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> Probably suggest arch linux to someone complaining about having to track down dependencies does not make sense, since such a person is more interested in the OS just working rather than making the OS a bit of a hobby that that they want to customize.

Then recommend Manjaro, not an OS that “just” loads them down with ads, tracking, forced updates, and more unless — and to some extent still even after — they customize it.
Hello fellow former Zamboni driver o/

I'm a full-time SWE now, but I was still working part time at the rink pre-COVID because I still enjoyed the physical aspect of non-office work, but of course that's on hold for now. It's definitely the coolest job I've had, and I still list it on my resume because practically half the recruiters/interviewers I talk to are super interested and ask about it, especially if they're hockey fans.
In my experience Windows will warn you when it plans to schedule restart for update. This is where I always reschedule update so it would be far away before it finally updates. Windows also warns you one hour before scheduled restart and you could reschedule again at that time.
New data reveals Earth closer to a black hole and 16,000 MPH faster
May I suggest everybody to not use AI to try to solve this one? They may end up reaching a conclusion that is not in our best interest.
"As soon as I write to the SATP register and set the mode, it is up and running since we’re in supervisor mode"

While this is true on some CPUs it's not true on all of them - you must do an sfence.vma instruction after you write SATP before you can guarantee that the new mapping will be used (the priv spec is very specific about this). Note: this means that every instruction after the write to SATP and up to and including the sfence.vma must be mapped in the old mapping and in the new one (even when you turn the MMU on for the first time)
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My team and a few others at Moat.com are hiring senior software developers to work remotely from Canada.

Looking for folks with 6+ years experience on backend systems in production with tech like PostgreSQL/MySQL, Go, Python, and PHP all on Linux.

As an independent observer of ad quality, we deal with billions of events every day and the software for ingesting and reporting on those events. Lots of interesting software challenges working with many of the biggest brands and agencies in the world.

Message me, philip.eaton@oracle.com, with your resume and intro if you're an interested, experienced developer in Canada! Not looking for recruiters or contractors.
> but you still need to code them for the event model, have a handler, etc.

>It's a big improvement, but its not "run any container in Lambda".

Well that’s... incredibly disappointing and makes this announcement much less exciting.

The entire point of containerization is portability across different services and platforms. It’s seems like a massive miss for the team to tout “container support” but then still require platform-specific customizations within the container. I pretty much don’t care at all for this as-is.

Are there plans for “run any container on Lambda”? That’s what everyone was (falsely) excited about.
Of course. However, you don't need someone to provision and monitor power, connectivity, datacenter security, and all the responsibilities AWS absolutely prices in for you. You also substantially reduce your effort and cost toward capacity planning and managing depreciation. You pay for consumption of _all the things_ required to operate compute infrastructure, plus their margin.

There are certainly companies and problems for which colocating still makes more sense than the cloud but 9 out of 10 of these articles completely gloss over most of the costs. This article is one of them.
Petal | New York, NY | VP of Engineering, Mid/Senior Full-Stack, Senior Backend, Senior Data Engineer, SRE Engineers | Remote (United States)

Petal is a credit card for people with limited credit histories. We use machine learning to analyze cash flow, augmenting traditional credit score-based lending decisions. Our mission is to increase access and fairness in the credit market. We've raised our Series C and are growing dramatically.

Some recent coverage we've received: https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/24/valar-petal-series-c/

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That's one thing I liked about Google Cloud when playing with it. Their notebook environment tells me exactly how much my notebook will cost per month based on the VM settings. AWS (SageMaker Studio) doesn't even tell me what is running in an easy to access way much less future costs.
> Fargate works well especially after they fixed some of the pricing issues there.

Was this recent, should I take a look at this again? My issue with Fargate as recent as a year ago was that running the same workload on ECS (if you can use your cluster nodes efficiently) was twice as cheap (even without reserved instances).
It also depends on how computationally intensive your application is, AWS premium can be higher than labor cost if you need large scale data crunching.
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Yes, but even then it's still a saving, however small, not a loss, so I feel to see this point of this.
I agree, I face that all the time, and I consider that the AOL internet, closed to me, and just don't go there.

I don't think I'm missing much.
That's false equivalence. If your instance dies, you don't need to drive over to the colo, plug into a KVM, diagnose, and then pull and re-rack a new server. They do all that stuff, and it's worth the $$$.

Also, you'll never get into a situation on AWS where you have a 3 day lead-time for a replacement GBIC, or NVMe drive, or seomthing, while your customers scream and bail out for a competitor that isn't down.

Yes, you need to manage the infrastructure, but now it's a software configuration task instead of a physical maintenance one.
At that point, thinking that SQL somehow is "portable" from a DB to another is a bit of a mirage. Way too many differences between systems, which does influence data modelling itself.
> Your wifi speeds touch literally every part of using the system, from downloading packages to browsing the web to watching YouTube or listening to Spotify

Why this obsession with Wifi? If I can I always use a wired connection. It's faster, more reliable and removes a major failure mode.

If wireless is so awesome, how come WIFI routers have wires inside them!
Maybe I just don't pay attention, but I've never heard of new firmware going out to multi-year old graphics cards and adding new features. Sure it may be possible, but what company is going to go through the trouble of that?
Location: Prague, Europe

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Technologies: TypeScript, Go, React, Postgres,
Redis, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

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How does this change increase the likelihood of that happening?
It could be done. Obviously you would only run one of the main functions (via a wrapper) per process invocation and you would need to rename conflicting global symbols at some point before the link step, but this is basically how tools like busybox work. If the application uses global constructors or init functions then those would require special handling since they bypass main—C tends to work better than C++ in this regard. Applying LTO to the resulting code for inter-application optimization would be an interesting twist.
I'm not sure there's a root to discover that I don't already know about. I'm on the autism spectrum, I have some other health issues, I've missed out on a lot of development and experiences in life due to the ASD and mental health issues resulting from it. I struggle to keep up with work and all the other requirements life throws at you, how the world works is fundamentally depressing to me because it's in conflict with my values and I'm helpless to do anything about it.

Etc.

Lots of things that can't really be changed.
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Candidates should understand AWS networking solutions- VPCs, Elastic IPs, Elastic Network Interfaces, Security Groups, etc, ideally also Kubernetes networking paradigms - Flannel, Istio etc and know Terraform or a similar language

ThousandEyes is a network monitoring company that was acquired by Cisco about 6 months ago. Networking-focused Site Reliability Engineers at ThousandEyes are responsible for building and operating our production network, ensuring network scalability and reliability across many cloud providers as well as our world-spanning network of network monitoring systems, as well as developing and deploying tools to help manage and monitor our network. ThousandEyes has major products based on BGP, and having skilled specialists is essential.

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This bug just lowers the security level at worst to the one present on a regular desktop OS... for the file metadata.

I wonder how the fix for that one will look like.
Someone must have set up a webcam to capture the impending failure?
Do you actually use AWS or are you just parroting something you've read? Do you understand that with AWS you still have to setup instances, manage security updates, permission and deal with disaster response (US-East-1 outage?) If you've run anything at any scale for any length of time you'll know that EC2 hosts frequently get rebooted with short notice.
He did,

Quote :

We are going to say we used four hours of labor. This includes drive time to the primary data center. Since it is far away (18-20 minute drive), we actually did not go there for several quarters. So over 32 months, we had budgeted $640 for remote hands. We effectively either paid $160/ hr or paid less than that even rounding up to four hours.
PSA: this company doesn't respect candidates' time and ghosts applicants.
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Valora Digital[0] is the newly founded digital unit of Valora[1], a European retailer with 2700 stores across 5 countries. We are tackling interesting challenges in areas such as Autonomous Stores (think Amazon Go), E-commerce & Delivery, Loyalty, Payments and Process Improvement. For this purpose we are building up a development team from the ground up. You will be one of the first engineers and will have a big part in shaping the culture as well as choosing our stack. We are looking to bring the startup ethos to the corporate world and get to combine the best of both worlds: ample funding, a huge customer base to deploy to and lots of freedom. I'm the head of Mobile and am looking for Android developers to join our Mobile team.

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Healex is hiring experienced developers (Fullstack, Front-End, Backend), FHIR experts/developers, product owners, product managers and FHIR experts, ideally with a background in digital health care, to work on our platforms for clinical trial management, clinical research and connected healthcare with FHIR.

We're also hiring experienced Requirement Engineers, Software Assurance Engineers, Quality Managers, Software Test Managers and onsite Product and Project Managers for our platforms focused on clinical trials, clinical documentation and clinical data integration.

Company language is English, German language knowledge is required for project and product management roles. Healex is a fast growing digital health startup from Cologne, developing platforms for clinical trials, clinical documentation, clinical research and FHIR based infrastructures.

We're working for leading university hospitals, research organizations and pharmaceutical companies.

Please see link above for information, benefits, requirements, and how to apply.

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I can't say enough good things about working at Healex.
Cheers, Christoph
Good luck hiring the professionals needed to run a bunch of co-located servers in 2020.
He said "app", not "book".
But other people think different of "important stuff" thats why it is there.

And those who really want only simple HTMl rendering, I believe there are lightweight alternatives (?).

And if not, well then maybe there is simply not enough demand, because most people apparently want to be able to have a email client in the browser and do online banking, or edit Wikipedia articles in a rich html editor, or play games, or watch videos and share and comment them or even do video editing, ... all in the browser.
Agreed. After reading enough about it I’ve become convinced that there are only 2 different platforms in the world. OTP/BEAM and everything else.

Every other language that I’ve studied seems to just cope with the same problems in slightly different ways.
Nuna (https://www.nuna.com) | San Francisco | Full-time | ONSITE (fully-remote now) | Visa Transfer

We build data and analytics solutions that will help shift the US healthcare system to one based on value and quality. Our technical challenges are complex and compelling, and the work we do has the potential to impact millions of lives. We partner with healthcare plans, providers, and the government. Data can be a powerful driver of change—but only when it’s acted upon with empathy. Our technology, data, and analytics solutions help healthcare payers, and providers get the answers they need to make quality care more affordable for millions of people.

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The question is what is probability according to the subjective interpretation of probability? The answer usually given is that probability is a degree of belief. Thus, a probability of 37% means that you're 37% sure that some event will take place. What I'm saying is this definition is meaningless unless you define what it means to be X% sure about something, but the definition of "being X% sure" must not rely on the notion of probability because "probability" is what we are trying to define in the first place!
> you don't need someone to provision and monitor power, connectivity, datacenter security

this is all included into colocation service?
This ecosystem is rapidly developing and changing; I think there's still plenty of time for BTC/ETH/LTC/XRP/etc to all exist anywhere from [0,∞).

The narrative that is often pushed forward is that they have different use cases. Bitcoin is a limited-supply store of value (analogous to precious metals). BTC blockchain isn't well suited for quick transactions, but it is the blockchain that is the most robust and secure. Ethereum, being Turing complete, provides an ecosystem on which other applications can be built.
It’s more that computing gets cheaper over time because of advancements in cpu performance and lowering of storage costs.

AWS doesn’t really ever have a reason to raise costs, it doesn’t have to lowball costs to attract customers in the first place.
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As someone who has been fighting with a SQL Server to Postgresql conversion this sounds AMAZING. Too bad it won't be available before my conversion is complete (and if it is, that's an even sadder proposition)
Anecdotes and all, but yes this has been my experience too. macOS is by far the fastest to get up and running on.

Linux distros probably come in second, with the caveat that it's easy to get sucked into a time-burning black hole of fine-grained tweaks if I don't make a point of keeping things close to default.

Windows is downright frustrating because even after spending considerable time on setup, there are things that just don't work correctly — for example, changing virtual desktops independent of monitor is not possible with the built-in implementation.
My daughter is a freshman and she chose Oregon State from the schools she was admitted to. When I was a student, Oregon State had one campus. They still have their main campus but a major second campus almost 3 hours away by car.

Also, they have had a growing online presence. The three "campuses" are basically treated the same as far as being admitted, scheduling, etc.

Arizona State is another public school that has a huge online presence. I would think that those schools were better suited for the current environment because so many of the staff and instructors are already doing online courses or supporting it.

Articles over the summer said that being on campus was going to feel like being in a minimum security prison or a monastery. She's not excited about being home but she didn't think it would be great on campus.
‘Thumb-Stopping,’ ‘Humaning,’ ‘B4H’: The Strange Language of Modern Marketing
This limitation of the macOS sandbox has always driven me nuts. Even with a default deny macOS sandbox profile (much stronger than anything that entitlements or TCC can apply, but pretty close to the restrictions some Chrome/Safari processes will run with) you still get an ENOENT instead of EACCESS when trying to access a path that doesn’t exist. I understand not applying that behavior in default sandbox profiles but for apps that are built to run some processes in extremely aggressive sandboxes like browsers it would be a real benefit.
FullStory | Sr iOS Engineer | Atlanta or REMOTE (US) | https://www.fullstory.com/

FullStory for Mobile Apps is an analytics/session replay framework that records the app's draw calls - omitting anything that is potentially private - then allows the sessions to be analyzed and replayed in our web app.

It helps our customers narrow down where their users are getting stuck, and what steps reproduce bugs and edge cases.

Our mobile codebase has shared code written in Rust, and then iOS code in Objective-C and Android code in Java. On the server/web side, we use Go to process the data and TypeScript for the web app.

We're looking for one more engineer with deep knowledge of iOS to help us continue iterating on and improving.

As one of my co-workers put it:

> Work on state-of-the-art recording of iOS apps to provide a rich, privacy-respecting analytics experience. Reverse engineer iOS frameworks to learn how they work and how they can be used efficiently. Use low level capabilities of the Objective-C runtime to solve problems unique to iOS.

You can also see our team manager's post from last month for another take on things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24969524

I'm one of the engineers on the team; if you have any question, feel free to comment here or email me directly: nathan@[company site]. If you'd just like to apply, please use the link below.

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https://boards.greenhouse.io/fullstory/jobs/4918319002
That's definitely true.
It still makes sense to run your own AI/ML servers on-prem if you're saturating some $20k/each GPU boxes, for example.

But ... most web applications are still IO bound, and labour is surprisingly expensive.
From early on, Android had strict separation of files across apps. I would think users are generally aware and expecting that apps do not have full access to all of their data.
Is there still a use case for a new dish built into the same natural bowl? Why not build somewhere else? If there had never been an Arecibo at that location would someone actually pick it today to site a new scope? Not trying to diss all that has been accomplished with Arecibo just wonder if there are not better places to direct funding, assuming it can be found.
No, it's right.

> James Webb Space Telescope: Proposed Budget: $500 mil Current Budget: $10 Billion

That is over 40 years! Almost 30 years to build it and 10 years to operate it. That's $250 million per year.

> Space Launch System Current Budget: $20 billion

SLS is not a science program.

> ITER: Proposed Budget : 22 Billion Euro Current Proposed Budget: 64 Billion Euro

The proposed budget is 22 billion, not 64. That's for almost 40 years of construction and 20 years of operation. So we're talking 60 years of funding. Think about that, this is something that could revolutionize everything! Save the planet too. We're spending 360 million per year or so on it. That's absurd.

There are a few big science projects, and even they get very modest funding.

Let us put the F-35 into context. It will cost 1.7 trillion dollars for 55 years. That's an insane amount of money, 30 billion per year. https://www.stripes.com/news/us/pentagon-reportedly-estimate...

We fund science, which improves our lives and saves us from pandemics, at a pittance, and fund insane programs to bomb poor people at crazy levels.
I think those mini pc’s are cool. But for a practical work machine, I rather buy a ITX motherboard with a powerful processor to build into a as tiny as possible case. This gives you the opportunity to go for commodity hardware which has an excellent price/performance range and still allows you to carry your pc in a backpack.
It really boils down to which of the two is more expensive:
giving the vaccine to people who already have had it
or
giving a test to everybody and the vaccine to people who don't pass the test.

It's worth noting that the tests are slightly inaccurate, so a test+vaccine strategy would also fail to vaccinate people who return a false positive on the test.

If the vaccine manufacturing supply is not constrained, the capacity for running tests is much lower than the capacity for vaccinating. (Test requires a machine and between 15min for rapid and O(hours) for PCR.)

Giving a vaccine is somewhere between one and five minutes per person. (Paperwork, clean site, inject, bandaid, next.) Plus vaccination is much cheaper to scale out -- you just need a few chairs and a folding table and a volunteer to create a flu vaccination station, for example.
Today, for a nonstop workload you might save money with Fargate or ECS.