skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes sense why there's no software engineering then. If a requirement would be to have to learn about every software engineering disaster in the last 10 years, let alone the last 100 years, no one would have time to finish the course.
> While women have a higher proportion advanced in several categories, they have a lower proportion advanced in the semifinals category.

Do you think greater male variability (hypothesis) has to do with this?
Feel free to point out the evidence of superiority provided by those who accredit medical doctors and lawyers.
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For games that need it, yes. Proton works very will and Valve has done a ton of work to certify that games work on the handheld. There are currently 5.5k+ games with the verified or playable status, and if a game isn't on the list it still might work fine.
If they just replied back and said “oh no - mistake: AirTags are allowed” then there will be no story. But they did not. So I called them and their customer support was not able to tell me. So I started believing that they really will not allow AirTags
Worse, IP package sizes didn't grow at all. So it would require 200 000 context switches per second if you don't want to add code bundling packets kernel-side and dispatching them a-la Nagle's algorithm. This is both error-prone and adds latency. Even worse, trampolines and other mitigations make it so switches clear CPU cache.
No it isn't. There is a night and day difference between finding a causal link between X and Y, and controlling Y with a new method Z. It's orders of magnitude more complex and it took decades for consensus on only the causal link, and the predictions vary tremendously. Our prediction power on complex systems is extremely limited.

If you take medicine as an example, all drug development comes with unpredictable side effects. The process for putting the safe label on a drug is through testing it on 10s of thousands of people – it's extremely primitive and only works if we're willing to accept catastrophic failures from time to time. Even when something goes wrong, we often don't know why. And even when we know why, Pharma companies have so much invested that they often hide it for profit reasons.

Or: When we started producing CFCs we had no idea that we'd weaken the ozone layer. How could we? It's a miracle that the causal link was found at all.

The problem of having only one planet makes climate engineering extremely risky. Obviously it depends on what method is used. Carbon capture is ~easy to test for side effects in isolation, whereas chemicals in the stratosphere or a space sunshade is harder.
Removing php-fpm + nginx from a container sounds AMAZING to me. If I can just have one thing in a container (plus a code base), that would be a LOT simpler than:

nginx, php-fpm, some init system, and the convoluted configuration needed to get logs out via Docker's logging mechanism.
Playing around with older Linux distros and the innovative user interface modifications and enhancements were some of my best spent hours out of all of them.
There are some US states with similar provisions (FL I think is one) but it isn't really enforced.
Right off the bat it seemed like it was saying experts have changed their tone recently. Saying "we're further from understanding consciousness than we thought we were". It never goes on to elaborate this point.

Great book review. If I had more time, I would snap up the book immediately. The review left me wondering if the book elaborates on the above ^^^. I might make the time to read it.
Huh? What are you referring to? Students? Faculty? I've been both and haven't seen this ever. Or are you trying to claim that the SAT and GRE are IQ tests?
Using the title is a little more than paying a fee. I have an MSc in CS from a Canadian University and that doesn't get me very close to a P.Eng.
Professionalization is part of it, but not the whole part. The main part was to manage the number of members. Also, this professionalization greatly decreases the propensity for bridges collapsing due to negligence/malpractice but does not completely prevent it. [miami pedestrian bridge, galloping gurtie, KC hyatt walkway, genoa viaduto].
The combinatorics of full-text search are astronomical. A dashed-off comparison like this is pure noise. There are so many knobs to twiddle, and a nudge to any one of them can yield remarkably different results.
Bees see with UV-A light, not UV-B.
But maybe we strive to find a balance. There are real costs to dragging our feet too.
lmfaooo
I think you're downplaying how destructive heavy metals and xenoestrogens are on the population.

Widespead use of lead had horrific affects on child development - and it's even credited for being one of the factors that lead to the downfall of the Roman empire.

And if we hadn't stopped using pfas as quickly as we did we would have had an even bigger fertility crisis on our hands than we currently do. We would have strode right into a Children of Men scenario.

I don't understand how you can blow these examples off as a "lack of scientific thinking". The irresponsible use of chemicals (or, more charitably, unintended side effects) seriously damaged society, and collective action was taken to mitigate further damage. How is that not an example of what you were asking for?
If this is true, it's changed in the last decade. I was able to write the engineering exam right out of school to become an "engineer in training". Becoming a full P. Eng required experience, but no exam.
You can always load the IDE up as a Vim/Emacs plugin. I've used the Eclipse Language Server within Vim to some success in the past
Which browser are you using? WebGL2 should be perfectly safe. The tab crashed for me once but Firefox just reloaded it without a hitch.
It's not about quality, it's about liability.
We write good code.
Ah, you mean YAML with JSON Schema?
My understanding is RoadRunner is more like FrankenPHP's "worker mode" (RoadRunner only makes sense in context of Laravel Octane), where as FrankenPHP can run "normally" as well.
The ahem warp core ejection system.
This is a crazy take on a volunteer, intended-to-be-part-time-side-hussle-money "gigs".

The "Gig Economy" is a fable for the most part. Some small minority of people have made it a full time job, sure, but that is not the norm, not even close.

No one is being taken advantage of by Uber, etc. You choose to accept a trip or not... it's that simple.
If anyone is interested in Vietnam "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien is excellent.
No I don't and to clear up the obvious - I tried it and didn't find it helpful. In fact it did more harm than good because I found the mental exertion of making sure that every entry was perfect, accurate, factual and precise and the inherent stress of making it so outweighed any possible benefits.

YMMV and Everyone is different. What works for one person seldom works for a different one.
wow wonderful read,
If you'd like to contact info@tailscale.com we can set up a time to talk.
I worked a lot for banks and aside from mandatory vacation there are other rules.

For example in one bank I worked for there is a 2 year limit on how long you can work there as a contractor. This is to make sure that all key personnel is actually employed by the bank and the assumption being that if somebody worked for 2 years they become key personnel by default and have to either be hired as an employee or fired as a contractor.
Every era has its “standard” models of construction that people complained about then, and now today people eye watering sums for “historical character.”

The thing that sucks about the current model is that everybody seems to be making retail spaces designed for chain tenants which small businesses don’t need and can’t afford.
We can also throw genetic algorithms at the problem and come up with some really unhinged floorplans.
You seem to have forgotten about the code of ethics and the definitely-not-trivial qualification exams.
Possibly, but a bureaucratic organization in Canada would not be a proper place to determine qualifications for software engineering. They are constantly behind the times in terms of testing, latest technology, and best practices.
Agree on the misery. I was speccing out a build and inadvertently picked a 2019 processor because it was extremely unclear.

(I'm now actually looking at an AMD 7700 rig, because intel won't do ECC on "desktop" CPUs, except for a rare chipset that I can't find a mobo for sale at the moment...)
Do you have a high refresh rate monitor? I only hit ~35% GPU usage with 1660ti but my browser is synced to 60 FPS.
If we count disasters as those involving loss of life, I'm pretty sure we did learn about Therac-25 [1], one of Canada's major software disasters resulting in actual deaths.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Is a fee sufficient?
(If so, surprised the company didn't just pay it). I thought in addition to other things you need to put in some time supervised by a licensed engineer (kind of an apprentice).
>what's next?

They learn to write clickbait headlines?
How is that whole depending on your employer for health care working out in the US?

Why would you want to depend on them for your long term financial stability?
Court case: In an oral decision delivered on November 26, 2019, Associate Chief Justice Nielsen of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench ordered an injunction against an individual who was using the title “Software Engineer” in his online profiles, despite the fact he was not an APEGA member. Associate Chief Justice Nielsen found that by holding himself out to the public as a “software engineer”, this individual could by implication lead a member of the public to conclude he is a professional engineer, licensee or permit holder with APEGA. This was a violation of s. 3(1)(a)(ii) of the Engineers and Geoscience Professions Act. Associate Chief Justice Nielsen granted the injunction order sought by APEGA and awarded costs to APEGA for the contested application.
Imagine having good enough specifications that a 16 year old change was still valid. :P

I've seen 16 year old bugs get fixed though. Usually just need to get them retriaged as a security bug, and then all things are fixable.
Free Pascal supports quite a few platforms, and compiles to native code.

https://www.freepascal.org/
As a comparison point, the four AP1000s in China took ~9 years to become operational after construction began.
I’m basing my feedback on Will Larson’s Staff Engineer archetypes (https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes) so read that first if you’re unfamiliar.

It sounds like you’re in a company that only has Tech Lead and Right Hand staff+ roles available, and the responsibilities of those roles are at odds with what you want to be doing.

I would actively seek out companies that offer Solver or Architect roles. These tend to be non-tech companies with large internal technology teams, so you might need to look further afield than the organizations we typically see represented on HN.

Overall though, optimize for your happiness at work. If you suffer through a role you don’t find fulfilling you will burn out.

I wouldn’t worry about the optics of your CV. Any place with a decent culture (i.e. somewhere you would actually want to work,) will listen to your story and appreciate your self-awareness and candor.
This sort of thing needs more advertising and more noise. People really need to grasp that AI gets biased based on the training sets you provide. You can't just blindly trust the results.
And the public as well. If I hire a lawyer, I have a signal that they probably have (at least) a rudimentary understanding of law, and are licensed to practice law. If I see a medical doctor, I know they have a degree and are licensed to practice medicine. If these people wind up negligent or put people in harm, I know that they have the chance of losing their license to practice law or medicine.

If I need an engineer, I should have at least some assurance that they know what they are doing, and that they aren't going to act unethically or against my best interest. I should also have some assurance that the fact they hold a license, means that they (probably) haven't been negligent, or harmful with their practice.

This is what Texas used for its software licensure examination: https://nceesorg.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2015...

All of that seems like, the barest minimum that I don't think anyone would disagree with to call someone a software engineer.
It looks like a real PayPal feature they're abusing by inserting their phishing message into a generic message field. They're aiming to get you to call that number

No compromised cert needed
I have done Java in Vim before with various plugins. It is technically doable, but it's also nowhere near as ergonomic as it is to use IntelliJ for example. I would want to put a lot more into the setup before trying to do it full time in the terminal.
Recently I disassembled a Nikon lens, the first 24-120 with VR as the VR constantly engaged. The plan was to disconnect the VR unit completly and use, interim, without VR. Didn't work, as apparently apperture control (electronic in this lens) and focus (AF and manual, also electronic) go over the same platine. No VR, that worked, but also no focus or apperture.

Point of the story, the lens had some shims to get into the proper focal plane relative to the camera. The model in question doesn't have the best sharpness reputation, some people put it on the worst 10 list of Nikon lenses. The sample I had is sharp so (VR didn't engage until 28 mm). My theory now is tgat the lens is sharp, and the bad rep comes from compromises during manufacturing (Thailand instead of Japan, with all the corresponding issues of setting up high precision operations in a new site), and potentially sub-par QC. Not sure if other lenses have shims as well, I'm kind of not inclined to disassemble perfectly working samples just to find out.

So no, shims aren't per-se a bad sign but rather one of a certain calibration strategy. If those shims are everywere so, manufavturing quality propably isn't the best.

Oh, one word on 50 mm lenses. Those are among the fastes, sharpest lenses ever regardless of manufacturer. And dirt cheap compared to "pro" models. Seems to be quite well understood optics.

I do have two pre-AF Nikon lenses, and those are master pieces of precision mechanics, dating back to the late 70s and early 80s.
> Consume less, make less people, and use less power.

Yes, people should consume less oil (but big corporations don't).

Yes, people should use less power (but big corporations just count power as a cost of doing business).

Yes, people should make less people (but big corporations need manpower).

> Ask yourself if those things are possible in your life and whether that means perfect should be the enemy of good when bringing in a responsible solution demands responsible care. Your needs for immediate satisfaction do not supersede the longterm welfare of your progeny.

I have no intention of creating progeny in this fucked up world. Moreover, nuclear power is far safer, per watt produced, than coal or oil.

> From the outside looking in, valuing current demand over the lives of our children is what got us in this mess.

It's not individual people who've got us in this mess. Or rather, it is... individual people working for individual corporations who don't consider individual people anything other than feedstock for corporation profits.
I don't think each civil engineer studies every bridge that's ever collapsed. Generally this sort of thing is handled by looking at case studies that represent particular failure modes.
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“I did something illegal but since nobody reported me nothing happened to me”

Well no shit.
The message has been out there for decades - hell, if not more than a century. We as a species have utterly failed to listen. We're consequently staring down the barrel of an existential threat to humanity's continued survival on Earth. Far more than one Van Gogh painting will be lost, and at this point it's likely too late to do anything about it but triage and mitigate further catastrophe.
I think Fussel had a point in 1989, but after that there's been plenty of depictions of war that have been less sanitized. "The Pacific" comes to mind in TV, and "Fury" in movies, even if it's very formulaic.

Memoirs can be raw too:

- https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Helmet-For-My-Pillow.ht...

- https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/With-the-Old-Breed.html

And even before 1989 novels like Waugh's "Sword of Honour" trilogy problematized WW2.
>China has never repealed this law.

US never repealed the Hague Invasion Act. Would you say they are threatening Europe? Or do you know someone who says this law no longer applies?

>avoid a war

What war? Neither Taiwan nor China want any kind of military conflict, and they have coexisted peacefully for many decades, including during the KMT regime. There is only one party that would (greatly) benefit from a war there.

>Frankly I think you're either being wilfully obtuse or just arguing in bad faith.

It's called cognitive dissonance. I've just shown you you're using completely different criteria for China and other countries.
Context is required for basically all product names, unless they've managed to make themselves generic. Ex https://www.businessinsider.com/google-taser-xerox-brand-nam... . Even then, if they are "generic" they still often require context of a specific country or language.

If I ask you about a Mustang, what do you think about first? Are you into cars and it's a Ford Mustang? Are you into Horses? Are you into Planes? Or maybe you're into ships? Heck, there is an entire list of options: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustang_(disambiguation)

A good name is memorable, not necessarily descriptive. Most product and company names today are made up anyways. Or they are named after something else in a completely arbitrary fashion.

The problem comes when a company establishes a name for one thing, then uses it for another. The iPhone is a good name in concept. Pro/Max/Ultra/Mini not withstanding. But what if tomorrow Apple said there was an iPhone Super Ultra Max that was 10" and couldn't make calls. People would argue that was an iPad and that this new Super Ultra Max was a stupid name.
this is not about different values but about oppression.

if a colleague were to share this image at work, i would tell them to stop wasting my time with this dumb stuff. if it was a member of a team i am leading i would tell them to stop goofing around and get back to work.

if on the other hand, someone would denounce this person for sharing inappropriate images, i would consider that an act of oppression. we are supposed to work together, and not against each other.

a work culture where every little transgression has severe consequences is not healthy.

if this image makes someone uncomfortable, they are welcome to talk to me and i will listen to learn why. i suspect most likely, it's not the image itself that's the problem, but the attitude of those who laugh at it. i will then talk to those people and do my best to get them to improve their attitude about such matters.

there are things that are inappropriate to do at work, and one of them is to make dumb jokes like this, but that doesn't make the image itself not safe for work.

and as for choosing my workplace, i come from a country where employees actually have rights. and one of those rights is to share their personal opinions, even if others disagree, as long as doing so is not disruptive. the idea that the leaders in the company can tell their employees what they are allowed to talk about or not is rather alien to me.

this doesn't mean that it's ok to say or share things that are hurtful. it only means that there is no topic that is a priori not allowed to be discussed at the work place.

if this image comes up because someone in my team actually did mistype their url, they may share it with the team, and if they have the appropriate attitude, they will dismiss it, denounce the maker of that website as juvenile and move on. if someone walks by, having no idea why this image is there on the screen, they may inquire about it, or come to me and ask me what that is supposed to be about. we'll check, find out and move on.

calling this image not safe for work, creates an environment of fear, that itself is not healthy and in the country where i come from, not acceptable.
Canadian developer here. I always correct people when they call a developer a software engineer for specifically this reason. I've met exactly one person in my entire career that was actually a licensed engineer working in software. I always get the glazed over eyes look when I tell people that it is actually illegal to claim you are an engineer when you aren't because it's a regulated professional term, but I do it anyway because I think it's important. My father is a licensed mechanical engineer and he's allowed me to be on the periphery of his work, so I have second hand knowledge of how "loaded" the title is and why it is regulated to this degree.
At least one of us has worked in the aerospace field and has relevant domain knowledge to evaluate the feasibility of this idea. I'm gonna guess its not you.
TikTok will make $11B in ad revenue this year. It is their business model. This is twice as large as Twitter's business, and a third of Instagram or YouTube.
Mere weeks ago The Economist was claiming Russia's economy was collapsing under the weight of sanctions...

Were they merely clueless, or is this article telling the readers sanctions aren't working that great and we should support peace negotiations?

Especially with yields on debt of one of leading proxy warriors - the UK - entering a dangerous zone...
Do your own research - start with all the predictions from scientists in the 70's that were claiming that we were entering the next ice age.

Like this one:

>>>>
“The world has been chilling sharply for about 20 years,” ecologist Kenneth Watt said in 1970. “If present trends continue, the world will be about 4 degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990 but 11 degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

He was hardly alone. In 1975, C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said that “(t)he cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed.” Scientist Nigel Calder wrote that “(t)he threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”

Scientific consensus eventually moved away the global cooling alarums and instead began warning against global warming in the 1980s. Columbia University scientist James Hansen’s 1988 congressional testimony was one of the watershed moments in putting the global warming agenda before the American people in a major way. These days, Hansen is suing the government on behalf of children and future generations because he thinks they’re not doing enough to stop global warming.
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The media and (some) scientists have cried wolf so many times, they now get ignored by the masses - and now they have to make ever more outrageous claims in order to get noticed.
Babies born in lockdown were less likely to have said first word by turned one
They are the same in every practical sense, in particular in their end results.

The differences you mention are an implementation detail - in some countries you have the rules written down as law, in others you got shady three letter agencies, kangaroo "FISA courts", and In-Q-Tel.
Actually, the rules change every couple of years, which requires change to things already constructed. It’s amazing that the team was able to deal with that and still get it done.