Hacker News: rkochman

New comment by rkochman in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

rkochman — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:24:47 +0000

Ah, yes, from the state that brought us this official website: https://stopchemtrails.com/

New comment by rkochman in "The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment (2020)"

rkochman — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 04:31:21 +0000

People also choose to lie to the FAA.

New comment by rkochman in "Instead of cheques to fight climate change, billionaires should just pay taxes"

rkochman — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:22:26 +0000

Maybe just tax carbon emissions?

New comment by rkochman in "[dead]"

rkochman — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:15:56 +0000

People focus on the prestige and luxury aspects of private jets, but security and schedule flexibility are often far more important.

New comment by rkochman in "End Amazon’s Surveillance Partnership with Police"

rkochman — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 01:33:55 +0000

They’re talking about divesting generally.

New comment by rkochman in "End Amazon’s Surveillance Partnership with Police"

rkochman — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 01:23:56 +0000

“As we divest from policing…”

They lost me right there.

New comment by rkochman in "Blue Origin has a toxic culture, former and current employees say"

rkochman — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:29:55 +0000

“The other signatories, a majority of whom were engineers, declined to publicly disclose their names because they did not want to jeopardize employment at Blue Origin or harm their prospects in the aerospace industry for other jobs.”

That’s not how signing works.

Wing nearing 100k total drone deliveries

rkochman — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:23:50 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.wing.com/2021/08/logan-australia-drone-delivery-capital.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28318611

Points: 1

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New comment by rkochman in "The B-52’s’ “Rock Lobster” brought John Lennon back to music (2020)"

rkochman — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 02:43:21 +0000

Many of those Capitol Theatre videos are excellent. Talking Heads played there 3 days earlier: https://youtu.be/BFvgWguaC9g

New comment by rkochman in "Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release"

rkochman — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 13:23:04 +0000

It’s not as simple as “the driver can take over if they need to.” In many cases it takes a human too long to recognize the system doing something dangerous and to intervene. This is going to end badly.

California’s Shift from Natural Gas to Solar Is Playing a Role in Blackouts

rkochman — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:32:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/how-californias-shift-from-natural-gas-to-solar-is-playing-a-role-in-rolling-blackouts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375839

Points: 2

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New comment by rkochman in "Apple reports Q3 results"

rkochman — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:58:25 +0000

I don’t think RVs are a good indicator. My wife and I just bought a 32’ Class A motorhome to travel around the country in the fall, since I’m forced to work remotely and the kids will be doing school remotely. If there were no pandemic, we would have never dreamed of buying one.

New comment by rkochman in "Google to keep employees home until summer 2021"

rkochman — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:12:11 +0000

Fellow Googler here. You need a new team.

New comment by rkochman in "With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage"

rkochman — Sun, 24 May 2020 22:30:13 +0000

Zuck can do whatever he thinks is “fair” but ultimately he has to deal with the realities of the labor market, which will change if remote works really catches on.

New comment by rkochman in "With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage"

rkochman — Sun, 24 May 2020 22:26:41 +0000

I’m waiting for this to be framed as a racial equity issue. Are they really going to pay people in Detroit and Atlanta less than people in San Francisco and Seattle for the same job in the same “virtual” location?

New comment by rkochman in "Why the Cessna is such a badass plane (2019)"

rkochman — Thu, 21 May 2020 05:01:08 +0000

I have an RV-10, and it’s amazing. I can take 4 adults at 160kts burning 10gph, it’s easy to handle for a high performance airplane, and it’s such a simple design that maintenance costs are low.

New comment by rkochman in "Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra"

rkochman — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:43:58 +0000

G-Strang! I took this class in the fall of 1999, and I remember thinking it was unusual that every lecture was being recorded. So cool to see it still having an impact 20+ years later.

New comment by rkochman in "SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM"

rkochman — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:17:58 +0000

I used to have XM weather. The data is generally better, and it works on the ground, but I couldn’t justify the $30/mo for the kind of flying I do. ADS-B weather is “good enough”.

New comment by rkochman in "SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM"

rkochman — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:15:51 +0000

You are mistaken https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/pilot/#fisb

New comment by rkochman in "Airbus A320 Family Non-Normal Notes [pdf]"

rkochman — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:46:22 +0000

Regarding a bomb on board: “In the cabin, procedures are laid down for assessing the risks of moving the device and for moving the device to the LRBL at door 2R.”

LRBL is “least risk bomb location” and is apparently required by the FAA: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...