breakpointalpha

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Comment · 5 days ago
Too little too late. Violated security trust == canceled.
Comment · 16 days ago
Yup, he said it was so common and accepted within the intel community it got nicknamed "LoveInt".
Comment · 16 days ago
That was my first thought too, this is already illegal under the CFAA and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Comment · 1 month ago
Jev, or 'Jevlikes', will go a long way towards trustable systems. There are demos of running every prompt through the first pass filter of Jev "Is this unsafe? y/N"

Seems to be that Jev is a "reflex" system for AI, where current LLMs are higher level thinking. Computers can now flinch!

Comment · 1 month ago
Install Cold Turkey site blocker; block all social media channels with a slop "feed". (Facebook, instagram, reddit, etc.)

Youtube subs only to Science, History, Cozy content. Aggressively unfollow click bait.

Discord only with close personal friends who are chill.

Play single player games, or multiplayer games only with close personal friends.

The internet doesn't have to connect you with hordes of terminally online droolers.

Comment · 1 month ago
For Meta, on their knees?
Comment · 1 month ago
Valve has annual profits in the billions, they invest in the future of VR too.
Comment · 1 month ago
Asking for proof of improvement is a very rational reaction to the last three to five years of constant AI hype cycling.

It's a simple question that seems to make AI cheerleaders really mad.

"How are you measuring improvement."

I use AI for coding every day and see it fail all the time, I'm a seasoned developer and early tech adopter just like everyone else on HN. I'm still very skeptical because of how often these systems just miss. It's gambler's ruin on a very large scale, we remember the hits and forget the misses.

Comment · 1 month ago
"You're holding it wrong."
Comment · 2 months ago
Presumably the guard is supposed to keep the "bad people" out, so that kids can be safe.

Instead, the Mom is placed on probation for seven years and will have monthly visits from CPS.

Comment · 2 months ago
At a minimum a judge signed warrant should be required for any data access.

Second, a third-party annual security and data audit, with power to revoke licenses if findings aren't mitigated within a reasonable time frame.

Finally, a civilian oversight committee with real power to sanction bad actors.

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Comment · 2 months ago
Personally the line for me is a human police officer with reasonable judgement and accountability.

If an officer was standing next to every Flock camera in America, the public would be hyper aware of the situation we are now in.

Mass, warrantless, and perpetual surveillance is incompatible with liberty and unacceptable to the vast majority of Americans.

It has to be stopped, or we are doomed.

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