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Interfacing with these decentralized storage networks requires cumbersome client side software, that handles things like the smart contracts and utility coin transactions.

All of the projects I’ve seen appear to be quite far away from being easily accessible by ordinary users.

Based on where the technology is currently at, if you want to compete with traditional could services, you need a service provider like this to build a platform on top of the underlying network.

My point is that this service seems to have achieved that. People talk about storj a lot in this space, but go and try upload a file to storj right now. You can’t because they don’t actually have a product in the market. This is the first time I’ve seen a press release like this, gone to a web page, signed up for a service, and uploaded a file immediately. Which is a refreshing change from an industry that tends to talk big about the impact they’re going to have for months or years on end, without ever releasing a functional product to the market.
This is totally doable.
Hah, not even a dent in Bezos pocket . . . .
Another company: Godaddy. They send an email reminder for auto-renew with a button, "Manage your renewals". Click on that button, but you can't toggle off auto-renew on that page. There are some big toggles to toggle the privacy feature (an upsell of a paid feature). If you want to toggle off auto-renew for that domain, you have to navigate to a different Godaddy page using 2-3 clicks without instruction.
Because they are perfect just the way they are

https://wiki2.org exists too tho
I guess we found the common ground in the USA; pulling one over on Amazon to the tune of $10,000. Years of virtue signalling rendered moot by the shot at getting something unearned at the expense of somebody else. There is hope yet.
I appreciate the direct mention of his motivation for writing.

>I am writing these blog posts to get attention to our newest game, Queen's Wish: The Conqueror.
I thought npm did this first.
It's probably mostly just async/await, but I bet they were hoping it'd make it into stable before they launched.
So 0.1% of profit. Is that not small?
Flixify Hacked Servers
What specific changes would you care to see?

I've made some modest styling changes (via Stylus) to Mediawiki: mostly a max-width main body constraint.
"'move fast break things'" -- that was Uber. They learned their lesson. I don't think anyone else is doing anything nearly as stupid with cars.
I've never really looked into how the encoding is typically done on those bands. You don't need a lot of bits per Hz when you have 14GHz of space, so nothing particularly elaborate with phase is strictly necessary. But yes it would definitely hurt speeds, and you have a good point in that it's something to consider as a sanity check!
Agreed although Disney pulled all the Marvel ones I am sure. They didnt come out and say it but all the odd excuses and the fact they all went at once is obvious. The shows were really popular with everyone I know.
In my particular case I'm renting a house, so it is probably more directly important to the landlord to insulate the house than if it were a large apartment building. The resale value for the house goes up steeply with well-insulated windows. Also the quality of life inside the house improves with better insulation and can therefore potentially draw a slightly higher rent. Also the landlord will have to replace the AC and heating unit less frequently, and those things are expensive.

However there are also indirect benefits to improving insulation generally. First of all there is less fossil fuel pollution since much of the US is still mostly on fossil fuel power, so reducing electrical demand has a positive impact on air quality and atmospheric carbon dioxide. Also a lower load on the local power grid reduces operating costs and reduces wear on grid equipment, reducing frequency of part replacements. Also AC units tend to be pretty loud since they're running fairly large compressors, and themselves generate heat outside the house, and though these factors may be small they do contribute to both noise and heat pollution.

I think a subsidy for energy efficiencyizing buildings in various ways should be provided, I know they have been in limited ways before. Regulating new construction to ensure a base level of heat exchange resistance would be another way.
What’s unethical about taking advantage of another human who made a mistake?
Quoth the PEP[1], Guido changed his mind when he found proof that coders would write redundant (and expensive) code to avoid using a separate line to construct a temporary variable.

So one might argue that a principle of python is that the language is dictated by how people read and write rather than the other way around... it's pretty hard to say what principles are "core" when they all conflict and you have to weigh various tradeoffs.

[1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/#the-importance-of-...
Good points. I rank Bangkok world #1 food city, however. Has the immigrant communities but also a broader range of produce (including tropical), more authentic cuisine, lower costs, more dynamism, broad socioeconomic spectrum, etc. Did a food crawl there a couple of years ago, happy to do an HN one! Plenty of vegan and vegeterian options.
I don't have this automated, but this is definitely still a thing, at least for used test equipment. I'm not clever enough to automate it fully, since often constructing the search terms is fairly difficult, but I definitely have scored some incredible deals ($40 for a perfectly fine HP spectrum analyzer a month ago). The only automation is some simple greasemonkey scripts, but there are definitely deals to be had on mis-categorized items. Likely this works best on specialized equipment that the average bulk auction buyer doesn't recognize, I would suspect that most industrial/scientific equipment would apply. This certainly won't apply to consumer items like a laptop though, the item has to be esoteric enough that a non-expert has difficulty even determining what it is.
Most actually do it because of human trafficking, violence, drugs, mafia, etc.
I wonder how this feeds into energy pricing.

PG&E rates are based on some fictitious "average" household, which uses electricity and gas.

Then you pay more if you use more than this household did. ($0.22/$0.27/$0.48 per kwh, and $1.28/$1.88 per therm gas)

The thing is, if your household only has electricity for heating which is not as cost effective as gas, you may end up in the $0.48/kwh tier for electicity.
I worked at a movie theater during college and people didn't really get in trouble if your till was under. But if it was over it was a instant strike.
Kept trying to find issue with this but the title says it all.
Cringe, I had it backwards; thanks for the reply.

I wonder if there have been any numbers published for space. Looks like the ISS does the equivalent distance of (only) 134 crossings of North America in one day. Or, stated another way, 134 people crossing it once. Clearly airlines carry way more people than that, and the fatalities are lost in the noise. So it would seem that yeah you're right, airlines are still beating space for safety by a big margin. To make space win you'd have to cheat and count something absurd like the miles our solar system travels as it orbits the galactic center... but then to be fair you'd have to credit the airlines with the same distance... so nevermind.
Time since roast date and grind quality, mostly.
The average Joe is the descendant of millions/billions of years of evolution. He is designed specifically to navigate this planet.

The fact that humans will be teaching computers to do the same kinds of navigation, with just a few decades of work, speaks to how impressive the above-average Joe is.
On my university campus, the university covers electricity, but will flag you and inspect your room for banned equipment if you use too much. They do the same for internet usage. You're explicitly banned from running server racks, or microwaves or refridgerators other than the ones they provide in the rooms which have a particular wattage. A landlord could do the same.
But then engineer X can't claim the watchtime gains and get promoted.
The new features aren't just syntactic, they're also new libraries that come standard with CPython, etc. If you want to implement a Python JIT that people will use, you have to match everything CPython supports. Furthermore, since the people behind CPython don't care about JIT, you also can't count on them not adding language features that will break optimizations present in your JIT. You can't count on these being just "syntactic sugar". Even if you could though, in order to keep up it means you have to use CPython's front-end, or constantly implement every syntactic tweak CPython does.

Lastly, AFAIK, CPython's FFI API is actually more of a problem than the dynamic semantics of the language. You can expose Python objects directly to C code. That makes it very hard for a JIT to represent said Python objects in an efficient way internally.
They should do it because they'd have to do it anyway, just with a lot of nonsense in between with shipping, if the customer insists and does the return.

The difference with your 2 year old PC is that nobody has a 2 year return window.
They definitely could raise rents if offering thermal and noise insulated living environment. The quality of living goes up drastically with that, so it would make sense.
That's such a vague statement. The cost of living is way higher than Mexico City, Cairo, Mumbai or New Delhi. I know they don't have the same kind of public transport, but it just seems absurd to me to call the cost of living "low" when it is more than double of other candidates.
Part of the problem is that saying 1% sounds very arbitrary and therefore implies you have not done your research. Makes me think you just make that up and have no actual realistic plan on how to achieve it. Getting 1% of most mass markets is incredibly hard.
Hold out hope. It gives excellent publicity to Prime day and their brand if they don't cancel them - why ruin that with potentially bad publicity, etc. over what probably amounts to a few hundred thousand dollars, which they can easily afford to cover.
I think he's hit the nail on the head about symbiosis with AI. If we can start to augment our own intelligence then we can, like he said, "go along for the ride".

I feel like we've read a lot of the same Sci-Fi books... here are some of my favorites that involve augmented intelligence and the possible AI struggles in the future:

True names, the Peace War books, as well as the short story "Bookworm, Run!" by Vernor Vinge.

Old man's war by John Scalzi.

The Heechee Saga by Frederick Pohl.

The Fall Revolution series by Ken MacLeod.

The Virga series by Karl Schroeder.

Musk is playing an active role in the Sci-Non-Fi that we'll all be a part of if we live long enough...
Let's respectfully disagree then. I firmly believe that this would have improved the status quo for everyone, and that a vocal minority who also firmly believe they are right prevented that.

They are kind of like Rorschach who refused to compromised in the last pages of Watchmen, even though it was the right thing to do (in my opinion).
I might be wrong, but I think those replies are confusing "autoplay next episode" with "autoplay show from the main menu". Above comment seems to be complaining about the latter, only the former can be turned off.
His recent chat with Joe Rogan was interesting.

No idea how much I agree with, but it was undeniably interesting.

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/eric-weinstein-3
I'm 38, and I'm fine with these changes, and ive been using Python for +15 years.

I can plainly see how these changes will actually make my code cleaner and more obvious while saving me keystrokes.

I also don't think these changes are very drastic. They're opt-in, doesn't break anything and looks to lead to cleaner code. I love the walrus operator (not so sure about the name, but hey. C++ is getting the spaceship operator... As has been said, naming things is hard). To me, the change of print from a statement to a function has been the hardest Python chamge over the years. Just too much mental momentum. Even though ive been on Python 3 for years, I still make the mistake of trying to use it as a statement. That said, I think it was the right (if painful) move.

I don't speak for everyone over 35, just myself.
That doesn't parse :-)
$10 in off-brand lucky charms is breakfast for a month.

$10 in dried beans is lunch for a month, but it's damn inconvenient, and yes, difficult to make taste good.

These are both extremes but yes, I am very confident that healthy food is more expensive than less healthy food. Yes, a cucumber is "cheap". But 8 cucumbers (.50/each) isn't going to get you nearly as far as a 6pack of GV mac and cheese ($3.98). Not even the same ballpark. 5 servings of GV thin-sliced honey ham costs $2.50, a loaf of the cheapest white bread is $1.50, 8 servings of GV block cheese goes for roughly $2.22, so now I have let's say 10 shitty sandwiches for roughly $8, when I could have had easily 12 meals of mac & cheese for half that and with less prep time.

Where cheap and healthy come closer together, I see the staples of my (well, my friends', but that's another story) childhoods; lots of potatoes, scrambled eggs, beans.
Apparently my friend had misinformed me. They work at UPS, but this was info from a casual conversation rather than serious research.
this is is insanity. climate change alarmism at its peak
But if you're imaging a drive and also RDRAND fails, OpenBSD is just as vulnerable to attack. See also AMD for RDRAND failing entirely.
I went straight searching for advises on how to avoid a distributed monolith, but no luck, looks like most of the micro-services now days are just distributed monolith.

Let's share advises about it:
https://medium.com/unbabel/your-distributed-monoliths-are-se...
It's standard practice in retail that price adjustments are made if a price cut happens within the return period of the purchase.
I'll go on and say something, perhaps, controversial.

This "price mistake" was not a mistake at all. This was intentional move by amazon to attract publicity.

Once these news spread, people will remember. And next year they will have a few extra million people browsing amazon "looking for that super deal".

This "price mistake" is simply part of the advertising/marketing stratagy by amazon to create extra excitement about prime day.

People will be coming back for years ... looking for that 100$ super lens. This is money well spent.

WELL DONE AMAZON MARKETING GURUS!!!
Disclaimer: I'm the Firefox sec engineer working on this feature.

Just to clear this up: The code for this is actually way simpler and sends no data to either Mozilla nor HIBP. To prevent Firefox from sending data update pings to HIBP, Firefox Monitor maintains a copy of publicly available HIBP breaches and their metadata [1] in the Firefox "Remote Settings" service. [2]

Using that data, Firefox simply checks for saved logins for breached sites where the saved password is older than the breach. [3]

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/api/v2/breaches
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/RemoteSettings
[3] https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/6484c07ff8364991...
I honestly enjoy take-home assignments more, because they (well, at least the proper ones) mitigate many of the risks that are listed in the post.

My experience is that the interviewer can pretty much make or break a technical interview.

I've had interviewers that used them in like they should (get a feel how you solve problems and think, how you communicate, etc.), and I've had garbage interviewers that read a script, with problems they themselves didn't understand.

I know the view on take-home assignments is very polarized, but you know what? The net time spent is usually far, far less than the prepping game for technical interviews. You see people grinding leetcode for hundreds of hours, memorizing problems and solutions, trying to get every edge-case they can - just in case the interviewer throws something obscure at them.

At least with assignments you get a well-defined problem, where you get time to think and reflect, and can work/learn enough to have a meaningful discussion.
Unless this has changed recently you may be confusing turning off autoplay (Of the next episode) with autoplay of the trailers for shows as you move around the home screen.

The second is the annoying one without an off switch that I could find within the xbox app
No.

Google already has this, with google voice, press 4 during a call to start recording it. (only on originally incoming calls.)

One: most laws do not require permission or consent per say, simply having the feature also pimp out a recording that says "Call is now being recorded" like the google voice feature already does is enough to keep it legal.

Two: "Made explicitly for illegal uses" is a wide stretch for a call recording feature.
Amplify CLI and Amplify Console have nothing to do with one another. Confusing naming, I know.
I read it completely the opposite. The son looks down at the prostitute, but the father sees humanity in her and does not judge and treats her as a fellow person with dignity.
Truth is optimal. A super-optimizing AI would optimize the process of connecting what's true.
The Disturbing Sound of a Human Voice
Unless the Roku app changed, it can't be disabled either. Every time I open Netflix it feels like a battle with the autoplay "feature" and I just close it off. I think I might cancel it in favor of Prime.
Well, the article does end on a positive note, so maybe we’re nearing the winter of the fall of French cuisine ;)
There are other other options besides tunnels and elevated along highways - for example using rail ROWs. Also, if you build Urban metros instead of suburban ones, the tunnel costs are often worthwhile.
If it's still within the return window for the product, it seems perfectly reasonable to honor the discount. Amazon would actually save money by doing this, because they're not incurring the costs of the additional delivery or return.
Can you change your quote block formatting? It’s essentially impossible to read on mobile.
You aren't guaranteed the ability to unwind the deal after delivery so that's only fair that they can't either.
I'm wondering if main reason for tech stagnation is globalization.If you can increase your profits from cutting cost by transferring work to China why should you concentrate on increasing productivity?
Depends on the TLD? For example, .app domains are always auto-renew I think
On windows adjusting the TTL is simple. From my reading Android uses a TTL of 30

netsh int ipv4 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=29

netsh int ipv6 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=29

Alternative to a VPN as a proxy you can install Termux on Android to install and run a sockS5 proxy.
Setting up SSL yourself, even with the wonderful scripts from Let's Encrypt, isn't the simplest solution IMO.
Hmm I don’t think this is true. Most of netflix’s Content is story driven whereas never dying sitcoms were just kind of whatever. I’m sure people watched the sitcoms, some even on loop, but I doubt it was the luring factor. Maybe that’s just my personal misconception.
Can't take mottos for granted, like for example "Protect and Serve", which a US court even ruled didn't actually count as a police officer's duties.
How is that more readable? It's identical except for ":" -> ";", and some extra symbols added. Needing to repeat "m" seems seems redundant, and particularly bad for readability as it moves the actual condition far away from the "if".
It's the current year!

This is slated for 3.9: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0554/
Yeah, that's why the bootloader also gathers entropy as it's coming up.

But, at some point nobody can save you from yourself entirely. Get a broken enough system, and every security feature will fail.
Had similar years ago on a box and found out the disk(s) were 99.99% full - took forever to whittle it down.
The password isn’t necessarily in the list, and if it is it should be changed. The service just returns the list and you check locally. The server only gets the first few characters of the hash.

Knowing the hash prefix of someone’s password doesn’t help you guess it. You can’t plan your guesses to have a matching prefix or anything. If your password is in the list, then the full hash is already out there and you should stop using it, because it’s probably been brute forced by someone or people are trying to guess it somewhere.
I love the f-strings and the new enhancements, but I'm still skeptical about the walrus operator and the positional argument change.
There's absolutely no guarantee that two calls to y result in the same value.

Even if y isn't mutating itself, it may be calling from a database updated from another thread.

You end up storing the value. The walrus simplifies the code.
Both light rail and bus are fine when given their own lanes so they can run quickly and frequently.

The killer is sharing lanes and traffic lights with single people driving cars, or even worse with double-parked Uber taxis.
Maybe it's work if you get paid by lines of code and JIRA tickets but programming is just a tool for me to my real work done. So I would like to spend as little time programming as I possibly can.
The content selection has changed. Less variety overall, simple original movie plots. They spend too much for a few A listers.. [100 million for three specials is crazy] and less on shows produced by other networks.

They should buy some older networks like turner.
Maybe he means like autoplaying trailers when hovering over a title on the Apple TV? It's impossible to turn off and will autoplay if you don't actively move to a new title pithing seconds. If I can't find something to watch right off the bat then I leave the app and try something else because I can't stand it.

I also only use the Apple TV remote, which doesn't have a mute button and adds to the frustration. If I really want to watch something on Netflix, I'll turn the volume all the way down before going to browse for stuff.
Disclaimer: Firefox sec eng who works on both this feature and Facebook Container ...

The new 2.x release of Facebook Container allows people to use "Log in with Facebook". To do so, it adds the site into the Facebook Container so sub-resources and 3rd-party cookies are available to the Facebook SDK js.

It warns the user before they enable this on any site.
I strongly believe in Netflix, there is just no way they will go down because they were the first ones and the fastest to get into the market. They're already producing a lot of masterpieces and soon it'll be a hard loss not to have your content there.
Companies pay a whopping $5 million to run a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl....

This super sale (if everyone gets what they ordered) will have much deeper impact than a 30 second commercial.

Believe next year, millions more people wil be looking for deals on amazon on prime day....

Well executed "price mistake" ;)
I suspect they will also get hit by people subscribing for a month to see something specific, then unsubscribing until something new worth watching appears. Now that good content is so fragmented across services, it will likely be common to cancel often. I paid for a month of HBO mostly to watch Chernobyl, then cancelled.
What content was too biased for you?