Everyone is crying the sky is falling because AI is going to degrade the quality of online discourse.
Meanwhile I'm sitting back waiting to finally see intelligent debates again about nuances in the articles between LLMs that are the only ones who will bother to read the actual article and cite it.
I have a feeling that in around 2-3 years I'll want a site like Reddit or HN but where it's the humans who aren't allowed to comment and bring down the quality of discourse.
There’s a huge fixed unclosable signup overlay at the bottom so the viewport is limited. Also the content is not scaled down so you have to pan on two axis. Some text is so long it doesn’t fit in the viewport. Nearly literally unusable.
None (or at least few) of the folks you’re gonna see on HN are going to be in the income bracket where they’re going to be living in East Harlem. It’s about half an hour from the places where things happen, at least, and might as well be an outer borough for most intents and purposes, given transit times, even if it’s technically within the stated geographical limits of Manhattan.
This might have been true 25 years ago, but all of South and East Harlem has been experiencing steady gentrification for the last decade. Most of that is coming from young families, from my experience living in South Harlem.
(There are lots of attractions to the neighborhood: old buildings, pretty side streets, good food, convenient access to museums, and one of the most reliable subway lines in the system.)
Former Harlem resident chiming in here as an additional, concurring datapoint.
I didn't fit the traditional Harlem demographic (ex-FAANG employee, startup founder, etc) but found the neighborhood to have solid access to the rest of Manhattan, an increasing number of amenities, proximity to Central Park, and an overall appealing character compared to the increasingly sterile areas of Manhattan
If/when I move back to NYC I would certainly consider living in Harlem again.
"Where things happen", aka Manhattan? Tbh, Manhattan kinda blows these days. It's more or less a sterile, disneyified, yuppy, consumerist grazing ground from 100th down, with the exception of alphabet city and Chinatown. But even Chinatown's changing, unfortunately. Feels like the old Chinatown Fair shutting down was a signal.
Idk Manhattan has a few solid areas that have held up over the years, but I personally try to avoid it unless my boys and I have a skate session or heading to a museum.
Also, the commute from the boroughs really isn't bad. If you really need to get to Manhattan you're probably looking at 45-50 min on average, which is whatever... unless you live in bumfuck nowhere where there's not a stop within a mile or two.
Point being? It's likely you got friends throughout the boroughs and not just Manhattan, unless you just came here for a job. 45 min one way, 1.5 hrs both ways, is nothing. Especially if it means seeing the people you love.
It's more or less 30 min minimum to get anywhere regardless of location and there are beautiful and interesting spots all over this city, not just Manhattan. Why not explore?
A bunch of the comments here seem to be talking about what's in the headline (a game being realistic + feeling like work) without really noticing some of the broader social commentary in the article (the workaholic — and sort of toxic — culture of tech in China).
Seems like a potentially good game to train oneself in figuring out how to spend investor money though lol.
The thing articles like this miss is the problem is not will there be some set of skills gained on a given path, but what skills are gained (and at what opportunity cost) versus alternatives.
I appreciate how this post gets resubmitted every couple of years. It's been a go-to bookmark for ages now and really does help give some visual intuition for what's happening.
