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by tpm | 2026-01-03 14:43:03+00:00
> As such, it carries no more legal weight than the security assurances provided by NATO.

There were no 'security assurances provided by NATO', but I also agree any political agreement signed or even ratified by Russia carries zero significance as they do not feel to be bound by it. They only understand force, not dialogue, and as such can't be a part of the civilised world.

> You are also incorrect on the historical point.

I am correct on that, there is no formal apology for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, for example.

> And that is just sheer racism and speech hate.

That may be, but it's also completely understandable in the face of russian behavior of the past over 100 years, of the russian public indifference to the heinous crimes perpetrated by their army in Ukraine and it is still way better and less racist and hateful that daily murdering Ukrainian children in their sleep.
by woooooo | 2026-01-03 14:43:25+00:00
First off, I'll give you credit for at least trying to justify this, it puts you ahead of the administration that can't even bother.

Second off, only #3b above (geopolitics) above could possibly count at all. We support dozens of dictators, don't give a darn about their people as long as it's geopolitically useful. So I've been conditioned to assume it's bullshit when someone says "we're doing it for the people there".

Third, and to your #3.. it's Venezuela. No disrespect to the people there but it's not exactly the lynchpin of international relations. Is this really worth it? For some crude which is really high in sulfur and not even that important given fracking? Even if I'm a Henry Kissinger psychopath, this still doesn't make sense.
by tyre | 2026-01-03 14:43:32+00:00
The US isn’t too progressive about addiction. The culture tends to blame it on the individual vs. the environmental causes (including over prescription of opioids) that lead to it.

We’ve pressured China to crack down on fentanyl and its precursors, which they have to some extent, but there isn’t someone to invade, really, to stop it.
by palmotea | 2026-01-03 14:43:41+00:00
You know, AI can still be fallible and destructive.

Business leaders are almost always willing to compromise quality for cost-reductions (offshore call centers with accent issues), or take a relatively satisfying job and refactor it into stressful one (e.g. just cutting half the team an expecting the other half to take up the slack). They don't need AI to do it, but AI will let them go father with those impulses.
by breppp | 2026-01-03 14:44:06+00:00
Western countries that had recently used that clause to assasinate terrorists is the US, UK and France. There is no reason to believe other european countries attacked by ISIS would not do the same if needed or if capable.

Regarding double tapping, that's exactly the modus operandi of assassinations, as the UAVs goal is not the car/ship but the people inside.

That said, the Venezuelan case is a huge overreach
by JoeAltmaier | 2026-01-03 14:44:09+00:00
What a publicity hound. Ratings plummeting? Nothing like a foreign war to pump the numbers.

Best it be a puny helpless country, so nobody (important) gets killed. Just some brown folk from South America, nobody cares about them.

Anything to serve the ego; absolutely no crime or moral outrage is off-limits. Long as it serves that endless pit that is ego.
by spwa4 | 2026-01-03 14:44:26+00:00
If you're going to go with conspiracy theories, China is desperate for oil and was openly allying with Venezuela, and so was, ironically, petrostate Russia, although that's ending (for now). I bet Putin is looking for contingency plans though. Even though Venezuela is not exactly the easiest to reach for either of them, but beggars can't be choosers. Preventing any progress here might have been worth a lot to both the US and the EU. And, yes, I know how it sounds, but this will be pretty helpful with the Ukraine war. Yes, really.

Of course leftist tankies will be mad the billionaire fake-communist "revolution" that started with Chavez and should have ended 20 years ago is now very likely over. Of course, most Venezuelans (75% according to the opposition) would describe that revolution as a nightmare.

Of course I doubt 75% of Venezuelans wanted the US to resolve it.
by whisperingByte | 2026-01-03 14:46:52+00:00
I need you to know that the discussion on this news on Reddit today was the last straw for me, there is no nuance. It’s just simple minded left, and right. I asked ChatGPT to help me find a site that might have more intelligent discussion more nuance, and this was the very first comment I saw after I registered my account and I literally let a sigh of a relief. Thank you.
by ModernMech | 2026-01-03 14:47:05+00:00
It’s clear you didn’t follow these cases if your opinion is the SC slow walked them to enhance Democrats’ electoral out look. They secured multiple indictments and were heading to trial, which they were likely to win. Delays were caused by Trump appointed Judge Cannon and Trump appointed SCOTUS justices.

Securing indictments and going to trial is an instance of actually trying. So you really can’t say they didn’t try, because that is factually false. It’s true they could have done more, but they didn’t do nothing as others are saying.
by mourner | 2026-01-03 14:47:05+00:00
Russian war industry just burns reserves for nothing — hundreds of billions spent on missiles and long range drones didn't achieve any strategic objectives, all those expensive modern tanks, armored vehicles and artillery systems gets demolished by $500 drones, russian soldiers mass switching from military vehicles to donkeys, horses, bikes & buggies. Russia is no longer able to defend their vast territory against Ukrainian long range attacks so their oil refineries and military factories explode every day. 150k+ verified deaths (with names) already vastly exceed any russian wars since WW2 and we know there are many times more unverified ones.

Sevastopol nuclear base is irrelevant to modern warfare, and the fleet (both ships and subs) is either on the bottom of the sea (like the flagship Moskva) or gone to hiding in Novorossiysk because they can't defend against cheap Ukrainian naval drones.

Capture of cities not on the agenda — of course every time they fail spectacularly at something they'll claim they didn't plan it anyway, lol. They attempted and failed the capture of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy & Mykolaiv, then had to flee from Kherson & much of the Kharkiv oblast, and they are no longer strategically able to attempt capturing any more — only slow creep over obliterated rubble of small towns by sacrificing a thousand people a day in meat grinders.

I can't believe you can be so delusional, it's just amazing what russian propaganda does to people.
by hexbin010 | 2026-01-03 14:47:24+00:00
So I just tried KDE with Fedora 43 on a 4 year old Intel Dell laptop (I've used Linux pretty extensively for 15+ years). It's hilariously bad :

- I managed to make a process crash just clicking around the Settings app

- Sleep doesn't work (spins up the fans, then turns them down, then turns off off displays etc but I then the fan are spinning, so something is running). Looking at the menu, supposedly Firefox is 'blocking' sleep, but I blocked it, and that just meant the fans stayed spun up during sleep. Wtf?

- Monitor connected via dock via USB-C only worked after I plugged it directly into the laptop then back into the dock

- WiFi is preferenced over Ethernet (?!)

- KDE default panel is 'floating' which means wasted pixels below it. Looks ugly and wastes precious vertical space. And the blue highglight of the active window is over the top. And the default panel height is 44 pixels!

- Default fonts especially in Konsole look ugly on a 1920x1080 laptop LCD.

- Booting takes forever

- Impressive it can stream to Homepods out the box...but it cuts out when you open the sound widget in the taskbar. And also at random points

- The default pop-up notifications are too numerous

- The Night Light quick option is to suspend it, not to enable it. Which is interesting, as it's not enabled currently. I want to enable it! There is no option to once-off enable.

EDIT:

- And during boot, the LVM2 unlock is only shown on the built-in display. Then the Login Screen is kind of mirrored, but updates are only shown on the external display ?! (ie password characters not filled in on the built-in display). Very odd

I love Linux, and MacOS might be turning into iOS and becoming buggier, but MacOS has none of those issues.
by wiseowise | 2026-01-03 14:48:30+00:00
> He won the election in the most corrupt country in Europe.

He won by a landslide regardless of corruption (if there ever was one during those elections). Everyone was fed up with Poroshenko, and Zelensky was seen as a new wave, young politician who will bring change (on top of his popularity as a comedian).

> he suspended the next election and no more elections have been celebrated ever since.

By "he" you mean constitution of Ukraine?
Show HN: Turn raw screen recording into precise guide with annotated screenshots
by docuagent | 2026-01-03 14:48:53+00:00
Before you say another RAG clone, please hear me out for a second.

The Problem:
As a creator: You have to screen record, edit, annotate, and then present. If anything changes, you redo the process.
As an end user: You have to watch a 5-minute video when all you need to know is 5 seconds of that video to perform a specific task.

The Solution:
For creators: Record and upload your raw screen captures. No further effort.
For end users: You ask a question, and you get exactly the document for your specific question with annotated screenshots.

How is this different from Scribe or RAG?
* vs. Scribe: Scribe is for active capture (clicking while you work). DocuFine is for passive extraction—it turns your existing raw videos or demos into guides after the fact.
* vs. RAG: Most video RAG just searches transcripts. DocuFine "sees" the UI using an LLM and then uses OCR to "snap" the annotations to the actual buttons, so the guides are spatially accurate even if the video is silent.

The site isn't live yet—I'm currently gathering feedback on the concept and demo before opening it up, as I'm still optimizing the LLM costs and extraction logic.

Demo Links:
- Initial Recording: https://streamable.com/c5gom5
- Query Asked: How do I find orders placed by a customer?
- Generated Output Guide: https://streamable.com/9c4ncj

End-to-End-Demo: https://streamable.com/hqb6te

Honest feedback appreciated!
by Sprotch | 2026-01-03 14:49:04+00:00
Thanks for this. I have read the executive summary and, actually, UK intelligence advised Blair that Iraq was not a threat to the UK and that military action would make things worse:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a80f42ced915...

So this was purely a political move on the part of Blair to cozy up to the US. Maddening.
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 14:49:13+00:00
> Adopting IPv6 doesn't alleviate the pain of IPv4 exhaustion if you still need to support dual-stack.

Sure it does: the more server-side stuff has IPv6 the fewer IPv4 addresses you need.

If you have money (or were around early in the IPv4 land grab) you have plenty of IPv4 addresses so can give each customer one to for NATing. But if you don't have money to spend (many community-based ISPs) you have to start sharing addresses (16:1 to 64:1 is common in MAP-T deployments). You also have to spend CapEx on CG-NAT hardware to handle traffic loads.

Some of the highest bandwidth loads on the Internet are for video, and Youtube/Google, Netflix, and MetaBook all support IPv6: that's a lot of load that can skip the CG-NAT if the client is given a IPv6 address.

If you can go from 1:1 to 16:1 (or higher) because so few things use IPv4 that means every ISPs can reduce their legacy addressing needs.
by Y_Y | 2026-01-03 14:49:30+00:00
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2024/08/02/what-are-the-odds-...

I don't think that blog says what you think it does.

Tao is using a deliberately limited model to make a probablistic claim, not saying he'd make a 10⁸:1 bet that the election was rigged.

The election may well have been rigged anyway, it doesn't change the fact that Maduro was the one sitting in the president's chair and carrying out the president's duties.
by kristopolous | 2026-01-03 14:49:30+00:00
The administration that has been saber rattling about "Tren de Aragua" and has had dozens of deportation flights of venezuelan refugees...

let me get this clear: you think this administration is somehow simultaneously raiding and deporting people to a place they are so empathetic to the refugee and asylum claim of that they are bombing it for humanity while also rejecting the asylum claims?

The administration that is pardoning major drug traffickers but bombs some boats on some theory of importing a drug that they do not make. Then they destroy all the evidence that could possibly demonstrate this?

And this has nothing to do with the fact that this country has more proven oil than Saudi Arabia? Or their chosen successor María Corina Machado wants to privatize oil on day 1, that's just you know, random noise?

Alright. Can't help you...
by megous | 2026-01-03 14:50:03+00:00
Yeah, I'll defer judgement of this for 5 years, after we see: results in Venezuela. How this emboldens other wannabe agressors elsewhere in the world, and where the erosion of respect for rules of UN charter will lead.

Until then, the only conclusion I’m comfortable drawing is this: anyone confidently declaring that kidnappings, bombings, and killings are great for democracy, without waiting to see if there are any real long-term benefits, isn’t offering serious analysis. They’re just enthusiastically clapping for violence and hoping history does the cleanup later.
by epistasis | 2026-01-03 14:50:24+00:00
That would be nice if true, but not really.

The building industry never really recovered after 2008 because the only surviving companies were extremely cautious. In order to get more builders, there needs to be more places to build, and entry into the industry needs to be easier. It's all permitting, zoning, and discretionary processes stopping housing from being built where it's wanted to be built.
by alt227 | 2026-01-03 14:50:48+00:00
> Oh, now it’s a problem because it’s been about a decade?

No, but taking over a decade to not even be half adopted does not count as rapid in my opinion.

> So what, another decade and we should be mostly done?

No, as I have said many many times, the graph is slowing.

> What do you think is a reasonable amount of time to redo the entire world’s networking infrastructure

We dont need to, thats the point. All networking equipment in the world already supports IPv6, so why isnt it at 100% usage and IPv4 is turned off already?

>This is an absurd argument, you know that right?

Who is the fool, the person saying what they think or the person continuing to participate in an argument they consider absurd?

You dont need to make everybody in the world agree with what you are saying, it is ok to have differing opinions. You know that right?

I am done now. I accept that you disagree with me and thats fine. Can you afford the same decency or will you continue to tell me I'm wrong?
by ben_w | 2026-01-03 14:51:08+00:00
No chargrin.

All Musk's valuations are based on his visions for what could be. It's just that for SpaceX, unlike for X and Tesla, "what could be" still seems plausible.

For Tesla… there is the argument that while "what could be" is very unlikely, if he pulls it off then it is also very valuable. But I not only don't think he can pull it off at all, even if he could don't think he will have market dominance sufficient to justify the price.

SpaceX… may have similar risks, depending IMO more on Chinese companies thinking "Great idea, let's do that but better" than e.g. European companies doing that. But even with that, 27x for current launches, and an additional 3x combined with that for other constellations plausibly gets them to around x80 even if Starship continues to not be reusable.

Starship is a big question mark for me. Assume it works: Would it be cheap enough to induce demand? Dunno. Not implausible, but I really don't know, and that is needed to get up to 700x.
by michaelt | 2026-01-03 14:51:16+00:00
I enjoyed this video, because one line of conventional thinking says if an attacker has access to your physical hardware, it's game over for security. And other parts of the tech industry envisage things like TPMs and Secure Boot protecting PCs and laptops against attackers with physical access.

Games consoles aim to prevent piracy/cheat modchips, even though the device owner has physical access and legal ownership. The levels Microsoft had to go to to prevent such attacks are something to behold.
by rsynnott | 2026-01-03 14:51:53+00:00
I mean, also, they haven’t had a new car in about 7 years (unless you count the joke truck thing, but c’mon now), and outside the US the competition has really made them largely irrelevant.

While Musk being a loony is certainly making things worse for them, even without that you’d expect them to be in a bad place.
by rchaud | 2026-01-03 14:51:56+00:00
Blackberry made regular slab phones too and they were massively outsold by the keyboard ones. Why would anyone buy a slab phone running an obscure OS that lacked any major apps, when Android and iPhone were available? The keyboard was always the selling point.

The fact of the matter is that the smartphone market could not support more than a few players. Blackberry was just one of several vendors without vertically integrated supply chains that disappeared: HTC, Nokia, LG and Sony all abandoned the market as well.
by woooooo | 2026-01-03 14:53:14+00:00
Well, as always, who decides the leader is illegitimate? Are the Saudis illegitimate, according the the rubric we put on Maduro?

The UN deliberately has no mechanism for this because it's a talking shop intended to help avoid war by providing a talking venue. That's the whole idea, they're not the world police, there is no such thing. They're a forum.

I'm absolutely not defending any given dictator but history shows that every attempt to remove a dictator "for the greater good" is usually 1) selfishly motivated and 2) backfires horribly.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-01-03 14:53:20+00:00
Believe me I know. But comments like this again betray your ignorance to the game. Retiree geriatrics run marathons too, nowhere near the pace of a young person. Same thing with golf. A younger person is able to generate sufficient torque to injure themselves in the swing. It is just how the physics work. No point in arguing against it.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-03 14:53:39+00:00
The guy that partially demolished the universal symbol of the United States abroad (the White House, in case that wasn't clear) and tends to not have a plan beyond the next meal would really surprise me if he had contingency plans in place for if this backfires somehow. Right now it is a toss up, it could go anyway from here.

The one thing that is a given is that kidnapping foreign heads of state - no matter how despicable - is now on the menu. I'm pretty sure that this isn't the last time we see this. And the pretexts are unconvincing given how Trump dealt with that other drug dealer. I'm guessing Maduro didn't want to play ball more than anything, this feels very personal.
by gnull | 2026-01-03 14:53:43+00:00
The reasons for doing something and public justification, aka casus belli, are different things. Casus belli makes it cheaper to execute, but reasons are what actually drives them.

The clowns and the reasons that drive them are the same for Middle East and Venezuela. Does it make it any better that they happened to have a casus belli that you or I may sympathesize with, given that the reasons not in line with our values? Even a broken clock is right once a day.
by xpe | 2026-01-03 14:54:07+00:00
For those interested in social science research, there are many ways to explore this empirically. You could mix and match some of the following approaches:

1. Ask a high-quality LLM in research mode to gather empirical statistics on how different GitHub projects are setup.

2. Put human eyes on the data you find, look for patterns, see what is interesting. (I recommend reading on approaches that promote transparency about the order in which you collect data, form hypotheses, etc.)

3. Put on your anthropologist hat and do open-ended interviews with project maintainers.

And so on.
by g947o | 2026-01-03 14:54:31+00:00
How does Google gather foot traffic data?

I assume from cell phone location?

Then I have more questions...

That makes sense for the average unsuspecting Android user who keeps location on all the time. "Proper" Android is more or less spyware from Google, so this is not surprising. But Pentagon people keep their work/personal Android location on all the time?

Otherwise, for iPhones, can Google get real-time location data when someone is not actively using Google Maps?
by kdavis | 2026-01-03 14:54:37+00:00
The 3rd section of the 14th amendment[1] states that no person having engaged in insurrection[2] shall hold any office, civil or military, in the United States. So technically Trump isn’t a legitimate head of state either.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

[2]https://www.npr.org/2025/12/31/g-s1-104190/capitol-riot-trum...
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2026-01-03 14:54:46+00:00
Then you get into the contorted question of whether what just happened, is war.

It is certainly an act of war.

De Jure we do need congress' permission for war, as you stated. You are correct.

De facto, limited interventions (especially, special ops missons) have not had a need for congress for a while now.
by al_borland | 2026-01-03 14:54:58+00:00
I’m drawn to the idea of a dumb phone, but I can’t realistically move to one full time, as I need an Authenticator app for work. Also, losing mobile access to my password manager would be a nightmare. Going with a smart + dumb phone setup feels like a non-starter. That’s adding more complexity to life, not removing it.

I tend to delete apps from my phone if I find myself spending too much time on them. My “social” folder in the app drawer contains Phone, FaceTime, and Messages. Just the built-in stuff. It also helps to have a healthy level of distrust of these companies, so you don’t want to use their services in the first place.

This doesn’t make the phone “dumb”, but it does make it more of a utility device. I go through my apps pretty regularly looking for stuff to delete. I still have more apps than I’d like, but they are mostly boring (banking, healthcare, etc).

The only big issue that remains is the browser. I can’t get rid of it, but it is still a portal to YouTube, HN, and other such things. This has its pros and cons.
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 14:55:25+00:00
> Peer to Peer games with no central authority would be so rife with cheating that you’d only ever want to play with friends, not strangers. That sucks!

Back in the the day RtCW had a server anyone could run and you could give out the address:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Castle_Wolfenstein

There was a server that a ISP / cable company in the southern US ran that I participate in and it was a great community with many regulars.

P2P can be awesome with the right peers.