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> every kind of engineering other than "software engineering" requires occupational licensing

No, it doesn't.[1] Licensure is required for an engineer to provide engineering services "to the public". The largest group who do not require licensure are those who fit into the "industrial exemption", engineers employed by a company to work on products manufactured and sold by said company. This particularly affects electrical and mechanical engineers.

I was an electrical engineer for four years to start my career, and I never even took the FE exam. It likely would have limited my career progression at some point, but it never would stop me from working as an engineer.

[1] In the US. Since this article is from The Atlantic and is about "Life in the Simpsons", I am going to assume the US for the context of everything I say.
On what basis?

And, I'm not personally building any of this, it just already exists, and some people are enjoying it.

Heck, it is even being developed and hacked by the users themselves, when it is hackable, like in this very HN post.

Sounds like you just want everybody to be happy only your way...

Even without this kind of tech, the paths for happiness are probably beyond everything your little window of a mind can imagine.

PS: it looks like somebody has called their local church's friends to retaliate on this how unholly HN thread, and they come up here and create new accounts and answer my comments without even realizing that I am not the OP...
IMHO, "Yes album covers" is worth an image search, if you never saw one.
> The reason why China is not Iraq now is that.

And nuclear weapons. Don't forget the elephant in the room. China has nukes, which severely limits the pressure the West can put on it.
The negotiators had 11 months not "years". The UK left the UK on 31st January 2020 and negotiations on this agreement didn't start (and couldn't legally begin) until then. The negotiations around the "withdrawal agreement" were a completely different thing and were solely about what the EU / UK relationship would be during the transition period which ends at midnight on 31st December this year. As part of that withdrawal agreement the UK government specifically negotiated a short transition period (off the top of my head the initial EU offer was five years), presumably because they thought that the increased time pressure on the EU would work to their advantage. Whether that has worked out as Boris and co hoped I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
ah yes I have encountered this repeatedly myself!
Same. As a kid the Food pyramid meant lots of bread was great!
Nut jobs went against the government.

Took a long time to realize just how bad the food pyramid was.
Doing a quick review of the literature I can find shows we don't have a completely clear picture yet. The link in young children is definitive and the link in adolescents is murky but it looks like one of many risk factors. I am inclined to entirely disregard the linked study as garbage since it gives a very definitive black-and-white answer that is in opposition to highly cited literature. I think the main reason it is at the top of HN is that we want this to be the simple black-and-white answer.

As someone who grew up with violent video games I think this issue is taken way too personally by most of us. The idea that video games will necessarily make you violent is absurd and not being proposed by anyone (that is mostly a straw man used to dismiss the idea). The question is whether violent video games can push some kids over the edge -- kids who are already predisposed to violence. Imagine an abused kid with no farther figure who would probably be a violent teen anyways. Will playing violent videogames numb him to the idea of killing, give him neural pathways that make the repetitive action more likely and start him with some bad ideas? Could it be the difference between him getting in some fist fights and indiscriminately murdering schoolchildren? The answer looks like "yes."

The case made in the book On Combat is very interesting. That book is considered one of the definitive secondary works on combat psychology and he spends significant time on this question. I strongly recommend the book.
> as it is a reasonable assumption that naturally violent people are more likely to play violent video games.

It's also a reasonable assumption that people who naturally want to avoid actual violence play violent video games instead.

This paranoia against violent video games was obviously fake from the start, and such a typically American thing - in line with the American puritan view that blowing up people in films or broadcasting police car chases is a-OK but (female) nipples or saying "fuck" is a big NO NO.
The modern economy is debt based by design (i.e. backed by interest and usurious transactions). This by definition creates a separation in the socio economic hierarchy.

It's for a reason that usury/interest is banned in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism for example. It's a parasitic practice that makes the economy fundamentally unstable. This includes dangerous practices such as selling debt for debt (which triggered the 2008 crisis), and things like stock shorting (which, interestingly enough was also banned during the crisis, at least for some critical company stocks).

Get rid of these dangerous, immoral, and parasitic practices, and we'll be on a strong path to improve things.
Wish I could find estimates showing “At current / projected vaccination rates it will take X years to vaccinate 90% of the population”, per country. I heard on TWiV (This Week in Virology podcast) for the US it was ~6.6 years and I believe it was based on < 90% of pop.
Do you know if there’s an accurate master list of these labels anywhere? I’m sure the customs and border people must have at least a reference copy floating around.
It's ok though, the new iphone 13 has 3.65 times more drop resistance, is 0.053% thinner, with a girardean microprocessor for your phone to do qubit image processing on the fly.
Is this a pun?
Yea understandable, I’ve had great experiences with refurbished MacBooks for what it’s worth
Ugandan NASA scientist Catherine Nakalembe uses satellites to boost farming
"As a keen badminton player Ugandan Catherine Nakalembe wanted to study sport science at university but a failure to get the required grades for a government grant set her on a path that led her to Nasa and winning a prestigious food research prize, writes the BBC's Patience Atuhaire.

When Dr Nakalembe tried to explain to a Karamojong farmer in north-eastern Uganda how her work using images taken from satellites hundreds of kilometres above the Earth relates to his small plot, he laughed.

While she uses the high-resolution images in her pioneering work to help farmers and governments make better decisions, she still needs to get on the ground to sharpen up the data."
How did you decide that? HN has always been pedantry, many actual questions are valid even if they discuss semantics or validity of the sources. It is the way HN always has been
> Speaking from personal experience, it is necessary to update these references, because people implementing them have no choice but to follow the letter of the law.

That reminds me of FIPS for some reason...
> This list will also continue to grow over time, as I try and convince myself this was a good branding choice.

:D
> There's a huge tax advantage to living in a two income house. Two people earning 30k each will pay significantly less tax than one earning 60k.

This isn’t true. Up until the 2018 federal tax legislation, a married couple earning similar amounts was penalized compared to a married couple with one earner. And I don’t think the new law gave any advantages to married couples earning similar incomes, just removed some or most of the penalty.

https://taxfoundation.org/understanding-marriage-penalty-and...
The link is between humans and their tendency towards violence. Video games are just an outlet, like sports, for humans to express their urge for violence. Video games are probably a good way for many people to vent this urge.
Speculation from multiple sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyZschwFN-c&ab_channel=SkyNe...

Extrapolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
A Literary Short Story with Embedded Tweets
Guaranteed Monthly Income Using Future Arbitrage – Sure Shot Profit
https://pasteboard.co/JHcrnnA.png

Just because you don’t like the neighborhood or schools doesn’t mean they don’t exist (image shows homes for under $150k in Houston, assume the ones inside the loop are condos)
If there's someone with "Diversity Manager" anywhere near hiring at a company it means it has deep issues.
Several mobile providers have already gone past the "required" to the "only option" stage. There hasn't been major outages because the mobile OSes adapted just fine and NAT64 seems to work alright.

We've crossed the point that most of the consumer internet is IPv6 by default. It's enterprise and other similar VPN adoption that has lagged behind, generally intentionally as businesses worry that IPv6 is harder to secure and have cultural momentum behind years of IPv4 security knowledge.
Personally, what I find mind-boggling is the inability of Google to capitalize on Map's potential.

If improved, it could concurrence at least TripAdvisor and Yelp easily (and maybe Booking too, if they were willing to invest in customer service - which I doubt). Maps has the potential to be integrated (or better integrated) everywhere in Google's digital estate (search, GMail, Android, even YouTube).

Simarly, simplifying the creation, sharing, and most of all, discovery of user-made maps could boost it enormously.

Instead, it languishes. The UX is incredibly frustrating. Just sharing a location on a map can be non-trivial.

Making it more difficult to build on top of maps was an incredibly bone-headed move as well.
It's not crippling, it's annoying. I can code without an IDE just fine, I just don't want to.

It's too slow and you end up doing a lot of very repetitive and boring tasks. Modern IDEs, much like type systems, help you avoid whole class of errors.

Why type a method name, with the risk of typos, when with 3 keystrokes it's filled for you and provably correct.

Same for renaming operations, function/variable extraction, etc.

Also, code navigation. Large codebases are read a lot more than written. And code is not read like a book, it's more like traversing a graph. Do dataflow analysis, find usages, analyze hierarchies, etc.
Apple, Amazon and Tesla supplier accused of using forced labor
> Isn't the whole point of Brexit that no, we've decided that it's not actually totally crucial to continue Britain's relationship with the EU the way it has been in the past, and disruptions are totally fine and perhaps to be desired if they are in the service of Britain being free of EU regulation?

You answered your own question with "and perhaps to be desired if they are in the service of Britain". That's what sovereignty is and that's what the whole point has been - or at least a very large part - not to disrupt things for the sake of it. Does leaving the EU mean the UK must become its enemy?
> obviously, it didn't

Of course it did, in Kishore Mahbuani's words:

>The greatest explosion of personal freedoms that the Chinese people have experienced in the past 4,000 years has taken place in the last 40 years

There's some slide back in some categories from Hu Jintao era, but overall things are progressing. The west fixates on the 1% of extra bad when it's been mostly great.

>what human cost?

800m uplifted from poverty, a few million minorities gets shafted, to be crass: the cost was/is negligible all things considered. Post 90s China bad, but mostly good. Overwhelming good compared to others with similar starting positions and much better development conditions, i.e. China had some of the most onerous WTO accession protocols and sanctions that held back her development.
Are you also amazed the world didn't take action against the US under Trump?
Propellerhead Figure + Loopy HD = make electronic music entirely on your phone. You'd be surprised how far down the rabbit hole you can go for less than $20 invested.
Complexity as in software. It has many moving parts, and I think it includes most if not all of computer science areas, like networking for multiplayer, cutting edge rendering, client-server applications for managing updates and also the multiplayer, AI for NPCs but now AI for animations and environment generation, and the list is really long. The only exception I can think of is software for rockets/spaceships and rovers, which have to operate under very unique circumstances.
That sugar intake would be realistic if the FDA could say 0 added sugars in I dunno...every single bread product? Even healthy 12 grain bread SERVING has about 5g of added sugar. 15g is about 1 tablespoon so in total a half loaf can have up to several tablespoons. And that's on the good end!

These guidelines always sound like hopes and dreams in the US. Companies just pump their foods with sugar to bump up calories or make it taste better. You can only get such minimal sugar in your diet if you exclusively go on keto-like diet.
I went to a local electronics store and got one. I then looked on AliExpress and found them for a fraction of the price.

I mainly use ESP8266, as it’s cheaper but it’s less powerful and doesn’t have 5v output, just 3.3v (or at least the ones I have were like this).
I don’t have any real coding skill but between the Arduino IDE, ESPHome, MQTT and some mucking about, I got where I wanted to be.

The sensors are so inexpensive and there are so many (light, temperature, fire, smoke, moisture, humidity, distance, gasses, weight, open/close, current etc). It’s really impressive what is out there.
You're getting a lot of replies to this comment saying these examples show correlation and not causation, which is a fair thing to say, but also dismissive.

A similar question worth considering is whether or not violent people are drawn to violent videogames. In my somewhat-informed opinion, they are, and that's significant.
"Working on" in-person social organizations (particularly starting new ones or restoring deteriorated ones) seems to require a good amount of personal charisma, ambition, social skills, organizational ability, and not desiring to simply make as much money as possible, plus a long-term focus on community health and success over your own personal gain. People with the first set of skills can make a lot of money in the marketplace. If you make a social organization instead of a unicorn, your "exit" would be being loved and respected, along with having your own friends and family growing up in a good community that maybe, eventually increases everyone's collective financial value instead of just your own.
God I need to move out of big cities
How about Apple? They have their own but either aren't interested or not capable of keeping up with chrome.
Please read the sibling comments. I'm more than happy to see information about the US's disastrous and criminal programs exposed. But that doesn't mean that I uncritically accept that an unbiased source does itself have unbiased sources.
I think the 180k fine is reasonable. As others have pointed out, the maximum fine (250k) is publicly available to look up, and was most likely also in the letters he received from the FCC. This didn't come out of nowhere.

Think of it another way, imagine if the cops kept pulling you over for speeding. The first time you just got a warning, but they told you next time it'd be a $500 fine. Then you get caught again and they said "Ok we'll give you ONE more warning, but if you keep doing this, it's a $500 fine". Then the third time you get caught, when they give you a $350 fine you can't be all surprised pikachu at them. This guy knew the stakes (and was repeatedly reminded of them, by the enforcing body, who told him they would enforce the law if he didn't stop) and he kept on breaking the law anyway. They need to send a clear message that this is NOT acceptable behavior. This is closer to driving on the runway at an active airport than it is to an everyday traffic violation.

In terms of the magnitude of the fine - he was putting people's lives in danger, which I think justifies the amount. You also have to keep in mind that drones are an expensive hobby, it's not uncommon for people to spend over $3k on drone equipment. Many popular drone pilots on instagram etc are incredibly wealthy and drive crazy sports cars and the like. They regularly fly $1000+ drones inches from water / through forests etc, and they can afford to lose a few of them.

Put another way - if the normal response to breaking these laws was 2 warnings and a $10k fine over 2 years of publicly posting widely watched videos of yourself breaking the law, it wouldn't be enough to stop a lot of these people.
Bucatini is the best pasta shape, though. Comedy always has that grain of truth in it. If you can somehow get past the great bucatini shortage of 2020, make some cacio e pepe with it. Trust me.
Honest question, please don't snipe at me. Can someone please point me to significant leaks from out of china, russia, iran on wikileaks?

Edit: since it appears no one can actually answer this question with an actual answer, and only down vote and troll, I think that probably means wikileaks does not make significant leaks from the military-industrial complexes of China or Russia.
If you focus on misery of the world you don’t have to look at your own life too critically.

Bad luck happens to good people. The question is what mindset leads to better outcomes.

In an unjust world is it better to focus on the injustice or is it better to keep trying to make your life better. It seems (selection bias and all) that those that have the better mindset (maybe self-centric to their own communities needs) do better regardless of income.
What you call "redistribution" is what others would call "returning stolen wealth to those who created it". The people who use what you refer to as "coded language" believe that as laborers, they create wealth which is stolen by those who don't labor but instead merely own assets. They believe that wealth and value are created through labor, not by ownership, and therefore labor deserve a larger portion of the wealth than they are getting right now. Therefore it's not "redistribution" of wealth at all, as those who currently hold this wealth had no right to it in the first place.
"Pretty bad" is unwarranted in my opinion. Your alternative adds overhead of creating an extra div for each intermediate string in the code it replaces. It's trivial overhead, and may be a small number, but exactly the same applies to the overhead of temporary strings - they are comparable.

Intermediate string length doesn't matter for time complexity here. If they are short they will be fast. If they are long, the time to scan and parse in DOMPurify and innerHTML will dominate.

After building the DOM, your extra divs are processed every time that section of the DOM is styled and rendered, not just once. If the number of extra divs is low enough that this is negligible, so is the number of intermediate strings in the alternative code.

So I wouldn't assume your version is faster at setting up, and it may be marginally slower later on repeated renderings. I'd profile both versions, maybe with Browserscope (which probably has a test for this particular question already).

However if I couldn't profile and was asked my guess at the fastest version, my guess is the string-join version. I'd be more concerned with whether concatenating DOMPurify.sanitize() strings is guaranteed to maintain the same security properties.
Worse than Ryanair? Ouch!
This is from 9 months ago. According to the comments, the poster realized they were wrong since they could either go to a different host, or could run their own instance, which would have a few additional benefits for them and their followers.

In the end, the account was deleted for not following the rules of that particular host. It seems that the they consider all advertising to be spam, which is their right. I assume they sent out a warning at least? That would be the "right" thing to do, but it's really up to the owner of that instance how they enforce their own rules.

I can see what attracted them to Mastodon. I can't see how they failed to realize what "decentralized" means.

Is that the reason it was posted to HN? The reader will certainly get the wrong impression if they don't read the comment section to that post. And even that meanders around a bunch before you get the full picture.

After reading through it, I am left with the impression that the poster was hasty and didn't read the rules when they signed up, didn't bother to understand the network technology, wrote this bye-bye post to shame them, all then to be told that they should read and obey the host's rules, or find a host that would allow them to do those posts, or host their own instance where the rules are their own.
> people who insisted that it would be better for Britain to leave the onerous regulatory regime of the EU

You mean the electorate.
Hmm maybe I will go revisit that game.
I own a home in a very rural part of the US, but do a lot of work with people in large cities. I was talking with some people in NYC about our 5 bedroom home that we bought for $120,000 and how most of the houses for sale in our town are about half that price. The people from NYC couldn't imagine such a thing. One said, "So does that mean that no one needs to take out a loan to buy their home?" I explained that the people in my town weren't making NY level wages either.

The idea that there were parts of the US where you could buy a house for $60k was just as foreign as the idea of someone making $25k per year. They simply had no frame of reference for what wages and cost of living look like in places that weren't big cities.
Copy and paste is so abhorrently common in proposal submission. It is also apparently common in policy making. After all, brexit has been going on for about two years with several versions of proposals.

Seriously how often are people going to create fresh documents for nearly the same things? Copy and paste it is. And if they like it, then they will correct it as needed.
> They are kept in camps, monitored constantly, have no privacy, are searched constantly and on top of that, they are forced to work or go to detention

This also seems to describe prison labor that occurs in the US, which, putting problems and criticisms aside, is definitely different from slavery. I don't think the imprecision in language is helpful, it hurts the cause in the same way people constantly referring to modern political leaders as literal Nazis hurts their credibility.
Tidal’s still trying. I see ads for it every so often. But you’re correct: they haven’t “broken through” yet like Spotify and Netflix did. First mover advantage?
One of the 'atmospheric' descriptions in The Expanse that I have loved is the use of antispalling coatings on the interiors of ships.

Micrometeoroids are a fact of space travel, and in this universe, so are kinetic weapons. so the authors imagined/researched a material meant to resist the tendency of the ship's materials to become secondary projectiles ricocheting through the ship turning everyone and everything into swiss cheese.

I think they may be defunct now, but there was a company called Tethers, Inc who had in their toolbox making 'cables' that look more like fishing nets. The idea being to reduce the likelihood of a single strike damaging multiple structural members at once.

I don't know what or if we can do for satellites that is in this direction. You can make the satellites tiny but you still need solar collectors.
I honestly don't get why people act like there is or ought to be some gentleman's agreement that no bad press should come out about a candidate shortly before an election. The final lead up to the election has traditionally been the time of most intense scrutiny, and if someone has dirty laundry, it really should be aired before they've been elected to a position of power.