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Disney Streaming Services | Senior Software Engineer | Full-Time | New York, NY

Disney Streaming Services is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Activation team.

The Activation team builds and maintains critical infrastructure responsible for supporting Disney streaming media subscriptions, including Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, and more. Our services allow users to seamlessly access Disney content when making a purchase via external parties. We are an agile team, always open to experimentation, as well as the growth and learning that comes from both success and failure. Joining our team means you'll have the opportunity to work with world-class engineers on exciting new products and problems, on the fastest-growing streaming service of all time, alongside a team that is quickly growing into an exciting new domain. Technologies include Scala, Play, and AWS. Experience in these is preferred, but not required. If you're open to learning new things, or excited to expand your skillset in these areas, you'll fit right in.

Disney Streaming Services is responsible for developing and operating The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer video businesses globally, including the ESPN+ premium sports streaming service; Disney+, the dedicated streaming home for entertainment from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and BAMTECH Media, a global leader in direct-to-consumer video streaming products and solutions. Our core mission is to deliver global audiences the freedom to access content on their terms across any connected device, time or location. We serve consumers by bringing the world’s most beloved characters, timeless stories, legendary athletes, and epic sporting events to global audiences through best-in-class direct-to-consumer video services. We strive daily to imaginatively challenge convention with innovative technology that gives consumers the freedom to access content on their terms across any connected device, time or location.

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I remain very unconvinced by measures like this on two levels:

First, Why not do it now? Or in 12months? Making promises that rely on future people to fulfil them single handed is the same as doing nothing, just with better PR.

Second, I'm really unconvinced electricity can reasonably fulfil the same jobs currently done by gas. I don't think you can run a boiler with the same power. If you do somehow build such a boiler affordably you'll have big issues surge capacity and supply levels.
Damn. That's one hell of a set of credentials for the founders.

I was the engineer who was heavily involved with monitoring at my last job and a lot of what this is doing aligns with what I would have done myself. At my new job, I work on different stuff but I can see we're going to run into monitoring issues soon too. I'm so, so, so glad this is an option because I do not want to rebuild that stuff all over again. Getting monitoring scalable and robust is HARD!
California cities, counties failing again on affordable housing goals
Looped | Remote (US) | Full-time | Senior Software Engineers | 130-170k USD + equity

Looped is building the future of virtual events.

We are on a mission to deepen audience participation in live virtual events. By joining the Looped team, you're giving back to creators who have seen much of their live performance revenue dry up due to the pandemic.

Join the team at a unique moment. Our userbase has been growing quickly over the last few months, opening the doors to countless opportunities for high impact projects. Over 1000 top creators run events through Looped, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meghan Trainor, Nelly, AJ McLean, Joel McHale, Ken Jeong, Bob Saget, Kelly Rutherford, Ashley Benson, and many more. You'll be forever part of the core team that shapes the culture and vision of the company.

Learn more and apply: https://www.notion.so/loopedlive/Senior-Software-Engineer-Jo...
This is described about a quarter the way into TFA.

> REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY index_name;

(A vanilla REINDEX will lock the table, preventing writes, while it runs. The CONCURRENT creates a new index, replicates any updates to the original while it does so, and then does an atomic switcheroo at the end.)
I get what you are saying, games are essential if you are building a gaming platform

But a lot of people expected it would fail due to network issues, lag/delay, etc. If the tech was terrible, the good games wouldn't have been enough to save the project.
I didn't explain it well in my comment. Consider the following example:

def blocking():
time.sleep(5)

@app.get("/")
async def index():
blocking()

The `blocking` function will blocking the event loop. This is something you need to be aware of. Gist with a few scenarios: https://gist.github.com/lukin0110/0074ec5325224674010193bb95...
Well that depends on what you're optimizing for, but yes.
> Fillet-o-fish (and fish-sticks in general) are an exceptional dish in American cuisine that is akin to an irregular verb.

Ironically, irregular verbs get regularized over time as the language evolves (hell, I saw some paper the other day that attempted to compute half-life of irregular verbs in English; can't find it now) - but in case of food, I fully expect the opposite to happen; that is, cheese-on-fish will become normalized. McDonald's is the vanguard of the universal culture - whatever stuff it sells everywhere is here to stay.
The article's "container lifespan" chart shows that 21% of containers live less than 10 seconds and 54% live <= 5 minutes. If the base data set has that many very-short-lived containers, it's probably not representative of containerized persistent services. How many services get CD updates every 10 seconds?

Indeed, the original Sysdig report that the chart comes from makes this case:

https://sysdig.com/blog/sysdig-2019-container-usage-report/

"Many containers need to only live long enough to execute a function and then terminate when it’s complete. Seconds may seem short, but for some processes, it’s all that is required. We believe the increased use of Kubernetes Jobs that run finite tasks like batch jobs contributed to this growth. In fact, we expect short lifespans to increase, especially on serverless platforms that are well-suited to running short term tasks."
The author mentions living in a New York apartment - I wonder if the lack of central heating and air means that their air is unfiltered, thus the only thing to collect the dust would be the humidifier?

I also have one of these and the only thing I really dislike about it is the 'glug glug' sound randomly throughout the night. But it is worth pointing out that I live in Texas and so I don't have extreme low humidity very often or persistently.

I wonder how a tote full of water with an aquarium pump, washable furnace filter, and fan would do.
Quantum Hype and Quantum Skepticism
I sort of get it about reader. It had ways been a high maintenance product with many liability issues and ultimately proven difficult to monetise. Not to mention feed aggregators as a whole has been in decline since so the demand is probably not even there.

Stadia, on the other hand, has been a product designed to be commercially self-standing. Yet somehow it was never that attractive from the beginning. It makes one wonder if it was simply a "me too" gesture to please shareholders and they simply left it at that.

Now let us make a wager on when gmail and maps will be cancelled...
I see 34.2m shares traded today: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/

I would love to know what percentage of those were "buy and hold, the hedge funds can never beat us if we never sell" memesters from wallstreetbets. I'm going to guess very few relatively speaking.

The redditors banding together just don't have the bankroll to compete when they are purchasing fractional shares of a $200 stock.
Will you have a small(er) plan for homelabs?

I like supporting open source projects, and while SSO is pretty useless to me, I always like custom domains.
As an ex fund guy:

- I think he's right, it's other funds pushing it, not the little WSB people. But the funds that pushed the squeeze probably had a good eye on WSB. At least it would make sense as a place to coordinate the buying, with the useful benefit that you don't even need to say anything, you just bet that other funds are reading it too and seeing the same names.

- It does seem like RH ran out of collateral at the clearinghouse, forcing them to shut down buying. Probably not so smart from a business point of view.

- I'm not sure market makers do that well out of the squeeze. You want someone to buy at 101 and someone else to sell at 99 all day, not buybuybuy. You'll end up selling 101, 102, 103... until you have a huge position averaging a sell at 110 when the market is 120. Options market making as well, yes you can sell at implieds above the market but with that short gamma you hurt yourself in the squeeze. Having said that there's probably some MMs who've done great from it, depends a lot on how you model it.

- The reason Citadel likes to buy order flow is not that they have some cunning plan to screw everyone who comes through the RH pipe, it's more mundane. Normally a bunch of retail punters are not smart, and they're not coordinated. Some guy comes in, buys something. Another guy comes and sells something. Market maker takes that spread, happy days, they can even give you a discount because they win a lot that way. What they are trying to avoid is toxic flow. That's when some guy who knows he's going to move the market comes in and does that thing I mentioned above... buybuybuy, MM is left sad and short when the market is up massively. Luckily that fund shark guy doesn't use the RH app, he hides in the institutional broker world, maybe he has direct market access too. So by buying the RH flow, the MM avoids getting eaten by the shark, and that's worth something, because shark guy can really bite you.

- He's right about it being dumb to short a thing that's already massively shorted. There's an implicit skewness in return in that it's the kind of strategy that is likely to win you a lot of little wins with the occasional catastrophic loss. Melvin probably got away with it many times before this happened.

- There's nothing inherently wrong with shorting a stock. It's useful to be able to exchange risks, which is what trading is about. If you think it's going up, you want there to be people who think it's going down, so you can swap risks. Yes, there are complexities around naked shorting, but let's not get into that.

- He tries to mix in the money printing and stimulus, but I don't think it really belongs in this story. That has many facets other than this particular thing.
Voyant Inc. | Multiple AWS DevOps Engineer | Austin, TX | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | http://www.planwithvoyant.com

Voyant makes visually engaging planning products for financial advisers.

We are Sr. and Jr. AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineers.

We are open to candidates looking to gain expertise in AWS, e.g. a junior level person with IT experience looking to grow into a Cloud Ops Engineer.

Responsibilities:
- Propose, design, and develop new DevOps automation projects.

- Coordinate and perform periodic maintenance.

Reqs:

- Experience as a Linux system or DevOps engineer.

- Automation scripting language.

- Must like dogs.

- Technologies: EC2, RDS, VPC, CloudFormation, Lambda, Jenkins, Tomcat, Apache, Java.

- Competitive salary.

- Training and Certification reimbursements.

No sponsorships available.

jobs@planwithvoyant.com

https://www.planwithvoyant.com/content/en_US/aboutus/DevOpsE...
How about we not and devote resources to crowdsourcing open source Alpha-architecture chips. You know, the 64-bit powerhouse architecture Itanium killed with its weirdness and lameness.

I know Jay Maynard (of Tron cosplay fame) runs an Itanic server in his house. Mainly because the ISA is so rare in the wild that it's unlikely to be affected by shotgun malware attacks.
And, those retail stores gave people an opportunity to play with and become comfortable with their surface form factor.
If Valve wanted to do that why wouldn't they build it themselves instead? They have the server expertise.
is this like Zapper (takes flask, django to serverless automatically) ?
Non-personalized Android Auto would be pretty dumb. I like that when I get in the car it puts my usual destinations on the map. Why would I want it to pretend it doesn't know?
And direct links to all the references he mentioned in hios book: https://github.com/ept/ddia-references
Yes, it can play YouTube videos. And it can even show you the link to the video in ints info no, so you can download it. That's what I used before youtube-dl appeared on the scene.
Robinhood CEO with Elon Musk on ClubHouse
Thanks! We think so too. It's a daunting task to go from ISO13485 or IEC62304 to a set of process documents. We hope to continue improving RDM to lower the barrier for researchers and startup founders in the space. We're about to add templates for a low-overhead QMS within the next week or two.
Solve cloud problem and you won't have to worry about clients.
Even though everything kinda looks the same, there's still plenty of new tech left that IS fun and interesting. I kept reading HN daily, and I still pick up new tech, and ideas. BTW that's also the way to stay relevant and keep getting impressed looks from the youngsters. Maybe you can't pick up the tech as fast as when you were young, but because of your experience you surely can pick it up in a better way, get deeper understanding.

Final thought: mentor. Or teach. You have more to offer than you realize. Age isn't valued enough in IT.
> I can't imagine anyone seeing it as a good sign of confidence if Sony or Microsoft abandoned all first party game development for their platforms.

Apples to Oranges IMO. Stadia is a PC game streaming service, not a physical game console. Google doesn't own the PC game platform, they're just facilitating it.

If Google had never attempted a game studio and launched Stadia as a standalone platform (as it will now be), no one would have said "ok but it's a bad sign that Google isn't getting into the game development business"

> Stadia being good tech is just another sign that Stadia deserved better than Google.

Probably true. I wish it were a standalone company also, but it's not.
We used Ultrasonic humidifiers in a server room (to cut down on static risk) and I can confirm they get covered in minerals
We’re building Opstrace to be as simple as a provider like Wavefront -- we’ve failed if you need additional competencies to manage it. That being said, we’re early in our journey and still have a ways to go.

As mentioned in the original post here, at the core of Opstrace is Cortex (https://cortexproject.io). We know that Cortex scales well to hundreds of millions of unique active metrics, so depending on the exact characteristics of your workload, the fundamentals should be there.

However, Cortex is a serious service to run and if you were to DIY it would require operations work that you currently don’t have with Wavefront. This is the problem we’re trying to solve—making these great OSS solutions easier to use for people like you.

Opstrace is made to be exposed on the internet (which is optional of course), so you can easily run it in an isolated account to keep it safe from all other operations. And in fact, this is the configuration we recommend for production use.

Regarding “100s of AWS accounts and 10s of payers”... does that include any form of multi-tenant isolation? We support multi-tenancy out of the box to enable controlling rate limits and authorization limits for different groups. We’d need to talk in more detail about that. If you’d like to do that privately, please shoot me at chris@opstrace.com. We’re of course happy to continue the discussion here with you as well.
Something like Solid is more useful if you want to share data with other people, or use apps that only support cloud storage. There are many such apps (Google Docs for example), but most of them are currently embedded in their respective cloud storage provider. Solid decouples the apps from the storage.
True before the M1. False now.
The larger humidifiers come with a humidistat which will keep humidity within say a 5% range. A solution like this may over humidify and requires more frequent intervention.
The number of anti-science misinformation red flags in this are remarkable.

Yes, there is strong evidence that vaccine-derived immunity is quite a bit more protective (as evidenced by antibody titers) than disease-acquired immunity.

The PCR cycle number misinformation is the current tinfoil being used to try to claim that there is no "real" epidemic, just false positive testing for some nefarious purpose. It's nonsense. The case number (ie, positive tests) strongly correlate to hospital admissions, which are strongly correlated with deaths, which are not f*cking false positives.

So just stop this nonsense please.
Ideally ML tasks would get executed by background tasks e.g. Celery and use polling or a non-blocking event loop. It's generally not preferred to run such intensive process work inside the context of a web request.
Research Catches Up with the Fastest Growing Plant
"Twelve grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of psilocybin or psilocin."

From: https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/475.752

So, it sounds like 12 grams, regardless of strength. I guess don't get caught with one undried mushroom :)
They are so fucked. Tesla has years on them, at least 10+
I bet they just acquire Crayta to have their own Roblox-like game with more realism.
Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes/depends

Technologies: Ruby, Javascript, React/Redux, SQL, GraphQL, Docker & more

Résumé/CV: https://lewisreynolds.net/home/other/LewisReynoldsResume.pdf

Email: lewis@lewisreynolds.net

I recently co-created a GraphQL-based backend-as-a-service with a remote team. Read our case study here https://satellite-baas.github.io
Location: Colombia (GTM-5).

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Node, React, Vue, Postgres.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/ellipe/ellipe/blob/master/CV%202021.pdf.

Email: ellipe@gmail.com.

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Software Engineer with experience using Node, React, Vue, Javascript, HTML and CSS. Self motivated and fast learner.
Gas-fired humidifiers exist, though I'm not sure if you can get small ones easily.
I went and watched another video from them and saw much more coloring. Must have been just a quirk of where I started.
It's affecting people even for unrelated transactions. For a wire unrelated to stock investing, I was on hold with Schwab a total of 1 hour over since yesterday, although part of that was from giving up twice.
I agree with this in principle but in practice specifications seem a quite hard to write and maintain because you have to learn an obscure syntax for a new language that nobody on the team knows. So as a devils advocate question: what is the advantage of writing your spec in a spec language vs having it written in a (sufficiently well typed) language and generating the spec from that?

Especially when you have one dominant language that most of your code is interfacing with, having the the interface be hand written with idiomatic code for that language is a lot nicer than everyone having to work with auto-generated code that is often not as nice.
The killer concept here is to ask. Just ask your boss, people are requesting help on X, should I help them, or stay focused on your goal? People get so mad that their bosses can't read their minds and tell them the answers to questions they were never asked.
Three quick points:

* One man's Lindy effect is another man's survivorship bias.

* Along the same lines, the only ground truth is the Pareto distribution; choose your 20% wisely.

* There is virtue in starting with "best practices" if only to start somewhere. It's certainly the path of least resistance to the "green light" of doing whatever you want.
I'm curious what sort of NLP use cases people are solving. How are people finding business value in these models and pipelines? We have looked at a number of uses and have found it hard to make a case for ROI. Wondering what's been working for folks.
It's actually a good question. I think the best insight I got on the topic was reading an article once about how to tell the difference between a child being gifted or having ADHD or being both. This is difficult since they often have similar traits, especially having a hard time completing certain menial tasks. The difference is that a gifted child without ADHD can complete these tasks if he likes the teacher giving him the task, while the one with ADHD will still struggle to complete it despite really wanting to do so.
Show HN: LogoMor: a 3D Logo interpreter and visualizer
You might be interested in the Pimsleur language courses. I took a bit of one for Cantonese and found their teaching method to be a lot easier than expected.

Pimsleur courses are all about speaking and comprehending accurately, and don't focus on the writing.
Phil Harrison oversaw the PS3, XBox One, and Google Stadia. He's like a reverse oracle
Oracle | Senior Software Developer | Remote (Canada, EU, South America) | Full-time

My team at Moat.com is hiring a few remote senior software developers (Canada, EU, South America).

Looking for folks with 4+ 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!

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I am with you. I think the actual use case for a casual gamer is absolutely there, running and playing decent games from many different devices, without having to invest in and own a more expensive PC equipped with higher end internals (graphics, etc.).

I am worried about Google's ability to actually execute and make this successful, however (And that does give me hesitancy to buying some of the games that are on there, because they aren't transferrable to somewhere else if Stadia is shut down).

For one, with this in-house studio model, they haven't even shipped a single game yet and they're pulling the plug on the approach. That just seems like giving up before they've even tried. But Ok...

As others have said, the single biggest issue with Stadia is not that it doesn't work wonderfully (it does), it is the extremely limited catalog of games available that needs to be addressed. If they can successfully address that, then they really do have a pretty sweet offering that will be tough to beat.
Disconnecting from the Global Internet to limit the spread of information is futile unless they seize control of all local servers and begin to aggressively jam radio signals.

It sort of works in North Korea because internet has never been there. On the other hand Russia has been connected to the Global Internet for 30 years.

I would see the emergence of a parallel uncensored network made up of computers connected wirelessly through data ham radio and/or satellite phones.
I really don't understand why people donvoted this despite it's obvious. I don't align with you on anything else bc I don't hate C++ and Rust but I have to admit Rust and C++ suffer from the same problems.