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Well usually it’s because of train worker union strikes and lots of lobbying on their behalf.

The reality is it’s political suicide to put that many people out of work in one fell swoop and it’s expensive to replace all rolling stock in one go.

So it’s down to a slow and steady war of attrition.

Example: London Underground is being slowly but surely automated, while keeping an operator who is “not a driver” until they are no longer needed. And that’s one of the oldest metro train systems in the world
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The evolving "Unix attitudes" became non-Unix because the "Unix philosophy" sucks in practice. There really isn't much to it besides "worse is better". Everything in Unix was optimized for ease of implementation rather than ease of developing production applications on top of. The result is a pile of half-solutions: Signals are broken, fork() is broken, traditional Unix synchronous-only I/O is broken. But it was easy for 1970s hackers to build hello-world toy examples on top of those, so nobody really bothered to fix them until relatively recently, and it took brand new APIs largely disjoint from the historical Unix APIs to fix them!
These utilities must solely employ people who have no children, a short time left to live, breathe different air than the rest of us, and live in the 1% of the planet not impacted negatively by climate change (yet!).

Otherwise, why would anyone be willing to work diligently against climate progress?

I honestly don’t understand. If you work for a bad company, quit!
Trevor Noah on the Future of Entertainment and AI, with Reid Hoffman [video]
I don't like to use insults around mental health, or I totally would ;) Musk wants to build an "everything app" where people conduct business and accept payments. And he's shown over the past weekend that he is fully willing on impulse to literally just stop everyone from using the website.

So who on earth would be irresponsible enough to trust Twitter with anything essential or important after this? Who is going to build a storefront on a platform where they might wake up one day and find out that all of their customers are rate-limited from using the platform? And then the CEO jokes that he's doing people a favor by making them touch grass?

A bunch of artists who had (shortsightedly) built their business models around using Twitter as an art platform woke up one day to find out that their artwork can no longer be embedded in other websites. A bunch of government agencies and public services just found out that "check our Twitter for updates" no longer works. With no warning and with no announcement, all because Elon is mad that OpenAI hasn't cut him a check.

That is a business-destroying decision. Other executives are afraid of doing this because it's the kind of thing that permanently hinders your platform from ever being treated like a reliable place to do business or build on top of. It puts a mark on your businesses reputation that will never go away. And it's not a tech issue, it's a trust issue. Finish the big work and make something exciting, sure, but nobody with an ounce of sense would ever trust Elon not to pull the rug out from under them now.

You're going to build a business on a platform that might randomly decide to effectively shut itself down on a whim? Imagine if you had an Amazon shop and Amazon decided tomorrow with no warning that every customer on the platform is limited to buying at most one item per day, and also external links to Amazon no longer work for guest checkout unless your customer makes an account. How are people defending this? It makes no sense.
This is really all there is to it. I believe I recall reading that Goodreads was Amazon's largest affiliate.
You don't say that in polite circles, do you :) . Also hnlurker is correct, he's been down voted to obscurity, so cannot hit 'reply' to his post.
> The judge's order said Apple could not prohibit developers from providing links and buttons to payment options in their apps that take consumers outside of the App Store - a step that could reduce sales commissions paid to Apple.

IIRC Apple was forced to allow this for dating apps in the Netherlands - but they still charge a 27% commission anyway.

Which is to be expected - the fee is a platform commission which is largely unrelated to the cost of transaction processing.
Personally I'd love to see no more legacy admissions, but realistically there's no legal basis to change that. There's nothing the Supreme Court can do, Congress would have to pass an explicit law against legacy admissions.

The reason affirmative action was struck down is because the are certain federally protected classes of people protected from discrimination -- race, religion, sex, etc. And affirmative action is discriminatory along the race dimension.

But a private university is allowed to discriminate along anything else they want as long as it's a not a protected class. They can discriminate on grades (as they do), SAT score, essays, extracurriculars, athletics, geography, and yes -- legacy.

It's true that legacies are usually whiter relative to the general population, but a lot of factors skew towards racial proportions that are different from the general population (e.g. good grades skew Asian). But as long as the purpose of the discrimination doesn't have racial intent (or intent along another protected class), then no law is being broken. And if the intent of legacies is raising money, then there's no winnable case here. Alas.
It’s impossible to implement std::regex efficiently due to internal but exposed character handling requirements. To the sibling comments about iostream, thank vzeverovich and everyone that worked on fmt and turning it into std::format (edit: accidentally wrote std::fmt initially), which is vastly superior and not dependent on mutable global state.
What a surprise - complacency with bad situations is exactly what I envision when using (most) Microsoft software.
Seems like only available in certain locations.

You can play with the `gl` query parameter in the URL. Yours is for Italy ("it").
It's available in other continental Europe locations like: de, fr, be, es, pt, at, cz, pl. While not yet released for majority English speaking countries (us, ca, uk, au, nz) with the exception of Ireland (ie).

I don't have any insider information even though my employer is Meta. I learned about this release from HN.
Can someone explain what this means? I don’t have a Twitter account:

> Look at owner's own account: 146.4M followers, 94 subscribers to his premium tweets.
There was a Mastodon thread by someone who had decompiled the leaked Android APK for Threads the other day. There were a few strings in there talking about the fediverse and federation with other servers, so it seems like they at least planned to add it at some point.
It's like slower moving Arch, but instead of being freely assembled it's a community mostly ruled by red hatters and a bunch of feel good corporate speak.
The only people who say things like that non-ironically are current-day readers of User Friendly.
Sorry, my language is imprecise. I meant Tim Apple is giving Alito a steak dinner in his personal facilities. That’s clearly not a bribe and to suggest otherwise would be misleading.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/propublica-misleads-its-readers...
Interesting to hear someone articulate this dynamic. I do not believe my father has dementia but there are similarities in regards to “repeat of the same conversations”.

Wish you and your family well.
> Hi, I’m the writer.

I can't be the only one thinking this is pretty phenomenal.
careful who you make fun of, technical debt is technically leverage
Ask HN: Anyone else notice mobile Safari performance degradation since iOS 16.5?
I've got an iPhone 12 mini. Ever since upgrading to iOS 16.5, I've noticed extreme lag in the interface of mobile Safari, most noticeably when opening a new tab (the button in the bottom right). Sometimes I press it and it seems like nothing happens, sometimes it feels like there's something "under" it and I'm clicking that instead (hard to describe). Sometimes I press it and it opens the tab switcher then immediately reverts back to the current page. Main point: it's extremely janky.

I've also noticed that when switching to another tab, the page has been unloaded. This used to happen only when I had 40+ tabs open. But now it happens even with < 10 tabs. The lag when opening a tab also happens regardless of number of open tabs. This lag is happening even with low power mode disabled.

Other parts of the interface lag too, but none are as immediately noticeable as the new tab button. I can't be sure, but I think there's even some lag when typing in this textarea...

EDIT: Suspecting this was due to memory usage, I closed all tabs (including in private browsing session), then closed every backgrounded app (haven't had to do that since iOS9), then did a hard reboot. Performance seems to be okay for now. Still weird, I've never had to manually do that kind of cleanup before.
If you are a weirdo then, so am I. I know quite a few who drink very little. Most just aren't vocal about it. I had 5 servings of alcohol last year. My lack of drinking has been an issue in many of my relationships. People get self conscious when I don't drink.
It hasn't even been an hour. Chill tf out.
Last I checked a tweet isn't a real life cat any more than an electron is.
Good read, but

>This article originally ran in the February 1997 issue of Reader’s Digest.
> "supports" foreign keys but don't enforce it

As in, you can have a sort of 'link' to another table, that not only mignt be null, but might be a value which doesn't exist over there?

What does the 'support' add over just having a column in which you tell yourself (but not your DBMS) you're storing values which correspond to keys in another table?

(You can take it further - s/keys/values in a column/ - many to one relationships without an intermediary table! Amazing! ...more 'NoSQL' than I care to go I think, for almost anything.)
It's still not reached a point where you can just choose high resolutions with no drawbacks.

2048x1536 19" (135ppi) at up to 72Hz was common at reasonable prices in the late 90s if my memory is correct. Although OS scaling sucked and text looked weird due to the shadow mask at that size. 1600x1200 (105ppi) was the sweet spot for me. And actually in my first job in 2004 I had two 20" 1600x1200 (100ppi) LCDs that I recall were reasonably priced and they were nicer overall. This was around the time LCDs became the default choice. Then "HD" became a thing a couple of years later and you are right, for the next ten years virtually all monitors were "widescreen HD", which was 1280x720 if you fell for marketing of the lower-priced units or or 1920x1080 at best. Anything higher was very expensive.

In 2012 the retina macbooks came out and I got a 13(.3)" with 2560x1600 resolution (227ppi). This was the first time for me that LCDs were finally great. But you couldn't get a resolution like that in an external display. So at that time I mostly just didn't use external monitors until 2016 when suddenly 4K 27" (163ppi) became reasonably priced. So I used 2 of those for years and they were good enough but still left me wanting.

Now still to this day, 4K is the max for external monitors at reasonable prices at any size. About 2 years ago I got an M1 macbook and realized it only supported 1 external monitor. I felt like I needed to keep the real estate I was used to and anyway, with the pandemic and WFH, managing multiple monitors with multiple (work and personal) machines sucked. All I could really find at a reasonable price was 32"/4K and 49" ultrawide. I begrudgingly downgraded to a 49" 5120x1440 monitor (109ppi). I will admit that going from 60Hz to 120Hz was nicer than I expected.

So in 2023 my laptop screen is great and has been great for 10+ years but this was my story about how I am still using the same pixel density as I did 25 years ago.
Ok I'm not going to make flamewar over cheese so I'll just say, that I was maybe bit unfair.
I used to be in group 3, then I got an iPhone with 120Hz display and fell into group 1. When you turn on Low Power Mode it restricts the display to 60Hz and it’s extremely noticeable for me now. Luckily I don’t notice the difference for monitors because I don’t have any 120Hz displays yet.
I think we had to use that when importing FDI.h (the CAB-extracting part of winapi) to avoid it bringing more legacy cruft.
There was a great post here recently about automating some of this work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749579
Interesting point, was not familiar with the Org mentioned above. But am tangentially familiar with HHMI and Janelia research campus. Time to go read up on Howard Hughes
> One might surmise that Dell is aware of the issue given the monitor's Mac-inclined target audience however, which makes the lack of mention of it anywhere in marketing materials or documentation feel somewhat dishonest.

Wouldn't be the first time. My previous Dell monitor, the U3818DW, had a bug with its USB-C implementation that only affected Macs (somebody proved via protocol inspection that they were actually implementing part of the protocol wrong; it just didn't manifest on Windows). Their support forums for the issue are full of a single Dell representative whose sole response was to remind all of the Apple users that _technically_, Dell never qualified this monitor for macOS, and it's their fault for not carefully reading the technical documentation before purchasing. (Naturally, many of the reviews on Amazon are of people plugging it into a MacBook Pro.)

Really soured me on the idea of buying a Dell monitor for anything Apple related after that.
It isn't about temperature, it's about sunlight. Norway, despite its material wealth and natural beauty, has one of the world's highest suicide rates.
I imagine they're the ones who keep messing up Reddit's design and making it slower and less usable.
I would have thought that encapsulation hides the way data is processed, stored, and moved around. But the data itself is always available in my experience.
The case in point highlights that this is not a problem specific to online media, it's just made it more obvious.

There is nothing different between how NSDAP whipped up a nation to go on a 6 year rampage across Europe than what's happening now. I've witnessed otherwise reasonable people justify the description of Russians as Orcs as a reasonable dehumanising racial slur in light of the Ukraine Russo conflict.

I like Iain McGilchrist thesis that we seemed that have become overly left brain dominated and so are starting to exhibit an increasing inability to process nuance.
As someone who works in tech in the UK, this is very scary to me.

The government must back down and ideally apologise.

This will have subtle effects on the sector irregardless of what they do now.
I worked at Meta. Maybe I worked at the slowest department, but based on what I saw, if they really built this in half a year, then I'm absolutely positive that a nimble team of four can replicate it in a few weeks at most.
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Racket is kind of its own ecosystem. Guile is much more intended to integrate well with a POSIX-like environment, and the GNU system in particular. I've used it for 25 years or so as a scripting language, where other people might've used Perl or Python.

It's also more easily embeddable than Racket. Many GNU programs, including GNU Make, gdb, and GNU TeXmacs, are scriptable with an embedded Guile runtime.
Wow, yeah, I've never thought about this use case for AI. Honestly seems pretty ideal. A relative of mine afflicted with dementia recently passed, and while they still needed physical care, an AI "person" to bounce questions off of and talk to would have done wonders for them, and saved their carer a lot of stress and effort in a difficult time.
> and uber (ride) is an automatic taxi dispatch, it's ok

Uber's trick was claiming for years that it wasn't actually taxi dispatch so it didn't have to be regulated as such.

Regulatory avoidance/evasion enabled Uber to break into tightly controlled taxi markets.
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See this related front-page item to see how people still don’t understand the hoops necessary to use these APIs correctly:

Using C++23 <stacktrace> to get proper crash logs in C++ programs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36577290
Not any time soon. They way I see it there's no defined path to get to an intelligent AGI. We just don't have the know-how right now. Eventually we might be able to do it since human intelligence evolved from nothing so there's got to be a way to do it artificially.

There is the very minute possibility of emergence, that is the idea that if we unite multiple simple random systems they can create an intelligent system. Given how fast computer systems have become then there might be something there. But that's more like wishful thinking than not.
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My experience working with Windows is that it is saddled with technical debt more than Posix is. Things like filesystem semantics—you can’t safely put your auxiliary functions in aux.c because most programs will treat that as a device rather than an ordinary file. And the locking mechanisms on Windows are crazy—especially when you're doing something more complicated, like opening an Excel spreadsheet on a CIFS volume. Just a couple illustrations. There are a few things that Windows does better than Unix, but there are a lot of things that Unix does better.

The Macintosh basically collapsed under its own technical debt, and the only way Apple got out of it was buying a Posix-like system and writing a compatibility layer for it (and this Posix-like system became OS X). The kernel, xnu, is purportedly a microkernel, but some of the most useful parts of it are the BSD systems that were Frankensteined in.
I see. So you’re positing, essentially, two reasons: 1) stylistically it’s annoying to read broken sentences, and 2) The Economist is, ostensibly, an authoritative source and the reader is assumed to, more or less, just trust that they’re doing their homework - and you are here assuring us that your homework was, in fact, done.

I’m not sure where you’re at, though I suppose it’s not unreasonable to assume the U.K., so this might be my US bias showing … but when I read something and the primary source is missing or there is insufficient citation (especially on a technical topic) I am immediately skeptical of the argument and my null hypothesis becomes that the piece is pushing a narrative. Perhaps that’s just cynical, but I’ve seen this phenomenon so many times where an article says X and doesn’t actually link the law (or court ruling or whatever) and when I go check it on my own it’s almost comically absurd for one to draw the article’s conclusion from the actual primary source.

Of course, I’m not accusing you of doing this at all. Thanks for being a good sport.
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That'd be a start I think. Or at the very least if it was in a room alone there would be something there.
With a lack of ethical rules for supreme court justices, there is, essentially, no "bribery" regardless of what Apple representatives do.
I find it hard to believe anyone wouldn’t notice the difference when comparing side by side.

It may very well not be worth the price, but that’s different.
Have you considered the possibility that many people posting in this thread are sufficiently interested in physical culture to already know about this point of view? Anyone who reads weightlifting forums where steroids are likely to be discussed already encounters this idea on a daily basis.

I get that it's a new concept for you, but your assumption was misplaced.
When I was young, only MS Word and other text editor had orthography and grammar check. IIRC the orthography check was automatic, but for the grammar check I had to press a button, because it was too slow. And neither of them was very good.

Now while I type in the browser, I get automatic orthography and grammar check And gmail even make suggestions to change correct words when a typo transformed the word I wanted into another word that is in the dictionary but makes no sense. And it works even if I mix some sentences in Spanish and sentence in English.

There a re a lot of hidden features of modern software that we take for granted now.
Also, the current Apple Studio Display and Apple XDR Pro Display are both 218 ppi.
Ok, but they're still called that.
My condolences. Looking on the bright side, your manager laid their cards on the table and revealed their competence pretty quickly.
> Hell, it's a win for everyone else, too, because these conditions are breeding grounds for extremely high-impact individuals.

What do you mean exactly by "high-impact"? And is that good impact or bad impact?

The rich are getting richer, and everyone else is treading water at best. I'm not sure how that's a win for everyone?