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If we have concerns about unregulated power of AI systems, not to worry - the US is set to ban regulations on “artificial intelligence systems or models” for ten years if the budget bill that just passed the house is enacted.

Attempts at submitting it as a separate submission just get flagged - so I’ll link to it here. See pages 292-294: https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr1/BILLS-119hr1rh.pdf

See page 292-294. Moratorium on enforcing any regulation/law on “artificial intelligence systems or models” for a period of 10 years after this bill is enacted.

Not sure why someone flagged this as well. AI regulations are absolutely on topic for a site that calls itself "Hacker News". After all, titans of the tech industry are influencing and literally directing large amounts of the government- Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk, ...

See page 292-294. Moratorium on enforcing any regulation/law on “artificial intelligence systems or models” for a period of 10 years after this bill is enacted.

Not sure why this is getting flagged- would AI regulations not be a topic relevant to "Hacker News"? Not making any political commentary here, just noting that this is explicitly mentioned in the bill and want to make this community aware.

We still have one and our younger kids use it to call their friends. We refuse to provide them “smart” phones - at least for now.

If there were a plan, one would hope they would have shared it?

This is my frustration - there is clearly no plan, but smart people will assume that there must be one, because they bring their own biases of how they approach problems and project that onto trump.

Realistic alternative? How about starting by reading tfa? I’d say you don’t need to physically threaten people who ask for basic security practices to be followed, for one.

Not sure what you mean here. In the “traditional” internet peer to peer model from the early days, it was always a client-server model. Just that everyone “ran their own server”. For example: You want to send me email? Great my smtp server is sitting at my desk and the mail spool lives on my local hard drive.

That’s in contrast to the centralized model where all the servers live in a set of giant concrete boxes aka data centers run by hyperscalers.

Wow that’s quite a reaction over some rando’s article. Why not just write your own with your point of view and post it here?

That’s not what this article is about, though. He’s not arguing that you cannot host your own content. He’s arguing that you shouldn’t sell your excess capacity to randoms on the internet for reasons enumerated in tfa.

You’re welcome!

Belittling them is the only approach that will work. They have such a thin skin and fragile egos that making logical arguments, following procedure, or addressing this via well established "norms" just results in them getting their rocks off on telling you to F off. See [0] just as one example of many.

On the other hand, pointing out the lunacy of their actions, their hypocrisy, and malice through satire, parody and straight up bullying is the only way to truly break through the shell they've built around that fragile ego they're carrying around. Just my opinion.

[0] https://shop.gop.com/products/liberal-tears-mug

Don't worry, you have undoubtedly violated several statutes today alone. When there is no due process for your "enemies", there is no due process for anyone.

There are plenty of examples of abuse of power. This is clearly just yet another one of them. DEI is in full display with this administration, except for them DEI stands for division with egregious ignorance. Even if it was a mistake, good luck getting the government to do anything about it - see Abrego Garcia. The administration just up and put the DoJ lawyer who admitted to the court that they made a mistake in sending him to El Salvador on administrative leave [0]. There's no way they will back down, as it would be a sign of weakness. Heck, even the Supreme Court majority ruled that the government must make an effort to return him to the US [1], so we will have a major showdown between two of the branches of government shortly.

We've whipsawed so far away from any norms that the majority "normal" people in the center are just left stunned at how we got here. And the ones who voted for this shitshow are fed a constant diet of lies and propaganda to keep them in line - things get bad? Refill the rage canister by rolling out Kristi Noem with some more made-for-insta reels in front of the "bad" people locked up in CECOT.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-sidelines-doj-lawyer-aft... [1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf

So let me get this straight, you think that this attorney is personally part of a conspiracy of lawyers to… “attack” him?

Love this article. Brings back memories of such a simpler time spending way too much time doing exactly this with IDA pro and Bochs (my favorite tool at the time for these sorts of projects). Bochs plus custom plugins equaled some amazing capabilities for real-time dynamic analysis of DOS, bootcode, and other low-level applications.

It’s more that it absolves them from having to hold a vote to continue the “emergency”. I believe the emergency act requires congress to vote to continue the emergency after a certain number of days.

But the republicans know that would be embarrassing to hold a public vote to do so- so they sneak in shit like this, to continue to be cowards since they’re too scared to publicly endorse the cruelty.

Nope. The rider to the “clean cr” took care of that contingency.

https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres211/BILLS-119hres211r... - see page 4

Don’t worry congress up and abdicated their responsibility to provide oversight on this “war”.

https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres211/BILLS-119hres211r... - page 4

In other words, they are so afraid to publicly vote on whether this “war” should continue that they have to play stupid games with the legislative calendar.

I'm sure nobody would think of targeting the national security apparatus of the USG with such an exploit to gain access to... I dunno, their Signal messages?

I think there’s a temporal aspect to this. Postel’s law was the right idea at the right time. It allows for wide experimentation in the early growth curve while at the same time exploding the realistic user base (because these implementations could in large part talk to each other)

Investor and heavy user of Google Workspace (several small paid domains). I find the Google Gemini capabilities for note taking and summarization of Meets to be excellent, and a huge timesaver for my teams. NotebookLM almost feels magic.

In my experience, of the major players (AMZN, GOOG, and MSFT), Google's AI integrations feel the most polished and useful for day-to-day use.

I guess I don't understand the point of your argument, if even the administration admits that this conversation was genuine? Please avoid the ad hominem attacks.

I mean I lived through it too. So did many others on this site. And my most memorable image is of Colin Powell giving his speech about "yellow cake" to the UN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhWlPo3qxak.

I don't even remember Goldberg or anything he wrote about it, fwiw.

Did you read TFA? Operational details were shared on the chat but the journalist, out of concern for exactly what you describe, redacted those details from his report.

Don’t worry - this massive fuckup will surely spark numerous congressional investigations, resignations, and trigger serious reflection by the administration on their security protocols so they will comply with the necessary recordkeeping laws, confidentiality and proper handling of classified information in the future.

Oh who am I kidding.

Less than 8h later: “it’s just an oopsie right? No harm no foul- nothing to see here folks” https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/24/congress/mi...

The person I was in 2002 is vastly different than who I am now (PS- I am not Jeff Goldberg). I would assume the same would apply to you as well.

Honestly, I think a lot have just given up at this point.

The trouble with this I think can be covered by two key issues:

1. I did a Control-F "exponential" and found no hits in TFA. I know I struggled trying to come to grips mentally with the real world impacts of an exponential growth curve. Sure, zero cases today, ok 1 case next week, ... the human brain can comprehend linear growth, but exponential growth was very hard for me to understand.

2. Navel-gazing is par for the course for the types of people who typically become journalists (I'm stereotyping here). However in the current legal environment I can imagine it can be dangerous to admit that you've made mistakes in the past. It could easily be weaponized against you as proof that you intentionally defrauded or misled people. To be clear, this is a horrible scenario and an anti-pattern. But when you have about 48% of the voting populace who have been pre-programmed to hate you - not mincing words here - then any admittance of fault or nuance will be lost, and will lead to even more vitriol and distrust.

What popular high performance memory safe system programming language existed in 2006?

I get why nobody should use C for security sensitive code now, but in 2006 the options were very limited.