skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree; I do think the "old cowboy" trope is closely related to today's loneliness epidemic and disagree with the notion that modern loneliness is rooted on the "lack of concrete agency on one's life".

Source: me. The trope of the hero, the power of will and life as a personal and individual journey is widespread in American culture and its cultural exports (Hollywood, music, etc). Also very widespread, the idea of personal sacrifice to achieve something greater than oneself, and linking masculinity with self-determination, ruggedness, independence and self-made success.

All of these, IMO, are related to the lone cowboy trope. The old lone cowboy is still today considered "sexy". Loneliness is still considered masculine; if you picture a "chad", they're not living with roommates, much less with their parents— they have with their own ability been able to amass economic success to rent a one bedroom and live alone.

I'm from a country where it's not the norm that people move to another city for college, or leave their parent's home at 18. I went to study to the USA, where it was either assumed, or the goal. Of course you're moving out at 18, and trying to land at a college considering as top priority your story of personal challenge and protagonist-style achievement. A last priority tends to be being close to family. Many try to avoid it.

Same work-wise. You go where the best career prospects are, or where you think it'd be "cool" to live. Often, further down the list of priorities is being close to your family, or sticking with your friends.

I'd call this the opposite to "lacking agency on one's life". It's the opposite, you're told you've got complete agency of your life, and if you let others influence it away from maximizing your "success", you're wasting it for the sake of others. I do agree with the idea that this is "extreme subjection of the individual to an all-encompassing social-economic-cultural system" though— one that whose idealization of individualism gave us the lone cowboy trope, and in turn feeds off it.
If I was going to do it... I'd definitely hook in through non-battery-powered IOT devices. Something like a smart TV or various other home security stuff. The TV seems ideal, you have non-trivial compute there so you could do some local speech-to-text and keyword matching, then just periodically phone home with tiny bandwidth usage; that's enough to associate IPs to interests, and then that dataset doesn't even have to look that creepy at the surface-level (you wouldn't tell many people where you got it exactly) when you sell it on to ad networks...

Sneaky apps would be another source, obviously the phone OS/computer vendors wouldn't want this, but I imagine there's some cat and mouse. It's just a new version of browser toolbars, not something hard to imagine some unscrupulous 3rd party data collection company building.

I definitely wouldn't expect Facebook or Google to be doing it directly.
Every culture seems to mythologize a key part of its history and it becomes core to its culture and identity. For the US, its a combination of the American Revolution but, but importantly (IMHO), the Wild West and homesteading by which the US colonized West. It anti-establishment. The American Revolution spirit is part of that mythology. The article mentions this with the "rugged individualist" but doesn't really capture how pervasive that is.

So many (most?) Americans want a "homestead". It's why it's illegal to build anything but single-family homes ("SFHs") in the vast majority of the country. The automobile was about the worst thing to happen here because it enabled this suburban expansion.

Mixed-use and higher density living fell by the wayside. People live in their SFH bubbles. The car allows you to travel in a bubble, ignorant of, oblivious to and disconnected from the world around you. Living in a city forces you to deal with people in a way most Americans don't have to and don't want to. That interaction leads to empathy and that lack of empathy is such a huge problem today.

While I'm a big fan of remote work wherever possible, I think it'll actually make this worse because a bunch of people who are forced to deal with other people will be able to move to 15 acres in the middle of Tennessee and never have to deal with anyone outside of their family ever again.

We have no so-called "third places" in this environment. Society is utterly car dependent, which is particularly bad for the elderly, poor, disabled and children as being unable to drive is severely limiting.

If that wasn't bad enough, we're making this worse by making housing a commodity. Successive governments seek to make sure housing prices only go up to the point where increasingly more people simply cannot afford a roof over their heads. Thus begins a cycle of living in their cars before finally losing their cars and becoming truly homeless. It is unbelievably shortsighted and cruel.
As someone who just got back from a two-week vacation in Italy, I couldn't agree more. We did sightseeing, groceries, ate out, and travelled extensively without using a car. Public transport and walking made everything easy. It's a failure of imagination in the U.S.
Because the comment they are replying to says everything is within a 3-15 minute drive.

(I'll extend it to a ¼—15 minute walk. I happen to live above a kiosk, it is nearer than the car in the basement.)
Make sure to take the Rail Runner down to Albuquerque. Our buses are free, and we have new Rapid Transit buses that go down the length of Central Ave.
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This looks surprisingly nice, which is a high bar to clear when it comes to my opinion of new config file formats.

Am I understanding correctly that this basically adds a type system to TOML? Have you considered calling it TypeTOML and making it a superset of TOML? (Maybe this is covered in the readme which I only skimmed.)

It would be cool if I could rename `config.toml` to `config.ttoml` and add types as I need them, similarly to how I can rename `script.js` to `script.ts` for iterative adoption of TypeScript. Although obviously this would require the consuming code to implement the Jesth (TypeTOML?:)) parsing, which would maybe defeat the point of iteratively adopting it (why bother with partial compatibility then?). Perhaps you could make it a _compatible_ superset, with types implemented using TOML comments so that existing TOML parsers can parse an (untyped) structure from a Jesth file by ignoring the comments, while Jesth can parse a typed structure from the same file.
> It may be more feasible to sell $3000 smartphones than to sell VR headsets at this price.

Sure, now it is. But what about when the iPhone was first introduced? It didn't cost anywhere near this much money. For a new product category such as this it makes sense to start out with a cheap product so that as many people adopt it as possible, then you can begin introducing more expensive versions when you have the apps ecosystem to support it.
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Isn't the Acela the big exception to that rule? And it just happens to run between the very two cities in the sentence I quoted, and still slower than air travel.
> Personally I don't think this case has clarified "fair use" one bit. All it does is add more confusion into the mix.

The Roberts Court in a nutshell. At least they made a ruling. Versus slipping this case thru the emergency shadow docket.
And to some extent that freedom and opportunity scales with the size of the city.

I don't think I've ever felt as liberated as I did while living in Tokyo, where everybody is a number and if you want to check out for a bit and steer clear of your usual circles, it's easy to do so. At the same time though, for practically anything I could possibly imagine wanting to do, there were people I could seek out to do it with.
Colombia has some astonishingly beautiful natural settings.

Surely you're not suffering from an inability to visualize vacationing outside of a city?
Cars are not and cannot go silent. Most of their noise comes from tires. Stand near a highway and pay attention to specifically where the noise comes from. It's primarily not the engines.

Trains already exist. They are proven technology. Smart cars have proven to be difficult to make safely. Smart cars will still be less efficient for moving lots of people than trains.

It's not just the cars. It's also the land use. All that extra pavement and other infrastructure for all the low-density land patterns cars necessitate is resource intensive to build and maintain.

This is just like lab grown meat. People think technology that will hit the market at a competitive price point in some indeterminate amount of time will save us from existential problems that are already manifesting. And that technological optimism is interfering with the development of the needed level of urgency.
How is photomator different from pixelmator (which I own and paid for)?

Insaw this page but am confused. https://www.pixelmator.com/compare/

The copy on their website does not address my confusion.

Is photomator a completely new tool? Or an evolution?

I see it does not have layers? What does this mean for my process? Do I now need both?!
Hi! I really like your work, and I've learned a lot from your code ;)

I totally agree that we need more real-world datasets to make better benchmarks and avoid 'overfitting'. It'd be nice to have benchmarks for rich text.

I've also noticed that certain scenarios, like drawing, table editing, and whiteboard editing, aren't well covered. What are your thoughts on this?
The car-based world was supposed to work on suburban houses and out-of-town office parks - no expensive centralised land in a hub-and-spoke model, more like a grid.

But that kind of office park and lifestyle pretty much sucks. So I don't think city centres are in any danger. Turns out they're a useful way of organising socially even if they're not where the offices are.
There are a few companies doing audio dramas. The largest company I know of is Big Finish, which does completely new stories in existing settings in co-ordination with rights holders. They have a large number of Doctor Who stories, and at least a few Pathfinder RPG stories. The production quality is very high, including sound effects and hiring some of the Doctor Who actors to voice their characters in the audio drama, but the prices are also quite high for the length of content. Podcasts like Welcome to Night Vale (which has book adaptations) also come to mind.

There are also a few audio books where the audio book is clearly superior to the book. The audiobook version of Brandi Carlile's memoir contains almost 2 hours of music in addition to the entire text of the printed book.

That said, there's also value in making texts accessible to an audience that has difficulty reading. I love watching recorded plays that I'll never get the chance to see in person. Granted, the reasons plays are inaccessible (limited venues and times) are quite different from the reasons books are inaccessible (dyslexia and sight issues, for example), but it's still great to be able to share cultural works with people who have different accessibility requirements.
Eh? I thought we cleared this up?

The main subs (e.g. the most popular ones) ARE policed by people who also police hundreds of other subs, right? That was what I meant (and indeed what I wrote). I'm not actually sure what you think I wrote any more...
> The thing is that today most people in the US under the age of 60 grew up in cars

Most of the people in the US under the age of 100 grew up in cars.
but that doesn't represent cannibalization, they didn't introduce a product that competes in that niche you're talking about

but if you're going to carry a phone anyway, like digital handheld cameras, you don't need an extra device on top of your phone
I have never had a car. I never grew up with easy access to a vehicle throughout my entire life and even now I do not have one.

This addiction is wholly alien to me. Cars are luxuries to me. I live in a city 1.5M people and the city is not a walking city imo, and takes 2h+ to get across the city.

I do not travel the entire city unless necessary, and instead I spend most of my time in 1/4 of the city. I bike, scooter, walk, skateboard and generally I don't miss the vehicle.

there are two exceptions. Moving into a new house, and going camping or hiking. Cars are unnecessary for the rest of my lifestyle.

it would only be a negative in many ways - with the costs, the insurance, the parking, the maintenance, the oil changes, the collisions etc. again...going out of the city ...and moving.
Except pgx recommends using their native interface, not database/sql, for performance and extra features [0], so it's not that simple in practice.

[0]: https://github.com/jackc/pgx#choosing-between-the-pgx-and-da...
> What about Pixelmator Pro?
> Together with the launch of Photomator for Mac, we’ve also released an update to Pixelmator Pro with major improvements to Photomator document support. Using the Edit with Pixelmator Pro feature, you can quickly open an edited photo in Pixelmator Pro with all the nondestructive changes fully preserved and visible. This makes it super easy to round-trip between the apps – for example, you can edit a photo, then send it to Pixelmator Pro to add some text, shapes, paint on it, and more.

> If you’d like to check out the differences between Photomator and Pixelmator Pro, you can head over to our Compare page [0] to see a side-by-side comparison and find out whether you need one or the other (or both!) for your specific workflow.

[0] https://www.pixelmator.com/compare/
Sometimes I imagine an alien visiting Earth (America) for the first time and assuming cars enslaved humanity to force us to build convenient paths for them and harvest their food and bring it to convenient locations. I don’t see a practical difference.
Maybe you should move to the moon then, because you either have density that allows you to enjoy nice services and comforts or you live in the boonies where you need a car and perpetuate the inefficient consumption of resources.
Violent crime in the US was steadily falling since the early 1990s but has risen since 2014, with a hiatus during lockdowns. [1]

Violent crime is more prevalent in urban areas of the US than in rural areas [2].

[1] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12281

[2] https://www.city-journal.org/article/criminal-neglect#:~:tex....
So prioritize e-bikes or scooters.
You must be able to start the subscription from inside the app:

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I just want to say Bevy is great! Thanks for building and maintaining such a cool project.
It's not patronizing.
Seeing people make mistakes (what you believe to be mistakes!) can be sad.

> without dealing with crowded, noisy, sometimes dangerous buses

Yes because cars are neither noisy or dangerous nor do the occupy any space in cities.

> Like, what's the alternative?

There are alternatives to building very car centric infrastructure.

> How do you propose to stop Colombians

He didn't.
The slowdown of x86 processor progress was caused by the very slow adoption by Intel of new fab processes. 14nm CPUs came out in 2014, 10nm mobile only (Tiger Lake) came out in the end of 2020. Almost three years later still no commercial CPUs by Intel on 7nm.

They used to be a lot faster, 22nm CPUs (Ivy Bridge) came out in 2012 - so around 2 years to go from 22 to 14.
Yup, I read it, and I read it months ago too, it's come up a few times.

What I'm saying is that it's absolutely possible to quickly and efficiently say those quality thoughts that springs to mind, in a respectful manner. And yes, it is a skill people should learn because it gives you a superset of advantages compared to if you don't. You can talk to a wider slice of people, and learn more from them as well. It's not very time-consuming or laborious, either. If I'm able to communicate my thoughts to you in a respectful manner, why would I change to be brutal about it? Once you know both, you tend to see that the brutality, aside from its other disadvantages, is simply superfluous.
> It could be argued that so many problems of American life - weight gain, loneliness, fracturing of the social fabric - stem from how we've isolated ourselves in unwalkable suburbs, where there's no spontaneous social interaction because everyone's always in a car, and where our only exercise is the walk from the parking lot to our desk.

It can be argued but would be false as other societies have more of those but have less car users.
> comically cagey [...] distrust them

The less-than-transparent approach to specs has bothered me as well. But, at least as of a few years ago, their primary market was China, followed by SK and Japan. And was largely media consumption on phones. With competitors that would spin a wider fov, or more distant depth of focus, even with lower resolution, as "we're an N inch TV, not a mere M inch!". So, I've tagged it as culture mismatch, and consumer vs tiny tech. Several things they could have done differently, but unicorn dreams.

Compared with my 15 inch laptop, the glasses too are 1080p, visually about ~50% wider/higher, and ~2 meters out instead of ~half. I might be using it now, if only for posture, but for having diy kludged the eyeglass lens snapons. Face comfort/fit... can be an issue. Folks who live in a one-screen tiling window manager, or in terminals, might use it as a simple monitor. Using a magnetic USB adapter, it's trivially snap-on/off.
Question is: Which big business (in IT)?
Docker Desktop: $84-132/yr

Parallels Desktop Pro (no resource limitations): $120/yr

OrbStack: $96/yr

Seems very reasonable, especially for a tool that does most of what Docker Desktop and Parallels do combined (but better in most cases), and it'll only improve over time.
I just tried this on the latest Yuzu build publicly available. Works great! So much nicer to play on my Steam Deck rather than my switch!
I would blame that motif mostly on the nature of episodic storytelling - books, comics, radio plays, television,etc, than something fundamental about American culture. It's necessary to move the character from one place to the next to tell fully encapsulated stories that can easily be serialized out of order.

And thematically, it doesn't even apply to Superman or many superhero stories (maybe the Hulk.) Superman lives in Metropolis. Batman lives in Gotham. Spider Man is a quintessentially New York hero, he's a landmark. These heroes are all part of their specific communities.
OK, but lets start with the astroturfed Republican funded fakes:

https://public.substack.com/p/momentum-grows-to-save-the-nor...

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1154867064/solar-power-misinf...
> Many workers have tasted the freedom of no commute, or at least a pleasant walk/bike commute to a nearby coworking space. They don't want to go back, and like myself they will reject any job which has a firm requirement for such.

I assume some many continue to exist but employees will also have to get used to large pay cuts if that's a hard requirement for them.

> As prices for city apartments increase dramatically, people lose interest in living in those cities. Better to live someplace pleasant and less expensive

No one wants to live there too many people live there......
Yes, these are all upper-division courses, at least in the context of American higher education. You may be better off looking into inexpensive options for completing a bachelor’s degree in computer science, such as online education, and seeing if you could test out of some of the intro-level CS courses. Unfortunately I don’t know if any specific programs off hand.
Oldest US agricultural plots go digital: 130 years of data now online
> just have your hands suffer in the cold

Ever heard of gloves?
No idea about Boston, but in Copenhagen the result is a family probably owns one car for these trips, rather than two.
In many European cities, you can just walk to a grocery store a few blocks away, and just go every day or two, picking up a few items each time.

You only need one bag, so it’s not a burden at all. Worst case, it’s incredibly easy to add a basket to a bike (or mobility scooter), so you can put your day’s groceries in there.

And as an added benefit of density, grocery stores are more efficient. There is a “general” one with all of the basics — fruit and veggies, cereal, meat, pasta, basic sauces, breads, convenience foods. Those are everywhere. Then if you go a little further, you’ll find specialty stores with “asian foods” or others, which you may not use as often but can get some rarer things there.
How is a Lite limited? My understanding is it's an ESP Box without touch/stand, but otherwise the same. Not quite sure why the Box retails for 28% more

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-S3-BOX_video
I still have nightmares about building OpenOffice.

And yeah, oh boy, KDE. The only half-decent (actually worked, didn't glitch out or crash constantly, didn't assume you had memorized all the switches for the equivalent command-line tools, actually had all the features that anyone who used such programs would have called MVP-tier) GUI CD burning program on Linux in the early to mid '00s was a KDE program, (K3B, I think it was called?) and it'd drag in half of KDE if you installed it, so, would take hours to compile. Ugh. Here I am just wanting to mostly use Windowmaker and some GTK programs, and I've gotta compile kde-libs because I burn music CDs or isos sometimes.
How do you transport the groceries? I feel like this is my only problem, 90% of the reason why I need a car. I would be unwilling to use some kind of cargo bike in the winter.
Then in the US you add health care costs on top of taxes, and the overall burden is pretty high.
Sure and mud huts were there way longer than any kind of office but neither this or that is relevant now.

35 year is almost entirety of the working age if you started working after uni
It always startles me a little to realize that Andy Warhol died in 1987 and was apparently producing work late in his life. I tend to think of him as belonging to the 60s and early 70s so the idea that he would have done a painting of Prince seems odd. But then, there are a number of artists whose death is later than I always imagine, like Tennessee Williams dying in 1983. He’d only been dead a year when I first read his plays in my high school English class, and I thought he was part of the long-dead canon of American writers.
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Yep, this is also my interpretation of the phrase.

I best equated it to "usable" since I agree it's "not quite good".
Yep. I either do it by bike for the big weekly purchase or go to the nearby store (5 minute walk - doable even in the dead of Canadian winter) for smaller everyday stuff.
I guess it depends on how much bulk you are buying at once, but most bikes are compatible with a basket of some kind. A bike trailer could also be an option.

In the Netherlands you'll see Bakfiets/cargo bikes. https://www.bakfiets.com/
You can't tell me how I function. I'm def learning new neat tricks asking things from ChatGTP. I'm 100% sure if you paste your bash scripts in there and ask for suggestion you'll learn too
> “You didn’t even read it” is not the strongest plausible interpretation of that reply nor assumes good faith.

Really? Did you read the last paragraph of my post that they were responding to? Can you explain that?
The headline is erroneous and flame worthy. There is without question an issue with loneliness in the world (not just the USl but it has nothing to do with what is actually labeled the"American Dream" (the ability to put in effort and succeed). There are plenty of people who spend time alone without being lonely.