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Doximity | Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform | Full-time REMOTE (US) or in-person (San Francisco, CA)

Doximity helps doctors be more productive, informed, and connected. We have several positions open, and you can see the full list at https://workat.doximity.com/positions/

I wanted to post about one position in particular- We're looking for another Senior DevOps Engineer on our Platform team. We'd love some more engineers to help us manage, monitor, and debug Kubernetes clusters.

We're looking for someone who has a deep understanding of container technology, and experience operating a Kubernetes cluster in production. Experience with EKS is a bonus. We'd love someone familiar with Terraform, Ansible and Chef (or similar tooling).

You'll help us build a container-based self-service infrastructure for product engineering teams, and help us work with the rest of devops and infrastructure teams to empower other engineering teams.

We're a remote team, and as such concise and effective written and verbal communication is crucial.

Schedule-wise, we're looking for someone who is able to maintain a minimum of 5 hours overlap with 9:30 to 5:30 PM Pacific time, and who can dedicate about two weeks per year for travel to company events.

The direct link for this position is at https://workat.doximity.com/positions/?gh_jid=2956884

I had written a toy social network a few years back the past which had these features - It worked very much like an encrypted version of usenet.

This is probably my bias as an engineer showing, but the technology doesn't seem like the hard part-

I always understood that having an resilient network means people will use it to post some bad things, but I don't know if I really internalized the scope of that until later.

I had originally envisioned it might be useful in oppressive countries, where people needed a way to communicate - Recent events have shown how dangerous that can feel when you're in the midst of people who feel like that describes them.

As another HN post pointed out, there are two natural audiences for such networks - Idealists, and those who can't get away with stuff on other networks.. And the second is going to be far more common. That will influence the culture, and help to drive other "good" people away from the service, amplifying the effect.

Even if you have user-selectable moderators (Which I had, similar to the request the author makes), without a huge war-chest to hire a large team of default moderators, you'll never be able to keep up. The default experience for the average user will be terrible.

Over and over, I ran into issues like that - It's relatively easy to built the technological network, but managing the social network aspect is an unsolved problem.

This is wonderful.

Not sure if the submitter is the one who made this, but thank you for making it and/or submitting it.

These sort of code-as-art projects always make my day brighter :)

You're talking about people.

Regardless of if they are annoying you, you shouldn't try to treat this like a pest-control situation.

I urge you to re-think your position, with the understanding that they are real in the same way you are.

Its OSS. The language is good to know for anyone who might be interested in assisting.

That's an amusing example.

You are aware that Google scrapes almost every page on the internet, without having any agreement with most of them, right?

Yes, you can add noindex and robots.txt to tell them you'd like to opt-out, but:

a) That only works so well, and b) they're default is to use your page without your permission.

This was my favorite game of 2019, and if it had mandatory telemetry like that I would not have played it.

If it were opt-in, it could be used well however, similar to what the Telltale games had done.

65% of people made choice A. 35% of people made choice B.

They have a sort of proxy for that with Achievements however.

If he's using an up-to-date browser and a firewall it feels like the practical risk is relatively low.

What remote exploits are you concerned about in that scenario? Where it would affect 10.9, but not 10.16.

I'm not doubting they exist, but I'm really curious the threat scenario that would apply here, and how likely you think that might be.

A) We should stop putting devices that are in the home onto the internet.

If you want to have a security camera, keep it limited to the local network only.

B) People need to stop having a default assumption that these are secure. Mentally assume they are public by default, and don't put them in children's rooms for gods-sake!

It isn't trivial for most people to buy a 55" computer monitor.

What a silly attitude.

It is almost certainly /possible/, but most people in a position to do so haven't thought it was worth the amount of effort involved.

Discounting someone's complaint because "This isn't new" isn't helpful. It doesn't need to be new to be a problem - Writing an article about it to raise awareness is a good idea.

Calling this tinfoilism is also not constructive. The author points out that data is being shared, in ways that even people who try to be privacy conscious may not be aware of, or have good ways to stop.

It doesn't solve the immediate problem, but once enough people are using chips you could disable the ability to do old-style magstrip transactions (or at least flag them for manual review / extra scrutiny).

Because I don't want anything to try to reflow the text, or adjust the kerning, or modify to use system fonts.

There are great systems for those already.

When I want a PDF, it's because I want a format that I know is always going to look the same.

A PDF is a great archive format. It's perfect for a scan of a document, or a printout.

I never want my viewer to add anything to it, I never want it to detect anything, I never want it to adjust anything.

Just render it exactly the same way, every time.

That's exactly what I like about it. My ideal PDF is essentially a PNG file with selectable/searchable text.

It's a great WORM format. Every added feature makes it worse.

I agree that buying "dumb" TVs is preferable, but they're often hard to find if you're looking for high-end features.

To quickly include the comments which often come up in similar threads -

There are some TVs you can find at BestBuy without smart features, but they're usually not 4K.

In many cases you can use a "smart" tv, and avoid putting it on your local wifi. Some TVs reportedly require internet access to work at all.

In other cases people have said that the device jumped on a neighbors open wifi without prompting.

People often say that including these "smart" features makes a TV cheaper for a manufacturer, since they can then sell your viewing data.

Supposedly it's being designed around Valve's index controller, letting you grip and manipulate objects in the game. Ars describes a set of Magnet Gloves which can pull stuff toward you from across the room and adjust/use it.

I've enjoyed quite a few VR games over the last few years, but part of why I'm excited about this one is that they are able to design the hardware and the software in conjunction.

Hopefully this will lead to something which can really take advantage of that co-development, like we sometimes see when Nintendo or Apple are able to do both.

I'd love to hear who you use for your mail processor. I have tried a couple of them over the years, but haven't always had the best results.

I know iOS requires permission granted in an app when it tries to use the microphone, and I presume Android does similarly.

I would imagine to do such tracking, you'd need to have an app open which already had those permissions for some reason, such as Skype.

I love NPR. I'm glad they're doing well, and hope they will continue to make quality programs.

But one of the major advantages which has set them apart for me is that they aren't as advertising dependent as so many of their alternatives.

Avoiding ads makes it easier for them to be independent, and able to report without fear of corporations withdrawing their support.

It's also just much more pleasant to listen to. I try to avoid advertising as much as possible, and it's sad that they are one more place it's invading.

I know they've had corporate sponsors for some time, but the podcasts really feel like an escalation.

I don't blame them; I'm sure they felt this was the best choice for them to grow and survive, but it feel like a disappointing loss.

I insist on a manual, and have declined to buy cars I otherwise liked because they didn't make a manual transmission model.

I don't have a lot of experience with fully electric cars, but I've always read that the torque on electric cars makes the transmission unnecessary.

Is that not so? Have you had a bad experience?

I am not an expert in the subject, but as far as I understand most countries in the world are party to the Byrne convention.

One of the details that this stipulates is that works are automatically copyrighted upon creation – even if you don't register work with the copyright office it still holds protection.

This means that any picture, text, or other work in a tangible medium that you share without permission could be considered potentially infringing, and leave you open to a lawsuit.

There are defenses you can argue, but that would only be after the lawsuit has already started, potentially costing you time and money for legal representation.

Sounds reasonable to me. I'd be in favor of such a system.

I think if the US were importing large quantities of drugs, they would be forced to move to that system.

But if you think that there is the political will to do so, I think that could work out rather well.

Thanks.

I understand that's their current policy.

If the US began importing high quantities of drugs from Canada, what prevents Pharma companies from insisting that Canada pay current US prices?

If Canada declines, the companies could stop selling in Canada.

I would think in many cases the profit from selling in Canada at all is less than what they'd lose from allowing them to be imported to the US.

I'm all for solutions that lower drug prices in the US.

Wouldn't mass-importation from Canada encourage drug companies to raise Canada's pricing to match US levels?

That seems like something Canada wouldn't be particularly fond of.

Not to go too far off-topic, but if you haven't tried them -

I've found that the steam link apps for other platforms (ios/android) work very well. I'm not sure Valve needs dedicated hardware for this anymore.

I have a steamlink in the closet, but being able to do it in software is nice.

I have no interest in being remembered.

I have no interest in being famous.

Sometimes I create things; If people enjoy what I make I'm glad to have slightly improved their life. If not then I hope my existing didn't make it much worse.

I imagine that soon after I am dead, no one will remember my name. This brings me peace.

I set up a dedicated checking account for Privacy.com, and linked it via routing and account number. I transfer money to the account I approximately equal to what I use with their service.

This way, a store gets a one-use card I can easily pause/limit/close, and if privacy.com screw up they're limited in how much they can draw.

Presumably it has a speaker some place? Could you cut the wire to it?

It's a reasonably nice client, and available on every platform.

It has easy integrations with basically everything, and non-developers can set them up on their own.

It has bouncer functionality built in - You don't miss messages. It can also archive them, and handle them in a corporate-compliant way without needing to speed a bunch of time setting that up manually.

Because it's a central company and not IRC push-notifications are easy.

Emoji are shared corporate wide, anyone can add them.

It's a really nice out of the box experience.

You can absolutely replicate it with enough setup and tweaking, but the free version of Slack will go a long way.