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But what about Nicholas and Anna Tolkien?!
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-preview-upgrade...
appears to say that, yes, that is what they plan on releasing.
It's not you, I only opened the article to see if they had dealt with input lag and just lag in general and I get 6 paragraphs of unwanted marketing speak until I even get close to something resembling actual changes.

If anyone from Mozilla is reading this, just get to the facts next time, don't insult us by throwing a ton of marketing babble at us, we don't care.
The CAD market is also not that much impressed with Vulkan's complexity.
Compare SAP versus Microsoft Dynamics ERP
WebExtension support in theory is coming in Q1 - https://github.com/orgs/mozilla-mobile/projects/44

Regardless, Firefox Preview already blocks ads and trackers perfectly fine the built-in tracking protection. I've not seen an ad in the months I've been using it.
Interesting. How would you make this to support one-to-many/many-to-many relationships?
> What's with the American obsession with outlawing poor people's jobs?

Because other countries haven't institutionalised the idea of poverty-line wages.
Of course, the scene in "The Two Towers" movie that uses some of these phrases is quite wonderful ("Elrond's Prophecy").

"....an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world."
You are technically correct, but from a more general point of view I'd consider it a regression. A Mozilla regression, if you will.
Yeh. It send through the key/values in HTTP POST and then you have the SQL and K/C's on the server, the SQL itself is not sent. Server passes them through as parameters to the Node.JS `pg` module so that takes care of defeating SQL injection.
Quite a lot of negativity from HN so far, so I'll add some counter.

I've been using the Firefox preview since it was announced and overall have found it to be a vast improvement on the previous incarnation. Tab management is much more intuitive and easier on the thumbs, the URL bar being at the bottom is jarring at first but soon becomes much easier to use, the performance is similar to the Firefox Focus which I had previously switched to from the main Firefox app.

Between this version of Firefox and the improvements to servo and webview brought in with v57 on the desktop side, we've seen a massive leap in terms of user experience across the Mozilla portfolio. Granted, addons and notably adblock is an omission, but really when I reflect on what I felt was missing from the Firefoxes of yore, I would always come back to 'look and feel' and 'performance' and I feel like these new releases go a long way to redressing the balance with the competition in my books.
Suspicious Domain Checker
Damning Recordings of Trump Leaked
I never cease to be impressed by how effortlessly humanities academics are able to write hundreds of words while saying literally nothing at all. The entire essay could be replaced with "Google wants to measure things in Toronto." Would this be a bad thing? Quite possibly! But there needs to be an argument as to why, and Zuboff doesn't have one.

Broadly speaking, measuring things is good. The previous Canadian government tried to kill our long form census, and this was met with widespread public disapproval. How is the government supposed to draft evidence-based policy if they don't have any evidence? The current government brought it back, and we all spent an afternoon filling it out.

Obviously it's different when the body doing the measuring and optimizing is a private entity, and there are legitimate concerns about a misalignment of incentives. But instead of offering a single concrete example, the author leans on the tired CAPITALISM == BAD trope, content in the knowledge that there's enough unnuanced leftists out there that she can hit solid sales numbers without even trying.

I'm grateful for the article, because I was on the fence about reading her book. Toronto Life just saved me $35.
Add-ons are the only reason i am using Firefox on android. It is slightly slower, and more cumbersome than other alternatives - but add-ons(especially ublock origin) make up for that heavily.
> So related to this decision I would say: nothing special, as far as I can see. They're just moving Firefox Preview to Firefox Unstable.

But the implication is that Preview is becoming the trunk from which future releases will be cut. If Preview lacks critical features like ad blocking and is as unstable as the previous commenter implies, it's probably not ready for that yet. (I can't comment on the bugginess, since my Preview was stuck in private mode until like five minutes ago — losing tabs was just part of the deal.)
> heat sink

Bad analogy and you cannot rely on conduction to transfer heat in space. The only means of heat transfer is radiation.
Being tempted and resisting the ring is a already common theme in the whole book. I liked the depth they gave to Boromir in the movie, but Faramir defining characteristic, as opposed to his brother, is his immediate rejection of the ring.
However, those countries generally have decent benefits and social housing, so people's net wages provide an adequate standard of living. And the wages are collectively negotiated by unions in a way that is now very rare in the anglosphere: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/12/nordic-countri...
You're generally not allowed to point a camera at public roads in the Netherlands: https://www.politie.nl/themas/camera-in-beeld.html?sid=05783...
I'm not a historian, but the way I learned it is that modern weapons got too complicated to use by uneducated peasant sons. It may be a cynic distortion of the truth, though.
This being a tabular visualisation of SQL result sets you'd either have duplication in some columns or aggregated results.

That's simply how SQL deals with 1:n and n:m relations.
You write the SQL into a JSON file. Users then can then execute that SQL with their own parameters. So the many-to-many is in your capability... A key reason for this is that it itself should not be clever.
Dringend advies aan bedrijven: stop met lekke VPN-software Citrix
Housing market got destroyed by people not paying back their loans. Assigning this to be a moral responsibility of banks and regulators is simplistic and naive.

I had to search for this excellent clip from Margin Call, which explains this better than I could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2kGHcdJYU
But they’re not stopping there:

> As for next milestones, the brand new Firefox for Android will go into Beta in Spring 2020 and land in the main release later in the first half of this year.

What state it will all be in by then remains to be seen, of course.

(Aside: ugh, “Spring” as though everyone lived in temperate and subarctic northern hemisphere. Most of the world doesn’t. This is a very American/European way of expressing things.)
And there won't be any official announcement either. 50+ people lost their job yesterday.
AMD has swooped in under Intel's nose to poach their custom logic GM
Self-Protecting Projects
The research is done in terms of a temperature anomaly from a reference that is chosen. The absolute mean temperature is an estimate based on the specific technique chosen using the data as input. The delta values are more important because they are calculated with a consistent method for a given model, whereas from model to model the value may change.

from https://www.pnas.org/content/94/16/8314

"""
The two main marine data sets are those of Jones et al. (ref. 9; see also ref. 11) and the U.K. Meteorological Office (UKMO) (12, 13). These two data sets have overlapping primary source material but differ in the way that they are corrected for instrumentation changes.
"""

https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Hansen_ha09210n.pd... (mentions the particular model in section 1, along with a discussion of the data sources).

You basically want to be looking at the temperature anomaly not the absolute temperature.
Ask HN: Where the World Is Going?
In Vietnam Grab drivers actually make a decent amount of money because a lot of their customers are middle class (relative to Vietnam). I don't think they're missing out on that much business by not having lower prices because you still see them everywhere (17 at a red light is the most I've ever seen) and people who can't afford Grab will use public transportation or their own motorbikes (student jobs may pay 20k-50k/hr, a bus ticket is 6k and a 10km GrabBike ride can be 70k, 4-5km is like 35k). A college graduate after some time may make 100k-200k/hr, and yet you'll still find a large class of people buying the latest iPhones (which would cost around 25 million).

I guess the US is a different environment where there's not enough customers who could afford realistic prices for Uber, and there's not enough alternatives for those who can't afford a personal vehicle.
Wow, Austrian law is really different!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_...

https://law.photography/law/street-photography-laws-in-austr...
I personally find this feature brilliant.
The other issue is uncertainty - you have no idea how much you will earn on a given day or if this will be the day your car finally hits one pothole too many and dies.
The refund action included a second action reporting the transaction as fraudulent. Banks treat that as an alarm signifier.
If you print technical documents often, I highly recommend a wire-binding machine like this one: https://www.renz-germany.de/produkte/renz-ring-wire/eco-s-36...

I've got a lower-end model, second-hand, still not cheap, but it's so cool.

You get real wire-o binding (not spiral binding!), so your book lays open flat on the table and the pages are right next to each other, not slightly displaced vertically like with spiral binding.
seems like someone is on a booktour
On Seniority in Software Engineering
If one doesn't use sync (I don't) it means that settings are not synced, by choice of the user. Or am I missing something?
Only about 250 million Android 4.x users, mostly relatively poor, then: https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/android-statistics/

I thought Mozilla would consider us important if only for that 10%. You know, 10% is quite important: Firefox has less than 10% of the desktop/laptop users, less than 1% of mobile users.
This is in Nightly. I know people often times do _not_ expect breakage, because Nightly has been pretty stable for a long time. But that's not a guarantee.

Most people will be concerned about lacking Web Extensions support. It's indeed not there yet and this is why this blog post is your heads-up to move to a more stable channel.

Web Extensions are being worked on as you can see dependent bugs linked from this meta issue in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582185

And FYI, for me personally the built-in tracking protection has been a decent replacement for my favorite add-ons, so I'm personally quite fine with this change :-)
"2014 - Ancient version"
Sorry, but this mindset doesn't make a lot of good for the technology. It's not 90s anymore in terms of performance growth. The reason a smartphone from 2014 is considered obsolete is not technical.
My personal/company website is pretty minimalist, I wish I could keep all my sites and apps this simple

https://redskyforge.com/
I don't know how big a factor it was, but I suspect the desire of the security services to violate privacy let them to support Brexit. Certainly Richard Dearlove (former head of MI6 "C") was out there campaigning for it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-co...
But that doesn't say anything about the impact (or lack thereof) of StarLink on wildlife.
What are you doing on HN don't you have a pointless feature to deliver that'll die in MR
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That doesn't answer the sudden change from 15C claims to 14C for the 1950-1980 period.

For example, in the following data, for 2016, they say the average global temperature as 14.8C:

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201613

If the average global temp used to be claimed to be 15C but since 2000, they claim it was 14C, then somebody is making false claims about the avg temp.
It's pretty much misleading to describe this as a Los Vegas tunnel to be honest. What they're actually doing is building a small shuttle system to get from one side of a convention centre to the other. The total length of the tunnel will be 1 mile. So in terms of what this project does, it's best compared to the sorts of bus systems, monorails, and light rail systems that airports use to transport people from one terminal to another. There's a reason these small funky transit systems are only used on small scales.

It's not comparable to real mass transit systems used on the scale of a city and the length of the tunnel means that the public really can't view the cost of this as comparable to the cost of a real Subway system tunnel or road tunnel.

The relevance of the project for TBC is that they're going to learn from it, but for the rest of us it's really not going to be that interesting.
I'm very hopeful for approaches that model around this need from the ground up. Big Data distributed stream processing frameworks like Spark or Flink allow for standing SQL queries that are incrementally build; and you can even subscribe to react to the results.

There are other initiatives for plugging it on existing RDBMSs, like Noria [1] for MySQL. It allows for subscribing to changes; and also for lazy evaluation of the materializing view rows, keeping them in cache for later.

[1] https://github.com/mit-pdos/noria/blob/master/README.md
How ‘spooky’ is quantum physics? The answer could be incalculable
Previous HN discussion about a different article (focusing on politics and very superficial concerning the actual problems) about the same subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20665422
This matches precisely none of the practical experience I've had. The police is the police, they're going to be evil bastards when they can get away with it - but in this case I'd like to see some legislative proof that this is actually true.
They're talking about the labor for moving things, and yeah, it's a "service" job so it too is owned by someone else who takes most of the profits.
Nice work. I have also build a (mysql) sql based dashboard for our internal use. It mainly shows agregated lists of data and allows to click on many items to see more details.

We use it to get more insight in our data. It does not allow a user to enter anything.

Basically my app only uses a list of queries. To allow that any selected field is clickable, the result field should be like 'report|name|field,field' so the app knows this is a special link (report) refering to another defined query ('name') and should be passed some values (record specific, here 'field,field').
Let's agree to disagree, I still consider Google a repeat offender, nothing has changed. The amount I found reported goes under cost of business and not deterring fines anyway.
Deepfakes and Audiovisual Disinformation
Anybody Keeping Up with TruffleRuby?
Xfce 4.14 Maintenance and 4.15 Updates
An edible ‘security tag’ to protect drugs from counterfeit
Very cool. I also wrote a solver using the NYT magazine's rules back in 2018, and found the bitwise method of matching both 1 and 3 point values incredibly fast. I just precalculated the hashes and ran a parallel loop over the whole array, but I know there are specialized data structures that games like Scrabble use. I wonder if that would have sped things up even more.

Anyway, whenever I see a problem that involves letters now, I reach for bit operators first.
While their consoles still support physical media they aren't monopsonies. A monopsony is a single buyer. As a game developer you have the choice to sell on the xbox store or get physical discs printed and sell them either through a retailer e.g. amazon, or directly from your own site if you wanted.

If/when they produce a generation of consoles that don't support physical media things will probably start to get a lot more questionable
Spotlight on Aqua Security
The way that all of those things are connected and propagate is not just some pseudo new age nonsense, they're very literally connected in mechanical chains. My shortened hamstrings caused my lower back to roll in at the bottom of my squats. Lengthening my hamstrings fixed my squat and my back.
> Shop owners may want to use it for marketing

That's the exact case most of us want it banned for.
Bucharest: Decade of Change&Innovation, with Adeo Ressi CEO,Founder Institute
I have no idea either but I agree on the traffic.

The old quote about rich people using public transit applies : my personal preference is to live in an (european) city with a great public transport system.
Everybody here has personal anecdotes but I think they are mostly worthless. Mostly what we read are instances of "illusion of causality/control biases"

Best thing to do is to consult a specialist who is aware of the latest research and that has identified your condition and follow what they say.
Stuff like this is one of the main reasons Cameron and May have been trying to get out of the EU. May even said not to long ago she doesn't want the UK to be bound by EU charter of fundamental rights and its too court.
I find it hard to believe someone who wanted to work for free on something meaningful would choose to volunteer for DoorDash in preference to a normal charity?
> The Scandinavian countries don't have a minimum wage either

Their unions regulate wages, and in practice this means the same thing as a government-mandated minimum wage. It just so happens that their structure is a little different.
Nice angle on recruitment.
There are still a load of applications for facial recognition that don't involve use in public places. There's no reason why EU companies can't stay involved in developing the tech.
It's one thing to limit facial recognition, but maybe those videos/pictures should not exist in the first place?
I can't see any argument where a boring machine (Elon's or otherwise) isn't "tech" and "engineering".
I just use 1.1.1.1
Yeh sounds like you had a similar revelation to me :-) This can also do the linking between "reports" or "forms". Happy you built one, makes me think this has at least some chance of success.
Everyone acts as if "evidence-based policy" is a good way to govern, but I actually don't think it is.

Laws should be decided based on principles, not evidence. There's a great Mitchell and Webb sketch to this effect: Kill the Poor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
Chinese ambassador warns Dutch government against restricting ASML supplies
How much has the cost of the fires been so far?
Not just language though. The MSM in the UK has such a narrow range it's shocking - today's leading story on the news will often be something like the rapper Stormzy's latest completely predictable opinions about whatever, and then I'll turn over to Al Jazeera and find out there's thousands dead in Peru from flooding, civil war breaking out somewhere in Africa, etc. It's hard not to come to the conclusion that they explicitly do not want an informed populace. It didn't used to be like this.
Sorry I don't see 14.8 in the URL you gave?
They blew it by not listening to hardcore gamers in the first place. By forcing the technology (and still unreasonably high price tag) onto gamers who didn't want it they created a huge backlash. If they'd sold it separately and innovated over time, slowly convincing the gamers who weren't initially interested, eventually they might have gotten somewhere.
I've tried Fenix a few times, and even without getting into extensions, it seemed like a regression in many ways.
Currently living in Hong Kong, a city that's going through a big crisis right now, it's amazing how different news organizations portray what's going on. I don't think there's a single one that's actually neutral, and just says what's happening.

But I don't even think that's the biggest issue, the biggest one is social media, there's a constant stream of carefully edited photos or videos, or some armchair detectives who push out completely made up theories about what happened. The scariest part is that people just look at it, and take it as the truth, without actually checking it.
What I'm looking for is something to replace external CHAT systems with something that stores all the data in our systems, replacing Intercom or whatever else.
could you check the code ? i think esqlate-server is .gitignored
"Most back pain, especially lower back pain, is a result of weak glute muscles"

Citation please.
That's the exact reason I will never have an Alexa, Google Home or any equivalent in my home. I was a massive xbox fan and that made it an automatic no go for me.
> The energy sector is forecasting an energy shortage in NSW and Vic due to them prematurely closing coal plants without adequately replacing that capacity.

There's also a massive backlog of green power efforts to connect to the grid, because the grid is badly designed. It was designed to take power directly from coal stations to cities, it wasn't designed to be an effective or efficient network.

Saying we need coal because we haven't upgraded the grid to meet modern demands is like saying someone with a broken arm needs a sling. It is true, but it isn't permanent, and the goal should be to get rid of it or you'll hurt yourself more in the long run.
The larger point I'm trying to make is that average global temperature is something that is calculated as a result of the specific method the people doing the study use. It's not a simple average of a list of numbers. It tries to account for missing and spotty data, instrument biases, location biases, etc.

So if they find a better way to do it the calculated value will change.
> it has powerful metaprogramming capabilities, exceeding even those of LISPs;

The part where it says it even exceeds that of Lisps, is it because it has access to change all prior tokens and later tokens? Basically factor parser words are like full program reader macros?
Feeling better about it does not change the fact that you're a draft animal.

(Not doing what you actually want to.)
This assumes that door dash is able to maintain it's employees despite another employer paying hire for the same job.
> ...if people got information about products from independent reviewers

No such thing; in markets where traditional advertising never caught hold, the 'independent' reviewers are anything but. In a way that is much worse when bias and vested interest is clearly labeled.
Fun read - great article for getting a better intuition on real world data analysis of dynamic systems (especially the part showing how bad conflating mean and median is).

Only gripe is it’s not an interactive notebook of some sort so others could play with the data.
This would have the net effect of warming the atmosphere, unless you developed new technology to simultaneously beam significant heat energy into space.
What is tab queue? Is that the new feature or is that the old feature that gp was complaining about?

What are the new features?
> I guess I should start working for an open source company.

Open source can also be mostly building things that are pointless or already exist.
What does it offer that Firefox does not ?
I use FireFox Preview on Android, I think its great compared to Chrome.
Others may have "noted" that, but it doesn't make it true. In fact, the EU common external power supply does NOT require a USB connection on the power brick. It be hardwired ("captive", in their terminology).
It's odd how everyone here has such an odd opinion. It's best to let what be be and regulate it asap. The outright ban just means we'll fall behind, as usual with everything.
Is that $21/hr in revenue or $21/hr in profit for the driver?

If the mileage cost is the $0.58/mi stated in the article, then the cost of driving ~15-30 miles in that hour is $9-17.