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As I understand it, programming is only part of it, a big part is just seeing if you will study hard to learn meaningless stuff
The entitlement? Humans should be entitled to a life free of material suffering. Otherwise what is the point of creating governments and corporations if not to improve our quality of life. If you think the most vulnerable in society wanting help is entitlement then I suggest you stop using roads or visiting hospitals.
Instrumentation is widely used in HPC performance engineering, but you may still do sampling, rather than tracing, with the result. Often only a specific set of function calls is instrumented (e.g. MPI, i/o), and often using LD_PRELOAD and hooks provided for the purpose.
I feel I must be living in an alternate world to everyone here. I studied leetcode for around 2 months then tried to get a FAANG job. I applied to every FAANG (plus about 10 others who had high comp on levels.fyi). Then netted me 2 tech phone screens, which I both failed. The way everyone talks I should have had 5 offers after 2 weeks of studying.
Wait, so then at _whatever_ cost, the cost of producing Tritium is sorta moot, right? Whether it's building reactors or investing a tonne of energy, the cost of creating the amount of tritium needed is met with theoretically infinite profits?
“The only winning move is not to play”

My advice as someone who doesn’t accept these kinds of interviews on principal - and has repeatedly payed the price for my insolence - you have three choices: accept and do it, work around it, or something I don’t know about.

I work around it.

My life isn’t special, no one cares what I have to say, and no book will ever be written about me, but I get to build great software everyday and I am happy.

In not so many words, you have to optimize for what you really want.

- Do you just want to build software?

- Do you want to have a lot of money?

- Do you need access to a quantum computer?

- Do you want to live your life learning new things, or focus only on one thing?

- Maybe build your own business?

- Do you want to buy and sell people like cattle?

If you’ve got that right in your head, and you don’t want to play the game I’ve found the gigs outside of the valley/US to be more often about doing work than about status and position. It’s less about the “difficult hiring process as a badge of honour” BS, and more about building things. I mean, Ex-fannG people are out here too so you still run into it from time to time.

So, TL;DR, maybe look at the world as an option instead of narrowing in on the typical valley/FANNG path.
You have to push the Play symbol right below the title to view it... https://i.imgur.com/ONZbB7u.png

I think that is a somewhat new behavior for old.reddit.com... Reddit is trying to cripple it slowly?
Not doubting to be clear, but do you have recommended sources on the desire for the American abolition of slavery being a principal motivation for Britain's non-involvement in the American Civil War? Would be curious to read it.

I've generally had a pretty cynical view towards British abolitionism, which is that the elites only disliked slavery to the extent that they found capitalistic imperialism (i.e. systems that controlled the lower classes through persistent indebtedness and restrictions on ownership of real estate) to be more profitable and politically stable than the systems constructed on the institution of slavery.

And, coincidentally, that their empire, whose 19th century wealth was bootstrapped on the profits of slave-trading and the manufacture of raw materials extracted via slave labor, was uniquely-well-positioned to come out on top in a world order deprived of slave labor.

In other words, they opposed slavery on the basis of limiting economic volatility, and maintaining their geopolitical status, more so than any moral basis.

I'd love to read more sources that balance out my cynicism. :)
That would usually be considered an invalid cryptic clue.
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Does AGPL mean it can only be used in a notebook for which the notebook itself is open source?

Or does it mean it can only be used with notebook software (eg. Jupyter) that is open source but in a closed source notebook?
Worst case scenario is you blow the doors off of the facility and tons of superheated radioactive fluoride salts are blasted into the air, along with the vaporized particles of all of the workers and the fissile material in all of the bombs in the staging areas.
This is what many low income buildings become. They take 30% of your gross income so any small raise get's immediately reduced by half and sucked into the machine. Unless you can get a huge salary increase above the average wage you can never save enough to move into a property outside of the system even after your rent reaches parity with average rent prices. The only thing one can do is to quit working
legally which reduces the rent and frees you up to find cash work.
I don't think people are arguing for no government assistance program, they're observing that it's incentivizing staying in the program rather than the assumed intended use, helping someone get on their feet again
Can I make the presumption that you’re not somebody with a significant disability & also don’t regularly find themselves talking at length with quite an amount of others in the disabled/disability support community? My deepest apologies if I’m incorrect about that, but it’s hard for me to imagine that coming out of one who is/does.

& yes, typically I’m not one to go “muh downvotes” but there is something quite unironically hilarious about speaking up about the disabled from a position of decade+ experience & then being downvoted to invisibility without a singular reply on a hyper-capitalist forum.

Btw. If you feel it’s unsubstantiated, please perhaps try reading the title of the article we’re commenting about…
Yup this is a pattern I’ve seen as well and why I think Leetcode is on the way out. People will figure this out
It's a very cool project. However I'm lazy and untalented at this, it'd be nice if we could see public creations or at least share with us some of your creations (and we can import them )
America and Russia had a great relationship until the end of WWI. The Bolshevik’s set this in stone towards the end of the civil war when the entente (specifically Britain) opened dialogue towards a trade deal. Lenin used them as the great other, despite knowing they wanted normalized relations, and then the USSR taking Eastern Europe sealed the deal. Self determination was US policy at that time (and kind of ever since.)
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This makes even more sense at the confusion.
American Crosswords are different in two key ways as I understand it:

Firstly, all "serious" British crosswords are "Cryptic" ie once you figure out what the answer is, it's apparent why that's the correct clue, but figuring out the answer from the clue involves lateral thinking and some skills learned from years of staring at such clues.

e.g. Private Eye's crossword 726 (back in April), clue 23 down,

"He finally gets to penetrate agreeable person (relatively) (5)"

The correct answer is "Niece". "Nice" can mean agreeable, the final letter of "He" is E, and so by having the letter E "penetrate" the word nice you produce "niece", a person who is a relative.

[ and yes, Private Eye is a satirical magazine, the crossword clues are, likewise, intended to make you a little uncomfortable while you laugh ]

Secondly, British crosswords are arranged with black "dead" squares between letters to produce more of a lattice, in which many letters only take part in one word, as a result longer answers are common

e.g. same crossword, clue 26 across is

"Figure on getting your teeth into our statistical revelations (6,9)"

The answer was "Number Crunching".
$400k+/yr well for senior eng or “I think it’s enough”?
I'm curious if you would share the design question. I have seen these very contrived "study guides" with questions like "how to design drop box", "how to design FB newsfeed, etc" and they all seem to just be lists for rote memorization. Was that what your experience was? You didn't satisfy the check list that the interview was looking for?
Nothing is generally better when it comes to serious performance engineering. The standard introduction to the performance engineering workshops under vi-hps.org stress that you need a variety of tools/techniques available.
I struggle to understand this type of comment.

You can't respond to the bad guys with a plea for them to stop what they are doing because you would rather spend the money on something else.

That isn't to say that battles should not be picked carefully, just that sometimes you don't have a choice and have to deal with a situation and spend lots of $$$ and sometimes blood in order to avoid a worse situation. Even in the context of "last 2 months alone" it isn't clear what specific action is being referenced so the comment is just too abstract, IMHO.

In some cases it makes sense to engage, in others it doesn't. There is no single correct answer unless you want to enter into a discussion of pacifism.
Sometimes it's not even about budget.

I've seen clerks actively discourage people from asking for the benefits even before the official evaluation.
The same thing happens with university: For the FAFSA students are expected to contribute 95% of their savings before benefits kick in.

So this punishes students who save their money, and rewards students who waste it on frivolous things.

Then there is the "spend down" for Medicaid. Same story - you need to waste your money before benefits kick in.
Mastodon have a nice low key feel, less loud than Twitter
Well not much given who was the vice-president. But US of then was in a completely different situation from Russia today.
I don’t consider being slightly undercollateralized a “gigantic evil scam” and the rhetoric around Tether is still definitely overblown, and if that were your primary concern (or am I not supposed to say that anymore?), you should have led with it rather than comparing it to similar defi returns.
100% Leetcode is now a great metric for me on company culture.

Is your company able to back the trend when it’s obviously wrong?
This is the one-two punch that Republicans use to kill social programs.

1. Drag their feet until Democrats reluctantly agree to include something guaranteed to cause dysfunction (uneconomic means testing, perverse incentive cliffs, adverse selection, etc).

2. Point at the dysfunction they created as a reason to kill the program.

I'd be a lot more sympathetic to #2 if I didn't see so much #1.
If you have root access to a host, it's pretty much game over, unless the OS vendor doesn't trust even the owner of the hardware/licensee of the software and has taken effective countermeasures against diving deep into the software (Linux, of course, has not). You don't need "eBPF tricks" to observe processes on the host perform traffic decryption. It's just another mechanism for doing so.

I wouldn't characterize it as "defeating TLS encryption" either, because it's not like you're decrypting traffic someplace other than on the host you already have privileged access to (and assuming you already have MITM capability, which is by no means assured).
The article also discusses and criticises a 50% effective marginal tax on working which is absolutely how an UBI smoothly transitions if funded by an income tax, and in theory the taper could be steeper still. Not harmful to earn another dollar, but not especially lucrative either.

Nothing about a UBI prevents it from being coupled with a wealth tax (possibly even a regressive one which kicks in at low levels so recipients are disincentivised to save) if the government wishes to fund it that way... and they'll need to find additional funds from somewhere.

The only difference with UBI is the subsidy itself is a lot less targeted than "financial aid for registered disabled people", so the government has to find a lot more ways to claw it back from some sections of the population. That can be sneaky and regressive, just like a non-universal income only disabled people are entitled to can be completely without income and wealth qualifications if a government wants.
Tritium has a half-life of about 12 years, meaning that it essentially doesn’t exist naturally. It’s all man made.
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> “It would be an absurdity to use dirty fission reactors to fuel ‘clean’ fusion reactors,”

This seems like a non-sequitur. If we need to keep around (or even build) a few heavy-water fission plants to enable the fusion industry, what's the problem? The simple phrasing of fission as "dirty" really shows the quotee's biases. You could easily envision a stable energy mix with a few percent of fission, the rest fusion and storage/peaking power, and that would be far, far cleaner than our current GHG/pollutant-heavy mix of fossil fuels.

It seems quite premature to call this a "crisis" since we already have proven ways of manufacturing the required ingredient. I suppose the risk is just that this pushes up the price of fusion in the initial phases of deployment, providing an "activation cost" that delays fusion from taking over, but that's quite a speculative concern at this point.
> when I'd imagine the skills for creating a programming language have limited overlap with Leetcoding.

FWIW golfing languages are a thing, where a language is designed specifically for code golfing type problems and usually optimizing for a tiny core language and small source files.
Publication in an ACM journal involves a lot more than just accepting a paper as-is.
My key takeaways:

* In a perfect world, there would be a more ambitious program developing the breeding technology in parallel to ITER, Willms says, so that by the time ITER has perfected the fusion reactor there’s still a fuel source to run it

* Like many of the most prominent experimental nuclear fusion reactors, ITER relies on a steady supply of both deuterium and tritium for its experiments

* When it’s finally fully switched on in 2035, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor will be the largest device of its kind ever built, and the flag-bearer for nuclear fusion

* And as ITER drags on, years behind schedule and billions over budget, our best sources of tritium to fuel it and other experimental fusion reactors are slowly disappearing

* Right now, the tritium used in fusion experiments like ITER, and the smaller JET tokamak in the UK, comes from a very specific type of nuclear fission reactor called a heavy-water moderated reactor

* “We’re hitting the peak of this tritium window roughly now.” Scientists have known about this potential stumbling block for decades, and they developed a neat way around it: a plan to use nuclear fusion reactors to “breed” tritium, so that they end up replenishing their own fuel at the same time as they burn it

* “Calculations suggest that a suitably designed breeding blanket would be capable of providing enough tritium for the power plant to be self-sufficient in fuel, with a little extra to start up new power plants,” says Stuart White, a spokesperson for the UK Atomic Energy Authority, which hosts the JET fusion project

* “It would be an absurdity to use dirty fission reactors to fuel ‘clean’ fusion reactors,” says Ernesto Mazzucato, a retired physicist who has been an outspoken critic of ITER, and nuclear fusion more generally, despite spending much of his working life studying tokamaks

* “After 2035 we have to construct a new machine that will take another 20 or 30 years for testing a crucial task like how to produce the tritium, so how are we going to block and stop global warming with fusion reactors if we will not be ready until the end of this century?” says Mazzucato

Arthur Turrell's book, The Star Builders, is an excellent overview of the state of the art of nuclear fusion technology. Unfortunately, however, fusion is unlikely to be radically cheaper than other sources.
These kind of labyrinthine policies happen because they're attempts to appease people who don't want these programs to exist at all.
Not really an issue though, as tritium has a half life of 12 years, and the amounts produced would be negligible anyway. You could probably release it into the atmosphere harmlessly (not that regulations would ever allow that, though).
I'm also someone who entered the field for money. As someone who grew up in a family of poor immigrants who pushed me to work hard and opened the door to opportunities that I'd have never been exposed to in their home country, it's really great to know that my family will never have to endure that hardship and will enjoy one of the highest qualities of life and that I can give back to my parents who struggled to give me this quality of life.

If anything, one of the challenges I face raising my own family is to make sure my kids don't become complacent and squander the opportunities available to them.
I very much don't understand how markets and order books work, but people who do understand those things tell me pretty consistently how big of a deal it is when a money market fund loses its peg, even by a tiny amount.
Because Vietnam showed that conscripting armies of that size was not an efficient way to fight a modern war. You want people, volunteers, who want to be in the army. Also technology. We’re close to that point in, like in Roman history, where the income of entire villages was only enough to field one Calvary soldier (knight.)

Not that we’re going towards feudalism but history has a cycle of armies going from a small force with a huge technology edge to a giant force with mundane tech. Even during the Roman Republic only the richest men could afford to fight.
The advantage of a PACER setup is that you get a lot more bang (heh) per kg of uranium than you do out of a fission reactor. But the cost of uranium is not currently a problem with our fission reactors. We do have a problem with radioactive waste, but even that is way more political than it is technical.

I wonder which two senators are going to be ok with detonating 32 bombs in their state every day? This isn't the 50s, NIMBYs know how to make your life a living hell when trying to do anything nuclear.
...yes they did.
> It's ok to judge them on their poor judgement. And seek employment elsewhere.

Yeah, somehow I feel the consequences are only going to end up on one side
Software engineering as a profession is relatively young. I'd be very happy if we eventually end up with a license that can be revoked. Cause a large data breach? The board investigates and revokes your license, much like if you were a civil engineer who caused a bridge to collapse due to negligence.

There's tremendous potential in this space for a startup, but nothing seems to have stuck, which demonstrates the difficulty of getting companies to trust a third party. They'd almost always rather trust their hiring process flawed though it is.
Ugh, that font hurts my eyes.
You appear to be still describing the estate's benefit, not the public's.
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I know my personal experience may not apply here, as I've been in the industry for quite some time now, but this is my take: reject code assessments.

There is nothing to be gained from them. Candidates waste time trying to solve problems that may never face in a real work environment. Companies end up hiring people who has prepared for the interview, not for the job. Even worse, some companies seem to have standardised the same useless process across many levels, and end up asking senior candidates to e.g. reverse a binary tree.

Personally, never in ten years has a code assessment helped me choose the right candidate.
> They're looking for people who will devote their life to the company and can quickly learn new skills

This doesn't reflect my lived experience in SV. People I know who learned leetcode skills and got into big companies usually work less than people who passed more practical tests and get into smaller companies.

I'd say big companies are trying to hire employees who are a "good" mix of:

1. Smart

2. Conscientious / willing to work hard on the right things

3. Existing CS knowledge you know well enough to explain and apply.

For some vague handwavy definition of "good"

(2) is probably worth expanding a bit. Many people are willing to work very hard on the wrong thing, this extends to engineering. As an example, a common failure pattern you might see is someone constantly struggling with how React works and what they really need to do is sit down and read the ~15 pages of documentation. But they never do, and just keep putting in 10 hour days with subpar output.

I've met some legit geniuses (think Putnam winner) for whom basically no studying was required to pass these interviews. Companies paying top dollar are happy to have them. For people like who are less smart and need to dedicate ~100-200 hours of focused studying and practice, companies paying top dollar are happy to take our mix of smarts and willingness to do that work. But once in the company I haven't noticed any expectation to "devote my life" to it.
There's nothing out there beyond what you've read in my two comments above yours.

Well I suppose I can still point you to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31451260

You know what? I'll make a post about it and link it here.
They make sense to the voters. People are actually strongly in favor of reducing them further, despite the already-obscene nature of the system.

Reagan destroyed the American social system as we know it and neoliberal consensus politicians like Clinton finished the job. But people still demand further cuts and will continue to demand further cuts no matter how deep the cuts have gotten.

Yes, we spend a lot of money on social programs, and most of it goes to costly and ineffective end-of-care for seniors (i.e. people who vote) delivered at extreme cost by an incredibly inefficient privatized healthcare system. This continues to suck the air out of the room for any social spending for the living, because of the prevailing mindset that all future social spending must be offset by reductions in other programs.

Americans have become a cruel and callous people who are unconditionally opposed to helping others or even helping their own. Nobody cares about any problem until it affects them or their direct family personally. There’s not much more to say, every single time reform is proposed it’s slapped down with “welfare queens” and “muh tax dollars”. This is what the voters want and this is what they vote for.
In São Paulo's case it's a bit more insane: some of the most upscale and expensive neighbourhoods of the city are under its runways' ramps; Moema, Itaim Bibi, Vila Olímpia, Vila Nova Conceição and Jardim Europa. Some of the most expensive residential areas in the city, with penthouses in the millions of US$ are right by the airport area.
Sorry but there’s a lot of ways to filter devs, you would need to back this up with data.

Here’s another avenue, show me your OSS work if you have it. That give me a far better picture of how you develop than LC ever could. Don’t have OSS, then a take home test also works perfectly fine or a programming exercise that’s realistic
Hm... Does anyone know why they don't allow arbitrary extensions? I am very curious.
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I worked as a librarian there in the early 70's. It was a different world!
It certainly doesn't operate as a utility, but rather, a publisher that relies heavily on editing. And you know what? That's probably fine. BUT...they shouldn't get section 230 protections, which are for common carriers. They can have their cake, XOR they can eat it.
Not OP, but if you work for a big company the goal of penetration testing runs counter to the goals of the other departments. The more bugs you find, the more that means someone else looks “bad”, so it can become hard to move up in seniority if you don’t have a good leader above you to properly align the interests of both parties so it’s collaborative rather than antagonistic