Hacker News: fnfjfk

New comment by fnfjfk in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

fnfjfk — Sun, 11 May 2025 02:18:49 +0000

New comment by fnfjfk in "Amazon’s delivery drones are grounded in College Station, Texas"

fnfjfk — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:36:19 +0000

They are working on that, well... kind of. They somehow convinced the NYC government to allow them to legally operate little trucks in bike lanes. They claim that they are "bikes" (bikes have two wheels, that's what "bi" means, these have four)

https://www.reddit.com/r/NYCbike/comments/1gw1wlj/amazon_box...

New comment by fnfjfk in "Take the Pedals Off the Bike"

fnfjfk — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 02:21:58 +0000

You could technically footjam, just need to show the kids enough BMX or fixed gear videos first...

New comment by fnfjfk in "NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker"

fnfjfk — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:29:48 +0000

Why should everyone pay equally, rather than people that currently store their private property for free on public land in some of the most expensive real estate in the country?

New comment by fnfjfk in "Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi"

fnfjfk — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:57:26 +0000

16% of six-figure earners is the really shocking part here. They make 100k and don’t have a 401k or IRA? What?! How?!

New comment by fnfjfk in "Android XR"

fnfjfk — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:16:51 +0000

Ah TF1, TF2 (err... hmm... that's something else) had a normal campaign, and a very very good one at that.

New comment by fnfjfk in "Android XR"

fnfjfk — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:14:27 +0000

They're complaining about developing software for Google platforms, not working at Google. The platform will get dropped because it no longer has the opportunity to fuel more L6 promos.

I think the obvious notable exception is Android, which is not going anywhere and which now has a fairly delightful development experience with Kotlin and Compose.

New comment by fnfjfk in "American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy"

fnfjfk — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:10:58 +0000

Are you in New York, or are cops crushing candy all day instead of actually doing anything useful a nationwide problem?

New comment by fnfjfk in "Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork"

fnfjfk — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:21:55 +0000

Yes maps.me

New comment by fnfjfk in "Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork"

fnfjfk — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 20:21:57 +0000

I’ve used this app as an offline maps tool for travel for a long time, when I got it I thought it was just a fine OSM client.

Then years later I hear it was running crypto nonsense (what) and was involved in FTX (what), but out of laziness I’m still using the thing because it can’t do any upsells when I am offline anyways.

Any recommendations for a good iOS offline map app that’s just a map app?

New comment by fnfjfk in "Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?"

fnfjfk — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:09:29 +0000

“Unlimited” means there is no limit, so logically it means a few months should be fine. If a few months not fine, I think a reasonable request would be to define the limit and claim that instead of “unlimited”.

I work at place with about 5 work weeks off, which is a lot for the US, and there’s never any question about whether you can use your time or not because the number of days is exactly specified. I like that better than a vague “unlimited” (but not actually) policy.

New comment by fnfjfk in "The death and life of prediction markets at Google"

fnfjfk — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:02:31 +0000

Outside of this Google case, that’s what predictions markets are, they’re for gambling.

The Google case turns out to not be real money, but it’s weird that the article never said that, and it’s weird that the author responded with three points of whataboutism instead of just saying “it wasn’t real money”.

If someone wrote an article that Google set up a roulette wheel in the microkitchen and employees “bet” on it, yes I’d assume they were running an actual casino and find that weird too!

New comment by fnfjfk in "The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google"

fnfjfk — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:40:20 +0000

Well, that explains it. I didn’t see that mentioned anywhere in the article, but maybe I missed it not being real money. I don’t think there’s any legal risk then.

New comment by fnfjfk in "The death and life of prediction markets at Google"

fnfjfk — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:31:45 +0000

1. No, Google isn’t taking actual money bets from their employees.

2. No, Google isn’t taking actual money bets from their employees.

3. What employees do with their vested RSUs isn’t at all the same as hosting an internal gambling platform. Once they are vested, employees own the stock, they can do whatever they want. One could sell them all and use the money to bet on roulette, which I think is obviously gambling, but that’s also obviously not Google hosting a gambling platform internally?

I’m just surprised that Google hosting a platform where employees gambled was… allowed? This isn’t a moral judgement, I’m surprised that Google was operating a gambling platform internally and legal etc. thought that was a good idea.

New comment by fnfjfk in "The death and life of prediction markets at Google"

fnfjfk — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:02:49 +0000

Google hosted multiple internal gambling platforms for employees, and HR, compliance, etc. were okay with that?

New comment by fnfjfk in "Bike Manufacturers Are Making Bikes Less Repairable"

fnfjfk — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:48:51 +0000

Lockring tool for cassette

Various BB tools, also for disc brake lockrings

Chain whip

Bleed kit

You can force a missing link with other tools but the dedicated pliers are really much better

New comment by fnfjfk in "The phone ban has had a big impact on school work"

fnfjfk — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:03:49 +0000

Is your threat model really that people whose wedding you're attending are trying to exploit your phone..?

New comment by fnfjfk in "Amazon ordered a return to the office – but research says they'll backtrack"

fnfjfk — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:06:30 +0000

> I am fully remote and I'll admit that it would probably be better if I was at the office once or twice a week.

Yeah, probably. The thing is, why should a remote worker care? Even if in office is somewhat more productive, how does that benefit the workers? Why should they care? Maybe the stock price goes up a bit? But my impression is it’s way more impacted by market forces or exec decisions than anything a measly IC peon does.

So, if you add “for the company” after “better”… yes. But is it better for the worker? Not really?

New comment by fnfjfk in "Amazon ordered a return to the office – but research says they'll backtrack"

fnfjfk — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:01:13 +0000

Facebook has full time remote, Airbnb too.

New comment by fnfjfk in "Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an office again'"

fnfjfk — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:12:50 +0000

Does that apply in this case? Amazon is moving from 3 days to 5 days in Seattle. If you moved to Montana, that was already a problem.