skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, an engineer without a Professional Engineer license is not "cutting corners". They most likely just don't do the type of work that requires getting a PE.

The article says 80% of engineers are working without a license. From experience, this is especially true for electrical engineering. Someone designing a building's electrical system would have a PE to sign off on plans (or be working under someone with a PE). But someone doing embedded design would not, because there is a completely different approval process for consumer/industrial products - we test rather than simply asserting products are safe because they were designed by a PE.

Without a PE, I am still an engineer. I can say I am an engineer, because "engineer" is not a protected title anywhere in the US. I can speak authoritatively on engineering topics, because I have vast technical knowledge. My opinions on topics I know little about (eg civil engineering) will be tempered with "I think", because knowing one area really well, I am aware of how much I do not know in other areas. Whether anyone chooses to listen to anything I say is their own choice.

What I cannot do is sign off on plans for permits, solicit business that would generally require signing off on plans for permits, or anything else that specifically requires a PE license. Those requirements are in legal force due to the product delivered (eg a bridge requisitioned by the state, a house which needs a building permit) and are not generally applicable for all engineering activity.

There also is the related issue that everybody has the right to technically criticize a situation if they have done the work to make their case. Only a licensed Professional Engineer has the ability to say a bridge is safe, but we all have the right to claim that it is unsafe.
I remember building my own mail server on a PIII with 500mhz and 128mb of ram. I used qmailrocks.org and learned so much about Linux and how things work. This was in like 2003 or 2004? My how times have changed!
Interesting choice of the proof assistant though - some specific parts of the Lean's core are not completely decidable, moreover the upcoming Lean 4 version is incompatible with many libraries and proofs written for Lean 3. See also the discussion[1] if the Coq is suitable for number theory as quotients are ubiquitous here.

[1] https://github.com/coq/coq/issues/10871
I had great fun setting up Postfix and Dovecot recently.

However, I was very specific with always going for the minimum most simple solution. I do not have a dedicated database for instance, but use just mbox and POP3.

And I did not even bother much with anti-spam, I chose a super easy filter in Thunderbird instead, sending everything with 'unknown' in Received: header to the Thrash folder.

Getting accepted by others was also not much of an issue (but lots of details of course, PTR, SPF, DKIM, DMARC).

More details here if anyone is interested:

http://bef.no/DitchingWindowsAndAWS/
I think it's part of a general price increase we have/will shortly see everywhere. Although I'm expecting it in many areas, it's still crazy how steep the rise is.
Brilliant. I wish they had this in the UK. Seems like a great way to keep government size in check.
I’ve been here and it’s very interesting talking to locals and seeing the place. The article SHOULD have mentioned the golf club! It’s basically desert and rocks and twinned with St Andrews! Brilliant!
The Apple APIs date back to NeXTStep at the end of the 80s, yet they managed to mostly keep them fresh.

Win32 is old and unviable because Microsoft hasn't bothered making comprehensive upgrades for it and never laid out a gap-free plan for how to move off it. They could have upgraded it more smoothly but never did.
At least people don’t have much issues being told syntax for sendmail. cf and apache.conf and ~/.xinitrc are completely different from one another.
Hmm.

OK, first of all, whether A trusts B has no bearing on whether B is trustworthy, which should only be based on facts and not what A thinks. A could be driven by fear and mislead by misinformation.

Secondly, on the opposite end, is it democractic if there exists a widespread, blind trust in the government?

The word for a healthy mistrust is skepticism.

Maybe the citizens in a constitutional, parliamentary democracy should always be skeptical of what their elected and non-elected public servants are doing.

If there is a widespread mistrust which is rationally based in too many government activities and decisions being behind closed doors, that does seem to point to a dent in democracy.
If I understand the article correctly, the CPU itself would take care of moving tasks between BIG and little cores, so the operating system would not need to know about it.

I'm not sure that's the best way to handle this, but I don't think I'm qualified to make a judgment one way or the other.
Can you use that without jailbreak
I disagree on the “nothing but competent”. They have done things like left critical zero click RCEs open for years without patching them.

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/valve-belatedly-fixes-ste...

People who have left valve often report that the organization is extremely dysfunctional.

https://medium.com/dunia-media/the-nightmare-of-valves-self-...

From where I’m standing, Valve looks like a company cursed by success. They have the advantage of controlling the world’s biggest PC game distribution platform (an advantage that is self-sustaining due to network effects), and as such have a fountain of near infinite money. This allows them to run an extremely inefficient organization without suffering the consequences that most companies would.
Why are you using Google if privacy is this much of a concern for you?

There are many other services that provide much better privacy protections, eg ProtonMail.
I'm not smart enough to know what some of these words mean or if this guy is being truthful, but I found this comforting to read as a GrapheneOS user:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation
Not directly mentioned in the article, but relevant: Richard Dawkins, in at least one of his books, discusses why dads don't put in as much child-rearing (in many mammals, for example). The evolutionary incentives for fathers and mothers are the same (eg they have equal stakes in the genes being propagated). 2 categories of reasons. (there may be more)

- Fathers (depending on species) can't be confident a given child is theirs. Mothers can be confident due to giving live birth. Fathers have a lower incentive to care for a given child, since expending effort on offspring that's not yours is evolutionary detrimental; everything has an opportunity cost.

- Mothers have a much higher investment in the child from the moment of conception: Due to the extra food they must consume to nourish the embryo, the effects of pregnancy etc. By comparison, sperm is cheap. Neither parent wants to let the child die due to lack of care, but the fathers are in a better position to call the mothers' bluff than vice versa due to the sunk cost.
Washingtonpost.com: How It Started
Why should poor people (assuming they are poor through no fault of their own) not have equal access to services?
> If the US were founded on this principle… it would have been part of the constitution.

If that were true, we wouldn't have had the first block of amendments. There's plenty of stuff that didn't make it into the original constitution because the founders thought it was obvious.
The question is whether this is presumed where the founder meets the basic requirements, that is, 10% ownership, active business operations, and $250k in investments from qualified US investors. We just don't know yet whether much more will need to be shown if these basic requirements. We'll et a much better sense of this in the coming months. That being said, I think, assuming the above requirements are met, that applications will be approved where the investments are from top tier investors or a top accelerator is somehow involved.
I was reading an article talking about book translation and translation styles a couple of days ago but I can't seem to find it again. In the meantime, have a link to some quotes on localization and translation: https://legendsoflocalization.com/literary-translators-comme...
Clearly horizontal space is going to be more constrained than vertical space if you put two windows next to each other horizontally, as you're going from 16:9 to 8:9. But if you stacked them vertically, well obviously vertical space would be even more constrained than that, to the point where it's so useless you don't even think about doing it. So this is an argument for vertical space being more scarce than horizontal space actually.
Valve have been resting on the laurels of their prior successes and are destined for the dustbin of history if they don't start innovating again.

The gaming market has grown incredibly competitive, and statistically speaking the steam store has the most garbage out of all the stores combined x100.

The most depressing thing about Valve Software is that they are a privately-held corporation and have far more agility than the likes of EA, ATVI, et. al. There aren't quarterly earnings calls or other confining economics that would spook away investors if an ambitious AAA project were to be announced this Monday.
The top part of Safari's UI (above the tabs) is about 54 points. There's no reason for it to be above 44 and it could be even less.
Thank you for your reply.

I was definitely wishing to avoid the lottery but I guess it’s on case to case basis.
Didn't he want it to stay with Germany?
The difference is that one of those is not like the others. There really is no such thing as an unlicensed (medical) doctor, nurse, or lawyer. While most engineers are not licensed as such--and PEs don't even exist for many branches of engineering. Of course, they can't say they're PEs if they're not but there really isn't a default assumption, aside from perhaps in civil engineering, that an engineer asserting expertise in something is licensed.
I usually have a max of 2 windows open with anywhere between 4 and 9 tabs open. We do exist!
I have seen Lost, they really built up some tension at the end.
I’ve discovered a compromise before because of the fans going full speed on a server.
> My current game[0] for instance is a game with lots of made up monsters in it, that have their own made-up English names

"Hellion" doesn't really fit that theme.
Have you ever ridden a NYC/NJ subway/path train?

Even if you don't get stabbed or mugged, it constantly smells like throw up and there's usually no seats.
Yes and most of that came from removing regulatory delays, raising the obvious question of why they were there in the first place.
I've had the opposite experience. Ever since they switched to WebKit it actually works for me. Previous to that it was always so sluggish.
It would be cool if you had to pay $X in taxes, but there were different sliders for allocating where your taxes went (10% to infra, 20% to green initiatives, etc). That way people can support things that they believe in, and they feel more invested in the outcomes.
Apple has increasingly delivered “looks good, feels bad” design since the Jobs era, and I suspect this is organizationally endemic.
If there exists an effective treatment/therapeutic for covid, then the emergency use authorizations for vaccines are invalid. There's a lot of money and popularity at stake in this game.
/second NoScript. Instead of whitelisting whole sites, you can whitelist links to JavaScript imports across all sites, temporarily or permanently.

So for example, you can whitelist urls to all the major JavaScript frontend frameworks’ CDNs, like bootstrap, etc. while leaving known trackers and spyware blacklisted by default.

Anecdotally it seems most websites still work with their trackers disabled, as long as they have their frontend framework/s loaded.
This is sad. It reads more as though teachers and school employees are doing whatever they can to keep/justify their jobs, but not to improve learning. It is almost as if a teachers first job is self-preservation. If students can’t pass the test, then the test must be made easier, that way more students can pass and the teacher doesn’t look bad.
I can't wrap my head around this one either. Yes, Steam UX is horrible, every action takes 2 seconds to complete, even opening the home page takes 2 seconds when Steam is already running. They haven't even bothered to put up a loading spinner, it's just a black screen. And yet, somehow, Epic is even worse. Doing anything in Epic you have to look at black screen for like 5-10 seconds, and you never know when it has crashed versus when it's eventually going to finish doing whatever thing it was doing for 10 seconds.

But the absolute worst thing about Epic Games Store is that it steals 5% of my CPU cycles whenever it's running. That's right, when I'm playing a game I purchased on Epic, the game runs 5% worse (assuming it's CPU bottlenecked) because Epic Games Store needs 5% of my CPU to do nothing, all the time.
The lawyer involved costs a lot more, and is likely what GP post is asking about.
Hi Peter,

What's the straightest path to the US for a tech worker?
They do use theme-color and only fallback to either page background color or header background color when theme-color is not present[1][2]

[1]: https://files.grid.in.th/z3ox7o.jpg

[2]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10029/
Thanks for doing this.

How common is it for application processing to be outside of the published processing times? I have been waiting on an I-131 since January so that I can finally leave the country to see family while my (marital) green card is processing, but I’ve seen no movement and I’m wondering if I should be worried (it’s outside of the National Benefits Center’s posted 3-5 months). I submitted a case inquiry but have not heard back yet.
Using a mode checker on existing software is unproductive, but rewriting existing, working software that you have to shoehorn into a shape rustc (which had a miscompilation bug until 1.52.1, has no specifications or alternative implementations, right?) will compile is productive? Rust’s type system is elegant, but Agda, OCaml F#, F* and Haskell, which are in a whole different league of sophistication, are not? Furthermore, I’m not aware of any progress in “sealed rust” or “rust belt” other than raising grant money. I don’t think a certification is coming anytime soon. There are other verified compilers that could be used now, though.

This argument sounds like rust for rust’s sake.
Thank you, this does give me some ideas.
Legal fees for both vary greatly but I've seen anywhere from $1500 to $5000 for a TN application/petition with $2000-$2500 the most common and $2500 to $10000 for an NIW petition with $5000-$7500 the most common.
has there been any research on what hardware changes would be necessary to reclaim performance? I've noticed extreme stutter events on desktop OSX for the last 2 years. Would be curious if its related.
With every chair I've tried I always have pain in my elbows from the arm rests. I've tried those strap on pads (soft and firm) but still have pain. Does anyone else have this issue and did you find a good solution?
Steam on low bandwidth is bad, too. It''ll happily keep trying and failing to download client updates (ignoring the "download window" time settings). Viasat likes to kill connections after ~10mb or so, so the thing will download the same 10mb of an update over, and over, all day long, if its allowed to.
I think it was more specific to a small group of powerful people, because it seems to be reversing. Slowly, but I can see that progress is being made.
Trauma is like a sunburn. Adversity will give your brain a "tan", letting you handle worse adversity over time, but too much at once and it's trauma. The problem is that the kind of teens who go into these programs are often the equivalent of ghost pale, and get traumatized by even mild adversity.
Not quite as good as this one:

https://www.amren.com/features/2020/05/after-twenty-years-wo...

I'm a bit surprised that the Bay Area, one of the wealthiest places in the world, has problems with public schools too. "Public schooling is child abuse" gains more steam every day.
Tangent: Poetry can have very slow dependency resolution. It doesn't cut to the core of the problem: Pypi doesn't enforce clearly specifying dependencies. Many packages do, like in Wheels metadata, but Poetry ignores this, and installs each package.

There are some ways around it. For example, build an independent cache of metadata to use instead of Pypi directly.

For discussion on the topic, see this GH issue: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2094#issuecom...

This is now fixed, but for most of Poetry's life, it took some tricks to work on Python 3, at least on Windows; the workaround wasn't documented. So, it'd always assume Python 2. I can't remember the details, but tried and quit Poetry several times during its early life for this reason.
I don't think it matters. Do you? Abusive people who are enabled by their privilege need to have that privilege restricted. I believe they deserve such restriction as a form of punishment, a moral consequence of their abusive behavior. But even if you reject that moral analysis—and there are reasonable arguments for doing so—putting or keeping abusive people in power harms the community, and keeping community members from being harmed by an abusive person is more than enough justification for restricting the privilege of that person.
And the new one appeals to a different market - personally I thought the old one was pretty ugly, especially with how it would shatter into a ton of spinning fragments when it was loading. It said "hello this is a safe space for Gamerz", and I am very much not a Gamerz.

Now it doesn't say that. And now I'm less inactive on the various discord chats I've been invited to. Most of which are not really full of Gamerz anyway - but staring at that very Gamerz logo for a few seconds every time I opened the thing made me not want to open it.
A few examples,

In Fort Collins CO the gov't owns 100% of parking. So if you have a parking violation that you haven't payed you are essentially blackballed from parking in the entire city. It's a government monopoly. And there are big brother parking enforcement trucks driving around that do mass readings of license plates with cameras and print tickets on the spot.

My home: St Tammany parish LA, has the highest number of prisoners in the state, in a state that has the highest imprisonments in the country, in a country that has the highest imprisonments in the world. My home is the king of imprisonments.

A commission was done years ago to determine how many LAWS are here are in the U.S. and they gave up! Google 'how many LAWS are there in the U.S....Meanwhile ignorance of the law is no excuse for citizens.

Police everywhere are getting actual military gear. The ACLU has a whole section of their website on militarization of police.

Student loans are by federal law unable to be bankrupted out of. (One of the very few loan types like this). And one of the main reasons college tuitions are so inflated compared to the CPI... is the easy availability of student loan money. It's a self re-enforcing problem caused by the government.

The company I'm working for is gov't funded and is millions of dollars in the hole and years behind schedule on a project and still the money printer go brrrr.

Property taxes are causing people who have lived in their house for generations to lose their house.

Zoning controls peoples homes to the minutest detail. You can lose your house for not 'fitting the neighborhood character'... character that was established before ZONING existed to enforce it.

Our law enforcement agencies are: the CIA, FBI, NSA, TSA, DEA, ATF, state police,county police, metro police, city police, etc.

Just a few examples.

The gov't is way out of control in this country in my opinion but we're boiling the frog so people don't notice the problems and gradual restriction of their freedoms.

The govt also has the appearance of being 'for the people' because we vote for it.. meanwhile lobbying and private interest funding of politicians has increased massively after citizens united... and gerrymandering is so commonplace that politicians basically draw their own districts.
Gaslighting as a term is so en vogue right now. lol
(Separate question so another comment)

Peter, thanks for doing this!

What are your thoughts about what computing can do to positively affect the practice and integration of law into individuals and companies?

I know the legal space has always been a tough nut for software to crack. What is your opinion on why this is?

These are very general questions and I appreciate anything you can do to help me understand this space better.

For context, I’ve built software that helped to construct sections of disclaimers/disclosures from business logic. A very primitive approach and one that doesn’t really go deep, but I felt it had potential.
Spoiler alert: in 10 years a leak reveals that ProtonMail is one of the multiple "Swiss-based privacy-oriented" services operated by secret services.
Hello Peter, thank you for offering this space.
Is it possible to get a work permit in the US as a self employed? What are the steps? Are there limitations?

Thank you
Operations Underway to Restore Payload Computer on NASA's Hubble
A friend this to me before seeing it on HN.. and this was my sarcastic but mostly serious response:

The royal colony of Oregon among the imperial nation of the United States allows for human beings to return to the Earth when they die.

In all seriousness... I'm going to dig a whole in the ground and my friends and family can literally drag me in there.

This ridiculousness goes the way back to the "embalming industry" circa civil war.

edit: typo
Very common unfortunately and right now I-131 applications based on marriage-based green card applications typically are taking at least 8 months.
Can EU citizens living in Malaysia long-term exercise their GDPR rights when Google decides that they reside in Malaysia?
Will somebody please think of all the people with inane perspectives on multimedia they want to post!

Come on software engineers; social media problems are all there is.
> the weather proofing they need out in the open

He suggest to put one in the tower. There's no need to weather proof anything, or else poor controllers ;). In theory the tower see the runways well enough, or else the airport isn't well designed and the tower doesn't fill its own purpose.

> The dash cam used to record that video was standard, but also completely unable to handle even a well lit road at night.

Weren't we still able to see the cyclist? Weren't we able to boost the contrast to see her even better?

Sorry for the sarcasm, but even the worst camera show more than no camera at all... You can't argue that seeing a cyclist badly is worse than not seeing that same cyclist at all.

All it takes is a 100$ camera and you would get so much more evidence.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window for why this is bad.
It's not the payload mass increase which leads to exponential increase of starting mass. It's the payload speed increase which requires exponential increase in starting mass.
Wonder if it's for the same reasons as this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl
birbar isn't developed any more. it's rebooted as xbar

https://github.com/matryer/xbar
"the line of death"?
I doubt distrust in govt is based on lack of services vs taxes paid. It’s a propaganda war being lapped up by Trumpists and far right crowds worldwide because it fits their view - no govt unless they win.
That's an incentive alignment problem. It is the responsibility of management (state and district admin) to ensure that what is best for the teacher's career is also what is best for student education.
I'm not sure it meets your criteria but R Shiny (https://shiny.rstudio.com/) is purely reactive.
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