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I think there’s two kinds of MVP in common use and they’re both valid tools in specific situations.

In Lean Startup, Eric Ries argues that if your business has giant unknowns. Big leap of faith assumptions. Then you’re best off using the scientific process to validate those unknowns before you do anything else. Start with a theory, design experiments and analyse the results. Repeat.

The MVP is the experiment. It’s a pity that he didn’t call it “quickest experiment”, because that’s what a Lean Startup MVP is, just the quickest experiment you can use to validate your businesses assumptions. And how can using a “quickest experiment” be old and broken? It’s a perfectly valid approach sometimes.

The other common use of the term MVP is to ruthlessly cull a products features before the first release. To find the MINIMUM PRODUCT that would be VIABLE. People use the term that way because that’s what it sounds like an MVP would be. And again… it’s a perfectly valid approach. How could it be old and broken to pragmatically limit the scope of a first release to the minimum set of features that users find viable so that you can keep as much time as possible for responding to change.

Anyway, I think the two kinds of MVPs are still good tools in the right hands when used in the right situations. I’d hate to throw away good tools just because they don’t work in every possible situation.
> However, I'd say the target audience is teenagers

There's this weird generational gap on HN where HNers seem to think the generation born in 2000 are teenagers. They're not. They're 22 year olds.
I think I'm well aware of that, thank you. FWIW my grandfathers' house in NL was one of very few left standing at the end of WWII in the city where they lived, and my grandmothers diary makes for interesting reading, to put it mildly.
I mean, they have nukes, if they really wanted to kill civilians I'd see the entire Ukraine population dead. It's a gradient, not a binary, isn't it.
I still hope we can avoid the full blown recession, but everyone should be prepared, Europe will be hit the hardest, US should be in better position.
My comment was a response to your singling out the "someone at Mozilla forgetting to renew a cert" which you referred to earlier. You are correct in acknowledging that you had only identified a proximal cause in your grandparent post.

I agree that the underlying problem is that extensions were disabled without user notification. The correct behaviour is simple enough: if any extension gets disabled for ANY reason other than manually by the user, the browser should lock out ALL network connections until the user has acknowledged this change of state. Someone should submit this to bugzilla as a high priority fix, if it hasn't already been done.
That, plus that they didn't have artillery in range until a few days ago.
Im interested in this too as my experience is the same as yours.

Personally I feel like going in to JS/G apps script is actually a big bonus as it means you avoid some of the really gross stuff that you get in excel (which ime ends up being really hard to maintain).
(there is no good content in this post, they just want to arbitrarily hate. They make extremely basic errors throughout and clear haven't ever used Rust, at least for anything non-trivial)
Yes, for a simple, singular query, like a search. It's not meant to be a longer (or more structured) input. There are "message boards" that hack around it and try to make it a text input, and it feels like that, a hack.
Could you give some examples of "no one cares"? Besides the URL to the 2018 proposal, you didn't give much to work with it.
What I'm saying is that if you're upper middle class income you are probably more concerned about the cost of housing than the cost of energy/food/etc.

CPI increases started way before Russia and the energy price instability - the things energy will immediately reflect in will not be a big % of your income so increases aren't that dramatic. If my heating bill goes up 300% that's still going to be less than 2% of my household monthly income and that's during winter when we keep the heating on the entire time.
You mean like in 2020 when the entire world was shut down because of COVID?

Or in 2018 when a trade war between china and US was just around the corner?

Or in 2016 when Brexit was the fall of the EU and Trump just got elected?

There's always something, and it's never clear that that something is going to actually be the real deal.
I am beginning to think that behind the apparent lunacy, a new & old kind of war is rearing its ugly head:
A pure resource-grab for arable land and natural gas & coal reserves, with no intention to preserve the existence of the local population beyond what's needed for forced labor, and no care for any international opinion...
The PR director isn't wrong. Inspite of its own issues, Boeing doesn't set the agenda for US foreign policy.
I guess part of it is really hashing out how decision making in your team works, and getting everyone on board and used to that.

For the category of decisions it is acceptable for the team to have authority over: one way this could work is to have people present candidate ideas, put issues to vote, then if the team cannot elect a winner, someone in a leadership position (you?) gets to cast the deciding vote.

there are obviously some categories of decisions that the engineering team should not have the authority to decide, e.g. ones where they might have conflicts of interest. e.g. maybe all the developers in the team want to rewrite the product in $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY to be able to put the experience on their resume and then trade it for better jobs, but risk ruining the product and the business (where people might be making the decision with their personal-career hat on, rather than their whats-my-best-professional-recommendation-for-the-company hat on).
The "major gains" don't come during the time in which all signs seem to point towards the end of the world being near.

The gains materialize when the end of the world that everyone expected yesterday eventually fails to materialize.
If you’re so confident, buy shorts and VIX calls. The stock market has proven to be largely detached from economic reality in the last few years, so don’t think any few indicators are proof that anything will happen.
Strongly recommemd a community of faith.
Simulate various scenarios. The point is to have made some tough decisions ahead of time, while you still have some peace of mind. Because the decisions you make now will be of higher quality than the ones you make when you are under more stress.

How would you scale down your expenses (if at all?) if your real income decreased by 10 %? What about 50 %? How long could you survive if you end up with no income? What consumption can you reduce, and what can you cut out entirely? When will you start cutting some things out? How much longer will that make any savings last?

Similarly, how would you scale up the household income if your expenses increased? At what rate can you withdraw from any savings?

A secondary benefit of this exercise is that it lets you find the pain points and see if you can do something now to limit their consequences later. (Is there e.g. preventative maintenance you can do on a car or your teeth that would avoid a more expensive breakdown later?)

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In contrast to many others, I don't place such a high value on having an exact day-to-day budget. Generally, both expenses and income follow a fairly statistically stable pattern, i.e. it averages out.

You do want to know what the averages are, of course, but you don't need to meticulously track daily expenses and income to learn that -- it's enough to go back in history and sample, say, every sixth day. Much less work for basically all the same benefits.
Rockets are expensive, the number of rocket launchers is minimal compared to the number of artillery pieces (and the number of rockets is far smaller than the number of artillery shells) and they tend to reserve them for strategic targets such as airports. Artillery shells and bombs are much cheaper for the same level of destruction, assuming that's your goal.
I was thinking more of using the debt to fortify.
Maybe metals... or property.
I actually am doing this.

With Covid-lockdown and remote jobs, you can drastically cut your expense if you can move out of the city.
Ooooh what will I get

Edit: hmmm, kinda looks like a Tori gate.
If you think someone's doing something wrong, email the mods. You can't be starting some innuendo campaign and vote brigading against some user just because you have a bad feeling about their posts, that's in the guidelines.
> It looks like Greece ( a NATO member) also has S300 ( How did that happen !!?? )

It was a compromise after Cyprus got them, but choose not receive them after threats from Turkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypriot_S-300_crisis)

Greece also has a number of other Russian SAM they bought after the 90s in the lull of the tensions with Russia.
I don't remember any bad MS docs and I've been using them on and off since the 1990.
Genuine question. How does retail investor invest in commodities which are all future contracts?
> predicting the next big crash for the last 5 years to no avail

It's precisely when no one (i.e mainstream media) is expecting, things go south. E.g 2008

However, ppl predicting crash will be right eventually because boom-bust happens in cycles. We just don't know when. Even a broken clock shows the right time twice a day.
Yeah my father is a handyman and I did lots of house and other maintenance for quite a few year, in balance to the very mental aspects of software! However for now I'm focusing my creative energy on higher value economic activities and spending spare time on the beach yoga or music instead. Someone else can fix that stuff for now :)
Netzpolitik is German so it's definitely a translation error.

The German version has "Neun Minuten, 53 Sekunden, Orgasmus."
In most localities, the purpose of drug laws is not in constraining the behaviour of people wealthy enough to party on a super-yacht.
Because Linux userspace arguably sucks. While the kernel is excellent, there is no sane sandboxing (and I can’t communicate enough how truly terrible linux desktop’s “security” is. A single bash script could break absolute havoc), the IPC mechanism used to communicate between programs is fragmented and in my opinion the insistence that C should be used everywhere really holds back the platform.

Compared to that, android has a well-architected sandboxing with very gradual permissions, SELinux for the remaining features (sure, mainline linux distros also have it from time-to-time but it is not used there to its full extent. Android runs every application as a different user for example, making security boundaries much more explicit), so I would rather ask, why doesn’t mainline linux copy some things from android?

Also, don’t get me wrong, I really like using linux OSs, but they do have plenty of space to improve.
Like UNIX clones....so easier said than done.
Who's to say god isn't (a) hydrogen atom(s) ?
I am thinking of establishing secondary rural location and investing in full off grid capability
This is my second "Show HN" with some site that I create after an interesting thread from HN. The first one (almost 11 years ago!) was salaryshare.me [0], a super-simple site where people could anonymously compare salaries. It ended up on the top of the front page for a while, got picked by techcrunch and even ended up being on a small feature from evening news.

Let's see if we can have lightning strike twice?

A couple of weeks ago, there was an "ASK HN" about what recommendation of sites to replace the (soon-to-be) killed StackOverflow.Careers. [1] The most voted comment was asking for a "OkCupid for Jobs". This comment sent me into the memory lane from my time working on a job board and how I envisioned adding such a "dating" mechanism to help job seekers and employers.

Anyway, I had to scratch the itch, so I put this together this weekend. If it seems bare-bones, it is intentional. Like the OP poster, I agree that what will make or break such a site will be the content, so my initial focus will be only on adding as many questions as possible, and to find ways to get users to contribute with their own suggestions.

I've started with just 15 questions, and I am planning to add at least this many per day. I also created a subreddit[2] where people can discuss about their favorite questions and also suggest new questions.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441888

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30554840

[2]: https://reddit.com/r/careercupid
I suspect if someone made a basic line of phones that inspired/leaned heavily on the Palm Pre/webOS or older versions of iOS, it'd have a chance to break into the market over time (has to be a _long term_ strategy). It'd never be an Apple or Android but if the aim was to capture 5% and work off that, there must be a way to profit.

If those phones were affordable and they kept the interface consistent - no bells and whistles - while functional to modern standards (up to date browser engine etc). With a long game strategy they could tap into market of those who just want a phone that 'works' (a phone to make calls and check the odd email or website). Particularly elderly market or low tech market. A bit like the Nokia's of old - predictable, reliable and basic.

Android has so many flavours and variants I know many (non techie) types that dread upgrading phones.
That doesn’t really tell me why you are suggesting this in this case. Naturally all things have limits, but the question is which is limited least?

As the goal here is to get as much power as possible on a very small thing up to 3 million km away, surely you can just work backwards from the wavelength to the mirror size you need to get that focus. I think they’re planning to use a phased array of laser light here because no single mirror is big enough, but the same principle applies.

Isn’t the limiting factor the aperture anyway?
People would be right to expect that no installed software can hijack the desktop completely as well, but unfortunately that is very much not the case.
This is super interesting.

I've wanted to get an e-reader for a while now, but I'd really like to be able to read the articles I have saved in Wallabag[1] on it so I could go fully offline for a day or two a week. One potential solution I saw which is similar to this was wallabag-kindle-consumer[2] but both of this and your solution have issues that dissuade me from them. The first is that I think there's a lot of metadata that isn't encapsulated by both of these solutions. Tagging/highlighting are the first things that spring to mind. The second issue is both are very kindle-specific and I wonder if/how they'd work on a non-Amazon e-reader?

Take my comments with a grain of salt though - I haven't owned an e-reader in years so maybe the interface wouldn't even readily support tagging/highlighting the way I imagine it. I appreciate how simple your solution is and can readily see how it could be extended to support tags at least from the search interface and integrate with other services like Wallabag! Thanks for your work and if I do end up getting an e-reader you'll definitely be seeing some pull requests from me!

[1] https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
[2] https://github.com/janLo/wallabag-kindle-consumer
Exactly. Whereas writing Rust and rushing can give you correct, robust software.
False. Even these dubious claims do not suggest that they were comp packages that were offered at hiring (0 years with company). If you refer to these at a hiring negotiation with Verizon or AmEx they will surely pass to the next candidate who will accept 200k or whatever the real maximum is.
Uh, no. The Enlightenment -- which was a phenomenon of Western and Central Europe, not the Mediterranean -- was in no way affected by Turkish naval control of the (Eastern) Mediterranean.
Just in case you are arguing in good fait, appeal to authority is not generally considered a logical fallacy. This is the first sentence on wikipedia: "Historically, opinion on the appeal to authority has been divided: it is listed as a non-fallacious argument as often as a fallacious argument in various sources,[5] as some hold that it can be a strong or at least valid defeasible[6] argument[7][8][9][10] and others that it is weak or an outright fallacy."

In general sure scientists can be wrong, even in fields they are experts on. But overwhelmingly they are not.

Also as I mentioned, and you did not respond to, all of us use appeal to authority probably multiple times every day. One example is that most people go to experts to see help, for example lawyers, doctors, dentists etc. The other is that it is common at work to have an expert resolve an argument. It would of course be better to research 100% from first principles every time, but that is just not feasible to do all the time.

Hope that clears it up. Next time it would also be more constructive to bring your own arguments, not just say "appeal to authority". Logical fallacies are pretty often quite nuanced and it is very easy to use them incorrectly.
Converting Turkey Offal into Bio-Derived Hydrocarbon Oil (2004) [pdf]
Dynamic linking has a been a thing on Windows since Windows 16 bit days, and is central to COM, static libraries are seldom used.

The big difference to UNIX shared objects (with exception of Aix), is that Windows dynamic libraries are namespaced and symbols are private by default.

That makes huge difference.
You're right but if I can find 20 similar costs to cut out I can start to make a difference.
7000 cars-on-trains, 5000 lorries-on-trains and 300 buses every day through the Channel Tunnel.

Plus however many vehicles fit on about 30-40 ro-ro ferries evey day between Britain / Ireland and the rest of Europe.
I think 4 weeks is bare minimum in Europe, 5 common, 6 or close to 6 pretty often (my case). I guess in some places it goes to 7.
That's strange. The archive.ph is another URL for archive.today, a well-known archive service[0]. Could it be it has been compromised?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
Exactly. thanks for reading between the lines.
Here is the simple rule I use: in English, pronouns never use an apostrophe for the possessive.

He --> his

She --> her

They --> their

We --> our

I --> my

You --> your

It --> its

(Since someone will probably point this out, this is only true of the common pronouns. There are unusual pronouns that have apostrophes in their plurals. Eg: one --> one's. But nevertheless, the rule worked for me.)
It's not like Vanced got taken down because of a HN post...
Free and open-source 3D atlas of human anatomy
>if they really wanted to kill civilians I'd see the entire Ukraine population dead. It's a gradient, not a binary, isn't it.

Please do post your sources for civilian casualty counts so we can better understand this gradient.

My understanding is conflicts in population centers of similar size and density elsewhere in the world (parts of Libya, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan), the civilian casualty counts are much higher than we are seeing in Ukraine.
Hi, that's a nice flow chart. Just one thing that I don't understand: Step 1. Make minimum payments on all debts.
What does it mean? Isn't it better to pay all debts as fast as possible?
Commodity ETFs
I'm not sure why it wouldn't be. All textbooks and most valuable courses are available online (a lot of them free). Read the materials, do the exercises and you're on par with people who went to university. Not sure what the point of this question is.
I've flagged malicious content and don't consider this brigading. When I saw that this isn't a problem with a single account, I made a Tell HN[1] 20 minutes ago to tell both mods and the community to exercise caution.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30670319
>> The emptiness in your life will never go away.

I used to feel like this, that I just had to put up with my constant feeling of emptiness and meaninglessness and that all these activities I saw other people doing and supposedly enjoying were just futile attempts to get away from their own emptiness or pain.

Then I figured out that I have "complex PTSD" from being abandoned and mistreated as a child. My feelings of emptiness and meaninglessness were my mind blocking out more painful feelings of fear and anger which came from my early childhood. After working on this for some years I now feel much more emotionally whole and basically relaxed.
> The whole MVP process presumes you don’t know what you are making for a product...

Then how can the minimum viabilty be judged?

This seems a logical flaw, theoretically speaking.

As a practical matter, inexperience may lead to not understanding what the term even means. But that has more to with people than the acronym.

No term is immune to human debasement.
Actually, completely the opposite is true. There's a reason that voxel games appeared after games with more traditional meshes.

The fundamental complexity of voxel data structures is higher: O(n^3) for iteration, and the density of polygons required after meshing is generally much higher. The only real benefit from a complexity standpoint is that storage and access of specific voxels is much faster, but this often doesn't represent a payoff.

Voxels are great for a lot of things, but making a game like Veloren run quickly is much harder than you might initially realise. There's a reason that we're told at least every 3 years that a new company has come up with the 'engine of the future' using voxel tech only to have it vanish into obscurity as they try to turn it into something that's not a tech demo.

For Veloren, there is a big benefit: we get to create enormous procedural worlds. But actually controlling the complexity of that data and efficiently storing/accessing it is a non-trivial change as you'll see from the project's dev blog.
Cool! Tip: The airshipper macos file is not executable, i had to chmod it to make it run.
I came here to say this. The author of the article does not understand what an MVP is.

An MVP is the eventual answer to a metric fuckton of customer development, not what you go into customer development with.

If you think you already know what the customer wants, I wish you luck at your next startup after this one fails; you don’t know that, and neither does your customer, or they would have built / bought it already. It’s your job to find the real problems they’re facing, and then build a solution that makes them rip it out of your hands before it’s even done. then, iterate.
If they have committed war crimes, these commanders will prosecuted by the majority of countries in any case, no matter how the war develops and what happens to Ukraine. Of course, Russia won't extradite them. That's obvious to everyone. The idea (that you seem to peddle) is absolutely absurd that there is a scenario in which Russia would hand over their own military commanders to the International Court of Justice or any other third country justice system.
How employable (or otherwise earning capable) are you? If 10% of people lost their jobs, that would be a big recession. Would you be one of them, and if you were, would you have trouble funding another job that pays as well? It depends on your industry, current job, experience, network, personality, etc. If you're a philosophy professor, it may be tough to get the same job. If you're in a non-faddish in-demand area of software, with lots of industry connections, you can probably keep a good job regardless of recession. You need to be honest about this with yourself.
Note that the oldest version of that story is due to a Christian Arab writing centuries later, complaining about all the bad things Muslims have done. There's no credible evidence from a non-axe-grinding source that anything like that happened.

Not to mention the fact that the Library had ceased to exist by the 4th Century, long before Omar showed up.

(Though I agree with you that the original comment looks like a recycled version of the Omar story.)