MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by monerozcash | 2026-01-03 15:14:10+00:00
> Which is why if you are going to overrule the laws of another nation, you should have at least some backing from the UN first. Deciding on your own that the the courts are wrong is just international vigilantism.

On the other hand, if much of the world agrees with you anyway, not bothering with asking the UN might not matter at all.
by nickthegreek | 2026-01-03 15:14:20+00:00
I didn’t sneak anything in - you failed to follow a thread. Why are you trying to put that on me? It’s okay to admit fault and take responsibility. It is obvious at this point that you do not care or won’t take the time to understand the conversation or respond in good faith.

My concern covers all LEO fucking with American citizens, especially the masked and unidentified ones.
by Noaidi | 2026-01-03 15:14:45+00:00
No no no no. We get to have an opinion of Maduro and we should because you have an opinion by saying it is a wrong.

This is not a "regardless" situation. Bookmark this because the support for Maduro AND socialism in Venezuela is strong. They will never let you see socialism succeed because then all our own oligarchs would be out on their a$$e$. This is nothing but some trumped up capitalist Monroe Doctrine BS.

Watching all the Venezuelan CIA toadies on the news this morning was so infuriating.

Both Edmundo González and María Corina Machado are fascists right wing creeps that were working with the US for this to happen.
by retrodaredevil | 2026-01-03 15:16:17+00:00
That's simply not true. If you scratch a vinyl record, you've introduced a defect to it. If you scratch a CD, it's probably fine. Some CD players don't like scratched CDs, but for the most part CDs are very durable.

Plus if you damage a CD, simply rip it and burn it to a CDr. (did I mention that ripping a damaged CD usually works?)

You are right about vinyl sleeves being more attractive, though. I think that's its main selling point.
by herewulf | 2026-01-03 15:16:19+00:00
Because the US completely botched stabilizing the country despite 10s of thousands of troops on the ground for years. Meanwhile the indigenous insurgency and the previous to the invasion non-existent but subsequently massed foreign Al-Qaeda in Iraq both ensured no meaningful exports could be accomplished.

In Venezuela it's extremely unclear how suddenly creating a giant power vacuum will allow the US to obtain Venezuela's oil.

On one hand, this seems classic from the Trump Admin in that rash actions have been taken with no future plans in place (cf. DOGE), on the other hand this does appear in line with the promise of "no forever wars" (no sustained US ground presence) and if the US does actually end up with the oil, then it will be at a very low cost (in terms of US blood and treasure).
by grumple | 2026-01-03 15:16:25+00:00
This is a core problem of international politics.

We allow brutal dictatorships to continue subjugating tens of millions of people and killing millions in the name of convention. Our international organizations (the UN in particular) are basically ruled by authoritarian regimes. Is there no justification for external powers to effect regime change? We just have to wait and watch as the dictator kills a ton of people? Oh, and of course there is Maduro's support for Putin via sanctions evasion. Even now, Venezuelans face a brutal security force that is likely to retain power, but hopefully that power fragments.

Imo we should have done this right after the last election which Maduro stole.
by posed | 2026-01-03 15:16:34+00:00
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by ziml77 | 2026-01-03 15:16:45+00:00
What is confusing about that? That's like complaining that you can write an IPv4 address as 001.002.003.004 or 1.2.3.4. Even the :: isn't much different from being able to write 127.0.0.1 as 127.1 (except it now becomes explicit that you've elided the zeroes).
by everdrive | 2026-01-03 15:17:08+00:00
No, my connections time out for a brief period of seconds or minutes and then everything is fine for the next two years (until my ISP cycles my IP out again) and I don't actually need to do anything to resolve this. I wouldn't even know when my IPv4 address changed because the impact is so minor. uPnP may be on by default but that doesn't mean most people are actually using it for anything.
by CjHuber | 2026-01-03 15:17:28+00:00
I still don’t get these kinds of comments. Is it supposed to be funny because it’s so hyperbolic? I’d hope debates here would at least acknowledge that he’s pursuing some broader aims even if most of it is probably just to benefit his friends. Does anyone really think his actions lack any ulterior motives especially with how the cabinet is selected? You can‘t deny that he has more agency then a Government-by-committee-by-proxy like Bidens final years were like, where it really felt like it was dementia taking over. I feel it’s absurd to claim that a president is incompetent for not serving his people if that is not his goal in the first place.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-03 15:17:30+00:00
> , there should be a general prohibition against kidnapping/assassination of de facto heads of state, regardless of whether they were legitimately elected or are dictators.

Since ideas don't execute themselves, who would you pick to enforce this prohibition, never mind even getting 100%(?) alignment from countries what the conditions are for "kidnap", "assassination", and "de facto head of state"?
by paganel | 2026-01-03 15:17:44+00:00
> Why have you concluded the US is unable to put anything in the place of Venezuela's previous government?

Because they failed doing that in Iraq and Afghanistan, both cases where they did try, and there is also Libya (where they did not try all that much, if at all, I'll give you that). I mean, they did put some of their puppets in both Kabul and Bagdad, but the puppets in Kabul eventually got swept by the Talibans, while the puppets in Bagdad switched over to Iran's side by 2015-ish.
by neogodless | 2026-01-03 15:17:50+00:00
I believe this was Dec. 2023 through Feb. 2024 (I should add dates to my little "blog"...):

https://www.retorch.com/blog/linux-mint.htm

If I remember, Linux Mint was on kernel 5.15 at the time.

The TL;DR is that fractional scaling was broken under Cinnamon, and Brightness controls were broken under KDE.

Most gaming was good, but a brand new game (Hogwart's Legacy) had major issues, including crashing and vastly worse performance compared to Windows. Another game wouldn't work with multiplayer (Anno 1800) which meant I couldn't play it with my spouse.

So I'm tempted to go back, give Linux 6.8 or 6.11 a try, and see if those issues are fixed. (I sold that laptop to a family member, so I'd probably try it on a newer Legion 5 Pro, but still with Nvidia graphics.)

For my primary machine though... what I would miss most is DxO PhotoLab. I love my Fujifilm XT-5 and mirrorless photography, and I love editing with DxO. I tried Lightroom, darktable, and a few other pieces of software, but I kept going back to PhotoLab. It's not objective - it's very subjective but I get the most joy out of using PhotoLab for editing.

I really hope (like throw a wish in a bottle) that companies like DxO consider supporting Linux[0] but I doubt it's even on their radar. Software like this uses hardware in demanding ways, and it isn't trivial to support it.

Now, this is one person's anecdote, but I do think it's a factor in overall mainstream acceptance. For Linux users, after years or decades of use, they've embraced the software available to them, but for Windows / macOS users, they will often have to consider what compromises they'll have to make. (I know Adobe is thrown around a lot, and it's a fine example, but I don't like Adobe's subscription model... I still gave it a fair shake but enjoyed PhotoLab much more!) But I think my point will still be that there's a chicken-and-egg scenario, and it's taking a very long time to get Linux to the kind of market share it needs to start forcing the hands of the thousands of companies that don't currently support Linux.

[0] https://support.dxo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406558299537-Syst...
by sph | 2026-01-03 15:17:56+00:00
Your original comment is justifying the bombing of a foreign country and kidnapping of its leader, not whether a leader can be seen as illegitimate. That is not reasonable at all.

Step out of your American exceptionalist bubble for a second. How would you like if the inverse were true? There's some shady elections in US so Venezuela decides to throw bombs on Washington. How would you enjoy that?
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2026-01-03 15:18:12+00:00
This is the Ron Paul position and its a solid one.

The non-intervention principle applies if you are not actively suffering intervention.

The flaw however, is that applying non-intervention in this instance, chooses to ignores the real direct hurt currently endured by non-actors (LATAM and US citizens) from the policies of Maduro.

I do concede that whatever follows may be worse.

If I'm getting poked by a neighbor for years and i finally punch back, punching is a valid response. If the neighbor then comes back later and shoots me with a gun, it doesn't mean that my act was invalid.
by close04 | 2026-01-03 15:18:15+00:00
The definition is probably not very precise. They started a war of aggression and every other country is tiptoeing around them. Iraq was also a regional power and got a very different treatment. So the “power” line isn’t so clear.

China on the other hand doesn’t get visibly involved in almost any remote conflict and they’re obviously a (if not the) superpower.
by notpushkin | 2026-01-03 15:18:18+00:00
> Private IP space is incredibly useful. I build it and set it up -- my ISP does not have control.

You can have that with IPv6, too. You can even get your own ULA prefix that (hopefully [1]) only you will ever use: https://ula.ungleich.ch/

[1]: Technically, it doesn’t prevent anybody else from using the same space as you. (And you can’t advertise it, of course.)
by MPSimmons | 2026-01-03 15:18:29+00:00
As far as I can tell from the narrative, Venezuela was basically serving as a puppet state for China, and if that's true, I would probably give that as the primary reason, but who knows. Maybe it's because Venezuela did poorly in the FIFA World Cup qualifier and this was action dictated by his recent peace prize award.

On a slightly more serious note, the charges against Maduro were actually filed in 2020: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/nicol-s-maduro-moros...
Ask HN: Any team-wide experience with vibe coding?
by tpetrina | 2026-01-03 15:18:42+00:00
There is a lot of content out for vibe coding, but it mostly comes from solo devs. Are there teams who are vibe coding and how do they solve the general problem of trust.
Sure, vibing for myself is fine as I will suffer the negative consequences - but would you send PRs for code review if you haven't really worked on the code?
I like vibe coding for small solo stuff, but I am looking for experiences from people where multiple devs vibe code on the same codebase. My gut feeling is that it cannot really work when multiple people are involved. And, to be completely honest, I would neither feel good sending this code to someone nor I would like to review something vibe coded by someone else.
by i7l | 2026-01-03 15:19:15+00:00
Indeed:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-e...

Or in the words of DJT (quoted in article):

> "We have the greatest oil companies in the world, the biggest, the greatest, and we’re going to be very much involved in it."

May the liberation of Venezuelan oil fields commence!
by runtimepanic | 2026-01-03 15:19:47+00:00
Nice work. Client-side stripping is especially important for privacy, since you don’t have to trust a server with the original image.

I ran into a similar problem from the opposite angle and ended up building ExifLooter. It focuses on discovering EXIF and geolocation data at scale across image URLs and directories, integrates with OpenStreetMap for visualization, and also includes a metadata-removal feature for cleanup after analysis.

Interesting to see more tools pushing awareness that image metadata is still an underrated privacy leak.

Also it is official on Kali Linux.

- https://github.com/aydinnyunus/exiflooter?tab=readme-ov-file...
by crazygringo | 2026-01-03 15:19:51+00:00
It mainstream media, it's not about providing cover or obfuscating.

It's simply about not claiming causality where it hasn't been confirmed.

They teach you this stuff in journalism school. Once it gets confirmed, the new articles describe it causally, explaining the attribution.

The only goal here is accuracy. It's standard journalistic practice.

(I'm not talking about ideological publications.)
by wiseowise | 2026-01-03 15:19:59+00:00
> The war started because of NATO and the US

"Bro please just look at the expansion map. I swear bro the war started because of NATO and the US. It’s not an invasion bro it’s a forced reaction to unipolar hegemony. Just one more provocation and the bear had to bite back. Please bro just admit it's a proxy war. I promise bro if the West just stayed out of the sphere of influence everything would be fine."
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-03 15:20:00+00:00
> Parents would eventually isolate you from those bad elements due to neighbors gossiping and the like.

That’s my point. Some Parents now expect technology to do their parenting for them in ways they were expecting to do themselves previously.

> I do not have kids,

I do have kids. So my opinions are based on what I’ve personally seen work with my kinds and my peers.

Parental controls shouldn’t be seen as a way to absolve the parents of their responsibility to monitor what their kids consume.

Yeah there will be occasions when things slip through, but that’s always been a risk even before smartphones and the web. What matters is you’re there, as a parent, to ensure leaks are not tidal waves, and to ensure children develop responsible use of technology.

This has always been something parents have had to manage. Both in the 80s and equally so now. Blaming technology is just another way of saying “I’m too lazy to keep tabs on my children”
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-03 15:20:29+00:00
These are all the same address too:
1.2.3.4, 16909060, 0x1020304, 0100401404, 1.131844, 1.0x20304, 1.0401404, 1.2.772, 1.2.0x304, 1.2.01404, 1.2.3.0x4, 1.2.0x3.4, 1.2.0x3.0x4, 1.0x2.772, 1.0x2.0x304, 1.0x2.01404, 1.0x2.3.4, 1.0x2.3.0x4, 1.0x2.0x3.4, 1.0x2.0x3.0x4, 0x1.131844, 0x1.0x20304, 0x1.0401404, 0x1.2.772, 0x1.2.0x304, 0x1.2.01404, 0x1.2.3.4, 0x1.2.3.0x4, 0x1.2.0x3.4, 0x1.2.0x3.0x4, 0x1.0x2.772, 0x1.0x2.0x304, 0x1.0x2.01404, 0x1.0x2.3.4, 0x1.0x2.3.0x4, 0x1.0x2.0x3.4, 0x1.0x2.0x3.0x4

v6 has optional leading zeros and ":: splits the address in two where it appears". v4 has field merging, three different number bases, and it has optional leading zeros too but they turn the field into octal!
by meowface | 2026-01-03 15:20:55+00:00
I am unsure. It's certainly very good that he's gone. I don't know if it meets the threshold. There being bloodier regimes is I actually think a reasonable counter-argument: should we topple all them, too?

If polls show over 95% of Venezuelans are happy with this outcome after three months, I may shift my position a bit. In general though, I think it's a bad precedent for the world superpower to bomb countries and abduct rules because the ruler is bad. Plus, Trump's motives here are not remotely pure.
by amake | 2026-01-03 15:21:18+00:00
This is the modern-day equivalent of asking the genie from the magic lamp for something, and getting something else that meets the letter but not the spirit of the request.

The smart thing to do is realize you don't know what you're doing, and don't rely on the genie at all. Or hire someone who knows how to tame the genie. Or whatever; someone else put it better: you fucked around and you found out. lol
by rambojohnson | 2026-01-03 15:21:27+00:00
Whether Maduro is corrupt, authoritarian, or illegitimate by your definition doesn’t suddenly make an undeclared foreign military strike to seize a sitting head of state acceptable. Sovereignty isn’t a reward for good behavior. It’s a constraint meant precisely to prevent powerful states from unilaterally deciding which governments get removed by force.

If the standard is “we can capture leaders we deem illegitimate,” then you’ve effectively endorsed a world where power, not law, decides regime change. You can oppose Maduro and still acknowledge that abducting a head of state via air strikes destabilizes a country of 30+ million people and sets a precedent that will be used by actors far less selective than the U.S.

Two wrongs don’t cancel out just because one feels morally satisfying. of course, we all drink the American imperialism koolaid here.
by hecifato | 2026-01-03 15:21:47+00:00
I’m hopeful for this product both becoming real and being good. No word on what Mediatek SOC they’re using on the spec sheet, plus what memory capacity we’ll be working with.

The people in my life I’ve shown this to so far have all shared my hopefulness. It seems to me that everyone who had a keyboarded Blackberry misses it for the utility of the device. I think Apple and the rest of the smartphone industry were correct on the direction mobile phones were heading. A big screen is great for viewing content but is not so great at doing things besides social media. This has become increasingly obvious as the iOS keyboard keeps on getting worse while more people use their iPhone as their only, or at least primary, computing device. I can’t speak to the Android space so I’m not sure if Samsung, Huawei, or Google devices are having similar on-screen keyboard issues.

One thing that is immediately disappointing about the product specs at this moment is the timeframe for updates. Two years of Android system updates plus 5 years of security updates is paltry compared to Samsung & Google’s recent change of tune on that front. It is pretty pathetic compared to Apple’s long-standing precedent of providing full OS updates for several years, even for phones that probably shouldn’t be on the latest version of iOS.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2026-01-03 15:22:12+00:00
A related idea is to improve the efficiency of a trebuchet by stringing heavy weighted nodes along the sling line. The biggest one built so far used one 50 pound node on the sling line to launch an 8 pound pumpkin 1500 feet, but the math says it keeps working better as you add more nodes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ruiMZYTc5HE
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-03 15:22:14+00:00
Thank you, interesting article. As a conscious content consumer, I had the feeling the writers and editors didn't leave things out, but underplayed aspects of the project that weren't flattering, like the initial public display of a "robot" actually being someone in a robot costume. I have a sneaking feeling that WSJ gave Musk and the project more than a few breaks.
by afian | 2026-01-03 15:22:26+00:00
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by Teever | 2026-01-03 15:23:18+00:00
It isn't necessarily just a non-interventionist stance. Someone could be taking this position in this situation because they're highly skeptical that the Americans involved in this have the ability or desire to proceed in a way that will result in a minimum of casualities or in a way that will bring about real democractic change to the region.

People want an Eisenhower doing these kinds of things, not whoever is doing currently doing it.
by magicalist | 2026-01-03 15:23:33+00:00
Also good to read the Hernández indictment from 2022[1] and the press release at the time[2].

> Maduro and Other High Ranking Venezuelan Officials Allegedly Partnered With the FARC to Use Cocaine as a Weapon to “Flood” the United States

> Hernández Allegedly Partnered with Some of the Largest Cocaine Traffickers in the World to Transport Tons of Cocaine through Honduras to the United States

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21698603-us-v-juan-o...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/juan-orlando-hern%C3...
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 15:23:52+00:00
> To answer the last question, routers would need IPv4+ support, just like ipv6 which already happened.

So exactly like IPv6: you need to roll out new code everywhere.

> The key is it's much easier for users to switch after. No dual stack, you get the same address, routes, DNS, and middleboxes like NAT initially. ISPs can't hand out longer addrs like /40 until things like DNS are upgraded in-place to support that, but again those are pretty invisible changes throughout the stack.

So exactly like IPv6: you need to roll out new code everywhere.

Would organization have rolled out in IPv4+ any differently than IPv6? Some early, some later, some questioning the need at all. It's the exact same coördination / herding cats problem.
by monerozcash | 2026-01-03 15:23:58+00:00
I think you're misreading my original comment, I was merely stating that there will be no meaningful calls for Trump admin to justify themselves because they succeeded in pulling this off without making a mess.

>Step out of your American exceptionalist bubble for a second. How would you like if the inverse were true? There's some shady elections in US so Venezuela decides to throw bombs on Washington. How would you enjoy that?

I'm neither from the US, nor a huge fan of the US.

I do think Venezuela could probably have been right to depose Trump in a similar manner had he managed to cling to power after January 6, but that's an absurd thing to speculate about.
by adventured | 2026-01-03 15:24:02+00:00
It took decades for the US to stabilize itself as a nation after its birth.

Why would you think Iraq would find it easy to stabilize itself post Hussein, such that you'd declare their future void already. Iraq is not yet a failure and is dramatically more stable than it was under Hussein (dictatorships bring hyper instability universally, which is why they have to constantly murder & terrify everybody to try to keep the system from instantly imploding due to the perpetual instability inherent in dictatorship).

Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Kuwait, and most of Eastern Europe (which the US was extremely deep in interfering with for decades in competition with the USSR). You can also add Colombia to that list, it is a successful outcome thus far of US interference.

I like the part where people pretend the vast interference in positive outcomes don't count. The US positively, endlessly interfered in Europe for the past century. That interference has overwhelmingly turned out well.