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That feature is called tab queue, and it can be disabled in settings.
>Consider that in some cultures you're not allowed to film/photograph people in public without their consent.

That's the exact case in Austria and it's not always a good thing though as most of the times it ends up protecting the wrong doers.

For example as a cyclist you're not allowed to use a dash/action camera because you'd be taping people without their consent so if you get hit by a car and have no witnesses then it's your word against his in court and who can afford the more expensive lawyers.

If you did use an action cam to tape the accident then the driver's lawyers could have the footage dismissed as it was obtained without his consent and he could even sue you and ask compensation for it. Sad world.

Austria just got Google Street View last year as the previous strict privacy laws that were blocking this were relaxed.
From your link:

-The train surveys 4,800 miles of track every two weeks.

-The train covers 115,000 miles in a year.

It does not cover the entire system every two weeks.

EDIT: Wikipedia suggests a little over 10,000 miles of track in the UK, so it might be going over it all once a month though I suspect that heavily used high speed lines are covered more frequently than less used lines (which are more comparable to Caltrain).
The simplest thing you can do to avoid/treat muscle related back pain is performing two exercises every morning: “Superman“ back extensions and hamstring stretches. They take less than 5 mins.

Scooby’s workshop is a great resource to learn the exercises and more about lower back pain: https://scoobysworkshop.com/preventing-lower-back-pain/
> Because perception is so centered on thought, we tend to overappreciate the importance of thinking in our lives, in our behaviors and even values

Very true. Thought can become our master easily. As a programmer, I often find myself struggling to get out of 'logic' mode or 'thinking' mode.

> I'll let you ponder the discrepancy from an absolutely (perhaps) low-level logical machine to the possibility of a chaotic non-logical emergent high-level behavior. What it means for life, for AI, and possibly much bigger or smaller things we consider "inert", for now.

Wonderfully put! I think the ideas of emergent behaviours are a saving grace for the incessant desire of ours to reduce everything to its atomic (in the sense of an atomic operation, not an atom) components. The emergent behaviours, can't be predicted. They can't be algorithmized. Becuase to build algorithms one must go down to those atomic operations.

My wider concern is that we are currently obsessed with analytical thought and philosophy and that the continental philosophy has become a 2nd class citizen. I think this has happened becuase analytical thought lends itself to being algorithmized, whereas continental philosophy does not.

Sorry, that was a bit of a tangent!

Yes! Love the pictures! I have had the same thought/feeling when I first saw them too!
Does anyone else think total bans on this technology are excessive? Why not enact strict controls on the collection and use of face/location data, yet still leave room for obviously useful applications like (for instance) arrest warrant subject recognition at bus stops, airports, train stations, etc.?

It just seems ridiculous to have officers scanning CCTV for the FBI's Most Wanted when algorithms could effectively and responsibly assist them.
Settings - Default Launcher - there's a checkbox that you can uncheck to not open random links in private tabs.
By "shop owners may want to use it for marketing" you mean large companies that would love to build complete behavior profiles and then sell them?

Edit: Even if this is somehow restricted to small ago owners I don't think they have the right to have my identity because I setup into their shop. I do think a reasonable exception could be carved out to allow monitoring for a specific list of individuals who have been banned from the premises.
CCTV usually already has rather strict limits on what you can do with the footage and how long you're allowed to keep it around.
What he actually said is that for these games the effect on cognitive skills was measured, which has not been done for other games. It may quite well be the case that many other games have the same or even a stronger effect, but it hasn't been measured yet.
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> Blindly trusting one's government ain't a good recipe for long term freedom and happiness.

Of course I'm not advocating blindly trusting the government, but we generally do trust the government until it reveals otherwise.

After all, CCTVs are really just a tradeoff; they are for citizens safety, and accessing it is very restricted for privacy reasons.

> this is sort of one-way road [snip]

> Sooner or later somebody craving for absolute power and control will start abusing it, be it in intelligence or government (or both).

I'm not sure if it really is; democracy is there for a reason. (We have impeached our president in 2017 for various reasons - which for many people in our country, was a living example that sometimes politics work after all :-))
Is there a way to port Apple's Vision API to javascript for a webapp, or use their models without an Apple device like Apple Maps on Duckduckgo?
Been thinking about auto tagging lately. How did you end up putting your solution together? Do you find it reliable enough to not worry about it?
A total ban is not being proposed. It is a temporary ban that may include exceptions for security and research projects.
There is no reason. We identify things in terms of words, not positions on the stack. We think "multiply first vector's y coord by second vector's z coord", not "multiply item 15 on the stack by item 12 on the stack". Thus, stack-based languages lose out in usability and are really just a curiosity without much practical applications.
I can see why they did it that way. Fixing the algorithm would require setting the base pay relative to delivery cost and then canceling orders that don’t tip enough to get accepted. Not exactly palatable for customers. ”Your order was not accepted by any drivers. Try again!”
No matter how much joy people get from driving, it is not worth 37,000 deaths per year. There are proven ways to reduce road fatalities (busses). The government should not be in the business of wasting taxpayer money regulating private pleasure cars.
I guess I should have been a bit more clear.

When customers tip, and total wages in the tipped jobs are thus higher than in the non-tipped alternatives, workers will change jobs until expected total wages are about equal.

What works in other countries, eg Japan or Australia, is that different social norms lead to much less total tipping. But you can't transform eg American into Japan or Australia at a whim.

It's up to customers to make tipping the exception and not the norm. But that's hard: because the individual tip goes directly to that starving poor devil who served you and has a relatively big impact on their life, but only a very small impact on workers' expectations when changing jobs, there's a 'tragedy of the commons' going on: each individual tip you give provides you with a nice warm fuzzy feeling of altruism, but it damages your total goal of having decent base pay.

So, it's very hard for individual customers to change that. But: individual employers can drive change. They can forbid tips and prominently display that they do so, so that both prospective workers and customers now what they are in for.

Prospective workers will demand higher base pay. Customers will take the lack of tip into account when comparing prices.

A Google search for 'restaurant bans tips' shows a lot of write-ups about experiments. It's not a panacea, of course.
Interesting idea. Are you doing anything to protect against sql injection attacks?
And it is one of the reasons I use FF on Android
I am curious but I have pointed out similar discrepancies quite a few times but never received a satisfactory response. Now a days, I am pretty much afraid to even point out such discrepancies in other data too. I can share another example if anyone's curious.
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Just a point of vocabulary:

- planting trees where there were before: reforestation

- planting trees where there never were before: afforestation

Even with afforestation we won't be able to plant enough trees to fill the hole back. Especially if we use the wood for heating.
Making lots of money, that is what they're doing. They do seem to have managed to get people to believe that it is normal for a cable to fail after such a short time.

By the way, I guess that your phone's standard cable is not mini-USB but micro-USB.
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iPhone users don’t switch to Android in enough scale for that to be a factor.
In the Culture, for biological beings, it is considered in bad taste to live more than a 4-5 centuries. Although effective biological immortality is possible, at that age most Culture citizen choose to die, while a some upload themselves or become drones.

I do not remember the books go too much into details about the reason for this tradition though.
So far, no solid research has been able to show that brain training exercises change your thinking or behavior in measureable ways once you leave the smartphone screen

https://www.inverse.com/article/34018-lumosity-brain-trainin...
Sometimes sites using the dark mode preference are annoying. Usually they just slap white text on dark background which is utterly unreadable for me for blocks of text.

I like to use dark schemes for coding because I get access to more colors and the lines are short and spaced. But for reading a paragraph more than just changing the text color is needed, and none of the sites does that.

So the sites having it toggleable would actually be quite cool. I hope browsers will get a possibility to check/uncheck this per-site.
The sad thing is that these progressive ideas seem to come from the ivory tower of the EU, and are then pushed onto the member states, sometimes against their will.

Whilst these are great ideas, this is not really democracy. I think it's also the source of much anti EU sentiment. I wish more of this stuff would be decided in public debates. I wish elections had more of an effect on the EU.

At the moment it feels like policy is being made by academics and beurocrats. And whilst it is good policy, it still feels wrong. I am afraid we are keeping it this way because we think otherwise we would have shite policy.
Intel tried that with Itanium. It didn't go well.
Ten per cent sounds significant to me. If you were saying "oh, all 4.x versions make up just over 1% of Android versions" it's probably fair.

New phones are not without costs even when they're cheap. It is better for everyone to use your phone until it stops working. And if you come from a place where a nice job lands you $150/mo a cheap phone is still expensive.
Firefox preview crashes on my 2019 Android phone when I attempt to upload a file to the web. I hope this is no longer the case...
The speed that the Dark guys are moving is so damn impressive. You guys rock
At least in the Netherlands there’s the same loophole as in the US: the police can give a camera to a private party, point it to the street and get access to the feed.
In general, I agree with the principle: presentation and source code are not tied together. But we've been constrained to ASCII for programming for far too long. Sure, there are benefits, but is there a way forward? How can we know if we don't explore it.

Most development IDEs are configurable and extendable in such a way. Or well, at least the one I am using is (Emacs). Just like opinionated languages have not had those choices stop them from becoming widespread (eg Python re indentation), so shouldn't the character set used either.

You could also redefine your keyboard layout (eg. a happy hacking keyboard has no marks on the keyboard) or come up with a programming input method (IM) to use — not everyone would have to do it, someone would make it and others would use it. But making wider use of the characters available has to start somewhere, and it can't start with input systems (before there's a widespread need for them).
Germany didn't even have a minimum wage until fairly recently. The Scandinavian countries don't have a minimum wage either, see eg https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/12/nordic-countri... Neither does Switzerland.

What's with the American obsession with outlawing poor people's jobs?

(My adopted home country, one of the richest places in the world and one of the best places to live, doesn't have a minimum wage either.)
But they love testing! And users! That is all what matters I guess?
If string theory is correct, there are a number of higher dimensions, the existence of which would influence gravity at short distances. The idea is that some gravity leaks away to the other dimensions. This is a function of distance, so at short distances less gravity has leaked, and gravity should be stronger. Efforts to find this effect haven't turned anything up yet, though.
How and when did this become the definition of AI? I feel like we techies lost an important distinction by simply accepting the marketing appropriation of the term. What do we now call real AI?
A long-term motion of large structures of dark matter may be one explanation. We still don't know too much about dark matter except it plays central role in building the cosmic web.

I hope James Webb Space Telescope will not fail to operate and its launch will not be delayed again (the project is 25 years old).
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22073217
Reminds of a submission from a year ago on autogenerating knowledge base from articles from the web [1]. I think it'd be neat if Q&A Nets and other techniques sufficed to the point where we would prefer using "knowledge engines" over search engines, like a generalized Wolfram Alpha.

[1] https://primer.ai/blog/quicksilver
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This is my second time participating in the startup school, which should start on Monday.

How can I win it's $15k fund?
Is there a known recipe?
Web-extentions are comming, i hope that it will be fully functionnal before it replaces the current firefox
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/7280
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Can someone with Firefox for Android nightly confirm whether extensions are actually not available with this new release?

I agree that this would be a cataclysmic regression for Mozilla, if that is indeed what they plan on releasing.
And yet 50% of the coal we export is metallurgical coal. The kind needed by humanity in almost every kind of construction and large scale manufacturing.

For some reason though, it's always lumped in with thermal coal by protesters and so-called environmental activists.

Also, you are massively kidding yourself if you think that Thermal Coal doesn't affect your everyday life in Australia. Enjoy no power and a collapsed grid if you remove most of the baseload power in the grid. The energy sector is forecasting an energy shortage in NSW and Vic due to them prematurely closing coal plants without adequately replacing that capacity.

South Australia may be "net green" or close-to if you are to believe headlines, but it would collapse instantly without the baseload of Victoria stabilising its grid and supplying power when required (and Vic later accepting power and lowering its coal output for the close to free useless power).

There is close to 0% chance that QLD alone will be able to supply the missing power that NSW and Vic will require.
I loved LoTR, but Silmarillion is an higher level of epicness.

I understand that later in life Christopher Tolkien regretted having published it as he felt he had done too much editing, but I'm glad he did anyway.
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You could book an Uber to two streets away and tell the driver that you actually want to go to somewhere else, and you'll pay the guy under the table. Bet they won't mind that.
Understood. My question was more about what is the exact content of a slice, apart from the chunk: is it the sibling's hash and the uncles hash ? Something else ?
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For those complaining there is no adblocker, support for uBlock Origin is already implemented upstream. https://twitter.com/FirefoxPreview/status/121564800555626496...
Oh, I didn't know what's called. Thank you.
Note that this is about Firefox Nightly, not Firefox regular:

> A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly

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.

> while I do enjoy the new approach (...) this announcement is completely useless and void of information. ("Brand new experience", whoa.)

You're mentioning this yourself: Firefox Preview is a very new experience compared to the current mainstream Firefox for Android browser. You and I may be aware of Firefox Preview's existence, but for those out there who are not this is not a post that is useless and void of information.
It's a process involving basic Natural Language Processing tools: stopword removal and dictionaries. It works well for English most of the time (when the link is an article) and Chinese not as accurate (Chinese is hard to segment into useful words tbh).

What kind of links are you looking to auto-tag?
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ask a vietnam war resister if "arrest warrant subject recognition at bus stops, airports, train stations" seems like a good idea.
I have to walk through Cardinal Place in Victoria (a shopping area) to get to work and they have "greeters" with cameras strapped to their chest. Feels a bit inhuman for those poor workers and uncomfortable for people walking by.
Yes, the same goes for me. Even though I really like these changes, this needs to be added. Will switch to Stable until then, I guess.
What do you mean by comparison?
But do remember that that’s talking entirely in hypotheticals, about what will be implemented, not what is implemented. #5630 is really just a very slight subset of #5315, “enough of WebExtensions that uBlock Origin works”.

It’s clear that there is intent to implement WebExtensions, but the timing is what’s in question—that it seems that they’re starting to push it towards widespread usage well before WebExtensions are supported, which is a total deal-breaker for many (definitely including me). I expect the situation will be clarified shortly.
Going threw this in Zürich Switzerland, it seems to me that the local government is basically like interacting with a fascist. They are obsessed with 'image' of the city and everything from colors, to shapes of windows, size of outside area, parking spots and so on is regulated.

It seems to me like building a house is more like a doing a complex tree fitting problem then actual design.
Care to share some info about those dangerous non-BPA cups/plastics?
New phones have less features than old phones. No removable batteries, audio jacks becoming extinct, its almost as if manufacturers are making them completely disposable once the battery runs out.
I can understand the impulse behind it, but just downright banning it will mean that after 5 years they either are prolonging the ban or will have to buy the tech from the US, China or Russia.

Even if they prolong, every tech that might be a morally less questionable offshoot, will also come from said countries.

I think the smarter way would have been regulation, that makes its more transparent, more controllable but keeps a window open for technology to be developed in Europe.
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If you are checking something else, I recommend Brave. I've switched from Firefox to Brave and I am mostly satisfied.
Lots of comments in this thread about why they have implemented this before implementing addons. Based on Mozilla's public project board it looks like they are well underway on implementing add-ons:

https://github.com/orgs/mozilla-mobile/projects/44

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That doesn't sound like it's compatible with GDPR. In Austria some bar was fined because their security cameras were pointing at the public street:

https://edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2018/first-austria...
Some valid points maybe but the article is a little misleading, bolding the $1.45 but then right after saying "after mileage and expenses."

Not sure what a company like doordash can do in that case, are all doordash drivers driving fuel efficient cars?

Also, what factors in is that many people cannot afford cars that are in good shape.

Tips aspect is inexcusable, however.
For clarity, that's Firefox Preview Settings not Android Settings. I would probably appreciate being asked since I tend to forget to close things - better to say "i want this tab only transiently, close it some time in the somewhat distant future (but, preferably, keep both transient and permanent tabs available)". Being asked to open it private is almost that.

Still leaves me with ad blocking which is probably the third most important feature of a web browser after the ability to parse and render HTML.
I don't know, and it would be interesting to read an analysis about the discussions taking place.

The fact that people are willing to engage 1-on-1 in a chat, rather than posting anonymously in a social media thread, is already a win.

If the other side is clearly a troll, then you can just hop to the next chat. Otherwise it is okay to agree to disagree. At least both sides will have tried to get their arguments across, and you may have come to understand their viewpoint better.

It is the open discussion that matters, and breaking out of your bubbles.
That looks quite useful. The name's pretty clever, too.

Tools like these are a viable, low-code (to use a hyped-up term) alternative to creating full-blown back-ends with all the boilerplate code that comes with them. Often these back-ends add little more than a REST API or a simple CRUD interface on top of an SQL database.

RDBMS on the other hand are immensely powerful tools that unfortunately more often than are used for little more than simple data storage.
I feel you should be aware that "web developer" is misspelled on your website.
You are right about having to create a class to hold a function, that is annoying. But C# do support nested functions and closures. I don't really understand your other points. A literal 0.25 in C# will be parsed as a double precision. If you want it to be a float (less precision) you use the F postfix. But JavaScript doesn't even have the float/double distinction.
The difference is that Elon had no experiance in cars or rockets. So he has shown the ability to go into a different field and change it.

SpaceX was also not really novel. Their engine, construction method and most things were pretty standard and not very impressive.
I see a kind of future where restaurants are reduced to a kitchen and packing area, with no seats. Then several kitchens bunched together to save on rent and utilities. Then cut out the drivers with air or land based drones. Then start lobbying so that the drones can move underground, and new buildings have to include a drone delivery vent / conveyor belt.

You already can live your whole life and never leave a house, working remote or playing the stock market, having everything delivered. It's grim. And it's coming.
It would be great if you could file an issue at https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix if that still is the case.
No this is definitely not a regression. Firefox launched a new app called "Firefox Preview Nightly", so as of right now both Nightly and Preview Nightly exist side by side; regular nightly users are not impacted at this point in time.
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"Hope" in this case shouldn't be enough unless they also decide to bake ublock origin right in.