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

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.

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 :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23847097

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21506852

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