Hacker News: jazzyjackson

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls""

jazzyjackson — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:08:46 +0000

Improvements in existing tech can be patented. An RPC call that an AI writes for itself and then executes is a novelty from prior art. Whether it’s non-obvious is up for debate but if it gets past the patent officer that debate happens via lawsuit

New comment by jazzyjackson in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

jazzyjackson — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:13:03 +0000

I decided to learn watchmaking instead

New comment by jazzyjackson in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:41:25 +0000

I don’t understand what pot of money this is coming out of. Has Congress authorized taxpayer money be used for paying energy companies to halt projects?

New comment by jazzyjackson in "New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:41:26 +0000

So how best to develop a kick with good form? YouTube is a better way? I really cannot relate to what you are trying to express. I practiced music by drills, it is not doing the same thing repeatedly, you get a little better each time.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:30:32 +0000

Then you want Lemming, not Luddite. But even then those animals were tossed off a cliff, not blindly following.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:21:24 +0000

No I like to find out how long it will take to go to one place and then another. With driving selected you can add arbitrary waypoints. For public transit you can have one destination only. I suppose it makes sense because they like to tell you via schedule how long it will take, and the map would need to know how long you will stay each location. But when I’m looking I’m just checking if a route exists, not which time I will take the train.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

jazzyjackson — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:14:00 +0000

Can’t you disable ferries same as toll roads?

New comment by jazzyjackson in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

jazzyjackson — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:13:01 +0000

Not to mention “public transit but with a waypoint” which is too advanced for all mobile apps

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

jazzyjackson — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:04:34 +0000

Running a large model on rented GPU is still meaningfully more private than handing your chat logs over to FAGA

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash"

jazzyjackson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:11:50 +0000

Robots should be regarded as extensions of their operator wrt liability. It is illegal to access a computer outside of authorized use already, someone lets a bot make its own plan without watching, hold them accountable

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

jazzyjackson — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:11:22 +0000

> [OpenAI instructing recruits to exfiltrate proprietary data from their current employer] gives them tremendous negotiating leverage

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Waymo in Dallas"

jazzyjackson — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:52:58 +0000

> a self-driving car will never … use the car as a weapon

You are lacking in creativity and vision. With networked autonomous vehicles, all cars can be used as a weapon simultaneously.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

jazzyjackson — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:01:15 +0000

Yes some people teach C this way, for a little while, I don’t forget semicolons as much as people around me later seemed too, may or may not be related

New comment by jazzyjackson in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

jazzyjackson — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:13:55 +0000

Note it doesn't have to, it's just faster to.

Internet Archive scans their books one page at a time keeping the book intact and stored in a warehouse.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Self-host your mail server"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:02:48 +0000

I’m wondering what the most fool proof way to get a message delivered to someone else is. I found out today some SMS messages I sent were silently dropped. Email doesn’t always get delivered. I would hope the closed ecosystems like Signal and Whatsapp are better at this and in any case you need both parties to agree on a channel. I just like email because my identity is maintained even when I switch providers, and nothing else quite like that exists.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Self-host your mail server"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:00:02 +0000

Yes I figure if I’m going to pay someone to resolve a domain to an IP address I might as well pay the same person to operate my mailbox. Having clients that sync the mailbox offline is “local” enough for me.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:49:58 +0000

I think I like this perspective because it points to where regulation might be more usefully applied than “the oracle must be prevented from answering certain question” and more like, “if you handle PII or provide services as a defense contractor, you may not take security advice from an oracle”

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:39:03 +0000

Refurbished iPod is the way try go, I have a 2006 model with new battery and 128GB flash memory, it’s great for leaving plugged in in the car

New comment by jazzyjackson in "A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025)"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:06:43 +0000

Who made you the obscure word police? End of world scenarios are not always Doomsdays, they could include salvation for instance, so it really is not synonymous with eschatology.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir"

jazzyjackson — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:13:46 +0000

No I just thought the parent poster was also unserious