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Bitfusion | Staff Engineer, full-time | Austin | Onsite

Bitfusion is an Austin, TX and a Bay Area company developing advanced virtualization technologies for the most compute-intensive applications delivering automatic acceleration and efficiency on any infrastructure. Bitfusion is looking for talent to drive market success by building readily deployable software solutions that redefine computing and unleash the power of heterogeneous computing to end users.

We are looking for an extremely talented systems programmer with excellent C/C++ skills, deep algorithms and data structures knowledge, and strong familiarity with Linux operating system internals and driver development.

You should have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent. Top-notch communication skills are essential. Strong problem solving skills and out of the box thinking are a must. Experience with network programming, GPU programming (CUDA and OpenCL) is highly desired. Must work well in a fast paced team of talented, motivated, and coworkers. Working closely without our core engineering team in Austin, TX is highly preferred, though remote work may be possible depending on qualifications.

Must Haves
* Excellent understanding of algorithms and data structures theory with practical application
* Good experience in C/C++, multi-threaded software development, distributed systems
* Strong understanding of optimization, memory management, concurrency and multithreading
* Experience with development on Linux and related tools: gcc, gdb, git
* Should be able to pick up any new programming language quickly

Nice to Haves
* Experience with CUDA or OpenCL programming
* Experience working on high speed networking (e.g. IB, DPDK)
* Familiarity with one or more performance profilers such as: VTune, XPerf, gprof, etc.
* Knowledge of GPU and CPU architectures
* Knowledge of at least one scripting language (Python, Perl, Ruby, Shell scripting)
* Experience with software performance analysis, optimization and low-level programming

We are an equal opportunity employer. Subsidized health, dental, vision, and relocation provided. Relocation to Austin, TX highly desired.
You do know that most vendors offer increasing discounts in later years of the contract. It’s not just that prices increase.

And I’m guessing you’ve never dealt with a vendor before because often companies negotiate better terms than list price.
For those whose day it is to hear about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ

Can't say they don't have a sense of humor about it.
Population is not constant and specially is not constant in any land, people tend to move following work opportunity, quality of life, to escape crisis etc. So no, while these change are slow in general they are and it's always a mess to handle "abandoned" towns than abandoned single homes...

About roads: try to think how much material you need and regularly consume in a town vs countryside roads, also imaging not today but in an imaginary tomorrow world how much roads we will need in a really low dense country vs in "megacities".

Without counting what happen in case of floods or other problems in a town vs elsewhere and the relevant cost to repair. Only imaging september 11th in a country without dense urban agglomeration: how much victims, costs, effects it may have had in such scenario?

What help my arguments are tons of small things grouped together, the sole things it doesn't help is hospital/emergency service proximity in case of need, but that's compensated by a properly organized sanitary system and a strong public investments in that sector (a thing we desperately need also for many other reasons). Another is the problem of few residual but important labor-intensive activities that require many, many people in a concentrated place, but again this is less and less important thanks to automation.

A simple, yet stupid arguments, that my clearly demonstrate advantage of single can be: what if there was a strike, a big one, and you do not found anymore essence for your car? In a town substantially anything can't work anymore, electric public transportation may work but see Gilet Jaunes in France today and Paris status these days. In the countryside nearly anyone have a big tank (500/1000 liter) of reserve. There is place for that. There is place for keep large quantity of food (perhaps with dual-energy freezer electricity/butane gas with enough cylinders, around 20Kg/month to give a quantity) etc. Imaging only elevators out of services due to a short electricity outage.
True, this is what was proposed last year. Essentially analogous to YouTube Red.
That's exactly what retiring is, only with the hope you die before your funds run out.
> If we want to maximize pleasure and minimize suffering, the units are still the same in both opposing points you mentioned - it is just really, really hard to measure.

It's not hard - it's impossible. Even we fully agree on a specific metric, a situation still has to be weighed against possible alternatives and integrated on timescales longer than our lives. A very basic example of this is a company optimizing for "profits", but they're actually optimizing for short term profits at the expense of going out of business two years later. The future is unknowable in the same exact sense that every NP-hard problem is. Heuristics are the only way to tackle this.

> coming up with qualitative points and weighting them in a good-faith-but-ultimately-arbitrary-manner is good enough, and something that everyone does constantly

Of course, which is why I'm referring to "Faceboot" even while recognizing that people get utility out of it. I just think that focusing on arbitrary pairs of specific facets is already headed down the path of madness, which is why I stated my initial critique in terms of basic principles.
2004 I remember working in a larger enterprise and was forced to use MSSQL. Now... I know there's a lot of 'good' in it, and compared to MySQL at the time, many benefits (though many of those benefits were for the admins, not so much the developers in my org).

We had a requirement for paginating through records, and the group of MSSQL admins were... flummoxed at the request. "Why would you need to do that? Just use top(X)!" Umm... when there's 48000 records, and you're trying to see records 47000-47100.... wth?

They spent days back and forth trying to come up with reusable sprocs with odd combinations of top/reversing/top/sorting - SQL Server 2000 at the time. I'm not sure the rownumber() thing was available at the time. And... there was much grumbling about this 'stupid' request. I was honestly a bit shocked (I was still a bit naive about 'enterprise' folks) that this was such a chore, and not there. We also needed in-place encryption/decryption, which one of the prototypes had with mysql aes_encrypt(), but we had to use MSSQL, so... thousand of dollars later for some db tool, this was available.

I know MSSQL has many advantages, and is very powerful in many situations, but MS-first people sometimes are oblivious to 'standard' functionality other products have.
maxsilver was not claiming that cities currently offer free hotel rooms as you're implying, but rather that cities already provide adjacent services---suggesting that free hotel rooms might not be a totally crazy idea---and that in general we ought to have stronger public housing. Do you disagree? Why?
Why would Citus folks like a word with someone wanting something that "just works" "out of the box"? It is reasonable to want/expect this feature to be part of the core DB distribution and handled, documented, maintained the same as other core DB features.
I'm not advocating their use and the default should be right and smallest fit for the job, which means sqlite or Postgres nearly always. But too often people get in this mindset that old commercial products are meritless or whatever.

An example for Oracle would be RAC. This is a mature shared data architecture to provide high availability and horizontal server scaling to a DB. Deploying this is a fairly standard Oracle DBA activity. Getting something similar with open source tools is a big lift and permanent support commitment and will be for a while. Meanwhile these three commercial DBs have provided continuity for decades for features like this.
First, congratulations.

Second, now you have the not so easy task of running family assets as your #1 job to provide security and freedom for your family.

The most important thing is to educate yourself. Hopefully you enjoy reading macro economic news and investment books. It’s not necessarily to DO anything. It’s often so you have the confidence to not do anything.

Regarding asset allocation, standard allocation to liquid assets will do. Plenty of literature on it.

Running family assets is not about maximizing EV. It’s about minimizing risk of ruin, and asset preservation over asset growth.

The emotional side of investing is often harder than the numbers side of it. Feeling like you’re being judged by others for your newfound wealth is hard too. A support group of peers with similar asset levels who are also searching for balance will be really helpful, though hard to find.

Happy to talk more via email.

Again, congraulations. We all need to get lucky. You deserve it.
Huh, very interesting. Definitely not intuitive by comparison to electric charge.
So many popular science articles have started to commit ontological fallacies like this. Free will obviously exists because we experience it. This question presumes a denial of experience and a claim that really the experience isn't real but instead this other thing that cannot ever be experienced is. What's even the motivation for that?

The motivation seems to be to paint an awe-inspiring picture of mystery through the facade of science for link clicks, with the defamation of science. Science is meant to make things clear not enigmatic.

The question debating if free will actually exists, is a denial of experience and a solicitation to some sort of ontology outside of experience that can never be known.
Scaling/replication is the usual thing. Postgres certainly has a better story here than it used to, but if you want to do serious scale replication it's very much in roll-your-own territory.

Like, imagine you have a few hundred terabytes of data you need to keep in-sync globally, between multiple datacenters, with many servers in each DC.
More to the point, it has predicted 13 of the last 9 recessions. (Not a typo.)

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4110743-next-rate-hike-will...
Cars make commutes shorter. Long commute times are caused by two things. One is the insistence on working in megacities. The other is the impediments to people moving closer to where they work: zoning, property tax resets, two-income families.

Cars reduce noise compared to subways squealing and rattling, compared to commuter rail horns blasting, and compared to the big engines of diesel buses.
Any suggestions on a weight loss diet other than keto? I've heard mostly praise about the diet, but personally I don't think I could go full vegetarian.
> SpaceX recovery attempty not successfull: water landing instead of land

Perhaps some mod can fix the typos in the title?
Anxiety’s Ties to Dementia
Smart door lock?
> if everyone good leaves organizations because they're "bad," well, those organizations will just be filled with the worst of us soon enough.

And then the organization becomes bad enough that it crumbles and dies.
An added complication is that pure silicon in the required quantities is not cheap.
You've more than enough to retire. Invest the money conservatively, retire financially, and do whatever you come up with (side projects that earn you money, community projects that don't, whatever) while enjoying your time with your wife and kids. The latter are most important.
Started using PG recently at a new job but can't really see any benefit over MySQL. What am I missing?
Liquibase is quite nice for doing this in a cross-database way - you describe the changes you want to make to the schema and it applies them as needed to the db (and because you're properly describing the changes it can also do rollback for a change).

We use the same migrations across hsqldb, postgresql and sql server and it just works
6 Keys Takeaways from 250 Pages of Facebook Data Recently Dumped Online
Even a soft-water landing was a wet dream 20 years ago.
OCEAN is useful in predicting human behavior because there are certain common constellations of human behavior and disposition, and the meanings of the dimensions are easily understood by today’s humans. There certainly exists a more efficient representation, but machine-learned dimensions often don’t have easy analogues to existing human words.

Agreed that the DSM is kind of silly in that it draws arbitrary boundaries, but again, it’s pointing at common constellations of characteristics that are absolutely statistically predictive of behavior.

The underlying problem is that we are only just beginning to be able to formally represent complex behaviors in terms of underlying neural activity, and until we can do this fully and properly, there are still useful analyses that can be performed, they’re just “fuzzier”.
I would say it's our responsibility to have an electoral system that can't be so easily fooled

https://outlookzen.com/2018/11/18/a-democracy-that-cannot-be...
This must differ wildly between hospitals. In Oklahoma City we were only bothered a few times a day and never at night during our 3 day stay with our newborn (plus the kitchen cooked us a 5 course gourmet meal to send of off on the last day). And I was often able to meet the nurse at the door and handle whatever they needed quietly without waking mom or child.
Unbiased compared to what?

Let's say you have three search orderings: ABC, BCA, and CAB. Which one is the unbiased one?
> But when doing philosophy, it would be hasty to say that only empirical facts are knowable.

Only if you want to stay with reality not venture into phantasy.
Yep. We did. And then another group came by equally as loud. And then the shift changed. Equally as loud. I would have to stand outside the door shushing people all night to be effective. And then we’re the annoying patients nobody wants to deal with.
Well, it means that a simple presence of a key in the vicinity of a car isn’t enough to answer the question of “will this key be present there” by the ene of the journey.

It means the key has to he inserted somewhere. That makes it both safe and predictable.
That is one reason they don't do that. (Another is that the net would be useless if you upgraded the cameras...)

Whatever the sensing technology, everyone uses it to build a "state of the world" model which is then fed into algorithms for planning movement. Nobody (to my knowledge) just wires up input pixel neurons to output pedal neurons.
in addition to what other replies said, i don't mind the electronic meters often found in parking lots that take credit cards. i can't use the typical coin-op street meter because I don't have coins and haven't regularly carried them in over a decade.
It doesn't matter where the data came from - uploaded, downloaded, generated. If it is PI it is the property of the identified user, not Facebook's. If they slurp 100 images of my face then that data is mine and it is my right to have it deleted and told who they shared it with and for what.
1 only shows Tesonet being sued and does not prove that both Nord and Proton services are being developed by Tesonet people, and even if they were Tesonet-adjacent people, further proof would be needed to link these services directly to Tesonet the entity. 2 is contingent on 1.

3 and 4 are the only things I can see with any weight to them, yet they were brought up by a competitor (red flag), and vague enough not to be considered "evidence".

5 and 6 prove absolutely nothing. Both of these products use OpenVPN, which is what the vulnerability was in.

The vulnerability has nothing to do with Tesonet and I have not seen proof otherwise. Presumably other VPN services that also use OpenVPN could have encountered the same vulnerabilities. What makes you think that both having the same bug, because they use the same open-source system, is any kind of "proof"?

It's interesting how one can seem to provide a huge body of quotes and evidence for something- yet the majority of it easily deflates when viewed directly. We're gonna need more than this, much more. I'm not willing to 100% disbelieve you or dismiss your concerns outright- but if you're trying to convince people, this is a pretty weak effort.

You've made these claims before, you say ProtonMail's response is inadequate- could you elaborate on why? I thought it was relatively thorough and convincing, but am willing to see any holes poked in it
Compiler, Assembler, Linker and Loader: A Brief Story
There is a single cause of all unit-testing difficulty that I have ever seen: isolation. Functionality must be isolated to be testable.

Examples:

* You don't isolate side-effects, such as file creation. Now you must execute file creation every time you execute that functionality. Even though (I assume) you are not interested in testing the file system, you are now implicitly testing it.

* You don't isolate external dependencies, such as requiring a database connection. Now you can't test without standing up a temporary database.

* You don't isolate logic, such as doing several complicated validations in sequence within a single functionality. Now in order to test any of the validations, you must also arrange to pass all the previous validations.
> Free will obviously exists because we experience it.

You seem to be confusing the subjective experience of consciousness with free will. They aren't equivalent. (Free will can be viewed as a conjecture about the relationship of conscious experience with the outside world, but is not synonymous with conscious experience.)
Former air traffic controller, my schedule for the last 5 years at a 24 hour facility.

Monday and Tuesday - 7am : 3pm
Wednesday and Thursday - 3pm : 11pm
Friday and Saturday - 11pm : 7am

48 hours off to start that again on Tuesday.
It’s not about scale it’s reliability. Servers especially in the cloud can go down pretty quickly. Not just for hardware reasons either.

I can’t imagine any company crazy enough to run one server like you’re describing. Definitely wouldn’t pass any enterprise service continuity testing/review that’s for sure.
I perceive the tech community to be okay with this as long as Facebook keeps giving us excellent open source tools.
LaunchDarkly | ONSITE | Software Engineer Intern | Summer 2019 Internship | Oakland, CA

LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Google, and GitHub, and you'll have an immediate impact with our product and customers.

We're looking for a creative, product-focused engineering intern to work as part of our team summer 2019. This is a unique internship where you will have the full experience of working on a professional software team. No "intern projects" here. Instead, you'll have the chance not just to work on interesting technology, but the chance to learn how to contribute to the team at a high level.

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can confirm.

That said, one can often capture much of the performance benefit with Postgres indexes - basically, instead of trying to tightly-pack the base tables, copy the data into indexes which are tightly packed exactly as you need. Put another way, Postgres indexes are synchronously updated materialized views - and yes, the Postgres planner/optimizer will automatically answer queries from an index if it's faster and all the columns are in there.

I esp recommend reading about function and expression indexes, as well as the (new) covering indexes.

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2016/05/31/3-postgresql-in...
https://www.endpoint.com/blog/2013/06/10/postgresql-function...
https://paquier.xyz/postgresql-2/postgres-11-covering-indexe...
WikiLeaks or someone has said that part of their purpose is to make sure the fear of leaks cripples the internal processes of certain organisations.

If Facebook were forced to mostly use ephemeral communication that would be somewhat crippling.

Also I think there exist regulation as to what kind of documentation must be archived and how (SOX?).
> But too often people get in this mindset that old commercial products are meritless or whatever.

There is a lot of that assumption. And then, there is the vendor lock-in licensing terms that commercial DB vendors utilize, in that database switching cost is just prohibitively high and impractical.
An timeout that goes into idle mode until it detects some movement, would be less hassle.

It still leaves a small window of opportunity for abuse, but seems like a decent middle ground.
In terms of minivans, most American makes and models have conversions from at least one of the conversion manufacturers. Braun even has a converted Ford Explorer. The one issue I can see is that Waymo is using Pacifica Hybrids which can't be converted because the floor of converted vans is lowered ~12-14 inches which gets in the way of the batteries. But I can't imagine it would hurt to use a handful of gas-powered vehicles.
Which I’m doing. But we’re unfortunately stuck here and I’m just 1 person against an entire fleet of nurses, who also happen to be the caregivers.
I don't think "stripped down" or "static" would be what would really describe the sites. Things were broken, varied, and sometimes simplified in handcrafted ways. I would say that old university pages for professors would be a good example of something basic which reflected the era, though there's been such a big churn in university URLs over the past decade (and presumably other times as well) that it's difficult to find an example which hasn't been mutated by university IT into something more 'presentable' or just hosted at a different URL.

While most of what I could still locate dates only back to the mid-2000s , consider https://web.archive.org/web/20050122063815/http://matt.might... , around that time blogspot was pretty active and well ranked for search engines at the time, freestanding wordpress instances were fairly popular after individuals moved past writing html posts manually and uploading them over ftp to a simple host, phpbb instances were available for most topics in the mid 2000s. The key thing is that once you move before the easy availability of php based webhosts, then you get into the territory of hand edited plain html (or microsoft frontpage) and very very little to no-javascript.
I’m not sure this stands true when you think about fields.

Think of charged particles in a magnetic field and how polarity and and strength of the charge impacts their interaction the strength would do the same thing for both particles while the polarity would mirror their interaction.

I need to read the paper a few more times tho.
Games are the only reason most people will need more.

Most new AAA games are approaching 100GB each. And on the extreme end Gears of War 4 for example takes up over 250 GB.
Not sure your 'lemons' qualify as 'bad hires'. I've refrained from defining, as it requires context, but the 2 pillars of badhirism are negative productivity and negative attitude. Being "unskilled", by itself and in void, does not imply a bad hire IMO. We are all "unskilled" occasionally.
> You don't have a client library or anything like that, but a system-wide database driver instead.

That's a choice ala ODBC. A simple TDS client library works just fine. In fact, it's not a complex protocol for basic uses and is fairly easy to write a library for.