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D-Wave Systems - JavaScript Developer - Bellevue, Washington, US - Full-time - ONSITE - US citizen or holder of working permit in the US

We are a Quantum Computing company looking for a JavaScript Developer who will help us to develop a new integrated and visual developer environment that leverages Ocean, a suite of developer tools our customer use to solve problems on D-Wave’s Quantum computer.

5+ years of hardcore JavaScript coding skills and 2+ years of Front End experience.

Please apply directly at https://jobs.lever.co/dwavesys/cdd7e287-506a-4086-a68c-9ccd8... or contact me at tsoares@dwavesys.com
Working as a consultant in Europe.

Almost every business i walk in to has "something" in Azure (AD/SSO/Compute). 50-70% have "something" in AWS. Honestly under 10-15% have Google cloud products.

I work in the ERP segment so i like to think i experience a wide range of companies / cultures / budgets.
Did this for my wife recently. We measured multiple times very carefully, and got it very wrong.
This sounds a bit like the custom bicycle frame builder phenomenon as well. Well-known builders/shops can have years-long wait lists and their builds will go for 2x, 5x or 10x the cost of a top of the line mainstream model - 10s of thousands of $$.

Granted each one is built by hand so the artisanal craft is easy to appreciate.

But exclusivity is there, because these shops are building less than a dozen bikes per year. If you got your hands on one, wow it will turn heads when you roll up to the bier garden at the CX race.
I don't know much about GRRM, so are you referring to general book sales when you mention "whole bunch of money in installments"?

If you start consuming an unfinished story and then entitle yourself to an ending, that's 100% your fault. As an outside observer who never even watched the show, GoT fans are just tantrum-throwing assholes. When you spend $X on a book, you are just buying that book, not that book + liens on the author's future output + a guarantee that there will be any. Such weird entitlement in that community.

Also, you presumably also demand a really good book as well so that he doesn't "screw you over" (cmon) with a bad book where the fans now recommend dodging the final books (Rendezvous with Rama, Wheel of Time, etc).
How would you feel if someone came out with an article about "echelon's code isn't just bad, it's outright dangerous" and wrote a whole article attacking and shaming you, just because you might benefit from it?

Sure you might benefit, but there are much more constructive, kinder ways to do it. Even if he and his code aren't great, Goyal's done a lot of free public service here. Let's not be dicks.

If you want to learn about the codebase, here it is https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
For headphones, the audiophiles are right. They are even right about quality for a $2000 set of headphones, if its the right model vs a fashion brand. Each price tier tends to have a certain level of quality, and within that tier you can expect different sounds still. Some of the super high end stuff has noticeable amounts of detail over a wider range, so it can be actually "better" than a specific $500 set of headphones. Some people still might like the cheaper one though. However, when it comes to the $2000 cables they are full of shit. People have hooked super high end audio equipment to spectrum analyzers and other instruments and audiophiles are objectively getting taken for a ride when it comes to really expensive cables.

IMO, people that spend $2000 on a keyboard are overspending, but they are also aware that its a fashion accessory.
That's always super annoying. In my mother's old neighborhood there is a former train yard that was an empty field for decades. It was two or three blocks wide, about dozen blocks long, and split into thirds by a couple cross streets. When uppermost third was finally developed, instead of joining the existing street grid, they surrounded it in a fence and ran a silly meandering loop inside.
As someone in the industry I would caution everyone techy to take such articles with a grain of salt. Most of these articles are PR pieces by WS to lure tech talent. Yes tech is making a huge impact and it has been for a whole but not replacing everyone.
Having drunk alcohol on terbinafine because it was July 4 and I was an idiot I wouldn’t recommend the experience
The cable ISPs can and will gate higher speeds (think anything even halfway tolerable) behind "triple play" packages.
How would a home node cope with dynamic IPs, not having a registered domain name etc?
I mean, my flat broadband connection would allow say 10 Mb both down and uplink dedicated to a small Mastodon instance 24/7 at virtually zero cost without me even noticing, but my ISP changes my IP every night so that I'd be a moving target for anyone willing to connect. Hosting is a solution, but it costs money. Are there any means of connecting a node to the Mastodon network without being forced to look for fixed IP and a DNS name?
Admittedly I have no experience with Mastodon, although it intrigues me, so be patient:)
I own a $1000 phone and avoid as much as possible other people in public seeing it, because I don't want it to get stolen and I think being recognized for owning a "status symbol" is awkward.

Is it really so hard to believe that some people buy the most expensive iPhone simply because it's the best phone available on the market?
Obviously I have zero information about how they came to that conclusion, but it sounds to me like they looked too far into the future.

With basically every major tech company (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM) now having some cloud offering and so many companies switching their on-site infrastructure for the cloud, it seems like it's only a matter of time until compute time becomes a commodity. Once that happens pricing becomes a race to the bottom and margins become much smaller.
Thanks for sharing! It's very intriguing work. Is each node intended to model the local field potential of a given brain region? How 'large' or what scale are the individual nodes? (e.g. a few hundred neurons, a handful of neurons, one neuron?)
lol. why does it bother you? its not ok for these people to have fun?
Agreed. A balanced and sober study would include the tax benefit from energy companies to Canadians as well as employee income.
US-UK Deal Would Trample Cross Border Privacy Safeguards
Funny you should ask that! It's mostly because I'm hanging out it a ton of keyboard related Discord servers and the topic comes up naturally (downside of designing the things, your life revolves around it). Usually I'll post a few new images or screengrabs from KiCad and get a few comments along the line of 'someday I'll learn how to use mine!'. I mean there's students and people using them daily, but those comments just get me thinking.

A big issue moving to a new layout is learning/adapting to it. Georgi uses a chording approach [1] and is a compactified version of Gergos layout [2]. That makes it harder to learn.

Thankfully Gergos layout is meant for programming/shelling around and is fairly traditional. All I know is that my RSI flares a ton less then it used to! In theory, this applies to Georgi as well.

[1] http://docs.gboards.ca/Unboxing-Georgi

[2] https://qmk.fm/keyboards/gergo/keymap.png
AWS are trying to get into that game. They now have hosted email, documents, file sharing, customer support, and corporate voip products. No doubt more are lined up.
What your software development plan isn't telling you
I'd say it was wrong. Amazon and Microsoft now make huge amounts of money from their clouds. It can't be that low margin!

But I feel like their real mistake was trying to do things right, rather than compatibly. I think Google Cloud Engine is undeniably a better system than ad-hoc Linux VMs. But nobody really wants to rewrite all their code to work with it.
You mean, it's not working for you or your kids?
How dare I wear my hard hat to work at a construction site! It must mean I'm an unsafe worker, cause I expect to get hit, right?
It is, but that wasn't anticipated at the time and Amazon didn't reveal its margins until much later.
Also, it's a long and annoying HN tradition to post the outline link (useful) without mentioning that it just bypasses the paywall (not useful).
Suddenly I feel very less confident in my prescription that I just received
$ echo '2^128' | bc | rev | sed 's/.../&,/g;s/,$//' | rev

340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

...rrright.

Actually let me line up the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(data)

340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
.. ?? YB ZB EB PB TB GB MB KB

(There's no meaningful notation of size here - the denotations are just to show just how much data you can fit in 128 bits of space.)

Blinks a few times

Ultimately fails to mentally grasp and make useful sense of the number due to its sheer size

As an aside, apparently DNA can store a few TB/PB (I don't remember which). The age of optimizing for individual bytes as a routine part of "good programming" is definitely over, I guess. (I realize this discussion is about address space and not capacity, but still)
My optician friend is doing the inter-ocular distance right, he showed me the process while he was cutting the lenses on a high-end computerized machine. But the only difference between my glasses are the frames, there are some differences in the frames that makes a difference in the final product. I guess it is the angle between the lenses, even a small difference can be creating the discomfort. It takes me a few hours to adjust.
Microsoft: Iranians tried to hack U.S. presidential candidates in effort
kindle displays don't use power like laptop screens. It uses very little power to sustain an image, and only uses more power to change the pixels.

You can keep the display of the kindle on for hours at a time with minimal drain
My main reason to use end-to-end encryption is to protect people whose life might depend on it: Journalists and their sources, activists etc.

If everyone uses encryption by default, those people can not that easily be picked out from the sea of information and targeted in other ways.
Yes, the biggest problem of these programs is that it's deliberately divisive and increases fragmentation into binary pro/anti factions. At the end of the day this always generates violence, hatred and distrust.
Never been 5 years anywhere myself, but the one I remember hearing of is Automattic:

https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

>Paid two to three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years.
This is known as "tech unicorns" these days.
Anyone can get Google support with Google One [0] for as low as 2$ a month (along side 100GB of storage).

The issue is people expect free products they haven't paid a penny for to have live customer support, which doesn't make much sense at the billion user scale.

[0] https://one.google.com/
Enterprise CIOs get an entirely different experience from Google than you or I do. It’s like the difference between flying Concorde and flying as a stowaway in the nose wheel landing gear.
Know how to get your data out. Say you truly believe something like Cockroach will give you an advantage go for it. But then figure out how to move your data, write abstractions that can make it say easy to switch from Cockroach to Cassandra.

Imagine you're building a software to sell to companies, you wouldn't just support one database, would you? You would build an adapter that will let the customer use Postgresql, MariaDB or MSQL server. You do the same. If you're profitable enough, you support the company, pay them so they can stay in business. Maybe have your devs contribute to the OSS part if they have that. This is something your CTO should be handling. This is also why many mature companies are not gung-ho on using new tech and like to play it safe.
Matt Levine made the point that to get chosen as one of the IPO banks, you had to pitch to WeWork that you could get them a good-yet-plausible valuation. I.e., take what their last (private) valuation was, and bump it up by a decent amount. Once you're selected, of course, then reality can take over.
There's a lot of opportunity in human aided systems, i.e. CEO says they are getting a lot of new web traffic after a redesign, but aggregated website analytics show that it isn't the case. Using credit card data in retail, etc. to either trade around a position, or inform a thesis, etc.
There are a few journals of negative results. For example, https://jnrbm.biomedcentral.com/
Yes Mr. Kissinger. Those are an attack on the freedom of individual.
Check out Calibre-Web (https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/). I'm only mentioning it because you've mentioned Plex, because it comes with a theme that's a clone of Plex: https://github.com/leram84/layer.Cake/tree/master/caliBlur
How do you know what they actually use? I thought they are super secretive.
It is today, but it won't last. As automation tooling gets better the barriers to entry drop and competition kicks in and lowers prices. You can see it already: Aws are constantly lowering their prices. It's not just to be nice, they're competing hard.
Recent cyberattacks require us all to be vigilant
If you ask most people where their water comes from (beyond the tap) they generally have no clue. In most parts of America, we’ve lived through an incredible time of easy access to clean water. Perhaps that same fortune has led us to complacency and ignorance.
And even if they did know what they were talking about (read JP Morgan), that doesn’t mean their estimates are reliable. There are many forces/interests at play wrt these public statements, see the WeWork case.
Softbank and WeWork reminds me painfully of the episode of Entourage I watched last night, where the boys are pitching their as-yet unseen prestige film at Cannes. Hyped to the extreme, on the verge of pulling a deal to make a boatload of money, but on closer inspection it's a huge stinker that falls apart disastrously.
That reply ended up in the wrong place and now I can’t amend it my bad.

> Incorrect. The technology getting more efficient does not make Bitcoin less efficient. You probably didn't actually think through this point, because it's nonsensical.

It very much does. The more efficient your miners the more you have a temporary advantage over your peers, so there’s incentive to replace your equipment. Then everyone upgrades theirs too. Once you do the difficulty adjusts to match the new hash power. Thus bitcoin becomes less efficient. There’s a straight line up and to the right over time in terms of hash rate, and power consumption but the max tx rate remains a pitiable 7tx/sec. Therefore by definition it’s become less efficient.

I mean 10 years ago it took a couple of Wh to run a tx and now it takes 607kWh! That’s the nonsensical part. You can’t tell me that efficiency hasn’t gone down haha.

> 95% of volume on exchanges that nobody pays any attention to anyway. Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Bittrex, etc all have completely legitimate volume numbers.

People very much pay attention to bitfinex, since they own the funbux people use to avoid AML/KYC. Even if we take the crazy claim that somehow people only pay attention to the “good 5%” of tx the fake volume sets the exchange rate dude. I can’t believe you’d sit there and say it’s okay if 95% of volume is fake and manipulative because you’ve found the good 5%. If only 5% of all USD transactions were fake, or all stock transactions were fake we’d burn the system to the ground.

> Thus is only true as long as new bitcoins are still being minted. And it's also only true if the rate of increase in the price outstrips the decrease in the minting rate.

So until 2050. And then you think miners will continue to secure the system for their health? Of course not. Transaction fees will skyrocket and if anyone is left using the system the process will repeat itself.

> Ok. Don't buy any then. Meanwhile, people living under repressive and fiscally irresponsible governments will continue to use it to protect their wealth, as they have been doing.

“Protecting their wealth” haha, good one. They lost 33% last week. 70% since all time high. 99.8% if they invested in alt coins. That’s not protection, that’s insanity. There’s so many better ways to protect wealth. It protects wealth like warm milk on a windowsill.

Trust me I’m not buying haha, I made a bunch of money in the initial bubble run, sold at 17K and got out. Today, there’s plenty of better investments in the stock market. I mean outperforming an asset class down 70% in 2 years is pretty pretty easy. Even SoftBank has a better track record. Actually it may be outperformed by the Turkish Lira at this point. (Edit) since 2017 the Turkish lira has done much better than bitcoin.
How do you know nobody has a copy of your house key? I live in an apartment building and it's actually mandatory for the super to be able to enter my apartment in emergencies so he has a key.
Every power any government has ever been given has been abused. Best to limit any government as much as reasonable.

Most places where child endangerment is/would happen is already encrypted, and it doesn't seem to be significantly hindering investigation. Beyond this, requiring a master key won't stop independent implementations that don't have such a thing.

It's like criminals are willing to break the law or something. Areas with strict gun control still have gun crimes, and people willing to endanger children would still use encryption without said back door.
> The internal message was, we don't want to build a competitor.

Which is a fundamentally wrong analysis. Managed compute, network, and storage was going to happen whether or not Google got into the business, helping build Google's competitors. The only difference is that Amazon gets to collect the rent.

Just like Microsoft, which made bad decisions about the Internet but grew anyway so continued to reward its execs, Google completely fumbled in cloud but grew in other places and continued to overcompensate its execs.
I had such a different experience when I was trying out the two platforms in parallel about fours years ago.

I came from a background where we'd created/ran all of these kinds of services in-house - simply because we started building our stuff before AWS/GCP existed in any meaningful way.

Anyway, after switching employers four years ago I had a greenfield project. I had zero investment in either platform. (I had joined a hardware company with a responsibility to build the software org. Side note: don't do that. I now understand why hardware-centric companies often can't do software - the CEO and other key people in sales/marketing simply don't understand the field at all. And that does matter. They won't even be able to understand if you're doing a good or bad job.)

My impressions were:

1) AWS had many more services than GCP

2) GCP services were generally designed better, more carefully thought out, etc. I felt that AWS APIs were designed without a very large amount of thought put into it, on an individual basis. I imagined Werner Vogels laying out edicts for a generalized service API design, and the individual teams all had to follow them, or else. And then the individual team built each service, without being able to change the general API design guidelines.

GCP services meanwhile seemed they like they were built by a smaller (and more talented) team with more team cohesion and communication. They traded a better design for a slower API/service output over time.

3) GCP was cheaper.
Its disappointing that AMD didn't bother to implement the 15H CPUID leaf that Intel added years ago to get the exact CPU TSC frequency. Yet AMD cared enough to add there own instruction(RDPRU) to get the values of APERF and MPERF in user mode.
I'll check it out for sure.

The thing that bothered me was that each entity, like S3, domain hosting, everything else I did felt like an island.

Google's version felt like a "solution" in terms of things being related documentation wise and everything else.

I fully admit that given a different situation I could feel differently about Google.
If the government of a wealthy nation state decides to read messages a given group of people have been sending to each other using user-friendly consumer chat services, it will succeed.

It just can't do so casually, with minimal resources, with a low probability of detection like it can when those messages are sent in the clear. A targeted cyberattack authorized by a warrant is the digital equivalent of sending a SWAT team to kick in a door.
From the article, this man has already used his implant to control his wheelchair, which already has vastly more public infrastructure to support it than a centaur.
Would not having E2EE platforms remove child abuse imagery and/or terrorism? The answer of course is no. I always get reminded of a story about terrorist using video games to communicate with each other and giggle a little bit.

Currently the government uses E2EE to safe guard themselves, then the American people should also have access to it to safe guard themselves. If the government allows us to purchase guns for our safety, why not encryption? You going to say encryption kills more people then guns?

Plus E2EE isn't some super secret thing the government only has access to. Any one can create a E2EE platform and the government would be hard press to stop it. You might not be able to commercialize it, but it won't stop it from existing.

I believe arguing over if something should be legal/illegal is a pointless distraction. E2EE exist now embrace it or move on, but don't think banning it or making it illegal will some how make it disappear.
I'm not defending parking on street parking, and I am not saying we should force developers to add parking (I just find the fingers-in-ears ignoring of the issue frustrating), but with respect I think your views on the parking are a bit maladjusted.

That's because you could use your same argument about any public service. We pay for it in spades through income and council taxes.

Deliberately semi-quoting your argument:

You get public services for an insanely low price (healthcare, firemen, police, libraries, schools) for your own private benefit. You are forcing everyone around you to pay for you to not die/not have your house burn down/not get robbed/learn/get your kids educated etc because you don't feel like paying for it yourself.

Can't afford your own healthcare/fireman/police/library/school? Then perhaps we shouldn't let you use them unless you are willing to pay market rate for the service.
> Every power any government has ever been given has been abused. Best to limit any government as much as reasonable.

Do you really think this is sellable to the average voter? That isn't a mainstream opinion.
How is it in Microsoft's DNA? They've always run the software, not the hardware. And for Azure, they just took all their Office customers and rebranded them as "Azure" customers, pumping their cloud numbers.
I feel they entered the business because they AWS showed the industry that it actually has pretty good margins.

However, I think the sentiment is probably true that selling VPS is low-margin over the long-term, but i think the margins come from the other bits: global economies of scale, good infrastructure management & practices, and providing their proven internal technologies (ML/AI, managed distributed services). Long-term, it seems like Google could come out the winner, but only if the other aspects of business are also done well (like sales). It seems like Google Cloud is picking up market share, but still far away from the 3 As (AWS, Azure, Alibaba)
I tried asking physicists about how much damage can be done by a nuclear power plant in the hands of a bad actor. I wanted to write it into the plot of a story/game I was dreaming up.

The response was ultimately: "way less than you'd think."

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/501180/how-can-i...
On the other hand, we don't allow radical legislation to go through and that's a huge positive in some cases. We would never let a Brexit/secession go through because we'd never be able to agree on it.
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1105/