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Raspberry Shake | Remote | Full-time | Linux System Administrator | https://raspberryshake.org

Raspberry Shake, S.A., Panama is looking for a system administrator. We are a small innovative company (< 20 employees) making cutting edge IoT seismology-oriented instruments. The ideal candidate will thrive working in a dynamic and exciting environment, supporting the business remotely.

The qualified candidate will have the following responsibilities:

* Responsible for managing all networks pertinent to the company, internal and cloud-based, including security, VPN’s, connectivity between networks and individual servers, router configuration, tunnels, port-forwarding, firewall configuration

* Responsible for the maintenance, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems, network and application servers (dedicated hardware) , and virtualization (both VM’s and LXC containers); found on both private and cloud-based machines, including security access, etc.

* Install and upgrade computer components and software, manage virtual servers, and integrate automation processes, both internal and client-facing

* Troubleshoot hardware and software errors by running diagnostics, documenting problems and resolutions, prioritizing problems, and assessing impact of issues

* Provide documentation and technical specifications to IT staff for planning and implementing new or upgrades of IT infrastructure

* Perform or delegate regular backup operations and implement appropriate processes for data protection, disaster recovery, and failover procedures

* Provide support for internal systems, hardware and software, and ensure that related equipment problems are resolved in a timely manner with limited disruptions

* Provide internal support in the form of scripts and programming using python and other high-level programming languages

* Responsible for capacity, storage planning, and database performance

Operating systems we primarily use are various flavors of LINUX, including a few Windows-based machines (internal only).

Qualifications

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* 3-5 years of database, network administration, or system administration experience

* System administration experience in Linux is mandatory. Experience with Microsoft, or other network related fields is a plus

* Working knowledge of virtualization, VMWare, or equivalent; LXC containers desirable

* Strong knowledge of systems and networking software, hardware, and networking protocols

* Experience with scripting and automation tools

* Fluent in English. All sysAdmin work will be done in support of native English speakers

To apply or inquire more about the job, e-mail richard@raspberryshake.org
There doesn't really need to be an "else". It's a handheld platform with an FPGA instead of a CPU, and it costs less than a flagship smartphone.

The order of magnitude lower speed is an expected byproduct of the hardware. If you don't have a use for it, don't use it.
What about Mac users though? I can’t imagine using a Microsoft product in any capacity that isn’t entirely separate from Microsoft - meaning GitHub and VSCode.

Teams feels entirely too tied to MSFT. The UI seems unbearable.
> You can get there after several years at a decent salary.

10 years ago having disposable income - which all goes to savings in this case - on average of $100,000 is hardly decent salary e.g. in Bay Area - single people with such a salary will get rather high tax, and cost of living is significant, while families unavoidably have more costs to cover.

In other regions it seems even less attainable, overall. So, unlikely.
2020.

:-(
Around 2010 there was for eSports, specifically StarCraft: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/Air_Force_ACE

Unsure if they are still around though.
In one of my classes (a year or so ago) we read a paper by someone I happened to know in another context. I found myself shocked to be reading university published material by an acquaintance. I mentioned this to a friend and he related the same thoughts as you. CS is a young enough field that many of its original researchers are still around, unlike a lot of its sibling fields of study.
I think it's a noble goal to genuinely care about more poeple.

> Like if I can pull up something from the last convo that'd help.

I can relate to this. Every time I'm alone with someone, my brain goes to overdrive and I ask myself questions like "what can we talk about" , "what common interests do we have", "how can I make him/her laugh", "what about this person that I don't know yet that I can ask" just to 'develop' the relationship.

But after a while of doing this, and observing myself doing this, I get burnt out and go 'f it, who cares'. If I cared about this person, it wouldn't feel such a grind to create/maintain this relationship.
I would prefer more languages provided delimited continuations, rather than “full” continuations like call/cc.

See this paper by Oleg Okmij: http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html
I normally don't call people out for it but you actually did misspell "monetized". ;)
d'oh, I meant mbps commit not gbit :S
wrap cash with gift paper. that's the best gift since the inception of cash
Pretty impressed the way you analyzed
Taught me something new
The (vast) majority of small businesses are not out to grow as fast as possible, seeking that big money valley exit. Most are family operations that seek to stay at whatever size that might encompass. FWIW.
Slack's culture is very different from Salesforce's so I think they will at least keep around HR.
big news. this was a pretty big issue for a customer at AWS that was using S3 for their analytics platform.
If there's enough, or you're willing to supplement it, and your employer doesn't already pay for it: https://learning.oreilly.com. I have made extensive use of this site since it was Safari Books Online (which was a better deal, you got download tokens and could get PDFs of the books or chapters).
It makes absolute sense

- Slack wasn't going to survive as an independent. Their anti-trust efforts against Microsoft + Teams seemed to go nowhere.

- Salesforce is one of the only companies that can go to-to-toe with Microsoft in the enterprise - 80%+ of the Fortune 500, 150k+ customers, 200k+ people at their conference each year

- Salesforce already know your org chart so can roll out slack to anyone already on force.com easily.

- Salesforce are building out from a data-up direction to take up what employees have open on their screens at work. Slack/collab was a big part they were missing (so is video/conf - zoom would be perfect but it's overvalued, Workday also fits)

- Integrations with CRM, customer support, social media management, etc. are a no-brainer into slack

- Microsoft are weak exactly where Salesforce are strong so a lot of customers are across both and would be tempted by free Slack over free Teams

- They're issuing stock for half the acquisition and have a cap of 250B+ which is a bit bubbly but they're doing well P&L wise recently
I would prefer more languages provided copyable coroutines, because I would rather explain create+switch+copy to people than call/cc or shift+reset
Shockingly, ebay. Search Dell r730/r630 or Supermicro v3. You won't reasonably get more than 36 cores/72 threads in a single box. I just looked and you could easily spec out the system you describe for under $1000. Possibly even less if you want to use mechanical disks.
Is there a difference, really? You’re observing social customs that make people feel nice, and honestly, the fact that you’re doing those things is what the recipients actually care about.

Again, the last time your friend wished you happy birthday, did you wonder if they were being authentic or did it just feel nice that your friend remembered? Cut yourself the same slack!
I would not be the least bit surprised if SF goes after Asana or Notion next.
It wasn’t Tesla. Sorry, don’t trade. Enterprise B2B SaaS. :)
Bitcoin is scarce. Applying the term scarcity across multiple cryptocurrencies means you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Thanks for trying the product! Well, maybe it lacks slickness and fanciness, but it is so simple and straightforward that any grandma can use it. I'd appreciate it if you try more! :-)
I'm still in my late 20s and have admittedly not yet experienced everything the world has to offer. Thanks for sharing your story!
I don’t know what people think scientists are doing, but we are not just spreadsheet number crunching.

In my PhD I was analyzing petabytes of structured data from particle detectors that required relatively complex algorithms just to reconstruct, before any physics analysis is ever started, and the analyses were just as complex. My experiment’s total code base was at least 100kloc of C++ and Fortran if not more, and used a farm with over 20k cores for massive distributed processing, single jobs regularly taking hundreds or thousands of cores and terabytes of memory.

I’m currently working on distributed GPU accelerated hydrodynamic simulations where a single input is in the ~1-10Gb range of structured mesh data and the calculation requires ~200+ Gb of GPU memory.

I really don’t see how excel would be a viable option for basically anything I have worked on in my scientific career, beyond my undergraduate toy analyses.
Faculty Senate Condemns Covid-19 Actions of Hoover’s Scott Atlas
I mostly reach for nginx as well, but apache2 is awfully nice for certain cases where you really do just want a simple, batteries-included setup for some task. I hit one of these a few years ago when I set up a code search tool at my org and the IT department wanted a reverse proxy in front of it that would do basic auth against our AD/LDAP backend.

On nginx, this was going to require either recompiling the whole server to enable to some non-default module, or delegating the auth to a separate script/process that appeared like it was going to be painful to set up, or implementing the whole thing in lua. On Apache, it was a 10 line config file and I've never had to think about it again.

(And yes, I know the article is about the ASF and not httpd, but I just wanted to respond to this comment in particular.)
Googles search functionality seems to be getting worse and worse. A lot of the time now, when I try DuckDuckGo it surfaces what I’m looking for in instances where Google just gives me a lot of irrelevant links.

Is it just my imagination (or sample bias) or are other people experiencing the same thing?
Thanks for testing! You may improve performance via increasing -o parallel_count (default="5"). Newer versions of s3fs have improved performance but please report any cliffs at https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse/issues .
I think PoS is much more likely to get wider adoption than PoW with the rest of the Ethereum ecosystem, FWIW. Glad Ethereum is making the switch.
I think you meant Snapcraft instead of Starcraft :)

It certainly caught my attention!
I seem to remember being given placement and salary statistics when starting out in engineering.
Uh, no. Those English classes were in fact a load of hot garbage. In the two decades since I graduated, I have not once been asked to write Marxist literary criticism of poetry. I haven't even been asked to produce a bibliography, especially not a punctuation-perfect one in MLA format.

Reasonably correct use of the English language is important, but that wasn't taught. Grammar is not part of a typical English class at the college level. It's a college admission requirement. I probably met the requirement in 6th grade. Even if grammar were covered in college, it's not likely to stick if the previous 12 to 15 years of school didn't make it stick.
Remember that MS Teams forced themselves into the market by pushing it onto their existing customers, not because it's a worthy competitor. Now Slack can play that same game too.
Link me to an essay by this guy that doesn't reference "the most impressive people he knows" and how they do things. Yawn.
I totally get this thinking, but I am oriented totally differently from you. I will forget my friend's birthdays, their kids names, their wife's names, things they've talked about recently, etc, etc. I have a terrible memory for this stuff. I'm not sure if it's just me being stubborn, but all of these things just feel very slippery to my mind. On the other end, I will remember in vibrant detail very trivial facts that have no real function for me. Does that mean I care about trivial facts more than my friends? I hope not.

I think of it like this. I don't pay attention to lyrics in most music, I pay attention to the feel/tune. With friends, it's all about emotional connection, not my ability to recall facts. I honestly don't think one or the other is better or worse, it's just different. People show care differently.

For me, who has trouble with things that people often associate with caring (like yourself maybe), this acts as a crutch to help me show caring in a way that other people recognize but that isn't natural to me. I would actually argue that me investing into a program like this actually shows just how much I care that I want to make up for my natural capability with a pretty involved program.

Another side benefit, it's also really nice for acquaintances that you really want to keep up with, but because of irregular correspondence they are very easy to slip from memory.
Nasdaq Plans to Require Listed Companies to Follow Board Diversity Requirements
Gotta love how men still have to sign up for the selective service system in order to get financial aid. Which the irony is if a war broke out and you racked up an absurd amount of debt from college, dying in war or having the GI bill pay it off isn't a bad tradeoff.
See the CEO's recent tweets. Slack will continue to be Slack.
self hosting. having some growing pains performance wise with it due to election / end of year change freezes. ouch
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9005781/Listen-fire...
does this mean the TF S3 plugin will stop cluttering my logs w/ s3 retries?
2020 November: College Football Playoff Rankings Reactions
I found it very easy for pushing a nodejs app recently. Can't speak to rails.
Ah, it's a good time to pick out something nice from the Fall Collection. https://shop.areciboobservatory.org/collections/ao-fall-coll...
This is what happened to me, I did the diffs, it said "if you built packages from ports, rebuild them now". I did everything with pkg (probably had to reinstall those, in retrospect) but I guess sudo was, by DigitalOcean (FreeBSD servers come with sudo and a freebsd user preinstalled there).
If you can get away with just Docker, don't use Kubernetes.

If you can get away with just Docker, don't use Kubernetes.

If you can get away with just Docker, don't use Kubernetes.

Seriously.
Show HN: Simple and intuitive audio editor on browser
The fact that you feel so smugly confidant in your hyper-condescending self-righteousness is similarly disappointing. Especially because I gave two real solutions that make a lot more sense and you dismissed them out of hand because they're "partisan", when they're absolutely the opposite. both my solutions make a lot more sense from an objective standpoint, because they preserve the due representation and one of them also preserves the original intent in making DC independent.

It's kinda mindblowing that you can't identify your own hypocrisy right off the bat and actually posted this comment.
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (Not preferred)

Technologies:

• Front-End: ReactJs | ES6/7 | TypeScript (learning)

• Backend: .NET Core | C# | Asp.Net MVC | Web API | Java

• Data: SQL Server | NoSQL | MySQL | DynamoDB

• Cloud: AWS | Azure | S3 | SNS | SQS | Lambda | Secrets Manager

• Packages & Tools: Redux | WebPack | NPM | Git | Jira | POM | Jmeter

Email: filipe.garcia1997@gmail.com

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipegarcias

ABOUT: Full-Stack Software Engineer in the biggest investment bank in latin america, BTG Pactual, in the credit team. I am very open to learning new technologies and techniques that are not in my current stack,
and I have a great desire for an international job opportunity, that is one of my goals. I can communicate in English, Portuguese or Spanish.
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One could argue that the difference between an MCU and an MPU is whether or not it can reasonably run Linux...
Still need to get Congress to reconstitute the draft. Frankly if a war broke out that was an existential threat to the country, I wouldn’t wait that long to enlist though, but we haven’t faced a real hot existential threat since World War II. The extra step is really to prevent wasting a draft on a Vietnam, again.
Kubernetes Volumes Blog
comma.ai | San Diego | Navigation Engineer+Designer/Software Engineers/Safety Engineer/Full Stack | ALL FULL-TIME | ONSITE ONLY

comma is a profitable company solving self driving cars while delivering shippable intermediaries. Think Tesla Autopilot, but for existing cars (Hondas, Toyotas, etc).

See our open source driving agent on GitHub: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgAbfr42oI8

We're hiring:

* Software engineers to develop openpilot through new features, simulation, and testing infrastructure.

* Navigation Designer, can you build a Waze like app people will use? Then reimagine it combined with openpilot. Know QT5 or have similar SDK experience.

* Also hiring a Full Stack Engineer, an Office/Operations Manager, and a Safety Engineer.

Our stack is largely Python, with some C/C++ and JS(React)

Interview Process (roughly): Coding challenge, 2 phone screens, and a paid micro-internship on site.

https://www.comma.ai/jobs for more detailed job descriptions.

* Reach out with a GitHub/LinkedIn to alex@comma.ai
yeah signal-to-noise is key with these tools
Singapore Becomes First Country to Approve Sales of Lab-Created Meat
Companies have bought a lot of seats for software that employees didn’t actually adopt. Those customers are more likely to churn. Reporting DAU helps account for that possibility.
Great causal inference course from Brady Neal

https://www.bradyneal.com/causal-inference-course
> there are objective standards to apply and evaluate decisions by, even if those standards can only be intuitively defined

To me this is a contradiction in terms: "only intuitively defined" means human intuition, i.e., subjectivity, is involved. I guess we'll just have to disagree.
Interesting...no slack blog post about it. Just a report of the salesforce news article
Thought this was BS but wow. And likely without M&A.

“From 2009 to 2019, BCG’s global sales grew from $2.75 billion to $8.5 billion, and its workforce expanded from 6,900 to 21,000 employees worldwide, tripling in size. “ https://www.bcg.com/en-us/press/12march2020-bcg-revenues-rea...
Reviewers report 9.5mm, not 8mm [1]. But the original Amazfit Bip is no longer for sale on their store or on Amazon except for overpriced marketplace sellers.
They only make later models now which are thicker (they have a dizzying array of different models with similar names which is quite confusing).

I did purchase an Amazfit watch, the GTR 42mm which is supposed to be 9.2mm thick but is >11 in reality. "A couple of dozen" faces is laughable compared to what Pebble offered. The community produced an incredibly diverse set of faces and apps for Pebble. I find the quality of the GTR faces to be mostly poor with them all pretty much looking the same with the same features. For example, you can't do this on an Amazfit watch face: https://store-beta.rebble.io/app/57cc2c33be5ad0d9500002cd let alone the apps which have no equivalent AFAIK: https://store-beta.rebble.io/apps/most-loved/1

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazfit-bip-review-100-smartwa...
wouldn’t the public interest in that be obvious at design time? why would apple write internal docs in such a way that they could never be released?
Missive is 1/3 the price of Front and offers the exact same product. Cancelled front yesterday.
Definitely the easiest way to set up a bare metal cluster.

Make sure you backup the rancher instance, or you won't be able to recover the cluster if something goes wrong.

Built in monitoring doesn't work very well on all hardware.

Mostly it's great, though.
Work on modern Bluetooth audio support in Linux stalls
> appeals courts exist as a check on injustice in lower court rulings. They do try to objectively verify whether a given ruling was just.

You evidently haven't read many appeals court opinions or looked at the actual rules for when a case can be appealed at all. Those rules have little if anything to do with whether the ruling was just. They mostly have to do with whether particular procedural rules were followed. As for the actual opinions and rulings issued by appeals courts, after reading many of them, the only clear pattern I can see is that judges start out already knowing what result they want and simply find appropriate laws and precedents to justify it; since the body of law and precedents, taken as a whole, is mutually inconsistent, it is easy to find a justification for any position you like.
Slack is expensive, nobody randomly buys it for every employee
> Is it just my imagination (or sample bias) or are other people experiencing the same thing?

I mean, since you asked, I'm still experiencing the opposite when I try DDG every few months or so. Maybe that's my bias, but I do wish it was better.
Could someone ELI5 why proteins fold in a unique way? Why can't there be multiple "valid" ways for them to fold (ignoring mirror symmetries)?
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I am sorry to say this, but it will not fly.

Amateur spaghetti code, even in a good language like Go, will not scale, by definition.

Certain design decisions for achieving scalability should have been adopted from the day one. Basically, it is all the principles behind FP and Erlang - share nothing, in the first place.

Scalability comes from being pure functional. This is the main conclusion from last 30 or 40 years of CS research.

Stateless and share-nothing applies to protocols and services too.

This is why so many failed with so called micro-services - only stateless will work.

Things of the scale of Ethereum require deep CS knowledge. Just being overconfident and too cocky is not enough.
I thought they were almost entirely on prem for the actual storage
More annoying and adrenaline-driven than email, but also more plugin-friendly

Slack integratons are not full-featured but they're more flexible than what you can embed in an email, even with gmail's markup actions. There's no other 'inbox for interactive widgets'.
I hope they write a paper or at least do a talk about how they went about it. Usually these things are more involved than an outsider would think. Agreed that you can beat most of the CAP tradeoffs with significant engineering effort, but it’s usually pretty interesting how they accomplish it. Especially at S3’s scale where the COGs impact of “throw more hardware at it” can cost on the order of tens or hundreds of millions.
> then you hit the section of the docs that says "no, you shouldn't, they should be uniformly balanced". (Though honestly, I've never felt any negative side-effects from ignoring this

You likely won’t, unless you hit a bucket size that has at least a billion small files inside. If you get into the trillion and above range and are heavily unbalanced due to a recent deploy of yours, ooops, there goes S3. Or it did in 2013 anyway.