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Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) | Scientific Software Developer | Zurich/Lugano, Switzerland | Onsite | Full-time

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is operated by ETH Zurich and develops and provides key supercomputing capabilities required to solve important problems in science and society.

The Scientific Software and Libraries group at CSCS is looking for developers who love writing stable, performance-portable, scientific software for the latest HPC systems. We have multiple open positions at both the ETH Hönggerberg campus in Zurich, and at the CSCS headquarters in Lugano. Your work will involve long term projects of at least one year in duration. Projects involve either close collaboration with a scientific collaborator, or work in small internal team working on software for use across multiple projects. Some examples of projects you might work on are:

- Template meta-programming and domain specific languages to accelerate climate and weather codes on accelerated architectures

- Quantum chemical and material science applications used for the prediction of novel materials

- Optimising and wrapping sparse linear algebra and mesh codes for our finite element and finite volume users

- Combining low-level optimization with task-based parallelism at extreme scale to perform fast linear algebra on the world's largest systems

- Communication-avoiding parallel algorithms

Our projects are open source whenever possible. Here are some of the projects we develop and contribute to: https://github.com/arbor-sim/arbor, https://github.com/electronic-structure/SIRIUS, https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx. Also have a look at the profiles of some of our team members: https://github.com/bcumming/, https://github.com/biddisco/, https://github.com/halfflat/, https://github.com/havogt/, https://github.com/msimberg/, https://github.com/noraabiakar/.

We require you to have great C++ skills and a master in computer science, computational science, mathematics or natural sciences. Ideally you would also have experience in one or more of the following: materials science, weather and climate, or linear algebra; development of numerical or scientific simulation software; development of GPU-accelerated applications using CUDA or ROCm; release management; or performance modeling.

Tell us what project catches your eye and and why you'd be the right candidate in your application: https://apply.refline.ch/845721/6509/pub/1/index.html. Due to the migration regulations in Switzerland the process for non-EU residents is more challenging.
For us? Yes. We were still thinking that this is a good place to live and raise a family (that we just started that year).

On the money side, I continued to believe throughout the GFC that Cambridge, MA was going to continue to be a desirable place to live and work. I don't think the Zillow guesstimate on our house ever fell more than 5% below our purchase price, which was vastly better than our 401(k)s and brokerage accounts. (I changed my personal finance tracking spreadsheet in 2013, so I don't have records of house price estimates prior to then to confirm and Zillow only seems to go back 10 years.)
Yep. AGPL is explicitly forbidden within Amazon, even for non-customer-facing use, and their open source license lawyers are very twitchy about it.
What are your concerns about the safety of this technology?
Dia does have a capability to export to PStricks. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/tree/master/plug-ins/pstr...

Even better, it has export to PGF/TiKZ : see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/tree/master/plug-ins/pgf
He named it. The pound dropped eating his margins. So he moved to a better place with a stronger currency and culture. He will not be the only one, almost everyone will be fleeing soon.
If someone wants to experience something similar, sensory deprivation tanks could be an interesting option. I'd argue that the lack of tactile deprivation in the experiment made a huge difference.
New Year, New You? The Allure of Transhumanism
These are two of my favourite things about programming! I wouldn't consider myself "great" or a "craftsperson" though. Maybe I should.
Prior discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18676986
Otherwise known as transliteration
On Relativistic F-divergences (AI Research on GANs)
"The Koch brothers are the sons of Fred C. Koch, who founded Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in the United States" wikipedia

"His [Bill Gates] father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gates' maternal grandfather was J.W. Maxwell, a
national bank president."
Also wikipedia.

So these aren't exactly people who worked their way up from the gutter.

But yes some people probably do have problems with earned income, I still think the distinction is worth it though.
Yes if it is plugged in.

https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/siri-101-use-hey-siri-han...

The only time thst I need to be able to activate Siri hands free is when I am driving. Even my cheap car has Bluetooth with a button on the steering wheel that activates it. It’s much more reliable than Hey Siri for me.
I used this technique to cross the street in Vietnam, oncoming motorcycles look where they’re going, and they trust that you will too. Looking at an oncoming motorcycle just results in both of you coming to a stop. Guess the ski instructors were right: you go where you look.
How We’ll Forget John Lennon
> If only they had a competitor that could launch the same products a few months later but offered higher reliability off the bat

Doesn't Azure Cosmos DB do this? From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introductio...

> You can elastically scale throughput and storage, and take advantage of fast, single-digit-millisecond data access using your favorite API among SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Tables, or Gremlin.

Haven't used it though, so would welcome some real world experience.
Who'd have thought that being repeatedly punched in the head would have negative long-term health implications?
Quite the opposite in my reading: Kildall's place in the history of computing is being the guy who did not become "Bill Gates" despite having all the right skills and being at the right place at the right time. One difference between Gates and Kildall at the time was pedigree, and look how it turned out.

(Now I'm off to reminisce about GEM)
Sqflite – playing around with Flutter and simple database
Lifting the veil on star formation in the Orion Nebula
Creating a Zoo of Atari-Playing Agents
Agreed 100%

This might sound stupid, but another thing I really like is that the headphones jack connector is aligned with the Caps Lock key. When I take the laptop on my couch with headphones, I just look at the Caps Lock key to find the socket.

It might be random chance, but I think someone at Apple designed it this way. Saves me maybe half a second but it's thoroughly satisfying.
Fascinating thought. Echoes Seamus Heaney's poem The Early Purges about farm life, especially the line "living displaces false sentiments" and "'Prevention of cruelty' talk cuts ice in town/Where they consider death unnatural"
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-early-purges/
Sky Drone Is Now an Official Member of the Dronecode Project
A Crypto Thesis
The disappearing Windows DNS debug log
I worked for Amazon in the EU, and the rule was certainly in force. Whether or not it could be enforced is a different question, but none of us wanted to go up against Amazon's lawyers!
Growing Pains: As HackerOne has grown, is it harming what it intended to help?
They recently switched to a new license, inspired by AGPL, that isn’t approved by OSI and probably not Open Source.

So they are trying to eat their cake and have it too.
A few quibbles.

1. Wealth != Taxable income. Wealth is generally post tax holdings. It's technical, but important to distinguish.

2. This isn't too strange for Europe. The aristocracies that stratified during the enlightenment did pretty well in places where there weren't proletariat revolutions in the 19th century.

The northern Italian city states have always been odd, autonomous ducks.
> North Korean style crap

This confirms my belief that most criticisms of Elm are emotional responses, not rational ones.

Allowing arbitrary JS functions to be called from wherever would indeed break everything. Want to use `Math.random()`? Whoops! There goes referential transparency. Want to use `document.querySelector()`? Hello runtime errors my old friend. Want to use `function(x) { return x / 0; }`?

Yeah, have fun with that. I'll stay in North Korea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I worked there too in 2015. The culture is toxic. The most surprising thing was the way all the AWS services are built with a grab bag of different teams with entirely different languages, copying CSS and code all over the place. There were no real standards. I still like AWS but knowing how bad the sausage is made makes me cringe a bit...
> and somebody's likely to have already created a LaTeX package for it

... or a dozen, each with different features, like tables.
If you're in the Bay Area you should also visit the Marine Mammal Center in Marin. Make sure you time it so you can take the backstage tour!
No, it is not silly. It is referential transparency.
Inside Facebook’s ad platform clean up
Yeah, it's really weird. Amazon has other IP-producing divisions, and even though Amazon Studios is very powerful, there's nothing preventing people from making their own video content. I wonder if it's just down to whoever leads that game studio pushing for such a rule.
Care to expand? Prima facie this is a very reasonable stance. Further, image data has a lot of structure not present in other data and it's far from obvious what to do with ML techniques in other contexts.

This is coming from a physicist starting to investigate ML tools in my own work.
How GitHub Is Helping Developers, Entrepreneurs and Enterprise in Managing
> Also even if its 'only' zero sum, that money is still going somewhere, either allowing someone else to make a long term investment, or something more immediate.

I'm not sure I understood your point correctly, but most wealth that is passed between generations is passed in the form of investments, not cash, so that wealth is performing the same societal benefit as your pension. What I meant by long term risk was that rich kids can afford to start businesses, because if they fail, they can fall back on their family's wealth to bounce back.

I would avoid adopting the world view that money is the root of all evil (or leads to power...). If you gave everyone $1B, no one would be measurably more powerful than they are today, because everyone else can afford the same things they can, so prices would rise until an equilibrium is achieved (same goes for educational opportunities, etc, unless you cap teacher pay effectively holding teachers back).

Again, a 100% inheritance rate would make society more equal by taking away opportunities from those who had ancestors that worked hard to provide that opportunity for them, not by giving more opportunity to those who weren't so fortunate.
You could just run it in a container with a bind mount for the database path to a file path that's kept in sync with SyncThing or other alternatives.
But the guy in the clip wasn't talking about opportunities to make money, he was talking about laws and taxes.
How Big Is Let's Encrypt – And Some Other Stats
Technically, your customers have never agreed to be charged by this new company you’re setting up - it’s an entirely separate legal entity from yourself. There’s no way to start charging them from a separate legal entity without their consent, so a bulk import is probably not what you are permitted to do.
It is different country by country. In some countries if it wasn't done on a company equipment regarding your assignments the company cannot do anything about it and they cannot limit you to work on opensource/unpaid projects.
It doesn't presuppose that wealth is bad. The tax would just be repayment for creating a society that allows that wealth to exist.
TDO was recruiting employees and looking for attention before 9/11 data dump
Steve Jobs' family had a nice middle-class life, and his parents even moved so he'd be in a better school district iirc.
The Myth of Minimum Viable Product
You should read up on why Microsoft got the DOS deal. When IBM decided to build their PC, they first sent representatives to visit Microsoft thinking they had an OS in development. However, they didn't at the time, and Gates actually told them to go visit Kildall instead.

When the IBMers arrived at Kildall's house, they got told to wait because Kildall was busy handgliding that day (or something similar). They waited the whole day before deciding they had enough and left.

It's only then that Gates saw an opportunity, and told IBM they could provide an OS.
What is your evidence that "pedigree" made the difference?

Edit: how rude of me to ask for evidence!
> If you'd like to, why not? It's up to you. You're not forced to do, though.

Well, yeah. If I'd like to hang myself, I'd pick a technology with fewer correctness guarantees. As it turns out, that's not what I want. This is self-evident.

It's also not a valid criticism for you to say that you've found Elm doesn't "follow the common sense". This is too vague to be any kind of constructive criticism.
State of Elm 2018: Results
Yeah. Amazon loses a small but significant number of potential hires when they learn about the open source clause - often very good people, too. When I left they were actively working on trying to find a solution, as it had been a thorn in the side for years.
> My impression of the licensing change was not that they expected to Amazon to pay fees for offering a hosted MongoDB service. It was instead to lock Amazon out, and keep MongoDB Inc. as the only "cloud provider" of a hosted MongoDB service.

Oh absolutely. I don't think they really thought they could force Amazon to license MongoDB, but I do think they believed they could force Amazon to not offer something that competed directly with Atlas.

That hasn't worked out for them very well.

(Not that I think leaving the license alone would have worked out any better. To the best of my knowledge, the MySQL, Postgres, Redis, and Memcache projects have not particularly benefited from Amazon building RDS and Elasticache on top of them, and I see no reason to think Amazon would have contributed a bunch of great patches upstream for MongoDB either.)
> "The resulting correlation between walking speed and population was strikingly linear"

> (plot with logarithmic axis)

/me closes tab
As others, I've grown accustomed to wrapping lines to fit in small terminals, and I started avoiding breaking the line randomly. Instead I try to break after self-sufficient parts of sentences so that lines flow naturally after one another. That usually means after a comma, before a connector word, or after an enumeration. It's not always possible, but I find that when I need to rewrite a sentence to be naturally breakable it usually reads better. Furthermore, each line often ends up expressing a whole idea, which means working on that idea usually translates to simple line operations, which fits nicely in an expressive text editor like Vim.
And the little details on those tiles are called 'greebles'!

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-wars/36450/greebles-ho...
Worked for Amazon. It was a big issue internally, but we never got a good answer to that question.
“A heterarchy may be parallel to a hierarchy, subsumed to a hierarchy, or it may contain hierarchies; the two kinds of structure are not mutually exclusive. In fact, each level in a hierarchical system is composed of a potentially heterarchical group which contains its constituent elements.”[1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterarchy
I gave you examples of using JS type safe way. You don't care. One question I alway use to tilt FP purist zealots:

How about Time.now()? :) Source of disturbance, it should not be allowed to be used in programming etc. etc.
Always judge a company by how they
treat their lowest employees.

Seems like a policy that gives a big advantage to industries that aren't labour-intensive.

Is Costco a worse company than Oracle, because the former has employees making $30,000 and the latter doesn't?
Looking at some of the close ups from the Instagram page[0] it does seem to have a number of non standard pieces, but mostly for the figurines as far as I can tell. Stickers too, but other than that it looks fairly standard. Difficult to tell from pictures alone of course but nothing really stands out for me as all that non standard.

I too built the Saturn V last year, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Particularly as it had zero stickers, and very few non standard pieces. Despite having so many pieces it didn’t feel “inflated” with a bunch of really small pieces where a single bigger piece would do just fine, as was the case with the UCS Y-wing I built over Christmas. Great build, but there were so many times I got annoyed by having two or three small pieces, like two or three 2x2 pieces, where a single 2x4 or 2x6 would do just fine. What’s the point in inflating the piece count like that? I’m also not a fan of stickers on the pieces, but at least there weren’t that many..

[0]: https://www.instagram.com/wani_brick/
Why not use something like http://github.com/susam/texme as a starting point? Really easy to turn any Markdown document into a rendered HTML with a single line of code in the header.

This rendered HTML could be converted to PDF and printed or the self-rendered HTML itself could be printed directly.
Without an example of them showing bias by actually giving an award to a product that is much like theirs that targets men this is sheer conjecture, and presumption of bias. Has the CES ever given an award for an adult product? Perhaps it could be due to the USA having very puritan views on sex still to this day (Violence OK on broadcast TV, but no nudity/sex).
Show HN: HN front page news since last 8hrs
WebSockets and API Gateway
Ethereum token standards explained
The numbers I can find are closer to 70 than 80%, but still. The really scary number is that the obesity rate is closing in on 40%. So the majority of people who are overweight or obese are in fact obese!

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db288.pdf
He works internationally, the drop in pound means he would have been earning more as the pound dropped. Surely he's going to have to put his prices up, which could have been his solution anyway?

I'm sure the real reasons are political rather than financial.
where art thou dang to come help us?
Easy remote replication. Also, I found BigCouch effective - multi-tenant but otherwise just like using CouchDB.
Hackforumsexploits
“Speed up and slow down gently” - ie acceleration and deceleration.
I'm curious what portion of people lack a geek friend they can trust to set-up whatever for them.
The key (for me) to feel appreciated is in performance reviews and (hopefully) logically leading to a promotion if the work is that good. Also, getting greater technical challenges and freedom. The odd occasion where praise or acknowledgement of quality of work did matter to me was when it came from those I considered far superior to me in skills that mattered to my work.

EDIT: In your case, if you have developers working for you, who are doing good work, one thing you could do is to ensure you mention that to your superiors. It really helps if you can help them understand how the good work makes an impact on the business.
You must be a vegan to hold such strong opinions on this. I wonder how widely your view is shared by other vegans... I certainly see no problem with offering an animal food, though I wouldn't cage or otherwise forcibly tame an animal.
Haven't used the app yet but the "Facebook"ish theme and illustration-style on the first page made me recoil reflexively. Maybe because privacy is a big concern when it comes to journals and we have come to associate that colorscheme with distrust and privacy breaches lately. I think tweaking the colors and illustration style might help.
I thought the parent comment was referring to real offline journals made of treeware.
Fair enough, I mistook your comment to be about the post, not the YouTube clip.
Jobs had no money, no connections, no "pedigree", and was a college dropout. Jobs' parents were blue collar, his dad was a repo man, and their background was poor.
Facebook and fake news: elderly more likely to spread misinformation
The problem with the distinction between good and bad debt is that money is fungible. If you have some amount of "good" debt, then every penny you spend on "bad" depreciating assets is money that could have gone to pay down the good debt.

Conversely, if you have bad debt, every penny that goes towards paying it back could instead go towards the kinds of purchases he endorses using "good" debt for.

There's no principled distinction between the two.
It's 2019, saying your sex toy is for women and LGTBITQZ+ is antiquated and simply reeks of bigotry. It's no wonder they took your award back. If you want to be a revolutionary, say your sex toy is for children.
7 Main Differences Between U.S. And U.K. Business Culture
Re ideology. Its an choice between 2 similar taxes. And there are many, many reasons for structuring taxes.

Re captial gains tax.
Over the very long term, you would expect your investments to at least track inflation, and you would expect to sell of those investments to buy things. Its not clear to me that these 2 taxes necessarily end up very different. Should we not expect to get at least a flavour of what to expect by looking at capital gains tax?
TFA is the author of the "search engine" describing how they learned about having to do normalization.
We use write everything in Markdown and then convert to a book with Leanpub (http://leanpub.com) Fantastic tool!
One thing I learned in Florence is when the plague came the rich families from Siena and Florence took two different approaches. In Florence, some of the families noticed they might not last so they decided to, not sure if distribute wealth is the right word, but they gave a lot to the city and remaining people. They knew it would be needed for rebuilding. Siena did not and according to my guide it’s the reason Florence flourished and Siena became a lesser known city.
I'd say the products themselves are fairly uninteresting :)

NewBusinessMonitor[0] is a tool for marketing your products/services to businesses in the UK. This company is a bootstrapped SaaS, built and run by just me. It's been taking money for over a year.

Comparestack[1] is a price comparison platform. Our first product is Moneygains[2] — a way for residents of Northern Ireland to switch to a better deal on their home electricity. I'm building this with a partner — he's taking care of all the business stuff.

I have a third in the reinsurance space, and it has taken funding. I'm not going to talk about this one so much for the time being — it's still in stealth mode.

[0]: https://newbusinessmonitor.co.uk/

[1]: https://comparestack.com/

[2]: https://moneygains.co.uk/
You'll look stupid when he isn't lying you biased garbage
I was referring more to potential, as opposed to what he actually did in software development. Per stories from Harvard, he had some mathematical talent. With talent like that he could have essentially pursued whatever intellectual pursuit he wanted and have obtained results in it. Whether that be software development, mathematics, running a business etc. My point is there are others out there like him, we likely won’t know about them because they aren’t from such affluent families.
The great serverless cost debate (Serverless = Costless)
There is some great advice here, and it simply echoes what is available elsewhere. Saving and investing a small portion of your income will make you rich over time.

Especially for those working in tech, there are ways to put the odds of becoming wealthy greatly in your favor. It's our choice to act on it or ignore it.