Hacker News: whall6

New comment by whall6 in "Show HN: Satellite imagery object detection using text prompts"

whall6 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:37:20 +0000

I have been looking for a way to find pickleball courts near my house. This sounded like the perfect tool! I tried "pickle ball court" using the maximum polygon size (actually just slightly under) and... it didn't work. It gave me a red dashed square around a driveway to what looked like a farm.

Cool concept though.

New comment by whall6 in "We may be facing the dotcom bubble 2.0"

whall6 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:21:52 +0000

Howard Marks just published a memo about this:

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/the-calculus-of...

In Defense of Car-Centered Society

whall6 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:18:29 +0000

Article URL: https://sweatofthebrow.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-defense-of-car-centered-society.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44977543

Points: 25

# Comments: 88

New comment by whall6 in "The Folk Economics of Housing"

whall6 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:50:17 +0000

Is it a crazy mental leap to think that maybe housing was historically mispriced and now we have reached equilibrium?

New comment by whall6 in "The Folk Economics of Housing"

whall6 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:46:01 +0000

Is this housing that they are purchasing just being sat on? I would think that these are being purchased to be rented out (thereby still increasing housing supply), not just held. Homes are depreciating assets.

New comment by whall6 in "The Folk Economics of Housing"

whall6 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:39:37 +0000

What data do you have to support that only hedge funds and smaller investors are purchasing new builds?

New comment by whall6 in "The Folk Economics of Housing"

whall6 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:37:48 +0000

There doesn’t need to be a connection between the purchase and sale events. Any marginal unit of inventory added to a market will place downward pressure on the price of that inventory (i.e., make it more affordable). The reverse is true for a marginal bid for inventory.

The effect is so minimal when you zoom into a single sale of one home and purchase of one condo, but in aggregate this causes real noticeable price movement.

New comment by whall6 in "The Folk Economics of Housing"

whall6 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:32:58 +0000

Curious for the source on the 25% figure if you wouldn’t mind sharing.

New comment by whall6 in "The Folk Economics of Housing"

whall6 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:31:27 +0000

Curious for a source on the sq footage per capita if you wouldn’t mind sharing. That’s very interesting.

Could that also be explained perhaps by the fact that people are willing to live farther away from cities (where land / homes are cheaper and larger) because they only have to work 3 days a week from the office? Or because commuting is less painful with newer cars?

New comment by whall6 in "The internet wants to check your ID"

whall6 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:33:20 +0000

sure, why not? I'm not saying that I personally could, but the entire network of starlink satellites is owned by one person. Interesting to think about the possibilities at the very least

New comment by whall6 in "The internet wants to check your ID"

whall6 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:09:08 +0000

should be pretty easy to do once starlink has full global coverage... could easily circumvent ISPs

New comment by whall6 in "New study offers clues about what makes someone cool"

whall6 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:28:03 +0000

Well put

New comment by whall6 in "New study offers clues about what makes someone cool"

whall6 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:44:41 +0000

Trying to figure out how to be cool by going as far as to write an academic paper is decidedly uncool

New comment by whall6 in "The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon"

whall6 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 21:40:40 +0000

This honestly may as well have been a paid ad by Amazon. It served as a reminder for me that Prime Day is coming up. That reminder was followed up with several extremely weak arguments that Amazon is the pinnacle of evil. Also felt like it was written largely by AI

New comment by whall6 in "Show HN: Jobs by Referral: Find jobs in your LinkedIn network"

whall6 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:44:19 +0000

https://www.pedestal.work/

New comment by whall6 in "I made my VM think it has a CPU fan"

whall6 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:51:14 +0000

That’s interesting because I feel the exact opposite. I know plenty of people that would say something like “smol pp” in real life, but then come to HN and comment like neutered 50 year old wannabe philosophers.

There is no humor allowed on this platform; real life is much more colorful and fun.

New comment by whall6 in "I made my VM think it has a CPU fan"

whall6 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:20:23 +0000

Hasn’t failed yet!

New comment by whall6 in "Engineer creates ad block for the real world with augmented reality glasses"

whall6 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:30:15 +0000

I think there’s a black mirror episode about this?

Case for Electricity Interconnector Between North America and Europe (2024) [pdf]

whall6 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:18:16 +0000

Article URL: https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2024/12/Analysis-Security-and-efficiency-The-case-for-connecting-Europe-and-North-America.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44399887

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by whall6 in "Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout"

whall6 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:37:24 +0000

Interesting that PV efficiency is impacted by peak heat. Why are there so many solar farms in the desert near Las Vegas and in West Texas then? Serious question, would love to know the answer. Are these inefficiencies just now coming to light?