jihadjihad (u/jihadjihad)

jihadjihad commented on An Update on Heroku heroku.com/blog/an-update... · Posted by u/lstoll

jihadjihad · 2 days ago

Heroku (YC W08) was acquired by Salesforce all the way back in 2010 [0], a little over 15 years ago. A lot of people forget that, and assume the acquisition was somewhat recent.

Pretty illuminating reading the thread from 2010, it was big news at the time.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982489

jihadjihad commented on Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware 1password.com/blog/from-m... · Posted by u/pelario

mattstir · 3 days ago

This just seems like the logical consequence of the chosen system to be honest. "Skills" as a concept are much too broad and much too free-form to have any chance of being secure. Security has also been obviously secondary in the OpenClaw saga so far, with users just giving it full permissions to their entire machine and hoping for the best. Hopefully some of this will rekindle ideas that are decades old at this point (you know, considering security and having permission levels and so forth), but I honestly have my doubts.

jihadjihad · 3 days ago

> Security has also been obviously secondary in the OpenClaw saga so far

s/OpenClaw/LLM/g

jihadjihad commented on 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? waspdev.com/articles/2026... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

cmovq · 5 days ago

The mistake was using the "Kibi" prefix. "Kibibyte" just sounds a bit silly when said out loud.

jihadjihad · 5 days ago

"mebi" and "gibi" aren't any better, last one in particular if you say it as "jibby-bytes"

jihadjihad commented on Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules? · Posted by u/blenderob

gwbas1c · 5 days ago

When I was in high school, (early 1990s,) there was a giant one mounted above the blackboard. It was clearly used for instruction in the past, but it looked so cool that no one wanted to remove it.

Every once in awhile a teacher would spend about 10-15 minutes showing how to use it. Everyone would "oooh" and "awww" and then we would all laugh about how we didn't need to use them now that we all had calculators in our pocket that were more powerful than the computers that put people on the moon.

It's always nice to learn about the past so we can appreciate what we have now.

jihadjihad · 5 days ago

> we all had calculators in our pocket that were more powerful than the computers that put people on the moon.

Pencils and slide rules are what got us to the moon, and back to Earth. Pencils and slide rules.

jihadjihad commented on See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments serjaimelannister.github.... · Posted by u/Imustaskforhelp

macintux · 6 days ago

I miss DoreenMichele. She always added thoughtful perspectives.

Looks like she’s actively writing at https://califmichele.blogspot.com/ and https://doreenmichele.blogspot.com/ but has departed HN.

jihadjihad · 5 days ago

Indeed, one of the names I typed into the box for old time's sake, too. She was fairly active on HN when I first joined years ago, and her comments always made for interesting reading that set this site apart.

jihadjihad commented on Rural Americans are trying to hold back the tide of AI wsj.com/politics/policy/t... · Posted by u/rpcope1

Ancapistani · 6 days ago

> If you're not around rural America a lot, it can be hard to believe how deeply, at an existential level, ideas like those conveyed by a Gadsden flag are held.

This neatly encapsulates a big part of what I’ve been trying to say on HN for years: those outside “rural America”/“red states” simply do not understand those inside - and to only a slightly lesser degree, vice-versa.

When we say “Don’t Tread on Me”, it’s largely not a political slogan; it’s a shorthand that represents an entire worldview. When others see that as on par with “Yes we can”, “I can’t breathe”, or “Defund the police”, they’re making a mistake.

What’s seen as politics on the coasts is seen as a direct attack on our culture and way of life in the middle of the country.

As always, I want to be clear and say that I’m neither complaining nor offended here. My fear is that the factions in the US will cross each others’ red lines without even understanding what they’re doing. Historically, that’s been the left doing something the right finds untenable without realizing the consequences. These days the opposite is looking more and more likely.

jihadjihad · 6 days ago

> What’s seen as politics on the coasts is seen as a direct attack on our culture and way of life in the middle of the country.

And the framing of "middle of the country" matters, too. There are many rural parts of New York and California, too, some of which are as deep a shade of red as parts of the South.

jihadjihad commented on Rural Americans are trying to hold back the tide of AI wsj.com/politics/policy/t... · Posted by u/rpcope1

jihadjihad · 6 days ago

If you're not around rural America a lot, it can be hard to believe how deeply, at an existential level, ideas like those conveyed by a Gadsden flag are held. Rural Americans really, really do not like being told what to do, by anyone, regardless of whether the person in power's mascot is an elephant or an ass.

It is not surprising in the least that suits from Washington and execs from Silicon Valley descending upon the land like vultures aren't exactly given a warm welcome from regular folk. Even if electricity prices stayed the same there would be damage done that goes beyond NIMBYism that would need to be fixed.

jihadjihad commented on Two kinds of AI users are emerging martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

benjijay · 7 days ago

> If a data science team modeled something incorrectly in their simulation, who's gonna catch it? Usually nobody. At least not until it's too late. Will you say "this doesn't look plausible" about the output?

I recently watched a demo from a data science guy about the impending proliferation of AI in just about all related fields, his position was highly sceptical but with a "let's make the most of it while we can"

The part that stood out to me which I have repeated to colleagues since, was a demo where the guy fed his tame robot a .csv of price trends for apples and bananas, and asked it to visualise this. Sure enough, out comes a nice looking graph with two jagged lines. Pack it ship it move on..

But then he reveals that, as he wrote the data himself, he knows that both lines should just be an upward trend. Expands the axis labels - the LLM has alphabetized the months but said nothing of it in any of the outputs.

jihadjihad · 6 days ago

Always a good idea to spot check the labels and make sure you've got JFMAMJ..JASON Derulo

jihadjihad commented on We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) web.mit.edu/jemorris/humo... · Posted by u/giancarlostoro

jihadjihad · 10 days ago

A classic. It's like the hacker version of the SR-71 Blackbird speed check story [0]. Every time it comes up, I have to read it.

0: https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac...

jihadjihad commented on The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973 marginalia.nu/weird-ai-cr... · Posted by u/hecanjog

jihadjihad · 10 days ago

I don't recommend expanding the images and looking at people's faces. Something about being mangled in black and white is really disturbing.