skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the Intel out-of-tree driver is carrying around some legacy HAVE_PAGE_COUNT_BULK_UPDATE option that is making their porting efforts difficult.

This commit in upstream ends up getting split in half:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8ce29c679a6ecefb88d...

With only 3 lines of it getting pulled into i40e-2.13.10:

https://github.com/dmarion/i40e/blob/master/src/i40e_txrx.c#...

https://github.com/dmarion/i40e/blob/master/src/i40e_txrx.c#...

(Can't link git diff line for 2.13.10->2.14.13 because diff is too big, annoying!)

And the final line getting pulled into i40e-2.14.13:

https://github.com/dmarion/i40e/commit/135d6d885aa4704180e10...

--- if (unlikely(!pagecnt_bias)) {
+++ if (unlikely(pagecnt_bias == 1)) {

Best thing I can find in i40e_txrx.c where a single patch in Linux upstream got split across 2.13.10 and 2.14.13. Not a smoking gun exactly, still some exercise left for the reader.
It is dishonest to frame the argument in this way.

A better way to see vaccine mandates is that it will remove one of the fundamental checks and measures from capitalism that ensures the consumer get a quality product.

If a product become mandated, then the producer have a vastly less incentive to maintain the quality of the product. And this is the real danger.

The ability of a consumer to reject a product based on what they see, is the crux of our system of economy, and it cannot be removed or written off, no matter what.

But the companies would love to write it off, and point to authorities like CDC, and say, "Hey, look, you are still protected by these agencies", and the proceed to buy them off (or have them already on the pay roll), and in the end, consumer gets fucked.
Old money knew long ago the most effective way to market themselves: you need a good story.
Adjustable beds and over bed tables exist and people use them to do stuff from bed.
Not all technical debt is bad engineering - some is great engineering that you do, knowing it won't scale or be fit for purpose forever (but it's right to do at the time, because it meets another goal - for instance speed to market, flexibility, stability, cheaper).

Software is very different to building the millennium tower - that's designed once, and when built won't be expected to substantially change or grow (at least from a structural perspective, you will change the interior). Building a skyscraper can take 5 years to complete, and when it's built it looks like the design from 5 years ago (with all the same load assumptions). With software the design is expected to change throughout the lifecycle, and should adapt to customer demand and scaling requirements, and you can't wait 5 years for perfect when 'good enough' will do and get you live.
DRM says no water for you
TLDR

> Cunningham: I’m never in favor of writing code poorly, but I am in favor of writing code to reflect your current understanding of a problem, even if that understanding is partial.

Technical debt is not about technology, but about better understanding of functional domain, after which you should refactor your current implementation to better reflect reality in the sense that there is a more clean abstraction and accompanied code.
I'm appalled at the responses here, from belittling to casting doubts without having had a basic look at Derek's video.
Super laggy components.
> It's not like things were nice before we sat infront of computers all day.

But we didn’t have to sit in front of computers all day.
Lets hope that the anti-trust judiciary has enough technical understanding to realise how restrictive and damaging to competition - Apple’s policy of not allowing alternative web browser engines on IOS is.
They should force Apple to allow alternative engines to Webkit, thus enabling much stronger competition to Safari and to native Apps on Apple mobile devices.
Wow, nice.

I bought kneeling chair and sitting ball, but prefered ball, but I don't know whether it helps me at all
One of the peculiar things about the British aristocracy is that the culture looks entirely different depending on which side of the class divide you look at it from. This article looks at it from the outside, and mistakes the chattering classes for the upper classes.

What the author describes (the genealogies, the oneupmanship, the keeping up with the Buckets, the airs and graces) is upper middle class behaviour, aspiring to be part of the aristocracy.

The truth of the matter is that none of them ever had a hope - the aristocracy is a closed circle, and you don't even get in by marriage. Your children do, but you, no.

As a result of the incredibly close nature of the aristocratic circles in the UK, practically everybody knows everybody, and any outsider or imposter is usually very swiftly seen for what they are. That said, the close nature also fosters a relaxed social approach in general - you'll never meet people who F and blind as much as the old families. Feet up on the table after the hunt, crack out the cigars, pass the facking port, I'm dying here. You're constantly being judged - but not how you'd think. Nobody cares if you know your silver service (although it's a shibboleth, to be sure), nobody cares if you're well spoken or who you know, or where you schooled - all they typically care about is that you're not an arsehole, and that you're not going to try to nick the silverware or trade off their name.

Most of the time, in the UK, if you encounter an aristocrat, they'll look like they just clambered out of a hedgerow (because they probably did), and will be pleasant, amiable, and engaged in what you have to say - because they have absolutely nothing to lose by engaging with you, and you are possibly going to be an entertaining story over supper later.

I've hung out with enough aristo friends' families and enough friends' upper middle class families to know which I prefer - the middle class families are suffocating affairs with dinner gongs and rules around shoes and no swearing in the house. The aristos are... relaxed.

So. If anything, the upper middle classes are the dangerous cult, trying to impersonate the faded glory of a generally toothless propertied and titled class, and generally getting it utterly wrong. The aspirational class is the one that now stands on heads.

Also, virtually literally every aristo I know votes Lib Dem or Green. They've hated the tories since Thatcher, and countryside issues are of prime importance to most of them.
But is everyone that easily manipulated?

Enough to elect a President, so... yes.
I will never understand people who are so vegan that they wouldn't even eat biomass from an insect that naturally died. Why? Do such people also refuse to travel in any vehicles? Where do they draw the line at how small an organism has to be?
screw Oracle
Here in the far southwest of the continent we've never had to worry about seasnakes, though as you say we are taught from age ~8? about stonefish, various jellies, sharks, blue-ringed octopus, conefish. Even normal octopus have a venomous bite, they just run away instead... we're also taught that any scratch contracted from coral is likely to get infected since marine-species bacteria is more aggressive or something... any diver will tell you that is false though.

I've had 3 Blue Ring Octopus sightings that I recall personally. The largest one I've ever seen was the size of a grapefruit; I had never heard of one so big before, but the tentacles were short and the rings were vibrant and it moved in my direction and I was veritably running on water in the opposite direction when I realised what I was looking at.
In Flaubert's dictionary of received ideas, the entry for Aristocracy is simply "Despise and envy it". Which is a much more succinct way of writing this article.
Then why don't FDA just fully approv the vaccine? Apparently, FDA hasn't approved the vaccine.

I'm not an expert in the vaccine. So, I won't debate the details.

It is very jarring that FDA/CDC claims the vaccine is safe, but they refuse to approve the vaccine.
Two words: planning permission
A curious and sad story but perhaps more of a cathartic effort enabling the release of feelings about a woman with issues arising from mental or personality disorders than a useful analysis of the class system. It's ok to want to defend your mum.

I doubt there are many people in the UK from the historically exploited classes who are blind to the history, even those who retain respect for the titles and funny accents.
Try lifting a riff from a Metallica song and see how far you can get selling it commerically.

Also, Copilot is copying much more than short excerpts, going as far as to reproduce large amounts of copyrighted code verbatim[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309
>It is crazy what happens in cities like Berlin in regard to gentrification

Can you elaborate on this?
> “it's taught in the West that colonialism in India was benign, that we welcomed it”

It was certainly not taught/presented this way when I went to school, in the 1990s.
> Debt repayment has one vital characteristic: it is easy to understand

If it were this easy you wouldn't see so many people taking on so many unnecessary debts. Technical or otherwise.
What makes you think it's bygone? These people largely run the country right now.
Caffeine Boosts Bees' Focus and Helps Them Learn
By associating caffeinated sugar-water and a target scent, researchers teach bumblebees to stay on task.
And the stonefish and conefish. Know where you place your feet!
IOW, for me technical debt is "the debt" as seen from the engineering team. While the cost of the debt is something the management takes care off (and so decide to clear it, buy it, or whatever).
I don't think that FB were in a position back then. I was very surprised at the time that Google didn't buy them. Microsoft would never had gotten it past the regulators.
> there is no official repository of Plug-ins instead everyone is rebuilding everything

To be fair, both Slate and ProseMirror call themselves frameworks for building rich text editors as opposed to drag-and-drop editors themselves.

The best way to build an editor yourself then would be to look at other existing editors using the same framework, and try to understand the architecture and usage.
Indeed. I had to move, and while I could sell at a high price, I had to buy at a high price in a frenetic market. This screams for regulation.
So was the Quest 2 before the holidays. Look, the PS5 was the fastest selling games console in history. The Quest 2 being in the same ball park is really good. Anyone who thinks these sales are disappointingly low just didn't have realistic expectations.
Same in Greek (though we use the Greek word for "rooster", obviously). I've found that Greek and Spanish oddly share many, many idioms.
By that logic what would you call manure? Vegans are going to have a very hard time this way!
Top German court strikes down Facebook rules on hate speech
Microsoft in Talks to Invest in Indian Hotel Chain Oyo Rooms
Maybe it makes more sense to look at concrete examples. Twitter using the db as router (and rails in general), was a reasonable decision for the MVP. They got it fast and cheap.

For social media kind of traffic it became inadequate at some point and the debt had to be paid (and thanks to success was easy to pay).

To me a smart use of technical debt.
Why hasn't the FDA approved the vaccines, when health experts universally agree they're safe and effective and everyone should get one? I always hate when conversations come to this, because it comes across as a wild hot take, but there's a point where you've just gotta blame organizational dysfunction. It wouldn't be appropriate for the CDC to say "everyone ought to close indoor dining again" or "masks are pointless if you have them off 80% of the time to eat", and they certainly can't say "let's just let the unvaccinated people get sick". So they have to say some other stuff instead.
> In ancient Greece it was the most popular and important fruit

I would have guessed olives.
I feel like we are in complete agreement on the facts, but are somehow coming to opposite conclusions.

Slide 21, bold red text, surrounded by a red box: "Given higher transmissibility and current vaccine coverage, universal masking is essential to reduce transmission of the Delta variant"

If this is supposed to imply that restaurants need to be closed, I feel like it should instead actually explicitly say that, because it means firing a million people, again. If universal masking requires restaurant closing, then masking by itself won't do anything!

If masking by itself does nothing, then why dedicate two slides to just masking? If masking does nothing, why give it 40-60% effectiveness? If the graph is totally worthless and means nothing useful, why put it in the presentation?

If closing restaurants is mission critical, absolutely required for any other NPI to have any effect at all, then why hide it inside "Reconsider other community mitigation strategies" on the last slide?
FYI: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/byline-times/

This article I thought was going to be about sacrificial rituals, Bilderberg meetings, freemasonry or drinking blood, however it fails to substantiate anything more than some anecdotal stories, snobbery and mythisms about the upper class which are well known in Britain.

The upper classes in the UK are super-rich (either in land or in paper assets), but they will always pale in comparison to the multinational companies that have grown in the modern world, be it in Finance, Media etc. These companies and organisations have the direct lines and ties with the UK government, not ol' Reginald Whitcomb (made-up stereotypical name) who has 20,000 acres in Hereford and a cattle ranch in Australia.

Sure there is the nepotism/cronyism angle but that occurs in all levels of society and is not inherently a rich/poor characteristic.

The fact that the author's mother was able to ingratiate herself with the upper classes deflates the article's argument; that social classes are immutable in Britain and the institutional/familial argument is weak too. There are many rags to riches, and vice versa stories in British society and the world as a whole.

Everyone puts on a "good" front when in the company of people who are socially/financially/intellectually better off to them. I do it myself in the tech scene.

tl;dr sure 100 years ago the upper classes had more clout, nowadays they are just a static part of British society with a small bit of power in relation to other global forces and companies.
As a non-native. Isn't it assumed 'english', means uk english, and anything localised is 'australian english....indian english', etc? I've even heard of 'scottish english'.
A nice over-complication of a simple problem.
The developers took shortcuts to meet deadlines, there is now debt in the code.
You can make it as complicated as you like but the term fundamentally represents the above in reality.
The article is talking about a women's experiences in the ~60's. Why do you think such society no longer exists?

>The remaining Jacob Rees-Moggs of the UK stick out like sore thumbs and are almost caricatures

Then why has he risen to the top? The common people are not just itching for a caricature of an aristocrat to lead them, he represents people that are similar to him.
Both are adorable.
Now if they dropped the price from $180 to $50, maybe they'd have more people's interest.
Tangentially related, but I think that the root problem with the current copyright laws is that they are not really defined by a democratic process in each country but rather negotiated via trade deals, effectively eliminating any chance to significantly change them locally without breaking those deals. Such trade deals that restrict what citizens can do in their own country should really be unconstitutional in any democracy.

If some countries want strong copyrights they can enforce them for any imports and exports, but he effect of their laws should stop at their border. We have many other laws governing what you can and cannot do that vary significantly between countries and they do no get harmogonized globablly like copyright has been. And no, a global internet really does not change that.
They really don't. They're disproportionately represented in the country's leadership, but haven't formed a majority of it or even close for a generation or two. Anyway, we're a democracy. If we don't like the constitution of our political leadership, we can change it any time we like and do so frequently.
> If asking people to take a specific step that has a good chance of protecting them from disease or even death is “virtue signaling” and therefore evil, the concept has lost any meaning it may or may not have had.

At this point it's not even so much about protecting them anymore as it is about protecting them from continuing to mutate and spread a virus that kills people. The "anti-vaxxer" folk are choosing to not only be a danger to themselves but to potentially anyone they come in contact with. What's worse is that they're actively trying to spread their ignorance about vaccines to other people, thereby growing the danger and the problem.
> Take a minute and write an answer to the question, “What is technical debt?” Then read this article and reread your answer — and see if it still makes sense.

This really is NOT how you start an article. You only come across as needlessly assertive and arrogant.

> Nobody explained technical debt; we assumed it was a fundamental property of the work.

Total BS. Literally every manager I ever addressed in a sentence where "technical debt" was mentioned did question what exactly it is and why do we need to address and "repay" it. Where is the author of the article living? Not with us the programmers here on the ground, that's for sure.

> Now, one major concern in academia is rigor.

Ah, so now it's about academia and its definition. I'll cut him a deal. Bring your academics to my former customers and see if they can override management's idea of a technical debt. Succeed 5 times and then I'll bow to you and accept your definition. Until then you're just an annoyance like that guy on parties who is always going around telling people "well ACTUALLY you are using the wrong term".

Doesn't matter what the dictionary says, people. It matters what most of the people think a word means. It matters what most of the people do when faced with the word. Why is this so hard to accept for many?

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No, I haven't read the entire article. It smells of intellectual elitism and arrogance a mile away. The author must work on his tone.

Technical debt, whatever your definition of it is, is still a natural property of tight schedules. That's it. We can all go home now.

I wouldn't expect an academic to understand realities of schedules and budgets though.
Does this demonstrate that this particular large grid connected implantation have ineffectual fire suppression?

That sounds frightening!
By looking at parts of england you’d think reverse colonisation is well underway.

How are the dalit btw? Are india treating them as equals yet?
An Investor's Case for Bitcoin
I'd be curious to hear peoples experience of class in the UK and how it's effected their careers (particularly in tech).

To me it feels like class still has a significant effect. In particular that:

* Upper class connections can affect funding decisions.

* Presenting as middle class, affect hiring and career progression.
Show HN: Calculate how much money you lost from missing an IPO
iporegrets.com is a website that lets you calculate how much money you lost by missing out on an IPO. You can enter the company you missed out on, the year you would have joined, and how much equity you were initially granted, and it'll calculate how much money you lost. It's mostly for people who are feeling strong fomo, especially when hot startups go public.
Thank you. I was listening to a normal pronunciation on mobile and was very confused until I saw this video.
Is it too cynical to assert that this was the actual intent?
Nah, let them invest. What we need is adding vacancies to the social housing pool.
I'm in the process of searching for an apartment to buy and the formula for calculating the installment amount, while using only basic operations, is anything but simple.

Chiefly the answer to the question "how will this amount change if the interest rates go from effectively zero to 6%, which is the 30-year average?" is not straightforward.
If the phrase "technical debt" seems a misnomer, consider: "pay me now or pay me later".

TD is any code/architecture aspect to which PMNOPML applies.

As with gravity, it's going to suck whether one fancies the label or not.
> However the printing press, which is a mechanical device using movable type, was first invented by Gutenberg.

The printing press is a mechanical device which mass-produces books by pressing inked plates against paper. Movable type is just a way to construct printing plates. It makes no difference to the press.

I'm intrigued that you believe China invented movable type without inventing a press that could use it. But suffice it to say that while movable type did not catch on in China, printing and printing presses were huge.
Case in point, I need to buy a new medium sized kitchen knife. I essentially know what I want, but I went to Amazon today to check out the state of things.

I am in Germany, however, on the first two (!) pages of search for "kitchen knife", only two companies that I actually know make knives are present (the big ones: Wüsthoff and Victorinox).

ALL other results, that is over 80 results, are fake Chinese companies with "German like" names, essentially selling the SAME product - a fake Damascus (laser etched) knife with wooden handle. Most of them have 53+/- something HRC (probably widely fluctuating around 50 HRC) and are made of "German (style) steel", whatever that means. Indeed, names and presentation suggests that the knives are made in Germany. They are not.
Sometimes, the company is registered in the EU, but if someone uses the question function to ask where the knives are produced, it is always China.
All of them have fake reviews, naturally.

I mean... how useless Amazon has become to order even a midrange price good, like a decent but not top range kitchen knife.
Now, I am not in principle against buying goods from China, but I can use Aliexpress myself thank you.
We also all know the quality of these products when they arrive, and the inability to return them (as the price point is chosen that this is not worth it).

What I hate about it is the constant deception. Nobody would buy a knife if it would say "Price 10€, made in China". So instead, it's 30€, the name is something like "Schneidwerk" and the Amazon page is littered with German flags (ugh), whereas the company probably does the same in every other European country (with, for example, French or Italian flags).

Somehow, this makes me really irate.
Interesting read, I don't believe I've ever encountered a sea snake myself, but I have a general rule to avoid snakes. Growing up in Texas, I was used to looking out for the venomous ones we had out on the ranch, i.e., copperheads, water moccasins (aka cottonmouth), rattle snakes, and coral snakes. Luckily none of us have ever been bitten, but we have had dogs get bitten.

I recently found out that there was actually a lack of antivenom for coral snake bites in the US, but it appears that this has just recently changed [1].

When I first moved to Germany I asked some friends what sort of snakes I should watch out for in the forest; I got some funny looks and laughs from that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_snake#Antivenom_shortage
An average user has no idea what's going on in modern software anymore, to be honest. Nothing is what it seems and is redesigned every couple of months