skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deflation has lead to two world wars in Germany.

Remember the austrian school of economics? They thought all you have to do in a depression is do austerity and liquidationism.

At the beginning of the 20th century the Germans followed their advice strictly and made a third of its population redundant in the process. This happened twice and everyone knows how many world wars they started.

By the way, central banks don't print money and commercial banks usually lend out money because saving reduces the active money supply and lending replenishes the active money supply. What people refer to as printing money is actually people saving more money.

People complain about low or negative interest rates because they want to save but they are too stupid to notice that this increase in savings leads to an increase in the money supply. Maybe they aren't stupid maybe they are just evil?
Rust guarantees insane performance and no bugs.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think vanilla Firefox also comes with DRM disabled. Like on librewolf, you can just enable DRM and be on your way.

One thing I've found, is that even if you enable DRM, librewolf sometimes still fails on Netflix. Just the other day I got redirected to a help page about Microsoft silverlight when trying to play a movie, had to fallback to Firefox.
You find it funny, but this is by design. Governments are not benevolent parties, gifts of the gods to society.

Companies aren't either, but at least we can choose which companies we deal (not for everything, but still for many things) and companies can't use violence against us. We can't choose governments (if you live in a "democratic" state, you can choose a politician, which is another thing) and if you don't subscribe to what they impose, they have an excuse to use violence against you and your family.

EDIT: private bodies in theory can use violence, but then we also can fight back in legitimate defense. This doesn't apply to governmental violence.
In my experience, I feel it's getting better in some regards, worse in others.

I used to be Visual Studio only but nowadays I refuse to install that VS in any capacity if I can help it: the installer is broken, the app takes forever to launch and it's always an unpleasant experience against other IDEs like Jetbrains.

I don't use MS Office and I have fond memories of some powerful features but unless you need to actively use it I think the web versions are fine?

..Gimp/Krita/Inkscape are nowhere near acceptable for graphics work and while they have been making leaps the proprietary apps haven't stood still and I think they are more than keeping the pace. I am a super avid user of Affinity Photo/Designer and they are the my main blocking issue for moving out of Windows currently. Wine support for these two apps is non-existent ( https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... )

EDIT: Forgot to say, LibreOffice is unusable IMO, the UI has plenty of issues (honestly whoever is in charge should watch Tantacrul's video on MuseScore as I find a lot of parallels) and it's quite unreliable. We used to maintain a software manual at my previous place of work and LibreOffice would crash so often when trying to edit it, to the point we gave up having a manual!
Allocation of capital is terribly suboptimal in a badly managed state without good checks and balances.

Consider USA where there is a mismanagement problem with healthcare -- onerous regulations, rent-seeking, gatekeepers, state capitalism, crony capitalism, corrupt bureaucracies, anti-trust issues, and insufficient investment in training and development.

If healthcare is unnecessarily expensive by 10% -- then that's 2% of the American economy misallocated. Also, the lost human potential because of worse healthcare outcomes is another drain.

Now imagine if that was par for the course everywhere you look.
Maybe, but there are a lot of Bay Area companies, and almost all of them are hiring right now. Basically if you’re a good SWE in US you should have no problem getting $300k total comp. Just make sure to warm up your leetcode skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXn3mcdmpNk this says people would help them along the way, e.g. if their car broke down. I guess it really helps when you have a car from the 1930s and a cool story.

I could imagine, if they were that sort of people, they could roll up to a grocery store car park, wait for curious locals to talk to them, and then pretend not to have local currency to get groceries, and get 1 or 2 people to pay for their food.

Edit: they go into detail about how they started the book on the road: https://youtu.be/UJafN4oxSqM
And his employer refuses to negotiate. Fuckem.
Lots of unsourced and implausible claims here, either you are making stuff up or you are pushing an agenda.

> "they have orders to minimize damage if possible"

Right, at a guess you are in Russia and not in Ukraine.
About half-way down: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...

toolkit.telemetry.enabled and toolkit.telemetry.unified have a complex relationship.

about:preferences#privacy
Uncheck all
.
toolkit.telemetry.unified = false
toolkit.telemetry.enabled = false
toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRun = false
datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled = false
datareporting.sessions.current.clean = true

In a couple min of searching it looked unlikely that I'd find any current documentation about these flags, the bhrPing and hybridContent are probably remains, but were still present in my existing profiles.

devtools.onboarding.telemetry.logged = false
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry = false
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry = false
browser.ping-centre.telemetry = false
toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled = false
toolkit.telemetry.hybridContent.enabled = false

There are some additional prioping entries under the telemetry module which are associated with Nightly / dev builds.
You can't choose to opt out of the city government of Fresno? I think it's pretty easy, I'm often not subjected to it.
Offpunk 1.0: Offline Gemini/Gopher/Web Browsing
You missed the 'after' bit in your own comment.
> We've not only decided that's an "acceptable steady state", but actively embraced it.

I’m not sure what you mean by that but nobody I know thinks it’s perfectly fine to have half a million people per year die unnecessarily.

> claiming that human beings aren't fine with perpetually dealing with this level of risk is rather absurd

People are dealing with those risks all the time. About ~90% of people
were voluntarily wearing mask when I went grocery shopping earlier today. People had their seat belts on on the roads there. Their kids were in child seats even though it’s quite inconvenient to put them in there. We do lots of things to mitigate risks. Some of them are pure theater (letting the pilot go through airport security), others are really effective (having a co pilot in the cockpit).
Saudi Arabia Just Beheaded 81 People in One Day
Microsoft does this and IMO is one of the reasons their products are lackluster at times. There are other reasons but this is definitely one of them. The PM role is spread so thin they don’t have enough time to boil down seemingly related pain points or customer rants in to a coherent story. Even with perfect execution the product tends to have a broken UX.
You can get above £100k fairly easily by working in finance or even just a profitable PLC in London (eg I know of Sainsburys offering that several years ago albeit for an EM role). Even if you don’t like investment banking or hedge funds, high street banks also pay well and have generous pension, annual leave etc.

Never seen £470k TC though!
> The emphasis should be on viable and product, and getting there ASAP.

So… a minimum viable product?
"Build it and they'll come" is pure survivor's bias. It's true that there are some products (Wordle, Minecraft, Undertale, lots of other indie games, ...) that were built by single developers or small teams with little to no marketing and became wildly successful anyway. But nobody is remembering the thousands of products that tried to follow this strategy and failed (or still exist in complete obscurity).
I’m in a similar position minus the children part. Needless to say - going out is the solution. You need to go make new friends and get into more social environments. Basically start saying yes to more things. People invite you to something and you’re not feeling it? Too bad - just say yes. You found something to do that involves other people through an ad, forum, Facebook, etc etc. - say yes. I found that often I don’t regret saying yes that much especially when I compare it to what I would’ve been doing. (Some version of self-pitty, stuck in my head, feeling trapped, and powerless to change my situation)

I’m gonna be honest - it’s not easy. There’s lots of giving up and feeling like it’s hopeless but there’s moments where it feels like the momentum is building. Just need to translate that momentum into something meaningful.

I will also mention that I’m a niche product and I’ve found myself very difficult to make close friendships with people. I’m extremely picky with who I associate closely with. As much as I like to think people don’t like me - it’s really that I don’t like most people. Because you’re not outside of your body and inside someone else’s - you’ll find that even if you’re interesting or what not, if you don’t show interest back, people will disengage. So - it’s important to say yes to people more often. And that’s hard after going through a divorce and after probably losing some friendships and being burnt out over 30+ years of trying to get things perfect but failing. But you gotta keep saying yes and keep trying. Also - not all friendships need to be friendships where you could share every single thing ever with someone and be bestest buddies for life with it almost looking like a marriage from the outside. This is setting up most friendships for failure.

Also - stay off dating apps for a long long time. If you’re anywhere near average (or worse) looking physical appearance - they will absolutely ruin any shred of self-confidence that you thought you had. Totally blackpills you. To be fair - I’m in SV - so life is already blackpilled as it gets.
Just a minor gripe, perhaps. Where does it say that Haverty is an original person behind FTP? RFC 959 seems to give most of the credit to Abhay Bhushan [1] from one of the older RFCs, 114 [2].

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc959

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc114
Does anyone know of a more modern game in the same vein?
It is not that different. Look up for example photos from Mariupol or Kharkiv and see for yourself. Smaller cities are being destroyed even more. City of Volnovaha for example is destroyed to the ground.

The biggest difference is that the cities are much bigger, so it takes more time to completely level them.
It is controlled opposition. And their CEO is not an engineer and has no clue how to manage engineers or run a software company; she's a lawyer.
Like you, I don’t really care about this particular ad. I’d rather have Firefox make some money to fund itself.

> How many of y'all who use Firefox donate or buy their VPN anyways.

A couple of caveats to note. Donating on the Mozilla site funds Mozilla Foundation, which is the non-profit, and is not the same as Mozilla Corporation (which is the maker of Firefox). AFAIK, the donations to Mozilla Foundation cannot be used to fund Firefox developers/development (at least not directly). As for Mozilla VPN, it’s available only in a few countries.

If MoCo (Mozilla Corporation) would just sell Firefox themes or digital stickers, I’d gladly buy those to support it (anything that’s legal and allows it to take money from people). Being on the outside, I haven’t understand why Mozilla isn’t looking at and exploiting as many revenue streams as possible to reduce the dependence on the massive search engine relationship with Google.
Thank you, that was a really helpful insight into how Libyans feel and I appreciate you taking the time to share it.

If you can find a copy of "Hard Choices: The Making and Unmaking of Global Britain" by Peter Ricketts (ISBN-10: 1838951830, ISBN-13: 978-1838951832) you may find the contents relating to Libya of interest. Peter Ricketts was the UK's National Security Advisor at the time and is not complementary about the decisions the UK made and how the UK and other nations treated Libya. I finished reading it shortly before I read your comment, and it prompted my question.
Yes, you can use a hair dryer to make roast chicken and you can run Linux kernel with ZFS support on chinese risc-v implementation.

The world has become better, life has become more interesting.
So... many... assassinations
Sounds low. Make it seven weeks. That's what most of us get in France.
It depends on the country, definitely true for England, maybe true for France, not true for Spain, for example. I think it's mostly northern countries and their colonies. The Mediterranean peoples are very different.
Well PMs who used to be devs like you end up being very effective in my experience. They really ‘get it’. Add in high agency and you get a very potent person the team can rally behind.
YouTube allows you to see the view drop-off at every second, so the creator of the video can see people skipping the sponsor section.

I’m guessing that sponsors probably look at click through or view count. I believe sponsors that care about views will ask to see this chart in the future if they don’t ask for it now.
Then you weren’t building MVPs, because V stands for “viable”.

Devs I’ve worked with will sometimes hear “MVP” and think “prototype”. Not really sure why. An MVP needs polish, it’s just a way of keeping a narrow focus and avoiding bike shedding.
Thanks very interesting. I'm on waiting list right now there. Seems they are more focused on work.

Actually I was thinking a lot how to 'solve' this problem on a technical basis. Like an app where people just can socialize and find virtual camaraderie. So if someone have ideas for a solution. Please let me know!
> added unlimited paid leave

The only time this works is when the company's in early-days stages, when you'll be severely underpaid in cash and paid in equity instead, that the VCs have added a tolerance for crash-out-time to their spreadsheets.

I've never worked for a company that put "unlimited paid leave" in their job-ads, let alone the actual contract, so I'm curious how those things are spelled out.

Under at-will employment, the company can fire you for any (legal) reason, but if you bunk-off work all the time, but your contract says "unlimited paid leave", what case do they actually have? Has it been tested in court?
Michael Kofman, an expert in Russian mil., claims that one of the reasons for this is that Russia's military doctrine accounts for cases where air supremacy or superiority cannot be achieved.

Shelling a city with Grad and artillery is far cheaper.
I like John Mueller and how easy it is to reach him on Twitter. He was definitely a good choice for a Search Advocate to be installed after Matt Cutts left. But, I would take everything he says with a big grain of salt.

It's in his best interest to say things like, "Yeah, we don't use page authority for ranking signals", when clearly they do. Just don't tweet this stuff to him directly or a brigade of "seo experts" will flock on you like crows on a shiny piece of metal.
Article with similar title, different content ( but published earlier ):

"The Mysterious Case of the Missing Russian Air Force"

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentar...

and follow up under the same subject:

"Is the Russian Air Force actually incapable of complex operations?"

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/is-the-russian-air-...

"Russian and Chinese Combat Air Trends - [PDF]"

https://static.rusi.org/russian_and_chinese_combat_air_trend...

It looks like the Oligarchs stole most of the money that should
go for effective logistics. The Russian Air Force probably cannot supply enough spare parts. Military jets need hours of maintenance for each hour of flight.
Oh yes, I <sarcasm looove /> it when people do that...makes reading the diffs feel so much more meaningful when the actual change is buried under tons of needless formatting elsewhere in the file.
> promise "future growth" also underlining how important you are to the company

No-one can promise future-growth: if they don't offer an immediate equity grant in lieu of cash then just walk.
> Perhaps you're right, you shouldn't be allowed to process information as you see fit.

Most places in the world, you're not allowed to own or use weapons as you see fit.

Information is weaponized nowadays.
"The vast majority" of applications having packages doesn't satisfy my requirement: never ever, for any reason *ever*, having to use the CLI. The requirement is clear, unambiguous, and shared by the vast majority of PC users.

For the record, at least in my case, it's certainly not the "vast majority" of applications. The following applications don't have easy to install packages. Even when there is, as in the case of Calibre-Web, Transmission, and NZBGet, they often require CLI configuration and/or intervention.

* Readarr

* Openbooks

* PhotoPrism

* Prowlarr

* Jackett

* FlareSolverr

And these are just the applications I could spot in five minutes.
Not having to redo the entire chain of image operations from scratch if you mess up one step. The ability to reuse the chain of operations on a different image. The ability to tune / tweak the settings of each step without having to repeat the entire chain manually from the start. The ability to edit the chain of operations if you don't like the result, without having to re-execute the chain manually.

And, lastly, node-based systems can be incredibly fun, if done right.
Still a hard no, why would I pay when I get it all for free.
Even if your place is mortgaged - most people in the UK for e.g. are on short fixed interest rate deals, usually 2 to 5 years. If you're on a shorter term deal and your interest rate increases at the end, you're going to struggle to pay your mortgage.
You mean the west, most countries in this world give as much attention to this as the world gives to them.
Requirements are easy, people are not. It's great talking about user stories and use cases and rapid prototyping - but how do you know you have the RIGHT use cases and user stories...?

What follows is one way to get requierments right -

¹ Current State

Assess the situation. Understand the transformation (one or more processes) the client seeks to address, and find out what the technology landscape looks like. Start identifying stakeholders, and familiarise yourself with the client's worldview, environment, and the power and political landscape.

² Objective

Identify who the client is, and define the client's objective. The objective is specific, measurable, agreed to by the client,realistic, and time-boxed. It is guided by the results of the situational analysis.

³ Scope

Bound the solution by outlining it's features and functions, by defining what's out of scope, and by discussing the criteria by which success is measured. The scope delineates what stakeholders expect the project to deliver.

It's not hard but it's not going to fall into your lap without a little effort.

¹ https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Transformation.aspx

² https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Objectives.aspx

³ https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Scope.aspx

(Being nice helps too - people like helping nice people -- https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Trust.aspx)
NanoPI M4 burned two SD cards and destroyed its own eMMC module due to some weird behavior while I was using it for NAS.

No idea what caused it, I suspect excessive writes and wearing the flash storage or corrupting the bootloader and not being able to recognize the boot media. The "wear" I mentioned could be something else of course, but except the normal OS writes, everything went to the SATA drives.

It sounded like a solid piece of hardware with the 4 SATA-ports-hat and good CPU, but at the end it turned out to be un-reliable as at some point the OS hang, couldn't boot from the OS storage and the bootloader wasn't seeing the partitions via UART debug session.
> I've been offered roles with a TC of £470k (this is UK remote)

Because no-one else is saying it, I will:

Bitcoin, random cryptos, NFTs, etc, don't count as TC.
>Radarr sounds like the type of software that no vendor would accept in their app store. Why would you expect it to be available through a Linux package manager?

I don't. I expect it and many other applications to remain difficult to install, so I expect most users to remain on PC. I am not levelling blame on anyone or anything. I am simply explaining how the user experience is hostile in Linux.
> If you want to see what the Russian forces are capable of on the city-leveling front, simply watch footage from the second Chechen war and compare it with big Ukrainian cities today (preferably shot by simple people, not media outlets).

Grozny wasn't destroyed in one day. It took 2 wars to achieve that. There is still less than 3 weeks of Ukrainian war, and i'd say Russian destruction speed of Ukrainian cities beats the Chechen war - not surprisingly as Russia uses much more hardware for Ukraine cities destruction. If anything looks like Russia is going at it at the maximum speed it can with the available hardware (and giving the current war failure Putin would have brought the additional hardware if he could without leaving naked the rest of the country - there is a reason he is asking China for the hardware help).

>I will not comment on your blatant propaganda piece. There is enough of footage of Ukrainian armored forces hiding near high raise buildings, "territorial defenses" assembling in schools and hospitals, and artillery being stationed in school yards.

Still, what Russia can't show is footage of actual strike on city civilians with a valid military target in the strike zone while there are lot of footage of Russian strikes on city civilians without a valid military target in the strike zone.

Anyway, Ukrainians have got to defend their cities. By your and German Nazi logic the defenders of Stalingrad are guilty of destruction of Stalingrad.
> impromptu conversations are verboten because you might be leaving a remote worker out

Most people on your team aren't listening to every conversation everyone else ever has. You should be documenting all meaningful communication for your project, regardless of remote availability.
> moving at relativistic speeds, etc, while in cryogenic sleep or whatever

There’s an interesting way to get to relativistic speeds - to get close enough to a supermassive black hole, steal enough momentum so you get very close to c, then, a subjective week later, you do the same around another black hole in a different galactic core to shed your momentum and get back to a manageable speed. An intergalactic civilisation would use supermassive black holes as train stations.
> It may be better to add GraphQL APIs.

Don't add GraphQL without understanding what you're getting into. I wouldn't use it in the same 'latest frictionless' context that the article mentions.
I think it's safer to assume the worst and have alternative explanations beyond mere incompetence
While there has been some drunken bar-talk about retaking Karelia and re-establishing the pre-WW2 borders, It's not likely Finland will attack Russia.

It's more likely the russians are a) incompetent, or b) saving the bulk of the air force for a potential escalation of the current hostilities. One does not have to exclude the other.
I will admit that energy is not a terrible "commodity" to base an economy around but I don't see how Bitcoin is supposed to guarantee that a single bitcoin equals wasting a certain amount of energy.

It fails as a unit of account for energy.