skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nothingburger. Here is the quote that matters:

> Unless someone is licensed with a provincial or territorial engineering regulator, they cannot use the title engineer, or any variation.

So, you can legally call yourself a software engineer if you have your title. There are laws like this in most countries regarding medical doctors. This prevents Doctor of Acupuncture from appearing.
Oh wow, I haven't thought about Dogpile in years. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
You can call yourself a software engineer. You just need to have qualified with the professional body in charge of engineering. Like, say, a doctor or a lawyer.
he didn't mean "I don't want to technical-meaning-of-slander", he meant "I don't want to badmouth perhaps unfairly since I probably don't have all the facts"
in my store, the stairs next to the restaurant led to the beginning of the downstairs maze.
Just following basic rules of thumb (minimizing current loop area, length matching, impedance matching through trace width, series termination, etc.) may yield a working device, but how do you learn from that?

At some point you're already applying all those rules of thumb, but how do you then actually measure what works and what doesn't so that you can improve beyond that?

It seems it is difficult to find resources teaching that, and also the equipment needed becomes very specialized and expensive fast.
I've never gotten a ticket for jaywalking, either, but my employer recently shuffled some titles around similar to the advice in this article.
At that point it should be converted into an epic.
I'll add my three rules for exciting travel:

1. Travel alone.

2. Always politely brush off people that approach you.

3. Approach people that look like they're having fun.

Alternatively, go places where you have a good friend who will let you stay with them.
I agree. I think a deeper problem is it takes a Ph.D in Intel / AMD branding to understand what to buy. An 80486 was faster than an 80386, and 33MHz was slower than 66MHz. It was simple.

Intel's i7 line-up goes from 2 to 16 cores, 1-4GHz, spanning 13 generations. Toss in i3/i5/i7/i9, and lines like Atom and Xeon.

Each time I need to upgrade my computer, I groan. It's not just less fun, it's positively miserable.

Most people I know either buy the cheapest possible computer, or an Apple. I don't know why Intel thinks anyone will spend extra if they have no idea what they're buying. Most non-Apple users I know have phones with faster processor, higher-resolution displays, and for higher prices than their laptops.
I notice a lot of detracting responses here, but most aren't saying, "You're wrong." They're saying, "It's wrong of you to express these things unambiguously." Why is it that we let the urge to pretend gender and sexuality aren't real prevent us from addressing the problems we have with those matters? It's not an adult way to act.
My previous workplaces straight up reserved headcount for "diverse" candidates. In other words, we prohibited white and Asian men from a segment of our available headcount.

There is no singular type of diversity initiative. Perhaps there are some that implement blind hiring to eliminate bias, or other methods of increasing diversity by eliminating bias. But I've never encountered one, in my experience there all just good old fashioned discriminatory hiring practices once you get past the effusive language.
> but there's only a handful of these.

Huge if true.
What happens to the AIBs? Is this another example of Nvidia screwing them over?
My Amazon-/Microsoft-/VC-praised work +...= stable nuclear-deterrence (!?)
> Claiming to be an engineer without being licensed is against the law. Titles such as Professional Engineer, Professional Licensee (engineering), P. Eng., P.L. (Eng.), or any title including the word engineer or a related abbreviation can only be used by those who are licensed.

Technically, it is not illegal.

> There are several places where the use of engineer is often used improperly. They include:

Software or data engineer: Unless someone is licensed with a provincial or territorial engineering regulator, they cannot use the title engineer, or any variation. This applies even if the title is assigned by the employer. Alternative titles can include:

- Data analyst

- Data scientist

- Software specialist

- Software technician

- Data technologist

- Data manager

- Data technical expert
It lets you specify a list of terms which mustn't be further apart from each other than a given number of tokens.
Worse. Food have become more expensive although prices rise slowed down. Many clothing brands have left and replaced with brands from Turkey etc.
But we are not starving, have gas, electricity.
Anything can happen in Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlonY2l3V9c
Jurgalski Drops Bomb on Mountaineering History
that's true but if you listen to the two samples it's very clear the voice is not a typical man. but agreed it would help to do a blind test and see if people could pick them out.
Uh oh, I just told my urologist I was a Software Engineer. From my experience over the last 15 years, no one cares. I'm sure it matters to the courts, though.
See this one, for example, you could look at the method description section:

Modeling liquid water by climbing up Jacob's ladder in density functional theory facilitated by using deep neural network potentials

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14410

The software that are used are DeePMD-kit: https://github.com/deepmodeling/deepmd-kit
the corresponding paper is
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.03641.pdf
I agree with you. Fields like graph theory and set theory are fun once you wrap your head around the symbols, but I remember having a lot of trouble with both as a teenager.
the differences are in the details. the culture. how people interact with each other. what they do in their free time. the difference in the standard of living itself reveals a lot in what people feel is important to them. there is a lot we can learn, both from the similarities and from the differences.
Probably couldn't.
Is there a way an operator can command the operator into a failure mode?
Greece's renewable energy sources powered the entire nation for a few hours
While I mostly agree with you, my Canadian Mechanical Engineer father will gladly express his concern.

I've never been able to use the phrase "software engineer", despite having 20+ years of software experience because I was raised to believe that Engineers have silver rings, engineering degrees and professional standing.
Asking what I would do and what is ethical will give you different answers in many cases. I'm not saying you should be selfish, simply that it is not immoral. If the only choice you are allowed to make to be a moral person is to take the most altruistic path then nearly every person on earth is immoral since they aren't using everything spare at hand to save people who are starving or dying of cold, etc.
I think you're both right in different ways -- part of the problem is operations...

A friend of mine operates social media (at a tactical level) for a very large company and it sounds like they have a good set of operating guidelines in place to prevent problems like Lufthansa has here.

Now, most of his job is just replying to the same questions all day long (and he has a small team of people to handle the volume). All of the information they give out has been pre-approved, but once in awhile something new comes along and he runs it up the flag pole to marketing and/or legal before adding it to his list of approved replies.

Additionally, he works with the communications department, sales, and marketing to create planned communications. His expertise is in social media, and he guides the communications from the other departments on what will work well on social media. But he rarely comes up with the actual message.
Demand does not incur a debt to indulge. Consume less, make less people, and use less power.

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.

From the outside looking in, valuing current demand over the lives of our children is what got us in this mess.
Ontario Moose Hunt Turns into a 10-Day Survival Ordeal (1962)
Apple knew this would happen and promoted that social behavior on purpose.
A lot of startups use Netsuite and get squeezed hard for it, and a lot of enterprises use Oracle DB and get squeezed hard for it. Oracle doesn't need to "ensure value" to prevent you from going elsewhere; vendor lock-in works just fine.
that's not correct. You can't call yourself an engineer despite having it in your title unless you get a license granted by engineerscanada.
https://engineerscanada.ca/become-an-engineer/overview-of-li...
It's hard to trace logic through that. Demand for the $1600 RTX 4090 is from "money be damned, give me frames" consumers, mixed with "can use for ML" professionals, and as such, are not quite the same market segment as the $900 crowd (remembering that the xx80 cards used to be $700 and much closer to the top of the lineup in overall performance.)
I'm not purposely trying to be adversarial with you, but you listed 3 technology subreddits as examples, when my original comment was referencing non-technology subreddits.

To the point of bickering - that's human nature. I expect humans to argue over the shade of blue, sneakers of the month, or whatever. What I don't expect humans to do is regress mentally to some child-like viewpoint of erasing and censoring any opposing viewpoints.

Reddit is radically different than it was 10 years, and not in a healthy, engaging way. Browse some non-technology subreddits and you will quickly spot the echo-chamber effect and group think in action.
How would you distinguish devices that use the sake protocols from the AirTags with the current scanners? There would likely be thousands in an airport at a given time.

How would you stop someone from taking out the battery and replacing it after security, or cross airline luggage transfer of devices with AirTags?

Enforcement of a ban without customs level scrutiny seems impractical.
Try Octane, it's the app server we were longing for.
Anothernother way to put it is:

> They seem more approachable with possibly more positive interactions.
Also, /e/ os*
I'm happy that the story played out well for you. Did you get that chance to go to the "wealthier" school from a process borne of equity, or one of equality? I'd imagine the latter is something like, you tested into and maybe got a scholarship for the school regardless of the means of your family, and the former something like, you were accepted into and maybe got a scholarship for the school regardless of your test score based on some immutable characteristic of your family.

One of the core tenets of classical liberal thought is that children should not bear the sins of their fathers, and I think from that stems a lot of support for public schools acting as an equalizer between children of higher-achieving and lower-achieving parents; because whether on the equality side or the equity side, most people agree that being born to a poor family, or one that does not value education, should not determine the entire path of your life, start to finish.

But your view seems too pessimistic; from your belief that two people cannot be compared unless they are coming from an equal footing, it stands to reason that you also believe that there are basically no individual differences, only group differences. And that individual effort matters little in light of their background.

Should we hire as a salesperson someone who lacks confidence and interpersonal skills, or a mason someone who is physically weak? Sure, nobody chooses to have a stammer or be asthmatic as a child, and those differences do compound over time and you end up with someone who finds it hard to make a sale or lift a concrete block. And I believe in giving people a chance. But at some point, individual efforts should matter.
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I'm currently studying for the PMP exam, which has made me realize just how far the promise of Agile is from how most people implement it.
Sure.

Professionals should be sticking to positive statements [1] though. So saying something like, the covid vaccine will give you austim I think should be grounds for losing your license.

On the other hand, saying something like, there's a high change you'll have flu like symptoms if you get the vaccine would not be grounds (the symptoms are disclosed as part of the vaccine trials).

But saying something like, I would like to try X treatment that isn't typically done but I've done it a few times recently and had good results I think should also be fine.

The law makes the claim of "contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care" which I think is a very reasonable statement. In general, you want people to recommend treatments that historically have worked for a condition. And for experimental type situations all the Licensee needs to do is to make it clear that the treatment isn't backed up by existing studies.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_statement
The title is misleading, the actual first one has been operating commercially since 2018 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmen_Nuclear_Power_Station). There are another couple of them in operation.
People understandably don't want to accept that Russia, China and India have gone all in with each other, because of the future ramifications, but it is what it is, and we're much better off if we start figuring out how we can get along in that sort of world.
> Imagine waiting 16 years for a PR :/

Imagine writing bug-free code put in continuous, mass population-critical use for the better part of a century.
Does HBR have a useable mobile app yet?
Why is this certain? Nobody has written a wifi stack, or even a single wifi driver, for Linux. Until they do, we won't know if Rust will help with these kinds of security flaws.
> Pretty sure that your interpretation of their intent behind bringing up "women" says more about you then it does about them....

Ah yes, the classic "You're sexist for pointing out sexism" argument.

> An alternative interpretation would be "many women find phallic humor to be funny".

An interpretation which has nothing to do with the comments at hand, which is determining if some content is SFW or not.

> As the HN comment guidelines suggest: > Assume good faith.

Yes, that means assume good faith when there is uncertainty. I don't see much uncertainty in the post in question, they are fairly explicit about their point.
Ask HN: Do you journal? What method do you use and how have you found it useful?
Imagine all the dependency rot in the 16 years.
In a lot of ways neovim can be a TUI VSCode. It supports the language server spec and all that. It does require (kinda complicated) config. But you can steal examples from the internet. There's also the ecosystem of plugins to do fancier stuff like code snippets, menus, status bars, etc.

But I don't do things like jumping to declarations with it. That's likely a thing with some plugin, I just don't know. I generally try to avoid traditional OO languages when I can. I used to use IntelliJ for those, but I have actually switched to VSCode for them and some of the things I've always used vim/neovim for, like larger Go projects.

I make any IDE act like vim because my hands want to do modal editing. That's a thing where my habits impact my perceived ergonomics. If it doesn't support that, I won't use it. It's just too frustrating.

I don't use Javascript except when I have to. If that's part of a TUI VSCode for you, then this may not be helpful.
Trade bodies... protecting their members since the middle ages.
Don't the cards physically already exist though?
Ah but you see, I'm a "software lawyer" which is a title I made up and personally feel like should have no professional standards or qualifications
I've used Meilisearch for the last two years with around 300k items in the search index for a personal project and its pretty good. The earlier verisons were a bit rough but recently even indexing a ton of data is speedy.
Your understanding is technically correct but missing some nuance which is the heart of the matter. It's true the use of an IQ test can be justified. The important thing is that the use of an IQ test must be justified.

Due to the Supreme Court ruling, IQ tests are assumed to have a disparate impact. They are by default assumed to be discriminatory unless proven otherwise. A company must either prove the lack of disparate impact, or demonstrate a plausible connection to work performance (beyond "smart = good").

Most hiring practices are default OK, and a claim of discrimination must be proven in court. This hiring practice has already been decided in court, so it is default not-OK and must be defended. That difference is significant.
The bags travel on a conveyor belt, which passes through a scanner that scans one bag at a time. Whenever there is something detected, you know exactly which bag trigger it and it gets redirected to another conveyor belt.
> In the US? Armed revolt by unionized workers.

And folks wonder why I oppose gun control.
bye Reddit.
You're in luck: Apple Maps does offer transit directions. You can also toggle on viewing transit lines in the map mode menu.
This must be enforced only on an adhoc basis when complaints are filed, or only in certain jurisdictions.

In BC, I have worked as a "Software Engineer" for 15 years with just a Bachelors and no engineering license, including for large tech companies. It's on my CV/LinkedIn. SE is the standard title internally and externally, it's on job postings, it's used everywhere.
I'd say the state of "forever his actions will no longer be fully his own" is easier to reach with doomsday weapons than with ads.
4080 12GB did its task. It send the gamers a message that do not wait for cheaper 40 series cards go by 30 series now. Now the best thing Nvidia can do is wait until navi 3 has launched and release 4070 ti with same specs but decide price point based on what AMD has set to their cards.
> Engineers Canada does not grant licenses to practise engineering.
Systems Analyst?
I watch https://www.youtube.com/user/funker530 for this reason. It is not a gore channel. Their intent is to document what actual combat is like. I have never served and likely never will given my age. My only rational is to stay informed. One of my enduring memories of childhood is the nightly casualty reports on the news and pictures of body bags from Vietnam. The US military is incredibly professional now compared to the 60's which is good. The downside is that our Gov't is quick to use them without thinking about the long term consequences.
And perhaps most relevant to the software engineering/not-engineering conversation, a code of ethics.
I'll add: (only?) Meilisearch is fully multi-lingual.

I didn't dive into the various engines, but I was looking for one that would support Russian in a small side-project, and Meilisearch was the only one [1] that had it right there out of the box

[1] Criteria for "only one" where "out of the box, ease of operation, no fiddling with configs, if not directly inside DB then with an easy HTTP API"
I read this comment with a Werner Herzog accent. I hope that's ok with you.
Iron rings.
This just poses further questions as to why electric motors weren't popularized before the steam engine instead. They're so easy to make that it's entirely possible to make one out of a literal box of scraps.

We have some records of batteries dating back far even to ancient Egypt, magnets can be found on the ground, the only real obstacle is making thin copper wire reliably I guess.
I'm going to buy AMD RDNA 3 card anyway.
It's using Three.js[^1] with Photons[^2], and a number of other interesting libraries for calculation like satellite-js[^3].

[1]: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/

[2]: https://github.com/mkkellogg/Photons

[3]: https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js
Try (or pretend to :-)) the "obvious" things that might get answered and state you've tried them (and reasonably failed).
The delays have not come from approval reasons, but from construction mess ups, as well as design flaws (ie unconstructable designs, not designs that would be unsafe if constructed).
What font is in the screenshots? I like it
Given the shoddiness of most code churned out by your average company, perhaps the title of engineer should be harder to claim.
Not the economic situation, but here's a very good and in-depth analysis of the Russo-Ukranian war by a retired indian army general, made 3 months ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78KbH3Eb8lc (HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33197358 )... In it, he briefly mentions that economic indicators point that sanctions against Russia are also hurting the US too, not just Europe.
A business can title a person as an engineer with limited complaints, a person cannot market themselves as an engineer.

Here in Texas, we had a licensure board for Software Engineering for a minute, though it was eventually killed by our Sunset Commission, because almost no one was interested in it (sadly).
Since Emacs runs just fine in a terminal, I imagine so.

Although, if you are going to live in Emacs there might be enough terminal there without actually running it in a terminal.
Am I the only one that gets bored on vacation?

Like I go hiking. Wake up, go hiking, spend 8 hours away, go home, and then ... what do I do after that? I cannot sit still. So I end up being on my laptop.
Software lawyer sounds like you're a lawyer with a specialization. But ultimately I think it shouldn't come down to the specifics of what you call yourself since that's something people can weasel out of, but rather if you're communicating that you provide professional legal services.
yea sorry I meant by one of the engineering regulators:
https://engineerscanada.ca/regulatory-excellence/engineering...
To balance a little bit the other comments where everyone is saying it has no actual implication:

My previous company (one of the GAFAM) had to change the title of everyone to Software Developer after years of arguing with the local engineering body.

And if you happened to leave "engineer" on your Linkedin profile, people from said body were actually regularly checking profiles and directly messaging us with threat of legal actions against us personally.

I have a MSc in CS, just not from Canada. The only way to be able to use that title, is to pay a membership fee to the association(? cartel?) of engineering.
> To practice engineering and use the title engineer (or any variation), you must be licensed by the engineering regulator for the province/ territory where the title is being used. Regulation minimizes risks to public safety and ensures that these activities are conducted by licensed engineers who are held to high professional and ethical standards that require them to work in the public interest.

I'm sure these bodies can provide evidence that people who have paid their membership dues and been bestowed the title of "engineer" write safer and better code, right?

Here's a perfect example of such regulatory corruption – https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li.... Someone ran tests and showed that Oregon's red light cameras were flawed. The state in turn fined him for calling himself an "engineer" without a license and barred him from speaking about the problem. Thankfully the supreme court put an end to it pretty quick.
Mistake happens. if the lower-level customer service rep fucks up, you just tweet again saying that it is wrong.

But they said nothing. For about 6 days. And on their twitter accout I do not see: hi so sorry we made mistake. AirTags are allowed.
I'm curious if you were involved with the construction/original owner. Do you know how many layers of moisture protection were added?
https://www.peo.on.ca/licence-applications/certificate-autho...