<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Vespasian</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Vespasian</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:37:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Vespasian" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Vespasian in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They did, but decided to mess with them first.<p>A sensible human operator would have given up or questioned their premises. The agent never could of course.</p>
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<p>Maybe? It just takes one after all.<p>I've met some people IRL who are so engulfed in their own greatness that it simply cannot be that they made a mistake (in planning and strategy). Therefore this is all a great injustice towards a poor victim and doesn't that sound like a great argument for some charity money.<p>Most of them grow out of it, some become politicians.<p>I'd say it's a 50/50 chance.</p>
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<p>That is also not guaranteed. VW (with its array of brands) leads the european BEV market by a lot. [1] (sorry I only found data for April 2026 right now but earlier months were similar)<p>One additional point of data. In Q1 of this year they delivered 200K BEV worldwide [2] while Tesla did 350k [3].<p>Calling that 10 years behind is not warranted in my opinion. I would agree to say competitive and challenged.<p>[1] <a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/01/europe-ev-sales-report-bevs-jump-42-and-reach-23-market-share/" rel="nofollow">https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/01/europe-ev-sales-report-...</a>
[2] <a href="https://www.volkswagen-group.com/de/pressemitteilungen/volkswagen-group-haelt-marktanteil-stabil-bei-ruecklaeufigem-weltmarkt-in-q1-20313" rel="nofollow">https://www.volkswagen-group.com/de/pressemitteilungen/volks...</a>
[3] <a href="https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-first-quarter-2026-production-deliveries-and-deployments" rel="nofollow">https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-first-quarter-2026-...</a></p>
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<p>That's not quite right.<p>For example Siemens and Bosch are large enterprises specialised in industrial scale electrical machines and parts (among other fields).<p>Infineon was spun off from Siemens 25 years ago an plays an important role in chip manufacturing for automative systems.</p>
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<p>Yeah it'll fly legally.<p>Everybody should just assume that they are lying about data retention and learning anyway.<p>They showed zero respect for intellectual property in the past and they will show zero respect now or in the future. A few thousand Euros/dollars in subscription doesn't matter when several trillions are in play (at least in their plans).</p>
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<p>I guess is was partially the high prices but also their unpredictability.<p>Having to increase an already high price would not be great.<p>That is now somewhat better then half a year ago.</p>
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<p>ok how would you recommend to get started? Doing nothing will change nothing.</p>
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<p>That doesn't sound bad at all. At least for me as a German that would be a salary that you wouldn't get at every random company.<p>Maybe the Netherlands are different (country can vary a lot with what is included in a salary) ?</p>
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<p>As usual if there is reasonable competition this limits what the established actors can and will do.</p>
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<p>Are they under any obligation to ground the value of their own stock or can a salesman simply claim that the "true" value of that stock is much much more than  it currently seems to be?</p>
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<p>Wrapper around the function call. Don't give it the token itself but a limited set of fixed functions to create domains (their use case according to the post).<p>Additionally give it a similar restricted way to "delete" domains while actually hiding them from you. If you are very paranoid throw in rate limits and/or further validation. Hard limits.<p>Yes this requires more code and consideration but well that's what the tools can be fully trusted with.</p>
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<p>And also how you work with automation safely.<p>If you employ a new tech then there need to be extra safeguards beyond what you may deem necessary in an ideal world.<p>This is a well know possibility so they should have asked and/or verified token scope.<p>If it turns out that you can't hard scope it then either use a different provider, a wrapper you control (can't be too difficult if you only want to create and delete domains) or simply do not use llms for this for now.<p>Maybe the tech isn't there just yet even if it would be really convenient. It's plenty useful in many other situations.</p>
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<p>That would be really great. Though 3.5 122B is already doing a lot of work in our setup.</p>
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<p>And you can require new custom software to be compatible and guarantee an initial market.<p>It's a strategic decision and of course it's not financially optimal.<p>And if in 20 years thered still a few windows computers around in their org that doesn't matter</p>
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<p>> The problem here is taking "word for word" as "by dictionary meaning", which is never how laws are read.<p>Back in the days of "smart contracts" and "DAOS" this was something many well-meaning technical people struggeled with. Humans and their societies are flexible and therefore laws must be flexible as well (to a certain degree before it becomes damaging).<p>It's also why a lawyer/expert is usually recommended when engaged with legal matters: We as layman lack all the context around seemingly "simple" concepts, procedures and definitions. You can learn all of that or hire a professional.</p>
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<p>Without being an expert that still seems very unlikely to me.<p>The epic was written around 2000 BCE which was well over >> 10k years after agriculture and more than 4 times that much after neanderthals died out.<p>It's possible but much more likely that they refer to something more contemporary. There are always "wild men" around no matter who you ask.</p>
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<p>To early to say that but it's certainly a part of the equation all vendors are currently looking at.<p>And given the past few decades there is no reason to not try to do that.</p>
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<p>I just looked it up for Germany[0] and there were a whopping 3 (0.0%) new hydrogen fuel cell cars registered in Februrary 2026. Even LPG cars were more with 397 registered.<p>For comparison 21.9% were BEVs, 11.5% Plugin hybrids, ~51% pure petrol or non plug-in hybrid, and 14.8% Diesel.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.kba.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Fahrzeugzulassungen/2026/pm11_2026_n_02_26_pm_komplett.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.kba.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Fahrzeugzula...</a></p>
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<p>That would be good experimnent and could actually work.<p>I would love to try it however they would have to solve "global song availability" and "Sponsored songs only Stations".<p>But if they did try there is the chance of some niche communities forming.<p>It wouldn't even need to be live to begin with. A narrated playlist with a DJ and basic control functionality such as fading into songs or a voice over.<p>Not trivial but doable and I wonder why they never tried that.</p>
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<p>And will it be by 2030 or ten years later</p>
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