Row houses often become more expensive row houses. It may not be the bulk of "new" housing in DC, but you asked where it happens, and that's where. So, chill.
In any case, gentrification, infamously kicked thousands of families out of projects, subsidized housing, and regular rentals, replacing them with... definitely not affordable housing. Rent has only gone up. And unless you're a builder, the goal is not building, it's only a means to the end of putting people in affordable homes. If building isn't doing that, it's a policy failure, and other avenues need to be pursued.
After Bird Strikes Judge Who Ordered Olive Garden Path Sentence In Case Of Green Walkways Vacated Overturned But Rights And Lands Safely https://xkcd.com/2793/
Then it's actually the immature zig ecosystem that rubbed the author the wrong way, not zig the language itself. Not that the ecosystem isn't important, but IMO a language only truly fails you when it doesn't offer the composability and performance characteristics necessary for your solution.
I'd like write program / run program / debug program to be as easy as it is in roblox. It isn't that easy though, the set of things you need to do it well is extensive. I wouldn't be averse to a new platform, one in which all io is over highly performant queues, but the moras of existing software tied to unix is large, just look at compilers and all the child processes they launch. It was always shims and it will always be shims.
In my experience most people don't care about what the news tells them anywhere near as much as what's going on in their personal lives.
If they've got money and they aren't worried about paying their bills or the price of food or the price of gas and they can afford a nice place to live and can afford to send their kids to college and can take at least one big vacation a year and they're spending their time going out with their friends they aren't losing much sleep over news stories that mention war in Somalia, or some politician's latest scandal, or how deforestation is threatening the habitat of a bunch of animals. They might not like what they hear, but they'll feel pretty happy about their life.
It's when their standard of living declines and they have to cut back to make ends meet and their grandma actually dies because she went outside that people start to get upset.
You know what? Good for Friendster. It can't be worse than what we have now. But, also, good luck with that. Facebook may be terrible (it is definitely terrible), but it's where everybody's friends are. I dunno how you reproduce that network effect today, but maybe they do.
Yeah, I'm aware of warehouses that underreport their interior temperatures so that they don't have to give their employees adequate ventilation and breaks. Amazon in particular.
It's really bad, but it's not quite the same society-pervading incentive for data manipulation.
Just a year ago, Elon Musk was gleefully destroying the US government agency that provides food and medicine for many of the poorest, most desperate people on earth. He was literally tweeting about missing out on great parties to put USAID into the "wood chipper".
The tech overlords don't even want to spend a minuscule percentage of the federal budget helping starving people, even when it benefits the US. They are not going to give us a post-scarcity society.
Indeed these are scary times. I think people are right to be on edge, and I'm sympathetic for anyone who is out of work (I may soon count myself among them). But so were the dot-com crash, the 2008 financial crisis, and Covid-19. "Outsourcing" was the big scare word when I started my career. With AI, things may truly be different this time. But it's early days, and we won't really know for sure how things shake out until we're looking back on the other side.
We spent about 1.5 years on a problem in fluid mechanics and electrokinetics: how does the shape of a charged particle impact its motion in an electric field? After many unsuccessful attempts, a timely suggestion from a colleague pointed us to the right formulation, and Claude became a real collaborator from there. Across five sessions (three in chat and two in Claude Code) spanning about 5 weeks, it helped us work through the math, make all the figures, and draft much of the paper. It also made real mistakes that we had to catch along the way. This post walks through the physics, the long road to get here, and an honest account of how we actually used AI, including where it helped and where it slipped. The preprint is being submitted for peer review.
The Elephant Graveyard video that went viral a while back, that was a comedic troll of Rogan, Musk, Theil, etc (also a half-serious commentary) - had an entertaining sequence at the end about Palantiri/LOTR
In any case, gentrification, infamously kicked thousands of families out of projects, subsidized housing, and regular rentals, replacing them with... definitely not affordable housing. Rent has only gone up. And unless you're a builder, the goal is not building, it's only a means to the end of putting people in affordable homes. If building isn't doing that, it's a policy failure, and other avenues need to be pursued.