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Apparently the Home edition will require a Microsoft account and an internet connection. [1] Can't say I'm looking forward to this. All my Windows installations are with local accounts and I would like to keep it that way. Microsoft has already made it incredibly obnoxious to achieve this with the latest Windows 10 setups, where you have to make sure your computer is not connected to the internet to even unlock the fallback local account creation option. [2] A sad day indeed if this is no longer possible.

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[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22548480/windows-11-home-...

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/442609/confirmed-windows-10-setup-...
I hope they try, and I suspect it would end up the same way that OS/2 ended up for IBM, i.e. failure.
Not that I love or hate any particular company; but I do believe in (real) competition and I think this would help foster that. (Strong enemy of my enemy vibes here though.)
Free* DayToday: John McAfee, IKEA, & the First Capitol Riot Sentencing
Nevermind, I get it, you just change the rendering method. Very cool, I love that you can change the visualization method without changing the data structure!
It's a direct response to the reason many companies have given for forcing everyone back to the office.
This has been a trend for a long time, five W’s reporting is time consuming and expensive it seems, so it’s been mostly replaced by opinion pieces and human interest stories.
Your assertion is correct. They have editorial control over their website as a matter of free-speech. However, when the YouTube sponsored "Freedom Forum" gives the YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcikci a "free expression award" for censoring content, that's hypocritical.

>@YouTube CEO @SusanWojcicki has been at the forefront of fighting hate speech and misinformation online. She’ll be honored at this year’s Free Expression Awards.

https://twitter.com/1stforall/status/1378505352715571206?lan...

It is possible to agree with the right of a private company to control their own platform how they see fit, while disagreeing with the choices they make.

That said, there are cases where platforms have censored content at the behest of government officials. In these cases it is alleged that 1st amendment rights are violated and platforms are acting as agents of the government.

>These documents blow up the big lie that Big Tech censorship is ‘private’ – as the documents show collusion between a whole group of government officials in multiple states to suppress speech about election controversies.

>The document shows that California state officials contacted YouTube directly to remove the video on September 24, 2020, and that YouTube seemed to respond by deleting the video on September 27, 2020

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/ca-big-tech-biden-cen...

These instances were uncovered by FOIA requests to the US government. Unfortunately, the CCP does not honor such requests.
I read Finland has a department of the future of some kind. Man! The idea of that seems compelling.

Yeah, your take resonates. Maybe, my basic question should be, "how can we give more of a shit about basics?" It is not like any of it is new, or people somehow are changed. The time tested, production proven means and methods are simply necessary.
Is this the script you're looking for?

https://sltoo.dev/workflow.html
So if I want to go back to working in an office, does that automatically make me a manager? I should ask for a raise.

While there might be a "war" between people that want to continue WFH and people wanting to return for an office, portraying it as "management vs labor" is unfair to many, many people who are part of the conversation.
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At least make it abundantly clear why, and then sue the regulators.
Love this! I'm surprised this hasn't been done before (or it has?) because it sounds so good. The list of APIs cover almost 95% of all project ideas that I want to run on Cloud, so I'm really excited to try this out. The simple pricing structure is excellent as well.

Good luck!
but how are their sales doing? given the kind of apps that run on a PC, i think the touchscreen is just a gimmick that is barely used. Windows programs are just not made for tablets, and will never be
Building a new, open Microsoft Store on Windows 11
Website’s can recommend showing me advertising all they want, but it needs my computer equipment to render. Auto playing video adds are both unsolicited and consume significant amounts of expensive cellular data.

It’s quite simply theft of resources.
> Start utilizes the power of the cloud and Microsoft 365 to show you your recent files no matter what platform or device you were viewing them on earlier

Well, consider me scared.
They’re doing a free upgrade for W10 users, and making a new “numbered version”, to signify the significant changes.

I’m not sure why this is that problematic?
Plastic bags are such a red herring. They are not a problem in any place that has reasonably decent waste collection and inceneration. You can reuse all the plastic bags you want for the rest of your life, and it won't come close to saving the same amount of energy (or carbon or pollution or whatever metric) of skipping a single transatlanic flight. Or of owning a car. Or living in a stupidly big house.

Environmentalism is full of these pointless "little things" which people think add up to "a big thing", but don't. Tin foil. Cling film. Plastic bags. Paper towels. These are all convenient in daily life and insignificant in the grand scheme of things. This seriously detracts from the message of real environmentalism.

It's much easier to wag a finger at someone and tell them "you mustn't use plastic bags, they're bad for the environment!" than it is to tell them "don't go on vacation to Hawaii, flying is criminally wasteful".
Personally I think it's rather naive to immigrate to a country and then not to expect to inherit what comes with that, both the good and the bad. I think everyone who claims themselves as a Canadian hold this responsibility equally, I don't really care what generation Canadian you are or where you immigrated from, you don't get to pick and choose your Canadianness, we're all in this together. Isn't that part of the beauty of Canada? To embrace each other, tackle hard problems, and move our society forward?
Especially considering that it's still somehow pretty bad at finding things that you know are there.
What the oil industry said and still says is that it's profitable to recycle plastics and it's "a gold mine".

But thanks that was all very interesting.
I'm not worried that I'll get a severe case of covid. I'm worried I'll pass it to somebody who will.
Doesn't Windows have a built in tool to mirror this from an existing Android phone? Clearly not the same, but maybe an option.
It is just like Apple did with their new M1 MacBooks
Maybe it was part of the settlement that they "drop the case"...
Is she in the top 3% of responsibility? She (like her or not) is a significant leadership figure in the USA. 225k$ isn't that much.

I have the unpopular opinion that politicians should be paid more. If they are paid generously perhaps there isn't as much temptation to get rich some other way. Why do we pay top CEOs millions of dollars, or a better analogy, why do we pay top engineers 500k, 600k, 1mil, but not top politicians? Perhaps then they wouldn't legislate around their stock portfolio or corporate lobbyists' preferences.
Some American holiday presumably? Just like the video starting at "8am PDT" or whatever.

Why can't they just a) commit to a date or month, and b) specify UTC time for their launches.
Short term is relative though. Is it short term relative to a couple years, a human lifetime, or the life times of generations?

Two good examples of industries that historically only looked at short term interests: Oil and Tobacco.

These companies fought and tried to change reality as we know it. They tried to spin a narrative that said global warming was fake or that cigarettes are healthy. The long term effects of global warming will ultimately harm everyone including the companies that make these lies. However, the detrimental short term effects arguably happen after the span of one or two human lifetimes, that's why it's hard for companies to see beyond this horizon.

What about nuclear power? The fallout from the waste spans generations. The price of building these plants now could be paid by our distant progeny.
Sydney enters ‘scariest’ phase of pandemic as delta variant spreads, leader says
Thats actually a great point. There are studies indicating what college degreed people earn vs non degreed.

In my experience (as someone who graduated decades ago), the degree, particularly for liberal arts majors, opened a lot of doors for opportunities that might not have happened without them. But I went to a state school for a cost that seemed high in the 90's but now seems like a huge bargain.

Here's Northeasterns stats on degree what degree earns what (maybe a university isn't the most unbiased resource but..):
https://www.northeastern.edu/bachelors-completion/news/avera...

This studies does neglect the huge debt that students accrued because college is crazy expensive now.
Can a designer work in it like Webflow and then send me index.js + styles.js ? I don't care about component decomposition for a MVP landing but am hoping for a single screen/component. Would be extra nice if uses things like Material UI for textfields as optional setting.
A university degree in the UK isn't even a measure of aptitude, it's a measure of patience or ability to slog through shit.

My sister is about as bright as a black hole and managed to get a masters degree in Law.

My friends wife is also as dense as a collapsed star and was on-track to get a PhD, until she dropped out.

These are not measures of intelligence, knowledge or aptitude, just ability to recite in rote and vomit the words of a book or professor back at the institution, and it puts you in debt to do it.

As an employer a degree tells me nearly nothing.

And yes; some jobs require a degree, but the people that filter through are thick as shit so it's not a measure of anything. Just an institutionalised cost of entry.

(and I will be downvoted, by people defensive of their degree/debt, likely due to a sunk cost fallacy, but I have a degree and I'm thick as shit too so I'm speaking for myself also)
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> they also say that if you want sideloading, you have that choice by joining the other side.

That's a bit of a stretch of what they said - they were specifically referring to iOS there, and pointing out that there are other choices (including macOS) that offer side-loading or direct installs.

Taking that one comment to imply that Apple doesn't want to build any platforms that aren't completely locked down is, imho, a step too far.
Then who pays for 99% of the websites on the internet? hosting isn't free.
Hey friend, if you are ever going to be in Saskatchewan, my email address is in my profile. Let me know when you'll be here - I'd love to take you around, introduce you to some people including some survivors, show you some graves right in my city and maybe get you out into the country for a Pow Wow or something similar.

You seem like a great person, you'd fit right in and I think you would be as drawn to these amazing people as I am. Last summer, I got to attend a really beautiful rally in front of our Legislature. The feeling there, of unity, love and craving justice was beyond almost anything I have ever experienced. Indigenous cultures are absolutely beautiful and incredibly strong, so strong that our country's system of evil couldn't wipe it out. There's something beautiful and inspiring in that.

I agree with absolutely everything you say and reading this has been an absolute privilege. Like you, I'm saddened and ashamed and I've had my own thoughts of leaving Canada. My privilege is 100% because of white supremacy. I am literally on Hacker News now because of white supremacy. That is so embarrassing and shameful that I don't know what to do other than fight or flee.

If you're interested in quite the read, read about the time the TRC requested $1.5 million from the Canadian government to search for graves. $1.5 million isn't even a rounding error in the Canadian budget - it's so insignificant it doesn't even exist. But they were denied that money. The TRC was an explicit agreement to find our missing Kookums and Mooshums (the words translate best as Grandmas/Grandpas but in a really strong Indigenous context).

Talking to people like you fills me with a tremendous amount of hope. Goodness can overcome.

Take good care and thank you. I just watched the press conference where they announced 751 bodies and I've never needed this level of positivity more. I owe you. Thank you. Honestly thank you.
I love the Idea but pricing seems a little... premium for something is "beta".

For example, Cache, a Get is 0.0001$ per request, so, with the initial 5$ you would have 50k Gets that, given the nature of a Cache seems extremely expensive. I guess your highest costs are storing up to 1mb and egress traffic (If you are in a cloud provider) but, even for a side project I could destroy the 5$ by myself developing the project itself.

Other than that, loving it, and I will try to give it a go in the future, and check how the pricing affects my decisions.
OMG that's for the tip!!
Advanced System Settings > (Performance) Settings > Adjust for Best Performance > Apply and OK.
Precisely. Was anyone else allowed to buy Paypal shares at 1/10 of a cent in 1999? If he alone marked this price, how would it not be fraudulent?
rofl, they mean December you pedant
Transfer times are definitely high in windows when compared to linux systems. I don't think Windows defender may affect file transfer directly.
Holy shit! thanks for the details
Exactly. Unless it’s run by a state actor it has to be commercialized (or subsidized which means money has to get in anyway) but by being run by a state actor is it evidently politicized.
I didn’t understand why they chose to include that extra information about CIT, but maybe the authors were just being thorough.

I did read it as if it were written: 15-20% of Memphis Police patrol officers are also CIT officers

edit: I’d highlight that the authors did emphasize the intensive nature of de-escalation techniques for CIT training and that perhaps they were singling out Memphis as “state-of-the-art” police policy, at that time, with regard to law enforcement officers being tasked with mental health care.
Not sure if serious or joking. Poe's law.
The NRO satellites actually have an optical design with a larger field of view than Hubble does. One of the NRO spacecraft busses is being use for the WFIRST / Nancy Grace Roman space telescope because of the wider field of view.
Doesn't go far enough: since advertising is virtually all lies, we should prohibit it.

The bad effects of advertising are well known, from web ads distributing malware, to print advertisers affecting editorial content and direction to ad spammers ruining faxing, usenet phone calls and email. We, as a society, should acknowledge advertising as a bad thing, and try to live without it.
Fantastic site. Thanks for sharing.
I know I’m a former microsoft employee so I’m a bit biased, but man the quality of these presentations are awesome. Panos is the best salesperson I’ve ever had the chance to meet.
IE4 maybe, it was downhill after that.
The prominence of that Game Store in the Windows 11 press materials is, I guess, part of the motivation Valve has had for investing in Linux gaming.
> Also, regulators aren't upset about them blocking third party cookies, every other browser already does that

As far as I can tell, that is untrue. CMA has explicitly stated concerns with any removal of third party cookies by default from Chrome, since they believe ad tech companies are dependent on them but Google isn't. Any new mechanisms introduced for privacy preserving ad targeting are irrelevant, except insofar that they could be used to satisfy the needs of said ad tech companies. That other browsers have been allowed to remove third party cookies by default is also irrelevant: the fact is still that Chrome is not being allowed to do so.

> I think they should deprecate Chrome

Oh, come on.
I don't use any of safari/iMessage/Facetime/Maps and, gladly, they are sitting quietly in the corner. Don't think Teams stuff will behave like that
right, win7 had some roundedness, but the unbelievable annoying launch screens for touchscreens were in win8 IIRC
Honestly, yes. Someone else mentioned Google Play Services being a probable point of contention. Overall, with Surface Duo, Microsoft Launcher and Google's work towards making Flutter along with the leverage and developer interest they'd gain through having the Windows install base using the Play Store, it seems like a fair relationship.
The Banning of Joyce's Ulysses
Right, but if no-one picks up the torch of maintaining and developing Android and giving it away to device manufacturers, I'd imagine going with the new Google OS that they are going to do that for, would be very tempting. Most phone manufacturers haven't shown an interest in putting a ton of work into the Android, themselves, even just to customize it beyond adding some shovel-ware and maybe a theme (notable exception: Samsung)

Possibly the app ecosystem will survive, even if the OS itself withers into obscurity, provided Fuscia can run Android apps (seems likely, but I haven't kept up with news on that sort of thing)
If marketing has a say in it, I bet November 11th. 2021-11-11
> change just for the sake of change, but not an actual improvement.

That's a lot of software change. I couldn't care less about aesthetic changes in MacOS, windows, android, xbox, but they're all forced on the users no matter what. If I had the choice, I'd still be using whatever android version my galaxy s3 had, the windows 95 UI, and the Mac OSX UI. But the easiest way to make people want something new is to make it look new I guess
"The free upgrade will begin to roll out to eligible Windows 10 PCs this holiday and continuing into 2022."

This is a very un-American sounding sentence.
Yeah, I get that.
Always love these articles, look forward to them without knowing it.

This one is particularly interesting as they discuss the logistical challenges of their own success in having to build more and more Storage Pods.

As always, a super fascinating read worth your time.
Its not theft its you paying for the service of the website. What la la land do you live in.
It is called "occupied". Yet Crimea belongs to Ukraine.
How innovative, more P A D D I N G around everything! What's information density? I guess all the UI controls need to social distance? Big ScrollWheel™ did it again!
How many playlists do you have/create daily?
> the obvious choice for now being China

A significant portion of our economies are interdependent at the moment. The US pays China to manufacture our products because the Chinese have fewer scruples about human rights or pollution (which obviously implies that our American scruples are at best superficial). So the only way I see us coming to a head with China is if we decide that we care about people (workers and the environment that we all depend on) and make China account for their pollution and human rights costs (either by forbidding trade with them outright or making them pay steep import taxes to level the playing field with countries who don't profit off of slave labor and pollution, including hypothetical US domestic manufacturing). That might make China desperate.
Did you respond to the right post? I don't see how anything you wrote is relevant to my post. You're talking about trading, I was talking about R&D.
> ...just a few years ago, the only legal way to fly a drone was with an actual aircraft pilot’s license.

As I understood it, small unmanned aircraft flown for hobby or recreational use had long been excluded from the full authority of the FAA (except for some basic rules for respecting the airspace of manned aircraft), or the need for a pilot's license. They were essentially treated like RC airplanes, which of course have not required a pilot's license to operate, albeit with some of those basic rules (I believe the AMA was involved in establishing some of those guidelines).

Of course, when drones became more popular, there was a lot of misunderstanding when it came to the interpretation of current regulations (e.g., line-of-sight operation vs FPV), and it was debatable whether or not the FAA even had the authority to regulate the operation of small hobby aircraft, including drones. Commercial operation was and still is clearly regulated by the FAA and requires a license.

Basically, what I'm saying is that in this category of aircraft (for recreational use), the FAA has become more involved and restrictive over the past few years, not less so. In my opinion, that's generally been a good thing (some people do foolish things with drones), but the regulation should also be balanced in maintaining some of those reasonable freedoms of operation.
I hope a law is passed that hits this kind of behavior with stiff penalties. Thiel isn't the first to do something like this. It is incredibly common. The letter of the law is that annual contributions are capped, and the spirit of that law is that this is done to keep these accounts from becoming tax-free, judgement-proof shelters for insane amounts of wealth.

Perhaps caps on Roth the value of Roth IRAs and a limit of the type of assets held in them to certain bonds and publicly traded stocks. Somewhere between $1MM and $10MM with an annual CPI adjustment is probably a fair cap amount.
Need basic high school level intelligent droids in eateries, sorting houses & warehouses ASAP. No existence to be questioned though.
Looks like a new version of KDE
Okay! Then make that apply to everyone, and maybe that could work. Note, that means no 10mil more bonuses for bankers, no 600k salaries for engineers or wall street traders, etc.

Otherwise why would you pay an important public servant shit (comparatively) while you pay the bankers who are a leech on our economy handsomely?
> A Microsoft account and internet connectivity is required for Windows 11 Home setup

Looks like I'll be skipping windows 11 and any future windows iterations if this is unavoidable
I disagree. See my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27619785
Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status
> On Darwin, x18 is used [...] on hardware where Meltdown mitigations are needed. [...] On M1, it's currently usable by applications

I’m confused. x18 is an ARM register, but I thought Meltdown only affected x86 chips. Were iOS devices vulnerable to Meltdown too? Or did you mean not x18 specifically but some equivalent OS-reserved x86 register?
ISS has airlocks that allow you to leave without removing all the air from the rest of the ship. Vehicles like a Dragon can attach their port to ISS, board, and then perform a space walk through the ISS's airlock.

Hubble is different. It's not like it's a ship that you can board. So you need two things: Ability to attach yourself to Hubble, and ability to leave Dragon to perform a spacewalk. It's not clear whether you can just have everyone in the Dragon suit up and open the hatch. And even then, you still need to attach yourself to Hubble somehow. I think you can via the port... but then you can't leave. Unless you go out the other door? Can you open that from the inside and get out with a space suit?

My rambling isn't meant to be an actual answer. It's more to show that it's wayyyy harder than "Let's just send up some people to Hubble!".
Yeah, I'd say this is what it feels like exactly.
I'm of the opinion that it doesn't matter what they are referring to. What they are clearly suggesting is false, and they should know better.

> The web was born and grew up on Windows

The first part is just a lie, the second part is open for interpretation, but certainly not the formative years.
It's Windows-- surely you'll be able to customize it to pin it to the left, or there will be 3rd-party software to do it for you.