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We are looking for a Solutions Architect (Berlin or Warsaw) to prepare Hypatos line of products for delivering on Docker/K8s on-premise and on-cloud, to help us Improve our CI/CD processes and to contribute to Hypatos Machine Learning infrastructure. Hypatos develops deep learning technology to automate document based backoffice tasks - a major pain point for organizations! Our technology is already trusted by the largest consumers of document data incl. big 4 auditors and Shared Service Centers of Fortune 500. To satisfy the high demand of our clients, we need you as interface between the client and the development team to translate business requirements to technical designs and solutions. Exciting times ahead - would you like to have a quick chat so that I can tell you more?
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That would explain why I have to wait sometimes ~1h until the Azure DevOps queued pipelines build starts.
This is a bit like the financial crisis in 2008.

In 2008, the idea was that if you bundle up a large bunch of mortgages, then the bundle will have low risk because the chances of everything failing at the same time is low. The cloud is designed so that resource usage spikes of individual customers can always be served because one customer is very small compared to the whole infrastructure.

However, in some cases, these mortgages/resource spikes become highly correlated.
Certainly not $1K! BTW, at current U.S. hospital billing levels, $1K buys you a small bottle of Tylenol. Think big, my friend!
Talking about mixed signaling, so. Local practices are asking households and carpenters for masks and protective suites. At the same time German authorities are basically refusing external help. "We have our own processes" was the most usefull answer I heard this week from officials.

Luckily, I found a doctor who's heading a regional association today. and at least he was very happy to hear that someone was willing, and able, to help. I almost gave up today, would have been a quite a waste of available air freight and distribution capacities to get these thing from China.

As a side note, based on my experience with the german government in term of procurement and such things, this whole Kenia story is at least in realm of being possibly true. Still, a very strange story... I'm curious to see how it ends.
Yes, tbh that's our number one request. When we release our categories/filtering, a regex will be written to filter Revature and companies of the like.
When collaborating over ambiguous topics where the potential to be misunderstood is high, you need to use the "richest" communication channel possible. Body language, facial expression, and the fast feedback loop can help you quickly establish a sense of common ground.

On the other hand, status updates or sharing of metrics/information can easily be done asynchronously, because the potential to be misunderstood is low. It's also a more scalable approach and persists over time.
Location: Los Angeles CA

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: post-pandemic (special consideration given inside California or near Salt Lake City).

Tech/Skills: JavaScript, PHP, and Python are the freshest syntaxes in my head, I've also built things in C, Go, Java, Perl, Prolog, and Ruby; RDBMS Modeling & Queries (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite); strong CSS formatting/layout and general pre-2015 front-end skills, just learning how to orient apps around React. Good with SCM, MVC, TDD, OOP, etc. Math undergrad, some product, UX, and human factors experience. Especially interested in working in Clojure, Elixir, Elm, or Rust, or projects with a natural language processing domain.

Resume: https://tinyurl.com/wcores

Email: whn (a) canncentral ⋅ org
What problem/threat is dgit meant to solve/guard against? Is it:

a) the people problem of coworkers not knowing the difference between a repository (e.g. on github), a remote (the name "origin") or even a branch (the label "master")

b) github.com turning evil or going away forever

c) myhost.example.com failing for hours or days
No it synchronises the start of the video and allows to have a voice chat during the watch party.
Definitely not. The kernel has its own implementations of any standard C functions which it needs.
Its not actually dead either
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Feels like an opportunity for building a service that uses AWS, GCP or Azure based on which is cheapest at that moment + which is not "full"... Unless that already exists.
You need to call the paw patrol. Focus on the work you can get done not the hours spent at a desk. Take plenty of breaks and spend it with your toddler. Having a 11,9 and 3 year old - all I can say is enjoy your insane toddler before they grow up. Use nap time and appease the little monster with tv to get work done. Then take breaks and play with them
Solitude and boredom is not the same.

I understand solitude. You have a need. It's not fulfilled.

I don't get boredom: I see so many ways to fulfill this need.
See how deploying streaming applications on Kubernetes is a no-brainer
Alpine is not "the Docker distro". It predates Docker by quite some time and was used in lots of lightweight systems.

Python wheels compiled using the manylinux infrastructure actually do work on Alpine + musl.

That said I wouldn't recommend running Python on musl as I have seen incredibly weird behaviour including corruption of Python's low integer cache resulting in some truely awful consequences. i.e amounts of currency suddenly being 10x what they should be.
If some auditor is forcing your org to have this type of product on Linux, it's probably better than the alternatives.
With announcements of this type of thing, what I think we all need to know is also "can you produce tons of these things right now", not just that they exist.
I think the opposite is true because those machines were built around assembly programming. The hardware was essentially the software development framework.

Check out this assembly programming series, it's less assembly code on the Amiga to get something on screen or getting mouse/keyboard input than with highlevel languages and APIs/frameworks today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p83QUZ1-P10&list=PLc3ltHgmii...
I really don't get it.... My three favourite jokes from when I was twelve

* What is E.T. short for? Because he has little legs
* How do you titilate and ocelot? Oscillate it's tit a lot.
* What is Batman's favourite food? Toast - still don't get why that is funny but even now I laugh.

Thanks for reaching out!
Ah you're right, I forgot about OCaml's ass-tier multicore support. Rust is definitely better there.
I work for a diabetes prevention startup, and we found that https://myfitnesspal.com and https://www.wikicalories.com have most of the foods facts at least for the UK. However we also found that such crowdsourced info is often not reliable.
Ask HN: How y'all stay consistently energised and motivated?
I have some days where I'm laser focused, motivated and in the mood to "get s* done". Those days I'm probably operating like the top 0.1% CMOs in the world and get work of 2 days done in 1. That's 1 out of every 4 days.

After a highly productive day, I slack off and become extremely unproductive for 3 days straight. Those days I'm just tired or moving slow.

This inconsistency really annoys me. It's been bothering me for 6-7 months now. I'd rather have all moderately productive days. How do I do that? How do I maintain the consistency in being productive?
Wow this sounds tempting. So far I have three friends who are planning a beer and Factorio session - they have even posted beer...
I would love it if https://web.microsoftstream.com/ could be added ( work related)
The famous "multi cloud" or "cloud agnostic" thing. We're not there yet.

AWS, GCP & Azure still feel like a lot like PC, Amiga and Macintosh at this moment.
Is collapsing back also allowed, as I asked above? :) didn't see any clear UX indication to that effect :( Not 100% essential (I guess could try adding it as a contribution if the others were there), but how about the bookmarking aspect I also mentioned?
Lowest common denominator though. If you can use just plain old VMs, there's probably little value in using the big cloud vendors. Traditional hosting would be loads cheaper.
Examples of MVPs
I learned it a little bit when working on my scientific analysis tool for single cell RNA-seq analysis. It takes time to learn, but there are many examples out there.

https://alona.panglaodb.se/results.html?job=uOBMsjyQfFK8G7wQ...
Could someone at Google configure search so that results do not get clogged with many tutorials and examples from discontinued products?
Well, both require lots of high grade flexible plastic tubing and benefit from things like HEPA filters. The only difference is the motor -- but Dyson also manufacture low-power fans en masse, so they've got many different breeds of motors in stock.
I don't really buy into the fact that enterprise apps are written in C++ because gamedev uses it
Ah wow that's a great insight, looking forward to diving into this
Better (or worse) marketing: "a test takes almost 2.5 hours".
It's great that you can use it, but it's still quite buggy for a lot of users, for me I can't even load it without it crashing, there are issues logged in the github
And there was me thinking your good wishes were sincere, instead they were sarcastic and nasty. Oh well ...
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> It's very difficult to completely eliminate infections (even polio is still around despite extensive immunisation),

This is only the case because some people are refusing vaccinations, or not able to get them.
Wow to see this popup is strange as I was just implementing this yesterday.

It is blindingly fast and easy to setup.
For what it's worth, some populations began isolating before the shelter in place order. I went to Ranch 99 on 2/28 and panic buying was already in full swing. Lots of masks. I think the Chinese community was very proactive and took action early. It left an impression on me and I started WFH full time. I think that was the day they announced the second community infection in Santa Clara county.
What is that? Can't even login
Sorry, German source only, but reportedly: Device is 15.000€ and a single cartridge runs between 50 and 100€ [0].

[0]: https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/pandemie-...
They do document capacity problems with the hosted pools on their status page https://status.dev.azure.com/_history e.g. from their last event:

> Capacity constraints due to increased demand stemming from the global health pandemic are causing pipeline delays when using our hosted pools. We are working on mitigations, but currently expect the issue to persist for at least the rest of 25-March peak hours. You can work around these issues by temporarily moving critical pipelines to self-hosted agents.
Ask HN: What VC Firm have Investments that overlap with multiple Unicorns?
I recently saw Chamath Palihapitiya say if you take all the famous internet companies and look at the investors of them, then there is only 1% overlap between the VC companies investments. In other words, VC companies have one huge hit and fail to invest in other big hits. Which sounds like the powerlaw in action.

However, Kleiner Perkins comes to mind investing in both Google and Amazon. But there are so many new internet companies and new VC companies so I find it hard that there is only around 1% overlap. YC is another...of course!

Just wondering if there are more examples of VC companies that have investments in multiple unicorns OR VC companies that invested in multiple series of the same unicorn. Just curious.
Minikube is super easy to use, or k3s.
Even if you jumped to an incorrect conclusion in this case, it's still a useful one in other cases. And anyone who maybe would not have thought of that might learn something from your comment, even if it wasn't applicable in this specific instance.
Oh yeah? How are you (or your company) running their applications?
Depending on what exactly that 95% number is, that could be incredibly bad. There is some eye-opening math about testing inaccuracies combined with low case numbers.
The libc situation is pretty unfortunate. You can go with glibc for compatibility, but ideally you don't actually use the upstream version but copy the one from Debian that has crucial fixes that most of the world uses that they didn't bother to upstream because for a while there, glibc was maintained by the biggest asshole in all of software engineering.

On the other hand you have musl, and we can all appreciate its design goals, but then it is similarly maintained by people that believe they and their work are utterly infallible. Hence why to this date they have not made it possible to detect musl and would rather cite you a POSIX standards meeting from 1980 than fix an incompatibility everyone else handles differently. Just ctrl+F musl on http://landley.net/toybox/ for some insight.

The last time I felt like smashing the desk because of musl was when I realized you can't stacktrace a thread in a syscall because they refuse to annotate their 10 lines of assembler doing the syscall with the required CFI directives. They would rather wait for someone to write a 200 line AWK script that does it ([1]) than fix debugging on platforms like arm64.

1: https://github.com/bminor/musl/blob/master/tools/add-cfi.x86...
> Where is the revolution?

There was Occupy Wallstreet.

It's very interesting how government attacked it. Both internally and externally.

One lesson to learn from it is that a movement need few clearly defined goals. And needs to remove/distance any people who try to muddle with that (intentionally or not). Otherwise this will divide people on the inside, create infighting leading to disillusioned rudderless environment soon distant to self implode.
A Covid-19 ICU
I'd probably put "ask them face-to-face during lunchtime" first. Email feels like quite a heavy cannon for many things.
It's a corporate video sharing service in Office 365. Think Youtube for your company.
More important question is, do we trust them?
> Normally I wouldn't doubt it but in this sort of situation

Then you're very misinformed.

As a cloud administrator, I see resource availability and account limits on a weekly basis going back years.

I tell people:

- to pre-provision at least some extra servers rather than wait for an autoscaling operation to fail.

- that new instance types often are rolled out gradually, and lead time is often 1 month in AWS

- that killing a 1000-node cluster then expecting to immediately rebuild it often doesn't work.

- for DR and BCP planning, each region (or AZ) should be able to handle enough load at all times in case one region (or AZ) is unavailable. I've never seen anybody do that, even after I told them, because cost.
A BBC Horizon (1978) episode at https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/9d86b9d9acd846addced1578b0a1167f quite clearly poses many of the questions currently in vogue regarding automation, its limits and its social impact. Amazing in some ways how little has changed. (Although perhaps television is far less lucid and the majority of people are no longer capable of sustained, rational debate?)

Real time trading systems don't exist yet in American banks.

It takes man-years of work to prepare even simple software programs. Software is now a major cost in computers, often as much as 40% of any new application.

Some people believe that we must change from hardware to software: that we should stake our future on the chips - not by making them, but by programming them - and that we should use our software skills to develop high technology industries around them.

What will happen then to the men in today's jobs? Can we all live on the wealth of automatic factories and the earnings of an elite band of 60,000 software engineers? It's time to think about the future... (49:50s)

Undoubtedly, I think we're already in to a second industrial revolution. (51:30s)

Silicon Valley, I am told, is filled with British experts. (1:06:10s)

If, in fact, the silicon chip enables you to be more efficient, and proficient, then it equally assumes you have higher profits. (1:09:30s)

In the long run we could build a better society [...] it depends on how wealth and income is shared. In the short run there is going to be tremendous social upheaval and I think no one would disagree with that. (1:11:10s)

Another one broadcast exactly 40 years ago today ... https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/44f192e61ad3dbcbccd2311a15be4fd9
Are there any good guides on switching from Azure to AWS?
Seems to be a worldwide thing. I have a 50Mbps symmetric optical fiber line in Bengaluru, and servers hosted outside India have come to crawl these days, even while latency/bandwidth within the city are as high as before.

I wonder if the undersea cables have become overwhelmed in the past few days.
Also IIRC, samurai initially prized archery and the spear over using a sword as marks of their noble status - melee combat with a blade for a samurai was a sign of desperation born of ineptitude with "proper" weapons and tactics. It wasn't until the Edo period when the samurai were relegated to a bureaucracy that the cult around the katana was formed, and sort of retroactively applied to the popular interpretation of history.
I bet AWS or GCP will never have a problem like this because they're not stupid enough to operate at only 20% spare capacity at any given time
> crucial fixes that most of the world uses that they didn't bother to upstream

If you are talking about eglibc, it's been merged back for years.
I heard from an insider that some Azure services had a 10x growth because of the recent changes in our society. It's not like you can prepare for a 10x hit.

My personal experience for our AWS CI infra that it's struggling more and more recently. Builds are slower on average than a couple of weeks ago. Maybe those VCPUs are not the same VCPUs as yesterday ;D.
That's really an interesting analogy. Of course all analogies are wrong BUT if AWS goes down, half the internet goes down (in terms of important services).
Most people in the US won't even know how many zeros a trillion has.
I'm not sure how they price these devices but it could make sense to compare against labs. The question is not how many tests a device can perform but how many tests you can perform for all available devices and at a price comparable to larger lab installations. Maybe 100 devices is a comparable rate there.
>, Slack has been pushed as the replacement of email [...]

Yes, I empathize your perspective which is very common common among people who want to concentrate without interruptions. Donald Knuth is an extreme example of not wanting to be interrupted -- not even with async email.[1]

However your cause & effect of why chat/Slack is popular is not correct.

Chat apps are more of a replacement for walking up to a coworker's cubicle or desk and interrupting them face-to-face.

>[...] without ever wondering if it really provides a productivity benefit.

It's a productivity benefit to the people who are doing the interrupting. We don't work in an office full of "Donald Knuths" who don't want to bother each other. Because the interrupters outnumber the deep thinkers, that's why a chat tool like AIM/YahooMessenger/Skype/Whatsapp/Slack/etc dominates.

I previously mentioned how early Facebook programmers chatted on instant messaging (AOL AIM ~9 years before Slack) even though they sat next to each other.[2] Their behavior is not replacing "email". They are replacing "realtime speech" without making verbal sounds.

If one doesn't understand that, you'll always be mystified why email isn't used in place of instant messaging!

Email is less ergonomic than chat. Email has extra friction of entering a "subject:" line before the body of the text. Chat doesn't need a subject line because the chat room is already the implied subject. Email also has extra friction of hitting "reply" button instead of just typing. Email is oriented around the "inbox". Chat is oriented around people who are actively online.

Likewise, when my mom texts me an SMS on my smartphone, she isn't replacing email. She's replacing a phone call.

[1] do a mental search & replace :

s/email/chat
s/snailmail/email

...on this excerpt from https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html: >Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

>On the other hand, I need to communicate with thousands of people all over the world as I write my books. I also want to be responsive to the people who read those books and have questions or comments. My goal is to do this communication efficiently, in batch mode --- like, one day every six months. So if you want to write to me about any topic, please use good ol' snail mail and send a letter

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321783
> True. This is seems to be on one of the extreme ends of latency versus throughput optimization and it's niche in the big picture of Covid-19 will be very small.

Could be very important for screening doctors, nurses, and people in close contact with high risk populations.
Thanks, that might be useful. I figure all of my projects have been done before and better in some way. Most of the fun is in writing the code.
Its an amazing tool to quickly record product feature demos for sales pages, or visual aids for user support cases.
Assuming they expand the list of services it can provide, products like the AWS Outpost might be the eventual fix for that. Very expensive and limited right now though.
The idea is to not have a lab with a huge machine testing several thousand samples a day, but to have these devices spread out throughout the hospital and doctor's offices to test closer to the patient. A device will also be much cheaper than the fully automated devices in labs.

If it works and they can provide enough devices, this could be great. Logistics (getting samples and material to labs and handling them there) is one of the constraining factors at the moment.
Including the CIA. Snowden will be happy!
Here is the very high level specification that the government has provided. It refers to various further specifications and regulations that the device must comply with in order to be accepted by medics.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

You can see that the hardest part isn't so much the mechanics, but the parameters within which the device must operate, including safeguards on multiple conditions.

From a software point of view alone, I'm sure most of us here can appreciate the difficulty in producing this from scratch. e.g. "It must have 100% duty cycle for up to 14 days".

I suspect a huge challenge will be sourcing components, such as pressure sensors, that meet the required specifications. These seem likely to be specialised parts.
What is a company supposed to do with the money currently? Hoarding cash is the only sensible option currently and this doesn't help the economy.
The number of deaths is hard to judge but as for

>Assuming cases double every 5 days, then multiply that by 2^4, therefore:

... you're not allowed to assume that. It means on April 26th two thirds of all Americans (204.8 million）will be infected.
More details about the test:

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Meet-app.io: open-source videoconferencing in the browser
A trip to Scotland will change your mind, fast...
Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?
Hi guys, can you recommend interesting books on Computer Science or computer history (similar to Dealers of Lightning) to read on this quarantine times?
I really like that subject and am looking for something to keep myself away from TV at night.

Thank you.