Recent submissions

Comment · 2 days ago
Probably he should have actually said "what's the point of writing then?", because there isn't one. Just like food is fuel, writing is thinking.
Comment · 2 days ago
The article title seems to have changed from the earlier version, which importantly emphasised that the FBI pressured King to commit suicide.
Comment · 2 days ago
I tried to be as charitable as possible.

> I don’t mean that.

So you actually think the USA, the most powerful and richest country in the history of the world, is unable to police its borders? That is the only alternative to what I said (which is that they are able but not willing).

> I’m saying you do have to control the borders and you do have to deport people who break the rules and enter our stay illegally.

Again, nobody really denies this, if I interpret you charitably. But the question is always how rigid the laws should be, how many other rights you are willing to sacrifice in order to hit the "deport illegals" metric. If you overstay one day, what happens. If you overstay due to a medical emergency, what happens. If you are in danger in your home country and need to enter illegally in order to claim asylum, what happens. How much of a soviet-style "papers, please" dungeon are you prepared to turn your country into in order to find all the illegals.

You will never ever police any crime to 100%. Immigration is very hard to police effectively without adding literal military-style checkpoints and sending in the gestapo (as is happening in the US). Besides that, if you look at the big picture, the vast majority of these people are harmless and have perfectly reasonable reasons for wanting to come. Remember that it is an accident of history that you get to live in a rich country.

The US in particular has had massive unregulated immigration through most of its history, by the way, and it didn't cause the place to burn to the ground. So please keep a bit of perspective.

Comment · 2 days ago
If you were correct, then your question (why are they so gullible) would not have to be asked, because they would not be gullible. So you are wrong, somewhere.

We have no idea whatsoever how LLMs can seem to behave intelligently. Therefore making analogies with how we behave intelligently (a thing we also do not deeply understand) is not going to tell you anything.

Comment · 3 days ago
> If they can "understand" (whatever that means for an AI)

Without an answer to this it is impossible to answer your question with anything other than a vague guess.

Comment · 3 days ago
> That’s an extreme take.

Big words considering the rest of your comment.

> If it permits just anyone to enter or exit, it is technically not a nation anymore.

You cannot "permit" something you do not control, so this is a contradiction in terms. If you mean that the constraints put on the US by itself to not police immigration in overly violent or cruel ways mean that it does not control immigration, then by the same logic the 4th amendment implies that there is no rule of law in the US (since certain criminals can't be convicted due to bad actions by the state).

> But being choosy about who gets in and who does not.

Nobody really denies this. The question is how violent or cruel you can be in the exercise of this choosiness.

> Look at the riots in Europe right now

The riots in Europe are not primarily about immigration. Get off twitter.

Comment · 4 days ago
What the fuck are the little wasd/arrow keys supposed to mean? They have no relationship to the movement of the character or the camera. It's just flashing buttons.
Comment · 4 days ago
How can the solution to LLM slop be sending more LLM slop back?
Comment · 4 days ago
Isn't this just blog slop? It doesn't actually present an argument, it just states its conclusion several times in different ways. Even if you agree, why would you upvote this?
Comment · 4 days ago
"we" in this sentence is really a handful of encloistered silicon valley weirdos. Most people do not like it and have no real say in the matter.
Comment · 4 days ago
It remains to be seen that having a frontier LLM gives you a competitive leg up over someone with deepseek flash (or no AI at all, frankly).
Comment · 9 days ago
I'm tired, boss.

Code is not a material out of which you make objects. It is a precise description of a process. You do not get better plans by globbing them onto each other! This is not and never has been an "artisans vs factories" fight. It is an "I know what I'm doing vs I don't care" fight.

Comment · 9 days ago
I don't understand this comment. You seem to be describing in basic terms what a remote code execution vulnerability is. What does that have to do with the comment you're replying to?
Comment · 10 days ago
Most of this is mitigated completely by making everything read-only except for a small number of users you know personally. That doesn't actually preclude most kinds of political work (e.g. noticeboards for protest organising). It does preclude social media, obviously.
Comment · 10 days ago
> I mean the guy was elected, so obviously not a king.

The point of the protest is to prevent him from making himself a king.

> And couldn't even change the name of the art center, so not that powerful.

This is really weak cherry picking. He has successfully removed medical care from millions of Americans, started foreign wars of aggression, destabilised several countries, probably tanked US international reputation for a generation... he is incredibly powerful.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton