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There are a few, as people have pointed out, but why would they have any particular clout or influence in a marketplace dominated by the Church of MVP?

Practically every single piece of advice ever given about engineering and scientific practices on HN, or its cousin sites/forums, is that it's a pointless pre-mature optimization and should be avoided at all costs in favor of just hacking out and coughing up a piece of demoware that is loosely based on your slideware, both of which you're trying to sell to an audience that fundamentally doesn't care if it works or what its technical or scientific merits or risks are, and in that world I'm not sure where there's room for a vibrant and growing set of professional bodies because in that world the need for credibility benchmarks and verifiable rigor are almost entirely irrelevant.