skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think those who object to the metaphor do so because they interpret "technical debt" as "technical consumer debt". Consumer debt being a relatively benign form of debt, they don't believe it conveys the gravity of the matter at hand.

Consumer debt is mostly unsecured, almost perfectly fungible across term structures and refinanceable on a whim within a very competitive market of lenders. It's rare for it to be essential for a consumer to take on debt to continue to live[1] and there are typically safeguards in place to ensure consumers don't take on too much debt burden. The only debt that most consumers will come across that imposes any restrictions, or moves slowly, is a mortgage on a residential property. When we talk of "technical debt" we are talking of something has none of the nice properties of consumer debt. If I had sufficient cash I could pay off all my consumer debt within two minutes with a few taps of my phone screen.

On the other hand, I interpret "technical debt" to be akin to a complex structured financial product. Maybe there are convertability clauses between debt and equity, perhaps there is variability in the rates payable, or optionality that can be triggered by various real world events. This form of debt is not liquid, it is not refinanceable and it can be hard to find someone to take it off your hands for any amount of money! Nonetheless, sometimes it is essential for a business to take on this sort of debt to continue to thrive. That is an apt meaning for "technical debt" in my opinion.

[1] rarity depends on how socialised one's healthcare system is!
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You can help:

https://ideas.ted.com/you-can-help-fix-wikipedias-gender-imb...

https://www.wikiloveswomen.org/

There must be other initiatives if others have links to share in this thread.
This is the problem I suppose, that the definition is fuzzy. I'd say it's to have teams where "you build it; you run it" and so the dev and ops are done by one team. That means teams will produce things that are easy to operate, as they'll be doing it.
> renounce citizenship.

Isn't the US one of the few (the only?) countries which makes this really hard?

Like, if I wanted to get rid of my citizenship (European country) all I need to do is get another one, it is void the second that happens. And even if it wasn't, I do have the right to get rid of the citizenship at any time, no reason or justification needed.

If I remember in the US it is not only expensive but also they for some reason have this system where they can deny you renouncing your citizenship.
Perhaps inspired by a recent submission of an interview with the creator of E.T.?
I do find “BDD” a frustrating term.

It was coined by Dan North [0] to refer to a coherent set of sensible TDD practices — give tests expressive names, say “behaviour” not “test”, write executable “given/when/then” acceptance criteria — but in the intervening 16 years (!) it’s mutated into… I don’t even know what.

There’s a community of “BDD” practitioners who talk about all sorts of ideas that aren’t necessarily even specific to software engineering. Which is fine and good, but it’s rendered the term essentially meaningless in a software context.

These days I usually say “double-loop TDD” or “outside-in TDD” when I want to emphasise the use of executable acceptance tests; it’s impossible to predict what (if anything) “BDD” will mean to anyone.

[0] https://dannorth.net/introducing-bdd/
Could you expand on your idea of how taxpayers are subsidizing mortgage rates and downpayments?
Somewhat rambling rant:

I feel like there was this great period from about 1950 to the mid 70s (I wasnt born until mid 80s) where people tried new and different things. Everything from nudism to environmentalism to living in communes to drugs and sex.

And now we're all back to doing the same BS things as the next guy and trying to be 1% more efficient than the next guy. Make sure you fit in. Join an HOA because you want your property price to rise as much as possible even though you don't care about lawns and picket fences. Don't have a hole in your CV, how will you explain taking 6m off to backpack Europe in your 30s!?

And I just think fuck all this shit.
Fairly sure Fleming didn't have anything like the distractions around now when he developed penicillin nearly 100 years ago!
The other examples seem to be very much group efforts, and I'd be impressed if the average guy or girl on the street could name the key figures involved.
It's possible we've simply reached a point where all the breakthroughs that realistically could be achieved by individuals have already been made, or that in the world of art there's simply too many artists able to readily share their creations with the world for individuals to stand out to the degree great artists of the past did. But I honestly don't know - it just seems that with so many more of us with access to resources and levels of education prior generations could only dream of we should be able to achieve a lot more than we have been.
I take the day off. I go for a long walk in the countryside somewhere with my partner. I eat a bunch of food of the sort that I wouldn't usually allow myself to eat, in larger quantities than I would usually allow. I don't worry about being productive or doing anything I don't feel like doing.
Why is the most famous person born in St. Petersburg Ayn Rand and not say Putin?
This story is specifically about West London, which is not the EU but I'll grant you has similar settlement patterns.

More than two thirds of car owners in the UK have access to off-street parking. Many people who do not have such access don't have a car in the first place.

This part of outer West London is particularly suburban, I would expect that number to be even higher there.

I would also expect a very substantial number of slow lamp-post chargers suitable for over-night charging to be installed instead of DC fast chargers.
Yeah, fair and simple advice!
Mine was not a complaint about productivity per se, I just can't be bothered clearning them or picking out the ones I need, but I understand where you're coming from.
Don't you get sunburn though? When it's really hot I actually tend to cover up _more_ (with thinner, lighter clothing naturally).
https://www.asus.com/Laptops/For-Home/Everyday-use/ASUS-E203...

How is this not a netbook in everything but name?
it's the truth
Purely anecdotal.

In India WA does an excellent job of being that social graph. There are segregated groups of family, colleagues, collage friends and what not. Messages, memes, updates are shared on those groups. Lot of commercial transactions also take place.

So Facebook usage has dropped significantly. Of course WA is owned by FB.
It's known now that they're a problem, and they're choosing right now to continue with that problem rather than spend the time/money/effort to change them. That's still technical debt. If it helps, you can see it as starting right now, rather than when the code was written. Either way, they're choosing to continue to have problems rather than pay off that debt... yet.
> it's like we have been ignoring 50% of our potential.

Well, most all had a mom...
You'd think so, yes. But... it's Corporate, nothing in those places makes much sense.
I wouldn't call it "pressure" - MS just started to give away Windows for free if the device was under certain specs[1]. At that point it became a nobrainer for OEMs to just use Windows if it costs them the same anyway.

[1] up to 11" and 4gb RAM IIRC
> Him (it's almost always a dude)

I'm curious as to how you know the sex of anonymous posters.
They could just build one phone with fingerprint sensor on both sides and allow on app chose which side works as unlock button and which one as volume button. I doubt those fingerprint buttons are very expensive. Esthetically would even would look better and more symmetric with 2 buttons on each side - 2 as volume button on one side, one as unlock button, another one custom shortcut, e.g. Open camera
You're the first commenter how actually "likes" notifications it seems... What apps other than IM/email/calendar/... do you allow?
Almost a year ago, I quit my gamedev job to make my own game: Glaciered
Yes, that was my point - technically it wouldn't be one otherwise.
Sun*

And it has not been the case for close to a decade now.
On my phone I only have notifications for the phone app, and text. That's it. Nothing else.

On my desktop I have zero notifications.

It's been that way for years, it's perfect.

I'm not a first responder. All things can wait.
July 29: Imgur community's tradition of upvoting the strange and weird
I for one am rather fond of just calling it "one man IT department" or a "generalist" (for whatever reason it looks like this has become a dirty word lately)
I think it's incredible that one person, even if they are an experienced game developer, could build something like this in under a year - and it looks great!

Steam store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2052300/Glaciered/

Official product page: https://glaciered.com
Why would you have to pay off all the (financial) debt?

Debt can be a permanent part of your company's capital structure just like equity can be a permanent part. Or do you have a plan to buy back all outstanding stock?

(Yes, real world debt in the form of bonds a due date, when you have to roll it over. But that's an accident of history. Instead companies could also sell perpetual bonds and put options on those bonds for the same effect.)

In finance terms, loosely speaking debt is the part of your capital structure whose cost is fixed in nominal terms. Equity gets the remainder of your income stream.

About high leverage: the more of your income stream you parcel out for fixed payments, the more you 'concentrate' your equity and the variability of the residual income it gets.

(Overall, I blame tax systems that give preferential treatment to debt over equity. Roughly, you can pay the capital cost of your debt with pre-tax money, but the capital cost of your equity comes out of post-tax money. Put them on equal footing, and you'll solve quite a few problems.)
Crypto platform Zipmex files for bankruptcy protection
A/B testing can definitely make product teams feel like they're making progress but it should not be a team's only strategy.

It's a bit like moving the furniture around the same room.
So I oppened this in the Amazon Brazil. The Kindle book is R$569,00. That is more than a brand new Kindle Paperwhite, and more than twice the Brazilian minimum wage.

I won't provide the link, but it took me 5 seconds to find this for free :P
> The solution was to use JasperReports.

Ran into it in a legacy project a few years ago, it was a total mess.

The way the templates were written wasn't clear in regards to how the fields will be filled out, conditions and scripts for the visibility of certain sections were problematic (no proper linting/syntax checks outside of runtime), there were problems with system fonts, there were problems with selecting data for filling out the templates, there were problems with the template files looking broken in different versions of the GUI software, there were problems with getting like 50 warnings after opening the template and moving any element a few pixels broke the entire template.

If possible, I'll avoid the technology, especially after trying to migrate the project to JDK 11 broke because of incompatibilities of that version of the library. Personally, I think that HTML output that then can be rendered to PDF is the only decent option in this space, which will save you many headaches.
All I have got in Firefox is a blue ball.
Facebook, it seems, is moving away from its traditional focus on text and images, spread among people who know one another, to instead adopt TikTok’s emphasis on pure distraction.

I don't know why the author didn't make the obvious connection here. TikTok's emphasis is not on distraction, but on video. TikTok is successful because it understands the power of video without the legacy mental model of television: longer videos punctuated by attention-breaking ads. YouTube is still firmly operating in this legacy model.
So Nikola Tesla was not notable enough? Or I just can't find it in Serbia or the US.
No notifications at all - phone is on silent at all times.

Though I do have a good habit of checking messages and emails every hour, so it isn't that bad for others. (Desktop is different, teams / slack is on all the time with popups).
I didn't understand the methodology. Turns out it's because my first data point was the result of an error in the source data.

I looked at Santa Fe, since I thought George R. R. Martin would be the most famous person there.

This says Anna Gunn is the most famous person from Santa Fe.

Okay, so perhaps Martin's a transplant, while Gunn was born there? The map legend says "birthplaces", after all.

Nope. At least, Wikipedia and IMDB says she was born in Cleveland, and her family moved to Santa Fe when she was young.

Though ... other sources say she was born in Santa Fe, like https://patch.com/new-mexico/albuquerque/3-celebrities-who-l... ?

But the source paper at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4 uses Wikipedia and Wikidata - both of which list Cleveland.

... Ah-ah! The place of birth entry for Wikidata changed on 3 August 2020 from Cleveland to Santa Fe. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q271050&oldid=124...

And the Wikipedia entry changed on 31 August 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_Gunn&diff=86...

And the data from the paper was from 2018.

I wonder how bad the data is in the rest of the data set.
Public v4 addresses are optional with AWS EC2, no?
I agree! I stopped getting iPhones because I thought 1000£ was too much when a google pixel was 300£. However I got the SE for 500, which I thought was fair, and I love that it's just simple, no messing around with 3 cameras etc
Works for me with Firefox 102/Linux
The iPhone 13 Mini has those sharp pocket destroying edges though.
I have a wife. I don't celebrate.
I didn't mean to "defend" Stalinism, insofar as the man himself was a paranoid, brutal dictator who did a lot of evil shit; I only meant to contrast it with our totalitarian global corporate capitalism, which is (if we're honest about the matter, and if we take a global view) just as bad. Stalin killed about ten million. Capitalism kills that number, mostly in the Global South, in less than a year.
The big difference between technical debt and actual debt in a money sense is that real debt is taken on consciously with an agreement betweenn debtor and lender. Because of this money debt can be worked into the planning and the risk can be calculated at the time the loan is initiated. Circumstances can change over time, but there is a bargain between the debtor and the lender. There are things like interest rates and collateral that are agreed upon when the debt is incurred.

Technical debt is by definition created to save time, so there is rarely an understanding of the risk that comes with the debt until the debt must be repaid. This means that the eventual payback can range from inconsequential to disasterous. The point is that the debtor won't know until it comes time to pay the debt back. Technical debt is often incurred in lieu of actual planning, not because a debtor is consciously and rationally weighing current reward against a future risk.
So, Leonardo Da Vinci is #3, Hitler #4, I cannot find #1 and #2.
Shocking that this spyware app by the Chinese government has been allowed to obtain global dominance. Probability of psychological manipulation at scale is real. Huge national security risk. Sad so many people are eager for such addictive superficial distraction. Soon the AI will be able to make videos itself. Better hope the Social Credit System likes the direction you’re swiping.
It's not just deforestation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
Bubbles. Software isn't just whatever the author's particular bubble happens to be.

OOP is still very alive and well, mainly because an aweful lot of the most widespread languages are OOP, how can you talk about java and python without using OOP ?
> And it also has more usable screen

Funnily, after playing with both for a couple minutes in the store, I decided on an SE exactly because of 13's screen. Because of rounded corners, the way it rendered content
sometimes became downright ugly and didn't actually grant any extra space: http://puu.sh/JdxXl/985552f316.jpg
Yes.

check out Japan: its workforce problem will peak around 2038 according to the UN Pop estimate[1].

1. https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Pyr...

Move the slider at the top to 2038.
... to his christo-fascists political aspirations.
The display aspect ratio is 20:9. It's a bit taller than iPhone SE 2, but similar width. So 1 hand use friendly.
Because he was not born in neither Serbia or the US.
The historical phenomenon of inflation, focusing on the Roman Empire and C16
I actually got my backside pretty badly sunburnt nude on a beach and I quickly, and painfully, learnt how you pretty much use it constantly.

Also, I've yet to work out the correct edicate for the (very necessary) process of applying sunscreen to your genitals on the beach, especially in mixed company.
The difference between the EU and US is wild. EU is mostly historical figures, Picasso, Da Vinci, Erasmus, Van Gogh, and of course Adolf. But US, even though some old presidents, it's mostly pop & movie stars.
Croatia.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9036
Never thought I’d hear a term like “work-war” balance and what an amazing initiative by an empathetic company to keep things moving forward but with proper regard to human life. This is the correct use of technology and it’s frameworks.
> Replacing sugar with less harmful sweeteners is the whole point of the regulation.

Are you sure they are less harmful ? I read on HN that for example fructose syrup will destroy your liver.
I'll give you a pass on the Apple fanboism, seeing as you made the poor judgment call to get a Windows phone ;)

On second thought, are you sure you're not still holding your iPhone wrong?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/06/25/iphone.problems.re...
Barack Obama is #1. Trump is #2 :)
Trump is 2. Haven't found 1 yet
"Pay $1 to a single private company" is not the same as "pay $1 toward every circulating token in the network." If you consider this a tax, it is a tax distributed to all current and future holders of the currency, including the user doing the transaction.

If "changing of the guard" means replacing VISA with thousands of VISAs in a decentralized network, where any non-VISA can become yet another VISA through permissionless software, that is far better in my opinion.

If you have another economic model than EIP 1559 that you feel is superior, you have the power to propose that as an EIP and start to develop consensus around it. EIP 1559 was first proposed in 2019 and it took some years for consensus to build around it.
Tbh you don't really notice the amount of camera's (my iPhone 12 mini is my first iPhone and my first phone with > 1 camera, I also got it because I like smaller, good Phones.), it switches automatically when zooming.
Looking at the ASN of this company, it would appear they are reselling Hetzner nodes with IPv4 disabled.
Tesla was born in modern-day Croatia. He's listed there.
Yeah, I don't understand all the negativity here.

I met one of my friends on TikTok, on a post about an event going on in the city (when I'd just moved).

It's much more social than Instagram, etc. IMO.
>Once we actually have AI we're going to need something else to call it

You mean Artificial General Intelligence? ;)

On a more serious note, it is a shame that we ended up calling it AI instead of something innocuous like "pattern matching code". There's so much bullshit and misunderstanding that wouldn't be there if we had named it something less impressive
On my experience it is rebraded sysadmins.
Excuse me, was it an F or an F# at end of bar 846?
At least in the Pixel 6's case, it's 5 years of security updates, not OS updates. IE nothing but the very critical updates beyond 2-3 years.
Two issues may be at play here. Both tech and Medication Madness,

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2492547.Medication_Madne...

I agree it seems more prevalent in your generation. We are quicker to diagnose with pills, perhaps due to their availability and our lack of understanding about long term effects.
Recursive Optional Dependencies in Python
Yeah ofc it’s just Hitler you see.
A Manchin Miracle Brings Biden’s Climate Agenda Back from the Dead
Your description is apt when you are talking about an analogy between technical debt and personal debt.

For companies, whether to use debt or equity to finance their balance sheet is just a technical decision. Either way, you have to pay the cost of capital.

(Ie even if you finance your project from equity and not from debt, it still has to be better for your shareholders than just giving them the necessary capital back via a stock buyback.)

A company can have debt as a permanent feature of its balance sheet, just like equity.

Funny enough, I suspect from a corporate finance point of view, technical debt should actually be called 'technical equity', because technical debt only gets expensive when your project takes off. If you never end up using that piece of code, the technical debt never has to be paid. But it gets more and more expensive, the more successful your project is.

Just like selling 50% of your startup to an investor (as equity) gets more and more expensive (in retrospect), only if your startup really takes off. Debt stays the same price, whether your startup is middling or goes to the moon.
Useless title. Re-do.
I use screen zoom, which magnifies a portion of my screen around my cursor. As a result, I miss most desktop notifications. I've turned on the thing that flashes the whole screen when they come in, but pan+scanning over to the notifications pile makes me lose context with what I was working on, so I typically ignore the flash too. I should just turn off all the notifications.

There's a lot of "I turn most of them off" here. In parallel, notifications are regularly talked about as a major sticking point around web vs native apps (because Apple). If we, here, aren't using them, why are we building customer-facing tools around them?
And sisters and daughters... But somehow they never had the same opportunities to get on this "Famous People" list. Last week I told my Daughter she can be a knight (although granted she usually wants to be a princess), and I felt weird and then I felt extra weird.
Are those two things related?
Same here. A long time ago I decided I want to be the one in control of my life, not others. When I want to check my mails etc., I do it - not when someone creates a false sense of urgency.

The only notifications I'm using are for phone calls from selected contacts, mainly my family.
>"And I just think fuck all this shit."

Yup. Fuck it. Totally agree.
The Pixel 6 Pro has been update to become a pile of hot trash in my case. The updates have been so bad I'm returning it this weekend, while I received a perfectly functional hone...

I'm sure some will appreciate the (security) updates, because the year or so of OS updates I've experienced have been a constant trend towards the worse.
Jean-Paul Sartre is shown as the most famous people born in Colombia

I think Simon Bolivar or Shakira or Gabriel Garcia Marquez or many others have a better claim to the title

Especially since Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris

What's weird is that wikidata has the correct info
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9364
where is messi?
Truth be told, because nobody knows anything, it's often easier to deal with an "Occam's razor" designed system that tried to stay simple; than with a prematurely overengineered mess.
I don't even have the "notification center" icon on my Windows 10. And I removed the new email popup alert
As you said, it takes two actions to switch windows in GNOME, but only one action in Windows (clicking an icon on taskbar).
Fructose is sugar, it's covered by the tax.