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I've had the exact opposite experience. It's unusual for an upgrade to not break something.

There are dozens of breaking changes in this release alone: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/96c7d42a3ca9d822a08b3dd4...

Some of the changes are sadistic. "The precedence of the concatenation operator has changed relative to bitshifts and addition as well as subtraction." Have fun debugging code that worked perfectly well for years and now produces unpredictable results.
I wonder if the people that complain about the post office are also the 2nd amendment people. They're both things the founding fathers saw fit to include in the US Constitution, but only one of them is worshiped by people on the right. I wonder which one it is, and I wonder if one of these two things has major corporate interests.
How can I properly get up to speed with the USPS, it's problems and who's involved with causing them?
"It does not need to have a profit and thinking about it in that sense is absurd."

No - your ideologically loaded responses is maybe the 'absurd' thing here.

You've made arbitrary comparisons to 'Healthcare' or 'NASA' without providing any basis for why 'some things are public and some are private'.

You do also realize that almost all Healthcare services are provided by private entities? Even in fully socialised markets like Canada 'the Government' does not actually 'provide' service, they regulate, and do the 'insurance' layer.

Parcel delivery does not have any of the systematic characteristics of something that might make it a public good.

While there's nothing inherently wrong with having a public delivery service - there is definitely something wrong if is not self sustaining, and effectively subsidises some businesses and not others.

It would be better if there were 3 regular, national carriers, with reasonable regulations.

""Everything needs to make a profit" is straight out of right wing talking points. The purpose, of course, is to psyop all of us into privatizing everything,"

Conspiracy theories are not arguments.

Also - this idea that the USPS is 'forced to pay retirement 50 years ahead' is essentially a canard - a purposefully misrepresented falsehood.

The USPS for the most part - was required to fund its pensions in almost the same manner any private entity would. [1]

The notion that the USPS was burdened by some deal to have to pay '50 years in advance' is basically a lie.

You can read the legislation yourself right here [2] and here [3]. You'll note there is no mention of '50 years'.

There is no real reason for the US Government to provide mail delivery, when it could achieve the same results through legislation and via private services.

There is a commenter below who uses as 'evidence' the fact that UPS and Fedex do not 'deliver everywhere' as proof that they cannot deliver everywhere.

This again - is a myth. That UPS and FedEx do not deliver everywhere mostly implies they don't see the margins there today. Were the USPS not to exist, and, were they required to deliver by law, then they probably could.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2020/04/14/post-office-p...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/6407

[3] https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/6407...
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and yet trump just admitted exactly that: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/13/donald-trump...
> Wow, I would have hoped for better support from the HN community. Instead there are apologists after apologists.

I am wondering if Apple pays a battery of social media / marketing guys to influence the discussions in their favor.

Now let the downvotes begin.
What grounds do you have for saying it's not a mature language? It's more than 10 years old. Subjectively I would feel as confident in safety and feature set as any other mainstream programming language.

I also strongly disagree that Rust has any sort of an uncertain future. It appears to be a well run and stable project. Regularly putting out releases from a variety of contributors.
The comment is expecting you to have an opinion or some kind of comment on the practices that determines accessibility to software.

I will start: Are software stores and locked down environments really a good idea, when conflicts like this determine what kind of software you can install on your devices? Without a comment on who is in the "right" here, I will just use a clear 'no'.
Snap has all of that too.
Fire Depts are important but don't turn a profit either.

Many services are difficult to quantify and/or cannot exist merely by charging only those who directly benefit from them.
Keeping out bad (in their opinion) UX constitutes the valid part of their gatekeeping because it subtracts negative value, which almost amounts to adding value, but is subtly different, like I said. Keeping out competition is a little harder to justify since it presumably only benefits them. And that does tend to be a temptation for all gatekeepers. But in neither case is value really being added directly, was my only point.
> This sounds like a GPT3 response :)

If you're going to try to insult someone, own it and leave off the smiley. Don't hide behind that weak passive aggressiveness.
Not necessarily. Tim Sweeney owns more than half of Epic Games, and (presumably, I'm obviously not privy to what contracts he has signed) has no obligation to sell for any amount of money. He is also rich enough to have "fuck the world money" and not accept a price that is far above what his share in Epic Games is actually worth.
I'm all for the USPS. It's my favorite parcel carrier.

Yes, Save The USPS! But how? Voting? Electorialism is too slow to meet urgent demands. There's nothing I or any of my friends can do to save the USPS.

The article mentions "The USPS’ financial woes have three main causes, one acute and two chronic." The acute woe is COVID-19.. fine, that was unexpected. But the other two financial woes are chronic. After decades of both Republican and Democratic administrations and legislatures, the chronic issues still exist. So, it seems like we need other solutions to "Save The USPS."
The decade of operating losses is also due to sabotage by a Republican Congress under a Republican President:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_Enha...
Trump has literally said he wants to interfere with the mail because it would be used too much for voting.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/donald-trump-mail-in...

This is not a "both sides" issue.
The USPS has lost money over the last decade even if you discount the mandated pension fund payments. Pension costs haven't helped, but the USPS would be in the red anyways due to declining mail volume.
It's just the same with consoles, the manufacturers sell them at a loss knowing they'll recover from game tax.

Which is why PC games outnumber console games by a huge factor. Walled gardens are everyone's liability.
It’s the other way around. The more vote by mail, the higher the probability of fraud, and therefore the lower the trust in the results.
Yeah, those evil government programs that support the needs of the economy. They should cancel all of those programs! Get rid of public water and trash services! Sell all the roads! End the military too! When was the last time they turned a profit?
How about Epic WRONG?
I didn't watch the video but I've gone through that guide you linked, it's excellent but I don't think it's a great comparison. It only implements a handful of commands and doesn't go into the same amount detail. The Building Git book goes way more into the interesting bits.
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Nowhere, my friends all live here and I like the town I live in.
Amazon looks like it is diffusing out of Seattle city
If you already occupy multiple towers in a campus, you can afford to move into multiple smaller offices without necessarily losing out on in-office benefits.

It will spare workers who prefer the suburbs a long commute. They have already expanded into Bellevue, but Bellevue can be inconvenient too. It makes sense to have more than one satellite office in a metro area if they are going to have any.

Not to mention the high-earner payroll tax.
Sigh...yeah...first thing I thought was "are you sure" then "how can you tell the difference", but knew I'd get tut-tutted about how 'that's not what we want on HN'.
That go enforces alignment by padding structs is full of sad and fail. Since what's important with modern processors is cache line alignment not word alignment. All they get for that optimization is more memory usage and cache pressure.
What republicans? Certainly not any in power.
> Why don't they just charge more to deliver to those areas?

Because they aren’t allowed to, because it is considered a public service that should be equally available to all.

> If i live on a mountain top why should I expect people to haul shit to me for free?

Not for free. You pay taxes. And you should expect it because it’s what USPS does.

Now sure, there can be a whole debate about whether or not it should be the way it is, but that’s not what you asked. As per your original post:

> Unless they offer a better service than private industry, they will be a money sink.

It is a better service and it’s a money sink by design: it’s a public service that is funded by taxes. If they didn’t have insane pension obligations they’d be in a much better state financially, but they’ve been kept in a stranglehold over that for many years now:

https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/be-careful-what-you-assume
Why doesn't everyone make a WebAssembly version of their game and host on their own servers? I'm pretty sure there are a thousand big problems with this idea.
Old argument. So be it, I’ll submit a bid to the first beachside house in Carmel this causes.
When Jeff Bezos starts out competing the interstate with his private roads, then you can make that argument. The fact is that roads serve their market well, and if the USPS did the same they would not be being out competed by 10 different private entities at once.

I don't care if it's not their fault or that their hands are tied by regulations. The mere fact that they are in trouble is evidence that they aren't serving their purpose in their current form.
Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics: if you ask mom for something, she will say "yes" or "no" (even if she wasn't sure before you asked). Asking her again won't change her answer. At this point, to try to get a different answer to the same question, you have to ask dad.
They’re being shutdown because letter volume is falling off a cliff and those machines don’t sort packages.
Aren't most of those 0-days exploiting iOS integrated apps and thus outside the realm of App Store curation and policy?

Asking because that's the impression I get, but may be wrong.
Epic feels the rules set by Apple is not fair. At the first point is where the issue is.
Maybe at least you could vote against the administration trying to deliberately kneecap it?
> The USPS has had nearly a decade straight annual operating losses in billions

The USPS is not a business. It does not lose money.

The USPS is a service. It costs money to run, like other services in the country (Medicad, the military, the EPA).

If you're upset about the USPS losing billions here and there, wait till you hear about the military losing 750 Billion each and every year!
This was just so wonderfully written. It brought back a lot of memories. Kudos to the authors!
Speaking of enemies of the state, if the mail is managed privately how does that affect privacy? Search warrants, and so on?

If the gov can purhase (internet collected) personal data, will privatized mail create a legal loophole?
> Why is USPS consistently bankrupt

Republican many years ago passed a law that forced the USPS to allocate budget for many many decades of pension payments in advance, something no one else is forced to do. It was a deliberate act of sabotage by Republicans in the Bush years.
Your argument is a misnomer, equal access is just a restatement of belief in equal rights. Equal opportunity is the belief that everyone should be given a level playing field.
There is very little evidence that voter fraud occurs with any frequency whatsoever.
I would think a teleprompter style setup should work.

I remember ages ago someone created a reverse version, basically a periscope you hang over the camera on your laptop. I think the idea was you position the window with the face behind the mirror.
That's a huge stretch from using the USPS to rig an election.

He admitted it on TV. Give it up.
Jon Oliver is a very partisan comedian and therefore cannot be trusted. And when I say ‘him’ I refer to the very politicized team of writers and their network.
Or maybe you're forgetting that the postal service delivers more than just spam and circulars? (Also, you're picking local grocery circulars as your example of spam? I would wager that grocery circulars are among the few pieces of unsolicited bulk mail that most people don't consider unwanted.)

The postal service also delivers tax documents, ballots, bills, and (actual and important, not the junk made to look as such) notifications from utilities. It's disingenuous to argue that the postal service doesn't do anything important.
I didn't look closely into either flatpak nor appimage. But I get the advantages of such a system and I think it might actually help with the "Linux on the desktop situation". It's very easy to deploy something with restricted access to the file system, something that has all its dependencies in one place, that updates atomically, etc. It's also nice for random app vendors to be able to know that all their users are on the latest version, or not far behind. Could even push some devs to consider going back to desktop apps, as opposed to the web, knowing that they wouldn't have to deal with 1234 different, obsolete versions because someone's grandma didn't update her system in years.

After spending some time reading the exchanges on the posted link, I've come to the conclusion that the actual problem with snaps might not be snapd nor the automatic updating in and of themselves.

Rather, the problem seems to be a scope mismatch. This whole snap thing looks to me as something that should be aimed squarely at the "desktop user". I use that term as opposed to "system use". So distributing Spotify or whatever via snaps? Great! LXD for a home user to test? Sure! But as a way of managing low-level system components on production boxes? No way!

So I have to say I don't necessarily take an issue with Ubuntu pushing this on the desktop version. Sure, it is a pain by certain aspects, main one being slow startup for apps. But pushing this on Ubuntu Core in its actual state is, to me, the real issue. Sure, apparently you can run your own "Snap Proxy" or whatever they call it, which allows you to manually approve upgrades, etc. But why go through this trouble? It seems easier to just run apt-get from a central location when you want and for the packages and versions that you want.
Sure, the USPS does more than deliver grocery store spam -- but not much more. A plurality of mail sent via USPS is spam, and the majority of that mail remains unopened (if it's not a leaflet).

The main parcel shipped by the USPS is physical waste.
> MacOS keep falling further behind in usability on machines older than four years

The huge user base of folks running thunderbolt 2 based MacBook pros from 2015 or earlier seems to disagree and a vocal minority of them say you can pry that model from their cold dead hands here on HN. It’s supported by the latest OSes with zero penalty, performance or otherwise.
Both bad. Android may allow side-loading a bit easier than Apple, but the Play store is still a large monopoly on Android. It comes pre-installed on basically every device and is the de-facto way of installing software there. Side loading requires the user to click past a bunch of scary messages that is not required for apps installed through the Play store.

It is much more difficult to distribute apps from outside the original store when compared with desktop platforms. Changing this would be a good thing for users and developers alike, for both Android and iOS.
Agree with OTD approach.
Helps to prevent fraud with "document" fees BS or whatever they'll use to sneak in extra $100's and $1000's.
Are you saying Amazon would not exist but for USPS providing service to areas in the U.S. that would never be profitable?

What percentage of the population lives in these areas?

It seems like you're conflating two distinct issues.

1) Providing access to ecommerce to people living in remote/sparsely populated/rural areas.

2) Generally subsidizing delivery costs for ecommerce businesses.
The last time I bought a car, I got the direct number for a salesman. I texted him and told him which car I wanted (including inventory number, available thanks to their website), what number would get me in the door, and I would walk in the door and sign paperwork _at that number_.

It worked surprisingly well, and cut a lot of the bullshit out.
I'm extremely excited for the future of facial recognition despite all the dystopan memes from the woke crowd. Right now cell phone design is going crazy but I think by the time Zoomers are retiring the real end-game is going to be lightweight AR headsets made possible by migrating most of the hardware to a mainframe that gets the information it needs about the user from recognition technologies rather than tech built into the headset itself.
The article appeals to the USPS's historic role connecting rural communities and employing African Americans at a time when many business would not. Fine. But we don't live in the past, we live in the present. I don't want to keep the USPS around because of the social impact it had a century ago.

The article also talks about the USPS's role supporting e-commerce businesses. I don't buy it. E-commerce businesses use a number of other delivery services, and I don't buy the idea that they would fold if the USPS went away. The USPS is just one of many options for them. The majority of the stuff I buy online is delivered by UPS and FedEx, and Amazon drivers.

There is substantial demand for delivery services, so much so that multiple for-profit companies including UPS and FedEx are able to survive without government help. If the USPS is having trouble thriving in that environment, it must be doing something wrong.

I'd like to see an argument for saving the USPS that does not depend on nostalgia.
The idea that we can have a reasonable debate over such matters right now is ludicrous.

It is not acceptable to dispense with essential voting infrastructure. Full stop.
Do we really need a USPS anymore? Or at least, a USPS in its current form?

No more mail carriers, no more paper letters.

Packages handled by the private sector.

And digitized mailboxes for every person.

Something like: john.smith.uniqueid@uspsmailbox.com?

Why aren’t we doing this already? Are any countries doing this?
He meant no Tennessee state capital gains taxes. You still have the Federal capital gains taxes.
Sure, but in this case the crew headed closer in to the coast to get better wifi reception - they were celebrating a birthday party.

I guess the jet analogy would be jet pilot flies really low so his kids can see him wave from their window.

on edit: my only source for this birthday claim is a tweet https://twitter.com/Ariel_Saramandi/status/12931545218922700... but I believe it as I am by nature a misanthrope.
>Now sure, there can be a whole debate about whether or not it should be the way it is, but that’s not what you asked.

I literally used the word "should" in the portion of my post that you quoted, but I see you were a little eager for electronic head pats.

There is no reason, in principle, why USPS can't eat up enough of the UPS/FedEx/Amazon market-share to at least stay afloat as a business without having to resort to the business tactics that people are most concerned about. (poor working conditions, anti-competitive behavior, etc.) But they aren't. They are chronically under-performing, and to me that is evidence in of itself that they are not serving their stated purpose right now.
Given that voting depends on the post office, that may be difficult.
I guess having to pay for ever-raising shipments from China due to China being still classed as an underdog by UPU doesn't help.
Regardless still looks like morning hours on a snowy/winter day in most.

Look at Market Street, San Francisco in 1906: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_1AdYRGW8

Plenty of cars, bikes, and people.

I doubt NYC was much different in 1940 at higher trafficked hours.
The USPS is not allowed to decide what postal rates are. And the commission that is allowed to decide is prohibited by Congress from charging different rates for different destinations.
Which Republicans are speaking up? As far as I've seen the only active Republican that's called out the current administration in a meaningful way is Mitt Romney. You can't claim that Trump is an enemy of the state but everyone else in the Republican party is not when they're actively enabling it.

The Republican party is blatantly criminal, and anyone that supports them is either incredibly ignorant, or treasonous. I'm sick of this "both sides" bullshit when what used to be called the center of the free world is in the process of being destroyed from the inside.
What unfortunate is the how much junkmail is responsible for those losses.
Amazon needs to pause all USPS usage in the weeks leading up to the election, and we need to organize to eliminate all but essential load on them ourselves.
I've been hearing a lot about the difficulties that seem to be attacking the USPS recently and it definitely worries me. I was kinda hoping this article would have some concrete steps to take on how to actually help the USPS as an individual. Would the actions potentially be the same as usual with political things? Call your congressperson and try to make it apparent it's important?
The Lincoln Project comes to mind. Not sure they've chimed in about the USPS, however, or if they have had time to do so.
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It's about guaranteed delivery to an address. If you want to discuss the USPS rates, and how those rates are largely controlled by Congress, along with Congress saddening the post office with expenses no other organization has, we can have that discussion.
To shorten the route and save a buck probably.
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She wasn't ready but is looking to change carstyle. I think she'll have come back, if he gave her a hassle free non sexist chance to enjoy the Jeep. Telling a customer what she wants is a good way to make her walk, my partner does, every single time.
If they can’t fund the annual net increase in pension obligations they are incurring, then they either need to raise their rates or lower their pension benefits. Not actually funding the net annual increase in the Net Present Value of their Accrued Pension Benefits should not be an option.
> Many Republicans are speaking up alongside their usual opponents, because they know very well that when Trump is done with the Democrats, he'll come for them.

Uh... who? I think I read that Susan Collins wrote a letter... Republicans, as they have been throughout the administration, are almost universally silent on Trumps corruption.