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do any of you hold any other professional organization
memberships? [...] Or if not, why not?

I can understand the value of a professional organisation before the advent of modern communication. There's genuine value in having a forum for discussion with your peers, keeping technically up-to-date and knowing what other people in the industry are doing.

This has been made obsolete by the rise of the internet.

I can understand the value of a professional organisation like the that has useful power to enforce professional standards, preventing employers from forcing employees into unethical behaviour. And I can understand the value - though I don't much like it - of a professional organisation constraining the supply of qualified workers to keep wages high.

Professional organisations in IT don't seem to achieve either of those things.

Some professional organisations run journals and standards committees and publish academic research and standards. I can appreciate the value of that.

Being a member of the organisation doesn't grant you access to all their publications.

Joining a professional institution would allow me to call myself a "professional engineer" which, in my country, is a protected title.

But the distinction between "engineer" and "professional engineer" is lost on most people. When I want to signal a higher social status other things are easier and more effective.

About the only thing of much value I can see from professional organisations is accrediting university courses. It's good for universities to have an incentive to provide quality teaching to balance the incentive to focus on research.

In other words, while professional bodies provide quite a list of benefits, the list of benefits I care about seems quite sparse.
I was going to take the time to post a thoughtful response, along with links, but I see that you're a defeneder of Gab, a white supremacist website that masquerades as a free speech community. Good luck with that. I will note its a bit rich to push this line less than a month after Soros and a whole bunch of other people got mail bombs, and a few weeks after the largest mass causalty event targeting Jews in America, the latter of which launched off of Gab.
Every single time I asked for help I got something, even if I had to ask a few different people.

I am sorry you have experienced bad times. But have you considered that you could have asked for food instead of stealing it? Every restaurant I ever worked at gave food to people who asked. A number of other companies did as well. I have given people food that weren't even asking for it because I could see they needed it. (I have plenty of experience dumpster diving, which I chose over stealing)

You can justify breaking the law, and I wouldn't hold it against you for the sake for food, but it doesn't means it's the right thing to do. I begged on the streets and found charity every time.

The post is about being homeless, and your original comment was this:

>This is a complicated issue because the Drug War is inherently discriminatory, and asking for our government to enforce these laws will always lead to discriminatory practices. All of the other issues definitely need to be addressed, however.

But you seem to have derailed the conversation in your response, because the comment you replied to was this:

>I’m not saying punish homelessness, I’m saying enforce existing laws regardless of who the perps are.

I am discussing laws and the effects on poor people, I feel this is on topic, just like the original comment. And in my experience the law protects everyone from everyone, and the loudest claims of "discrimination" were from people who broke the law, just like you are doing now. And the people who don't break the law don't feel discriminated against.

The parent comment to this was how a homeless guy bent over backwards to fit in with society and did not break the law. Yet you seem to be the only one saying the poor/homeless are victims of the law and discriminated against in this entire thread.

If you change the topic, you should expect to be challenged.

Maybe consider the possibility there is a completely different way to live that protects you from what "seems" like discrimination, and that would be suffering a little to do what is right. Humble yourself and ask for help instead of blaming others and breaking the law.
xrandr --scale 2x2 --output OUTPUT

where OUTPUT will vary depending on what screens you actually have, but will usually be something like LVDS1 or VGA1. You can get the possible values with auto-completion in Bash (on Debian at least) or by running just xrandr.
That's some old video, now I use GH5 and Mavic 2 Pro
I don't think Assange should be prosecuted for appearing on Russian state TV. (Does anyone?)

While it may be technically true to say that he "sold the rights" to Russia Today, that's arguably a little misleading, as the show first aired on RT, and RT had exclusive initial rights to it.
HM type inference works perfectly fine with separate compilation and/or partial files (whichever you mean). See the OCaml tooling for a concrete demosntration.

Subtyping is a fairly large domain, and it really depends what you mean. There are cases where it works fine (again, see OCaml) and other where it's more problematic (see Scala). In any case it's not really HM anymore, it needs to be more.
He did not "enter Ecuador". Embassies are not extraterritorial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission#Extraterrit...
Looking at that list it seems to be all podcasts and porn, no developers.
> maybe im missing something here but why is it that such a devastating fire is being given a cutesy name?

As I understand, fires in CA are given names almost immediately upon being designated as incidents (because it aids communications/tracking/incident management), usually a single word name based on the name of some geographic feature located near where they started, and different than any other name of a fire then in active management in the State. Aside from verifying uniqueness, I suspect the effort that goes into name selection is no more than looking at a map and grabbing a word from a conveniently located name.

In the case of the Camp Fire, the name comes from Camp Creek Road.

It wasn't massively destructive when it got the name, though that probably wouldn't have any effect anyway.
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The activity isn't cynical - my view of why law firms (particularly large law firms) do things is very cynical - based upon many unhappy experiences.
Why would you need investors to distribute a licensed product? I've used a number of programs at work that seem like they're developed by a very small shop or possibly a single person. They perform a small but important function that companies are often willing to pay a reasonable price to figure out.

To be specific, it's importing tables from Excel to AutoCAD and Revit. It seems like this is something that AutoCAD and Revit should be able to do, but they handle it very poorly.

http://www.cadig.com/products/

http://dotsoft.com/xl2cad.htm

Licenses are ~$30-50 each and every company I've worked at has happily paid it rather than let employees waste time fiddling with the terrible native functionality.

I don't know how much the creators are actually making, but it seems to be enough to keep them going for the past 10 years or so.
Does Emscripten aim to be POSIX compliant?
At least on macOS and X11/xrandr --scale, the output encoder does the scaling, not the GPU. It need less energy to do that, than spinning up the GPU, and the all GPU resources are available to the applications (scaling entire framebuffer at 60 Hz would take significant memory bandwidth from GPU at least).
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I wouldn't use a probability density of typo's per page, but instead the probability that a word is spelled wrong.

Then it's like drawing marbles from a vase containing an unknown proportion of blue and red marbles.

I would use the formula (M+1)/(N+2) where N is the number of words, and M is the number of mistakes. Note that for a large corpus (M+1)/(N+2) approaches -> M/N, so we recover the frequentist probability.

Also note the author (John D Cook) correctly expresses intuitive doubt that 0 typos / 20 pages can not be construed as certainty of no mistakes. Similarily, seeing a mistake in every word in a subset does not guarantee that all words in the book will have a typo. Let's look at the modified formula (M+1)/(N+2) in these cases: if we observe no typos (M=0) in 1000 words, it estimates the typo probability as (0+1)/(1000+2)=1/1002 != 0, so we can't rule out mistakes. Similarily if all words were typos (M=N) for the first 1000 words we get 1001/1002 != 1, so we can't be sure every future word is a typo.

Check out Norman D Megill's paper on "Estimating Bernoulli trial probability from a small sample" where the formula (M+1)/(N+2) is derived, on page 3 it appears:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1486
Right, as long as there is still prestige associated with the company name, people will still try and work there. We as a society encourage it. You can get social clout from working at Exxon-Mobil or any of the big banks -- likewise the social capital you get from working at Facebook/Google/etc. is large, regardless of the privacy and ethics implications in working there.
>i.e. employees implicitly would rather have 300$ of free lunches paid by the company every month than +300$ on their salary.

I agree that companies sometimes spend money on questionable so-called "benefits" (e.g. company-paid bowling party or motivational speakers) -- that employees would rather have as extra cash in their pocket.

That said, I think company-paid lunch is an advantageous financial deal for employees since it's not taxed as income[0][1] and employees have to eat anyway.

I also hate having to get into a 150-degree hot car in the summer or fight freezing snow in the winter just to go buy a lunch. The alternative of bringing my own brown-bag lunch also has hassles because of the extra prep & planning at home. Sure, an on-site catered lunch benefits the employer -- but it also benefits the employees. It's a win-win.

[0] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/08/14/exclusiv...

[1] daily free meals may be a gray-area tax loophole (it's not "occasional") but IRS isn't enforcing a strict interpretation of the law: https://www.irs.gov/government-entities/federal-state-local-...
Look at Wikipedia's lists of things. For your particular examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state

Some of them are quite meta, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

For a more structured source, Wikidata aims to be that, but I cannot comment on its completeness.
Am I reading this correctly? "Anamorphic license", "full-frame license"... This is insane!
The camera already costs 45k and they want to sell firmware feature unlocks?
Can't we have a very small, simple device which just has a browser?

That way we could put games and stuff like this which can work with just HTML, CSS and JS.

I feel as the browser gets more capable, I think these kind of functionalities be way more easier to create and deploy.

I don't know if network connectivity would be such a mandatory thing for a device like this. Maybe I could just download offline maps, and have the map app run in the browser, or the clock app, or the Mario app.

In the good old days, I don't remember being concerned about having connectivity. We used to be more concerned about not having RAM and CPU (probably still are!). But creating programs, or browsing images, or playing gamees, videos and mp3s, none of these actually require connectivity. Yet everything now has to be always online.

I know Firefox tried this with FirefoxOS, which is currently become KaiOS, but even they are working around an online experience. I'm just thinking if something opposite would actually work.
Shooting liquid propane/butane into your laptop is absolutely insane. How does it even help lower the compile times if the CPU probably doesn't even thermal throttle? An X230 that I have can handle a high load without thermal throttling and yours should not be much different, unless the CPU thermals exceed 100C, at which it does start throttling.

Please check your cooling setup and replace the thermal paste with something high quality if needed as what you are doing right now is dangerous.
> Please cite a source.

I can't, though I think you could argue about it deductively.

> That was never proven.

I guess you can't provide a source either :)

> Put a pebble in your shoe, or some scotch tape on your skin.

If someone you know well did that, would you be able to differentiate his limp from someone else's? I am sure you could. I think it's intuitive that our "limp" betrays features of our normal behaviour.
Austin, TX is an amazing place to be. An oasis in the desert, if you asked me.
I liked this one:

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐱 𝐣𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐠

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒙 𝒋𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒔 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒈

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> (Editor's note: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries paid for the author of this story to travel to Japan and spend several days visiting company facilities there.)

OK, so it's pretty much a PR piece. That should have been mentioned right at the beginning of the article, not as a footnote on the last page.
Actually, we know from the Milgram Experiment[1] that most people just compromise their morals for authority figures regardless of pay.

Most people aren't bad inherently they just do what they are told and then alter their world view to justify what they've done because internally we generally don't think of ourselves as bad people.

So if you do nasty things to someone because someone else in authority tells you to, you tend to dehumanise them after the fact not before. Next time you have to do something nasty you'll find it easier because you've dehumanised the victim previously.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
>The reason is there is considerable amount of investment on maintenance from Zapier side for keeping their plugins/libraries up to date with the APIs/services.

Which they are already doing for the companies paying them several hundreds, or thousands, of dollars a month...

That's like saying "Sorry, we won't sell you 100 lowly private individual an Impala, we only want to sell hundreds of them at a time to fleet-buyers, it costs us a lot of money to design these things!"
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However, if your program crashed on SPARC then it probably contains undefined behaviour. And if that's the case, then at any time a new GCC release might make it fail.
> Except that that plot's sole function was publishing documents in the public interest.

No, it (allegedly, at least) was not.

It's maybe arguable that it was, or if it wasn't that that's all Assange was aware of about it's mechanism of serving it's function, but to the extent that either of those is sufficient to raise a first amendment claim in the first place, it is still a disputable fact claim, which is what we have trials to weigh evidence to resolve.
There still seems to be some confusing overlap in their tools. For example, what is the difference between "buildah" and "podman build"?
IEEE has several software specific publications, e.g. "Software".
Structured, maintained API though, not general knowledge. I personally see an issue that someone has to accumulate their own stash of structured data for common knowledge (random examples) like: countries, zip codes, valid HTML5 element names, css properties, hex colors, common naming prefix/suffixes/professional titles, etc. A growing list of work repeated by each dev team/company for really no reason. No complaint about this repo, at all, just seeking if a solution exists.
Well, RedHat, sorta kinda, but not exactly what was meant here.
Even if the feedback may result in improvements that would result in a product they _want_ to pay for?
In theory yes. In practice most of the tasks including key/password management is left on sysadmins anyway, because management don't bother and not even interested how this stuff works. They're just not technical people, their priorities are elsewhere. And that's ok.
Because he's not releasing nuclear codes or instructions to build centrifuges - rather, sensitive information relevant to internal politics.

This idea that you could "destabilize" a country by posting newsworthy material covered by free speech will not stand in any court.
Eventually it became a rather derogatory term, I remember endless debates in the ASP about abandoning it, which I think they did in the end.

A lot of it was on the covers of magazines or you could order a set of disks from people like Atlantic Coast:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/edgecombe/4709059216
I find myself enjoying 80s/90s games that I'd never played before over the typical major release these days. Some new major releases really are excellent, but the quantity is far lower than it was 20-30 years ago, likely mostly due to massive budgets and unmanageable team sizes.
You would color in the squares on graph paper. And then after you coloured those individual squares, you would convert them in to numbers, and then you would key in the numbers in hexadecimal using a ROM writer

I used to do this on the BBC Model B, you could re-program character codes to be any shape and would use that to build up graphics. It was really exciting when the thing you'd drawn on paper finally appeared on screen. Or if you'd made a mistake with the hex, there would be pixels or (often) horizontal lines in the wrong place on a row.
I can see all subversives having wheelchairs in not-so-distant future.
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Did you have any problems with copy-paste? For me copy-paste was completely broken.
That's pretty common in similar cameras like alexa.
Move fast and say oops, we'll try to do better.
Gnome seems to do that per window, not per framebuffer like macOS does. The framebuffer size seems to be exactly the display resolution, plus you need GPU to do window scaling, you cannot let the output encoder to do the job.

The Windows and Qt approach has it's own issues with fractional pixel positions, and the resulting problem with mapping integer input coordinates to these. And of course, it doesn't work nice with legacy apps (Gnome has to handle X11 apps, that won't tell anything about the scale they work with. See also: Gimp).
I share the pain. I get emails, mostly call for papers from some conference organizer (not IEEE directly), to addresses that haven't been on file with IEEE for more than 10 years. All with an "reply to this email to unsubscribe from my personal list" (not the IEEE main list).

It's as if the IEEE had shared a spreadsheet with emails with all of their members, with no process going to update or revoke this information.
My experience is that people who think that never worked with a language where inference is principal and complete (aka, "good") and/or have poor editor support.

In languages that are still reasonably close to HM and that have decent editor tooling, like OCaml, leaving the type out in the implementation is the common practice. You only write them down in the external API (along with the documentation).
That does seem likely, but very often the eventual cause discovered by the NTSB was not what people initially thought it was.

It's still worthwhile to warn the pilots about uncommanded movement and reiterate what to do about it. At this point I doubt any 737 pilot doesn't know about this.

To add to your summation, I'd expect the mechanism's inability to detect a faulty angle-of-attack sensor needs addressing.
Also Xcode and iPad related development would be nice testbed for ARM macs.
But who wants to work in support?
Probably he didn't expirience psychosis from reading that string but I got chills on my body reading that string... Could imagine someone prone to believing stuff like this to get a little bit anxious
Interesting comment:

> Selling drugs is much more convenient and profitable, for example.

I know its not related to the original topic, nor the core point of your comment but I'd be fascinated to know why you think this.

Based on my knowledge of the market WRT wholesale prices/retail (street) prices/legal risks/product expiry/supply chain reliability as well as just the statistics around anyone towards the bottom few levels of the pyrmaid on this I'm almost certain that this is roughly never the case.

I find it interesting that this assumption seems to still exist, and suspect that a suprising number of people would harbor a fallback position of "if shit gets really bad I could just sell drugs" which makes a lot of assumptions about how profitable it could possibly be.
I have been an ACM and IEEE member for several decades. Over the years the journals and transactions I subscribe to have changed along with my professional focus. I find that the quality of articles is generally higher than what you can find by random searching on the internet.

Several HNers have commented on the high cost of membership. I agree that that at times I have been tempted to cancel my memberships. But it is a tax deductible expense and in most professions the membership fees for their respective bodies is comparable.
Me too, and for approx the same period. I ended up with about 2ft of CACMs realising the amount I'd actually read was tiny. They're fascinating to dip into though. Worth the ~100 USD/y to someone, but, I concluded, not me.

I think these decisions are interesting for early career software engineers. Then, sometimes life takes you a direction where a professional affiliation makes sense, sometimes it doesn't.
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I find that writing some code is often the best way to clarify the domain and figure out the types.
I just nag. I want the larger user base so people develop plugins [1].

1: https://fman.io/docs/plugins
I wouldn't bet my future on flutter nor dart. flutter in my eyes is pathetic attempt to give dart some meaning, after it failed to compete with other compile-to-js languages like typescript (and now wasm). Came too late. Solved some problems that cordova and react-native have, but brought new ones. You need to learn new language, ui is not aligned with the system or other apps, you rely on flutter components only, which are more difficult to write than react-native's (mostly just simple wrappers)...
Thanks for letting me know :-)
Copy-paste works, but primary selection does not, it was added to wayland-protocols just few days ago. Drag-and-drop also seems to be broken, I cannot drag urls to the terminal, for example.
What about all the newspapers who helped verify and documented the files?
It's mentioned in the third paragraph.
The danish rape charge, which would have probably been resolved with a few months of probation or some mandatory training.

Somehow, Assange managed to turn that prospect into the self-inflicted and unlimited golden cage that is the Ecuadorian Embassy. Guy's a true genius...
From the mention in the re-posting at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18466787 no doubt. (-:
Congrats. You managed make it like telco market, in that everyone will subcsribe to a group of doctor for a long-term contract.