<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mountainriver</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mountainriver</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:16:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mountainriver" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mountainriver in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Well, sorry. It's desirable because it's developing<p>no.... it's not... what an incredibly naive take. Why don't you just leave out every nice small town in a beautiful location. "Who cares about keeping thing beautiful amiright??"</p>
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<p>lol yeah history isn't this, humans are dumb and follow herds to whatever end. Agents will be much more rational</p>
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<p>yes the next five years, and no agent in 3 years will be writing python outside of ML. Except if some fool is directing them otherwise. What benefits does it possibly offer them other than "I think python good"</p>
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<p>>It's fast enough for many use cases. That doesn't mean that there is no room for optimization, but this is far less a deciding factor these days.<p>Everyone says this but its not really true. Every team I've seen do this immediately regrets it when they scale (like at all).<p>>You can do static analysis with Mypy and other tools.<p>Not even remotely the same<p>>There's different mechanisms for running things concurrently in Python. And there's an active effort to remove the GIL. I also have to ask: What is "real" concurrency?<p>Free threads. And yes this is a deal breaker in tons and tons of situations. I have no idea why people are soooo hard up for python</p>
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<p>I feel the same way, I'm constantly cycling sleep meds</p>
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<p>FreeCAD is the worst. Thanks for building this!</p>
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<p>Weed is great for my anger and sleep. I’ve never found as good of a sleep medicine for someone who wakes up too early.<p>I also had debilitating anger in my teens and weed really helped calm that down. I’ve been off it for years at a time and I still can’t get past my anger without it.<p>That said my memory is shit</p>
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<p>We kinda do do this with hybrid mamba transformers</p>
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<p>This thread makes me happy</p>
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<p>That is quite literally what you are implying</p>
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<p>Yes most languages are terrible except the ones that are actually performant and good like Rust.<p>Do you really think AI agents of the future will be coding in Python??? What advantage would that possibly give them? That's the only laughable take here</p>
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<p>> it's performant enough for 99% of use cases<p>My last two companies went all in on python and really regretted it. It's performance and concurrency primitives really hurt as you scale</p>
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<p>Yeah ML is the one of the only spaces I could see it living on, but even then doing it in C++ isn't that much harder for an LLM</p>
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<p>Yeah that's sort of fair today, although we have switched over most of our org to Rust and it hasn't been much of a problem. The LLM can usually explain small parts of code with high accuracy if you are unsure.<p>Overall the switch has been very much loved. Everything is faster and more stable, we haven't seen much of a reduction in output</p>
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<p>What?! It's one of the slowest languages on the planet, it's not type safe, it has not real concurrency.<p>I can't believe people say this with a straight face</p>
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<p>"There is no downside to endless growth" ... lol</p>
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<p>>But the latter point is just plain wrong. Dense housing IMPROVES traffic congestion and shortens commutes, always, everywhere, markedly. And it's for a bleedingly obvious reason: pack people in closer together and they don't have to travel as far to get where they're going. QED.<p>You are conflating things, adding more people to an area increases congestion, period. Having dense housing vs not dense housing is better for congestion IF the people are already there.<p>>What you're imagining is some kind of fantasy hometown, which never increased in population and whose economy never developed. I mean, it's true. Forgotten ghost towns have very little traffic and quirky soulful architecture,<p>It is a highly desirable area, there is no issue with the economy, it will continue to be desirable if we don't destroy it. The "growth always good" crowd is pretty nuts in their views</p>
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<p>Yes there is a cost to things like a bunch of congestion, decrease of natural spaces and generally soulessness. To paint this as only good is an insane position</p>
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<p>We could but it’s not always just “good” to make things dense.<p>My hometown has had a huge push to add more housing to make things more affordable. What happened? Rents went down for a couple years then right back up. Except now the city has a bunch of more soulless condos and is horribly congested.<p>Sometimes preserving things and keeping them nice and simple even if it’s costs a bit of a premium is better.</p>
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<p>Most annoying part of their web app and a really terrible idea.<p>I often just think Gemini is terrible but then it turns out they silently changed the model on me</p>
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