'll notice that it had a lockout function that disabled the screen when the engine was on (though you could still listen to the TV sound output).
Please, don't tell people to do this. This way computers get infected. People should know that clicking in a random link posted by an anonymous guy on a forum page is one of the worst things they can ever do.
>> a single critique of e-scooters that couldn't be more accurately applied to cars

Operating at high speed on narrow sidewalks. I have been clipped while walking in physically confined sidewalk areas, by a scooter moving at a dangerously high speed (amazingly, he yelled at me for being in his way). It would have been hard to do this even with a bicycle because the handlebars are wider. This could easily have ended in serious injury.

I don't object to the existance of e-scooters, but I think the ease with which they allow riders to operate at wreckless speeds in confined pedestrian lanes is novel, and probably needs to be addressed somehow.
I think the problem with Pimsleur is that the number of topics that you could become "fluent" in explodes once you get past a certain level of proficiency. I doubt that it could take you to fluency except in a very narrow range of topics due to the degree of repetition required.
This article wildly misrepresents Hungary’s new overtime law. The article makes it seem like employers can demand workers to work 400 hours of overtime and not pay them until 3 years later. The fact that it talks about the “perception” of the law rather than the actual legal provisions is telling. Here is what the law does: https://www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/hungary/new-c....

The law primarily regulates the terms of collective bargaining agreements. Most EU countries provide for such agreements to include a maximum amount of overtime for scheduled hourly workers. Some countries, like the US and Netherlands, don’t specify any maximum. The new Hungary law raises the overtime limit from 250 hours per year to 400. (France, for example, is 220. Norway is up to 400 by individual agreement. In California, there is no annual limit, but workers can’t be disciplined for not working more than 72 hours per week. The Netherlands has no annual limit, but a limit of 60 hours per week. In the new Hungary law, the maximum per week is 48.)

The three years is not how long employers have to pay for the extra hours, but refers to the “reference period” in the collective bargaining agreement over which what counts as overtime is calculated. People must still be paid their hourly rate for those overtime hours. A reference period in excess of court months, moreover, can only be set forth in a collective bargaining agreement.

Calling raising the limit on maximum overtime a “slave law” is propaganda, pure and simple. (Unless you subscribe to the notion that working for someone who privately owns the means of production is “wage slavery” but if that’s the case you should flag that premise to avoid misleading the reader.)
You’d be wrong.

Here in NZ it’s being done cleverly. Hitting an apiary and opening hives to take the best frames and switching in drawn comb. Branded frames are left. Tech solutions have been spotted and avoided.

It just leaves the site looking poor, not robbed.
> I bet there would be no shortages of workers if wages went up.

Multinational companies bring factories to Hungary, because labor is cheap. If wages go up then I guess many of those factories pack up and move east for other countries with lower wages.

So wages should go up but then many jobs may disappear.
>It's weird to see low unemployment correlated instead with nationalism.

Why is it weird? Isn't it consistent with any historical period of mass migration?
Unpaid or delayed pay for work has nothing to do with right-to-work and is illegal throughout America. The first paragraph from the cited link:

“In the context of U.S. labor politics, "right-to-work laws" refers to state laws that prohibit union security agreements between companies and labor unions. Under these laws, employees in unionized workplaces are banned from negotiating contracts which require all members who benefit from the union contract to contribute to the costs of union representation.”
How do you get these studies or beta version?
I don't think that's necessarily true. After all, the policy is effective against undesirable-but-not-malicious extensions. Before signature verification I had extensions installed in Firefox that I didn't install; today I don't. [1]

And the clearly malicious action of modifying Firefox to disable signature verification can and should be flagged by anti-malware software, which runs at a higher privilege level.

[1] Putting aside for the moment the fact that most users now have no extensions installed due to the certificate expiration issue. No Firefox user, myself included, is happy about that.
You are right. It doesn't make any sense to use certificates for this kind of stuff.

If an extension turns out to be malicious, you simply deactivate it in the store, and then proactively deactivate the existing installs. This is how Chrome is doing it.

But having a certificate does offer Mozilla the feeling of absolute control, which seems to be of primary importance for them nowadays.

This is probably the reason release and beta users are not even allowed to deactivate signing in the about:config settings.
> " Anger and fear both seem like tools for survival in a world most of us no longer live in."

i've come to settle on a mental model of fear being the driver of anger. when someone gets angry, a (perceived) threat typically underlies the anger. and anger is a way of overcoming conventional social norms to unleash energy to counter the threat.

sometimes the threat is simply to the ego of the angered person. this helps me understand my own anger, which can be confounding at times.
I'm not sure about the merits of the original claim, but you can't dismiss the Suez like that. It's the connection you need between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean and it lends itself to a ton of traffic: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:32.2/cente...
It’s an industry requirement unfortunately. Bad puns, cute bee cartoons, hexagons and extra ‘z’s all over the place.
The area where the goats trim will likely have thicker foaliage next year. Grazing by animals is a natural part of the ecosystem. The dead foliage that they eat is turned into poop which fertilizes the ground

I learned about it from this Ted Talk. Not sure if it's legit but it seems to make intuitive sense to me
https://youtu.be/vpTHi7O66pI
Isn't it likely every phone sold in the US is backdoored by the US government?

I'm honestly not sure what to do about phones these days. It's getting to the point where I don't want one, but I essentially need one for work.
> the immigrants who couldn’t come are just as human and now lose the opportunity for the jobs.

Actually, Hungarian companies do bring immigrant workers form Ukraine, etc. despite what Orban preaches, but apparently it's not enough.
Anti-paywall link: https://archive.li/0AOOK
"although I know that according to economic theory freedom including the freedom to migrate would allow greater efficiency and wealth for all"

More likely it just pits the most vulnerable against each other in a race to the bottom, and gives those with power in the system even greater power.

The argument from 'economic freedom' or 'liberal democrat' types is that the system would be more efficient overall, which might be true - but it's not very good at the 'distribution of surpluses' problem.

We have plenty of productivity in the world, the struggle is how to get it spread around fairly.

The answer to the 'economic desperation migration' problem mostly has to do with solving the host of problems from whence these people have come. Surely there will always be calamity causing a bump in migration, just as surely as regular migration will go on (regular ex-pats changing jobs, getting married to someone from another country etc.) ... but the 'greatest good' will definitely surround getting dysfunctional places to be somewhat more functional.

Also, once countries reach ballpark parity with one another, the rate of migration normalizes quite a lot, to numbers that nobody is going to be bothered about and there'll be nothing to get all populist about.

But the law itself is ridiculous ... for a so-called populist government ... this must be one of the most utterly 'un-populist' concepts imaginable.

This would be political suicide in any country, any regime, and flag, any political stripe.

Truly what were they thinking?

Edit: for some numbers: Italy has over 5 million foreign nationals residing there (8.3% of the population), the largest group among them are Romanians. Italy has also received 700 000 irregular migrants (only those that are counted) from the Med. [1] They have an unemployment rate of 11%.

Spain has also about 5 million for a total of 10% [2] of the population and a whopping 20% unemployment rate.

When unemployment rates are high and the economy is unable to absorb newcomers, supply and demand dictates that labour market will be favourable to employers, ie downward pressure on wages, with the surpluses going either to consumers, or the company/investors. Aside from some possibly lower prices for people in the middle and upper classes, and better returns in their portfolios (!), a reasonable economic argument for all of this can't be made 'in the name of freedom'.

[1] https://www.thelocal.it/20180612/immigration-to-italy-number...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Spain
Entertaining design, though I imagine it would end up just as hated as the Louvre pyramid.
I read the article a long time ago, so I don’t remember what you mean by the ANKI method. Anki is a program that assists you by automatically serving you cards. The article is quite long, but very good.

I’ve given 3 examples in some other replies, but I’d say that it’s most beneficial to keep some common stuff in the front of your mind. Like various operations on graphs and trees, how exactly to formulate dynamic programming subproblems, etc. For that I’d say it’s better to have a lot of different problems in the deck for those types of those things, rather than memorizing definitions of DP and linked lists.
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This isn't what the previous poster said - reach is something you can get on any of these platforms (and more), yet that was pointed out as what each has a monopoly on.

Can you define a market each of them has a monopoly over? There are many popular video apps and many popular social media apps. Exactly what does each of them have a monopoly on? A network effect is not a monopoly. Being the exclusive provider of convenience for some specific group of people is not a monopoly.

For example, in some religious town, it's possible that the only way to reach a certain group of people on a Sunday afternoon is to go to the church. This does not mean the church has a monopoly on reach. Likewise, it's possible that where you live, the only place you can get a meal at 2AM is Aunt Ann's Diner. This doesn't make them a monopoly. Nor is the only sushi restaurant in town a monopoly. We live in a world of differentiation - every service provider that has a reason to exist provides something that others don't. This doesn't make everyone a monopoly.

Also, on none of these platforms is it trivial to build a large audience. And it's certainly possible to build a large audience through other means. For any given platform to have a monopoly on reach, people must be spending so little time outside of this platform that it's impossible to reach them otherwise. That's not a world any of us lives in. Even Youtube accounts for a very small fraction of time spent on watching videos and Facebook and Twitter are two of a large number of popular social networks. Snapchat, WeChat, iMessage, Weibo, TikTok, QQ, VK, Reddit, LinkedIn and Line to name a few.
The thing that sucks about such a thing is that for those of us who want standard components, we'll be relegated to the cheaper automobiles meant for those with less buying power - if we can get them at all.

One vehicle I would love to purchase - if it ever makes it to market - but one that I doubt I'll be able to, is the Ox Global Vehicle Trust flatpack truck:

http://oxgvt.com/

Those trucks just look so damn useful and neat, and you get to put it together yourself!

Which means it'll never see the light of day being sold in the United States. I've kinda figured that if I ever want a vehicle like that, I'll have to design and build it from scratch myself.
TIL that Cloudflare is (Edit: was, article is a few years old) Nazi-friendly anyway...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/How-San-Francis...

> Cloudflare also has an added appeal to sites such as the Daily Stormer. It turns over to the hate sites the personal information of people who criticize their content. For instance, when a reader figures out that Cloudflare is the Internet company serving sites like the Daily Stormer, he or she sometimes write to the company to protest. Cloudflare, per its policy, then relays the name and email address of the person complaining to the hate site, often to the surprise and regret of the person complaining.

> This has led to campaigns of harassment against those writing in to protest the offensive material. People have been threatened and harassed.

[...]

> Andrew Anglin, the owner of the Daily Stormer, has been candid about how he feels about people reporting his site for its content.

> “We need to make it clear to all of these people that there are consequences for messing with us,” Anglin wrote in one online post. “We are not a bunch of babies to be kicked around. We will take revenge. And we will do it now.”
So, I don't have any good ideas why. Can you give me more information about what exactly happens? Can't promise anything but details might help.

I.e. something like

- I open the browser console

- I click the .xpi link

- The following appears in the browser console immediately after clicking the link:

WebExtensions: new intermediate certificate added api.js:15
WebExtensions: signatures re-verified api.js:23

- My addons do not come back

- If I try to install an addon from addons.mozilla.org I get <this message about the addon signature verification failing> in the browser console.
After learning about Normady thing, I am literally now blocking every Mozilla, Firefox and their affiliate domains and their Ip adresses. The trust is lost. I rely on Debian repo and like other's mentioned, Normandy seems to bypass Debian oversight.