Hacker News: asvitkine

New comment by asvitkine in "The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada"

asvitkine — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:10:51 +0000

Do you never have Philadelphia cream cheese? Just wondering.

New comment by asvitkine in "Claude: System Prompts"

asvitkine — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:14:44 +0000

Considering Eliza was one of the first uses for an "AI" chat bot, the therapist use case seems very foreseeable.

New comment by asvitkine in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

asvitkine — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:47:44 +0000

If the lowest prices cause insolvency for the company, then let your competitors go bankrupt to win in the long run?

New comment by asvitkine in "New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes"

asvitkine — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:36:42 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1fguko2/everyone_say...

New comment by asvitkine in "I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old"

asvitkine — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:28:59 +0000

How was your elementary school experience?

New comment by asvitkine in "DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes"

asvitkine — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:48:44 +0000

For some definition of OK. It would be a big negative change to their lifestyles even if they're still alive.

Also, it assumes they can get to those locations in time from wherever they happen to be.

New comment by asvitkine in "Amazon to close Quebec facilities, insists it's not because of new union"

asvitkine — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:38:47 +0000

Maybe works for the US, but eBay shipping to Canada tend to ridiculously overpriced...

New comment by asvitkine in "Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say"

asvitkine — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:00:15 +0000

Why does your grocery store require a login?

New comment by asvitkine in "The Origins of DS_store (2006)"

asvitkine — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 22:45:05 +0000

Used by malware mostly, I think.

New comment by asvitkine in "Don't store your cucumbers in the fridge (2012)"

asvitkine — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:26:55 +0000

Don't supermarkets go through their produce really quickly so multi-day storage isn't what they're optimizing for?

New comment by asvitkine in "Why Google Takeout is sooo bad"

asvitkine — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:56:26 +0000

People can absolutely get promoted for improving products, even if those products don't make the company money.

The problem is more likely a lack of prioritization at the leadership level.

New comment by asvitkine in "I'm a Former Surgeon General and I Couldn't Believe My $10k Medical Bill"

asvitkine — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:29:28 +0000

Why are randos allowed to bill you directly if you didn't sign a contract with them? Shouldn't anyone working at the hospital be under contract with that hospital? Why did the hospital share your personal information with those people without your explicit consent?

New comment by asvitkine in "Hertz Charging a Tesla Renter for Gas Was Not an Isolated Incident"

asvitkine — Sun, 19 May 2024 23:50:46 +0000

If it's to dispute small charges, the company doesn't need to show up and just accept the loss.

New comment by asvitkine in "Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats"

asvitkine — Sun, 05 May 2024 12:19:12 +0000

> People write docs about stuff they care about but nobody writes docs about the weird error they got once that they needed a workaround for

Google has an internal stackoverflow-style site as well as bug reports and mailing lists that are all preserved for longer than 1-1 chats.

New comment by asvitkine in "Why SQLite Uses Bytecode"

asvitkine — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:10:32 +0000

The main downside is now you're making the bytecode an API which means all future changes need to be backwards compatible.

New comment by asvitkine in "Speeding up C++ build times"

asvitkine — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:58:27 +0000

Except then there's no parallelism since you're only building one file. Ideally you'd split it into N files to take advantage of multiple cores, but then you have to decide how to split it...

New comment by asvitkine in "Did we lose our way in making efficient software?"

asvitkine — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:04:41 +0000

This just sounds like an inefficiency in Google Docs. Native software can also be inefficient, even if it's written in C or asm, if the data structures or algorithms used can't handle certain types of data well. Just in this case, the native software seems to be able to handle that file better.

New comment by asvitkine in "Meta does everything OpenAI should be"

asvitkine — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:23:55 +0000

Got more details about what you're referring to?

For example, I know they have auto-subtitle stuff, but it's pretty ancient tech and I haven't seen it improve much since it was launched and it has still glaring shortcomings, like not being able to split out different people speaking or infer punctuation.

New comment by asvitkine in "Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)"

asvitkine — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 23:46:01 +0000

Did IDEs in 1995 actually support renaming variables? I thought that was a more modern thing like 2000s.

New comment by asvitkine in "Timeline of the xz open source attack"

asvitkine — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:47:43 +0000

Well, test files shouldn't be affecting the actual production binary.

But in practice that's not something that can be enforced for arbitrary projects without those projects having set something up specifically.

For example, the project could track the effect on binary size of the production binary after every PR. But then it still requires a human (or I guess an AI bot?) to notice that the increase would be unexpected.