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Commerzbank bank is Germany's second largest bank.
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Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958399 - February 2026 (1020 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963089 (subthread)
Not exactly the same thing, but I know of at least two professors that would try to list their cats as co-authors:
If The Princess Bride is to be believed, MCP stands for the "Mutton Context Protocol".
Make it L. Ron Hubbard fighting Jack Parsons and that would be more like it.
> The first time I came across this phenomenon was when someone posted years ago how two AIs developed their own language to talk to each other.
Colossus the Forbin Project
Facebook was doing that 10 years ago
I read that essay on Twitter the other day and thought that it was a mildly interesting expression of one end of the "AI is coming for our jobs" thing but a little slop-adjacent and not worth sharing further.
And it's now at 80 million views! https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403
It appears to have really caught the zeitgeist.
Make him bet his total comp on a prediction market. Words are cheap.
I subscribe to keep the reporting going. Journalism costs money.
Most Americans don’t pay for news and don’t think they need to - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982633 - February 2026
(ProPublica, 404media, APM Marketplace, Associated Press, Vox, Block Club Chicago, Climate Town, Tampa Bay Times, etc get my journalism dollars as well)
According to the thesis of this article, releasing the weights would be approximately the worst thing OpenAI could do for these people.
From the viewpoint of self psychology people are limited in their ability to seduce because they have a self. You can't maintain perfect mirroring because you get tired, their turn-on is your squick, etc. In the early stage of peak ensorcelement (limerence) people don't see the "small signals", they miss the microexpressions, sarcastic leaks, etc. -- they see what they want to see. But eventually that wears out.
It can be puzzling that people fall for "romance scams" with people whose voice they haven't even heard but actually it's actually a safer space for that kind of seducer to operate because the low-fi channel avoids all sort of information leaks.
At this point this whole thing has to be a stealth marketing campaign by Apple right? Hordes of people buying new $600 Macs to jump in on the trend when a $3 VPS or $15 Pi Zero or $50 NUC or really any computer that can run a basic Linux server would do the job exactly the same or better.
What's that, doing actual work rather than labor-of-love open source stuff? Seems reasonable.
Did you not raise a bunch of money from Sequoia? Sounds like you're in a perfect place to quit your job and hack on GPUI for us.
There's a big security issue with OpenClaw, and it won't be fixed with network/filesystem sandvoxes. I've been thinking about what a very secure LLM agent would look like, and I've made a proof of concept where each tool is sandboxed in its own container, the LLM can call but not edit the code, the LLM doesn't have access to secrets, etc.
You can't solve prompt injection now, for things like "delete all your emails", but you can minimize the damage by making the agent physically unable to perform unsanctioned actions.
I still want the agent to be able to largely upgrade itself, but this should be behind unskippable confirmation prompts.
Does anyone know anything like this, so I don't have to build it?
Then you're going to have a hard time learning any subject.
Because it's pretty common for educational materials to start with the first-order approximation, then go into the places where you need second-order corrections to it.
If you think the first-order approximation is false because there are exceptions, and you aren't even willing to read a few paragraphs down to find out about the exceptions and nuances, then hey, it's your loss.
Well we had RCS, CVS and Usenet groups.
And before that, compressed archives on BBS, or type in listings with snail mail.
> Clearly the stock market isn't rational, and prices of stocks are not tied to financial fundamentals.
Stock prices are tied to anticipated future earnings, not past or present financials.
> only people with disposable income can afford
Anyone can invest in stocks with $100 or less. As for disposable income, anyone that can buy beer, drugs, or lottery tickets has disposable income that can be invested in stocks.
> part of the funnel that increases the wealth of the rich at the expense of the poor and middle class
Corporations make money by creating wealth, not "funneling" it from other people.
Yes, Cerebras is very cool. But that sort of thing is also becoming the exception. I use the homepage of HN as a sort of thermometer, the trend seems to be towards 'more' rather than 'better'.
That is a wild thing to admit in writing.
I had an iPhone for three months until I switched back to Android because the keyboard was trash. The one thing I could not believe is how even SwiftKey on iOS is horrible, even though it's my default keyboard on Android, and I've been very happy with it.
Anything that isn’t point to point transit, or requires interacting with the public, is a non-starter for most people in the developed world.
Even in Japan, half of commutes are by car and that number has been growing.
People don’t realize they’re also making really good progress with GMO crops!
Musk definitely turned a corner, converting to the right-wing Unicause.
You are missing one important detail, an Amiga alongside NewTek's Video Toaster.
At the end of day, Amazon is a business, not an extension of the police or the FBI.
They initially partnered with Flock because they thought this would be a feature people would want. They literally bought a crazy expensive Super Bowl ad to show it off.
Turns out people didn't. So now they're not doing it.
Amazon's only interest is to make money.
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Interesting read, however as someone from the same age group as Casey Muratori, this does not make much sense.
> The "immediate mode" GUI was conceived by Casey Muratori in a talk over 20 years ago.
Maybe he might have made it known to people not old enough to have lived through the old days, however this is how we used to program GUIs in 8 and 16 bit home computers, and has always been a thing in game consoles.
In my mind the answer to this is something like "Breakthrough Starshot" but greatly scaled down in terms of energy and mission duration. I mean, we would like to take close looks at thousands if not millions of stars and that kind of mission to the SGL is the next best thing to going there.
Even if this was a "custom workaround" this argument would be extreme "all or nothing" binary thinking.
An OS can "just work" for of the stuff a user does, and just need some tweaking here or there. Doesn't mean if the "just works" stuff is not 100% you're just as good going to Linux.
Anyway, this is not some "custom workaround", it's a regular Apple-provided macOS toggle. It's just not exposed in the UI, because for most users, the regular way "just works". I know all kinds of "defaults" toggles, and barely use 1/100 of them, because the actual defaults are fine.
How did you have it testing its code changes? Did you tell it to use Playwright or agent-browser or anything like that?
If coding agents can't test the code as they're editing it they're no different from pasting your entire codebase into ChatGPT and crossing your fingers.
At one point you mention it hadn't run "npm test" - did it run that once you directly told it to?
I start every one of my coding agent sessions with "run uv run pytest" purely to confirm that it can run the tests and seed the idea with it that tests exist and matter to me.
Your post ends with a screenshot showing you debating a C# syntax thing with the bot. I recommend telling it "write code that demonstrates if this works or not" in cases like that.
Depends on the window manager.
This one is my favorite, a 'cyclocopter':
This is the newer generations re-discovering why various flavours of Shareware and trial demos existed since the 1980's, even though sharing code under various licenses is almost as old as computing.
End with a three-pack <ul> and we'll assume you've found some help in your struggles. Use an <ol> and we won't be sure.
I wonder how many of the 504 contributors listed on GitHub would still have contributed their (presumably) free labor if they had known the company would eventually abandon the open source version like this while continuing to offer their paid upgraded versions.
I wouldn't blame you. But: hypes come and hypes go, this one will go too. But it will destroy the funding environment for a while when it does, the same happened the previous times this happened.
In five years time AI will be just another tool in the toolbox and nobody will remember the names of the hypers. I agree it is depressing: there are quite a few people banging this drum and because of that it becomes harder to be heard. They, like AI have the advantage of quantity. There is one character right here on HN that spews out one low effort AI generated garbage article after another and it all gets upvoted as if it is profound and important. It isn't. All it shows is how incredibly bland all this stuff is.
Meanwhile, here I am, solving a real problem. I use AI as well but mostly to serve as a teacher and I check each and every factoid that isn't immediately obviously true. And the degree to which that turns up hallucinations is proof enough to me that our jobs are safe, for now.
A good niche is cleaning up after failed AI projects ;)
best of luck there!
Jacques
I'm reminded of the Lloyds/TSB IT failure, where they specifically didn't have a rollback plan and ended up getting fined £50m by the regulator: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64036529
Basically LispWorks and Allegro Common Lisp, Dr. Racket, and Cursive.
Too many only know Emacs apparently.
You also need bindings in D, nothing new there.
Rust also has issues using anything besides cargo.
I care about what SaaS SDKs support out of the box, I don't have time to yak shaving or do avocacy to our FE teams.
That means it is mostly React/Next.js and in some cases, Angular.
Anything else will get side looks on why are we not using the official SDKs from partners.
It's not a guidebook, it's a thought experiment on "what if you could do that", and that's the entire point.
>Of course, I know that there is nothing innate in the miraculous "Japanese Way" because expats living here quickly adapt to the same behaviors.
That just proves it's not genetic/innate (which nobody seriously doubted). But it is a unique developed trait of a culture. The expacts merely "adapted" to it. The Japanese culture on the other hand, developed it (and thus gave this specific thing to adapt to).
I assume the backup is the copy in R2.
What astounds me the most about this whole thing is that the sort of hit testing involved here is a solved problem in UI, and has been for decades, yet there are still plenty of others here and elsewhere arguing about how it isn't. Even with those horrid rounded corners it's not hard, as shown in the article, which makes me wonder whether there is some internal fight between those who didn't want rounded corners (developers?) and hence tried their hardest to make it buggier, and those who wanted them (designers?), with lots of back-and-forth that eventually gave us this outcome. A disturbing amount of time and $$$ was probably spent on it, as is usual for any bureaucracy.
100%
I didn't understand GP's point at all because I think the author makes this exceedingly clear: if you want to paint only for you, and only stuff that appeals to you and a limited few, that's totally fine (and I think the author really emphasizes that's totally fine), just don't expect to make a living off of it.
I thought this article was excellent. In particular, I liked the emphasis that you really just have to produce lots and lots of art to find "image market fit", because it's nearly impossible to know what will resonate with people before you create it. There is just an undeniably huge amount of luck in finding something a lot of people like, so it's important to give yourself as many swings at bat as possible.
Sarcasm is never friendly; it's necessarily at the expense of someone else. The simplest example is where someone makes a bold claim and someone else says 'sure, buddy...' to express contemptuous disbelief via the weakest possible form of assent. The claimant here wants to be believed, or at least agreed with.
Irony is imho much more complex and variegated, but a simple example would be any sort of self-deprecating humor, where someone is making fun of the mismatch between their aspirations and their capacity to achieve them. Irony isn't necessarily mean, whereas sarcasm is always a little bit mean even if it's mild.
This is very cool! Great work!
Original title “Why have far-forward nominal Treasury rates increased so much in the past few years? Old risks reemerge in an era of Fed credibility” compressed to fit within title limits.
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1r2xz0q/the_ne...
I have a freezer full of roadkill meat and I'm thinking about buying a bigger freezer.
Very timely ;)
I've been playing around a lot with ultra-stable clocks in the last couple of weeks, it has been quite a journey. Just to see 9 zeros on a frequency counter running off a GPS disciplined oscillator is quite the achievement and for a long time it looked like it would not work at all.
The next problem to deal with is drift, getting it to work 'for a while' is easy, getting a PLL that is both fast enough to correct and long term stable is quite hard, more so if you want the thing to be physically robust. Even so I am already quite surprised that a few hundred bucks can get you to laboratory standard levels of accuracy and stability. Reproducing that without a GPS to guide you is very hard.
Those growth stats for Claude Code are pretty wild:
> Claude Code was made available to the general public in May 2025. Today, Claude Code’s run-rate revenue has grown to over $2.5 billion; this figure has more than doubled since the beginning of 2026. The number of weekly active Claude Code users has also doubled since January 1 [six weeks ago].
Doubling both annual run-rate revenue and weekly active users in the first six weeks of this year!
Which Super Bowl LX ads haven't backfired yet?
Lots to parse there. (1) the interesting politics that Lunarians would be possessive of volatiles on the moon and not want to spend them on refueling rockets or other exports but rather keep them in a circular economy (2) a believable mass driver doesn’t like like Acela the way you’d picture from Heinlein or O’Neill but looks more like the Paris Gun and goes up in one Starship load ex. the power supply and cooling system and (3) O’Neill never came up with a plausible catcher but I can picture a rotating cone that is in a sort of halo orbit slightly displaced from the L1 or L2 point where cargo is coming in close to the separatrix and not moving that fast.
My take is that's wrong, you don't want "mind-full-ness" but rather "mind-empty-ness".
I had a lot of anxiety when I was young and it went away, gabapentin was probably part of it, but I think also life experience was another.
I think preparation is the answer to performance anxiety. For about a month I have been "going out" as a character for doing photography and handing out business cards which has been a stupendously effective "flywheel" to the extent that students regularly flag me down. Unlike other street performers who frankly annoy people being aggressive I frequently get approached by several people a day and my answer is having the right props and a system that "works itself"
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/tagged/foxwork
I am working on improving my repertoire but the consistent theme now is that anything new is tuned up to be "self-working" so I can do it without any effort. Similarly I have had certain situations where I "lose my shit" and I focus on not getting into those situations.
Sensor fusion allows you to resolve that ambiguity, I wonder if Elon is really as in touch with this as you would expect. No single sensor is perfect, they all have their problematic areas and a good sensor fusion scheme allows you to have your sensors reinforce each other in such a way that each operates as close as possible to their area of strength.
No single sensor can ever give you that kind of resilience. Sure, it is easy in that you never have ambiguity, but that means that when you're wrong there is also nothing to catch you to indicate something might be up.
This goes for any system where you have such a limited set of inputs that you never reach quorum the basic idea is to have enough sensors that you always have quorum, and to treat the absence of quorum as a very high priority failure.
China is building so fast it won’t matter. They destroy 1M barrels a day in global oil consumption for every 24 months they build EVs at current production rates (which continue to increase), for example. ~25% of global light vehicle sales are EVs as of 2025, ~50% in China (the largest auto global auto market). The world is approaching 1TW/year of global solar PV deployment. Solar and storage are the cheapest form of generation, and will only continue to decline in cost.
Consider it a case study in governance failure. The US' failure is China's opportunity, and they appear to be taking it.
Ember Energy: China Cleantech Exports Data Explorer - https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e... - (updated monthly)
Our World In Data: Tracking global data on electric vehicles - https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales (updated annually)
Bloomberg: China’s Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed Entire US Power Grid - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/china-s-f... | https://archive.today/H0oos - January 28th, 2026
Ember Energy: The EV leapfrog – how emerging markets are driving a global EV boom - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-ev-leapfrog-how... - December 16th, 2025
Ember Energy: Over a quarter of new cars sold so far this year are electric as emerging markets reshape the global EV race - https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/over-a-quarter-of-ne... - December 16th, 2025
Ember Energy: Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-electricity-e... - June 21st, 2025
Bloomberg: The World Hit ‘Peak’ Gas-Powered Vehicle Sales — in 2017 - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/world-hit... | https://archive.today/p2hl1 - January 30th, 2024
Bloomberg: Electric Cars Pass a Crucial Tipping Point in 23 Countries - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-28/electric-... | https://archive.today/e8XSt - August 27th, 2023
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544375 (citations)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423660 (citations)
Can an irrevocable trust own the account? An LLC compute container could be the beneficiary with the LLC owned by the trust, potentially.
Trust (funding)->LLC (limited liability for compute operations, authority to orchestrate in meat space)->Trust
(a Montana LLC comes to mind, as beneficiaries can be anonymous, but Wyoming has superior charging order protections)
Hundreds of people is a village. I don't feel this is responsive to GP's point.
ICE was not “created from the criminal investigation arm of CBP and related agencies”, it was created at the same time, by the same law, as CBP and DHS, from some of the investigation and enforcement arms of INS and the Customs Service, with much of the rest of those agencies (including the Border Patrol, which had been one of the enforcement arm of INS) becoming CBP, and the routine "happy path" immigration functions of INS moving to USCIS under the Department of State.
> They are related but not the same. Under the current US regime, all the stops are being pulled out and all the lines blurred.
A large part of that is that notional function of the “immigration crackdown” falls logically in ICE's domain, and this was the justification for massively increasing ICE funding, but CBP (and particularly the Border Patrol) having much more of the no-rules culture that was sought for the operation, leading to CBP and Border Patrol personnel taking key roles in the operation (which is why, until he became something of a political scapegoat for the Administration policy, a Border Patrol area commander got redesignated a "commander at large" and then given operational command not just of Border Patrol involvement but the notionally ICE-led operation.)
Like all global finance goes through NYC, they will find a throat to choke if motivated.
>Holy fuck, this is Holocaust levels of unethical.
Nope. Morality is a human concern. Even when we're concerned about animal abuse, it's humans that are concerned, on their own chosing to be or not be concern (e.g. not consider eating meat an issue). No reason to extend such courtesy of "suffering" to AI, however advanced.
No corporate body ever admits wrongdoing and that's part of the problem. Even when a company loses its appeals, it's virtually unheard of for them to apologize, usually you just get a mealy mouthed 'we respect the court's decision although it did not go the way we hoped.' Accordingly, I don't give denials of wrongdoing any weight at all. I don't assume random accusations are true, but even when they are corporations and their officers/spokespersons are incentivized to lie.
Additional citations:
No Republicans to appear on ballot in 2026 New Mexico Senate election - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/4455727/no... - February 12th, 2026
Four New Mexico candidates disqualified after failing to meet ballot requirements - https://www.abqjournal.com/news/four-new-mexico-candidates-d... - February 10th, 2026
The Beginning of the End for Big Corporate Medicine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967788 - February 2026
When something goes wrong it saying "Who let these lab monkeys free?" would be excellent.
About that…
RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum: https://www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutrition-chatbot-recommends...
Out of curiosity, how many Wh does an LLM burn to output something, and how many does a human for similar output? I wonder what's more energy-heavy.
Nobody is saying LLMs definitely think/reason/whatever. The GP is saying that we don't know they don't. Do you disagree?
I think you're doomed.
People who aren't crypto degens just want to "stop the insanity". Like drop you into a black hole and drop that black hole into another black hole.
It's kinda late to be into crypto, I mean, we are on internet time so in 2026 this is like the only music you listen to is Chuck Berry and Elvis.
Helps justify moving away from them I suppose.
https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dislocatedworker/warn/2026/2026021...
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What happens to a small Nebraska town when 3,200 workers lose their jobs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362052 - December 2025 (5 comments)
I was initially hopeful about HDR but when I found out how it was implemented I thought: that's a way to make certain that both the SDR and HDR versions will look wrong every time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
> Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute.
Now do the cost of unchecked emissions.
(And Leavitt is hardly a reputable source.)
If you look through the commit logs on simonw/research and simonw/tools on GitHub most commits should either list the prompt, link to a PR with the prompt or link to a session transcript.
> Can we make a balloon for Tsa that is harmless and will cost too much to fight and demonstrates the pointlessness of Tsa?
You don't need a balloon. A real gun will do.
https://abcnews.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-ope...
"The news of the failure comes two years after ABC News reported that secret teams from the DHS found that the TSA failed 95 percent of the time to stop inspectors from smuggling weapons or explosive materials through screening."
My more advanced prompt, for when models do a good job on the original, is this one:
> Generate an SVG of a California brown pelican riding a bicycle. The bicycle must have spokes and a correctly shaped bicycle frame. The pelican must have its characteristic large pouch, and there should be a clear indication of feathers. The pelican must be clearly pedaling the bicycle. The image should show the full breeding plumage of the California brown pelican.
It being a terrible benchmark is the bit.
My son noticed that the Ithaca school district had a policy of not holding black students accountable for attendance which was motivated by "anti-racism" but would be racist by Kendi's own criteria because it is a policy that fails black people.
They have a laser, and the desire to play with it.
https://www.sunbeltrentals.co.uk/news-and-blogs/decrease-you...
> Of course, we know that fuel consumption varies drastically from machine to machine, so we’ve looked at an example of a very high utilisation rate too. We found that an 8T excavator that spent 11 hours and 3 minutes working, 1 hour and 6 minutes of which were idle, it used 89 litres of fuel and resulted in 237.4kgs of carbon emissions. 4 hours saved on that machine would be a total of 84kgs of carbon emissions on average.
https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/how-much-co2-does-t...
> To determine the amount of carbon dioxide a tree can absorb, we combine average planting densities with a conservative estimate of carbon per hectare to estimate that the average tree absorbs an average of 10 kilograms, or 22 pounds, of carbon dioxide per year for the first 20 years.
As long as they're not taking all day for one tree, I think they'll be OK.
Access is not that good. I've got decent insurance and a great primary care doc. I have a long list of indications for taking a GLP-1 but the insurance is fixated on A1C. He says he's had trouble getting the drugs paid for by insurance and pointed me to a specialized clinic with an 8 month wait to get an appointment. My last A1C was barely high enough to qualify, I'm expecting my next one to be better and I might not qualify but who knows, the rules might change by then or that specialist clinic might be able to talk up everything else on my chart.
Useful, thanks for the contribution to HN/LLM knowledge base!
And then there's the actual discussion in #31130 which came to the conclusion that the performance increase had uncertain gains and wasn't worth it.
In this case, the bot explicitly ignored that by only operating off the initial issue.
I think the author is missing a key distinction.
Before, lines of code was (mis)used to try to measure individual developer productivity. And there was the collective realization that this fails, because good refactoring can reduce LoC, a better design may use less lines, etc.
But LoC never went away, for example, for estimating the overall level of complexity of a project. There's generally a valid distinction between an app that has 1K, 10K, 100K, or 1M lines of code.
Now, the author is describing LoC as a metric for determining the proportion of AI-generated code in a codebase. And just like estimating overall project complexity, there doesn't seem to be anything inherently problematic about this. It seems good to understand whether 5% or 50% of your code is written using AI, because that has gigantic implications for how the project is managed, particularly from a quality perspective.
Yes, as the author explains, if the AI code is more repetitive and needs refactoring, then the AI proportion will seem overly high in terms of how much functionality the AI proportion contributes. But at the same time, it's entirely accurate in terms of how this is possibly a larger surface for bugs, exploits, etc.
And when the author talks about big tech companies bragging about the high percentage of LoC being generated with AI... who cares? It's obviously just for press. I would assume (hope) that code review practices haven't changed inside of Microsoft or Google. The point is, I don't see these numbers as being "targets" in the way that LoC once were for individual developer productivity... there's more just a description of how useful these tools are becoming, and a vanity metric for companies signaling to investors that they're using new tools efficiently.
It's mildly cute once.
But as a point on what is likely to be a sigmoid curve just getting started, it gets a lot less cute.
The elephant in the room there is that if you allow AI contributions you immediately have a licensing issue: AI content can not be copyrighted and so the rights can not be transferred to the project. At any point in the future someone could sue your project because it turned out the AI had access to code that was copyrighted and you are now on the hook for the damages.
Open source projects should not accept AI contributions without guidance from some copyright legal eagle to make sure they don't accidentally exposed themselves to risk.
Take a look at parquet.
You can also store arrow on disk but it is mainly used as in-memory representation.
> In many cases, they are using detention where a simple bond would work.
But the bonds didn't work! That is what the prior administrations did, and the result of that was 22 million illegal immigrants in the country (according to a Yale and MIT study from 2018: https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twic...).
The law specifically provides for detention and release on bond as two alternatives the Attorney General may choose between:
"On a warrant issued by the Attorney General, an alien may be arrested and detained pending a decision on whether the alien is to be removed from the United States. Except as provided in subsection (c) and pending such decision, the Attorney General— (1) may continue to detain the arrested alien; and (2) may release the alien on— (A) bond of at least $1,500 with security approved by, and containing conditions prescribed by, the Attorney General; or (B) conditional parole..." 8 USC 1226(a).
Read a good biography of Disraeli. Can't help looking his arc being "couldn't make up his mind about the corn laws" but maybe a good politician can't make up his mind when the public can't.
I am still laughing my ass off that The Economist gets flagged today as a left leaning publication when it was founded to advocate for free trade and still does... And of course they are politically homeless in the UK these days!