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Ask HN: How much do you learn about a role before interviewing or accepting?
Problem: Interviews are laborious - they take significant prep (which has to be done on my own time inside a busy life), involve a day off work (at least, per company), and are significantly stressful experiences for me. I'll accept that.

I don't have many shots in me to shoot before I burn out from the process, and I want to work on problems that are interesting with people that are interesting as well for respectable salary.
It feels unprofessional to quit after 6 months when I realize the work is mostly duct taping prod systems with people who's company I don't enjoy.
I'm 1.5 years into "trying it out" at my current place, and feel unwilling to do this again without better information going in.

But companies will give me NONE of this information prior to giving me an offer!

- One startup wouldn't share even the slightest hint of their pay ranges for someone at my level.

- Another I asked if I could have a coffee meeting to see if it was a fit - recruiter immediately declined.

- Spoke to multiple FANGetc. companies, and they don't team match until offer time. Some don't even do that until you've gone through their "bootcamp"!

I don't want to work at these places for the brand name (I've got my stripes). I'm after the people and the problems. But I can't get even a hint about either of these things without accepting the job and doing it first.

--> It seems like a broken process, like I have to marry someone before meeting them.

I'm around the senior band and have somewhat of a niche in database storage engines and distributed storage platforms. Willing to switch it up to a degree.
This feels very "pop sciency".

A scoop is not a well defined amount (is that a gram? a fl oz?). I'm also not sure what happens to brain cells when they are exposed to most other things.

In the article Harrison Schmidt ended up with allergy symptoms after breathing in an undefined amount of moon dust. He seemed to recover after a day and not have his lungs wrecked thereafter.
Already live: Cringe forever mode.
Yes, but what you'd want to do is look for coincidences between a detector for a cosmic ray shower around (above?) the electronics you're monitoring with whatever it is these days that instruments ECC events. The time resolution would be pathetic for a nuclear physics experiment, but probably good enough.

If you look at the ambient gamma-ray spectrum in a semiconductor detector (which would be germanium rather than silicon) the main background you see is typically from concrete; I'm ashamed to say I've forgotten the energy from K-40, but in the region of 1500 keV. (Ironically, large concrete blocks used for shielding would be regarded as a significant radiation hazard if all the activity in them was concentrated.)
Skim until you are in the right section?

Literally titled: "Section II - Mitigation of bitsquatting attacks"
It depends on whether or not the client specifically requested, or is expecting, traffic over HTTPS. But yes, if the user's client requests encrypted traffic, the attacker will not be able to produce a valid certificate. This attack isn't that different than a MITM.
I couldn’t do it. I tried but it was too difficult for me to find a balance.

I had to use my paternity leave to find a new job. if that didn’t work out I was going to quit after leave and continue looking full time. I made a lot of sacrifices and thankfully it was worth it in the end. But I realize so many folks can’t make such sacrifices.
Wow this might top the slack outage, who knew a company this large could take this long to resolve the issue
But still, I can't imagine not being willing to move to any first world country that my senior executive spouse got transferred to -- as a senior corporate executive they've have a ton of resources at their disposal to make the move as easy as possible.

I have a good job that I like, but if my wife told me her company was moving her to Japan for a while, I'd jump at the opportunity.
And where would you go to find a book to read about Hay-on-Wye? :)
Maybe not compress and encrypt depending on your thread model.
It’s also pretty easy to foobar up a single DB instance if you don’t have proper guardrails in place.

Automation wasn’t the issue here. It’s the symptom not the cause.
Yes it's VMware.
Funnily enough buying a house close enough to work in NYC is actually cheaper, because Jersey City is viable and NY/NJ don't have Prop 13 to inflate property values. I could buy a 5bdr luxury home in a nice area with great schools in NYC in one of the outer boroughs or a high end luxury new construction in Jersey City. That same cash gets you a shack in a shitty part of the East Bay.

> make it more popular with new hot properities and it will price you out further

It's a common NIMBY misconception that adding more supply increases prices. Basic economics says this is obviously wrong.

> The truth is there are a lot of people making more money who want housing in Freemont

I'm pretty sure my income puts me in the top 10% of income in the Bay and definitely top 1% nationally. You're saying that less than 10% of the population should be able to purchase a starter home (what I mean by a shack). Do you not listen to what you're saying?
> Trying to tell a script for adults that employs smart dialogue, unexpected plot twists, or quirky characters is a total nonstarter.

As an aside, you should check out "Everything Everywhere All At Once".
were they intimidated to accept crypto donations in the first place? have seen stories where companies are intimidated and threatened into accepting crypto as a payment option by groups
There are two halves to every half loaf, as well as the various quantities in beween. Matching karen who has eaten the first half, with Darren who has 9 (of the original 29 slices) left with BillyJoeJimBob who has eaten 'every other slice' sounds ike a nightmare....but so much like real loaf....i mean life.
Ive one, and it was used almost immediately after I got it. However this article, nor any of the shop pages, or anywhere that I can find about them does it state: How long it lasts, How to maintain it, what to do after insects fill up the holes, etc.

Seems to me that it was in operation for one year, and then got fill up with insect nesting material, and now is inoperable. Not very sustainable if that's the case.

Does anyone know how long they last and what to do after a year? Logically, as far as I know, wasps and bees do not go back to their nest after they are done with them. The nests dont grow and grow. They move on after queens are produced. (Bee hives are man made structures which are maintained by bee keepers)

Bird nesting boxes tend to be cleaned out by birds, or re-used I think. At least some can be cleaned by humans if necessary.
It can be a political piece and have some factual information at the same time. I could not get through it, not because of any implications but because of the way its written.
It's a shame that he took these actions or that he was punished for them?
I don't believe that's the case for Santa Ana. The demographics aren't like the rest of Orange County.
We all lost interest when the parts were more expensive than the entire phone on ebay.
New thermal maps of Neptune reveal surprising temperature swings
Could something like this directly harvest the heat from a traditional nuclear plant? Or would it degrade from the radiation?
Do you mean default on their debt? If so that is a really bad idea. I don't really get it being uncompetitive. California has a higher gdp per capita then either Texas or Florida.
I wouldn't have checked it if you didn't mention this.

Thanks!

Ps. Yes, i know of ngrok and use it sometimes.
No, that's incorrect. The price of the bitcoin has no relationship to the amount of energy burned mining it; if this were true then Satoshi's wallet would be worthless.
How does this actually manifest - do you want to unilaterally change your title on your resume? are you going to introduce yourself to people differently? is it just you in front of the mirror calling yourself senior? (if it's that, you can do it now)

What you call yourself doesn't matter too much, it's more about what your company calls you, and even that varies a lot - there's people with less experience than you who have a senior title and people who have been programming for many years who've never been called senior and it's not a big deal to them.

Basically, land a senior position, then you can.
My first computer in BASIC in 1970. I/O on a teletype, since CDTs were still vector and scarce.

In 1975 I implemented in TTL and oscilloscope output for MIT digital electronics class. Blazing fast.
This is hardly how the problems with California's electricity and manufacturing sectors arose:

> "The state’s climate change policies, however well-intentioned, have had a particularly devastating impact on manufacturing. California’s “renewable energy” push has generated high energy prices and the nation’s least-reliable power grid, crippling an industry reliant on fossil fuels and a stable electric supply. The state fell to 44th in the country in manufacturing sector employment growth last year. . ."

In reality neoliberal trade policies facilitated the outsourcing of California's electronics and garment manufacturing industry over the past 40 years. This alone accounts for much of the loss of middle-class prosperity around the Bay Area and the Los Angeles Basin.

Furthermore, the disastrous deregulation of the investor-owned utility sector is what caused electricity bills to spike initially and the few publicly-owned electricity distributers had lower rates. Getting off fossil fuels doesn't 'destabilize the grid', either.

I don't know enough about the rest of the claims in the article to say anything about them, but the take on energy and manufacturing looks inaccurate at best.
I haven't really absorbed this paper yet, but first thoughts were Hopfield Networks we used in the 1980s.

For unsupervised learning algorithms like masked models (BERT and some other Transformers), it makes sense to train in parallel with prediction. Why not?

My imagination can't wrap around using this for supervised (labeled data) learning.
Yes, that's becoming clear, but it's only one of many issues.

And FYI 'the right' has been equally compromised by a populist fringe that has no interest in legitimacy either.

I grew up in Mississauga, ON, Canada, somehow the city was able to integrate people from anywhere on the planet, give them a sound place to live, some kind of job, low crime, safety, healthcare etc.. It's not the most glorious place, and I have no reason to ever want to live there, but for 95% of the people who ever did live there, they came from utter dysfunction (i.e. cold war E. Europe and later E/S Asia) - and 'it works'.

It's the 'opposite' of California in that it's utterly a un-aspirational place, but people have jobs, homes, food, education, healthcare, dignity etc..

The city has the same mayor for like 30 years, ruthlessly pragmatic. Kind of everyone's gradma. Nobody would mess with her or bother trying to run against her.

California needs a Hazel McCallion [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_McCallion
> If you are the kind of actor who will (or needs to) take all the countermeasures needed to be truly anonymous at a whole machine traffic level, then you are likely not going to be using mullvad.

That's the wrong conclusion. The right one is: if you're the kind of actor who needs 100% privacy, mullvad is likely a part of solution (because of their track record), together with many other services and tooling. No one relies on one part to remain anonymous, as again, privacy and security depends on layers, not just a single layer.

> either you believe Sweden is a safe haven for user data privacy or not.

Even if Sweden is "a safe haven for user data privacy" or not, the government is not the only threat against mullvad. Mullvad themselves, the location they have their servers, their payment processors and many else can also be compromised. Paying Mullvad in cash (and protecting yourself in more ways) helps more than paying with a credit card attached to your full name, as any middleman can be compromised (and not just by a government).

> For truly high-risk people (journalists/whistleblowers against powerful entities, not regular geeks who want to block ad tracking), I'm not sure if any vpn service like this is a net help or does it actually cause more harm.

High-risk people don't rely on a single VPN service but again, layers of them in order to facilitate things like proxy chaining and multi-hop.

But, talking with you back and forward, makes it clear that you haven't actually engaged with any of these "high-risk people" you feel so sure to proclaim how things work for. I urge to actually talk to some of them and see what kind of setup they can tell you about, as you'll learn some more about how you can protect yourself and remain anonymous, if you really want to.
My argument would be something like: Aronian was the strongest player Hikaru played (and was the highest rated player in both Grand Prix events Hikaru participated in). Depending on how you determine things, either 3 or 5 of the participants are rated higher than Aronian is/was in classical, and Naka won't be able to rely on winning the rapid against any of Ian, Duda, Alireza, Ding, Rapport or even Caruana, because they're not 150 points worse than him in Rapid (well except Alireza but that's probably inaccurate).

If the best Hikaru can do is draw against So and Aronian, that's not going to cut it in the candidates. Maybe he can o better than that, but there's nothing we've seen that suggests that.
These are very popular in Europe, with city municipalities and institutions deploying them en masse on their grounds... but I've never seen any insects around them. One would think they'd be swarming with life? Can anyone confirm these are useful, and not just greenwashing "look, we care" signposts?
why not a platform where retailers bid to get inventory from suppliers?
I didn't even read the text. I just noticed that plants and water seem to be huge winners. The one that wasn't a plant or water was "sea glass" so... still water. Next time try flowers and water.
+1 for Eric Rosen, he's the only chess streamer I always enjoy watching -- the others all tend to get on my nerves after a bit.
And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a Telsa.
It was harder to interview while employed than while on paternity leave?
I don't understand.... isn't this idea (triggering GC more often) explicitly discussed in the article?
Interesting question whether this violates the Ruby on Rails trademark. When someone made a clothing company called The South Butt, The North Face sued and had a pretty decent case. They settled so no court decision, but seems analogous.
Amazing tool, definitely play with it. Can't wait to see what it can do all around!
Yeah but heat losses grow with the 4th power (!).
I used 67 billion minutes today.
Absolutely! Also, if possible, a Colab (or plain Jupiter notebook) and data would be good.
I did exactly the same, but substitute Diablo II for Starcraft.
Dell XPSs are so so. I would take that over HP or Lenovo.

I might give frame.work a try when it's time to upgrade my laptop.
I suspect that GC'd languages could mitigate this problem by introducing regions; separate areas of memory that cannot point at each other. Pony actors [0] have them, and Cone [1] and Vale [2] are trying new things with them.

If golang had this, then it might not ever need to run its GC because it could just fire up a new region for every request. The request will likely end and blast away its memory before it needs to collect, or it could choose to collect only when that particular goroutine/region is blocked.

Extra benefit: if there's an error in one region, we can blast it away and the rest of the program continues!

[0] https://tutorial.ponylang.io/types/actors.html#concurrent

[1] https://cone.jondgoodwin.com/fast.html

[2] https://verdagon.dev/blog/seamless-fearless-structured-concu...
So you are saying that we can get another 3 decades of Moore's law by switching to GPUs made of silicon rather than CPUs made of silicon? Well fuck, problem solved then. I was completely unaware it was so easy.
Hydrogen embrittlement is a problem only when you are trying to keep the hydrogen at high pressure. But there is no need for that, in most cases.

Most of the bulk hydrogen storage plans involve underground storage at a pressure that would not cause trouble. Where more density is needed, e.g. aircraft fuel, liquid form is favored, again at low pressure.
>That's what we did. Now people like you are saying me and my neighbors are NIBMYs and want us to change.

You bought a single family home and all surrounding single family homes around it? If that's the case, no one is asking you to change anything. They're literally your backyards and you can choose to not build any further. If your neighbors don't want to build more units, they should be free not to as well.

What needs to change is neighbors restricting housing units on property they do not own. No one is advocating for completely abolishing all zoning, but the current approach isn't working as housing prices skyrocket everywhere that housing production can't keep up — often because of zoning restrictions.
More money could facilitate universal healthcare of some kind.

And yes, fully agree, there are efficiency problems, which is kind of my point.

It bothers me a lot how so few YC startups are trying to solve economic asymmetrical issues in Healthcare.
Yes they are; I think their mission is more important now than ever.

The same cannot be said for RMS however. His computing habits are so far detached from the reality of 99.9% of users that I feel he's become a caricature of himself, to say nothing of his problematic behavior that actively harms the image of the free software movement.

FSF needs to grow up and bring on a figurehead who's more broadly palatable.
Show HN: I built a tool to resize/crop/frame images uniformly for documentation
"Let’s Encrypt is currently used by more than 280 million websites,
issuing between two and three million certificates per day. I often
think about how we got here, looking for some nugget of wisdom that
might be useful to others."

I guess it's keep trying. Keep patiently explaining, educating and
building.

I remember people saying "You'll never be able to topple the certs
racket" - and here we are... in a age where every day I read about how
we'll 'never' be able to break the big-tech stranglehold and build a
distributed network owned by the people, 'never' have privacy and real
end-to-end encryption because 'nobody cares', 'never' have practical
p2p digital currencies of our own, and where we'll never have open,
verifiable hardware. Keep believing.
That's like saying the judge is responsible when a man is experiencing a bad time in jail, instead of the man being responsible because he commited the crime which put him there.
The idea is to simply share a set of URLs with content authors where they can paste or upload images or screenshots and the tool will generate consistently formatted and resized results. For example, we have a set of formatting links for "general documentation", "diagram", "backend admin screenshot", etc.

All processing happens in the browser. The source code and a few examples can be found at https://github.com/sergeystoma/resizeto
The difference between jpeg and newer formats are most noticible at very high compression ratios.

At high quality settings jpeg is still pretty good for 8 bit photos. Newer formats support higher bit depths.
If they really meant it, they would have had a bipoc program all along, and not just founded one when they were really in trouble with staffing. You seem to be defending them, but you don't seem to see how clearly it comes across as pandering to many other people.
Not for myself, but I once developed an app that would export notes from my dad's Bible concordance app to google docs for backup. At the time, I knew how to use the LAMP stack, so that's what I used, LOL.
they work, but I don't know whether they keep on working past a year or two.
Hikaru is fun but my personal favorite chess streamer is Eric Rosen, an incredibly chill, laid-back, witty IM who loves gambits and stalemate traps and radiates good vibes on stream. Super funny, super wholesome, and super instructive too!
Here is a great resource for the upkeep:
https://www.foxleas.com/make-a-bee-hotel.asp
Fat Tony : Bart, is it wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family?

Bart : No.

Fat Tony : Well, suppose you got a large starving family. Is it wrong to steal a truckload of bread to feed them?

Bart : Uh uh.

Fat Tony : And, what if your family don't like bread? They like... cigarettes?

Bart : I guess that's okay.

Fat Tony : Now, what if instead of giving them away, you sold them at a price that was practically giving them away. Would that be a crime, Bart?

Bart : Hell, no.
At a big multi-tenancy company I used to work at, the problem would have been the accessory machines: we had something like 15-20 different machines around the main DB and API machines, running cron jobs, terminating SSL connections, load balancing, sending alerts to us and customer emails out, etc. And while the backing up and failing over on DB and API machines was a well documented, thoroughly tested process... the other machines were all custom jobs that were very poorly documented, with who knows what scripts running on them, that might or might not be important. Trying to replicate all of that during an emergency would have been a challenge.

For just this sort of problem, we actually had three DB servers running all the time: active, passive, and hour behind with the ability to break hour behind's copying of the write-ahead log of active as the DBA's secret weapon for just this problem. If all customers had accidentally lost an hours worth of data it would have been embarrassing, but much less than completely shutting out hundreds of paying customers for two weeks, I think?
This is probably not the best week to describe your goals as “being the next Atlassian”, what with the weeks-long outages, data losses, and all…
There's a weird culture around reporting problems without reporting names. You see it a lot here on HN and occasionally in media. I'll never understand. Why bother talking about corporate misbehavior (or etc) and not back it up with the basic, minimal data you could provide?
is it possible to identify which proteins are intrinsically disordered based on amino acid sequence alone (or even base sequence)?

put another way, is it possible to a priori determine if a protein is ID or ordered?

for instance, you said enzymes are highly ordered. is this based on experimental observations (which could later be wrong if imaging techniques improve) or is there some principle that allows us to treat this as a fact?

thanks in advance for your time.
1000% this, it's my default solution for most things. I always make sure "change the environment" can't work before I go to "change behavior" (mine or others')

Trash accumulating somewhere? That spot needs a trash can.

Clothes? That spot needs a hamper/basket.

Spot in the yard keeps getting messed up due to walking or cars going off the driveway there? Put down some stone.

Behavior modification (for some sorts of things, anyway) should be a last resort because it probably won't work, and requires ongoing effort. Fix the environment, and it's done.
Depends on the business school. At INSEAD we had a whole elective class devoted to personal psycological decisions like this to get people thinking about what kind of trade offs they wanted to make.
If the database schema for Jira on the cloud is anything like the Datacenter version, I'm not surprised they're having a hard time restoring data. I once tried to figure out how to find duplicate / redundant project schemas by querying the database (the required APIs are cloud-only) and could not even find which tables stored half the data, never mind how they referred to each other.