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> most extreme leetcode interviews

> They can’t innovate because innovative type people weren’t let into the company.

My personal experience is that there leetcode prep decreases as you go 1 std. deviation beyond the 'median FANG employee' level of talent. [footnote 1] This doesn't matter for the absolute best [footnote 3], who comfortably hop over any generic interview filter and tend to be heavily scouted even before they step into an interview.

The rub comes with the almost-best (think 1-4 percentile) candidates that that I know. (Many) Almost best candidates are busy working on their primary projects and end up insufficiently prepared for leetcode style interviews. A bunch of these brilliant engineers are falling through the cracks. (into slightly less prestigious jobs, but still)

This gets amplified once they join a job. They rise up the ranks fast, owing to their talent. But they're doing too much to find time for interview prep. 'Senior' interviews can be a difficult nut to crack, because they still use extreme leetcode style interviews when the interviewee has not used any of it in the last few years on the job. I find that such people only switch jobs when they are forced to; either by bad management or life circumstances.

Such people excel at projects, take-home assignments, system design interviews, SME domain interviews and any skill that is relevant to everyday job work. But, these are usually the final or pen-ultimate round. By that point, the decision is already made. Additionally, as long as leetcode interviews are the norm, there is no option between preparing for practical interviews vs leetcode interviews. So without consensus movement, the 'fix' would exacerbate the problem of time constrainted near-best performers vs stagnating [footnote 2] median performers.

[footnote 1] : I am beginning to see the utility in 'not so impressive 95th percentile' as a useful yardstick in discussions. Bugger, you got me.

[footnote 2] : That's not to say that those who excel at leetcode are stagnating median performers. Not a symmetric analogy.

[footnote 3] : think smartest kid in a top CS program, multiple standard deviations beyond
Their 2FA was broken in a way that required me to delete my account, which is a pain as now I have to redo my resume for applying to federal jobs. I had an old account which worked fine but when trying to access it again it always said my 2FA code was incorrect.

Still I do prefer this to ID.me which I needed to use for CA unemployment.
This is the great strength and weakness of C++. Increasingly the answer to C++'s rough edges is "We don't do things that way anymore. Everyone does X now", where X is the hot new thing. RAII is the best example I can think of, where some people insist that no one would ever use the "new" and "delete" keywords anymore. Except for all the C++ devs that do, and all the C++ code that exists that does and must be maintained.

It leads to the current situation where you have C++ "the language" which is everything, and then C++ "the subset that everyone uses" where that subset constantly changes with time and development context.
...but US Citizens with no particular connection to the federal government...

By virtue of living here, you already have a connection. At minimum, you have to tax various taxes.

If it's just Uncle Sam that's the problem, then we use something like RealID at the state level.
I think your example just highlights my point. Currently abortion rights are enshrined at the federal level. The SCOTUS is not going to ban abortions. They are going to throw it right back down to the state level. If you lose access to abortions, it is because your local politicians decided to ban them. This is exactly why you don't put your faith in the federal government and pay more attention to local government.

Love 'em or hate 'em, the Republican Party appears to understand this very well. They made state and local government a priority because they know that is where politics begins. Their success at the national level is disproportionate to the size of their voting bloc because they know how to play the game.

Anyone who opposes their ideals needs to remember that, and get involved locally.
While I don't live in a big city, a neighbor of mine purchased their ranch for 700k pre-pandemic and have just offered it for sale three years later for 1.5 million so price doubling is not exclusive to Canada nor to "big cities".

To be fair, you showcase King, but King is a very affluent community and thanks to the 400 running through the middle of King Township, it is a bedroom community even for downtown Toronto. The homes for sale in King tend to be in the 3500 to 5000 sqft range and while they are super expensive, a 5000 sqft house, an hours drive from Manhattan, with a yard would cost as much or more in USD than a house in King for CAD.

You say this is a government / bank problem. Should the Feds (CA and/or USA) have kept interest rates high during COVID to keep house prices low?
I've definitely noticed having more background knowledge on major events. My wife still takes all her news digitally (mostly NYT), and I'm able to add a lot of color to her understanding of events when we talk through news of the day.

What's actually really surprising to me is how "not behind" my information normally is. I work my way through an issue over breakfasts and evenings in the course of the week, so my information is typically 2-9 days stale. It almost never matters.
Ukrainian scientists fear for their lives and future amid Russian threat
What did they get wrong about it? I am particularly interested in South Africa; when I was young my favorite novel was set there (Spud by John Van De Ruit) and it's grown into a very interesting "split narrative" among Americans, who believe things about it depending on their political beliefs.
>there would be no women Grandmasters.

Why bother commenting at all without bothering to put in effort for even a cursory search?

There are 39. Including 2 last year. Full GMs, no prefixes.
Imagery satellites fly at a low altitude and effectively cannot "hover" over a site in the same way a drone can.

That said, one can correlate the passes of imagery satellites (optical, radar) with other spaceborne RF sensors, and sensors on airplanes & drones (optical, radar, RF etc.), and data from implanted sensors on the ground, to construct a real-time view of the battlespace.

The Full Monty of these capabilities, especially data fusion from disparate platforms, would never be released to the world.

Fun fact: US overhead systems (NRO satellites) are sometimes quietly used to aid search & rescue activities. A friend of mine, a USAF E-9 who had been read into many compartments during his career, used to do this with the Coast Guard after he retired from the Air Force. Pretty cool stuff.
> I don't know why you'd analyze the performance impact when you have many failures. If a failure is that common, then you aren't supposed to be using exceptions.

The problem is in that case you get into a probabilistic estimation, which is a nice way to say you roll the dice on your performances: what’s the ratio at which exceptions are too costly or sufficiently cheap? And how does that impact your level of service if e.g. exceptions are extremely rare but they tend to all affect the same request or workload?
I self-host file sync, calendars, contacts, photo sync, Google Workspace type services (including all Office doc types and even video meetings), as well as a blog. Here by self-host I mean run all this in a docker-compose collection on a 24 core xeon server in my closet.

Surprisingly (to some) these are easier that self-hosting email. So this is a great article than I plan to add it to my-digital-self-reliance playbook.

I also agree with the motivations and have a whole list of others. We are becoming the slaves of Big Tech. Only go there willingly, don't let the hard choice of saying "no" make the decision for you.
I've also started writing something like this a while ago, but then ran out of time again. It's something I'll probably work on again when my workweeks get a bit shorter again.

https://linuxsysadminbook.sigio.nl/
> Have worked with a lot of very unhappy geniuses.

I haven't worked with a lot of very obvious geniuses, strictly speaking, but I've known plenty of very smart people who weren't particularly happy. And I've known several people that I absolutely would not consider geniuses who were nevertheless brimming with curiosity, successful, and quite outwardly cheerful (though at least one suffered from anxiety and depression).

Heck, going by IQ I'm only, what, 15 points off from genius and I'm not particularly happy either. Nor am I that smart for values of "smart" that people would traditionally associate with genius, but maybe that makes all the difference? I can barely do tips in my head ...
There were multiple assurances made throughout the years in diplomatic comminques that were later declassified including James Baker's famous "not one inch eastward".

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...

It just didnt appear in any treaty.

For the Soviet Union I think the notion that diplomatic assurances were meaningless unless backed by a treaty wasnt considered.
LOL. Most treaties the US signs are politically "binding" but have no effect because there is no underlying statute created to enforce them.

tl;dr: treaties are PR shams
> use it to track all sorts of additional information/activity about us.

They already do!

There is so many quasi-national tracking and gov approved monopolies that they already get what they need.

Everywhere is tracked with license plate scanners, so you can't go anywhere.

Everyone realistically uses VISA or mastercard, so you can't buy anything. If you don't you're still probably banked and connected to credit agencies, so you can still be tracked. Good luck getting cash without the gov knowing. Just look at the IRS data.

You register with the gov to drive, so your IDed already by someone.

NSA et al. track god knows what about you across the internet and abroad, and where they don't go some ad network goes.

I think the only thing that we don't track is guns... and thats probably something we should track.
Sorry, I'm not blurring my ITIN with immigration status or whatever. I have not visited the US since 2004, I have no desire to return, and I have not done any business there since 2002.

I just want an ITIN that is, like, actually in my name. Plus the IRS to agree that I do not owe any taxes in the 20-or-so ITINs that they have issued in various misspelled variations of my name.

But yeah, to get any clarity, I apparently need to go to Austin, Texas, in 2020.

And time machines are "easy to deal with", apparently?
This is correct.

The "FedRamp" contract overhaul pretty much locks in the requirements and specifications to these above implementations.

I have designed an API that revolves around and side-steps this that currently serves 60 million US civilians...but in the end, the security assessment pretty much comes down to the Privacy Acts interpretations and the common sense security landscape.
You wouldn't know it from my grouchy hacker-news persona, but I am actually a pretty bubbly and happy person in real life. And let me tell you, it takes work!

A few years ago I started going to therapy. And I found that a really positive outlet. I wasn't depressed, or angry, or anything like that. I just wanted to do more and be better.

And I've now adopted the motto: "Your friends and family are not your therapist" and it is true!! They should be supportive, of course, that is what they are for.

But your therapist is someone you pay to tolerate you at your worst and whiniest and to help you plan a path out of where you are.

And it worked for me! That is why I advocate for it.

I also recently started taking medication, and it has been PHENOMENAL. I am so much more productive!!!

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It can be a bit of a double-edged sword though. I am a bubbly person, but some people find that very annoying. Or they see it as weakness or fae.

I feel like people don't realize that it takes me a lot of work to be how I am. It doesn't come naturally, it is a series of decisions I made:

1. To realize I have a problem

2. to seek help

3. To decide take medication
I have a healthy (hopefully) paranoia about the government in general. Recently found out my ssn and other info was leaked to the dark web™ (not shocked). one of the steps to rectify it is sign up with Login.gov. i'm actually glad this thing exits, its perfect timing for myself.
I know you're just sharing your anecdote, but the vast majority (over 80%) of Americans live in urban areas. Many cities do in fact see violent crime. Although I don't own a firearm myself, I totally understand why someone else would want one in my neighborhood. Violent crime is not unusual where I live.

Don't let your bubble from small town USA distort your view of the entire country.
I agree that it's difficult. I am very selective with friends and it takes months if not years to find a new friend. However, when one is found, they are a friend for life.

> What is your reading list and hours per week spent?

It's a combination of local (municipal, state) and national/international news. Local is easy and tends to be very factual. If you're in the US, there are a lot of smaller publication that report on local events related to your city or state.

For international news, something like r/worldnews is a good start.

National news is the trickiest one because it tends to be the most partisan and requires reading from multiple sources. I also ignore it the most for that reason (US national politics are a shitshow: no one cares about the house and senate, and over indexes on the president, which should have very limited power compared to congress).

I read about 10/12 hours per week.
Source re creditworthiness? I’ve seen headlines stating the indebtedness of Canadians relative to income has never been higher.
There's very little you need exceptions for with STL. Data structures, algorithms, etc. all work just fine without exceptions.

C++ without exceptions is great. Google doesn't use exceptions and they still use STL. Gamedevs usually don't use exceptions and they're fine. Just use some other mechanism for errors, like error codes, absl::Status, std::expected, etc.
In some ways that’s throwing an exception into the calling environment in the form of an error code
in other words - no
I feel like PBS is one of the few orgs that prioritizes quality above all else and really means it. Between newshour, NOVA, and the kids programming, they get a lot of playtime in my home.
> The US promised NATO wouldn't expand east

No, it didn't, at least in any way which anyone who is qualified for even an entry-level position in any diplomatic service on Earth would mistake for a binding commitment even on the then-current administration, much less indefinitely into the future. (The most commonly cited statement on this is actually a reference to deployment of troops within United Germany in the near term post-unification, and the second most commonly cited does refer to NATO expansion but is a communication of items that could be on the table for discussion if Russia was willing to come to the table on German unification, not a commitment; but there also some claims that some other private communication not reduced to a binding international agreement occurred.)

If it had made such a promise to the USSR in a binding way, we could discuss, based on the specific form of the agreement and the subsequent diplomatic action relevant to it after the fall of the USSR whether it was still binding between any parties and which nation or nations were the USSR’s successors in interest and what were the legal effects were of any potential disunity between those parties.

But since it didn't, the whole set of questions is moot.

> and then immediately reneged on it

NATO expansion to Eastern European nations beyond the former East Germany didn't occur until 1999, which is not “immediately” after an event alleged to have happened in 1990.
That older Python 2 answer can be edited/amended to either include the "Python 3 way" (if it's simple enough), or to add a notice that there's a better/newer way of doing this in Python 3, possibly with a link to another answer.

I don't think they way Stack Overflow deals with this is perfect, but there are tools to deal with this.
same as golang, I doubt that causes serious performance issues but have no proof.
I'm not talking about "if no one is there will you be ticketed", I'm asking where is it the norm to come to a full stop even if there are multiple people at the intersection? In the midwest and southwest it's common to "California roll" through a stop sign, and given the name of the maneuver, I assume this is also common out west.
Is it?

I see nothing in parent/grandparent/ancestors of my comment qualifying whether or not other cars are at the intersection at the time of the rolling stop. The original comment that spawned this discussion was "If it keeps Teslas with 'aggressive' autopilot from doing illegal and dangerous things like rolling stops, I don't care what concern it stems from."

There is a another thread on which is definitely about whether rolling stop are okay when nobody else is at the intersection (note this is subtly different from whether nobody else is around, especially for a two-way stop instead of a four-way).
https://68k.news

gopher://magical.fish

I miss the Teletext the way it was long ago. It had resumed news for everything, no bias, no bullshit.
Addressing the remaining non-Latin problems is extremely easy: just give users the ability to choose an encoding. Or rather, do not remove it.

Note that they are not actually removing any encodings themselves, so the argument from security / attack surface doesn't arise: the website can still send text in any of those encodings (or malformed but autodetected as such). This is purely about UX.
I learned skiing at ~8yo and did it until ~16, where I picked up snowboarding. I loved the change of pace, but now that I'm 30, I'm heavily considering switching back to skiing for a few reasons:

- My hips simply can not handle being twisted asymmetrically while waiting in line and sitting on the lift. Lifting and waiting to lift is probably 2/3 of your time spent on the mountain if you go fast, and my body is starting to hate it.

- A lot of my friends are picking up snow sports, and I've probably spent around half of my days in the past two years watching and helping a beginner learn. This is incredibly taxing to do on a snowboard - making your way around the bunny slopes is exhausting and requires constant booting in/out, which is a huge pain compared to skiing.

- I'm falling more. As the mountains have grown understaffed, I'm starting to succumb to the classic "fell because I was riding heelside and hit a surprise jump because of an un-groomed patch of snow." I know from experience that I'd carve right through these on skis.

- More mountain accessibility. As time goes on, I'm realizing how much of the mountain I simply stay away from because the conditions for snowboarding are rough. I stay away from moguls now, and un-groomed or icy runs provide a lot bigger of a challenge and risk when boarding. Further, commuting across catwalks is a lot less taxing on skis than a snowboard.
Dumb? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC4cp4U2f2E
I only view the main page with js disabled, but agree the quality has diminished since its earlier years. Castrating its use of js still retains visibility into the major headlines via the main page at least.
On Twitter, they said they're building a team for upstream contributions https://twitter.com/acoustik/status/1496145349735559168?t=HG...
> Not sure if the Rust implementation has a different design to make it perform better though.

Prolly not, I expect the issue comes from the increase in branches since a value-based error reporting has to branch on every function return. Even if the branch is predictible, it’s not free.

And fib() would be a worst-case scenario as it does very little per-call, the constant per-call overhead would be rather major.
What's odd about saying it's completely innumerate to carry a gun on your person at all times?

And don't for one second pretend Americans are "continuing on with their lives", what a joke; gun culture is huge in the US, people are absolutely obsessed with the things.

Hardly a more obvious "not over it" situation exists than Americans and their guns.
Novels are considered creative works, not products. And there are plenty of formula based novels. A/B testing isn't going to improve anything that's intentionally mediocre.
Did you try the financial times? I sometimes find them shockingly unbiased.
Depends on what an update is legally speaking. If there is a security vuln due to a config issue and an update fixes it, is it a software update?
you do pay the compilation time price though, sometimes it takes really a long time to rebuild.
Not OP, but generally banks look at stability of income and I think the implication here, as in the 2008 financial crisis, is that strippers and other grey area employees don’t have as reliable income given the cash payments (and likely lack of fully reporting income to the government).
I thought the issue with Lard was the trans fats, but since I didn't know I double checked and apparently Lard has no trans fats, so I then wanted to know why we quit using it.

It seems that Lard was very popular up to WWII, but then we had supply issues due to the war effort so people switched over to vegetable shortenings, and afterwards pork fats like Lard were considered unhealthy compared to the "pure vegetable oils" which were often hydrogenated and filled with Trans Fats which were worse for you health-wise than Lard is.

So, yeah, WWII and food purity aesthetic might be responsible for some measurable portion of the modern obesity crises!
> would likely be wrong, because people would instead be jealous because you're "freeloading" by not working and therefore not paying taxes

There's a precedent why I think that people will approve of "universal" income: We have "Familienbeihilfe" in Austria. It's a payment of roughly 200€ per child that parents get. Everyone gets it, regardless of income, so noone is jealous. It's the best way of distributing financial aid in my opinion.

Regarding special needs, in my experience it's much easier to get aid for disabilities. I have a kid with special needs, and it's incredible how helpful people are. Social workers are calling us to tell us what kind of aid we should apply for and help us fill out forms etc. It's completely the opposite experience of applying for unemployment or for aid with rent payments etc.
What led you to believe those things (the idea that the Biden Administration's claims of an imminent invasion were war mongering, and the idea that Canada has aligned itself with Russia)?
I haven't watched TV news in 6+ months now and don't intend to. I still read the news, but much more so blogs and writers on Substacks. I've subscribed to a bunch. I do like primary sources too.