MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninalanyon | 2025-09-26 21:25:44+00:00
> How does a digital ID solve an illegal immigration problem?

It doesn't. The kind of employer who would employ an illegal immigrant is certainly not going to ask to see ID of any kind. They would surely be especially wary of any electronic ID because that would make it easier to associate them with the immigrant. ID cards are only of any use to legal workers and honest employers.

If the UK wants the benefits of a solid ID it should look to Scandinavia. In Norway everyone has a unique number in the population register and this ID is your user ID for all state services. Employers can ask for this number and look you up. Of course it still doesn't prevent people working on the black for cash in hand but neither will an ID card or ID app.

There is no appetite for ID cards in Norway either, yet successive governments keep pushing the idea despite there being no compelling reason to believe that any problems will be solved by them.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-26 21:26:01+00:00
This honestly makes a lot of sense, particularly because the number of people that need wheelchairs is so much smaller than the general population.

I visit hospitals pretty frequently and while it's not never that I see someone in a wheelchair, it's not every day and it's definitely not a majority of the visitors.

When I'm out and about in public, I basically never see wheelchair users.

It makes sense to simply have a taxi service instead. Far more convenient for the wheelchair user and you don't need to retrofit every bus with wheelchair access.
by conductr | 2025-09-26 21:27:03+00:00
I half expected that answer and I personally feel it’s not the responsibility of the buses to invest in custom paint to afford you this convenience. Obviously it would be nice if buses ran on time and I could just tell you to rush if you knew you were running late, but even without that, I feel haste is your responsibility if you’re concerned with making the next bus and not having to wait by just missing it
by krapp | 2025-09-26 21:27:25+00:00
Am I the only person who thought they would have burned everything in a dumpster by now, and degaussed every hard drive and just denied that Epstein even existed? Given how much effort they were putting into prevaricating, claiming it was all a Democrat hoax, that no such files existed, or that Epstein never did anything wrong? Wasn't Ghislane moved to Texas to shut her up?

That there are actually still files to release is baffling. I assume the release was judiciously selective and that none of the files will implicate Trump, and all of them will implicate Democrats and people he doesn't like.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-26 21:28:02+00:00
> At least based on a quick skim of the manual structs with non-owning pointers still seems like a potential difference since from what I can tell struct field checks are either for ownership (/@only@/ for fields by default), initialization/allocation (`partial`, state clauses), or requires overhead (/@refs@/). Nothing quite like "the data here will live for some arbitrary lifetime(s) dictated by the use context".

Then I don't understand (your/Rusts) understanding of lifetimes. As to my understanding, the lifetime of an object is bound by the lifetime of the underlying allocation and is the time during which the storage of the allocation is initialized without interruption.

> I thought Splint was not free

It is for example in Debian, but I have recompiled it myself, since the Debian version has some bugs.
by ben_w | 2025-09-26 21:28:11+00:00
> And no, I'm not joking here, not anymore. The more I think about it, the more I feel we'll eventually have to deal with the problem that machines we build are naturally better at the things we want to be doing, and naturally worse at the things we want them to do for us.

Perhaps, but also "what they are good at" != "what they want to do", for any interpretation of "want" that may or may not anthropomorphise, e.g. I want to be more flirtatious but I was never good at it and now I'm nearly 42.

That said, I think you're underestimating the machines on physicality. Artifical muscle substitutes have beaten humans on raw power since soon after the steam engine, and on fine control whenever precision engineering passed below the thickness of a human hair.
by scoopdiwhoop | 2025-09-26 21:28:19+00:00
One example I ran into recently is asking Gemini CLI to do something that isn't possible: use multiple tokens in a Gemini CLI custom command (https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/c...). It pretended it was possible and came up with a nonsense .toml defining multiple arguments in a way it invented so it couldn't be read, even after multiple rounds of "that doesn't work, Gemini can't load this."

So in any situation where something can't actually be done my assumption is that it's just going to hallucinate a solution.

Has been good for busywork that I know how to do but want to save time on. When I'm directing it, it works well. When I'm asking it to direct me, it's gonna lead me off a cliff if I let it.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-26 21:28:27+00:00
> This doesn't create an unchecked executive -- the legislature can also check the executive by impeaching him if he violates the constitution.

The impeachment clause is for high crimes and misdemeanors and is supposed to be an extraordinary procedure that takes an immense amount of time. It's not realistic to rely on it to prevent a President from selectively enforcing or ignoring laws on a day-to-day basis, especially considering it has never been successfully used to remove any president from office even in the case where Trump used his office to extort a bribe.

Anyway here's what James Madison had to say about your proposal in Federalst 47:

"No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self–appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with the accumulation of power, which the argument supposes, it would be the very worst of all possible governments."

> the state really cranked up to exceed the constitutional constraints of the federal government... this stems from fraudulent portrayal of intrastate commerce... a great deal of the actions of DEA, ATF, FDA, EPA, etc cannot legally be funded

See, this is the problem with giving a single person the power to decide which laws to implement. You've made sweeping statements about "fraudulent" portrayals and the government exceeding constitutional authority, but these are just your own conclusory assertions. It's not clear that any constitutional constraints were actually violated, that portrayals of intrastate commerce were fraudulent, or that agencies like the DEA, FDA, etc. cannot legally be funded. These claims are unsupported, in fact they are anti-supported by decades of judicial review. Given your position, the President could just decide to shut down those agencies just on the flimsy basis you have provided. That's not how the system works.

I and others have realized that, despite your frequent appeals to the Constitution and the Framers, you do not appear to genuinely support the idea of a constitutional republic. Instead, you seem comfortable with a king-like authority, a single individual wielding absolute control over the government. That's a legitimate position, but you should be upfront about it rather than twisting the Constitution to fit your ideology. You're never going to squeeze a dictator-shaped peg into a constitution-sized hole -- doing so destroys the constitutional order.
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-26 21:30:11+00:00
> I assume the release was judiciously selective and that none of the files will implicate Trump, and all of them will implicate Democrats and people he doesn't like.

From the subheading of the fine article:

>> The Duke of York is named as a passenger on the sex offender's private jet in documents released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in the US.

Unless there's some other group of Democrats who are releasing these documents, I doubt it'll be so selective as to avoid naming Trump and implicate many Democrats instead.
by kypro | 2025-09-26 21:30:16+00:00
I agree. I think the French are doing the right thing here. I only mentioned it because it's one of the many things governments do which encourage and normalise more coming.

British politician could try to strike a deal with the French to stop them helping individual who try to enter the UK illegally, but obviously it would only make sense for them to do that if the British were also trying to stop people entering the country illegally. Like you say, we can't expect the French to defend UK borders.

In regards to leaving the EU this wouldn't change the situation meaningfully, it would just allow for more cooperation in how illegal migrants are distributed across Europe. Like the UK, EU countries are also legally not allowed to deport Afghans. It's not as if the EU doesn't face similar problems.
by vkou | 2025-09-26 21:30:30+00:00
1. Priority bus lanes are solving that problem.

2. If getting through downtown by bus is slow, getting through it by car isn't any faster.

Anyways, Seattle's transit problem isn't bad downtown bus service, it's godawful spoke-and-last-mile coverage, which eviscerates ridership, makes the overall network less efficient, and forms a negative-feedback-loop that blocks transit improvements.

Nobody likes sitting around for half an hour waiting for a bus that will take them to another bus.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-26 21:30:50+00:00
Maybe? If we try to backport it to the current hardware/software. It would be an improvement to configure the MMU to enforce boundaries below a process.

However my point was that not every allocation is a trust boundary. What a program does in its own memory doesn't matter at all, this is gone in an instant. Everything that matters is I/O and this goes through syscalls, so there security can be enforced.

Why do you care about corrupting process memory? The memory state itself is totally irrelevant. What annoys you is when it e.g. deletes a file it is not supposed to. Would you rejoice when the file gets still deleted, but the process memory is totally fine? Of course not. The only thing that matters is the deletion of the file, you don't actually care about the memory safety. Thus, what you actually want is the computer to know that the file is not supposed to be deleted, when you have that, the memory can be trashed like the program likes to.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-26 21:31:38+00:00
I'm arguing a cultural perspective.

Edit:

Law uses language in a way that is different from how laypeople use it. I am not concerned that I would be unable to convince a judge that it's violence because I know it's the judge's job to think of violence as having a specific, narrow, unchanging (except under certain circumstances) meaning. Outside that context, violence can take the form of speech.
by dysoco | 2025-09-26 21:31:58+00:00
> Imo its crazy that there basically hasn't been a game made since, in it's genre, with the same level of ambition.

I would argue that games like Cyberpunk 2077 or KCD2 are a logical step-up for the genre offering open world, next gen graphics, many more weapons, NPCs, interactions, etc. and quite ambitious.

Same could be same of Skyrim 10 years ago.
by chasd00 | 2025-09-26 21:32:18+00:00
> Engineering uses repeatable processes to produce expected results

this is the thing with LLMs, the response to a prompt is not guaranteed to be repeatable. Why would you use something like that in an automation where repeatability is required? That's the whole point of automation, repeatability. Would you use a while loop that you can expect to iterate the specified number of times _almost_ every time?
by cogman10 | 2025-09-26 21:32:25+00:00
Yes, this is simply a well known fact.

You can look up the NYPD report on crime for the month of june the total amount of reported crime was 427 for all forms of transport (metro, bus, etc). 3.6 million people use public transport in NYC daily.

No matter where you are, you'll never drive that number to 0. But if you wanted to make it better then you'd stop positioning the police to catch turnstile jumpers and you start positioning police to ride public transport during low ridership times to prevent incident.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-09-26 21:35:28+00:00
I have had the same experience when attacked. A football hooligan smashed a bottle on my head from behind. Time slowed down. I turned around and could see everything he was doing in slow motion and I was completely calm. I knew what he would do before he could do it.

I am not a fighter or physically brave, but I completely disarmed him, put him in a headlock and threw him to the ground.
by randerson | 2025-09-26 21:35:49+00:00
Major difference between visiting a place and emigrating there. How many cultures actually learn another language just to go on their annual vacation? You seem to be arguing simultaneously that the Brits are worse than average when it comes to adapting to local norms as tourists, while also suggesting that the people moving to Britain permanently shouldn't have to?

There's nothing wrong with a culture adapting over time without losing their identity, like your example of Brits deciding to add the kebab. But a small country can't preserve their identity when they are overloaded by so many immigrants coming in at once who FORCE their ways on their new home. Think of it as Push vs Pull, there's a difference.

Every country having a unique culture makes the world more interesting. Imagine how boring it would be if you saved up for a trip to Japan/Kenya/Chile/etc, only to find that almost everyone there was a white English-speaking American living the exact same lifestyle you have at home? Leftists would in that case be empathetic toward the remaining indigenous minority who feel their historic way of life was killed off against their will. Why should it be any different if you swap the country and nationalities in this example to what is happening in the UK?

I am an immigrant myself, and a fairly liberal one at that. But I made the effort to come to my new home legally and assimilate to the best of my ability. I'm not sure why I should hold others to a lower standard.
by curtisblaine | 2025-09-26 21:36:08+00:00
> if it's illegal then the country isn't letting them do it.

Parent's suggestion was to make all illegal immigrants able to work legally, no question asked. This is equivalent to legalize all illegal immigrants, which is not a solution, it's a capitulation.

> if your solution to it is that everyone else must have a mandatory state surveillance card powered by

Well, no. The government is introducing a surveillance card because they always wanted to do that. They are able to use migrants as an excuse because every other means of controlling asylum seekers during their examination period has been made impossible.

To be absolutely clear, the problem is not legal migrants entering the country or asylum seekers seeking asylum. The problem is asylum seekers using the asylum process as a loophole to enter the country and disappear from the government's radar. The government is unable to close the loophole and now it is using the mere existence of the loophole to justify mass surveillance of everyone but those who should be watched.
by pdonis | 2025-09-26 21:36:08+00:00
> The moon circles the earth approx every 28 days.

In what sense? You state this like it's an obvious fact. It isn't. It contains a number of hidden assumptions, not all of which stand up to close scrutiny.

> Given there's no absolute spatial frame of reference, I'd argue that piling such caveats atop each other doesn't "move" us closer to a truer understanding.

I disagree, because "there's no absolute frame of reference" is not the same as "all frames of reference are equally useful". The former is true. The latter is not.

Once you face up to the fact that different frames are useful for different purposes, you should realize why you can't just state things like "the moon circles the earth" as obvious facts. At the very least, you have to explain why you've picked the frame of reference (centered on the Earth) in which that's (approximately) true. Basically, that would be because you're ignoring the rest of the universe and you only care about the Earth and the Moon. Which is fine for many purposes (it worked for sending humans to the Moon and back), but not for others (like saying "the moon orbits the earth" as opposed to "the moon orbits the sun"--which is simply not true, once we bring the Sun into the picture, you can no longer ignore the Sun's effect on the moon).
by scosman | 2025-09-26 21:37:04+00:00
I read the code. I also remember writing the code and that comment.

As disclosed: some prompt strings were taken and modified, but none of the code was. The original strings are using a templating library that we don't support, so their code/strings wouldn't have worked in our codebase, nor would the wrapping code. Those interfaces/LOC are all unique. It's possible for some "content" to be taken (partial prompt strings), but zero code, and the statement "copied over some of our code and used it" to be incorrect.

Not trying to make a big deal of this, just clarifying these are separate libraries, with no shared code. Looks like the author saw the comment and assumed we used code (vs prompts); not a big deal, but not the case. Their work is super cool, and did inspire parts of my project.

Also worth noting, the library Pluto originated this prompt (as far as I know), and it's been tweaked/evolved many times over.
by culi | 2025-09-26 21:37:41+00:00
Sounds like the writings of a "targeted individual". Or "gangstalking". It's a more common phenomenon than people realize. There's even a subreddit community of individuals experiencing this

https://old.reddit.com/r/Gangstalking/

Here's a fascinating Aeon piece on the phenomenon

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-psychiatric-narrative-hinders...
by colonCapitalDee | 2025-09-26 21:37:49+00:00
I like how Frederick Brooks put it:

"""

Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward?

First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God's delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake.

Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child's first clay pencil holder "for Daddy's office."

Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate.

Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both.

Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by the exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures....

Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms. The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.

Programming then is fun because it gratifies creative longings built deep within us and delights sensibilities we have in common with all men.

"""
by carlmr | 2025-09-26 21:38:40+00:00
>OTOH we also have people interpreting it as if Rust was supposed to miraculously prevent all bugs, and they take any bug in any Rust program as a proof by contradiction that Rust doesn't work.

Yeah, that's such a tired take. If anything this shows how good Rust's guarantees are. We had a bunch of non-experts rewrite a sizable number of tools that had 40 years of bugfixes applied. And Canonical just pulled the rewritten versions in all at once and there are mostly a few performance regressions on edge cases.

I find this such a great confirmation of the Rust language design. I've seen a few rewrites in my career, and it rarely goes this smoothly.
by dannyobrien | 2025-09-26 21:38:50+00:00
So the Netherlands may not be the best example to use as a positive example here.

Notoriously, the national identity system was used during World War II as a system for discovering and eliminating the Jewish community[1]. The lessons learned from that are a frequent topic of discussion in civil liberties groups, and the Dutch experience is often cited, both global conversations and within the Netherlands -- e.g. On Liberation Day 2015, Bits of Freedom held its annual Godwin Lecture on the risks of prioritising ID efficiency over civil liberties[2].

It may be that special protections were coded into the current system to prevent this from happening again, I don't know the details.

Certainly, the reputation for how obligatory papers have been (mis)used in mainland Europe since Napoleonic times have fed into the anglo world's suspicion around introducing similar regulations[3]. There are several recurring memes around how compulsory documents are a sign of an authoritarian environment.

[1] - https://jck.nl/en/agenda/identity-cards-and-forgeries

[2] - https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2015/04/30/during-world-war-ii-...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Valjean
by int_19h | 2025-09-26 21:39:23+00:00
The real difference is market dominance. If Kagi was the dominant search engine used by 90% of all users, they could enshittify while still collecting subscription, and while that would lose them some users, it would still be profitable when everything is added up.

It's even worse for niches where there's some way to lock people in. E.g. look at streaming providers - everyone has either rolled out ads on paid plans or is planning to do so. Why? Because if you happen to have X as an exclusive in your catalog, then people who want to see X either have to suck it up or else figure out how to pirate it without getting caught.
by strken | 2025-09-26 21:39:34+00:00
I read this as a logistical question rather than a moral one. What happens when two farmers can't agree on where their property boundaries sat prior to the war, the fences got ripped out after one side used the area as a staging ground, and any records have been blown up by glide bombs? What happens to the real, physical land that's covered in mines and needs to be either cleared or fenced? Where can Maria and her family stay tonight, next week, and where will they end up? These aren't (necessarily) problems for the military to solve.
by kridsdale1 | 2025-09-26 21:39:36+00:00
I opened the level file I was currently in and filled a room with every weapon upgrade and skill booster. Then put bosses outside the door, saved, loaded the game. If I could get in, I could have the stuff.

Kids these days don’t have access to edit their games like we did. It’s why crafting games are popular, the only “level editors” that remain once companies realized they could monetize extra content.