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Remote: No

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Technologies: Java (especially Android), Python, F#, OCaml

Résumé/CV: upon request.

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I'm finishing a FinTech MSc. in Switzerland after having completed a BSc. in traditional CS in Milano. I'd love to build software fintech-related companies.

Seeking an internship/role from Summer 2021.
I'm implying that they are trying to undercut competition to drive them out of business so they can then raise prices across the board.
AirGrid | London, UK | Full Time | Contract | REMOTE | Various | https://airgrid.io | careers@airgrid.io

A brief description of our company:
- small team just 5 people
- young startup, onboarded first clients
- privacy focused audience platform
- leveraging on device data & ML to keep user data local + private
- building core of product as open source
- london based, but hiring remote now

You would be reporting direct to the Founder(me), and we are looking for people who would rally behind the vision, be self-motivated and on a path of perpetual self improvement!

Check out https://edgekit.org and https://airgrid.io for more information on the product itself.

We are looking for:
- data scientist
- backend engineer (python & node)
- frontend engineer (typescript)
I wonder what are the advantages of Lamdba comparing to a serverless container solution like Google Cloud Run.

Anyone with expertise likes to chime in?
http://archive.is/7pOgu if it does not work for you
To be fair, I get notifications of "important updates" on my Fedora Workstation more often than I get on Windows. (Or at least I think I do; I don't use Windows that often.) Fedora also wants to reboot for nearly every bunch of updated packages that doesn't consist entirely of top-level applications, which seems to mean at least 95% of the times it wants to update.

I think I get it why it wants to reboot: not only is it probably somewhat safer in terms of not screwing anything up in running session, but you can't be sure some running application or service isn't still using an outdated version of a library until you've restarted it. (Not to mention that the Linux kernel updates every week or so nowadays, but those are definitely not the only ones that trigger an update [edit: by which I of course mean "trigger a reboot"].)

I tend to not use the graphical software updater and just ignore its notifications instead, and just update from the command line and reboot when it suits me. That does allow me to not have my workflow interrupted but it doesn't change the fact that I still do get notified of updates that require some kind of action pretty often.

On the other hand, checking for those updates doesn't burn minutes on end of CPU time every time the OS is booted, as it seems to do on Windows 10.
> "walled garden!"

This is only true when the centralized store is the only way of installing software. That's why iOS is called a walled garden, but not Android.
It isn't the Bootstrap-like frameworks that are causing bloat. It's that websites are written as apps these days by people with relatively beefy machines compared to consumers who don't usually buy top of the line hardware every year.

For example, compare Twitter or Facebook to their recent SPA rewrites in React. I can't use either without sacrificing GBs of residential memory. Loading anything on those sites now requires many more CPU cycles than they did before.
I sure enjoy seeing less popular but well engineered tools reapplied to “modern” problems. Re: 9c and lib9rt being well-suited for constrained bare-metal development, I wonder is this a place where pcc[0] would also thrive?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
My family have always been happy to make a donation on my behalf to the good cause of their choice, perhaps that might work for you?
PSA: If you have a personal AWS account and you want some custom url path for your public images (like public.ecr.aws/sparrc/myimage) then login and create your public registry and custom alias ASAP.
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I can barely afford my 1 bedroom studio, no way I will ever afford to have kids. I have not really considered climate in that equation.
I have many workloads where 15 minutes may be just a little too short for comfort. A hour timeout would have me reaching for Lambda more often.
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Don't forget to scroll down on that toggle flipping screen -- when you start toggling the top ones, their description text gets longer and (on my screen anyway) pushes some of the toggles below the visible viewport.
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There is a lot there, and some of it is apples to apples and some is definitely apples to oranges. I'm just saying overall you have the same number of headaches, they are just different headaches. Just last week there was significant degradation that took quite some time to be admitted (admitted might be the wrong word but everyone seemed to know there was an issue with AWS before AWS said their was an issue)

> I don't have to create purchase orders and wait for hardware.

Why would this need to be done if initial implementation was planned and done correctly? Baring catastrophic hardware failures you shouldn't need to do this? Im nitpicking your comment and I think is tangential to my original point (And dont want to get into a planning/design/implementation discussion either).

> You don't have to spend time and resources with discussions on how the 'network topology' is going to look like, and then send people off to implement and wire up stuff.

This isn't that hard if you still have the expertise in house. Yes it is work and knowhow, but so is AWS networking/wiring, service interop.

> AWS cares

I think this is arguable and YMMV. Sure it depends on who you are and who you talk to.

Im not saying AWS isn't viable tech, and there are 30 ways to skin a cat at the end of the day if you end up with a skinned cat you like you're good to go. I believe most people don't need AWS to accomplish what they are looking for (subjective for sure). I also find it not the savings or experience that is in the marketing materials or sales pitches. This isn't a binary right or wrong decision, all we need is a skinned cat at the end of the day.
Exactly this is what I was getting at. 98% of Windows users don't care if their machine reboots, provided they don't lose work. This is precisely the 98% percent that are likely to get infected, and will cause havoc for all of us (not just themselves). Spam, DDoS, etc.

Similar to how getting a vacination is not only good for you, but also for the rest of society.

Mind you, I'm saying this from a perspective of someone who uses his machine to perform nightly jobs (learning models, ontology alignment, etc) So it's not like I haven't shared your pain =)
> 99% of the time, what they're building not only doesn't need to scale to that degree but they somehow seem to think that it's always inherently cheaper.

Here's the thing though. For most startups, 99% of the value comes from the long right-tail of that 1% chance of explosive viral growth out of left-field.

You're right, most companies aren't ever going to need that kind of overnight scalability. But most of those startups will wind up failing anyway. At the end of the day, everyone's betting that they'll be the exception that makes it big. Without that possibility it's not worth showing up at the table.

And if it does come, you need to be ready to move fast. Like, "we hit the front-page of Reddit and we have 5 minutes to scale up our traffic by 5000%" fast. If you take your time to collect some revenue and circle back, the ship has likely sailed.

I'm not saying thinking this way is sensible for every org. But it's definitely sensible for at least some business models. In particular within the hyper-growth SV startup scene. Foregoing scalability because most startups don't go viral, would be like an aspiring actor foregoing headshots because most auditions don't get callbacks.
This is great. I suspect that I have exactly the right use case for this.

The two main issues with running SQL Server are (1) you have to license all the cores on a system and (2) the standard license only recognizes up to 64GB RAM. So I actually wound up buying a 3GHz single-socket system for around $10K to save $20K on the SQL license.

With this, I can move a couple of the big DBs to another system that has 32 Cores with 256GB RAM and the entire DB will fit in memory, put in 5GB ethernet, and gain a tremendous amount of performance.

But, more importantly, I can migrate the workload on a case-by-case basis. Human costs always dwarf my software and hardware costs.
Lambda still needs to load your container. So there's gonna be slow start cost (but hopefully they can improve caching overtime)
Is the protocol open and federated? (If not, how is this not yet another silo?)
It's just a dock for a Pi compute module that has a built-in screen, keyboard, thermal printer, wifi nic, and some other interfaces for additional peripherals. You end up with a modern version of something like an Epson HX-20 or a Tandy TRS-80 Model 100. It's a toy and I don't think I could ever see myself needing one for anything important.

They should have lead with the picture of it all put together rather than that internal picture first.
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Nobody knows how to hire the best CEO, much like nobody knows how to hire good employees in general. The hiring process tends to be mostly based on surface appearances and past leadership positions.

Your idea of a "best solution" is like saying the best solution to hate is for everyone to just be nice to each other. Yes, that would be ideal, but at odds with the real world.
Then you add cooking, laundry, dishes, cleaning the house, taking care of kids if they have...
>That's why, for example I don't get why FreeBSD over Linux in that particular regard.

He wrote bout it tho. OP dislikes systemd's approach to things
What do you mean "failed"? Segwit was activated. After lots of infighting and after a hard fork for a new chain occurred but it activated on the chain that has the bigger hashrate as of today.

If the Bitcoin developers would push for a POS hard fork I would expect the chain to split into a POS and POW version but which version would become the canonical Bitcoin would be up for debate.
"Many Chinese prioritise long work days over leisure time or sleep – even though they know it’s unhealthy. What’s driving this behaviour?"

Some typos in the summary, fixed.
I'd check out Amazon Elastic Transcoder (https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/).
Depends on whether you need GPU for model serving. Most companies I talk to use CPU for serving and GPU for training, so it's not a bad idea
Coronavirus Was in U.S. Weeks Earlier Than Previously Known, Study Says
LTSC is the long-term support enterprise version of Windows. Last I checked, it's stripped down without the Windows Store/Cortana/Candy Crush nonsense that a typical install includes.
That is not true. There is a group policy to disable updates. I know, because I have to run updates by hand on my work computer, otherwise I stay months behind on security patches.

Stop spreading lies. It does work. (I also have hot had ads in Windows on all Windows machines I own. But this is a Microsoft product, which always raises these long list of myths.)
Location: Germany, northern part of Baden-Wuerttemberg

Remote: Yes, but also open for partly remote roles, depending on the location of the company

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (scikit, pandas, numpy, etc.), R (tidyverse, ggplot, etc.), SQL-Databases (MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL-Databases (MongoDB, InfluxDB), Visualization (dash/plotly, shiny, D3), Frontend Development (Angular), Backend Development (django), CI/CD (GitLab), Containerization (Docker), Version Control (git, SVN)

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Email: dsopportunity@protonmail.com

Summary: (Lead) Data Scientist with ~7 years of experience and a PhD in a data science topic.

About: For the last few years, I have worked in Data Science consulting and have therefore worked on a variety of problems in various industries. I have extensive experience in leading data science projects from use case identification trough small proof of concept projects to building systems for applying models in daily business. From my consulting experience, I am very aware of the importance of working closely with internal and external partners and have developed a strong and clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences. I enjoy mentoring junior team members am a cooperative team leader with focus on personal growth.

Currently, I'm looking for an exciting opporunity in a leading or managing Data Science role. I am very open regarding company size and can imagine working in settings ranging from start-ups to large corporations, as long as the culture fits and interesting and relevant stuff gets done.
There is a small difference of 3 minutes, but the NSF wording has an "approximately". I guess their priority was to get an initial report out and not precisely determine when it collapsed. I think that a final report on the incident will contain the 12:52 figure instead of the 12:55 one.

Anyways, that's just splitting hairs. Glad that nobody got hurt. This incident is obviously a tragedy.
Reading this I think Proton == Waypoint for AWS services only. Still a lot of work to manage infra and cobble everything together and geared more towards platform teams at larger companies vs. everyday developers and startups.
Make things. Art, music, furniture, novels, photographs, whatever. Doing is not a lower form of cognition. Good luck.
I spend all year not getting myself things so that I can let others get them for me for Christmas or my birthday. But this is exactly the point that the article seems to miss: there's basically no such thing as a good gift for a lot of people. The only things I want I either already have or are so high-price that I wouldn't want someone else to buy for me (and frankly I can do without those). No amount of advice can change that sorry fact for the would-be gift giver.

The exceptions are things I didn't know I wanted until I was given it, maybe I didn't know it existed. And some consumables, like nuts and chocolates.
so it's a step in the right direction, then; bravo Oasis Linux!
Like Google Cloud Run?
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Required Skills:
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- Exposure to JavaScript (ES6+) (Typescript is nice to have), python, SQL
- A strong interest or experience in developing software with graphical user interfaces
- Solid understanding of version control systems e.g. Git or mercurial
- Some familiarity with Linux/Unix is preferred
- Docker

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I think (although I'm not 100% sure) that if you don't react to the prompt at all, it automatically reboots after a while, at least on some updates.

You may not always be at the computer if you're waiting for some kind of a long-term process to finish.
Red Star (novel)
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Remote startup building Python-based data analytics and reporting that live in the browser - Datapane is looking for an exceptional Python / Linux backend engineer and a Django backend engineer to join our team.

This includes working on backend code (primarily in Python) that spans from our web application to the rest of our cloud and on-prem architecture, including Linux containers that run our highly-available PaaS, microservices scheduling and communications, data-science processing code, and more.

For this role, you need strong Python and Linux experience, along with good knowledge of cloud architectures and (distributed) systems development, including Redis, gRPC, and Kubernetes, and be excited to pick up the new technologies and skills - for instance we use NixOS for our on-prem deployments. As a data analytics company, any knowledge of Pandas, numpy, and the associated Python data science and visualisation stack would be extremely helpful.

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We're fully remote, however some timezone overlap with UTC is preferable.

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I often wonder how Wyze makes any money.

They're usually 2-10 times cheaper than their competitors, while providing better features, better design, and better support.

I love all of my Wyze devices and purchased another $100 worth of them just yesterday (3 bulbs, 2 sockets, 3 sensors, 1 camera, 1 SD card).

I like how they go out of their way to add features to their devices. For example, they provide a firmware for the Wyze Cam that turns it into a webcam, which I've been using for online education for the past few months.

For the past few days, I've done extensive research on smart watches and fitness bands. I looked into everything, from Apple Watch, Tizen, Pebble, WearOS, Fitbit, PineTime, etc. I haven't found anything with such a good value as the Wyze Watch. Some of the hackable nRF52832 based devices (PineTime, Colmi P8) have similar prices, but they have a smaller display, no SPo2 sensor, and you basically have to write your own OS (InfiniTime, WASP-OS, Zephyr, RIOT).

I'm really impressed. I wonder if there's a catch.
We'll move it. Thanks!
A 2 fingered tap on my browser enacts full screen. 3 taps opens bookmarks. Fortunately I'm a 1 fingered player!

But it's still fun!
Took me a while to figure out the context for what exactly the Precursor is [1], and where to get one [2].

[1] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5921

[2] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
The official package manager of windows is winget.

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

I like scoop though personally.

https://scoop.sh
Working in a very big corporate I discovered the "it'll sort itself out" thing independently. If I didn't know for certain how to respond and resolve instantly I'd just leave it - and 99% of the time it would be fixed without me in 24hrs.
competing at near-maximum effort for limited resources

Yes, but why? Most academics I know are miserable and worn ragged by this endless competition. I'm asking why they don't construct a more favorable environment for themselves where they are not constantly being played off against each other. Administrators are part of that system, as opposed to being autonomous villains.
I guess it's linked to cost but the pure painfulness of just having licensing in the way of your infrastructure management is pretty annoying.

We literally have had this problem the last few months where we had a spike in load causing wide spread performance issues and the obvious answer was to give the server more cores but "we're not licensed for that" ... so everybody just suffered through it because temporarily giving the DB more cores for a few hours was just too painful / costly from a licensing point of view.
Letting software have dependencies then making the user manage them in the off chance there is some bug in the foundational mostly frozen libraries should be an obviously bad decision at this point.

No other environment forces this kind of complexity on their users and almost no non-enthusiast user wants to deal with this structure.
I’ve seen a few threads like this here on HN. I feel like the most important thing is talk to a professional advisor. Take money off the tank but it’s not a “keep it all in the company” vs “sell”. You might want to do a rebalancing and keep 50/50 or something.

How much of your ownership stake would you need to sell to never worry about working again?
I sympathize. I wish there wasn’t such a hardwired need to give. What I do to avoid getting any random crap gift is to always ask for either a bottle of wine or for a book they think I would like (I’ll usually request it not be another pop-psychology book). That way they can feel good while giving a gift and there is a decent chance I’ll enjoy the gift.
There also the option (I think it's Wifi only) where you can mark the connection as "metered connection" and it turns off a whole bunch of automated nonsense.

Same as you, I periodically turn off the metered connection toggle and then run updates. It saves me a heap of angst.
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I bet they are working on it.
Tftp?