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Apparently, Windows 11' requirement of a relatively recent CPU is due to the need for TPM 2.0 https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-explains-windows-11...

Can anyone please explain what TPM (2.0) is and whether it works for or against me?
It’s not ineptitude but limited power: the major phone companies profit from spam and they’ve made it clear to their Congress members that they don’t want action – and the previous guy was famously a fan of any approach which involved hoping that they really meant it this time.

Note also that this is not terribly different than email spam: Gmail is a bit better but they also have major false positive problems so to me this looks an awful lot like what happens when you have a smart adversary and limited will to change the system.
If you are curious then you might be able to do what is for you a lateral move that doesn't require much effort for you to do but a massive difference in your life.

Things like changing jobs, getting a new hobby, giving presentations it is things like this that if you figure out these kind of things it can have a big impact on your life.
Cortana never works in zh-TW but they still place the button there by default. Truly WTF. Why would ms put something not work at all to taskbar by default.
Right, but as a consumer if that information, I might find that article equally interesting.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but aging is not "just another biological process". It isn't even biological... everything ages and decays, even inorganic matter. Even rocks decay into clay.

Living biological processes by their nature resist decay, but that's an uphill battle... eventually entropy wins. Errors and waste products accumulate, materials become brittle and fragile, with every year lived the probability of dying before the next increases.

Can we help our biology to become more efficient at maintenance and repair? Probably, but not all that much. We are already very long lived. The only complex terrestrial beings that live longer do so by living very slowly... in terms of subjective time experienced, maybe they don't live any longer at all.
Nice attention to detail. Couple things, for those interested in this topic for structures great and small:

1. Air sealing is typically more important than insulation, so definitely good that you foamed those windows. Sometimes it's even good to put a more elastic seal in those areas that's more robust over time.
2. By means of the rigid foam, you addressed thermal bridging, which is an important way to increase the overall thermal resistance of the assembly.
3. Depending on where it's produced, XPS foam, though readily available, is not the most environmentally friendly. In the US, it's typically produced with blowing agents that have relatively high global warming potential (GWP).
4. If you're curious about high performance building, Green Building Advisor (https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com) is a great place to visit!
What about the effects of 'time spent on the problem' (ie compounding)? If you are only learning for learning sake, then getting to a "101" or "102" or "103" (to use American college level terminology)is fine I would assume. This might take 1-3 years of learning/study/doing.

But if you truly want to "master" something - then does "constantly thinking about problems" mean you will never benefit from the same 'compounding' effect as someone who has spent 3/5/10 years of their time on that problem?

Or - is all your "need for cognition" - mostly in one domain space (e.g. "Computer Science" or "database structure" etc)?
Surprised to see you down-voted, I fully agree. I regularly update components in my systems each year including RAM, GPU, SSDs, WiFi (just upgraded to 6e), and more depending on needs.

Processors/Motherboards not as much, maybe once every 5 years or so.

Apple really seems all about throw away culture.
There was a lot more than that which was copied, honestly. Notification center. Control center. Widgets. Low power mode. Notifications where you can reply in line. Probably hundreds more tiny quality of life things too that have made their way into iOS over the years that were first seen on cydia. Here's a list of 60 of them at least (2018):

https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/60-ios-features-apple-sto...
I though they'd better name the protocol as 'windows-documentations:' or something like that. Then no one will have problems with it at all.
Well preserved, then:) I admit I don't recall trying multi monitor, and most X11 takes some work to manage hidpi, but under similar screens as it was born on CDE still works, which is far more than I'd say for most nontrivial software of that vintage.
Why not? It’s a phased array, and the bandwidth is high, so you need a decent amount of RF power. The amplifiers aren’t very efficient at the kind of frequencies it operates at so that makes it worse!

For reference, a company I worked at produced a Ka-band (27.5-31GHz) block upconverter that produced 25W (this was used for geostationary mostly, usually with a 1m dish), and it could draw something like 200 W or more when saturated.
Very much after.
Kinda off topic but... "sex ed" used to be more "this is the biological process that occurs" (re sperm and egg and subsequent fetal growth) with sometimes vague descriptions of how the sperm got there, and sometimes including fetal development through birth. It could feasibly be renamed, since it was far less focused on sex itself and more on what might happen if the sex was "successful" (from a procreation standpoint).

Today it's literal cartoonish drawings of men fellating other men, written depictions of anal fisting, affirmations of acceptable lust, and vague warnings about how to prevent disease or "success" (see above).

Yeah, sure, I'm highlighting the extremes. However, it is undeniable that the ["Western"] strategy has shifted away from "what sex results in" to "ways to use sex for pleasure without consequence".
Libraries track books individually. If you and I each check out a copy of War and Peace, and you turn yours in on time but I don’t, they know who to pester.

I think there’s a continuum from the cops being able to say “we found this here book at a crime scene, who had it checked out?”, which should clearly be allowed, to “the security footage shows a copy of War and Peace with the libraries sticker on it in the crooks hand, who had it checked out”, which should probably be allowed, to “we need to know everybody who checked out The Anarchists Cookbook in the last six months because the crook used an IED thats described in there”, which probably should be allowed.
It's fascinating to me just how poorly they understand their long term developers. I've been making a living developing on windows since the early 2000s (having been a Unix guy before that) and the inexplicable inability to produce a working GUI solution for .NET core just leaves me flummoxed. Yet Electron.NET works fine across Linux, Windows and OSX.

The sequence of events that means my main development machine is running Debian looked something like this:

1. Docker switches to WSL2, deprecates WSL1

2. My big dev box (running Windows Server 2019) can no longer test containers.

3. My laptop is running WSL2 so I'm spending more and more time in a Debian shell. All the CLI stuff works better there anyway.

4. I switch my big dev box to Debian and hey presto, suddenly Android Studio isn't a giant PITA. Let's try VS code. Oh ok, it's actually pretty cool.

5. I switch all my code base into VS Code.

6. What exactly do I need Windows for? A few games.

I now do most of my dev work on Debian and the transition was made painless by WSL2, Microsoft making Windows a bad choice for developers and the Docker people playing along. If you're already spending a lot of time in WSL2 and you do a mix of Android and .NET Core, you have zero reasons to stay on Windows.
What is relevant is that the App Store is a natural monopoly within the iOS ecosystem. As long as Apple has such significant market power (including a substantial market share, especially as a percentage of revenue, not just units sold) their natural monopoly on the iOS platform will extend to them being a willing participant in an oligopoly.

Said state of affairs is the expected outcome of Apple having a natural monopoly and there being only one other substantial mobile OS market participant, who just so happens to also operate a natural monopoly for app sales - albeit a much, much more tenuous one.
The point of Windows 8 was to make Windows suitable for mobile devices; the point of Windows 10 was to make a step or two back. The point of Windows 11 is beyond me.
> You realize your risk is higher in person work, socializing and having kids in school

Than working in the covid ward at the hospital?

I doubt it
Sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28754422
I guess I assumed that the call center would just send the voice packets to over IP and a US carrier would actually introduce them onto the PTSN network. Do the foreign carriers actually own the US call center numbers themselves?
Yes but again, please don't conflate these two unrelated topics. Bork's video rental records were voluntarily disclosed by a video rental shop to a newspaper reporter. A person has no particular constitutional right to privacy in such matters. This was Bork's own opinion on the matter! Later, Congress passed a law making such records private.

But that's all neither here nor there. We're discussing a court order. No law prevents a court from ordering the disclosure of video rental records, even today with the Video Privacy Protection Act, because the VPPA allows disclosure "to a law enforcement agency pursuant to a warrant issued under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure". Because that's what courts do. There's really nothing that is protected from court orders in the US, except for a few well-known, very narrow exemptions.
This has aged well.

In particular, the attached comment noting that JITting is the basis of our modern CPUs is poignant when we consider that it is to GPUs that we look for top performance, nowadays. While those are programmed via compilation-at-runtime, for historical reasons, there is no attempt at interpretation or runtime analysis; regular AOT code is compiled, typically at startup, and run natively. The execution model is such that tricky optimizations are not needed to get maximum performance (so compilation can be quick); instead, the key is to always have plenty of other work to do during what would otherwise be stalls, relying on what amounts to massive hyperthreading.

Massive hyperthreading is another dynamic, runtime allocation of resources, but of a wholly different order than JITting. In particular, it has no concept of data type operated on being unknown until runtime, although vtable-style late binding, dispatching according to specific, known types, works.
Foundation (TV Series) – Adapted from Asimov
love the dead-cat bounce near the end of the video
Constitution is whitelist not blacklist, what part give it permission?
Try joining Toastmasters.
In their defense they really lived up to their mission statement today.
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They acquired Nuvia which is meant to be the custom CPU attempt from Qualcomm. But not sure if they will bring Nuvia expertise to Mobile SoCs or keep them for desktop & servers
This is a good rule.
This was likely an inside job. This outage prevented employees from entering their office buildings.
Ironically, if there were a database that would allow querying for this type of things... What's the State of the Art on X ? Where are we on Y ? Has the problem in paper Z been solved ?
>>cache that is very slow to expire...

People have been WFH/Remote working for a while now. Like 1.5+ years.

Besides when everything runs fine it all feels magic. You discover how things can break in a situation like this.

Im pretty sure they are now rushing to restore access for every FB employee to their buildings.
>We did focus on making the services accessible and affordable. Then phone providers and ISPs took the goverment funds and went "nah"

1. I hear this narrative a lot. is there more to this? I find it hard to believe that the government gave phone providers/ISPs $$$ no strings attached.

2. giving $$$ to companies to expand their infrastructure make sense to increase accessibility, but doesn't to make it more affordable. they'll charge what the market can bear, and a few hundred million in government funding isn't going to change that, unless there are strings attached (see above). otherwise we'll end up getting better coverage/speeds, but it will still cost roughly the same.
I believe this is helping illustrate why Netflix made this decision.

Sure, right now they'll lose a few people like you who cbf switching apps to see what's on Netflix - but they're banking that there's a lot more who will resign themselves to switching apps for the show they want, because they're used to finding their Netflix shows in the Netflix app anyway.

Whereas if they join TV App, they'll be training their users to find their content in TV App - which gives Apple a lot of leverage. Now a threat to kick them out of TV App has teeth - because there will be a lot more users like you, who've grown accustomed to finding their Netflix shows in TV App, and won't know to go switching apps to find it.

They don't want to hand Apple a club to beat them with.
https://archive.ph/Q756D
I made the jump to full time linux in 2020, finally tired of all the Windows annoyances and realizing everything I use day to day runs fine on linux. If I hadn’t done it then I would certainly do it now with this ridiculous Windows 11 rollout.

It took a little bit of work but now my linux desktop works exactly how I want now, and Windows and macOS both feel strange to my muscle memory when I have to use them.
That's not entirely true. Microsoft did fix a lot of the device driver instability that plagued Win2k / XP around when they released Windows 7. Windows 10 was a further improvement in stability but at the expense of all the adware / telemetry. I've been running Windows 11 for a while and I don't hate it, but I spend more dev time in VSCode and WSL2 so it just feels like a weird Linux distribution that gets in the way.
The licensing is not compatible with my companies legal team.
Taking responsibility (which the developers later did by the way, even in this thread) and enduring abuse (which is also well documented here and elsewhere) should not be put on the same level.

More broadly, I'd much rather endure a slightly slow terminal made by developers acting in the open and in (mostly) good faith than the intentionally malicious software produced by actual bad actors within Google, Facebook, Microsoft et all..
Please allow me a snarky comment: Coddler's children.
Neither cmd.exe nor powershell.exe are terminal emulators, rather they are both shells / scripting languages. The legacy looking crappy terminal window is usually conhost.exe.

Windows has a console interface unlike that found on Unix, using APIs rather than escape sequences to interface with the console. Also, its console implementation was historically coupled tightly with the conhost.exe application, which historically is both the terminal emulator and console endpoint simultaneously.

The blog series centered around
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-l... is the best resource I've found online that discusses Windows' legacy console support as well as some vision of how this subsystem has changed in the years since.

These changes improved OS interop, but also de-couple the legacy crap so that third party terminal emulators can be better supported on Windows generally (separating the console endpoint from the terminal display), allowing for the creation of `CreatePseudoConsole()`.

Prior to this, third party terminal emulators that wanted to support Windows apps had to run the legacy conhost.exe and shove the window way off the desktop (to hide), and then scrape the window for its contents. This is/was required so that the app has a console backed by a conhost.exe process (responding to the console apis). `CreatePseudoConsole()` fixes a lot of that mess.
.com (used for Facebook authoritative DNS) and .net (used for WhatsApp) servers serve glue records with a 2 day TTL, and domain holders don't get to choose TTL. (the root servers serve glue records for the TLDs with a 2 day TTL as well).

So, two days is the TTL you get for your NS records. Of course, it takes way more than two days for people to stop querying your old records. I gave up after 30-45 days.
If it caught on, and everyone started using it?

They absolutely would.
Oh this is horrific. Now only I came to know about this shts.
RCS tries to offer the feature set of WA and iMessage while engaging the mobile operator. WhatsApp and iMessage are "over the top" services that "only" leverage mobile data / TCP etc.

RCS was an awful compromise in order to pander to the telcos. Being a simple data service avoids a lot of the problems introduced by cellular infrastructure. We can expect all of the same functionality/robustness/compatibility issues of SMS/MMS.
People have different values of course, when I'm look at companies I always look at the product they develop and whether it suits my morals and ethics and whether their work/management practices suits mine.

I'm not talented enough to guess people's sexuality or nationality just by looking at their pictures like you and pass judgement on appearances. Or is it because I don't care what color or sex my would-be coworkers are?
They absolutely do not need any extra cash...
It was interesting to visit the subreddits of random countries (eg /r/Mongolia) and see the top posts all asking if fb/Insta/WhatsApp being down was local or global. I got the impression this morning that it was only affecting NA and Europe, but it looks like it was totally global. The numbers must be staggering of the number of people trying to login.
Sure, yes, I don't disagree with what your saying. It's just that corporate surveillance is like the favourite topic on HN right now. Almost every topic gets shifted to being yet another debate about corporate surveillance.

There is an interesting discussion to be had about what it means for information to be public, since public information is also now _searchable_ information, which never used to be the case. What are the implications for that when it comes to laws about what constitutes "public" information, and social norms on what we share publicly.

But once again instead of discussing that conversation, we're dragged back into the corporate and government surveillance, yet again.
How on earth is government intervention the answer to Facebook being down? How are these two things even related? What a bizarre place we’ve arrived at.
Basically a TPM chip can be used a secure key store. This allows to use digital signatures to check if the boot chain, kernel or modules have not been tampered with.
Matrix is the solution.
So, we should erase all references to Native Americans not made by native Americans?
Yeah, kinda points to battery failure, but "our rivals haxxored us!!!" is certainly a nice cover story for the company and the local government.
Knowing almost nothing about networking, isn't the way Facebook handles networking somewhat of a monolithic anti-pattern? Why is a single update responsible for taking out multiple services and why wouldn't each product or even each region within each product have their own routes, for resiliency which can then be used to rollout changes slower?

By having a large centralized and monolithic system, aren't they guaranteeing that mistakes cause huge splash damage and don't separate concerns?
This is kinda insightful to hear. Do you happen to have an Instagram? Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
How'd you feel about Krebs' post about the outage?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-faceboo...
The whole thing was put together in a somewhat obscure dialect of Lisp over 15 years ago. There’s probably under 100 people that write Arc regularly enough to meaningfully contribute, so the general approach has been to not fix what’s not broken.
You only have to make payments if the value of your collateral falls below a certain value. Called a margin call.
That's a valuable tool to be possessed along with future planning and executions. I guess.
I don't think so. If Me, Vista and 8 didn't brought us that, I don't think 11 will.
I've done all day Zoom/VC mobs, and that sounds exhausting as hell to me. Different strokes and all, but programming this way really takes the fun out of it.
Ranking 100% on Lighthouse
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For some people it acts as a social lubricant. For others, usually people with particular difficulties or stresses in their lives, it acts as an amplifier for some of the worst things people can do. A lot of those people also claim they only use it as a social lubricant.

Maybe if we could eliminate all the things that make people drink to extreme excess, or drink when it's dangerous, this would be a fun little quirk of the human species but as it is a huge amount of harm is correlated with heavy drinking and I think if you've only ever seen and understood the good side you are a very very lucky person.
How about “putting all your eggs in one basket”?

If this is the event that teaches someone that Facebook is not the Internet, that’s a benefit to us all.
> Without partitioning world telephone connectivity? Easily.

I certainly don't care if foreign call centers can't call me from domestic numbers. If they want to call me and try to sell me some scam, they can use a number that's local to them.
Also some percentage complaining about yp/nis.
Ken Griffin Sees Young People Making ‘Grave Mistake’ Working at Home
Autorotation? Sorry I don’t know enough about drone aerodynamics, but it’s something seen in helicopters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation
I am still in awe of how LinkedIn may be the weirdest and cringiest of all the social networks.

I recently discovered a subreddit where people upload pictures of figurines covered with semen (cummingonfigurines). I somehow find that more honest and less cringy than the posts on LinkedIn.

I'm trying to figure out exactly why I find the network and posts so uncouth.
Anecdotally, there are a lot of "app only" users out there who aren't familiar with opening up a browser application and typing in a URL. I don't know what percentage of users we're talking about, there.

But I have experienced plenty of users that are comfortable with tapping an app on their phones, and even installing one from an app store, but aren't comfortable with using a web browser.

It's not just older, non-technical users. Lots of kids have never known anything but apps. You know how your "average" Mac/PC user would have looked at you funny if you told them to open a terminal or command prompt 15 years ago? That is how many kids view a web browser these days - a slightly weird relic of an earlier time.

(Just to be clear: I detest this state of affairs!)
It was pretty quickly deemed a global phenomenon, so no comments on posts about it said that. Also, enough people here on HN know how to investigate dns and bgp to have found the problem within the first 30 minutes, first with DNS then the revelation that every BGP route associated with them was withdrawn.
> Windows lost 10% market share to mac and Linux since 2019.

Sorry to sound challenging but, as linux user, I really would like a source for that.
This is a funny post to have suggested at the bottom of the article: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/09/connectivity/backbone-...
I was the same. But constantly thinking at high cognition caused me stress. My brain needs more downtime. Now I always prioritize what I focus on and think about. This selective turn off has made me happier and de-stressed.
Was about to say the same thing. She almost certainly takes takes home more than a few million per year. She is the culture.