skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this article is missing something. There is no way a engineering board has time to scrap every website and every person and see if they call themselves an engineer or not. He probably said or did something to bring in some eyes. I obviously have no idea what that is or was, but his website does have some interesting science on it. Perhaps the engineering board does not appreciate having someone with "engineering" degrees go around denying climate change?

The title is there to indicate a level of professionalism. Same with doctor, nurse, financial planner, etc. If you go around calling yourself a doctor while screaming about vaccines containing micro chips they'll probably do something about it. If that is right or not, I suppose doesn't really matter as the title provider wrote the rules.
https://archive.ph/70DZE
This sounds like a trickle down theory.
I would argue that what the author describes is not risk management. It's a CYA game. Risk management is a part of project management.

Real risk management identifies risk and defines mitigations to bring the risk down to an acceptable level. Passing the buck doesn't address the true risk; it only addresses the risk of who is accountable.

Imagine a scenario where you need a new water heater in your home. One of the risks is that a bad installation is that the water heater overpressurizes and blows up. Saying, "I hired a contractor to install it" doesn't mitigate that risk directly. The appropriate mitigation is installing a pressure-relief valve. Hiring a competent contractor can be a means to this end, but it's not a direct mitigation. If you hire a licensed contractor you may pass off the accountability risk but you aren't addressing the over-pressure risk. The client (and author) in this article are confusing what risks are being addressed.
Bill 7 received royal assent in November but Apega has launched an appeal on a ruling by a court.
I fully agree with you. That said, one thing I've come to hate is the proliferation of version numbers in random dockerfiles and random config files all over the place. It's a pain to know what's out of date and a pain to upgrade it all. I wish there was a single tool to manage it all more simply, something like pnpm for containers plus everything you install inside them.
SourceHut staff here. We don't have any requirement for "real legal" names or anything -- and in fact I find these requirements very harmful in general (glad we finally got rid of them in the kernel). I know multiple people collaborating on SourceHut with a pseudonym and this causes no issue at all. SourceHut does assume a stable email address but that's about it.

That's my own take -- for Drew's see https://drewdevault.com/2023/10/31/On-real-names.html
> He basically has no respect for IT so he shits on Nedry constantly.

Well, hiring Nedry's prosperous company and bringing it to bankruptcy due to a constant stream of fraud is more than enough. The movie cuts that part out.
Prepare for the enshittification and bedbathandbeyonding of Magic the gathering.

If I had to make a guess as to why, given the fact that the people they laid off were all senior leaders and the numbers are good, it would be preparing for a pump and dump.

if you want to be able to pump and dump a really strong brand then you need to be able to have leaders who don’t mind burning the brands equity in order to make money. My guess is that specifically what intending to do here.

Change the leadership, make new “sticky” products, pump revenue numbers, then spin out a public offering of the magic brand that looks like a great new reboot and refresh.

However the brand is only there to smuggle in the subscription model around new products that have strong margin. Everyone* gets rich cause they slaughtered their fattest pig and yet another cultural staple is killed.

Don’t worry, another band of psychopaths will resurrect it in a few decades like Mattell is doing with the Barbie brand currently.

*Not everyone - very few actually
> not making yourself accountable is just the path of least resistance, and one could argue it's the right call

I’ve been frustrated with colleagues who would just do their job to a point of a project critically failing. But in retrospect, I must say they did the right thing.

Taking heat as an employee should be voluntary, and it should be compensated, and it usually isn’t.

When you see an employee just doing their job, when a lot more is needed, you can trace it to a spineless leader who does not lead by example.
Yep. And then you leave and the engineers start complaining they have to play office politics to get things done. :)
What about something that will certainly happen, but happens probabalistically? You may not know enough to treat it as an "issue" even though you know "something" of the type will happen eventually.

It's a matter of definitions, but something that is certain to happen being a "risk" seems reasonable.
One of the Dungeons and Dragons artists got in trouble for creating an amazing drawing of a giant then using Stable Diffusion to make it really pop. A different Ilya than the one we all know and love got in a bit of hot water [0].

[0] https://decrypt.co/151515/dungeons-dragons-ai-artificial-int...
Chips and Science Act
Why reinvent the wheel? Just put it in substack or whatever and focus on delivering content (your differentiator hopefully)
Isn't it common to be able to re-open court cases? That (technically, legally) sidesteps ne bis in idem (aka double jeopardy), but it requires that substantial new evidence is brought. So basically it adds that barrier, and the barrier becomes higher for every new attempt.
You can look at https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/llama.cpp... for examples of the different layers in a number of different models, and further down in the code for their implementations. tldr, yes they are very similar. I can see lots of value in something that can just run these models. Even if you just supported llama2 there are tons of options available.
I always said f-sock.

No clue where I got that from.
> In cases like “fillet” and “valet” American English goes with “French” pronunciation.

I recall seeing an American somewhere in France getting frustrated when hotel staff couldn't understand what he meant by "maître-d", with his emphasis increasingly placed on the 'dee' as he got more and more annoyed.

(disclaimer: Brit here, not defending our pronunciation of Worcestershire)
Researchers turn a small photonic chip into a functional temperature sensor
I suspect that the list of countries in which 100% of the territory, with no exceptions, will have a fire brigade arrive in time to do anything productive is a lot smaller than you think it is.
Mojang wrote a DFU system called Data Fixer Upper.

It is open source, peggs the CPU at 100% on startup for about a minute, doubles game launch time, references 10 research papers, sometimes corrupts the world, and is so abstract only the author knows how it works - all to upgrade game worlds to new versions.

It is often called Data Fucker Upper.
im fairly sure you will be able to pick up “works with any chip” mobos when the time comes.
Is climate change an engineering field? Is a professional society of engineers supposed to regulate speech about topics unrelated to it? Do you not find this disturbing?
> I understand that what people typically mean is people who are “too political” where the pushing for interests stops being in service of some goal and starts to become its own point.

It typically doesn’t stop being in service of some goal, but rather becomes entirely self-serving.
It’s a wonder how much freedom can be gained by eschewing the desire to be discovered.
Mind share your prompt and the output, thanks.
>It’s like saying you don’t need a qa team because the developers tested it.

Strangely enough, that's happening at a few companies (run by Amazon refugees IIRC) where they think that making devs do QA and removing QA/QE roles will speed delivery. I'm in one of those companies now, and I'm waiting for the #FAFO loop to happen.
It's not a requirement, but I heavily got the vibe that pseudonyms are not welcome. To quote Drew, "You should be using your real email address with the mailing lists, so that people can reach you and treat you as a human being, not as a proxy of one."

I'm just not comfortable putting myself out there like that. I get it's not technically against the rules to do it differently, but it's just... frowned upon.

Other justifications included that my peers would be sharing their real names and personal email addresses, so I'm being non-courteous by not doing the same... I dunno. It wasn't a particularly productive email chain, but it told me all I needed to know.
I recall hearing that most modern nations have certain limits on civilian casualties for each military target which usually vary depending on the target's strategic and political importance. IIRC for Bin Laden it was said to be around forty, i.e. it would have been acceptable to the US command for up to forty civilians dying in an operation or strike that would have been guaranteed to also kill Bin Laden. For low value targets these might go as low as zero or just a fraction (i.e. being able to kill N combatants would justify also killing N/X civilians).

Allegedly the IDF also has these limits for their operations in Gaza and elsewhere but the numbers just happen to be significantly higher, e.g. three digits for Hamas leaders. The casualty numbers reported by the Gaza health authority are generally considered credible by journalists and outside observers despite the clear ties to Hamas (which is unavoidable because Hamas is literally the government in Gaza). The conceit seems to be less about whether the numbers are accurate (they're certainly at least accurate in terms of orders of magnitude) but whether they matter.

If you follow this logic, the behavior of the IDF makes a lot more sense. Literally flattening entire parts of Gaza is just par for the course. If the stated goal is to wipe out all of Hamas to the point that they can never pose a threat again (as Netanyahu has been cited in friendly news sources) this means even casualty numbers in the tens or hundreds of thousands would be acceptable if they can accomplish that goal. Of course this causes problems for supportive leaders of allied nations that have much lower values for acceptable casualties.

In this context, I'm not sure if there is conclusive evidence that the IDF is deliberately killing journalists (even if there may be credible allegations around individual incidents) but it seems clear that even if they don't specifically target journalists they seem to be less preoccupied with avoiding them because the "cost" of a dead journalist is lower than it is for e.g. the US armed forces (which doesn't exactly have a stellar reputation in this regard either). If your models tolerate the deaths of, say, 100 people to kill a handful of Hamas, eventually some of those people will have been journalists (or children or foreign aid workers, etc).

EDIT: I also recall a recent news story about the IDF using AI models to determine new potential targets and presumably the expected number of casualties factors into the equation. This brings back memories of Obama (or was it Bush?) being shown "baseball cards" of potential targets during the War on Terror - presumably likewise including probabilities of "collateral damage" as the US used to call it.
That punishes early adopters who did a slow and gradual rollout instead of a panicked one.
As a Texas power consumer I still appreciate the structure of the energy market here compared to other states I have participated in. There is still plenty room for improvement. I think other states could benefit from the general structure.

The good parts are mainly surrounded by the separation of concerns. There are two main grid operators, their only concern is maintaining and expanding the transmission. They get a flat fee for this work. Generators are purely in the business of generation. Of course they are there to make a profit but the beauty of this part is we can move a lot quicker than other states to build out new generation, lots of clean. While other states are still struggling, Texas is leading the front in new plants. Sometimes at night the wind capacity is so large it dips close to negative prices.

ERCOT in my opinion gets a lot of attention and too much of the blame. ERCOT from all the prior readings I have done, did their best given their operating rules. PUCT Who governs them and is comprised of appointed staff from the governor iirc has gotten little to no attention.

This article was a lot of fluff and could have really been summed up with the ending. Providing emergency power was never in the original rule set.

It’s easy for us to just say oh Texas sucks, it’s filled with a bunch of conservatives, this is what they want. I think that’s a weak argument though that is a little childish. Don’t get me wrong, I am not happy with many parts of the government, but in this scenario I don’t believe this was an evil conspiracy by design. Unsure if there is enough want in the people to change it.

Ideally this would require some type of emergency clause on generation but I am not sure what that would look like. Someone has to be on the hook for paying the generation.

With all that said, I am still overall happy with the structure. We generate a lot of clean power and we have the incentives to build more and more of it out. We should not force generators to produce outside of the energy market so we need to figure out how and who pays for this emergency power.
It rhymes with GZA
It is pretty much how it works with controllers, accountants, lawyers, professor, actuaries and notaries. The local varieties and rules may differ, but most of them have entry requirements and a professional organization that is allowed to create the exams, administer judgement over peers, hand out titles and withdraw titles. Where I’m from I can call myself an actuary, but not a lawyer, could’ve called myself professor when a child but not anymore since they’ve changed the rules.

These are for better or worse, guilds. Guilds give a certain air of quality and come at the cost of peers restricting markets thus raising prices, raising their income and lowering that of all that are obliged to purchase their services. I do like my investments in firms to come with an audited yearly report with some kind of guarantee against malfeasance. I like my notary to know the tax and heritage laws. But I still let my plumber, electrician, car mechanic and gardener do their work without guilds. (Although my car mechanic is part of a chain which offers some semblance of a guild.)

When I was younger Milton Freeman was my hero. He was very vocally against these guilds. The market would solve it all. I think it would, but it’s quite probable that the cost for guarantees and insurance would make the average consumer worse off than this strange remainder of the Middle Ages. This is institutional economics and sociology in action right in front of you.
…what? Dnd is the market leader but we have the internet, availability shouldn’t be an issue. You can download almost anything from drivethru rpg, and I ran a multi year World of Darkness game with pdfs and online resources.

You might not be able to wander into a store and play with randos, but if you have some open minded friends, just about any tabletop game is an option.
>The rates I see right now are higher than what my local utility charges, about on par with our all-renewable option,

Thought renewables were cheaper than fossil fuels?
The "most" of the US fire service is just provided everywhere.

But the US is also a very big place with big empty spaces filled with very small communities. Along with strong devolution in governance, there are "some" very remote communities where the population cannot support a permanent local fire service and relies on locally organized volunteers. They can choose to fund that in a variety of ways, by taxes/subs combination. And of course you may live so remotely that even that is not realistic.

I very much doubt the US is unique on this point.
Binary dependencies are the issue. I find it pretty silly that C has 50 years and the deployment story is such a mess that we have multi billion dollar businesses basically just to tame it
To say nothing about BC politics I do wish we had some sort of licensure in the public interest for software engineering in the US. It has just as much ethical implication as architecture or being a lawyer.
I know people who put the P.E. on their business cards in the US. Most of them are closer to civil engineering or mechanical. I know one EE who is also a PE. I've never met a software focused person with a PE. In fact I'm not sure a CS curriculum prepares you for the PE test.
Right, within it. As soon as you finish reading it, you immediately remember that world is not true. Immersion in a story does not equal lasting hypnosis. You can be immersed in a movie but you still know it’s fake.

What’s you point, here? That you should be lied to when you ask, or that it should refuse to tell you any kind of fiction?

I agree with your larger point that there will be ways to circumvent these systems, my only argument is that the lie/fictional story divide is a bad example because the line between them can be made clear with a single statement.
I don’t think that makes sense. The retail companies are at the mercy of the grid.

The miss here is what about PUCT who governs ERCOT. ERCOT did everything in their set of rules. We probably need to change the rules for emergencies, that’s up to the legislature and the appointees of PUCT.
Literally the second paragraph states he's been a federal politician, and the fourth says he presented himself as an engineer for the purposes of campaigning... when you say "the article" did you really mean "the title"?
Rep. Ro Khanna Has a Reminder for Democrats: Americans Love Money
>> promptly got fired because they'd have to give him a pay raise

Not so great for the people, too... harder to get a job instead of just letting the new standard engineer go to the highest bidder. They might as well make it very hard to fire him to fix that problem, and then they'd could go full circle and be in France: it's so hard for employers to fire you that they never want to take a chance on you in the first place, and then they want to pay you less because you might turn out to be a bad hire. At least you get endless vacations :)

Or, just make it easy to hire and fire.. better for everyone.
How is it fortunate for employed people when the guy in the example got fired precisely because he went to get certified?
He ran for office.

Are you saying he also went around denying climate change and screaming about vaccine microchips? I don't see that part. Am I missing something? Or did you make that up?
Any details on this ? I try building this in the past, without success.

I'm interested about what features worked for you.
The developer teams, of course. They are solving the problems, so why should they not prioritize them? They just need to have other parts of the org heard, but if you are solving it, you get to choose how to do it, in what order and with what priority.

If that's not to somebody's liking, they are welcome to prioritize and solve the problems themselves.
https://archive.is/5vDYO
This isn't a profit endeavour, it's an academic and learning experience.
Depending on your job you could consider the following:

Buy two tickets and make a stop in BRU. Not the greatest city in the world, but doable. Could get you below 1k Euro for both tickets together.
that's ironic.

If you choose a 3rd party partner in the company I work for and that partner fails: it reflects badly on you, do it more than once and it can be pretty detrimental to your future inside the company.

You are responsible for the third parties you vouch for.

FWIW this is not ideology, this actually happened.
I find the whole thing very silly. But this is entirely 1 side of a story. And I don’t know any context. I doubt this story covers everything. This my suspicious that parts are missing that maybe answer the question.

If this is in fact the entire story. Then yes I do find it disturbing. But Canada is a giant nanny state so it’s not really shocking.
Open core was one of the reasons. Another was that it’s also “AI-powered”.
It's pronounced like "charisma" without the "cha" or the "m."
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...
Ask HN: Why aren't there many AAA Mobile game titles?
As a kid I liked to play PSP games. And there were some really high quality games on the PSP like God of War, Assassin's Creed, Mortal Kombat.

A decade plus later, smartphones are as powerful if not more powerful than PSPs.

I expected to be able to buy God of War level AAA game titles on mobile and play them on my smartphone.

Alot of games on the smartphone stores however are online games seemed to be optimized to make people buy stuff from in-app purchases.

The games on PSP were way more fun and by that I meant they had long interesting stories and clever play interaction.

I have a feeling smartphones have the ability to usher in a mobile gaming renaissance for AAA games.

But my question is, why hasn't this happened yet? All games seem so mediocre in smartphone stores.

Note that I am not saying that great games don't exist on mobile. I think my favourite game on mobile has been Monumental Valley.

But what I am talking about are games with rich game play & story telling like God of War, Assassin's Creed et Al those types seem almost non-existent on mobile I wonder why.
Still Iowa?

> Iowa reached an impressive clean energy milestone in 2020, according to data recently released from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Iowa produced the highest percentage of electricity by wind of any state, at 59.6%. This figure represents a sharp increase from 2019, which had the state at 42% electricity from wind.

> Although Texas has the greatest installed wind turbine capacity of any state, it provided just under 20% of the state’s electricity in 2020. Iowa’s wind generation capacity of 11,660 megawatts in 2020 provided just shy of 60% of the state’s electricity. [1]

Iowa's grid is almost done changing. Texas is playing catch up.

[1] https://www.iaenvironment.org/newsroom/energy-news/iowa-near...
You and the parent seem to dislike the author sharing their opinions on things on their own blog. And yet you're happy to share your own dismissive opinions on the author here.

FWIW I find the author's obviously subjective opinions on their tools much more valuable than your obviously subjective opinions of this author.