Hacker News: atsuzaki

New comment by atsuzaki in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

atsuzaki — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:16:13 +0000

The context that was likely left out due to HN rules is, there are mass protests turned violent in the face of police brutality in several cities. The Indonesian government has a history of blocking/throttling internet access in immediate areas of the unrest to limit coverage.

New comment by atsuzaki in "Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003)"

atsuzaki — Thu, 23 May 2024 23:16:56 +0000

Thanks for that video. I was really confused because I only watched those voice comparison videos that doesn’t sound much like her, but that OpenAI video made me go “wow, that’s definitely Scarlett Johansson”. I get how she’s upset.

New comment by atsuzaki in "Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day"

atsuzaki — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:26:27 +0000

A professor I worked with liked to stop work in the middle of typing something. “As if I fell asleep or passed out while working on it”, he said. And the next morning, kickstart the flow state by doing the very simple task of typing the rest of the unfinished word. Followed by the less simple but still straightforward task of finishing the sentence/line of code. And so on.

New comment by atsuzaki in "Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?"

atsuzaki — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 06:28:00 +0000

Hey, in most cases the application fees are waivable if you write to the application committee explaining that you are in a situation where the fees are a significant barrier.

The rest of the expenses though. Oof. (For americans reading: I paid over $700 just in visa and immigration processing-related fees)

New comment by atsuzaki in "Ask HN: How do you work in Programming language research?"

atsuzaki — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 13:08:11 +0000

> How are all the maintainers/developers of the many programming languages around getting paid? Do you really do all this work in your free time, after having another full time job?

I want to correct the assumption that may have led to this question little; programming language _research_ and programming language _implementation_ are generally two separate jobs requiring separate skillsets (that sometimes may overlap). Which one are you interested in doing? (both?)

New comment by atsuzaki in "Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?"

atsuzaki — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 20:37:53 +0000

Not really. I'm very introverted and not good with strangers, actually in the process of getting an autism diagnosis right now.

But I really enjoy socializing with folks with similar interests (e.g., tech), and I work with a lot of neurodivergent colleagues which puts less of a strain on my social battery as I don't have to be "normal"---we're all weird and it's fine.

Still, my social battery drains quickly nonetheless, I tend to have to leave after hanging out for an hour or two.

New comment by atsuzaki in "Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?"

atsuzaki — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 20:27:15 +0000

...No?

I think people who wants to work from home should be able to. I'm doing hybrid personally as well now, it's great for keeping my chronic pain under control. And I enjoy coming in couple days a week to a quieter office (as lots are doing hybrid/mixed wfh as well).

Internet has conditioned us to think that people can only have extreme beliefs, and any disagreement means their opinion must be the polar extreme opposite of mine. I can simultaneously appreciate opportunities I've got from socializing with people in a fully-WFO setting while also appreciating benefits of WFH ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by atsuzaki in "Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?"

atsuzaki — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 19:42:21 +0000

I scored most (if not all) of my career-defining opportunities from hallway convos after a meeting, or chatting while waiting for coffee to brew, so YMMV.

New comment by atsuzaki in "Japanese explained to programmers"

atsuzaki — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:14:32 +0000

I learned both English and Japanese as third/fourth languages and English grammar does _not_ make sense compared to Asian languages that has comparatively very logical forms, usually with minimal modifiers that doesn't change the entire sentence structure.

I frankly gave up with English grammar and just did whatever feels right.

New comment by atsuzaki in "As unions decline, inequality rises"

atsuzaki — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 15:41:10 +0000

You can see it in the comments of this thread, even.

New comment by atsuzaki in "Ask HN: Printed Computer Science Magazines?"

atsuzaki — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 01:47:00 +0000

IEEE, and also ACM. I'm pretty sure both vendors has ~10 different magazines covering different subtopics. We get copies of Communications of the ACM delivered here.

New comment by atsuzaki in "Surely you're publishing, Mr. Feynman"

atsuzaki — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:44:26 +0000

What you're describing there is called grad school

New comment by atsuzaki in "Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research"

atsuzaki — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 15:55:31 +0000

Shop from local farms, if that's an option for you. All suffering won't be eliminated, of course, but if you want to consume animal products, it's way better IMO to support local farmers who are invested in ethical animal treatment and sustainable practices.

New comment by atsuzaki in "Two Portland delivery companies revolt against Amazon, shut down"

atsuzaki — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:14:51 +0000

Portland resident here, been pissed off with half of my deliveries for a birthday party this weekend getting delayed to next week then saw this article and went OH that's why. Definitely not ground to a halt, but the effects are felt and if it keeps up I'd definitely take my business elsewehre.

New comment by atsuzaki in "Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers"

atsuzaki — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 20:16:44 +0000

This is a pretty good tutorial that I know of: https://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/. The author went on to write a book too, though it's still in progress http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/

New comment by atsuzaki in "Rust-Analyzer Architecture"

atsuzaki — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 22:49:29 +0000

You have to consider that both plugins were pioneered by the same lead developer, and rust-analyzer came as a second system leveraging things learned from the IntelliJ Rust project.

New comment by atsuzaki in "Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help"

atsuzaki — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 23:26:32 +0000

Even though the specs says nothing about it, modern JavaScript is almost always JITted, i.e. V8 that powers Node and Chrome, the rest of the browser js engines

New comment by atsuzaki in "Classic Google Sites shutting down by September 2021"

atsuzaki — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 12:18:08 +0000

This seems to be a case with a lot of companies, too (not just the giants). It's such a shame.

New comment by atsuzaki in "Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19"

atsuzaki — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:10:30 +0000

Their wiki page lists a handful of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding%40home#Examples_of_app...

Do keep in mind that 1. very few drug candidates make it through drug trials (iirc it's something around 1 in 1000), and 2. these trials takes 10+ years, and FAH has been around for only 19 years. It's very likely that a bunch of its results are in trial right now, and we'd only hear about it 10-20 years in the future