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While I am not a fan of American Exceptionalism, I think this article is more informed by the usual European prejudiced tropes about America than by reality, at least in the parallels between the traditions of rugged individualism from the Old West and the present epidemics of loneliness.

The old Cowboy was based on self-reliance, he was not a loner because he couldn't connect with people, but because his adventures lead him far beyond the spacial confines of society. He was a master of his element but felt at peace and integrated with nature.

The modern loneliness is born out of o alienation, learned hopelessness, lack of concrete agency on one's life, and extreme subjection of the individual to an all-encompassing (some could say even totalitarian) social-economic-cultural system that gives him no other choice than being a loner. Where the cowboy choose to be left alone when he wanted, the modern loner just can't find a place to be him/herself in modern society. It is the tragedy of utter powerlessness.

And it is kind of ironic that this comes from El Pais, because for all the external appearance of happiness and permanent joy that seems to characterize spain for a tourist, Spanish society is also extremely atomized, and behind the facade of an easy life, most upper and middle-class Spaniards I've met there seemed to live a very artificial lifes devoid of any long term meaning or sense of transcendence.
Apple doesn't make money by selling to their target demographic. They make money by convincing buyers that they need a $5,000 monitor to do work that certainly does not require it.

I can bet that most people and companies buying the pro-display XDR don't need that level of color calibration to do their job well. But as long as Apple is the most fashionable brand, they can convince people into thinking that's exactly what they need.
If you are familiar with Go, you're gonna be at home with Zig's standard library in general. `std.io.writer`, `std.io.reader`, `std.io.multiWriter`, etc. are all there and pretty similar to Go's interfaces.
There's no replacement for the Nano. iPhone doesn't cover that use case.
Aggregation effects. You're more likely to switch to a different employer if it doesn't mean moving. Startups will put up an office near a larger company to poach their employees. Etc etc. This is how you get an industry crowded into a single city even if they're not actually transporting physical items around.
it's all a question of what you use it for.

If you use it for a high value application then a high price isn't a barrier. The fundamentals that are shifting here are: (a) Apple is going to push a massive increase in quality (b) Apple is accessing a different market - cashed up professionals

So the real question here is, does the increase in quality get it into a space where new high value applications become viable.

For me, it would only have to be equal or better than using a physical monitor and that would probably justify its value. The fact I could just go anywhere and a full multi-monitor setup with me would be enough.
> My job dictating my friends, romantic attachments and other social connections is incredibly disgusting and dystopian to me. Meaningful social activity has only occurred outside the workplace, to me.

last stats I found is that 43% of marriage come from the workplace so it's most certainly not something to discount that easily
You sound like you live such a rich life, I love it!
I think you are misunderstanding sth. I did read your post. I'm also publishing peer-reviewed research articles related to this. I think I have some good understanding on this.

I was simply saying that I partly disagree with you. And I still do. It's wrong that this should be a surprise to no-one. In fact, I think it is reasonable that it is surprising. It was indeed really unexpected that scaling up such models leads to such behavior.

Now that we have such models, and see this behavior, sure you can say in hindsight, of course it's obvious, nothing unexpected. But this is wrong. It was unexpected to many people.

And saying "it should not have been unexpected", I'm not really sure what you want to say with that. Yes, it would be nice if everyone's prediction are always correct. Obviously that's not the case. Or you are saying you think this is a particular trivial case. I would disagree.

English is not my native language. Maybe I just understood sth wrong.
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This whole thread exists because the public bus system is a failure in the US. How many threads on car dependence has there been on HN? The bus system is used only by the lowest income members of society who can't afford a car. They suffer long transit times, lack of point-to-point mobility, and delays. Sure that "works" to some extent for those who have no other options. And this leads to other effects like decreased health and social mobility. Want to go to college after work to improve your life? Can't because the bus routes take 2x or 3x the time it would in a car to get there. Want to get a checkup for that cough? Again riding the bus takes too much time.

You can't force a top-down solution for public transit with the road system in the US. The great strength of the US road system is point-to-point transportation. Let everyone benefit from that instead of running buses that only the poorest use. Publicly funded rideshare is the way to do this. After a while, the bus routes will naturally appear in the data. This is the bottom-up way to build a bus system.
Do you ever struggle with giving more time to specific friendships/relationships you want to cultivate more, at the expense of others?

I find when I focus on a group, usually it also comes at the expense of focus on the individuals, and the people feel less close. Unless I put a lot of focus on the group over time, then I usually get to know the individuals depthful enough, but not as deep if I had spent that time with just two or three of them instead.
> Egress is also insane for high-rises, but it is still code

That's the point. It's vestigial code that could be loosened to promote housing supply.
logged in to say the exact same thing!
A commuter rail still requires a person to navigate the suburbs to get to the station which requires... cars.

I'm not against public transit. I just understand the reality of the United States. If it helps the poors or minorities with tax dollars we don't do it here.
Greatest decision I ever made was getting a remote gig, leaving the big city, and moving to a small town. There is enough going on here to keep busy, and everyone knows eachother.

Would never dream of raising my kids somewhere like SF. If you want community, go somewhere it's valued. Everyone in the big city is a transient, only there to make money and find love before it's time to head for the suburbs.
You’re not alone so hang in there cause I feel like there’s a wave of others coming!

We need a way to coordinate local mutual aid groups that isn’t just some backwater forum but doesnt just default to a corporate slack or something. I guess Mastodon would be good here?
Agree with you 100%, the next few years are going to be wild WRT people moving out of metro areas. The housing costs in NYC for example haven't returned to 2016 levels and likely won't in the near future.
Gentoo's a rolling release, and if it gets too far behind you're better off just "reinstalling" over it and re-emerging all the programs. The source tarballs and builds continually get pruned.

Ubuntu sometimes handles upgrading better as you can find the archived DVDs even for very ancient versions, but things will break.

CentOS doesn't even bother pretending upgrading is a thing.
"the contours of American society — that emphasis on individualism, that spreading out with impunity over a vast, sometimes outsized landscape"

I hate to be boring enough to ask for citations, but this is a case where we really need them. It reads like something written by a non-American.

In most of American history, people lived close to their families. Certainly in smaller towns, they did. Once there were big cities, it became more common for someone to move away from the family and go to one, but that certainly had nothing whatever to do with "spreading out with impunity over a vast, sometimes outsized landscape." People who "spread out" to the frontier nearly always brought a spouse with them, and often kids as well.

Recently, there certainly has been an increase in one-person households:

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2019/comm/one-...

but even in 1969, it was only 16.9%. I would bet that in the time of The Searchers it was way, way less.
They kind of have that already in malls - which are usually serviced by public transit. I think there's a balance always to be had to not have cities turn into hell scapes in either direction. Cars are in many places essential to avoid being a victim of street crime in this day and age.
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> Even if there was a will (which there is not) it is not clear if there is a way.

In Boston there's both a will and a way. I haven't owned a car for as long as I've lived here, and the bike lanes are so, so much better now than when I first arrived. Neighboring Cambridge now has laws on the books requiring bike lanes to be added any time that a road is rebuilt. The new light-rail extension through Somerville added a bike path alongside most of its length, connecting the paths along the downtown riverside to the Minuteman bikeway that runs 15 miles out to Bedford.

It can be done. But people have to organize and give a fuck.
Apparently to impress the lady-types.
A team I was on decided against Manifold precisely because we wanted to keep up with Java's twice-yearly version updates, and we didn't want a bespoke compiler plugin to lock us to an older version.

I think Manifold is extremely cool, and it does look like they're keeping up with the latest -- but the deep compiler magic it relies on really makes me nervous.
> Humans (a GI) have zero ability to do language modeling.

But perhaps they have a component that has this ability.

I maintain that LLMs are best compared not to the entire human mind/intelligence, but rather to the "inner voice" - that bit that sits between conscious and unconscious, having a part on each site, and uses natural language as an interface to the conscious side.

I.e. imagine someone hooked up electrodes to your brain and was able to eavesdrop on the thoughts that you consciously notice, and which are expressed in natural language. If they had the device print those thoughts out as it "hears" them, I think the output - and changes to it in response to what's going on in and around you - would quite resemble the way LLMs respond to prompts.
As someone who's lived in Manhattan, it's not all a panacea you make it out to be.

Taking the subway is a pain in the butt. If you try to come home when it's after 11pm, you get to wait 30+ min for a train.

When you want to get the groceries, you have to somehow shuffle all that stuff home, either with a cart or just have your hands suffer in the cold, and then have a four-story walk-up.

Sure, it's charming, but living there takes some real grit. By the way, those places are all expensive comparatively.
As a gay person that will probably not end up having a traditional 'family unit' in my lifetime, I question whether or not the family is enough to stave off lonliness. I see a lot of nuclear families that spend what I think is a toxic amount of time with each other. To be able to thrive we need to be a part of a larger community, not just codependent on a spouse. Even worse is when I see people hanging all of their hopes and happiness on a child. When a mother says that their child is their best friend, I don't know if I should worry more for the mother or the child.
The Digital Foundry video on this one is great (as always): https://youtu.be/BLlZBwN_-C4
"Asking rents in Manhattan offices averaged $75.13 per square foot"

I rented a nice office on 25th / Broadway near Madison Square Park back in early 2000s for a few years and it was about $45 per square foot. All utility included.

I'm surprised the average isn't higher.
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The silliest mistake I see wasn't creating suburbs but shoving roads into denser cities. In some cases this was the result of corporate lobbying, like in Los Angeles. Wastes like 1/3 of the space and ruins the enjoyment of living there, so people prefer suburbs instead in most places.

The little success I keep thinking of is downtown Mountain View during/after covid19 lockdowns. They shut down the roads, so people walk around and interact. Some still drive to there and park on the perimeter of that big walking area. If they keep this kind of thing up, making these areas desirable to live in and growing them, things will become more consolidated. Eventually with those fewer "point masses," public transit can go between them. Doesn't make sense currently because there are just too many destinations.

Meanwhile those who really want to live in suburbs and drive around can still do it. They could even drive to the dense areas and park. They'd just be missing out.
Gentoo has a special place in my heart as one of the earliest distros I used and one that I ended up using for many years. Days were spent compiling packages. I'm still fond of the documentation, package system, and init system, among other things, though I have switched to distros that require less effort.

It was also the distro I used when I first started contributing to an OSS project. And it was the reason why that project eventually added filters to limit what CXXFLAGS were used, since we got tired of having to debug weird bugs caused by crazy combinations of GCC flags:

https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Ge...

And yes, I also went through a phase of having tens of options in CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS. Good times.
It's actually possible to own a vehicle without registration at all, though they will side-eye you sometimes.

The most common is "farm implement operated incidentally over a highway".
It's good to know that users' data is now safe, and an attacker would need to apply for a job as a customer support agent at Discord in order to regain the same level of access!
To be even more pedantic, all yeasts ferment throughout the WHOLE column of liquid. Ales are generally made with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and lagers with Saccharomyces pastorianus. So called top cropping was the practice of scooping yeast(barm) off of the top of an open fermentation vessel used for ales. Whereas lagers (lager meaning to store) were fermented cooler in (generally) closed barrels and yeast was harvested from the bottom of an emptied barrel.

However, you can top crop or harvest from the bottom of either type. And furthermore, some historical beers were made with wild yeasts or hybrids of S. cerevisiae ans S. pastorianus and may have fallen into either category.
More like, this ruling is irrelevant in the age of AI. I can take your photo, change the perspective, angle, exposure, etc, and now you'd be hard pressed to prove that I started with your photo. It's just 'transformation', but it's not simple transformation in a way you could prove a connection.
Zig is working on incremental linking, and even hot-code-swapping while your program is running. I would suggest Zig cares more about compilation speed than most other languages, just hasn't gotten there yet.
love when commenters are just immediately dismissive of other people's preferences.

I feel the same as OP. I have a very healthy social life outside of work but full time remote work at home feels isolating and repetitive. My mind does not like the lack of separation between home and work and I've tried every trick in the book. This is also true for most other activities in my life (e.g. I don't like exercising at home vs. a gym).

I don't want to force people to the office, but it gets tiring hearing other people assuming I haven't tried their "solutions"
"Extend and pretend." In some cases, lowering rent would mean defaulting on your bonds. Might as well wait for those bonds to roll over naturally rather than get sued by your bondholders.
Also, see my sibling comment.
I’ve got both, but prefer Pixelmator for most things. While I like the idea of Affinity, I find it quite clunky to use and often find myself looking up the manual.

Pixelmator probably isn’t as fully featured, but for making quick edits it’s excellent. It’s become my go-to image editor and use it multiple times a day.

Plus the AI tools are a bonus. Upscaling isn’t as good as Topaz Gigapixel or something like SwinIR, but it’s extremely handy to have it built in.
"Quinby and Snell held that the destruction of streetcar systems was integral to a larger strategy to push the United States into automobile dependency. Most transit scholars disagree, suggesting that transit system changes were brought about by other factors; economic, social, and political factors such as unrealistic capitalization, fixed fares during inflation, changes in paving and automotive technology, the Great Depression, antitrust action, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, labor unrest, market forces including declining industries' difficulty in attracting capital, rapidly increasing traffic congestion, the Good Roads Movement, urban sprawl, tax policies favoring private vehicle ownership, taxation of fixed infrastructure, franchise repair costs for co-located property, wide diffusion of driving skills, automatic transmission buses, and general enthusiasm for the automobile.[b]

The accuracy of significant elements of Snell's 1974 testimony was challenged in an article published in Transportation Quarterly in 1997 by Cliff Slater.[48]

Recent journalistic revisitings question the idea that GM had a significant impact on the decline of streetcars, suggesting rather that they were setting themselves up to take advantage of the decline as it occurred. Guy Span suggested that Snell and others fell into simplistic conspiracy theory thinking, bordering on paranoid delusions[61] stating,

Clearly, GM waged a war on electric traction. It was indeed an all out assault, but by no means the single reason for the failure of rapid transit. Also, it is just as clear that actions and inactions by government contributed significantly to the elimination of electric traction."[62]"
> What's depressing is visiting developing countries and seeing them start to ape the worst of American car life.

What a patronizing take. Cars are freedom - you can go where you like, when you like, with whom you like, and you can do it without dealing with crowded, noisy, sometimes dangerous buses/trams/subways. It's as true in the developing world as it is here.

As for such things happening in Colombia, it turns out that Colombians like the same things as Americans - they just previously didn't have the money to afford them.

Like, what's the alternative? Developing economies go from grinding poverty to bicycle-centric urban planning utopia by... top-down fiat? How do you propose to stop Colombians from voting with their wallets when they choose to eat at chain restaurants, shop at big box stores and then take the freeway back to their air-conditioned 2000 sq ft houses in the suburbs? "Sorry Mr. Middle Class Colombian, I know you really like McDonalds... but trust us, we're saving you from your own bad choices."
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Are things any different in, say, Dubai?
Wow - I moved to SF, found love, and moved to the suburbs… but I’m still working on that money part :)
I guess the modern equivalent of that would be https://repology.org/

Although the focus is on the version aspect, so descriptions are a bit hidden and I'm not sure they're searchable.
I recently gave the Gentoo docker images a go and was relatively impressed. However, I quickly ran into an error where it told me to do something but that something required reading 80 pages of things I didn't have time to read, but I read them anyway. After reading all of that, I still didn't understand what I was supposed to do.

The docker images are really cool though, I was impressed.
If you haven't heard, there's an official iOS app[1], so that's probably a far more efficient/private alternative to a custom bot.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openai-chatgpt/id6448311069
I think with respect to compute/GPU capability the Apple headset will be vastly superior. One of the major issues with the Quest is the lack of graphics quality that can be brought to the virtual environments. Unless you run it via Link to a PC with a top end GPU it is just a toy. Having VR experiences like the recent Unreal Engine provides is simply orders of magnitude away for Quest in the current state... Thats one major reason that this thing does not take off for FB
While I've never let a Gentoo system go for "2 or 3 years", it's not supposed to be left running like that. If you do your weekly/monthly updates like a normal person, it's generally fine.

Could it be made easier? Sure. But why put the effort into allowing such an anti-behavior?
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I've never been in a fight in my life. I was far from the strongest guy on the team.

The most "pure intellectual" people in my class ended up editing the school paper and being in student government. They might have been made fun of, especially behind their backs, but nobody ever really tore them up.

Like I said, it was a place where you could find your niche and live in it. Not perfect, and if you wanted to have a conflict, you could. But mostly, that didn't happen.
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I don't think the problem is that we can't identify routes that would get a lot of use. It's that people running public transit have been charged with balancing those high-usage routes with service that's meant to serve as a social safety net, so that people aren't left completely without any transit. These are very different goals, and because transit agencies are not typically funded well enough to do both well, they are often in tension.

Jarett Walker writes well about this coverage vs. ridership tradeoff: https://humantransit.org/2018/02/basics-the-ridership-covera...
The anti car evangelism has been going on for 6+ years if you've lived in an urban area. Your point about the non-affected advocating for public transit is 100% true though. I've been dragged for pro car statements before, and the people dragging me are NEVER actually New Yorkers or Manhattanites, they're always either Brooklyn Transplants or people who are spread randomly across the US.

New Yorkers know that working class people have to commute into Manhattan and often save hours driving instead of taking the train. The pro bike keyboard warriors should go to Manhattan during the work day and ask a worker at any downtown Manhattan restaurant how they get there.
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Supporting cars is not the right-wing agenda. Blocking public transit funding and buildouts are.

> Every suburb I have lived in has been walkable for the main items (grocery, bar, getting to public transit).

Every suburb I have ever lived in or been to has not been walkable for any items. No bar, no restaurant, no store, no public transit. There were also no bike lanes nor any sidewalks. I live where I can afford to be within reasonable distance to employment. I don't have control beyond that to decide to live elsewhere.
I will have to try that :)

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