<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: wavemode</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wavemode</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:52:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=wavemode" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wavemode in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While I agree with the spirit of what you're saying, it is very similar to whenever anyone complains about things where they work. "Well, why don't you just raise it with management?" You're assuming that management<p>1) Understands the problem ("what are comments?")<p>2) Accepts that it is a problem ("how can more comments be a bad thing?")<p>3) Cares enough to solve the problem ("is this issue really a priority to solve right now? just accept the PR and we'll go back and fix if needed some other time <i>cough</i> never <i>cough</i>")<p>4) Believes you (this can take many forms, but the most common is, subconsciously, "this other engineer says it's not a problem, so I'll just assume it's not since that's easier")<p>All of these logistical, political and social factors are "the ocean"</p>
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<p>LLMs are not the only form of AI.</p>
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<p>The principal side effect is that you eat less.<p>Eating less can have positive effects (losing weight), but can also make you feel like shit (in a wide variety of ways), as your body is running on less energy intake than it has been accustomed to.<p>Depending on your activity level and the makeup of your diet, eating less can also lead to muscle loss and nutrient deficiencies.</p>
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<p>His argument is that the government is going to start forcing tech companies to install backdoors in their tech, now that (hypothetically) they can't use hacking anymore.</p>
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<p>This "going dark" scenario would require new legislation. With secure enclaves, modern smartphones can't be cracked open in the manner that the FBI wanted in the 2016 case. So there's no such thing as "court order tech company to crack phone" anymore. It would have to be "outlaw tech companies from producing phones that they can't crack open", which is very different and does not fall under any existing US statute.</p>
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<p>What you said:<p>> A modern consumer GPU can crack "four random English words" in a day<p>What you're saying now:<p>> My mid-tier laptop GPU can crack the usual wordlist in under 12 hours against MD5 (46 billion guesses per second)<p>So your response to the plain mathematical fact that, no, your consumer GPU cannot crack "four random English words" in a day, is that your consumer GPU can crack four words chosen from a list of a few thousand, in a day. Followed by personal attacks. Okay.</p>
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<p>> A modern consumer GPU can crack "four random English words" in a day.<p>This is just completely false.</p>
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<p>> And before anyone blames the parents, parents will always be shitty. They are an impediment to children's health society must work around.<p>...huh? This is completely backwards. We should be making laws that punish parents for failing to parent properly. Not laws that punish everyone.<p>If we pass a law that children under a certain age may not use social media, then giving your child a non-child-locked device should be treated the same way we treat giving your child alcohol or cigarettes.</p>
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<p>Personally I don't think that a release announcement needs to be "marketing heavy" in the first place.<p>That's really the heart of the problem - in an effort to sound exciting, many parts of the article are just wasting the reader's time rather than simply explaining how things work clearly and directly.</p>
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<p>A stock exchange is nothing more than a marketplace. Anyone can start their own (the challenge being, getting a bunch of companies to want to list their stock with you).<p>That freedom is actually <i>why</i> it's hard to create a Bloomberg competitor - in order to provide their data stream, Bloomberg has to have partnerships with hundreds of companies worldwide who run exchanges for stocks, bonds and other instruments. If exchanges were government-controlled rather than free-market, there would be more centralization and getting the data together would be easier.</p>
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<p>Yeah it's interesting how in some contexts they're interchangeable yet, culturally we very often use the words differently.<p>Personally I tend to feel like your second bullet - ethics are based on rules whereas morals are based on emotions.</p>
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<p>Offtopic but, it always amuses me that the words "provably" and "probably" are one letter apart (and I frequently misread them for each other).</p>
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<p>Probably never. This has been debated to death by both C and C++ standards committees. The consensus is that, since signed overflow is almost always a sign of a bug in the program, keeping it undefined enables compilers to optimize by assuming it never happens, and also allows sanitizers to continue to flag it to developers so that they fix their bugs (though it could be argued that, a sanitizer doesn't really have to strictly adhere to the standard, the committee apparently didn't feel that way).</p>
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<p>It depends on the kind of company, and the context. An ethicist at a company doing drug/medical research probably mostly oversees that the company's research practices are legal and safe (and that participants give informed consent).<p>At typical corporation, something like a Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (CECO) would be largely focused on legal compliance - making sure company personnel aren't engaged in bribery, fraud, insider trading etc. The value of this role (and the medical example) is to prevent lawsuits and/or prosecution.<p>For a company like Meta, an ethicist is likely concerned with the inherent ethical concerns of running a social media company, which impacts the mental health of its users, many of whom are minors. For AI companies, the ethics of releasing models that are capable of doing dangerous things. In name, the job probably involves giving recommendations about how to ethically implement features in the platform to minimize harm. In practice, the job probably accomplishes very little.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:40:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260054</link><dc:creator>wavemode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260054</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by wavemode in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OpenAI was probably able to at least <i>pretend</i> that her role mattered... until they let their AI autonomously hack a rival company, then used the incident to score marketing points. I'm not surprised she left.</p>
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<p>> Possible false positive because of the text was translated from Japanese to English with AI?<p>People say this a lot, but I've never seen Claude or any other LLM insert clichéd LLM-isms into translated text.<p>There's obviously a degree of interpretation and "smoothing" that goes into translation, but it doesn't rise to the level of making the entire thing sound like an AI's voice. This blog post was prompted, not translated.</p>
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<p>The federal government outlaws "knowingly accessing a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access" to obtain information from any "protected computer" (which, in this context, means any computer involved in interstate commerce - which, in practice, has been ruled such that it certainly includes any Internet-connected server of a corporation).<p>Your defense would have to be that you were authorized to access the data, or that you did not know that you weren't authorized to access the data. Not merely that the data was easily accessible.</p>
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<p>The loser of every suit will simply always appeal the AI decision, thus requiring a human decision anyway.</p>
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<p>> they ultimately launched what was by then the 7th or 8th AI-related product with essentially the same name<p>let me guess, they called it "Copliot"</p>
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<p>Yeah but, Taxi drivers usually don't hop around from place to place. They work in a specific metro area.</p>
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