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Well. Colbert made fun of Wikipedia publishing nonsense… in 2006.

15 years ago.

This is not a new criticism.
I wonder how this will play out. It was my understanding that the whole forced updates on Windows 10, free upgrade from 7 / 8, etc were meant to cut down on the number of people running old, unpatched versions.

For what it's worth, I installed Win 11 on an unsupported computer (4th gen Xeon, no tpm) out of curiosity and I did get updates. Of course, that doesn't mean it will happen forever.
The Texas Triangle has a higher population density than France, a relative abundance of space between major cities, and four major metropolitan areas... But it's private companies trying to build high-speed rail, not Amtrak. The idea that it's a geography problem, at least for regional rail lines, is not very compelling.
Wikipedia has a moderately frustrating anti-elite / anti-self-promotion bias that will result in the site maintaining erroneous information added by natural third parties over true information added by those directly involved.

Doesn't matter how true it is... If you're an employee of the company and get found out, your edits get reverted.
Also, suffocation risk. We are much better at detecting O2 levels, presence of unwanted gases such as CO, and supplying O2 artificially. Ancient Romans lacked both the knowledge and the technology, and most dangerous gases are actually invisible.
I have no idea what you are trying to argue at this point. It appears I succinctly addressed all your points and you have no rebuttle except ad hominem.
If you are targeted like Marie was, and you're asking for advice on HN, you're screwed already.
We had “town halls” for a long time and then one time it was called an “all hands”. You can bet everyone was on edge before the meeting, but the meeting was exactly the same as the others (general info dissemination). I definitely gave feedback not to arbitrarily change the name of the meeting like that.
I can't even log into Discord anymore because they changed their authentication method so that you have to provide a phone number. But they don't allow IP phone numbers so if you've got a carrier like Republic Wireless they disallow you since it's considered an IP phone. When I complained about this they basically said change carriers. Not interested in doing that and I'm thinking not getting into Discord has it's advantages.
Busses are similar in some ways to the Amtrak issue. They are cheap, but very variable — although things like bus rapid transit help.

I live in a small city, and the return bus trip takes 45-60m. The morning trip takes about 20. I pay about $80/mo to park at work, and my commute is 6-10m each way.
your air travel could be significantly optimized with TSA Precheck ($20year) and Clear ($120/year) to effectively eliminate security headaches
blinds don't work in a large open office. a small number of people want them open, a small number of people want them closed, and the rest of the people just want to get their job done.

blinds also don't produce the sort of light I want to work with. My preference would be no natural light, and only indirect diffused lighting for general illumination and point lights where I'm working with my hands.
Democracy is rule by the people, so yes, the current setup is anti-democratic, precisely because it gives greater representation and voting power to some people than others.

Each person's vote for a senator in Wyoming is worth 50x or more what it is in California. That's wrong, and it's anti-democratic. People ought to be on an even playing field.
Who have you worked with in the past? That'd be my go to. Hopefully they are thrilled with your work.

Reach out and ask them: "do you know anyone who needs some help? We have some availability coming up." This lets them think about who in their network might need some extra hands (or if they themselves need help) without putting them on the spot.

Don't only ask your current contact at past clients, but also anyone you worked with. LinkedIn is your friend here.

You don't need a formal referral program, but it is much easier to work with someone you've worked with before rather than convince someone who doesn't know you that you can solve their problems.
I should clarify: I don't mean that you shouldn't be worried when you get the "let's talk" message. What I mean is, it shouldn't come across as "spooky"; that is, when they say it, it shouldn't leave you with the utterly baffling sensation of not knowing whether they are about to tell you something utterly horrible or something utterly trivial.
> They likely want laptops being sold running Win11 to have sane security capabilities for corporate use out of the box

Corporate security has been fine for years: TPM 1.2 (if I remember the versions correctly) alongside bitlocker and sensible corporate policies render computers all but impervious to everything. However, this implies a competent IT division in your company... I've worked in plenty without them!

Social engineering or clicking a dodgy link/download is probably a bigger threat than someone hacking your computer and that can be mitigated to a huge extent by restricting access to only the things that the user needs, locking down apps, running with low privileges, auditing relevant things etc... again, competent IT division needed for this too.

Now, if your threat matrix includes nation-states then one could argue that any device is hackable.

My take is that hardware vendors saw the writing on the wall with the pandemic-buying about to ease-up and worked with Microsoft (or pressured them...) to help out. We're already seeing Chromebooks on the wane[0].

From my perspective (long-time Windows guy now on Fedora) I see nothing of value in Windows 11 that 10 didn't have already.

Edit: Forgot the answer I was gonna write :)

[0] - https://chromeunboxed.com/canalys-report-chromebook-sales-do...
> But what use is a system or process that’s so difficult to get right that most organizations fail? I would argue that it is useless.

This is also what extremely difficult but fundamentally important problems look like. Getting clarity about goals across a big organization where every single person has a different conception of the problems it faces is Very Hard. I don't know if OKRs are the right answer, but the right answer will definitely reflect the Very Hard nature of the problem it's trying to solve. Probably the most any methodology can do here is trick you into asking the right questions.

(I think Agile is an entirely different story. But remember that agility is only easy if you have solid developers, and hiring is in general Very Hard, especially for the kind of people who muck up Agile.)
Something like a city in the Netherlands where I can not have a car and have less a chance of being run over.
I think it's totally fair to see OKRs as silly and useless as an engineer. Personally I think they are really only relevant at the VP level and above.

All the things you say are true about OKRs, they run up against the reality of the business, and at the end of the day are fungible, but I would encourage a different way of looking at OKRs.

They inspire a conversation about how the company should really be spending its time and resources. What are the ultimate goals of what the business is doing. What is the real opportunity. How do we define success and how can we push success further? What's the dream by investing in these various initiatives?

Once you are leading an organization of several people, each of whom has their own individual success depending on some of these decisions, it behooves you to take this type of planning seriously and spend some time trying to answer these questions at some cadence (once or twice a year at least) to solidify the high level goals - even if there is constantly the risk of these OKRs getting trampled by the realities of the business as you eloquently put.

The purpose of having these conversations about OKRs at the leadership level is a bit different than the pragmatic benefits of the agile process and the two are a bit perpendicular in terms of purposes. Agile is on the ground execution, dealing with and greasing the wheels for the day to day efficiency of small teams. OKRs are occasional shocks to the system attempting to steer a large barge on course towards a far off goal.
Considering all the broken or neglected games on Steam I've lost trust in them. GOG has started slipping in quality as they've grown, but at least they strive to host playable games and without DRM.

Competition among stores and hosting is good IMO, even if a modest inconvenience.
Actually most of them aren’t, but instead they are only supersonic… Making hypersonic missiles (speeds over Mach 5) is a hard problem due to changes in airflow at that speed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_speed
In my experience discussing this topic is difficult without defining “unit” in unit testing. Similarly, “integration” testing is also something that means different things to different people.

So let’s instead talk about other dimensions:

Are you verifying that your application conforms to its requirements?

This is something that is usually done on a System Under Test the size of at least an application module, a service or set of services.
In some cases, for legacy systems, I have even targeted the UI with these tests.

Normally for this type of testing the SUT cuts out third-party dependencies to make things controllable - instead you point it at semantically equivalent but shallow fakes for these dependencies.

These are nice tests that are quite stable over time and resilient to changes in implementation details, allowing you low-cost refactoring.

These tests are good drivers for technical tests - the tests that support the development process itself.

These typically target smaller Systems Under Test. For example, checking a calculation function, checking that you can save and load all documents using a generator and property-bars testing etc.

If you let the high-level requirements tests lead my experience is that fewer of these low level technical tests are necessary than a bottom up TDD approach would lead you to.

The low-level “unit” testing with micro units (classes, methods, functions) is the “wax on, wax off” of test driven development. It exists to establish a habit and then as your experience grows you can combine methods and eventually select the solution that fits best on the exact context.

I think Alistair Cockburn called this shu-ha-ri levels of development.
I stand corrected! You sound like you actually know what you're talking about.

Sigh. The search for a field where you can learn some stuff once and coast continues....
> you can't pass the 27% (still pay payment processing) savings on to customers

Well yeah... whether you sell your game on Steam or via Steam codes on your website, the soft-, hardware and business infrastructure in the background handling the sale and distribution of your game is the same.
So why would they let you use their infrastructure without letting them have their cut?
It wouldn't make any sense.
Shouldn't there some kind of lower threshold for how badly you can treat people? I could offer people €10/hour for peeing in their mouths and some people would defend it saying "Yeah, well, I'm sure some people would prefer that over being homeless or starving to death!" Shoving students into windowless prison cells is mean and cruel. Especially when you yourself would never ever live in anything resembling that.
Plenty of 2D and 3D drawings have been posted. Extrapolating from (and distilling to) these sorts of representations in order to understand built spaces is the core competency of architects.
Having that much money combined with that much hubris must be similar to having a disease that permanently affects your ability to reason.

For example-- I was going to suggest that if Munger believed his idea is so glaringly positive, he should give nearly all of his money away and then pitch the idea. Hell, he is 97-- what does he really need to guarantee comfort in the years he has left?

But of course that's the reasoning of an outsider. If I possessed a gazillion dollars, who knows-- maybe I'd shoot it all at some bone-headed campaign to teach every citizen how to use GPG-encrypted email correctly.

Perhaps the one factor keeping most of us from achieving maximum assholery is we run out of gas before it happens.
I have read the John Doerr's Measure What Matters, and trying to implement some. Do you keep all OKR's visible to everyone in the organisation?
"Sadly, in this room too, a part of the archaeological heritage has been lost due to tunnels dug by grave robbers who, throughout the villa, have caused a total amount of damage estimated at almost 2 million euros."

I'm curious what that means. How do you "value" something like Pompeii? Are they just saying that they stole gold and silver worth that much, or that the damage to the ruins costs that much more to repair/recover?
Yeah, for starters it actually has to coincide with winter solstice, which is not January 31 or November 11.
Nice one. Have you tried replacing the for loops with forEach? It might be even more performant.
Wow, this is a really good article.

In my youth I took trains a fair bit in the midwest for journeys of a few hours. But I hadn't done a long trip until the summer of 2019, where we did SF -> Chicago. I truly loved it; there's a kind of enforced serenity to it that is a rare commodity these days.

Admittedly the whole experience felt a bit retro; the the passenger cars could use a modern update. Or at least an attempt to seek parity with Europe. And there are long stretches with no internet access, which I have mixed feelings about. But overall, it was a joy.

And of course it gave me an idea for an app to build. The number one question I had was, "What the hell is that out the window?" It was also a frequent question Amtrak employees get. So I taught myself Flutter and a little ML and built an app that was basically a dynamic, POV-specific rail travel guide. Whenever you opened it it would show you a map of your surroundings and nearby Wikipedia points of interest, with the ability to tap for details and photos.

Happily, a friend did a long trail trip in early 2020, so I even had a beta tester. Result: positive! My other market data suggested that what I was doing was dicey as far as a sustainable business went, but it seemed worth a go. And then the pandemic came along, killing the recreational travel market. Oops!

Anyhow, I also had joined the Rail Passengers Association, a pro-train lobby group, and went to one of their semiannual meetings. The audience wouldn't have been out of place in an Iowan retirement home. There was a modest sprinkling of middle aged people, and even a few representatives of the Numtot contingent. [1] That "railfan nostalgia" was a major driver of attendance.

The people in charge were motivated by more, of course. They made sharp, analytical cases for the value of trains and were keenly aware of the pernicious underinvestment in rail and the difficulty of competing with (subsidized) car and air travel. I left convinced that a) especially as we decarbonize, there was a good case for rail, b) getting anything done versus vested interests, legislator cluelessness, and American business culture was very much an uphill slog, and c) the geriatric nature of the market meant the market for any sort of app was much smaller than I was hoping.

I wish them all the best, though.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/05/meet-the-numt...
recommend evwest.com
Here's a pretty good interview Larry did on Tim Pools show about 7 months ago, outlining just how bad it is. It's a topical show and not 100% focused on Larry though. Tim also outlines how hard it is to correct factually inaccurate information on what people write about him in his wiki entry (stating he created a "blimp" etc). Also goes into the fake, circular references and activists gaming the system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWQaVx5mGco
States' interests matter and should be explicitly represented at the state level.

But we're not talking about the state level, we're talking about the federal level. Senators are there to represent the people of their state, and the fact that some people get vastly more representation than others is wrong. People should be as equal as possible for a given playing field.

Funny how the people arguing that it's okay to do this to protect 'minorities' are never, ever okay with doing this for any other minorities. Give extra voting power to people in low pop states to shield them from the majority? Great! Give extra votes to black people, or Asians, or Muslims, or Jews? Uhhhhhh, no, no thank you.
HN hates Twitter and Discord for some pretty odd or niche reasons. Meanwhile, they're incredibly popular with mainstream users.

I have plenty of minor issues with Discord's usability, but it's such a great service which allows me to dip my toes into dozens of different communities with basically zero friction.
There is true randomness stemming from real random processes.
There is also effective randomness coming from chaotic processes.
Chaos means that perturbations grow very fast.
Then there is the uncertainty principle which sets a limit to how precisely you can know the initial conditions.
So even with infinite computing power most observations can not be predicted for longer amount of times.
This leaves a lot of space for free will.
And also for esoteric theories.
At least this offering eliminates the threat vector a of compromised hypervisor.
How exactly is it exclusive?
Take Voyages While Playing Postmark Games at Home
Not so much failed as it was never a real thing in the first place. Valve supported steam machines and linux gaming so they could fend off Microsoft's attempts to monopolize all gaming with proprietary executable formats like in the windows store. Every time MS starts this up again Valve will wave around the linux/steam machine flag until it stops and then they go back to not caring about linux.
Show HN: Writing embedded firmware using Rust
I remember one time, before Uber existed, I was flying to LAX from SFO.

The cab from my apartment on Upper Market, in SF to SFO was $65 before 'tip'. 13 miles.

The FLIGHT from SFO to LAX was $99. https://i.imgur.com/uXCj3MR.png

After this, I had several Black Cars that I made contacts with the drivers - and would call them for rides to SFO (I flew out every sunday morning at 7am - and it was a nightmare getting cabs (I was banned by several taxi companies in SF because I would call three diff taxi services and 2 out of 3 would never show up... but apparently they shared dispatching info because the dispatchers knew that my number was calling multiple taxis... and the guy told me "your banned for calling multiple cabs!" to which I replied "because you never show up and I need to get to the airport (said in a George Costanza voice))

Then Uber was born...
I think relatively speaking the US is not densely inhabited. So sure in densely packed places there is not much space (by definition) but then almost nowhere in the US is densely packed. E.g. between LA and SF it’s 99% farmland, between LA and Vegas it’s mostly farm or desert.

What the US needs is political will and I think the political will in the US has been eroded (by bribes) by the petrol, car and flying lobbies.
I think it's pretty much impossible now to create a modern game with the Steam runtime:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime#default-tools
More high end, electric buses is probably the best option. They’re comfortable, take the room of 3 cars, fit way more people, and use existing infrastructure.
Don't know about new features. I installed it on an older machine purely out of curiosity. Subjectively, it feels snappier than Windows 10, and this was actually an upgrade (as opposed to a fresh install).

I'm not sure the OS itself is quicker, it's possible they've only tweaked animation speed, but it does have an effect on my perception. Also, bonus points for the taskbar not popping up anymore when an app requires attention (say incoming chat message) while in auto-hide mode. This used to drive me up a wall under 10.

Then again, I'm not a heavy Windows user, I basically only use it for gaming, so YMMV.
He invests in yes men?
I must admit I probably don't know much about Charlie and Warren but if anything they seem to be bullshit detectors.

If he did invest in yes men, he would be broke, because they say yes all the time.
And into what little database are my deets being entered for eternity by using either of these options, and to whom does the visibility to this data go?
Hi are you me? I've been on literally several hundred flights in my life, starting at age 4. Then at 16 I had a panic attack before getting on a flight. So each new flight after that was always prefaced with this anxiety of having another attack.

It was like that for a few years, then I had a panic attack on a flight. But I still flew for a few years after that, usually just a couple times a year. I don't recall the last flight I took, but it's been a couple years. Maybe it was cross country from Philadelphia to San Francisco, so a fairly long flight.

I've since been taking Amtrak, which I FUCKING love. Outside of not having all the anxiety of the flight, going on a long train trip is the highlight of my year and hands down best sleep I get. Watching the scenery slowly change as I do work, play games, or just relax is one of my favorite things now. It's even better if I'm able to get my own private room. Now its not glamorous, but having your own toilet and bed really makes a huge difference.

Hopefully in the future I can start flying again if I HAVE to. But I don't think I'll ever stop taking the train if the timing is right for wherever I'm going.
> browsers that are updated more frequently and not tied to the OS.

This is true. Apple's inane insistence that everything has to be updated only once a year is truly baffling.
>If that is what you want to do, then you need to build cheap housing

The powerful land-speculation lobby (Monoplex owners) block every attempt at this. Munger Hall is the result. If you don't like that this is being built, your quarrel is with the suburban climate arsonists who hold up every development for extensive review until it dies.
Love how this claims that NFTs are “meeting needs” - “Understand ways to identify unmet needs that Web3 can create 10x solutions for”. Typical crypto-bro nonsense with no specifics - what need do NFTs meet aside from money laundering and gambling?
The Commons Clause License Condition
I just say "sure, what about?" If I'm curious.
It's not that. Just that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the evidence we have is pretty slight. Doesn't mean it's impossible, does mean we are justified to be skeptical until they publish more detail results.
The amount of storage space you'd need for each car would likely make this too expensive for all but a handful of people.
Understanding Bisecting K-Means Clustering Algorithm (Visuals and Code)
We should make nuclear safer and learn from the accidents that have occured in the past, but at the same time we have to accept some risk of we are to generate power. If we build a hydroelectric dam, we know there is a risk of overflow, cracking and flooding. That is just a fact dealing with the extreme amount of energy stored in water that is elevated.

We should make sure that maintenance is handled with the understanding of the human lives depending on it, and managers and politicians need to respect the powerful natural forces of both water and nuclear bonds. That said, stopping to use either in favor of fossil fuels is bad for the planet and bad for the people living on it. Living near a nuclear plants or downstream of a hydroelectric power plants is preferable compared to living near a fossil fueled power plants, and its the role of advocates, learned people and politicians to inform the public of this fact.

Critics should be held to blame for misleading the population, just as politicians should be when they chose to build fossil fueled power plants in favor of safer technologies.