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New comment by 0_____0 in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

0_____0 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:05:55 +0000

Most blue metros in the US have a bad combination of high labor costs/low labor availability, high regulatory burden, wealthy conservative inhabitants who oppose construction, and working class people who are convinced that construction is gentrification.

I've been racking my brain trying ti figure out what it looks like for US cities to pull out of the housing crisis, and I think it's either going to take about a generation, or there will be some catastrophic event (Great Depression II, WWIII) that changes the political landscape so drastically that nobody can really oppose housing anymore.

New comment by 0_____0 in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

0_____0 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:43:46 +0000

Public housing projects were and sort of still are a thing. Glass Amendment limits the number of units that can be produced but most areas are well below those limits and the larger issue is that there's no budget or political willpower for social housing projects right now.

New comment by 0_____0 in "Animation 10k Starlink Satellites"

0_____0 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:52:37 +0000

Hardware gets a bit easier in some respects when you have unit scale and don't need to make COGS+margin back on the sale. If Ubiquiti sell a base station, half of the unit price is gross margin. If SpaceX sell a Starlink terminal, they don't even have to cover COGS for it to be a good business case, because they're selling the service not the device.

The Starlink terminal is a very cool piece of kit, but it's not nearly as interesting as what they're hucking into LEO, and how they're doing it.

New comment by 0_____0 in "On a Boat"

0_____0 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:41:09 +0000

After all the LLM written or lobotomized^W"polished" writing that gets surfaced here, seeing human writing makes me want to do drugs and fall in love.

New comment by 0_____0 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

0_____0 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:30:15 +0000

devs have really got to start using NSA style naming conventions where they use the Joycean compound with random stuff that sounds cool e.g. BANNANADAIQUIRI or FOXACID.

New comment by 0_____0 in "Have a fucking website"

0_____0 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:09:35 +0000

Thanks, I was actually trying to find this the other day. By trying, I mean I thought about it but wasn't near my phone so I forgot to do it.

New comment by 0_____0 in "Have a fucking website"

0_____0 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:25:29 +0000

looks up latin conjugation chart

fuck this i'll learn mandarin instead

New comment by 0_____0 in "Animation 10k Starlink Satellites"

0_____0 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:19:22 +0000

Beamforming is an old technology though. It's not hard to do, just a pain to do cheaply when you've got a bajillion emitters unless you have custom silicon.

New comment by 0_____0 in "Have a fucking website"

0_____0 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:52:41 +0000

In MX and elsewhere lots of them are just mobile number through Whatsapp specifically. Like they have a phone number but it may be data-only.

New comment by 0_____0 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

0_____0 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:32:24 +0000

1. Synonyms exist in language.

2. You're on a site with a bunch of programmers who regularly use weird words for stuff that already has a name. Reading through HN is wading through a swamp of made up names and tech neologisms, you're just used to it already. I once told a software guy that our team's SWEs had migrated away from React and Node to Stork.JS and Blackadder. He nodded like that meant anything.

3. I like it and you can't stop me.

New comment by 0_____0 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

0_____0 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:48:47 +0000

CAFE regs made USian hugecars relatively profitable, and car makers got USians to demand them via savvy marketing. That's what I reckon anyway.

New comment by 0_____0 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

0_____0 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:46:45 +0000

Birds adapt their song to ambient noise conditions. This paper [1] studies the Pearl River Delta (where Shenzhen is) as a natural experiment. It shows spectral changes in the target species correlating to background noise levels. I haven't looked hard enough to make sure there isn't a study that does find complexity changes but it's certainly clear that noise can affect bird song behavior generally.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235198942...

New comment by 0_____0 in "'It's sweet. It's bitter. It's ours.' The chocolate ritual that binds my family"

0_____0 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:35:24 +0000

I think sometimes people forget that LLMs were trained on text that actual people wrote.

New comment by 0_____0 in "Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data"

0_____0 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:30:12 +0000

At least @tyrellcorp on X Social and see if you can threaten their support AIs with a bad viral story.

New comment by 0_____0 in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)"

0_____0 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:04:31 +0000

> "Stop" is a song by English girl group the Spice Girls from their second studio album, Spiceworld (1997).

New comment by 0_____0 in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

0_____0 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:34:07 +0000

inconvenient for the purposes of recording, sounds like

New comment by 0_____0 in "Small U.S. town, big company. Can it weather the tariff Blizzard? (Digi-Key) (2025)"

0_____0 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:14:17 +0000

If we lost Digikey, Mouser, and AVNET, it would be catastrophic. Entire US engineering divisions would leave for Shenzhen.

New comment by 0_____0 in "Centuries of selective breeding turned wild cabbage into different vegetables"

0_____0 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:40:02 +0000

you are both right of course

but for some reason my fealty to potato does not extend to tomatoes and eggplant quite the same way. i feel toward potatoes sort of how gary Larson feels about cows

New comment by 0_____0 in "Centuries of selective breeding turned wild cabbage into different vegetables"

0_____0 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:09:27 +0000

1990s research at Novartis, not sure how quickly the new cultivars were adopted,.maybe someone else can chime in

New comment by 0_____0 in "Centuries of selective breeding turned wild cabbage into different vegetables"

0_____0 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:59:58 +0000

you have done potatoes a profound insult by not including them in this list