Hacker News: ASinclair

New comment by ASinclair in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

ASinclair — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:13:43 +0000

There are tariffs on every country, not just China. This isn’t like his first term in office. Can you speak to the impacts of those tariffs?

New comment by ASinclair in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

ASinclair — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:46:10 +0000

Also dealers are one of the most reliable GOP funding sources. The GOP does not like EVs.

New comment by ASinclair in "Changes to Android Open Source Project"

ASinclair — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:29:06 +0000

They are not.

New comment by ASinclair in "Eat Real Food"

ASinclair — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:32:57 +0000

Maybe there’s a miscommunication. I don’t believe that statement. It’s something that RFK Jr believes.

New comment by ASinclair in "Eat Real Food"

ASinclair — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:22:49 +0000

Evidence of what exactly? That RFK Jr. focuses on healthy eating while vilifying vaccines and other established health practices?

New comment by ASinclair in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

ASinclair — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:27:42 +0000

Hopefully this happens so people can stop blaming institutional investors for high home prices once this fails to work. Then maybe we can work on actually building homes.

New comment by ASinclair in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

ASinclair — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:25:07 +0000

> you allow for policy that doesn't maximize the cost of real estate over the interests of the majority of the population.

How do you think homeowners would feel about a policy that doesn't maximize the value of their homes. That's just another way to phrase "maximizing the cost of real estate"?

New comment by ASinclair in "Eat Real Food"

ASinclair — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:58:56 +0000

The problem is the massive emphasis on eating as a part of health. As if eating right is the only thing you need to do to avoid all disease. That putting other substances (e.g. vaccines) in your body will make you unhealthy.

New comment by ASinclair in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

ASinclair — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:26:38 +0000

So your pastor or priest conveniently rejects you if you have a chronic illness.

New comment by ASinclair in "Nano Banana Pro"

ASinclair — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:41:55 +0000

Have some examples?

New comment by ASinclair in "How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise"

ASinclair — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:18:38 +0000

They could try selling their services above cost.

New comment by ASinclair in "Americans can't afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried"

ASinclair — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:42:40 +0000

I live next to a busy city road. The loudest vehicles are motorcycles, cars with expensive, aftermarket exhausts, and large trucks. Not all cheap stuff.

New comment by ASinclair in "US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees"

ASinclair — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:47:00 +0000

Do adults have to fly? Certainly they could walk or swim to their destination.

New comment by ASinclair in "Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver"

ASinclair — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:19:24 +0000

> There are currently multiple posts per day on HN that escalate into debates on LLMs being useful or not.

My main worry is whether they will be useful when priced above actual cost. I worry about becoming depending on these tools only for them to get prohibitively expensive.

New comment by ASinclair in "Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI"

ASinclair — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:31:14 +0000

Training costs keep exploding and several companies are providing frontier models. They'll have to continue shoveling tons of money into training just to stay in place with respect to the competition. So you can't just ignore training costs.

New comment by ASinclair in "Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates"

ASinclair — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:47:05 +0000

It's been a while since I attended one. I remember some of the most interesting talks were the ones I was not particularly interested in from the descriptions. Mostly talks about the history of San Francisco:

* Ghost signs: https://sf.nerdnite.com/2014/06/04/nerd-nite-sf-49/

* Neon signs: https://sf.nerdnite.com/2017/10/11/nerd-nite-sf-89-brain-sci...

* Dairy farming: https://sf.nerdnite.com/2019/08/14/nerd-nite-sf-111-butterfl...

New comment by ASinclair in "Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates"

ASinclair — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 15:28:06 +0000

He also has a YouTube channel. I first saw him speak at SF Nerd Nite which is a speaker series in San Francisco. He’s very entertaining and basically a self taught botanist.

New comment by ASinclair in "An Update on Pytype"

ASinclair — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:23:16 +0000

There is still a team within Google in charge of this space.

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

ASinclair — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:38:09 +0000

> If a $450,000 house in a Chicago suburb is freed up by its owners moving to a $700,000 condo in Seattle, the people who can't afford a house in Seattle don't see the benefit of the condo building and aren't going to buy the house in Chicago

Is the existence of the $700,000 condo the limiting factor for those people moving? If it isn't built would they instead bid up an existing unit in Seattle and put it more out of reach of existing Seattle residents?

New comment by ASinclair in "Claude Code is all you need"

ASinclair — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:44:59 +0000

I'm nearly guilty of this. I've been in industry for a bit over 10 years and I can barely write SQL. That's despite writing a bunch of queries by hand in my undergrad databases course. I almost never deal with databases myself outside of some ad-hoc queries.