skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. It does seem like software engineering fits the three required criteria in the definition provided. So it seems like it's possible for it to start being licensed at such. That's taking the article literally. The more cynical interpretation is that the definition they give is neither here nor there and what they are really saying is "we get to decide what is and is not an engineer".
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https://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/cas/programs/degree-options/beng...
Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks is "what happened when the upper middle class became class X". You could argue whether it's worthy or not, but it's what we've got.
There was nothing wrong with the flight itself. Everything wrong with their online booking/check in system, disorganization at the terminal and lost luggage (apparently due to system incompatibility with a partner airline).
> Claiming to be an engineer without being licensed is against the law

> Technically, it is not illegal.

Uhh, as far as I can tell, something being against the law == something being illegal
WTF https://www.gibhut.com
Not sure if intentional but this joke was really good.
That's not how a defined BENEFIT pension, like what GE offered for decades, works. The "defined" promise is related to what the employee receives, not what is contributed.
4090 is in stock in all shops around, so I don't think the demand was higher than expected. Zen 4 is also everywhere but not selling.
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Which, while probably true, is unrelated to what I said.
>the engineer who designs the mechanical parts of your car's brakes needs a professional license

I don't think that's true.
Not really. The author was super clear -- sentence 1, para 2 -- what his goals were: "I travel to get an idea of how other people live." And from that, everything follows.
thanks, this is fascinating and useful
Presumably savvy thieves / vandals would check for them, though I guess they probably also don't want to spend too much time with the signs to avoid getting caught. I will say that personally I find it extremely distasteful to steal campaign signs from someone's yard - so much for the principle of free speech. If you support the other candidate, put up your own sign, don't take mine. But of course rules are for other people.
Benchmarks I have seen absolutely put them above existing workstation cards in everything except memory. If your model and embeddings fit into 24gb vram, it absolutely makes sense to buy this over an a5500 or even a a6000
Unfortunately it seems like every card I have has a foreign transaction fee. I'm traveling now and everytime I use my Chase/Visa "Freedom" card I get the fee. And every time I use my Amex I get it too.
I think the best description would be “right angles”.

Ultimately, not only is furniture designed for right angles, but so are all the construction materials and equipment. Doing anything else is custom and more expensive but also not usable because of the furniture limitations.

The best you can get without going into custom stuff il are those bay windows that pop out.
Wow, thanks!

This is fascinating and now I'm really confused. Who is using CUDA on Windows in any datacenter application?
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'Every' is a bit of an overstatement. I subscribe to about 100 subs and they are all non-political and not echo chambers at all. I mostly stick to subs with <300k users and many of them only allow text-based posts and promote balanced discussions. It all depends on who is moderating.

If I feel like a sub is starting to turn bad I just leave. There are hundreds of new interesting subs being created every week. THERE is where the value is.

99% of everything is crap - that truth holds everywhere - you just have to find the 1% that's worth it. For that 1%, there really isn't any other site with that level of discussion and community. For sure some Discords offer it, but I much prefer the forum format.

Here are some examples that I like personally. You should of course find your own.

https://www.reddit.com/r/howdidtheycodeit/ - people ask how stuff in games was coded

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturalRevival/ - photos of horrible modern buildings being replaced with beautiful older-style ones

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymologymaps/ - maps showing how languages evolve

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ - people asking what random items are

https://www.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/ - things that are ugly but show incredible technical or artistic skill

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/ - people asking about memes/happenings that you might have missed, and providing excellent summaries

+ your niche subs for your local area / favourite TV show / musical instrument / sport etc, although some can be a bit too 'echo chambery' if too large.
If you read past the headline, it's not $0.05, it's $5.07. A 100 times higher. Maybe even more, if you only count New Yorkers that were not notified about the breach (255,294).

And it sounds like they weren't fined for the breach. They were fined for negligence after the breach.
The FAA isn't hetting money from manufacturers for certification taking longer. Altimeters out of spec are, if true, a no-go and finding for every continued airworthiness org out there.
If you had bothered to RTFA:

Court case: On 10 March 2020, the Quebec Superior Court (2020 QCCS 1465) upheld a lower court ruling, finding an individual guilty of improperly using the French abbreviation “ing.” In e-mails sent to clients and colleagues, and on a résumé sent to a prospective employer. The Court found that the use of “ing.” by an individual not registered with Quebec’s governing body would induce a reasonable person to conclude that the individual is indeed an engineer. As a result, the individual was found guilty of 4 counts of improper use of title. Leave to appeal was denied by the Quebec Court of Appeal on 5 June 2020 (2020 QCCA 730).
Oh, there are plenty of US satellites with classified payloads/missions; I just mean that most classified US satellites DO have orbital elements listed in the Space Force catalog.
the web is what keeps me in GUI land, and Browsh (https://www.brow.sh/) isn't quite good enough to make do with.
Engineering schools that have software programs do cover these topics.
I have been in peer groups of small and medium sized businesses. Many of these smaller organizations have only one person in the role of Controller or Comptroller and are vulnerable to embezzling. One interesting policy I have seen implemented is that this person gets extra vacation time in addition to what a normal employee gets, but never at time of their choosing. The CEO or COO just comes in one day and says, "Congratulations! Take the next X days off." The organization is forced to plan ahead for the Controller being unavailable and the Controller cannot hide much.
They get 50% of their spouse's benefits at that age.
It might matter when a bug in a software you wrote kills someone.
Here was a case like this in the us where the courts said that the term “engineer” was allowed in non-commercial contexts:

https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Jarlstorm-opinion....

> On the contrary, there are many different types of engineers. Courts have long recognized that the term “engineer” has a generic meaning separate from “professional engineer,” and that the term has enjoyed “widespread usage in job titles in our society to describe positions which require no professional training.” […] “Engineer is synonymous with such terms as conductor, driver, handler, operator, and pilot.”
I've seen MAGMA the most. That and GAMMA are definitely better than GAMAM.
I thought they were supposed to land in "November". Are manufacturers able to:

- source components
- finalize packaging design
- finalize cooling design
- assemble
- ship

Graphics cards in 47 days? I'd expect at MINIMUM 90 days.
Several potential problems:

1) You would have to pay these real engineers with licenses more for this to make sense. Currently most jobs that even make mention of this requirement pay well under what the software development equivalent would make

2) Companies don't like to hire "Real" engineers wherever possible because like all bureaucracy, sometimes they prevent projects moving forward. Companies are incentivized to employ the bare minimum of licensed individuals to sign off on the cheaper and faster work of the unlicensed proletariat. and pressure is put on the licensed to rubber stamp things.

3) I have found a lot of the courses in engineering school about ethics etc to be extremely rubber stamp/"mandatory safety training" ish, just like the dumb what's a stop sign test at the DMV. I doubt people en masse remember what they learn. I see it as a complex ruse to make people do the equivalent of sign a legal document saying "I accept the terms of this agreement and have the capacity to do so", more of "something that can be taken away if bad things happen" than "something to prevent bad things from happening"
Plagiarism is a problem in CS too. Some fraction of students will get CS degrees without learning CS concepts. I assume that's part of why tech companies do Leetcode interview questions.

Copilot is easy to catch because it pastes training data verbatim. But we need to prepare for the future where students can say "hey GPT-5, make a CRUD app in Go in the style of Alan Kay. Here are the unit tests".
I think the reason it's not discussed by consumer ISPs is because the big guys are using a wide range of technologies, from DSL (yes, still) to cable to fiber. They don't want to talk about how their 200Mbps cable customers have significantly worse internet than their 200Mbps fiber customers. If they did that, they'd have to go deploying fiber into all the places that use other technologies.
> It send the gamers a message that do not wait for cheaper 40 series cards go by 30 series now

Jensen mentioned this with the Q2 earning statements [1][2], that pricing would be set to sell old (30 series) inventory:

> And so our first strategy is to reduce sell-in in the next couple of quarters to correct channel inventory. We've also instituted programs to price-position our current products to prepare for next-generation products.

> ... we've implemented programs with our partners to price-position the products in the channel in preparation for our next generation.

1. See JayzTwoCents video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15FX4pez1dw

2. Q2 Transcript: https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2022/08/24/nv...
> - My company uses Slack's enterprise auth, and all the CLI slack clients I could find haven't been updated in years and no longer work.

https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack is decent.

> - The web is using more javascript than in the past.

cli browsers are probably the only truly unrealistic thing. An idea that I've been kicking around for a while is to build a simple CLI "browser" that uses PhantomJS or similar under the hood to request, load, and render the page into an image, convert the image to sixel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel) and display it that way (or use any of the various terminal emulator-specific features (KiTTY has https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/ for example)). Probably pretty clunky, but it's doable if you're in the mood to write something purely for fun.

> - Mutt doesn't handle multiple email accounts natively for work/personal. The solutions are hacks at best. Email servers are starting to use more complete auth mechanisms that don't work well with mutt.

I don't think they're hacks. You can define exactly how you want it to work. That's a feature, not a bug. Sure, it takes a little bit of work to set up but you can use https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/mut... as a starting point if you'd like.
When I was a little kid, I had to go the airport with some distant relatives. One of them parked right next to a "forbidden parking" sign.

So I went up to the owner of the car, and asked, she then cheerfully replied:

"Oh, the parking lot charges 40, the fine is 5, I prefer to pay the fine since it is cheaper!"
Can they do dft+u/strong-ish correlations?
> blessed upgrade path for C++ applications.

There is C++/WinRT + WinUI 3, but looking at the screenshot that will pretty much require re-designing the whole UI so it's not going to be a simple upgrade.
> It's not an assumption that sports is associated with general success and intelligence.

No, it isn't. The "dumb jock" trope is widely known for a reason.

Healthy body is associated with intelligence, and for good reason.
Good article! I agree with most of this, and in general I think these problems are exaggerated. I also can't deny that there's still plenty of room for improvement in python packaging and dependency management tooling. I notice this the most not in my own projects, but whenever I'm helping someone who's new to the language. I think it's worth paying attention to things that beginners find difficult, and it can be true that both:
1. There are some pitfalls here that are easy for beginners (and even experienced developers) to fall into, and
2. In online discussions, those problems are often portrayed as being much worse than they actually are.

Of the three categories of tools mentioned in the article, 'python version manager' is the only area where I find it easy to point to a single tool without thinking too hard about it: pyenv. It does one thing and does it quite well, and I can easily recommend it even to new developers.

On the other hand, for environment and dependency management:

> In the second case, use something modern that manages dependencies for you with minimal effort. I like poetry, but you do you.

Poetry is also my preferred tool for my own projects, but I've also seen enough ways it can go wrong that I hesitate to recommend it to beginners. I think a lot of people won't know what to do with advice like "Use something modern that manages dependencies for you with minimal effort," since "modern" and "minimal effort" are fairly subjective qualities that there isn't a clear consensus on.
> I'd guess "never even got a hotel room" is an exaggeration.

No, it isn't. It wasn't that frequent, but he (and others) did, from time to time. I traveled with him, many times, and can attest to a lot of it (I'm a wuss. I'll always get a hotel room, and insist on a night of rest).

It was the life he chose. I suspect that he leveraged the extreme. It did get him a Corporate VP seat, after all (and the fact that he's one of the smartest bastards I'd ever met). I don't know if the office would have been much less stress. Japanese work culture is pretty intense.
Nope. You get the same social security benefits (50% of what the earning spouse would get at your age) after divorce if you were married for at least 10 years.
You use their name and an email that looks almost identical to the original persons. Or when wiring, change the spelling or name on your account (create a trust where you have wide latitude on naming that mimics the other persons name). Look at the details of the OF episode that was on here a few days ago.
Next level: do this but as a woman and try not to get harassed
Isn't it the same for .NET, which is also commonly regarded as JIT compiler? My main criteria for JIT is that the machine code is not generated fully before the binary is started, but at startup time. Whether that's a one-time process (like what C# and eBPF does) or a continuous process (like Java and JS engines) seems to be another distinction.
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There's only a few root disasters, really. They are: C/C++, bash, ActiveX, COM, ACPI, and Javascript.
Licensed engineering is an anachronism for most things. Because a licensed engineer put his seal on a drawing isn't good enough.

Modern engineering is all about standards and process.

Reminds me. One of the reasons California has high building costs and lack of construction workers is they went way overboard on contractors licensing.
2080 is when they introduced RT and the card performed in raster gfx about the same as the 1080. And support for RT was coming in the future so it kind of makes sense it was priced the same.
Did a little more reading on Wikipedia, and found this bit of "oof"[0]:

> Cost overruns at Vogtle and the cancellation of Summer [Nuclear Generating Station in South Carolina] led to Westinghouse's bankruptcy in 2017.

This raises a somewhat-scary question: in this case, Westinghouse's bankrupt remains were bought out by a private equity firm, and they presumably took on Westinghouse's obligations toward in-progress nuclear plant construction, but... what if that hadn't been the case? What if Westinghouse had just completely failed and ceased operations? Who would support the remainder of projects like Vogtle 3 & 4, and ongoing maintenance for the next however-many decades?

I guess a company in a heavily-regulated sector like this must have some sort of succession plan, but it's not clear to me how this would work, in the case of e.g. the company going bankrupt, and all the staff with institutional knowledge about a reactor design dispersing to various other companies. Hell, that could have even happened in Westinghouse's case.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000
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I think that the term software engineering is helpful in distinguish between building complex systems composed of many software entities versus writing code for a single application. I totally acknowledge that within-application structure can be both complex and sophisticated: I suggest that people writing such applications call themselves software engineers and not "developers" or "programmers".
> Sorry, I could have been more clear here. I meant the loss of social relationships either at the company or by potentially having to move neighbourhood/city.

Are you really going to put the onus on private companies to ensure that no one ever has to move from their hometown?

> Most companies have at least some assets when they wind down. Putting employee obligations first simply means that any value derived from the liquidation is first used to settle that debt rather than other creditors

A software companies only
assets are the software and maybe a few laptops. These days many don’t even have servers.

Don’t get me wrong, we were guaranteed by our backers that we would be paid for every hour we worked and they kept their promise.
Absolutely agree! I 100% think that, if you're not from somewhere and you've heard of a thing to do - there's a good chance that's because there's advertising money behind it and you're going to pay a premium to do it (museums are a frequent exception).

So, going into a trip, you will know about the "pricey" side of the cool stuff in that area. That's fine! Those things are still cool! But if you hang out a bit and look around at what the locals do, you will pretty quickly learn about the "cheap" side of the cool stuff in the area. You will also discover the day-to-day parts of being in a city or town that lead people to live in that area: small shops, hole-in-the-wall restaurants, street food, the bar scene, etc.
Yes, and some people need to use TAI instead of UTC.
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combined with facebook datacenters in Georgia having energy-sourcing requirements, I'm hoping the Georgia grid is set to get a lot cleaner soon

https://www.siliconranch.com/portfolio-item/snipesville-ii-s...
Hardly.

We still treat documentation as a third class citizen.

We still allow stakeholders to pressure at the cost of long term security and sanity.

Important and rigid business rules, the most obvious candidates for automated tests, still go untested.

Access to critical parts is still open and backups are lacking. You can probably do a lot of damage without any malicious intent in many places if you're not careful.

I can go on. Funny thing is, these things still happen in companies which try to adhere to some kind of outside standard. Most CS classes talk about security vulnerabilities and cancelled software projects costing millions, but never go in depth. Even our research is lacking.

What we learned is no one cares until the costs are higher than the gains, excepting a few critical fields I'd wager 99% of software "engineers" will never step foot in.
on the bright side, gen z in developing countries have a bright financial future, relative to their predecessors
That's like panning for gold in a sewer. Hope you don't get a disease.

The far right has viral memes tailor made for radicalizing slightly paranoid white guys by making them more and more comfortable with the things you're "wading through" right now. If you aren't wary five years from now you'll be a paranoid mess staying up at night reading Culture of Critique and sending pdfs of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to your buddies. Saw it happen to a "libertarian" friend of my husband. Guy went from relatively normal to belonging on an FBI watch list.
If working isn't paying off anymore, something is wrong with the economy or taxation. Regardless of the generation you're in.
I guess you are taking issue with the fact that I said "get your title" instead of "get your license to use the engineering title".
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It's a different die.
Same in Sweden. I am actually an certified engineer, with a fancy diploma proving that I may use the title.
I don't understand why people think Russia, China and India are united. They aren't. China and India are rivals and have skirmishes on their borders. China doesn't want to trade only with Russia at the expense of the rest of the world.

The only thing that can make that alignment happen is a common enemy. And only Russia views America as a true enemy. It's not as simple as the media makes it out.

Another way to think about this, if a WW3 breaks out, its not clear that China will defend Russia. And India and China certainly won't defend each other.
Yes-ish, sort of already going. I read an article recently about unknown Firefox crashes being correlated to solar storms. Can't find the article now though; sorry.
I mean the "ownership & political classes" created the situation. Almost all of this can be traced to massive inflows into cities and a failure to build enough housing in those cities. Construction hasn't been limited by people not wanting to build shit but rather zoning, environmental impact, "social", and a half dozen other excuses.

Maybe mass remote work will fix this by spreading people out over cheaper area's but I have my doubts on how much remote work will last through this next economic cycle.
Just blindly bought this book because I think consciousness is one of the most fascinating unexplained aspects of our universe.
Thank you for this. While the visualization is useful/interesting, it frustrates me how often similar visuals are used in news stories about space junk. Yes, it's a problem, but using visuals like this without proper explanation misrepresents it terribly.
At least construction-wise, it seems Vogtle is in the same ballpark, as they began construction in 2013, after apparently waiting 7 years for permit approval.
That'll end with rate increases and global recession
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This is a solvable problem. Finland's approach is good here; fines are income-based (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...). The GDPR similarly imposes a penalty in terms of "percent of annual global revenue".

The point: the goal isn't a corporate death penalty in these sorts of cases.
Yeah that’s not good either. Your keys never need to be in a local file. Just put them in Parameter Store/Secrets Manager and you can reference those values in CF.
Not mechanic as in the person that services brakes, but Mechanical Engineer as in the person engineering them.

Mechanical Engineers in the US are usually expected to be Professional Engineers (professional license) and in good standing with ASME, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (professional society).
Their Facebook accounts were hacked. They can’t get them back