<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: themafia</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=themafia</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:33:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=themafia" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themafia in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The government will then just enforce the laws on the people they don't like.<p>Which is explicitly against the 14th amendment.</p>
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<p>If you give a language model,  empowered through an agent,  the ability to publish information on your behalf,  and it publishes false information which causes either direct or even indirect harm,  and you fail to correct it,  then yes..  by every conceivable definition already in law..  you are a criminal.<p>If you knew this was all possible and you did it anyways for personal gain then you are additionally negligent which may add aggravation to your charges.</p>
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<p>If they do so knowingly,  and harm is caused,  then yes.  Are you suggesting we should give them a pass from years of acquired jurisprudence simply because they hold a particular title?<p>And what institution gives out the licenses for journalists and scientists?  Is it revokable?</p>
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<p>> But watch as Germany soon loses AI Google results.<p>Time to set my VPN location to Germany.  I'm tired of the "udm" trick.</p>
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<p>The "aw geez,  enough is enough" release.<p>Finally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:29:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469227</link><dc:creator>themafia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themafia in "CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  the definition by analogy to what aircaft autopilot does<p>It's a bad analogy.  Autopilot just maintains the aircraft in some state,  then there's the flight director which maintains the flight path,  and you can connect or disconnect the two at will.  When connected the director can change the autopilot state.<p>To use the flight director you must fully specify your flight.  The weight,  the fuel,  the weather,  expected winds,  takeoff and landing runway length,  runway conditions,  expected brake demand,  as well as every single waypoint you're going to cross and the expected state at that crossing.<p>> what the human metaphor means<p>We learned after high levels of cockpit automation that maintaining situational awareness was still required.  Pilots are freed of some stress during high workload portions of the flight,  provided they planned correctly in advance,  and that zero changes to their flight plan (not likely) occur.<p>As a result pilots are mostly told and trained to hand fly the plane during take offs and landings if the weather allows for it.  You should only use high levels of automation if the situation demands it.</p>
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<p>more of "we whined and cried and screamed that we needed new budget in order to buy these tools or we would literally die.  now we have them,  they don't work as well as we hoped,  they aren't leading to productivity gains,  and they're actively alienating our workforce and users alike.  we're so screwed we literally have no idea how to do reverse this."</p>
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<p>> is be willing to do it cheap for awhile<p>Then you might as well work for yourself.<p>> getting into this industry for the money<p>I can make more money doing HVAC but I'm tired of being on hot roofs.<p>> the path forward is a lot murkier.<p>If you're just here for the money go somewhere else.  If you're here because you love computer science then ignore these people and do the work.  If you can't find a company get a dayjob and do it for yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:26:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467219</link><dc:creator>themafia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themafia in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> actual tech companies<p>Are you talking the big 10?  Or "tech companies" in general?<p>>  AI really just can't replace productive work<p>Okay.  Show me the productivity gains.  Those are measurable.  Why is the "AI is ready" crowd never prepared to show this?<p>>  that if an AI can do junior-engineer-level coding work<p>Then you have no competitive edge and most of your output probably cannot be copyrighted.</p>
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<p>AI can't flip burgers?</p>
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<p>The odd thing is in Humans is that if we loose our teeth the jawbone itself also starts to recede.  Part of the process of installing an implant is doing either a matrix or a cadaver bone graft in order to overcome this.<p>We are,  in some sense,  meant to accept the loss of our teeth,  likely because it impacts lifetime energy efficiency in some way that we're not correctly observing yet.</p>
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<p>> they can also infect the package source code itself<p>Which is where the concept of "safe levels" come in.  I should be able to install this module in such a way where file operations and process operations are not available to it.  That being said,  presumably,  this types of infiltration would seem to be _much_ easier to spot.  "Why is this web framework calling 'spawn'?"<p>> I just want a .zip with the binaries<p>I want a .zip with the _code_.  Just the code.  None of the packaging nonsense.  My distribution can handle that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:33:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459199</link><dc:creator>themafia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459199</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themafia in "The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not a fan of C++ precisely because of template noise but what you gain with span,  in that the pointer and the length are joined together,  seem to outweigh the complaints on style.<p>Isn't there a way to make this an alias anyways?</p>
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<p>> Death is fundamentally a way to optimize reproduction<p>You could equally argue that it's a way to optimize lifetime energy efficiency.<p>> The cells humans are made of are immortal,<p>Yes but DNA transcription is not error free and most body parts do not grow back after being lost,  most perniciously,  our teeth.  Elephants grow 6 sets of them,  but due to their diet,  they can end up fully losing all their teeth before they die.<p>> it's dying of what you might call 99.9% victories against disease<p>The planet we live on is warmed by the Sun.  The Sun's energy can also destroy our cells.  It's not just disease.</p>
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<p>Download source.  Extract.  Move files to correct node_modules folder.<p>If your distribution requires more than this,  then it's not really a module,  or combines too many non-modular components,  and should be distributed differently.<p>The ability for npm to run scripts on any level should be removed.<p>Then we can go back to worrying about namespacing issues.</p>
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<p>1 -- Signal jamming exists.<p>2 -- Space also belongs to the citizens and not the corporations.<p>3 -- The defense industry is the single worst most corrupt and idiotic industry we still shackle ourselves to.</p>
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<p>> It’s much more convincing<p>Shouldn't your concern be whether it's true?  Who asks to be "convinced?"</p>
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<p>Does this not follow from the basic 401k structure in this country?  Most people will be defaulted into a fund like Vanguard and from what I can gather from my co-workers,  none of them are particularly wild about taking their retirement money and playing the day trading casino to try to increase their performance.<p>It's better than what preceded it but we still manage retirement wealth poorly.</p>
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<p>> the California High-speed Rail project<p>The state government of California was doing a bang up job of destroying this project on their own.  He didn't really need to help them.  Moreover given the rise of remote work I'm not sure it has as much value as it would have had it been constructed when it was designed.<p>> but he's not dumb enough to actually believe all the bullshit he spouts.<p>Yet he's not afraid of the consequences either.  This seems more telling to me.</p>
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<p>A moment of high drama in the courtroom:<p>"Did you notice anything odd about the defendants vehicle?"<p>"Yes."<p>"What was that?"<p>"He had disabled his GPS and telemetry systems."</p>
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