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Ask HN: First month job anxiety. Am I actually an impostor?
I joined one of the big-4 tech companies a month ago after years of freelance work. Since joining, I’ve had trouble “hooking in”. For one, it doesn’t seem like I have all that much to do. I’ve submitted a few very simple bug fixes, and I have some larger feature work coming up, but it’s all on the order of maybe a few hundred lines of code. I’ve also spent maybe a week more than I should have on a fairly simple feature, just from fighting with my tools and trying to figure out where to put a few sparse calls in the codebase. It’s really embarrassing.

The other issue is that I’m riddled with anxiety every day. For one, I’m worried that my coworkers might think I’m slacking off, or that I’m incompetent or a bad hire. Everyone around me is always on point though many of them are younger than me. Their thoughts are completely clear. I rarely hear them make mistakes or misunderstand anything: they seem to have no weaknesses. In contrast, my thoughts tend to be extremely muddled. I often take in information without making much sense of it at first, and it seems to take me a while to clarify these thoughts into some whole. (And even then, I’m not always able to talk about it clearly.) I think this has always been my way of thinking, but it feels out of place here..

The other big issue is that I don’t really know how to reach out to people. I’m not a collaborator; I’m a recluse. In my life, I’ve always done things from scratch. Now I have to make meetings, ask people for information, decide that something needs to be done and tell another team to do it, etc. To get good at this, it feels like I basically have to rewire my entire personality, and I don’t know how to go about doing this. I’ve also found myself not asking clarifying questions when something doesn’t make sense in a meeting—see “muddled thoughts” above—and then I’m stuck figuring out whatever it was that I misunderstood on my own time (or not at all).

I don’t know if this is impostor syndrome, because I might actually be an impostor. Deep down, I think I’m riddled with fear that I’m just not good enough to be a “Googler” (or your favorite FANG here).

What do I do? How do I get better?
Ohhhh the motherload :-) (bows with hands in a prayer position)
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN, so please don't degrade this place further by posting them.

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Exactly what we're achieving now, just faster?

More war, consumption, etc?
Check your diet. This happened to me when I was consuming large amounts of carbs for breakfast and lunch. I switched to keto and noticed the tiredness went away in the afternoon and I didn't require 3+ cups of coffee in the morning. Basically I was crashing multiple times a day which was driving me to the point of falling asleep at work or behind the wheel.
Same. This article felt like a very narrowly targeted ad for me. :)
Seth Godin has some tremendously clarifying ideas on this subject. Step 1 is answering the question “What is this for?” If the point is to exercise a muscle, then show up and write week after week and don’t worry about if anyone is reading it, and how to grow...etc. That’s a distraction to what you set out to do.

I have done something similar. To make this point clear to myself, I do not use any sort of tracking, so that I couldn’t figure out traffic numbers even if I wanted to. And I don’t advertise at all or put effort into growth, aside from dumping a url on LinkedIn.

One really nice benefit of writing about technical stuff and lessons learned is that it’s a great resource for future you. Just yesterday I pulled up my own article because I forgot how to do something I used to know really well when I was in the weeds. If you take the time to write it up, you’re free to release it from your brain.
Designs spread.
Google already locked down Android pretty badly. Many important apps require the Play Store and all that Google stuff to be installed or to be fully functional (e.g notifications). MicroG is not enough for my needs and they introduce new things like SafetyNet to make things even worse. To me that's WAY more important than Google being installed by default or not. They can't lose until you fix this.
"+" is a function, what makes it "right" to be a method?
Depends on how you measure it. Volume, width, wet weight vs dry weight, energy flows, number of living cells, etc.

Fungus covers a large area, but each strand is rather tiny.
An unfortunate facet of the human condition is the idea of throwing enough money at a problem will solve it. And that involves paying 10x as much for a pound of cure compared to an ounce of prevention.

It is a darn shame.
Isn't the argument that is being made that you did things exactly right. That microservices are a great architecture to migrate to when you feel the need. But aren't a great to start a project.
Looks interesting.

I would love to get involved on the design side. Just did some other work for a client creating a tool that allow you to analyze multiple cryptocurrencies and their underlying metrics. (Difficulty, close price, volatility etc) and are interested in exploring this field a little more.

Here is small section of one of the directions we went:

https://cl.ly/c997d4680e7c

https://cl.ly/a41354620e82

If you are looking for someone to help send me a PM (and yes for free I understand it's an open source project)
Michigan Tech Startup? Are you joking? The true tech startup scene in Michigan
Same in the U.S.:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cabrini+green+projects&t=ffsb&ia=i...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=robert+taylor+homes&t=ffsb&iar=ima...
That postcard with an aerial shot of housing blocks in Novi Beograd must represent a regional trend.

Reminds me very much of what I saw in Brno, in what is now the Czech Republic. Also, modern-day Seoul, and many other large Asian cities.

I think it's just a different mindset. Where the West puts a high value on uniqueness, conformity is prized in other cultures.

See also: Vancouver's skyscrapers, and suburban tract housing, both of which are ridiculed for their sameness.
> but there wasn't as much difference as I hoped

That looks like a huge difference to me, the first shot looks super old whereas the last shot looks brand new. What sort of difference were you hoping for?
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I've been quite busy with work this week, but now that it's weekend I finally had some time to work on the site again.. I've made significant improvements to the domain name finder, and added a button to hide unavailable SLDs/domains.. I hope that will solve the problem for those who are red-green deficient.
The real problem is a failure of our political system to create appropriate regulations and incentives.

At the end of the day, the corporation behaves within the system. What the "big tech" CEOs figured out is that there's a gray area between "what is acceptable" and "what is legal", and while people before have felt constrained by "doing the right thing" the new CEOs have not even been constrained by "behaving in accordance with the letter of the law". See Uber as a great example of moving fast and breaking the law until the law was changed in their favor.

"Big Tech" encompasses a wide spectrum of issues, from garden-variety law-breaking up to "too-big-to-fail". Microsoft was slammed with anti-trust once. Given the prevalence of tech in our society, some laws and regulations are appropriate, the question is really how far they should extend.
Wow, that is comforting. I will simply learn these skills and demonstrate them! Thank you.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a greate machine to learn Programming
A line-by-line layman’s guide to Linear Regression using TensorFlow
I love how he perceives/explains a number of his career choices around avoiding anything "big company".
deep breaths, and try to chill. when you need help, simply say "I need help" and that should be a trigger for someone to change context and actually help you, if they can.

not asking for help is the biggest mistake you could make.
That's fair. I only mentioned it because you asked for a computer scientist.

One simple model of a parallel Turing machine is one with multiple tapes, each with its own read-write head. They all operate simultaneously based on the global state. This is a very general form of parallelism.

Wikipedia has an article [1] about them with some references for proofs that they're equivalent to single-tape Turing machines, but I encourage you to try to prove it yourself. It's fairly simple to prove, I'm pretty sure I've seen it as an undergraduate-level homework problem.

If you want a hint, try increasing the number of tape symbols so that you can encode the entire global state on one cell of the single-tape machine. It's a bit more work, but you can also show that two symbols are enough to simulate a Turing machine with any number of symbols.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitape_Turing_machine
It's a wonderful idea in principle. I love the fact that regions respond with simple, relevant gifts.

I wonder if would be more appropriate if:

a) you could only give to 'where you went to school' and

b) regions could only respond with a nominal, non-cash gift, like a fruit, flower, or some culturally relevant thing.

It would close the loophole, provide for meaningful tax redistribution and encourage legitimate cultural contact between regions and the mega-centre.

Of course trying to get big business out of Tokyo might be an opportunity as well, though that's a hard thing. Creating industrial clusters is hard, and regions fight over it.
It seems like the overhead of the system is paid for out of the tax savings you get by participating in the program. As I understand it:

1. Earn $2000 in Tokyo.

2. Owe $200 to Tokyo.

3. Donate $80 to Gifu.

4. Receive $40 from Gifu.

5. Liquidate gifts for $38.80

You just saved almost 20% on your income taxes. This presumably lowers the deadweight loss associated with them. Does it lower it by more or less than the 3% loss you take converting gift cards to cash or more appropriate gift cards?

Don't double-count the 3% "overhead" of liquidating a gift card and "deadweight loss in gifts"; those are the same thing:

> You really do get plums from childhood in your mail from your hometown (if you don’t optimize for cash equivalents).

Also:

> and of course, the existence of a competition at all means that the hometown which incurred the expenses of rearing/educating you in the first place probably isn't going to get your tax revenue because they don't offer anime pineapple rewards

With a legal cap on return gifts at 50% of donated value, this shouldn't be the case. You can donate anywhere and you'll get exactly the same return; why wouldn't you donate to somewhere you liked?
This is a thing, definitely, but I don't think it's something we can't talk about and criticize. The fact that this cultural tradition has caused a well-intentioned(ish, if you're rural) tax law to become a big loop hole is a bad thing. I'm certain if they thought this was going to be an issue (with small towns refusing the money) some more reasonable solution could be found.

The town I grew up in, Boston, receives a christmas tree every year from Nova Scotia due to the fact that Boston sent a lot of emergency aide to Halifax and the surrounds after a large explosion there in 1917. Something similar could be done with small towns sending local art and culture items to large cities in free exhibitions to demonstrate what the tax money is benefiting or just as a gift or maybe a small japanese town might sponsor a fair in Tokyo where free plums are available using a portion of the tax money they received. This would be a way to express thanks in a common manner for the sum of the donations made by citizens without creating perverse tax loop holes that are exploited to simply lower the amount of money coming out of your pocket.
Why do you think it was terrible?
I did take a SQL, Java and Python courses but they weren't very good.

I'm definitely more of a self learner but I feel without the BS in Computer Science credential, I won't be taken seriously.
In mechanical design, there is the related problem of how to make a system which has the minimum number of constraints while performing correctly: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-76-mult...

A bridge which is supported by a horizontal hinge at one end, and rests on a roller at the other, is effectively fixed, but it's not over-constrained by being attached at both ends. This isn't quite what you are talking about: rather than somehow covering up error due to large tolerances, or cancelling it out (as in a gridiron pendulum or PAL tv signal) degrees of freedom are included in the mechanical design so that those errors don't have structural repercussions.

Kinematic couplings use in mounts for precision instruments use all sorts of interesting combinations of geometrical contact surfaces, with the goal being repeatability rather than accuracy: the instrument always ends up at precisely the same location, and there are no potentially distorting stresses in the structure (as would inevitably occur if there were multiple over-constrained points of attachment)

https://www.precisionballs.com/Micro_Inch_Positioning_with_K...
https://www.precisionballs.com/basic_kinematic_designs.php
Reminds me of the “see/seafood” app pitched by Jian-Yang from Silicon Valley
Get hired at any place where good engineering is done

Great advice.
Many browsers have specifically disabled background-image, or anything with side effects, on :visited selectors - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-co...

You can still trick users into clicking on overlays on top of visited links (e.g. with a fake captcha that says "click all the things that are purple"). But because this requires manual actions, it's less critical than something like the session resumption attack above, which could run all night and enumerate the RTT of every single banking site and niche mature-content site out there.
Probably an RSA token. They're common for business banking but not for retail banking, or at least not in North America.
Some of us aren't resigned to the idea that it has to be that way though.
Absolutely, and hubris of the worst kind...it's the company killing kind before it can even get started.
This has one unspoken bonus feature: Not having to talk to an octogenarian about politics.

I know it sounds silly, but I suspect this is one of the huge features driving it's success. Amateur radio is plagued by bad actors and grumpy old men, along with the general age imbalance that makes it fairly unpleasant for young people and extremely unpleasant for anyone who sounds vaguely feminine...
What kind of clothes are these that break? The only thing I can think of developing holes are my (very expensive) icebreaker merino wool t-shirts, and even those took YEARS to develop any holes.

My average cotton/poly/whatever t-shirts, sweatshirts, jeans, last.. I don't know. A decade?
And you can avoid virtualenvs as well until you need to ship a large app.

"pip install --user pkg" is good enough for beginners and writing libraries with few deps.
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Hmm, I was in Bosnia/Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia this past summer, and saw many "spomenik"[0]... It is interesting to see these in person and their size is usually surprising. If you are traveling in the area there's a site dedicated to cataloguing the location & appearance of these monuments.[1]

0: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spomenik-memorials-yug...
1: http://www.spomenikdatabase.org/
Wow, that makes me feel more confident. The lacking of a specific credential itself made me feel like I wasn't a good candidate.

I will focus on developing the skills I need to get to my end role and simply execute! Thanks for your perspective.
What's your opinion on Julia given its Dylan heritage?
Nice straw-man. The cars might send summarized metrics, maybe even video snippets of extraordinary events. That provides plenty of value while being a far cry from live-streaming all sensor data including video.

I'd still be pissed if my car did that without explicit opt-in, but it doesn't have to be nearly as bad as you make it sound.
> Then people need to adjust their living styles.

Yes, that's exactly a downward distribution of pain.

> "Forced" is the wrong term here.

As they are compelled by the actions of others, it is exactly the right word.

> Nobody deserves cheap rent.

That certainly includes the wealthier beneficiaries (the new residents, not the even wealthier investors) of government-subsidized gentrification, who are, after all, getting exaxtly what the poorer losers in that process are losing.

If nobody deserves it, taxpayers shouldn't be paying to transfer it from the poor to the wealthy.
I moved to Finland from the UK, and it is strikingly different.

That said strangers talk to you in the sauna all the time, and that seems to be both acceptable and encouraged.
Another item is dating based on the stars. If you want to record a date you can record the position of the stars and planets. Such dating is attempted for the mahabharata and other Indian epics, but the language is very flowery so it is difficult to ascertain exactly.
Well...

> Widespread gaming or no, the system pretty much works according to the internal aims. Cities get a list of their internal diaspora, and do make considerably more effort to stay in touch with them than they did previously. (This includes lovely holiday cards and sometimes even I-can’t-believe-they’re-not-alumni-magazines.) You really do get plums from childhood in your mail from your hometown (if you don’t optimize for cash equivalents). Cities with declining local tax bases really do get enough money to do material projects with. Tokyo takes a hit to revenue but can afford it.
> Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak comes to mind, who else?

I don't think those are generally good examples of 10x engineers. Most people don't get to have a large impact by making the most of something specific. I think in the wild it is more as described in the article. That 10x engineers are people who raise the standard for whatever is in front of them and save themselves, and their companies, thousands and thousands of man hours by doing so. It is really really hard to be better at people at hard things, it is a lot easier to be better than people at things that are supposedly easy, but people consistently fail at.
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> Business is pressuring tech teams to deliver faster, and they cannot, so they blame current system (derogatory name: monolith)

They are not wrong though, monoliths cannot give you fast delivery. Fast delivery implies at least expressive dynamically typed languages with some resilience to bugs, which in turn requires limiting the scope of bugs and therefore decoupling and isolating everything as much as possible. This is very different architecture from monoliths. Microservices are a first step there, but of course not a substitute for lightweight isolated processes and supervision trees. Still, monoliths are definitely bad choices in every way possible if you can split them into isolated services.
I think what you said is true even if you don't know hot build a monolith in a modular way.
"Because I've heard of timing attacks happening over networks with a surprising amount of precision."

They can, when you can issues thousands, millions, or even billions of attempts that are sufficiently statistically independent and then do statistics on the result. In this case, you want to see if the user has an open TLS session to a particular resource, but you only get one shot at the result, because after the first shot, now the user certainly has a TLS session open to the particular resource. So you have no opportunity to do many K/M/Grequests to nail down the differences and are swamped by other random events.

Across a population of browsers you might be able to extract a small fraction of a bit per user, but you're certainly not getting anywhere near the full bit (yes they have open session/no they do not) on a per-user basis. While you can extract non-zero amounts of information I don't think you could count on getting any sort of useful information from it.
The ideal solution is to build in living wages into the prices of food so tipping isn't used to subsidize restaurant owners.
I've got my technicians license, and have no idea what he's talking about. Can someone explain? Even the AARL page on this that's the top google hit doesn't jargon check itself at all: http://www.arrl.org/news/ft8-mode-is-latest-bright-shiny-obj...
<If you're thinking about joining a startup, how do you tell if the founders are like Larry and Sergey or if they're an Elizabeth Holmes? Right, that's the worst combination: smart and full of st. I think you have to interview them a little bit. Ask hard questions and see if they give direct, insightful answers, or if they're evasive and dismissive.>

Actually, letting charismatic founders deliver a triple-scoop of their enchanting story isn't the technique I'd recommend. Both the good ones and the bad ones got this far by being very persuasive.

Do reference checks instead. Find people who worked with them for a while, and have moved on. When you're doing this with great founders, you'll hear a mix of pride and fatigue. (There's a steady refrain among folks who worked for Jeff Bezos or Steve Jobs. "Best years of my career, but totally wore me out.")

For the charlatans, you'll hear: "It all sounded wonderful at first, but the longer I stayed, the clearer it became that the employees, investors and customers were all being played."
High.
Not every op supported in generic Tensorflow (software) can be converted to CoreML ops (hardware), which means a number of the more complicated models can't be automagically converted. If you have specific domain knowledge you can add substitute ops/roll your own, but this is beyond the scope of most people trying to bring models over to mobile.
CommieBobDole, it's not pedantics; I simply saw his public denouncement of white nationalism/white supremacy/neo-Nazism (while still supporting general nationalism/cultural unity) and took it at face value.

If you disagree, you might explain why.
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In my experience microservices have been prescribed as a sales bullet point instead of a software architecture decision.

Every time it's resulted in insane low traffic bottlenecks all over the place as services chatter away or separately need to look at he same file data so all request a copy etc.

Any architecture has tradeoffs and it's poor form to pick one before you've even described what the software is for.
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