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The "Submit feedback" menu entry now links to their ideas@mozilla platform, launched several months ago:

https://mozilla.crowdicity.com

They seem to be reading and considering some of the suggestions, though none have been implemented yet.

- Most popular idea (819 votes): Compact Interface Option - https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/719764

- Most critical idea (in my opinion): Expand support for extensions for the stable android version - https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/723675
May I ask you what are the tools and/or features that Python offers and Ruby does not? It'd be interesting to invest resources on it, given that Python is not very different from Ruby
Real-dollar home prices plunged continuously from 1950 to 1970 while the US population increased by one third. Home price inflation is a policy choice, not a law of physics.
I'm curious, what are you doing that requires supporting hundreds of active participants (as opposed to a few active participants, plus a hundreds of spectators)?
I mean, it's _theoretically_ possible that they modified it to remove the link to the source, accidentally put it live, always intending to revert the modification before deliberately going live... but that's not winning any prizes for plausibility.

In any case 'officially up' is likely irrelevant here.
Dell Technologies Announces Distribution Ratio for VMware Spin-Off
I am typing this from Firefox, which I switched back to right after Quantum.

I don't want to give an impression that I'm a shill, but I'm getting more and more intrigued by Brave every day. I think they made the right call by focusing on crypto, their search indexing technique is very unique (and it works!), as is their BAT attention token. They are _trying_ to doing something different, Firefox is not.

What I instead get from Firefox for trying to support their monetization, is seductive-looking spammy ads on their New Tab page that come back even after I dismiss them. Brave ads vs Firefox ads would be a tough comparison - the former is more annoying and intrusive, but I definitely think I prefer them. And long term, I think I would bet on Brave _over_ Firefox, unless something changes.
Not really. Mortgage rates are so low that even with only 5% down the monthly mortgage payments on a $400K house are similar to what someone would be paying for monthly rent in these cities.

Mortgage rates are incredibly low and there are a number of options to reduce down payment requirements right now. Meanwhile, wages are up and better paying jobs are more common for young people. $400K isn’t out of reach at all for a lot of first-time home buyers in this economy.
"Colorways"? Like what everyone else calls "themes"? Yeah, you don't actually need to make up your own word for that.

That, plus the fact that this is the lead bullet point for their new release makes me think "way too many marketers, not enough engineers".
Yes, you've been able to disable auto-updates for as long as auto-updates have existed.
I've been inspired by the VR workspace and metaverse talk around here, and am digging through a master's thesis called "TOWARD GENERAL PURPOSE 3D USER INTERFACES: EXTENDING
WINDOWING SYSTEMS TO THREE DIMENSIONS" (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evil0sheep/MastersThesis/m...) with the goal of creating a VR user interface. Looking to create it in a popular language like python or rust. I've never dug down into things like frame buffers or window servers before, but I think I could get something useful (albeit clunky) up and running by christmas.
> Homebuyers are still being priced out by institutional investors looking to be long-term landlords.

There’s really no evidence that this is the cause of any of the housing bubble. Sure, it makes a good twitter thread, but institutional investors make up a tiny percentage (1%ish) of single family rentals…

[1] https://www.vox.com/22524829/wall-street-housing-market-blac...
I don’t know what sort or homes Zillow buys, but I know locally a lot of flippers purchase homes that most banks wouldn’t lend to a regular consumer. Then they fix them up. These are hoarder homes, abandoned buildings, condemned housing, etc. In so far as they’re making homes more accessible to folks without contracting skills I don’t see a problem.
> Why? I mean, don't you believe you have a say on who you grant permission to use your intellectual property?

If the author of some software has a general good-faith position that others should use their software, then the conditions they associate with that software fall on a continuum from "reasonable to "unreasonable".

The MIT license is at the reasonable end. Saying "give me ten million dollars for this ROT13 algorithm" is at the unreasonable end.

When the person you replied to said:

> They can, which doesn't mean they should.

I think they were saying they personally considered the terms of the license at the "unreasonable" end. I don't disagree- saying "you can use this for now, but have to stop immediately if I or anyone I might sell this to say so" seems at least borderline unreasonable.

It certainly isn't "free software", though being wrapped in what is otherwise the Blue Oak license they're kind of hiding their non-free-ness. I think this is where I mostly take issue- it feels like the project is attempting to portray itself as a free software project, when it is not.
There was a lot of fear a few months ago that Zillow was manipulating the housing market to make a profit using all their data and cash. Guess they had the will, but not the capability.
That is why you are a poor dev :-)
How on earth did a real estate analytics company lose money buying and selling homes in THIS market?
The what now?!
Wrong.

The average age of international PhD students at entry to a program in the US is 31.7. [iie.org Graduate Learning Overseas Data].
That's kind of the point, no? Limit your ability to buy only stablecoins with factual claims of backing.
I know some bad things about my best friends but, I guess, the difference is that these things were not part of their curated image that the rest of the world gets to see.
Love it, and appreciate your perspective.
Assuming that the additional 128m people need about 50m - 70m new homes it would make sense that there's going to be a boom in supply of homes in the near future. Without the ability to control or limit that growth it could easily result in an oversupply, especially in any given geographic region, which would lead to a contraction in prices. Unless you're also able to predict where these new citizens will live I'd suggest real estate investing could be quite risky.
>IMO it’s decent sci-fi, and interesting enough to watch if you’re bored :)

Is it still a somewhat hard sci-fi or has it been turned into a fantasy flick?
Plot twist - competitor buys them for discount to flip them on an even better margin.
I'm no victim, play or otherwise; I didn't violate the license under which Mastodon is provided and never will.
> I don’t trust the elderly 80 year old congress members to come up with good rules for crypto since it’s something old people barely understand or care about.

Most laws are written by private industry not law makers, odds are you couldn’t find a dozen lawmakers that have read legislation much less written it. They have staff, usually young law grads that read it and give them talking points.
When I heard that Zillow was buying in the middle of an extremely exuberant residential market, it surprised me and I thought they must know something I don’t. Surely they aren’t stupid enough buy and hold a fairly illiquid asset class during market all time highs. Guess I was wrong.
Based on my reading of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-mozilla-maintenanc..., the current behavior is that Firefox checks for updates only when the app is open, and then only briefly starts the MozillaMaintenance service to avoid the UAC dialog. The MozillaMaintenance service isn't what is responsible for checking for updates.

It's not clear to me if MozillaMaintenance is the service that will be checking for updates, or if there is a new service.
Retool is focused more on visual builders and requires more configurations/code to set everything up via custom dashboards.

Motor Admin has a simple unified Admin UI without the need of actually building the UIs unlike in Retool WYSIWYG.

The versatility of Motor Admin can be achieved via in-app UI configurations, custom forms, reports, and dashboards.

Btw, here is a short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4Six8ZEP8

Also, Motor Admin has a simple self-hosted deployment option.
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Sadly, yes. But I hope it sinks.
Wow I thought my employer (Massachusetts) had been generous just allowing it and paying for it, but time to write your thesis?

That's a great opportunity and I hope someone goes for it.
What a pile of nonsense. Now I'm not an American and have no stake beyond not wanting your country to burn because it's bad for the world... but come on? Have you ever seen another president treated that way? Maybe Nixon? Imagine if he was on twitter when in office. Extra leeway lolololol. You must be a reporter or a FAANG employee with options?
I'm just as distrustful as everyone else regarding FB, but the messenger kids app is, so far, the only one I'm ok with letting my kids use regularly. Nothing else has enough parental controls where I can be certain some rando creep isn't messaging my kid.
Okay, define "crypto".
Turning background updates off is the first thing I do after installing FF
The lack of any work whatsoever on Webauthn is infuriating. Nobody seems to be actively working on implementing the spec at all.
Please use Caddy for custom domains (a web server I wrote that excels at this): https://caddy.community/t/serving-tens-of-thousands-of-domai...
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> On macOS it is infuriantingly easy to press CMD + Q by accident.

Particularly if you use a Dvorak keyboard layout where "Q" is mapped to the key directly above CMD. I think I fat finger that at least every week or so. :D
If one enjoys reading SF that involves intelligent spiders, then A Deepness in the Sky [0] is worth a look. Although the arachnoids in 'Deepness' are spider-like aliens, rather than evolved Earth-spiders, as in Children of Time. The latter also has evolved ants, as well. Both books are highly recommended.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
"But individuals who own stablecoins are exposed to significant counterparty risk from both the coin issuers and the companies offering"

Great. Let people pick the risk they are willing to take. If companies holding the wallets steal money, prosecute them for theft.

"well as concerns about money laundering and terrorist financing"

You forgot the children, think of the children. See, I'm just not scared enough at this point to give in to more laws than any human can possibly read. Maybe if you threw in there some drug dealer buying guns or child molesters it would have worked
The author had me right up until “However, visuals are an important part of Low-tech Magazine’s appeal, and the website would not be the same without them.” And the next image was like hmmmm that image is smaller and dithered but was it really needed? If you really cared about the environment you would have just gone without that image and saved 100% of the file size. And then should I have children? Each one will consume more resources might as well have zero. And then wait suicide would get rid of me? Where do you draw the line to still live but be good?
> Tolerance, right up to the limit where it actually starts hurting, is the best strategy for a peaceful and prosperous society.

It really is not. Unbounded tolerance is how free and open societies commit suicide and succumb to authoritarian regimes where intolerance is the norm.

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

> If they want to license their software however then good luck to them, but nonetheless attempting to encode illiberal political beliefs into a software license is the wrong direction. The GPL is exactly the right approach.

You're just asserting that refusing to help out authoritarian and outright xenophobic political movements further their goals "is the wrong approach" without any rationale or insight or argument at all.

Meanwhile, you're citing the GPL which is a highly political license.
But didn't they sell the houses to investors and/or established landlords?

I'm not sure how this helps the youth or those otherwise disillusioned with the current housing market as that housing is still unavailable to them.
Ask HN: Legality of Sharing Movie Screencaps?
I’m learning a web framework by making a tumblr-like website solely based around movie screencaps. I’m planning to open it to public but I don’t want to get sued. Any advice?
Have "we" ? I certainly didn't.
Can I opt out of this "protection" racket please?
It's especially strange to be constantly avoiding auto-updates when I'm trying to update everything with winget.
Somewhere between the Wire and Squid Game, SF’s major image problem
Sorry if this is a stupid question/thought... but wouldn't a mass run to asset classes itself cause inflation? Like some self fulfilling prophecy?
Each unit of bandwidth is probably getting cheaper, but if you end up giving away a ton of it, it is still a massive expense.
Heads up, you may lose your tabs when you update. It seems normal tab restoring procedures apply, but if you collect many like me, it means an initial shock of reloading all of them.

"I lost my tabs after the update — What can I do?

You may notice that after updating Firefox to version 94, the tabs from your previous session were closed. To learn how to restore a previous session, visit How do I restore my tabs from last time? Alternatively, following the prompts in the Open previous tabs? one-time notification that will appear after the update will also allow you to restore the tabs from your previous session. "

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-configure-close-tab...
The last sentence is definitely opinion. I'd say short sighted and dangerously self centered.

The man IS going around pushing election claims, and people down ticket ARE copying him.
I also recently read Elon strongly criticizing/advising another company to 'get their factory [processes] working before building the big factory', which is the exact opposite of what said company was doing...

Seems like Elon is correctly advising those guys to avoid a lot of pain (while not-so-subtly pointing out to everyone the big mistake being made).

When being hired to automate a business process, I always tried to get/work with the client to explicitly streamline the paper/people version of the process first, and when they did a good job of it, the automation went well. I'd tell them that automating a mess just made a turbocharged mess, and merely guessing at what changes (implemented in automation) would be better was a crapshoot. If anything, I'd recommend making that approach a stronger requirement for taking on jobs.
Sounds like they got in too close to the peak (not to mention delays & increased costs in refurb) and didn't factor increased carrying costs on the potential that these would sit on the market a bit longer if they wanted to sell at a higher premium.

A hard lesson for them that listing aggregation & analysis of the market is far different than direct investments & flipping. Flippers take a big risk and offset inevitable losses on some homes with the profits on others. And generally if they do well it has a lot to due with deeper knowledge of the subtleties in the local housing market & partnerships with realtors that have customers in the pipeline already. There's a lot more to it than what might appear on the outside to "tech disruptors", or anyone else who thinks it looks easy from the outside.
Multiple spillovers and onward transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in White-tailed deer
> I worked on the Cocoa frameworks

The thing I love about HackerNews is how you can casually run into people who worked on things you've been using every day for the last 10 years.

> The short answer to your question is "rounding."

Yeah, on Android, you're supposed to round yourself. View dimensions are integers, so you have to, but graphics APIs take floats, you don't strictly have to, but you want to anyway. Even though there's no such thing as pixel-perfect on AMOLED displays thanks to their subpixel layout. When you use XML and specify `25dp`, the system does the rounding.

> Android doesn't have to deal with this.

Oh it does! Though it deals with this in a lame way: your activity with all its views gets destroyed and recreated for a "configuration change" unless you've explicitly specified that you can handle this specific kind of change. Density doesn't change often, but the possibility is certainly there.

I remember how around 2013 there was this bizarre device. It was a phone, but it came with a tablet you could dock it into. The tablet contained only a screen and a battery. The screens on the phone and on the tablet had different densities. There were bug reports about my app not handling these transitions correctly, presumably because I was dumb back then. I can imagine something similar happening with the new hotness, foldable devices, where the external and internal screens could have different densities.

And while I have you, one question. Why does macOS have the coordinate system origin in the bottom left? I've always found that bizarre, especially when iOS does use the usual top left.
I dunno about anybody else but what really kills me is the combination of very poor scripting with very poor acting, and a total lack of perspective on the empire (1 trillion people, you basically never see anything about the empire).
Renting vs. buying a home: how to decide [video]
I would say it's as hard as the original novel, which has FTL travel and psychic powers.
I analyzed the investments by Midas List VCs to identify business opportunities
I'm sorry, but living in a detached house with 500+ sqft per person, frequently eating out, changing cars every 5-10 years, having a closet full of clothes, eating food from all around the world etc. etc. is way above "basic survival".

Watch a documentary about rural parts of third world countries, they're much closer to "basic survival" than pampered middle-class members in the West. For reference, in China, not that long ago people were subsiding primarily on rice - that the majority they ate every day throught all of their lives. Not to mention, they went hungry quite often (but not often enough to starve to death). That's "basic survival".

Here in the West, we can cut out so much fat out of our lives without really losing out anything truly substantial. For example, check out this guy: https://earlyretirementextreme.com/. He's living in Chicago on $700 a month, around half of which goes to health insurance and real estate taxes. But, people think it's "hard" or "miserable", and they prefer to chain themselves to their full-time jobs for decades so that they can fly on vacations, get new shiny cars and go to McDonalds every other day. That's the choice I wrote in my OP.
Funnily this is what I use to call MongoDB, since "Mongo" is a racial and ableistic slur (at least in German).
> Zillow getting into flipping seems questionable to me. The customers are no longer aligned with the company on goals with something like this

I'm currently looking to buy a house. Having a Zillow in between the seller and myself (as a dealer, not a broker) wouldn't be a slam dunk, but it would be worth some non-zero premium to me. (Just offering a counterpoint to the "uselessly driving up prices" narrative.)
Sorry, youth here. The housing market remains screwed regardless of the actions of Zillow or Blackstone or whomever.
I think part of the answer to that would be "What replaced Ruby, and why?".

You can start here with Rails. I know that React technically "replaced" it, at least in popularity, but React is a frontend framework. Rails has a notion of views, and React probably replaced that, but I have no idea what happened to the model and controller. Express is very popular, but it's very thin compared to Rails. There doesn't seem to be any dominant database library. Some people are probably using Firebase, Hasura or some other "managed backend". But there is no "Rails but in JS". Maybe web development itself changed? Maybe it's harder to start out with Rails than it was a decade ago, so less people do it? Maybe the deployment/scaling experience wasn't good? Maybe Rails doesn't scale with the number of developers (microservices and things like that) so even if lots of products are still made with it, bigger products employs way more developers so we hear more about what they use?

The other thing that seemed very popular in Ruby was scripts and dev tools. I think Go ate a big part of the dev tools market, especially the ones you distribute as a CLI. For scripts, I have no idea. Python has always been popular here. Maybe with the rise of JS, people are writing their scripts in JS too? Maybe bash made a return?

I personally missed the Rails wave, and I feel like people are still trying to get back the productivity of good backend MVC frameworks. The most common advice given here to someone starting a web project that doesn't know what to use seems to be "use a popular MVC framework in a language that you know that generates HTML server-side". So there is still a need for stuff like Rails. The question now would be, why Rails instead of any other? From what I've heard, Django, Laravel, Spring, ASP.NET all offer a similar experience.