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rozap commented on Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer nytimes.com/2026/02/10/ny... · Posted by u/leephillips

650 · 20 hours ago

As most people who have worked in engineering at large companies can attest, there are entrenched dinosaurs who have worked themselves up the management chain due to inertia. This is such an example. They are almost always out of their depth technically, and are great at taking credit for the work of others. There are people in this comments section, and online claiming she invented Adobe Shockwave.

This article claims she invented Adobe Shockwave while holding the title of "Director of Program Management".

https://www.govtech.com/workforce/tech-and-gif-pioneer-lisa-...

There are disparate sources online from Facebook and Instagram claiming she invented GIFs.

There are (incorrect) AI summaries when searching her name on Google that claim she invented Adobe Shockwave and GIFs.

rozap · 18 hours ago

Even her Wikipedia page seems to have been edited by her #1 fan. It reads:

   Gelobter enrolled in Brown University in 1987, eventually graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in artificial intelligence and machine learning.[3] Gelobter’s journey was full of resilience and dedication. She often took breaks off school due to financial challenges and she worked as a Teaching Assistant (TA) during school semesters, even when she wasn’t fully enrolled.

What in the world? That's not even remotely close to the tone that wiki articles are supposed to be.

We've all encountered people like this who are good at climbing the chain. Big oof.

rozap commented on America's $1T AI Gamble apricitas.io/p/americas-1... · Posted by u/m-hodges

sarchertech · 2 days ago

I think we need reforms and I’m very much against the accumulation of power that we’ve allowed the billionaire class.

But the French Revolution is nothing to emulate. If you’ve read the history of the French Revolution you know that it quickly moved on from rich parasites to murdering and imprisoning people over minor philosophical differences and real or lack of perceived lack of enthusiasm for continued murder. And it eventually led to global war and attempted global conquest.

rozap · 21 hours ago

My original (admittedly tongue in cheek) comment is less of a value judgement, and more an observation that if the ruling class doesn't effectively walk the tightrope of exploiting while subduing people, then they stand to lose a whole lot.

rozap commented on America's $1T AI Gamble apricitas.io/p/americas-1... · Posted by u/m-hodges

jryan49 · 2 days ago

I love how they say with a straight face that when AI takes over they will finally share all the fruits of capital with us.

rozap · 2 days ago

The French had a tool for this problem.

rozap commented on Amazon cuts 16k jobs reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/DGAP

rozap · 15 days ago

Bröther look at the value of USD.

People are fleeing to gold.

rozap commented on ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01... · Posted by u/JKCalhoun

notepad0x90 · 18 days ago

Don't you at least need to legally migrate to be in medicaid? I thought I had to be a citizen? Are they full in a full on SS mode now?

rozap · 17 days ago

They are targeting undocumented parents of children who are on medicaid, using the medicaid data to build that list.

rozap commented on Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale maggieappleton.com/gastow... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin

skippyboxedhero · 20 days ago

There is an incentive for dishonesty about what AI can and cannot do.

People from OpenAI was saying that GPT2 had achieved AGI. There is a very clear incentive for that statement to be made by people who are not using AI for anything productive.

Even as increasingly bombastic claims are made, it is obvious that the best AI cannot one-shot everything if you are an actual user. And the worst ones: was using Gemini yesterday and it wouldn't stop outputting emojis, was using Grok and it refused to give me a code snippet because it claimed its system prompt forbade this...what can you say?

I don't understand why anyone would want to work on a codebase they didn't understand either. What happens when something goes wrong?

Again though, there is massive financial incentive to make these claims, and some other people will fall along with that because it is good for their career, etc. I have seen this in my own company where senior people are shoehorning this stuff in that they clearly do not actually use or understand (to be clear, this is engineering not management...these are people who definitely should understand but do not).

Great tool, but the 100% vibecoding without looking at the code, for something that you are actually expecting others to use, is a bad idea. Feels more like performance art than actual work. I like jokes, I like coding, room for both but don't confuse the two.

rozap · 19 days ago

> I don't understand why anyone would want to work on a codebase they didn't understand either. What happens when something goes wrong?

It's your coworker's problem. The one who actually understands the big picture and how the system fits into it. They'll deal with it.

rozap commented on American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis kielinstitut.de/publicati... · Posted by u/47282847

wolvoleo · 24 days ago

I'm not American but I don't think tariffs were mentioned in Trump's campaign? It was more the 'stick it to the liberals' and 'drain the swamp' stuff.

He only started that tariff stuff when he took office.

Edit: Clearly I was not following things well enough, sorry for the wrong information.

rozap · 24 days ago

What? He rambled about it all the time. It wasn't coherent but he did always say this is what he was going to do.

rozap commented on Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says bbc.com/news/articles/cly... · Posted by u/1659447091

hshdhdhj4444 · a month ago

Correct. And you could pay for the MCAS to use both sensors which all US airlines did.

Edit: I was misremembering. Both sensors were enabled on all planes and MCAS only used one at a time on all planes.

What was disabled, unless paid for, was software which displayed to the pilots that the 2 sensors were disagreeing, which would immediately have alerted them to what may have been wrong.

> According to Bjorn Fehrm, Aeronautical and Economic Analyst at Leeham News and Analysis, "A major contributor to the ultimate loss of JT610 is the missing AoA DISAGREE display on the pilots' displays."[109] > The software depended on the presence of the visual indicator software, a paid option that was not selected by most airlines.[110] For example, Air Canada, American Airlines and Westjet had purchased the disagree alert, while Air Canada and American Airlines also purchased, in addition, the AoA value indicator, and Lion Air had neither.[111][112] Boeing had determined that the defect was not critical to aircraft safety or operation, and an internal safety review board (SRB) corroborated Boeing's prior assessment and its initial plan to update the aircraft in 2020. Boeing did not disclose the defect to the FAA until November 2018, in the wake of the Lion Air crash.[113][114][115][116] Consequently, Southwest had informed pilots that its entire fleet of MAX 8 aircraft will receive the optional upgrades.[117][118] In March 2019, after the second accident of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing representative told Inc. magazine, "Customers have been informed that AoA Disagree alert will become a standard feature on the 737 MAX. It can be retrofitted on previously delivered airplanes."[119]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...

rozap · a month ago

Wait so this is like the bmw heated seat thing? Where all cars have the heaters but they are only enabled via software if you pay? But in an airplane?

Is that what I'm reading?

rozap commented on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis 404media.co/elite-the-pal... · Posted by u/fajmccain

brightball · a month ago

I'm going to defend the HN "no politics" rule here.

The reason "no politics" zones exist is because there are enough people going out of their way to shout at everybody, everywhere, in every corner of the internet and enough people are tired of it that they flock to...no politics zones. In real life, a person like that confronts you...you remove yourself from the situation, because that person who can't stop shouting at everybody comes across as nuts.

rozap · a month ago

I think what op is getting at is that "no politics" rule is what allowed the frog to boil. So banning political discussion is political in and of itself.

I'd agree with your no politics preference if we were in a functioning society that wasn't actively spiralling towards fascism. I recognize that this line is blurry, and that's exactly the reason why no politics zones exist, there is always someone yelling about fascism. He might be a crazy guy on the corner who yells about everything.

I think the difference here is that there is a big critical mass of people who have recognized that the pillars on which our country sit are being actively sabotaged. It's not that everyone wants to be talking about politics all of a sudden, it's that the frog is finally boiling.

rozap commented on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet state-of-iranblackout.whi... · Posted by u/silencednetizen

ericmay · a month ago

People around the world don't pay taxes to the United States yet protest its actions even when their country isn’t involved. There's no reason you can't do the same.

You're taking the easy way out here instead of engaging with the world head on. You don't want to criticize Iran because you don't live there, yet their actions helped Hamas kill like around 2,000 other innocent people. But you're silent because you don't live there? Are you also silent on Russia invading Ukraine since you don't live in either country? Give me a break. What you and others who have made similar claims have presented are really bad, isolationist-style arguments.

rozap · a month ago

Iran's government is rogue and I don't support them in any sense. They are committing crimes against their own people and funding terrorism elsewhere. The world would be better off if there was a different regime. Therefore, the US should stop selling them weapons, sharing intelligence, and sending them aid. Oh wait...