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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Remote: yes, or downtown Minneapolis

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies:
Quick study on new and new-to-me technology

Excel expert (complex formulae and basic VBA)

Significant experience with Tableau, Salesforce, Bloomberg Terminal, Adobe Creative Suite, and many niche applications specific to reporting and financial services

Basic familiarity with SQL

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fcvArMlPEfkBN4DvEUb2SNGnfhP...

Email:
ASDPapierniak@gmail.com

Open to full or part time, contract, or employee

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

Hi, I'm Aimee and I manage trading and data for a Registered Investment Advisor firm. I scaled trading and data management processes as we doubled our AUM from $ 672M to $1.33B AUM.

Altogether, I have 9 years of experience in financial services operations. I founded a Tableau user’s group in order to multiply collaboration and drive adoption of Tableau within my subsidiary at a global bank. At a broker-dealer, I taught myself VBA in order to transform a 2-hour manual process into a 30-second process, allowing my team to monitor sales opportunities more frequently. I love helping colleagues take time back by streamlining processes.

Are operational problems holding you back at a mission-driven startup? I would love to connect and apply my expertise in the service of a dynamically growing company. I am targeting roles like Chief of Staff or Head of Operations.
Def seems hard to do. You could pass an A many times before ”proving” they aren’t going to fit in any team.
Everytime I see something like this I’m in no position to apply to it, and by the time I am there are no positions.
I would argue that a hamburger costing only $1 is very loosely using the ingredients you think it is.
Ask HN: What is the etymology of "cadence” in technical settings?
I have been seeing the word "cadence" used in technical settings more and more often, usually referring to the pace or rate at which a process is executed (e.g., software releases, data dumps, meetings).

What is the etymology/origin of this technical sense of "cadence"? (Part of me fears the answer might be Peloton…)
It's true because the median taxpayer pays less tax than the average taxpayer due to the long tail effect.
Are there higher throughout versions of Paxos that are not multi-paxos/raft? Closest thing I can think of is Egalitarian Paxos but it's super complex and introduces a bunch of other trade offs.

I don't find multi paxos appealing because it feels like a step back from leaderless vanilla paxos. I have been itching to implement a neat consensus protocol that's a cut above the common ones and has better throughout than etcd. Unfortunately I haven't found anything
Doesn't solve the interrupt problem OP was referring to.
Not only embraced, they've actually started the extend phase! A bit of extinguish, too, but only in a few situations (.net projects).
I have seen the argument (in Derrick Jensen) that whales migrate vertically, so the iron they distribute is somewhere else than originally, placing whales (if so) as a key factor in an iron circulation system.
That is a strange and unconvincing article. In outline, it goes:

1) Look at this slick solution using geometric algebra.

2) Look at how ugly the trigonometric solution is. GA is so great!

3) And, by the way, one can mechanically translate the GA solution into the usual vector notation.

Point 3 is even a bit understated: GA concepts are really only used for a few lines under "Solving for the Earth's radius." Once you hit the equation for epilson^2, it's just standard algebra and trig.

Anyway, the relevant comparison is not between trig and the GA solution; it's between GA and the usual vector language. It's really the same method in different notation. You take the cross product and separate into parallel and perpendicular components, and then you reach the epsilon^2 equation, and it's the same from there.

Also, I think the author is far too hard on the trigonometric solution. The vector solution is somewhat clever, and it for any given problem that gets placed in front of me, it's not obvious a slick solution exists. On the other hand, the philosophy of trigonometry is that given a completely determined problem about triangles, you can just trig-bash mechanically to get an answer (and here you can even before starting that small-angle approximations will make life easier, so trig is even more attractive). It's really not that bad here. Especially, the comment about it being tricky because one must find a "non-trivial relationship between the four angles" is puzzling. Anyone who's spent time with geometry problems like this knows that the first step is to angle-chase and write in all the value and relations, from which this falls out immediately (and again, totally mechanically). Then you just turn the algebra crank and win.

[I don't have time to think about the spherical geometry stuff. Sorry!]
>Instead of advocating for R&D and cheaper alternatives that improve people's quality of life...

Source?

Also, fighting climate needs a 'all of the above' strategy ASAP.
I’m almost certain everyone already does this. Even as far back as the Pentium III has there been an opcode for any soft vendor to retrieve a CPU ID
Hey, that's a pretty cool demo, thanks for sharing!
You have to monitor and replenish no matter what.

That's part of why the comment said "a percentage" you don't have to refill.
earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28652978

i'd like to emphasise, apart from claims made, ProtonMail actually sent abuse letter trying to get the personal details of the author

that's not something one would expect a privacy-focused company to be doing

more on that story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29102776
Except it's not the back of a van, it's places like eBay, just about the only places you can find cards, including that majority that are not stolen. I've read through enough reasoning here that I'm not sure what the right answer is-- from a business and customer-friendly standpoint. But I think there's more gray are involved than with items that are readily available through normal retail channels.

Then again, these stolen cards may be earmarked for crypto mining operations by organized crime, and then the issue warranties to those who knowingly use stolen goods is much less grey.
'Extreme Morphologies' in Ancient Insects Show How Little We Know Them at All
I’ve seen some interesting looking roles with them and some of their child companies, I’m just weary of large legacy enterprises. My last job I sat around fora year while the project was delayed due to bureaucracy.
IIRC among his other achievements President Carter does have a degree in Nuclear Physics.
Voting is a more fundamental right than going to a restaurant, because if you can vote then you can potentially change the laws about requiring an ID to visit a restaurant.

Also, there probably aren't many attempts to prevent 5 year olds from getting IDs, since the people in charge of issuing those IDs don't need to worry about 5 year olds voting them out.
Looks like they were finally able to get in touch with the right Linux Foundation people.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28926741
And that's how you get this: https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1455624165201887234

It's just basically a game of buzzword bingo in straight corporatese. I doubt even his underlings understand what he was trying to say, let alone the public. Anyone contemplating an MSFT offer should watch this and turn it down just on the basis of this cringe alone.
Wait, so you mean we’re solving housing prices too?!! :-)
>I fled to Canada over a decade ago

Have you written about this anywhere? I'd love to hear more about the motivation (not that it's hard to guess possibilities) and what the process actually looked like. I hear people threatening to move to Canada all the time, but there don't seem to be too many who go through with it!
Their locomotion requires an enormous amount of power. This is not uncommon in arthropods; cockroaches and crickets do too.
What’s their interview process like? I saw a really interesting role with them a couple months back. They seemed to pay a little less than similar companies, but a lot of the work looked cool. I’ve also had people tell me they had negative experiences interviewing with them.
I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad (2012)
I have many of the same experiences within an agency of the USDA. It's certainly not fast paced, and you really have to have some experience to what different "IT Specialist" positions do at this branch vs. this other branch, etc... but I really do enjoy my current position as an IT Specialist / Systems Analyst and it has a very modern feel versus my previous gig with a different govt component. One of the unsung benefits to government work is the ability to network and get experience with entirely different 'fields,' so to speak, and potentially pivot (e.g. Development to Networking or Cybersecurity) without necessarily undertaking a new degree program etc.
Not the parent, but I have some experience here - my cofounder and I both had kids a month apart (four years ago). It switches you to playing the startup game in "hard mode", but it is doable with the right spouse(s).
My impression of VS Code was that it is a "loss leader" designed to keep users in the Microsoft ecosystem.

It's about as "free" as Internet Explorer.
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It doesn't require them to have guns. There are wild animals outside too, maybe we can make a system where that doesn't exist.

Berlin sounds real nice. You never need to think about protecting yourself when things are going great. It may feel baked in at a deeper level, but don't forget, Berlin has at one time relatively recently been a very terrible place to live, especially for those that didn't have guns.

The entire idea of having a gun is to make a dangerous situation more dangerous, it creates symmetry, an aggressor is now equal to his or her victim.

New mexico is pretty nice too. Did you know that anyone who wants to can openly carry any gun they want in new mexico?
That'll be great. Thanks!
.. CFS is real? Honest question. I only knew two people diagnosed with it in high school and I would have attributed one to depression and one to a general inability to handle disappointment and thus mope around. Even reading the wikipedia page on it makes it sound like it's not 100% agreed upon as being real.

Or is CFS now an acceptable term for things like 'long COVID' ?
While i think most of this is sensationalist, there are a couple valid crtiques here. More interesting IMO is this cease and desist letter they have sent. That surprises me.
> but the effects on real estate values alone prevent many from wanting to live near a plant.

So what you're really saying between the lines, is that nuclear power will lead to affordable housing?
In my experience, the auditors themselves aren't really going to provide much value in terms of an evaluation.

It was a little like having a Physics teacher ask each student to write their own final exam... and then take it. The teacher opined on the number of questions being asked but that was about it. All they are doing is recording your questions and your answers and certifying that you were indeed the person that took that test.

That being said.. I do think you can learn a lot going through the experience of a SOC II. You force yourself to drown out the noisy world a bit and think really critically and thoroughly about security. You need to learn how to articulate security to the entire company, to clients, etc. And you need to back this up with data... not hand waves.

SOC II was a pain... but a good learning experience too.
I’ve read posts like this about ProtonMail for years and found lengthy, detailed write ups debunking them every time. If ProtonMail is getting short tempered about this, I can understand why.

If they sent a cease and desist letter to somebody who is publicly, confidently, and repeatedly making untrue claims, that only makes sense
This might have valid critiques but it's overall unhinged
> The "nobody died from the hydrogen" line is debunked

I don't see that claim in the comments you're replying to.
The syntax reminds me of kotlin’s html dsl a bit. I personally like languages with curly braces for scope because it plays nice with vim. You can quickly select everything in the current scope by typing viB, for instance.
I don't get the Ted Nelson hype. What is the unique contribution of Ted Nelson? If it is the idea of hypertext then I fear there were many other who had similar notions. Sincerely interested in someone explaining it.
They make the softest toilet paper. There was one of those ersatz progressive boycotts of Koch Industries where they listed all the Koch owned brands and which brands were politically acceptable alternatives, and out of curiosity I bought some of the alternatives in my own ideological litmus test, if you will.

I have to say the progressive toilet paper (Cottonelle) was inferior to the conservative toilet paper (State Street owned Charmin and Koch owned Angel Soft & Quilted Northern). Not sure why that's the case - you'd think this would be a commodity - but that's how it is.

Just goes to show that even if your heart is progressive, your bum is reactionary.
Many small businesses have gone out of business.
In most vehicles, airbag wiring is quite separate from other controls and just requires power to trigger. No CAN buses or higher levels of abstraction are involved.

In this case, I expect the air bag module plugs straight in to the existing connector, even if the other controls on the wheel don't. It may even be the same airbag model between the yoke and the wheel.
Possible Ways to Define a “Permacomputer”
Facebook skirts Apple’s App Store fees with custom subscription links
> People literally go to war to stop taxation without representation.

You mean like people in DC, which does not have a senator despite having more population, because of a certain political party?

>Now we can ask, why do the progressives constantly adopt this authoritarian messaging on issues, when they know it is a political loser? Or do they think it's a political winner?

The conservatives will deny reality for political purposes till its too late again, just like they did with covid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh4uS4f78o

>It's a good question, and one that will make a lot of people uncomfortable.

What? Is this more empty posturing?
I'm building a thing.
Still would rather trust Proton than Google.
Uh that's a creative way of looking at it. When you increase fuel prices:

1. Daily expense increases for commuters

2. An already weak public transport becomes expensive for commuters

3. Cost of almost everything increases (our logistics are road heavy)

4. Income of individuals are not increasing, so above 3 are going to hurt a lot more
I worked at Apple and Intuit and were all great for me to work at, but both also had teams that were not great.

When I interview I make sure the interview is for a specific team with a specific manager and that the interview is with the manager or someone else directly on the team I will be working with. I've had to request and it hasn't been a problem yet.

> Management don't know what they want the product to be. Project managers don't know anything about technology.

Spicy take: These are things you should get used to if you are want to be a great engineer. You'll get varying degrees of this everywhere depending on your own personal views and knowledge.
Even better, you can fund one today:
https://www.mofad.org/
Might the card you bought have been stolen? Asking for nVidia
Here's your answer: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-we%27re-...
I thought about applying to some positions with them a couple months back, but it was hard to get a good idea if I was gonna miserable or not.

Also the team I was looking at worked on a type of product that while technically intriguing to me, makes me want to rip my hair out as a user lol.
in a world where a tech company's ROI is in the mid 30%'s. How do you incentivize investment into care facilities, if these don't give high ROI? You'd end up with poor facilities.

Or the alternative is socialized care - aka, a taxpayer funded system without a private system. I much prefer that, but it's just not reality in the US of A.
I don't really get the point of the sterilized equipment. Surely if anything is going to contaminate the experiment with modern yeast, it's the freshly milled flour.

Presumably you'd want to test the active starter to see if the ancient strains of yeast took hold.

Edit: nevermind, I missed that the flour was sterilized too.
Transparency is always a sliding scale, and right now there is very little transparancy with regards to who owns what stock and how much of it. The system is currently more paper based than digitally reconcilled. And the onus is on every financial firm (bank, hedge fund, brokerage, settlement house, etc.) to maintain their own books and report back as best they feel inclined to. What they volunatarily report back can be ammended, or late. And when you add up all the human induced delays / data entry mistakes, what the public has available to look at can be months out of date or just plain wrong.

In principal, yes, the trusted parties could have stepped up and implemented a more transparant and automated system. No, they did not need to base such a solution on a blockchain. But the reality is that they were not inclined to change the status-quo, and now we find ourselves in a world where every relevant financial system is looking at, testing, or in the process of rolling out a blockchain based solution.

For anyone asking where the value in the technology lies, the proof is in how seriously the large players [1] are taking it.

[1] just one of the many public facing examples of a blockchain-based stock market (under the CHESS replacement program): https://www2.asx.com.au/markets/clearing-and-settlement-serv...
The difference is we are talking about saving lives, not prurient interests.
While I think this is a step in the right direction to address the ugly and verbose nature of HTML, Pug in a .svelte file is by far the nicest way to write html I’ve experienced.
Past related threads:

A Conversation with the Team That Made Bread with Ancient Egyptian Yeast - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20649495 - Aug 2019 (16 comments)

Baking bread from a 4,500-year-old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20624396 - Aug 2019 (16 comments)
The idea of end-to-end encrypted email is ridiculous (and ProtonMail's business model is effectively built on a marketing lie/false advertising), but come on:

> Protonmail has an Onion domain that allows users to visit their site using the TOR browser. Protonmail even has an SSL cert for that onion address even though it’s completely unnecessary. When a user makes a new account with Protonmail on TOR they are re-directed from Protonmail’s “.onion” to “.com” address. This breaks your secure encrypted connection to their onion address, enabling your identification. There are absolutely no technical reasons for this feature. In fact, the only other websites that operate like this are suspected NSA/CIA Honeypots.

Why in the world are you trusting them to host your email if your threat model doesn't include connecting to them over HTTPS? Your endpoint is still a globally identifiable email address that you're going to use their webmail UI to view. What privacy, exactly, is TOR providing in this use pattern?
I’m going to ask folks here a question.

Recently our consul and nomad clusters both blew up within a day of each other.

In some crazy twist of luck, Amazon removed the underlying instances that happened to run the leaders to both clusters. This was in our QA environment so they were all t2.nanos.

In this situation, shouldn’t we just expect the other two nodes to hold an election and elect a new leader? Isn’t this the most plain vanilla use case there is?

In both situations, the clusters got stuck without leaders indefinitely because they got stuck trying to ping the leader to see if they could hold an election (how could they?? the whole point of the election is because the leader disappeared). And the only way to recover was to do some insane dance of building a JSON file and hard coding IPs.

Based on some research, it seems like we need to hard code IPs to avoid this in the future. This seems like a huge smell and goes against everything I’ve ever read about raft and the idea of self healing clusters.

What am I missing here? I don’t remember ever having to deal with this with mongodb in 2014.
Mr. Smith goes to Trenton. I am pleased that a blue collar person is engaged.
Before we get to that we should probably harvest organs from prisoners. A person who will spend life in prison has no need for two kidneys.
> I fundamentally believe the job landscape now for developers is just systemically worse than it was a decade ago

What aspects are you thinking of, and what reasons do you suspect?

The single biggest change between now and 10/20/30 years ago is the number of developers, and my gut reaction is that this could explain all of the problems you listed and more. It’s not like there haven’t always been some crappy software companies, but in my lifetime we’ve gone from only a few niche companies doing primarily software to hundreds of thousands. The number of devs has grown more than an order of magnitude since I started coding.

The growth of the field means that the trends in business practices combined with the law of averages will result in more people have bad and mediocre experiences. But it also means that there’s a larger pool of excellent top-10% or top-1% places to work, we just have to find them.
ProtonMail shines when you just want a disposable address (that isn't dropped after a few months of inactivity) without having to provide a phone number or other sensitive info for registration.

I wouldn't depend on it however for E2EE of communication data. Or any third-party service where I'm not the one managing myself the key pair and locally en/decrypting data.

EDIT: as pointed out below, it seems that they do recycle your account under certain conditions (never happened with me) and they do require identification when registering via Tor (never done it through Tor). I don't think there are many scenarios left where choosing ProtonMail is the best option.
It stems from the idea that multiple junk bonds can be combined together to form a higher quality bond than otherwise. This is actually not true, but was the unquestioned underlying assumption.

Its definitely wrong to make this assumption, but the people who got paid are all incentivized to turn a blind eye.
Nothing remotely capable of being commercialized, but I had some pretty ambitious projects stuck in the pipeline.

If I had any remotely valuable idea I cared about, I’d probably swallow some risk and try my hand at the startup thing, but I don’t .
> More interesting IMO is this cease and desist letter they have sent.

A C&D letter is not itself evidence of anything. Most companies will send you one if you make egregious claims about their business.
> No doctor/hospital is going to harvest organs unless the person is warm and dead

Well, that's the thing. "warm and dead" is above and beyond the criteria you referenced earlier, "clinical death". I'd hope you're right, but I'm not convinced you are. It doesn't seem like it from what I've seen.

And, the cooling factor in brain damage prevention is becoming more widely known these days. Anna wasn't just a fluke.
This also would be a hell of a stretch but the reference to the study about pigs getting hit on the head having less brain damage, maybe something in the future along these lines would be a drug football players could take during their career.