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this is good, hn's frontpage is sort of tiresome lately
Some criminal statute investigations are on hold, many of them are cases adjacent to giant stacks of cash
Re:Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:28PM (#49837617)
multi level security defenses used to be the way, but I don't think there's a vibe coded version so openai might not have been aware of what to do here.
Re:Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:21PM (#49837539)
I use gemini safely every day and have yet to accidently commit a felony despite all the zero days that exist.
Re:Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents" on Thursday September 24, 2026 @07:52AM (#49829370)
Wierd, I just recently read this and mysteriously I have decided to become completely pro-AI in the public sphere. I wonder if there's a connection?
Obviously we shouldn't like this but, I'm thinking however that both are still legally ok strictly speaking?
Re:Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:05AM (#49816396)
What we need is a low level but constant drumbeat against openai in general. In general the AI situation is overleveraged and underpoliced, with the occasional hints of AI gone wild. If openai were to just be left to die, we could let that financial mess unroll and bail out the leftovers, I don't like bailouts anymore than the next guy but with this administration its almost a guarantee if things go south because this adminstration can charge administrative fees of maybe $20-30 billion (which goes to trump), get Sam Altman to serve one or two years in a cushy resort type fed place for the hugging face hacking and put openai's processes on github as a premium feature, say $10000 a month to access (which again goes to trump).

I know I know, why are we giving money to trump? Its because he's going to take it anyways so can't we at least apply some window dressing?

I thought gambas was interesting but I didn't do much with it.
One fear I saw manifest in a job was before AI, and an associate was doing a screen for a request in dot net and it let the user read the record, edit the record and write the record. Last person to write the record won of course.

At this tier of small time company IT, I am hoping that AI will actually improve the quality of code, because people who write racey nolock code that occasionally "drops a few records" are probably hopefully not posting their code to forums or alternatively getting roasted to pieces if they do so its my hope they are only represented in training data as "what not to do."

that website is a p-i-g pig!
Re:Grok 4.7 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:30AM (#49799044)
yeah I see this in these threads, I'm guessing the user prompts are the actual wildcard, it has been for my use thats for sure. edit: I wonder if gemini is somehow training me to like it more lol
Re:Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:33AM (#49785430)
yeah I don't like this "definition", I fully agree that the technology is the issue, but the "badness" of it is irrelevant. In my opinion giving kids unfettered access is the problem. Lockdown tcp/ip and have whitelisted apps and sites for kids at the very most, but I just don't understand the drive to have kids on the internet in general, it seems like a recipe for disaster for the kid and seems abusive, like giving them alcohol or something.

I remember the ol "family computer", the kid isn't going to go hunt porn with their parents sitting in the same room, and giving kids these 24x7 smartphones, especially unsupervised, yeah I don't get it. Yes, obviously if a parent trusts their kid but it seems like the entire tech world is being coerced into unpaid babysitting commitments lol

Re:Hacking OpenAI on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:37AM (#49751256)
I like the thing that, when cyber crimes get committed we can now blame it on AI. Think of the possibilities! Also I'm looking for a job at any AI firm, minimum wage is fine.
Re:Hacking OpenAI on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:34AM (#49751237)
yeah me too on that. I can literally hear the bailouts getting stacked right now too haha
Re:Hacking OpenAI on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:32AM (#49751217)
Its my understanding that rust just addresses memory safety, and it all falls apart at the first mention of "unsafe" or whatever the keyword is, not to mention the supply chain thing with the crates. Obviously AI makes it all moot because thats where the entire theory of basic security gets thrown out the window lol just chat with facebooks robot if you want someone elses instagram account amirite?
Re:The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:25PM (#49748671)
too many moving parts lol
Re:The American Age Is Over on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:21PM (#49733866)
Yes but if Bush Sr listened to his wife, and additionally, his wife loved him enough to not leave him, thats something right? Or do you think someone with Barbara Bush's elevated love of america lost that love long enough to marry Bush Sr given that there's a theory that he was a bad person too?

I still offer the alternate theory that Bush Sr. was indeed a pause in the GOP's descent into the current realm of evil and contempt for the population of our country. Hell, I read trump doesn't even like his own voters and that rings so true haha

I don't believe that a pure neural network can currently abide by the rules of chess, even with unreasonable amounts of training. Do you have a counter example? I never mind having beliefs challenged with facts lol

edit: I think you could provide an AI with a service or skill that asks "is this move legal" but given all the overhead for llms or whatever to call a "legal move" service external to its process, well then you aren't really searching the tree very efficiently lol.

However if you just let a neural network score boards and the neural network is in the same process well then I think thats the working solution for using neural networks in chess. The net does not need to score all boards either, simple value based heuristics can obviously provide a preliminary list of good boards (moves) at a certain depth or ply and then select the move that produces the board that the neural net scores highest. I kinda sorta think thats whats done today but as usual I could be full of it lol

I'd like to contribute my amateur hour entry into this thread, although I did administer and develop mssql stuff for awhile.

sure optimizations based on stats, but the stats are the wildcard, in my experience query plans can change suddenly.

Queries are translated into plans according to statistics. However the transforms will be deterministic and should only change one valid plan to another. I could very easily see a neural network manipulate transforms the same way the current programming does, its just that the neural networks are by nature really nicely suitable because the "decisions" are based on training, and this training can be closed world type things like the ai assists that chess engines are now getting. Obviously ai still can't play chess but apparently its very good at ranking board positions just by developing that much statistical info because its training comes not from reading the web, but playing a gazzilian games against itself in a "closed" chess world of its own.

I'm thinking that the ai does "this legal transform of the query plan should be applied to this pattern of data (statistics, cardinality, etc)" simply because the ai encountered it in closed world training, much like the chess thing.

Just a theory tho feel free to correct!

Re:The American Age Is Over on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:53PM (#49732032)
Yeah, Buffet is right, the trend has been downward, although I think Bush Sr. might have been the exception. And I do agree that the American age is ending.

With trump tho, it just seems worse. Course the only thing I have to go on is evidence and "walk like a duck-isms" but with Bush jr and before, it seemed like these guys at least appeared patrotic and they didn't look so malignantly treasonous and I think they put forth the idea that while they were conservative, at least the pretense was that they honored the office and the constitution. so since that is gone the progress toward national decline now seems to be a deliberate operation on behalf of people who are no longer interested in democracy. This is new to me.

Re:The American Age Is Over on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:01AM (#49727190)
Yeah, wierd how much better W's administration looks when compared to you know who.
Re:Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:27AM (#49722086)
>This is why these types of things are better left to elite minded people who are capable of these types of discussions.

fred sanford noises WE ALL GONNA DIE

Re:Making Startups Powerful on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:14PM (#49691054)
Greed has also been very inefficient at holding companies accountable in regards to external costs.
In the US at least, removing safe and trustworthy sources of information is a goal, I can tell this by listening to politicians lambasting media companies and the hostility shown toward reporters.
Re:How Poor People Buy Cars on Saturday September 12, 2026 @10:54AM (#49672928)
Yeah when you think of it, HN is like a 1 topic reddit without messages ability, so front page is a crapshoot
democracy is imperfect, I like to view public hearings as helping nudge democracy back toward functionality. Heck humanities very stewardship of our only home in the universe is currently a very dumb process but do we have to delete the stewardship and care, can't we try to improve things, have hearings so we can better pursue solutions to problems?
Re:FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses on Saturday September 12, 2026 @05:41AM (#49670687)
>Ascribing malice seems a bit irrational to me.

I agree with this, I'm thinking more along the line of debate mistake. I make them, I always invite corrections and I think the willingness to speak on terms of your debate opponent smooths the debate process. Sometimes it does get a bit impractical, heh debating libertarians often involves learning whole new versions of english lol

Still I think you will be more successful if you put forward your caveat on definitions ahead of time, nothing is to be gained during a debate by preemptively declaring your victory, so if I were to suggest improvements to rhetoric, I'd examine my own use of "the fact is that" type things and make sure that what I describe during these uses are indeed facts agreed upon by the debate participants.

Like if I were a libertarian, instead of declaring taxation is theft, I would offer a "wouldn't you agree" and this way we debate participants share a goal of honing in to the fundamental disagreement at stake and I can tell you in my experiences it often comes down to a lack of shared values instead of facts in dispute.

Re:FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses on Saturday September 12, 2026 @05:11AM (#49670506)
> the founding document "specifically recognizes the States as sovereign entities."

it was a small load of text easily digested, and the word "sovereign" is right there in it very early on. Your argument would be better accepted if you tossed in that you disagree with the characterization and have an opinion what YOU think sovereign entities are. Declarations of fact should only be used when what you are declaring is indeed a fact.

>In practical terms, there is no such thing as a semi-sovereign entity.

According to the text you're replying to, this is also untrue. In the future, I would recommend something like "while the 10th amendment talks about states being sovereign entities, in practical terms the federal government has jurisdiction over some matters involving states" or something like that. Its fine to voice opinions, but declaring your opinions "fact", well good luck with that hehehe

Re:I haven't lost a customer service fight in seven months on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:35PM (#49668489)
>Whatever behavior you’re pretending is engaged in by the right

"pretending" good one lol

Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:55AM (#49657654)
sure sure but just don't give kids internet access problem solved. All these problems are because we insist on giving kids internet access then try to ban them from internet sites. Its all just very stupid.

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