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ActiveVideo | http://activevideo.com | Hilversum NL

Short version:

Our company is looking for an allround AOSP/android systems developer who is comfortable going from C++ to Java, from init to stagefright, from vold to art and surfaceflinger to bionic.

Somewhat longer version:

We are building a platform where we run AOSP at scale inside a cloudy system, where graphics (GLES2) and audio/video media is offloaded to a custom thin client running on STBs. At the core of this product there is our own port of AOSP running in an x86_64 container instead of on an ARM SOC. We have tons of cool work to be done on this platform: custom services, optimizing resource usage, tweaking UI's, etc.

We are looking for someone who is strong at graphics and multimedia, is comfortable with both C++ and Java, and most important of all: who has loads of experience hacking their way around all levels of AOSP. We are located in The Netherlands, although with the current COVID situation I guess there is no hurry to move. Being in .eu time zone is a pro.

If you are interested, please drop mail me at hn@zevv.nl and I'll be glad to answer any questions and provide more details.

Official version:

https://www.activevideo.com/careers/senior-c-android-system-...)
I listened to a very interesting podcast episode [1] on the Thinking Elixir Podcast on this subject recently, an interview with John Högberg and Lukas Larsson. Not covered in this blog post but discussed in some detail in the podcast is that because you get standard debugging symbols from the JIT, you will now be able to use gdb and prof and similar tools when working with the BEAM.

[1] https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly90aGlua2luZ2VsaX...
Why? What you are suggesting is straight up theft. Anyone should be able to buy as many properties as they want and keep it empty or live in them?

What the govt needs to do is build shelters and add beds. That’s the extent of public charity. Not handing out homes by penalizing those who managed to create value.

The only penalisation for empty homes should be upon foreigners buying homes and keeping it empty. Property taxes for foreign owned real estate ought to be higher as it exists at the cost of excluding local population from housing. It should be punitively high so foreign investment isn’t playing speculative games on real estate.
I use chocolatey[1] and winget[2] will be officially support when it’s finished. Microsoft is a step ahead of Apple here, who still refuse to officially support a package manager, much as I love macOS.

[1] https://chocolatey.org

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/win...
You've already identified the two big questions.

After signing up and clicking around a bit, here are my thoughts:

1. Button interactions need some kind of activation effect. Whether that's a sound, or the button changes color, or something, I need to know that the button has registered my click.

2. Is there a mobile app?

3. I'm a little confused by the feed. It looks like each post also has all of the person's other posts in a slideshow. Is that accurate?
Yep, we ran ~50M Node invocations last month on a small function. AVG was around 100ms but lots of sub 50ms invocations too.
This maybe explains a bit better https://docs.aws.amazon.com/proton/latest/userguide/Welcome....

And it seems to be based on CloudFormation templates
https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-proton-sample-templates/b...
> They also do not charge for bandwidth.

Is there fine print on this? Can I put 100TB / mo through their caching servers at the lowest $20 price tier?
https://chocolatey.org/ ?
Here in the UK we're starting to see data only SIMS with 100GB+ per month limits for only £20 p/m. To me this seems that the era of 'always connected' laptops is almost upon us.
Not entirely. This is something we've been thinking about for years now and is really about tooling and developer workflow. That is where the biggest benefit is for this.

- Chris - Serverless@AWS
FreeBSD: Import Kernel WireGuard Support
So long as I'm not the one building it, its fine. My internet can redownload everything. It also depends on what libraries are being used. musl does generate smaller binaries than glibc. and if you look at the massive project that is sqlite, building software should only take a couple of seconds. Of course, whether anyone actually goes to such lengths for easy compilation is another matter entirely.

https://sta.li/
I host a web app that has 200KB pages and reaches 3.5Gbps peak bandwidth in two racks in an expensive datacenter. The lease plus bandwidth is about 1/5 to 1/7 the cost of AWS.
Any idea what language it’s written in?
> but what you are looking for already exists I'd say, and is Fargate.

No, Fargate isn’t that at all. Google Cloud Run is what you meant to say.

This is of course still valuable to allow container-based workflows to adapt to Lambda, but it really seems like AWS missed the mark on identifying why people really want to use containers. Just one look at the amount of people on HN threads or on Reddit excited at using “arbitrary containers on Lambda” should tell you what people really wanted - and now they have to come away disappointed.
> These security features are only nominally about protecting the user. Apple implements them to protect their services and platforms from competition and sells them via the privacy argument.

Stallman[1] and others[2] have talked about just this issue for over a decade now.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html

[2] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Which is hard to do via zoom.
Arguably Google+'s Circles were pioneered by XMPP thanks to roster groups (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6121#section-2.1.2.6), which can be used for PubSub to only allow members of a given group to retrieve elements from a given node. So you'd publish stuff for your friends group, for your family group, ...
I doubt places like Hollywood would have migrated to Windows, given their dependency on UNIX variants like Irix.
'Hacker_R_US' gets eight years in prison for bomb threats and DDoS extortion
Please don't do the "shame on" trope on HN. We don't want the online shaming culture here (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=online%20shaming%20by%3Adang&s...).

The vast majority of the time, situations are complex than internet users think they are. There are two sides to every story, &c. It's fine to make your point, but please stick to the HN rules and make it substantively and thoughtfully. The fact that rage rants get heavily upvoted makes this more important, not less.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Happened to move to New Zealand from South Africa, immediately met up with the Indigo Renderer guy whom I'd spoken to previously through my tutorials on an ancient website, in the FlipCode and cfxWeb days.

The main thing is actually spending a lot of time writing ray tracers... you should write your first 5 ray tracers as quickly as possible :)
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We have very high standards for code quality, have a healthy respect for work-life balance, and pay competitively (based on experience).

Requirements:
3+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails

Appreciates the benefits of robust testing

Familiarity with SQL / Postgres

Familiarity with React / JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Willingness to mentor others

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It never fails to amaze me how many HN contributors don't seem to read the linked articles yet seem compelled to tell you off for things you've already accounted for, explained and justified.
Scalability itself isn't the selling point. It's freedom.

It's the freedom to get things wrong, iterate and try again.
It's the freedom to move resources around.
It's the freedom of not having to wait for your procurement process and approval from a purchasing department.
It's the freedom of not having to wait for your operations team to plug in and configure bare metal. And all of these freedoms have compounding interest.

For most organizations, what I just talked about equates to man years of work wasted and I think a lot of people nitpicking about cloud being expensive have lost sight of this.

Sure it costs more, but it's from money you've already saved. You'll have loads of saved money left to spend on more developers too.
Yeah, it seems like a firefox-specific issue. Replicated on windows here.

Works absolutely fine on Edge though.
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Do they have to? I haven't bought a physical book for myself in more than a decade and I'm surely not alone.

Not every industry has to survive. Not every industry will.
You mean have opinions and open discussion?

No, dismiss the possibility that there may be things that they don't know about or understand.

"I can only think of two things" doesn't mean "there are only two things exactly and everyone else is wrong".

But that's precisely what he said: "exactly two usecases for this service" He didn't write "I can only think of..." You're making stuff up.

Welcome to the Internet

I shall say the same to you, since I've been online since before the internet, back when you had to manually route e-mail, and it took a week to get a message from New York to Paris, if you were lucky.

I see you are new here.

Welcome to HN. I see you're new here. Be sure to read the rules about unhelpful snarky responses.
Men discover they need new ways to bond during the pandemic
Letting windows update is treating it like a toy.

Remember that time Microsoft let FTDI brick a bunch of knockoffs through the first party update mechanism? Remember when they locked up a bunch of embedded devices with Windows 7 support nags? Remember when they dropped Candy Crush in your start menu, when they decided local accounts now had to be cloud linked, and when they enabled Cortana by default and made it increasingly difficult to opt-out? When they decided to take 30 minutes of your morning without asking (hope you weren't planning on using the computer for anything important)?

When it comes to high-reliability embedded OSes, Microsoft is a case study in inept paternalism. Updates regularly cause problems. Between updates and malware spreading behind a NAT, I'm not at all convinced updates are the lesser of two evils. Ideally, these applications wouldn't run windows, but since they often do, IMO the best approach is to isolate them to the greatest degree possible which includes blocking auto-update (note: not turning it off, blocking it, along with everything else you can get away with).
Exciting! As a primarily C & C++ programmer this makes me happy. Also, I see that there's now examples for C++ that don't involve "step 1, download nodejs". Progress!
>Platform engineering teams can use Proton to connect and coordinate all the different tools needed for infrastructure provisioning, code deployments, monitoring, and updates.

It's a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
It’s not, the problem is all the legacy compat stuff they are forced to support forever now. NT and Windows without legacy would be an amazing operating system but also nobody would use it.
Don't hate me for it, but I'd like this for MySQL to postgres too. At least as a stepping stone.

Use case: some of my SQL syntax depends on MySQL but I realize I made a poor life choice and would rather have transactional DDL and a myriad of better features on postgres.
You can also get it with MSDN if you have that!
Anyone can lie in an affidavit. That's just a hard fact of life.
"Babelfish is written in C, which is the same programming language used to develop PostgreSQL. Some parts of Babelfish are developed using procedural language in PL/pgSQL. Many test cases are written in PL/pgSQL and T-SQL."
Does Fargate allow you to run on beefier hardware? I know you can bring your own hardware with vanilla ECS. I’m aware of the execution time constraints (15 minutes), but I thought we were talking about 60s?
> Why is Windows a nightmare?

This just happened. (It’s the reason I’m on HN rather than working right now.)

- I get up at 5am to do some early work.

- Work laptop (Win10) is still connected to the VPN from yesterday. Cool.

- Try to connect to drive. No dice. Try same drive in SharePoint. Failed auth. Reconnect VPN. Same. Oh well, guess I’ll reboot.

- Reboot. Go to make coffee.

- Come back to black screen. Ah yes, that’s right. If I reboot and McAfee drive encryption has kicked in, and I’m plugged in to my USB-C monitor, all screens are just black. The solution is to...

- ...pull the monitor cable, power down the laptop, power it back up, authenticate with McAfee, plug the monitor in, let Windows start, check HN, reply to this post.

I know this latter half isn’t Windows’ fault, strictly speaking. But it’s the Wintel laptop’s fault and that’s all the same to me. I hate using Windows. It’s easily the thing I dislike most about my job.

Let’s just try my Mac over here, hang on. I’ll open the lid. Yep, worked.
>You can turn off advertisement during installation, and set up privacy measures like don't give up hardware id for advertising.

You can't. It asks you if you want to not share data, but warns you that this will result in less personal ads.

So you can opt for non-personalized ads, but you can't turn off ads altogether during the install.
What the Trump family’s new political committees can and can’t do
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How much time did you spend deciding which components to upgrade and purchasing parts to later install? How much would you charge a client for that time?
Yes, but you'll probably get an email about it.
As well as the macbook using the entire case as an aluminium heatsink
Location: Miami, FL

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Technologies: C, C++, Python, LLVM, Postgres, Clojure (novice)

Résumé/CV: https://laratelli.com/resume.pdf

Web CV: https://laratelli.com/

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I’m graduating with my Masters in CS in May. I only have one course until graduation; with online classes, I am mostly free for full time work. I have three years’ worth of research experience in computational chemistry, am proficient in software development on Linux computers and clusters, and have been focusing on compiler work during my Masters. I've taken electives in database theory and implementation, CUDA, MPI, and compilers, among others.
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The PAC can make contributions of $5,000 per year to other campaign committees — but is otherwise largely unlimited in how it spends what it has received.
If Amazon wanted to be really self-serving, they would encourage the use of high-CPU usage languages and discourage the usage of languages that are efficient. Because AWS gets paid for CPU hours, anything that increases CPU hours of their customers should be good for their business, and vice versa.
Why would I use this and not mastodon?
Amazon EBS Gp3 Volume
For a business with growing needs (most people at the point of making the decision), won't they need to go to install more hardware frequently, if nothing else?
Oracle has peculiarities that you won't see in most other databases, which may make this a bit harder -- including such things as an oddball set of date/time types ("date" includes time to seconds), and treating zero length strings as SQL nulls --

'' is null

evaluates to true in Oracle. It also has features like "fast refresh" on materialized views which might be tricky to emulate on other db engines. Nothing's impossible, but it's certainly more of a challenge.
Inevitability
(Unofficial) Google Meet for Desktop
Not that far north myself, but the pain is definitely real. During winter it is dark when I get up and dark when I leave work. The sun is a thing that only exists outside office windows.
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We are ramping up our engineering teams and are looking for engineers who are passionate about IoT and our products and mission. An ideal candidate would like to make an impacting change to people’s lives by building products that become an integral part of our daily lifestyle.

We are currently hiring for the following engineering roles. You can find more info about these roles and non-engineering roles listed here: https://www.wyze.com/careers.

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Using that logic the incentive will be to keep creating them since hey, they’re dead now so what does it matter.

Yes IVF usually results in the loss of a lot of babies, so no to IVF.
I could not readily find, link here --> https://archive.org/donate/

just not enough time to look....
I'm probably sure this is response to the AWS Reinvent announcments on the front page. Not that I work on AWS, but we heavily use and rely on it.

The ones comparing AWS to VPSs even colocation think AWS is just short sighted. If VMs and bandwidth is your only case, yes it is expensive. Skipping the marketing talk, AWS has great services like SQS, S3, Dynamo, SNS, Kinesis, Firehose and hosting open-soure or paid alternatives of them requires a lot of engineering power, effort and extra monitoring, restless nights. I prefer our engineers to work on features, not infrastructure and only deal with it when it is required financially.

Most organizations are fine with vendor lock-in when vendor is stable (not deprecating, not increasing costs). Money is always an issue but its relative, there are many factors in real business. Some can afford cloud, some cannot.

I also agree that you would be fine if you did not use brand new X service that does AutoML, any shiny new over marketed features for you etc. but comparing AWS to Colocation is just one dimensional thought.
Please Stop Saying 'An AI'
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He did a talk about it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LioI6xJ-g
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1. Slyde was built mobile first, and there is still some work to be done on Desktop, this is definitely a big need and has been getting a lot more attention recently. We're definitely working on it.

2. Yes, for iOS and Android "Slyde Social" on the appropriate app stores.

3. That is exactly how it works. Instead of seeing someone's posts throughout your feed, you can browse through their feed from most recently active connection down. This feels much more natural on mobile, and getting tweaked and adjusted for desktop users.