skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now is the time to abandon Windows.

I don't know what can replace it right now, for non-technical users, but the market is ready for an OS that isn't tied to hardware (MacOS) and doesn't require as much expertise or effort as Linux variants (especially when running specific software).

Microsoft is here with Windows 11, integrating teams into the OS, because they want to shill it, not because it's what users want. They are making claims about it being more performant, but that's hard to imagine when considering their promises for backwards compatibility.

Windows is a bloated nuisance OS that only stays around because of legacy software and DirectX. The folks at Microsoft who work on Windows have demonstrated for decades now that they care more about implementing new features than they care about user experience, consistency, and reliability. Here comes another UI overhaul instead of simply fixing the trash menus and numerous other problems the OS has. Why?

It's time to move on from Windows.
High Court Delays as Assange Remains in Jail
Flying lawn mowers have existed for decades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNWfqVWC2KI
House Committee Approves Marijuana Protections for Banking and D.C
We fired shots at BlueStacks and Zoom. Rejoice with us.
That argument would work a little better if they did not market their phones as a computer replacement in the first place...

Apart from that, I think with only two companies on the mobile market, even them can't really argue against the obvious lack of competition.
Nowadays there's the `--show-current` option:

git branch --show-current

See https://git-scm.com/docs/git-branch
Sundarajan Pichai studied in IIT Kharagpur. FYI.
Ignore the "adtech is a big business" issue.

Should a company with the world's largest advertising and tracking business be in charge of 65% of the web?

Should they be able to unilaterally set standards?

Should they be allowed to delay rollout of consumer protections to defend their ad unit?

This alone poses an enormous problem.
I would really like to know if there's anything positive besides UI and up-to-date security this brings to a user's table compared to Windows 7.
So what is the alternative? Reams of halfway updated internal wiki pages and heavyweight google docs?

I mean the agile manifesto is all about human interaction. People over process. Face to face conversation over piles of stale documents.

Are we done with agile? Is it time to embrace the waterfall?

http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
That’s pretty handy actually. Thanks for the idea.
Will uninstalling be an option? They say it's integrated, so that seems unlikely.
My hunch is that it's a controversial change made for no purpose other than to deliberately get people talking about W11.

It's easy to 'fix' via preferences so serves no other purpose.
On the plus side at least our meteorological forecasts have earned a good deal of trust. It's a lot easier to trust as you can easily verify the accuracy of reports yourself.
24 years ago my company moved from mac to windows (granted macs would crash every 20 minutes). At the time we were given a windows laptop to try for a bit, with the rollout a month or so later. When I went to shut it down I asked how to... 'press start', I was told. I thought 'nope, they still don't get it... pressing start to stop... send it back to them and tell them to try again and harder'. Its still true.
I honestly was expecting more "innovation", more daring decisions and deep convictions that "this new way", even though it might get some backlash, will prove to improve the wellbeing of it's users, even if they don't know it yet.

I haven't seen anything like that since the days of Steven Jobs and it kind of saddens me. Have we reached a plateau in tech? Are we just up for making more of the same, just a little different, as long as we can get VC or increase the stock price? Are there no more Wright Brothers? Alex G. Bell? Elon Musk for more industries?

Sorry for the sad comment, but this release just disappointed me. Idk what I was expecting, but it wasn't just another Windows...
I am looking forward to performance improvements. It would be great if the core window services were optimized to use less resources to improve the windows experience on less impressive hardware.
Not really. What they want is to protect their Trademark and avoid direct competition. Licensing serves to protect the mark in a way that just ignoring Amazon's behavior doesn't.
I didn't hear anything about availability, previews, etc. Did I miss something? I listened to the live stream in the background, and also skimmed through The Verge's article and live stream.

As a happy Windows user, this looks exciting.

I hope that there'll be a Windows Pro upgrade path that's not pocket-heavy, so I can update my 8 year old laptop, and my recent desktop without paying too much.
yeah, no... I know a hospital that just upgraded to Windows 7...
Where is that quote from? I couldn't find it by searching the text.
Microsoft and Apple both said a few years back that they had "finished" their respective operating systems and were no longer going to do versioning like this.

I wonder why the change of heart?
Windows 11 is a free upgrade
They didn’t get in trouble for bundling IE. The got in trouble for legal and technical restrictions on using alternatives to IE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
I see that it supports Android apps. Does that mean we have complete GUI support for WSL2? I believe it will use WSL2 in the backend?
With huge monitors becoming the norm, having important click targets aligned to corners makes little sense.
Yeah I get that... but that doesn't meet the current ABI so change it.
Windows 11 will support Android apps
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After looking at these screenshots I’m more grateful to be using macOS now than ever before...
Except for, twist, if you are an Android developer. Amazon takes it's 20% cut no doubt, and to avoid the cut you need to make a native Windows app. Which actually isn't an awful incentive structure, but it's not 0% in the Store across the board.

Also it doesn't count if you make Xbox games. Microsoft still takes a cut there.

So it's 0% if it's a native Windows app and it isn't an Xbox Game. So let's just say Epic Games will still not be satisfied with this.
Probably not google because google wouldn't play ball. I wonder if users will be able to (easily) sideload android apps since not everything is in Amazon's app store and apps there are often not updated as often as the google play store version.
I grew up with cops. One of my parents was a cop - so we spent a lot of time with them when I was younger.

Trust me, a lot of them are not really that good of people. They’re often more broken and problematic than your random person. Substance abuse is very common and acting outside the law is also extremely common. I’ve seen many LEO’s beat their wives and drive drunk while having to go out and work on the same calls. Always a bit awkward when they have to respond to a call for one of their own - I should know, I was there.

As far as I can tell - most aren’t really that upstanding of citizens and the standards are pretty lax for what gets in. Some are genuinely nice and good people but I don’t see them last for very long because they move onto better things.
Wasn't 10 supposed to be the last Windows ever? Isn't that how some of the more annoying update habits were justified to the users?

I am underwhelmed with Win 11. I did not see a feature that felt sufficiently useful to justify coming back. I am not sure, who would consciously choose it outside of business sector and gaming.
Maybe they had to now that macOS finally arrived at version 11 as well ;)
I might be wrong (not a developer), but I thought within the official stores, in-app purchases were subject to 30%, as standard, going to the platform provider. At least that's what I understand with regard to Apple and Google stores.
They wanted to drop support for quite some old hardware, like 32-bit only machines, which are no longer supported in Windows 11.

(and some newer ones too, rumours say that a TPM might be mandatory to have, finally)

Dumping support for HW and major UX changes without bumping the version number is a bad idea.
How about a Lisp without the need for garbage collection at all?

http://web.archive.org/web/20020331165324/http://home.pipeli...
Microsoft’s own Windows 11 livestream runs into technical difficulties
>aren't going to see major performance improvements by dropping into WASM

I think that might also change as they add proposal and roadmap items like "direct access to the DOM"[1] to WASM.

Proposals: https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals

Roadmap: https://webassembly.org/roadmap/

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/master/p...

Edit: Overall, the proposals seem to be pushing WASM closer to being a general purpose VM (VM as in JVM, not KVM).
The entire idea of a start menu just seems crazy to me at this point especially when it's being used to advertise garbage. Why would I mouse around when I can hotkey?
I guess they wouldn’t exactly announce it if they fixed search, but I still don’t understand how it has steadily devolved to so far beyond useless for the past decade either.
So many questions…

Will Win10 users be able to upgrade to Win11 for free or will they have to buy it?

What’s the end-of-life date for Win10 now?

Will the minimum hardware requirements be increased?

Will this be used as an opportunity to make backwards-compatibility-breaking improvements?

Are they actually going to fix the whole UI or just 80% of it and leave the remaining 20% as sedimentary layers of previous UIs?

And I really really really hope they fix Teams’ performance and stability issues before bundling it with the OS and running it continuously.
Telling people about your idea is not a social game.
I think most people scratch their heads when they hear Windows 11 because it seems like the same Windows but skinned with a slightly new UI. This is also from a company which puts function over form.
One of the best senior engineers I worked with taught me how to run an outage. The most important thing? Stop what you are doing, take charge, and get everyone else to stop what they are doing.

The best case scenario of a bunch of engineers flailing about on a bridge turning knobs is that you luck into a fix but don't know how you got there. But you're more likely to make things worse.
What was the position? The thought police deleted the comment before the rest of us could see it.
Introducing Windows 11
> For instance, CNN is left leaning and Fox is right leaning.

One of these "news" outlets is know for allowing people to repeat baseless, fabricated lies on their station on a daily basis. And when they aren't fabricating lies, their journalists write in such a way to deliberately confuse and mislead their audience.

I say this as an avid reader of Fox News. They straight up lie or mislead constantly. Even their mundane reports are chosen to incite their audience. They once reported on the "Best BBQ places in the US." Weird choice for a national news network right? Well reading through the comments section and people were going berserk because some of the restaurants were not located in the South.

Anyone equating Fox News with any other news outlet is doing America a huge disservice. The place is straight up nothing more than an 1984-esque, pro-authoritarian brainwashing device.
Please fix the contrast ratio of quotes and inline code segments in dark mode on this website. It's black text on dark blue background, which is barely readable.
How does "everyone should use Facebook less" undermine collective action? Isn't it a call for collective action?
I too, could not watch from the Microsoft website. I had to switch to Twitter.
I'm betting that getting out of support / lifecycle requirements is part of the major version bump. Internet Explorer 11 support is likely tied to the lifecycle of Windows 10.
At least 2 patent ideas came to me while zoning out in an “all hands” meeting. Nothing like the sound of management white noise to cause my brain into a fight or flight mode, and the only way to escape is through imagination. Harder to do that in a virtual “all hands” as you can get called on at any time.

And my daily appreciation of bad coffee. Is that a hint of rust and burnt beans I’m tasting?

Those are the only reasons to go into the office.
You will by 2023 when all drones need to have Remote ID transmitters installed, which shows the drone location, bearing and speed as well as the location of the controller. Mine already has it.

https://www.engadget.com/faa-final-drone-rule-dates-18453896...
Yeah, I thought of this too when I saw the integration, but a lot of things have changed since the antitrust issues at the time. If there's bundling issues, then I don't know.

The one thing I lament though is that using the same platform for work and personal communication tends to trigger some anxiety reflex in me.

I sometimes dread the long "quick call" in Teams, so hearing the call notification even in a video has me looking for my headphones :(
Sometimes, I use GNU TeXmacs for ancient Chinese materials.
> Isn't YouTube banned in China? What "local government rules" are you thinking of, specifically?

Google has tons of offices in China, and RnD sweatshops
(author of treesheets here) not sure who username strlen is, but it's not me :)

But yes, TreeSheets was initially designed just to be perfect for my needs. It has existed since 2008 though, so it has plenty of general usability tweaks for others since.

The computational sub-language is indeed very weak. It can at least do `sum` though, which is 99% of my uses of spreadsheets :)
It's bad design in the sense that they took a part of the operating system that's been in the same place for a quarter century and moved it for seemingly no reason while leaving a bunch of other neglected issues to be dealt with later.

I guess fixing the damned control panel and various settings apps isn't sexy enough.

Frankly this whole update stinks of "oh we hired a bunch of new MBAs and they have to make their mark otherwise they're out of a job".
Stealing all the advanced window management features from the Linux DE world... say repeatedly that no other OS does it.

Stay classy MS.
> Are you saying that that the probable cause requirement still allows warrants to be granted very easily? Or that the probably cause requirement is not being followed?

Well, both.

Warrants may be granted very easily via the FISA courts [0]. They are unenforced in the warrantless wiretap programs [1]. If your wiretap happened to be illegal, and you want to work around this to win the court case anyway, you use parallel construction to build a case that does not rely on the secret wiretap [2]:

> Because the SOD's work is classified, DEA cases that began as NSA leads can't be seen to have originated from a NSA source.

> So what does the DEA do? It makes up the story of how the agency really came to the case in a process known as "parallel construction."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05...
They need to put drones in the constitution.
> sanctions are how we discourage war

Sanctions are war. Although I'm not sure it's working. North Korea has been going for many decades and sanctions have not managed to do anything except stimulate urgency and motivation for them to continue the hegemony.

Anyway, in the cause sanctioning individuals such as criminals, then I have no problem with that. However, I think these should be under the control of decentralized systems where there's less opportunity to abuse, co-opt and involve the general consensus of the entire society rather than a few powerful individuals. We have to make sure that such tools are never turned around and used against us. Crypto gives us some hope to guard against that, as we transition to a cashless society.
>Windows is a bloated nuisance OS that only stays around because of legacy software and DirectX

The reason it stays around is because of it's entrenched market share at very large enterprises. Until there is a replacement for managing huge numbers of end user devices centrally that is as easy or easier then Active Directory that won't change.
I think they should deprecate Chrome or spin it off into another company. The issue here is monopoly.

Also, regulators aren't upset about them blocking third party cookies, every other browser already does that. They're upset about Google's attempts to inject new Google-controlled tracking methods that grant them a further advantage at the cost of all their competitors.

The answer is simple: Block third party cookies and don't replace them with anything.
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I share your conclusion. The feed is so horrendous these days, the only choice is to be part of it, or not. Having left the app over a year ago, I don't feel I'm missing anything. Anyone who wants to be part of my life can text, call, or e-mail (you likely can speculate who these people are before leaving FB, and you'll be right in retrospect). It's nice to not know, and save catching up for IRL. I am told I'm a "bad texter", but truthfully I 110% prefer when people tell me their stories in person, because texting misses out on the non-verbal aspects.
In line with most of the comments here and to reiterate them with my perspective:

Innovation is boosted by creatively thinking development teams who are able to efficiently think, design, develop, and deliver product which solves challenges for customers who in turn can use the newly innovated product to increase profits.
Author of TreeSheets here, AMA.
I think Teams integration is more of an acknowledgement that video-calling and workplace collaboration is a default usecase for desktop computing (like email, calendar, calculator, text editing).

>They are making claims about it being more performant, but that's hard to imagine when considering their promises for backwards compatibility.

I can run Windows 95 programs on Windows 10, not sure where the knock is coming from on backwards compatibility.

>Here comes another UI overhaul instead of simply fixing the trash menus

From the leaked ISO, the menus are much improved and overhauled. Sure, I want a modern tabbed File Explorer too, but it's clearly being worked on.
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Was the delay caused by between Chrome and Ads teams not aligning on privacy sandbox APIs?
How was your muscle mass and health after this?

Any other side effects?

I lost 30kgs over 12 months in 2013, half of it through intermittent fasting over period of 3 months. I have also fasted for 2 weeks once (not during that year).
If you can even uninstall it. That's honestly my biggest gripe about Windows besides the fact it's proprietary is all of the stupid shit it comes bundled with that you will never use and can't remove.
Best programmer. -1 wpm.
You can install software on Windows and MacOS outside of the app stores jfyi
> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

The ProPublica article already has a discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27616090
> Really can't understand why a need to create a new version with so much hype, when they've announced in the past that W10 will be the last Windows version.

Money is the answer. It hurts sales prospects when you say it's the last version ever.
* Don't start with longer than 2-3 days fasts
* Drink plenty of water and you can supplement with some electrolytes to replace what you lose
* Read about re-feeding syndrome. Don't eat a lot when you start eating again and avoid high sugar stuff in the beginning.
One thing that stood out to me as missing, was a file explorer demo. Have they just given up on revamping that?
"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" was published in 1988.

> It argues that the mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion", by means of the propaganda model of communication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

The advent of the Internet has rocked the "mass communication media" and exposed their "system-supportive propaganda function" in a way that is pretty hard to counter. It's a case of "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?"

> a World War I song that rose to popularity after the war had ended. The lyrics highlight concern that American soldiers from rural environments would not want to return to farm life after experiencing the European city life and culture of Paris during World War I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Ya_Gonna_Keep_%27em_Down_o...
Why does MacOS do it?
I work at a company where the majority of the employees complain about every new version of Windows, some rather aggressively. They resist adoption until the last possible minute. Then when they upgrade, what do they do? — continue to use Windows to make cool stuff so our company continues to grow and, in reality, persist with the same exact workflow they had the week before... it just looks a little different. Then the complaints die off, and, well, on to other things....

Until the next version of Windows is announced.
My hazy memory is that the NRO offered NASA a few satellite bodies that they could populate with optic systems. Since they were originally designed for monitoring earth they aren’t well suited for capturing data at much longer distances. If I recall correctly I think someone explained that it’s like trying to peer through a straw, it works, but ideally you’d want a much wider field of view. And apparently the James Web telescope handles this much better.
Face to face conversation has a much higher signal strength than written documents, to be frank. For example, think about how many unhelpful screeds get posted on forums that in conversation would get cut short because of immediate feedback in the form of verbal or non-verbal conversation. Have you ever noticed that some one had more they wanted to say and encouraged them to speak their mind? I don't think that sort of back and forth happens as naturally in pure text environments.
Plus if you are just not grokking something it is much easier to keep asking questions in person until the two of you figure out what the stumbling block was, you know?
I think they learned their lesson very well. Microsoft suffered little for bundling Internet Explorer into Windows. The court case cost them some time and money, and in return they made no substantive business changes, and shut out browser competition for years. They had a plan and it worked. Why shouldn’t they do it again?
> Recently my whole twitter feed is filled with ppl announcing moving to Miami from SF.

Ask yourself: Are they going there for work or early retirement?

> What's going on? Is this a "mass migration"? Something ideological? A movement?

None of the above. Miami is not, and will never be, the new technological haven many people preach it to be.
I think there's a bug, at least in Firefox. When you drag to remove an element from the currently active set, the "sample output" only updates after making _another_ change. So if you drag to remove two elements one-at-a-time, the "sample output" will lag one action behind what you have in the workspace.
We need to build cities with ring roads. It'll deter thieves because cities are vulnerable to thieves driving in and out quickly on freeways.