skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "At one time there was a exam for the Principles and Practice of Engineering with the discipline of Software Engineering from NCEES. ... The issue was that so few individuals took the exam that it was discontinued."

No, no one took the PE exam for software engineering because it was effectively impossible.

To become a PE, first the candidate has to pass one of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to become an engineer-in-training. Except there wasn't ever a software specific FE exam; the most relevant one is the EE/Comp. E. exam. Take a look at the list of topics: https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/FE-Ele-CBT-specs.pdf. Most developers aren't going to pass that even with a CS degree.

After that, the candidate needed 4-8 years of job experience while supervised by another licensed engineer. But, whoops, there are barely any software developers with a PE license, so who would they get to supervise them?

Only then does the candidate get to take the PE exam for software engineering and become a licensed professional engineer. Frankly, the situation was so absurd that one has to suspect that NSPE/NCEES didn't want to certify software developers as PEs.
Because no legislature creates non-scaled fines that are high enough to be meaningfully felt by billionaires, since they would have to be utterly ruinous to us mere mortals.
Yup.

"Must be safe for humans" always shifts the costs an order of magnitude.
I don't think that the author is telling anyone to stop using Go. They are suggesting that there should be a better alternative, and there are lessons to be learnt.

I don't think we should be so cynical as to just lie down and accept that some things are just too hard to get right
Registering domains is much less daunting than getting a phone number. Phone numbers also aren't persistent, and they go away all the time.
Oh, I didn't realize CDs didn't have copy protection? Why would they not? From the RIAA's perspective, isn't that just a way to double charge customers like the MPAA does?
Fantastic work on the extension. In terms of ideas for next steps, my suggestion would be to consider automating the process of creating and invoking cljs files. One big use I can see for this is creating ad hoc scripts to do stuff in the editor. If you could pop up an editor via some shortcut that would allow you to create a script and bind it to a shortcut, that would make using Joyride really seamless.
> You learn as a person when you understand why you should do something not just blindly following a list of advice.

So you are trying to drive that point home by adding to that list with this statement?

I read this list more as some inspiration -- most of the points were mostly "meh, sure" and won't stick, but there were a few food-for-thought points in there that I'll likely remember here and there. If that's similar for most people reading the list, it's quite a success. (Doesn't have to be the same few points for everybody!)
The issue of climate change, among other issues, is being used to promote unity and one world government. But it doesn't follow that this approach is best to climate change or anything else. We need variation in policies and technologies in order to select the best approach (and not get locked in to a sub-optimal approach).

One world government is bad because it will attract evil elements who use it to place all peoples under their control/taxation/exploitation, with no recourse or escape. All in the name of helping people and fighting for <insert your favourite political cause>.

By analogy, it might seem more efficient if families were to live in communal dormitories instead of their separate houses. In reality it would create stultification and at worst mass suffering when individuals took control over all aspects of other families' lives.
4GL was a buzz word in the late nineties when I entered software profession. It was pushed by ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software majors of that era such as SAP & BaaN.

Even though such software are the core of an enterprise today. Many technologies that they pioneered did not gain mainstream adoption after the entry of Internet software companies such as Google/Facebook/Amazon.

Take for example what is now a buzz "Low code No code", it is a poor ghost of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) - https://www.omg.org/mda/ . Enterprise software always wants to push software to the realm of standard components and modules. That cycle was broken around 2010 due distraction from the smart phone wave.

Other techs of that era - ESB, WSDL, SOAP, SOA, UDDI, BPM, Business Rules, EDI, Data Mapping (all are almost but forgotten). Many of them are getting re-bottled e.g. Microservices

Enterprise software has not had any major breakthroughs since. Glamour of new tech from Internet giants who invent it for their specific purpose is pushed more often than not, on to enterprise systems by other software vendors/consultants pouting it as the new and best. This has made standardization almost impossible and hence kept software always in the "handicraft" mode.
That's definitely possible, I'm only going from people I know personally. Lots of insurance and finance and consulting types whose lives seem obscenely easy with their regular raises and functioning health insurance (grass is of course always greener). And as for tech, while the industry isn't going anywhere I think any single tech job is not necessarily super stable either. I guess by white collar jobs I was specifically thinking of jobs at Fortune 500 companies.
A Declaration for the Future of the Internet [pdf]
This shouldn't be flagged...
Common solutions include appraisal (like property taxes are today) or a Vickrey auction, where we auction off the land, and the first place bidder gets it at the price of the second bid.
That's fair.

Although measuring it from March 20' is somewhat deceptive as the whole marked dipped, that wasn't snap specific.
Spyda.dev – Privacy first search engine and web crawler
The issue isn’t how automated it is— it’s easy to automate trains and automatically load pallets. Making each car responsible for autonomous navigation in two dimensions and self-loading becomes a much more complicated engineering problem.
The quote is about moral strength and virtue, not muscles.
> The idea that black kids don't count for this consideration is homicidal insanity.

framing the issue as menthol cigarettes killing black kids is a really infantilizing view of black people. black people are just as capable as anyone else of free will and the ability to make their own life choices. it just so happens that menthol cigarettes are popular among black Americans. would you frame chewing tobacco as "killing rural white kids" in the same way?

you could alternatively frame this situation as: black Americans, more than other groups, disproportionately enjoy smoking menthols, and this action is banning something they enjoy doing, and therefore is racist for the completely opposite reason!

lower-income people disproportionately consume fast food. is this "killing" them, and should therefore be banned, because fast food is disproportionately "killing" lower-income people? the same principle applies here.

also, I hope you're not in favor of "safe shoot-up sites" for heroin, etc., at the same time as you hold these views about menthols and black people, because that would be pretty contradictory!

the possibility of a world where weed is legal and menthols can only be acquired illegally, handmade on the black market, is an interesting one, that's for sure!
Pretty much mistake can be financially ruinous when you are living hand to mouth.

Why does the government get the privilege of also being financially ruinous to those who are otherwise financially stable?

The whole point of money is to be able to make problems go away with minimal effort. Government scrutiny is just one type of problem. It's a leaking water heater with a badge and a gun.
The problems I had with 4GLs back in the day, is they had a more extreme version of the 80/20 rule. It was gloriously easy to prototype but if you had to interface to external systems or any other thing they didn't think of, you would spend an enormous amount of effort on making it work. Some of them didn't even have any significant abstraction support.
> So a crisis was invented.

Are you saying that the millions upon millions who died (not to mention the untold millions who are suffering long-term health problems), didn't actually die? Or that what they died from (a highly contagious and infectious novel virus) was engineered?
Which to me raises the question: Are there any possibilities to increase the absorption of methane somehow?

And it seems like there are methods for capturing methane: https://news.mit.edu/2022/dirt-cheap-solution-common-clay-ma...
To extend he discussion, its safe to assume when a parent screams / hits that the other options didn't work. So it could be helpful to provide an example. Here's a sample scenario: Your toddler throws a rock at a stranger. You ask them to stop. They do it again. You get between them. They throw the rock at you. You restrain them (as gently as possible). They spit at you and then try to bite and scratch you. What next?

(Genuinely curious of your approach, I'm usually out of options at that point).
My site has its own search engine (just sqlite full-text search, nothing fancy) and searching for "go" is entirely unhelpful. So yes, external and internal SEO.
Third-generation Formula E car will run 40% of a race on regen power
Bringing Code Navigation to Communities
> While I don’t disagree that decolonization was progress, it ironically came at the cost of the peace that had been imposed on the colonies by their former colonial masters.

What is this "peace" you speak of? I think you want to take a closer look at the oppression that was endemic to colonization and occupation of foreign lands. One of the worse examples is Belgium's colonization of the Congo:

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/feb5/belgian-king...

If an African laborer didn't produce rubber (for example), it was common to chop off a hand (his own or a family member's) to encourage him to work harder.

Congo may be on the worse end of the spectrum of colonization, but it is hardly a singular example.
The article seems to be blaming the division of society on the Like button. I'm saying it was going to happen with or without that for the reasons I listed.
This is utter nonsense. Strong men make bad times, as anyone who's lived under a strongman can tell you, and strongman regimes are extremely weak in terms of human development, technological progress, and military power, as evidenced by the utter failures of North Korea and Nazi Germany and the USSR. Whining about how they did some notable things is missing the point: They couldn't sustain, they had no staying power, they achieved some victories and then either got pounded into nothing or stagnated while the rest of the world moved on.

You can see in modern Russia what decades of strongman rule, first in the USSR and then under Putin, looks like: Idiot conscripts hyped up on moronic propaganda getting blasted by an actual military fielded by a so-called "decadent" Western nation, with their ships being sunk by land-based weapons (and if you don't get why that's pathetic, you're not worth talking to) and their economy being destroyed by those "decadent" nations deciding to not buy from them anymore.

Strongmen create good times? Briefly, maybe, but get out before the piper demands to be paid, if anyone will have you.
If we're doing something stupid, the correct course of action is to stop doing the stupid thing, not to refine the stupidity. Software patents are stupid.
I like the cut of your jib. Do you have a newsletter?
Polls are good measures of the kind of people who willingly talk to pollsters.
I agree. It seems "compromise" is increasingly used as "What I'm proposing should be considered the compromise and you should listen to me". There's no real debate. Nobody tries to address the other side's concerns. And then we do have, as you say, some fundamental differences in world views and experiences that sometimes form an impasse.
Because it needs far more complicated and expensive cars for no real benefit.
Yep - same with the w10 calc, you can no longer move it with WIN-ARROW, as it scales to half the monitor…
I guess I should try to copy the W7 calc (which also have great shortcuts F5 /F6 to toggle between the normal/binary (programmer?) modes - really handy for a quick decimal to hex conversion - I miss that…
I appreciate extending the analogy but I don't understand what this actually looks like in real life. You only go to college one, have your first job out of college once, etc. If you don't maximize ROI on those (not just financially but socially) you're playing catchup forever. Success is absolutely still possible but it will take hard work and luck compared to if I had just followed the prescribed path like so many people I know.
> He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know. ― Annie Dillard

What a gem.
On Microsoft's homepage (e.g. for a primary consumer focus), they list Windows behind Office 365 and behind the Xbox and Surface.

For corporate use, they are pushing seats for O365 and other hosted services as well as selling Azure-based hosting.

The loss of the mobile phone market and hits to the low end by Chrome OS means that pursuing a platform lock-in strategy is no longer viable.
GitHub only parses commit hashes with at least 7 characters. IIRC I read somewhere that this was considered a safe lower boundary but my googlefu couldn't come up with a site that shows the math.

The chances of a hash collision by chance with 10 characters are basically impossible (unless sha1 is broken further and it's a malicious repository).

The master branch of the linux kernel has a little bit over 1 million commits (measured with git log --format=oneline | wc -l).

With "git log --format=oneline | cut -b 1-4 | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n30" you can verify that it has 25 prefix collisions with a 4 character prefix. With 5 it's still 4 collisions, with 6 there are none.
>if only they would agree with our side, we'd be fine again

I'd argue a lot of problems today would be solved if people stopped buying into the massive intra-class war propaganda pushed onto the working class and had a little more empathy for one another.
"The story of Babel,” Haidt writes, “is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we now inhabit. Something went terribly wrong, very suddenly. We are disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from one another and from the past.".. it could be Germany from 2015 and beyond..
Not a fan of articles that attempt to speak for me or say that I have stockholm syndrome. It’s super gaslighty and a pernicious form of contempt culture in the tech community. Instead of just saying how they feel about a language, they try to claim a moral high ground.
An Introduction to Steganography
Lie to immigration? People in this thread are insane. Going to get yourselves banned from counties.
I hope you realize that strong men (of old times) have nothing in common with delusional paternalistic idiots?
Why does everyone try and drag the discussion in the direction of a few dozen people who are a rounding error of a rounding error?

Legislators seem happy to create fines that are meaningful if not excessive to everyone with a household income short of two well paid white collar professionals (who themselves are a small minority).
I really don't know enough about Python to discuss it, so I usually don't. There have been some semi-recent developments re typechecking Python (see https://dropbox.tech/application/our-journey-to-type-checkin...) that have made me interested in trying out for real.
SS: This was issued by the US and a few other countries within its realm. I want to point out that despite some of the fluffy language, this is not a legally binding document, and thus, cannot be defined as anything more than 'theater.'

The best internet is an internet without any non-inclusive single entity or clique/cabal of entities attempting to assert ownership of any kind therewith.

The internet belongs to ALL of the people of the world, period, and not in a democratic way. It's everyone's own internet.

You can choose whether or not to connect your network and to who/whom. That's the only global, unanimous law.
From HEVC to VVC: The First Development Steps of a Practical Intra Video Encoder
Ignoring bad behavior is fascinating to me -- does that actually work for most people? I've noticed in my own (and others) toddlers, who are generally speaking well behaved and docile, that ignoring is usually the worst option. Distraction is always the best, but only works ~1/3 or 1/2 of the time and I've been told I am exceedingly good at it.
>You say "everyone else is running for the hills", but I don't think you'd claim that 100% or even 25% of left-wing Twitter users have left the platform today.

Sorry, I forgot where I was posting for a second. It was an idiom, not an attempt at a mathematical proof.

The point is that only one side suddenly feels unwelcome and the other suddenly feels very welcome.

>Is it true that the "wokeness" debate is such a big issue you can't use a social media platform run by someone who doesn't agree with your stance,

No. I just don't look forward to the flood of edgelord Nazi shitposters, bots and harassment I predict Elon (and, Trump's probable reinstatement) will draw to the platform, nor do I particularly want to use a platform whose owner considers my views to be akin to a plague. I will, as long as it remains feasible to block accounts I have no interest in.

>or have the incentives of social media tricked you into seeing it as a totalizing conflict where nobody can agree to disagree?

I didn't take over Twitter because I felt it needed to be liberated from the "woke mindvirus." Elon is bringing the totalizing conflict, I just want to read my feed in peace.
Agreed. The question is how bad the effect will be, no way to foresee it.
Usually the degradation is not linear as you said. So about 1gbps at 2000m would be excellent compared to now that least we can have 2/300mbpbs at about 1/200m.

Obviously there’re lots of variables on the copper, really a lot. Also every EU’s country has a different infrastructure.
Old institutions cannot compete with Elon Musk, YouTube, podcasts such as Rogan, and the dopamine of social media. The CDC changing minds on masks hurt confidence, for example. Someone like Musk is viewed as decisive .
> dirty secret of peace is that it is often imposed by a dominant power. Pax Romana, Pax Britannica, Pax Americana.

If it’s literally in the name it’s not a secret. Competition for monopolies on violence are bloody. When we can sidestep that contest, we get a lasting peace.
A “closed” office design includes private inner sanctums, small group common areas, and large group common areas. Think academia: my grad student friends have shared or sometimes private offices in little clusters of 5 that surround a small conference room or lounge. Then down the hall is the big department lounge. A much greater range of preferences are satisfiable with this layout. The same people are also allowed to have varying preferences depending on the time of day or phase of project, and to wander with their laptops.
> rustlang

Rust is a chemical reaction, not a programming language. HTH. GLHF.
There is another base tunnel being built to the southwest [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_d%27Ambin_Base_Tunnel
More like 7-8k/month if you count true employer's expenses on average employee for persons operating & maintaining complex machineries/connected IT systems.
Are they still a minority?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-bidens-approval-...

Yes, there is a clear political tribal alignment between the current "out-group" and skepticism of institutions, but the rise of that iconoclasm on the right seems to be correlating with its growth as a whole.
We can’t know whether this product was successful until we know what its goals were. Hopefully Brian Stelter will weigh in, soon.
Sorry to hear about your situation. You can't turn the wheel back and you can't undo your mistake. The best you can do is to learn from it going forward and not to make the same mistake again.
yes, spike protein is the culprit I think.

When the vaccine came out it was believed that the spike is harmless but later it was shown that the spike protein is enough to cause symptoms similar to the disease COVID. [1]

For a long time people thought that the mRNA, and therefore the spike from the vax, would stay in the muscle tissue and be broken down in a matter of days. This study [2] in Cell found that, actually, the mRNA can get to the lymph nodes and cause spike production for as long as 60 days. Spike protein is also found in the blood of 96% of vaccinees and the concentration is comparable to that of an acute infection.

[1] https://www.contagionlive.com/view/spike-protein-of-sars-cov...

[2] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00076-9
Every other time this has come up, all the black people I know were pissed off that they were going to be banned and pretty vocal about it.

I don't see why it would be any less likely that the menthol exception was due to listening to black peoples opposition to the ban.
I think in this analogy, the Internet is the printing press.

Social media is maybe the gutter press. But note that the gutter press is only possible where enough people are literate, which is definitely a good thing.
I think you are the one infected with a very paternalistic vision of strength.

Strength is the ability to apply force, it's the quality of solidity, the potential for resistance, etc.

E.G: it takes strength to not act on fear and hate. Gandhi is considered a man of great strength.
Yes... the article that this article was responding to is the kind of thing you get when you rule out an analysis of material conditions and focus exclusively on the ideological superstructure.
Do you have an example of that? I haven't seen a lot of debate about the data (facts), but usually it's about the information (how it was formed from the data). Of course there are a small group of leaders (and/or crackpots) on either side spreading blatantly false info, but I feel that's rather small and receives outsized coverage.
This article should not be flagged.
anyhow/ensure.rs: A Rust macro with 677 lines
i feel like that C example isnt fair cause you cant have functions bound to types right??
youre not calling change(a) but instead calling a.change().
i havent learned any rust yet, im waiting till im a little better at go so i can be comfortable at work before doing so:)
whats the advantage of creating a function of type struct a rather than creating the C equivalent of change(obj structAtype) ? to me now, it seems that it should be expected that an a.Change func will mutate A
i see what you’re saying that with Go it cant always be easy to check if its mutating what you’re calling or not. its giving the developer more options to use stuff by ref/val which gives more power but more room for mistakes.
My view is based on the amount of notional money that exists due to the high valuations. Once that disappears, it's going to trigger a much bigger collapse, same as the mortgages did. It's not about the employees that are directly involved (though they will be hurt too), it's the relationship with the whole financial system.
Sure, I agree with you, I meant that Rust's type system is a better abstraction over manual memory management than C++'s type system, I didn't mean that Rust is an abstraction over C++, I'm just not that great in expressing myself clearly in this case.
It isn't just about ARM. Either Apple or Microsoft would have to write all the M1 drivers specifically for Windows or else we wont see Windows 11 bootcamp working on ARM Macs.

Edit: OK I will bite, will Apple be writing their Direct X drivers for their GPU to work on Windows 11?