MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aglavine | 2026-01-03 15:24:24+00:00
Full diaclosure: I am from Argentina. I interact daily with exilees from Venezuela. They are coworkers, they drive my Uber. They are totally happy about this.

About trust and respect, I don't see any change. Leftist will keep their mantra and Normal people will mind their business.

About the 'master plan'. No one commenting here really knows. As I mentioned to avoid criminal cartels controlling three countries and spreading it is not something I would discard. Imagine if they get nukes. Or they can start to systematicallly buy politicians in USA, as they do in Mexico.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-03 15:24:58+00:00
Good call on the China angle. Maduro is a first grade asshole. But this is just one bully taking out another on a pretext. I'm thinking more along the lines of a gang war over territory than a goal of lifting up Venezuela to the point that they will be freely able to deal with whoever (or nobody) when it comes to their natural resources.
by dismalaf | 2026-01-03 15:25:07+00:00
The Arab world is different because the people are largely fundamentalist and there's many extremists while the governments are relatively moderate. So get rid of the government and all the extremists take over.

Venezuela is Catholic and while it definitely has crime issues, there's no religious/fundamentalist element to the violence so the odds of anyone fighting to the death to support their failed dictator and his ideology is slim to none.
by grumple | 2026-01-03 15:25:44+00:00
Unfortunately the non-democratic nations outnumber the democratic nations at the UN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

It's why the UN has an obsession with a tiny democracy in the middle east and ignores the multitude of brutal dictatorships which oppress and kill far more people around it and across the globe.
by BenjaminHas | 2026-01-03 15:25:51+00:00
Thanks for sharing, runtimepanic! ExifLooter looks really interesting! I like how it tackles EXIF and geolocation at scale and integrates with OpenStreetMap. That kind of tool is definitely complementary to what I built with MetaRefresh.

I completely agree... metadata leaks are still widely underestimated, and it’s great to see tools raising awareness while giving users control.
by UniverseHacker | 2026-01-03 15:26:15+00:00
You’re getting downvoted but your take is simply the truth. Trump does not think like a politician or leader- he does not listen to, care about, or consider things like facts or broader consequences. Insiders in his administration have repeatedly leaked that they are not allowed to communicate information or facts to him, and he never shares reasons for his orders, they have to creatively make that up after the fact for the media. He operates the presidency as a reality TV show, he is interested only in how an action will play with the public and his base in the short term- will it increase his power and help him shift public narratives the way he wants, or not?
by freetime2 | 2026-01-03 15:26:34+00:00
For anyone who thinks IPv6 is without merit, I recommend reading up on the various challenges of NAT traversal [1]. In cases where CGNAT is deployed in particular, there are scenarios where the only way to make everyday P2P connections work is to route traffic through a 3rd party - which can impact latency and bandwidth.

While IPv6 doesn’t make establishing a P2P connection trivial (there are still firewalls to contend with) - it does simplify things dramatically. And as someone who is behind CGNAT, I am very grateful for the existence of IPv6.

[1] https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works
by gamer191 | 2026-01-03 15:26:41+00:00
Rubbish. That analogy is like comparing a gun manufacturer to a hitman service.

Elon Musk is willingly allowing Grok to be used to harass women (and children). He could easily put in safeguards to prevent that, but instead he chooses to promote it as if its a good thing.

Practically no one defends websites that host AIs to remove clothing from photos of women, or put them in bikinis. The few people who do defend them are usually creeps who need their hard drive searched. Same goes for anyone defending this
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-03 15:26:45+00:00
That would only happen if all of v6's growth is coming from mobile users, no mobile networks are growing/deployed without v6, and also no users are dropping their wired connections.

You can look at the AS breakdowns on APNIC's stats and see that ASs that serve non-mobile customers are getting v6, and that some ASs for mobile users aren't. So no, it won't stall.

Slow down perhaps, but it has to slow down at some point or it'll go above 100%.
by macybosts | 2026-01-03 15:26:56+00:00
Wow, that sounds absolutely intense. I can’t even imagine experiencing ego death like that. Honestly, I think I’ll stick to my safer addictions... I’ve been obsessing over this 'Square Face Generator' lately. It makes these derpy, ugly-cute avatars that are just hilarious. My brain is happy enough with square faces, no extra dimensions needed. https://www.squarefacesgenerator.com
by wiseowise | 2026-01-03 15:27:27+00:00
I'm sure you wish well, but

> Pre 2014 no Russian person would directly wish/hope/wait for the annexation of Crimea.

is just bollocks.

> On 21 May 1992 the Supreme Soviet of Russia declared 1954 transfer of Crimea as having "no legal force", because it was adopted "in violation of the Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Russian SFSR and legislative process", but because subsequent legislation and the 1990 Russo-Ukrainian treaty constituted that fact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Crimea

Russians were planning Crimea takeover for a long time.
by alabut | 2026-01-03 15:27:41+00:00
Promoting the good parts is very worthwhile and there’s a thriving scene. A bunch of interesting people talk over zoom and IRL regularly because of events.indieweb.org and we just had our 3rd annual weekend camp here in San Diego a few weeks ago.

I don’t know about the rest of big social media switching away, so I’m personally just focused on appreciating the community that’s been built up already instead of evangelizing. Maybe I’m wrong and something open will go viral, like the new Loops video app.
by ModernMech | 2026-01-03 15:28:18+00:00
I'm not a lawyer either but I did follow the cases closely. My opinion is that Merrick Garland did a disservice to the country by not appointing a SC immediately, but beyond that Jack Smith moved with lightning speed in prosecuting the cases. Moreover, Congress did make the bad guys look bad -- they held a whole summer's worth of hearings where they prosecuted the case in public, offering plenty evidence. And I encourage you also to look at how it was the Supreme Court who slow walked their decisions, which ultimately benefitted Trump in obscene ways. You can't venue shop SCOTUS.

One thing about prosecuting a former POTUS for the first time is it has to survive the test of time. You can't behave like them if you want the prosecution to be legitimate, because they are lawless. But it was the failure of voters to do their due diligence to not elect a felon who bear the ultimate blame, as they are the final check. Now we bear the consequences. But again, not for lack of trying.
by justonceokay | 2026-01-03 15:28:20+00:00
I began smelling (ha!) much more acutely after living for a few years with some country bumpkins in Seattle. We would take walks together and they could smell mushrooms, flowers, animals, and other things on the wind that I was not privy too.

I think in cities we just aren’t taught to use our noses so that muscle doesn’t get exercised.
by hearsathought | 2026-01-03 15:28:43+00:00
The media has been branding maduro a narco-terrorist for a while now. And trump has declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction and exclusively blamed venezuela for it. The establishment has a playbook and they stick to it. Let's not forget the nobel committee gave a "peace prize" to a woman advocating for war against venezuela.

> Or did a very lousy job of it.

It's more obvious than lousy.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-03 15:29:03+00:00
> are you seriously saying Maduro had Hitler-like potential to ignite global war if we didn't stop him?

No, and in fact the comparison to Hitler felt out of place. I'm simply saying that it isn't as black and white that one should NEVER remove a head of state.

What I will concede is that catch 22 of not knowing how the future will play out, so how COULD you confidently and with wide agreement intervene BEFORE someone commits atrocities.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-01-03 15:29:12+00:00
14 hours is a solid trek! The 30 hour+ rides were relatively uncommon for us. I'd say the majority were closer to what you've done.

For sure, riding at night is awful. I'm too risk-averse to do it much these days. I've got kids who depend on me to be more careful than that.

We typically left around 4am, and on some rides would finish after midnight if not riding most of the night. Those dark hours were always pleasantly low-traffic, yet I always wondered if the ratio of drunk and/or tired drivers was far worse.

I think that's really the only part I don't miss, come to think of it. Headlights at night were always unsettling.
by neilalexander | 2026-01-03 15:29:13+00:00
Because there isn't "empty space" in the IPv4 packet header (or even the pseudoheader format from which TCP or UDP checksums etc are derived) to expand your new bits into. By breaking the packet format, you just invented a new network protocol that all of the routers, firewalls and middleware of the world don't know how to handle.
by adriand | 2026-01-03 15:29:48+00:00
> Fundamentally on the moral level removing oppressive tyrants like Sadam, Maduro, Gaddafi etc. is the right thing to do.

If the issue was what was “right” then Trump wouldn’t have cozied up to Putin and abandoned Ukraine, or cozied up to MBS and waved away his murder of a US journalist, and on and on it goes. This administration has zero moral credibility. I don’t know what will happen in Venezuela but we should all be skeptical of fruit from a poisonous tree.
by altmanaltman | 2026-01-03 15:30:05+00:00
In the interest of helping you understand what I was saying, the two quotes are completely contradictory (even if the base argument is correct/valid).

The first one says we shouldn't follow Netflix's example because it is a massive company with an enormous team. The second one says we should follow the example of these companies instead, while ignoring that they are also a huge company with a massive team.

So the criticism/joke stems from the logical inconsistency between the two. The fact that you stopped with microservices, using a rant about Netflix, while at the same time lauding monoliths, using companies of similar scale as examples, highlights your lack of understanding of using team scale as a reason to pursue either alternative. Dealing with such a person in management is common where they often contradict their own reasoning and pick whatever they fancy at that time. You cannot argue logically when the system changes are not based on objective standards but subjective standards, where you can be wrong for one thing but they can be right for the same thing.

That's why it seems like the person making the decisions is lost in terms of the choices they're making.
by cjbgkagh | 2026-01-03 15:30:36+00:00
I think uncompetitive compensation is the dominant factor in Microsoft’s decline. Up there with stack ranking. They claim that it’s 30% cheaper to live there but then they go and capture most of that 30% for themselves.

It is my opinion that developer ability is on a Pareto distribution, like the 80 20 rule when 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people. The job market is more liquid for those that are extremely productive so it’s pretty easy to for them to get a pay rise of 30% by switching companies. In the worst case you can often come back with a promotion because, like many companies, Microsoft is more likely to promote you when trying to poach you back. Doing a 2 year stint at Amazon was quite common. The other problem is that when your best people leave is that the process is iterative, not only are you getting paid less but you are now working with people who couldn’t easily switch jobs. You start being surrounded by incompetence. Stack ranking, which I hear is still being done unofficially, also means that you put your promotion and career in danger by joining a highly productive team. So it is rather difficult to get highly productive people to work on the same team.

Being paid less, being surrounded by incompetence, and being forced to engage in constant high stakes politicking really sucks.
by epistasis | 2026-01-03 15:30:43+00:00
You ar also doing "trust me bro" with a statistical analysis that at most shows that prices rise with wages when supplies are constrained. Which, yes! That's what everyone says! K shaped recoveries happen when there's unequal access to opportunity, and supple constraints in access to the geography of good incomes is exactly the sort of supply constraints. Further, in order to get their weak results they do silly things like transform "supply constraints" into an indicator variable, and on the basis of that single odd regression try to overturn a huge body of literature showing the opposite.

Yet this one strange paper keeps getting cited as if it were God's own truth, the holy grail of economics that changes everything that was known before.

Supply restrictions are not binary, though that's how your paper treats them, and they perform none of the causal analysis that would be needed to extend their analysis to the conclusions you are trying to draw.

Here's a random paper with completely different results that agrees with the rest of the field:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009411902...

I remember the last time the "we can't change zoning" folks passed around a paper like the NBER paper you shared, and it was one about transit-oriented-development in Chicago, where allowing small upzonings close didn't change pricing much. It was contra to the vast majority of the literature, covered only a small geographic area with fully adequate housing supply, yet for a few years nobody could suggest doing the obvious zoning reforms without people claiming that Chicago proved that upzoning doesn't change pricing.
by sejje | 2026-01-03 15:30:45+00:00
So anyway, per your link: 170 citizens "wrapped up" by ice during between 327,000 and 605,000 deportations, depending on which source you like (I linked them in a different response to you in another thread).

Between .0005% and .0003% chance that if ICE grabs someone up, they're a citizen. I think that's a pretty good record, actually. I don't think it's very alarming.

We have 348 million citizens, 170 got held for...days! While we conducted the most effective deportation of illegals in history.

I'm pretty sure ICE isn't going to accidentally get me. This problem may as well be non-existent.

What's real is actual citizens wrapped up in actual bullshit with regular LEO. With probably several orders of magnitude difference, wouldn't you agree? Maybe thousands per day, instead of 170 per year? Costing folks more than a few days' detention.

Why do you figure they're wearing masks?
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-03 15:30:48+00:00
It infuriates me every time that I see Blair given publicity by the mainstream media and how he's still involved with international politics - especially the middle east/Israel. I did declare that I would never vote for Labour until they got Blair tried for war crimes (have voted for Greens since though most years that has been wasted as I live in Bristol which was a strongly Labour area).
by worksonmine | 2026-01-03 15:30:54+00:00
> First sentence says to look up 2014 protests and "her" supporters, second sentence says "it's" about the Black Sea and Crimea

Yulia Tymoshenko (pro-West), she urged her supporters to take to the streets when the pro-Russian candidate won the election. For a long time she wanted to withdraw from the Russian/Ukrainian deal that the Black Sea Fleet could be in Crimea until 202? (can't remember the exact year right now).

When those protests erupted Russia (unofficially) sent forces to protect their interests, Crimea. The conflict then escalated to the invasion.

> Third sentence "we've" always been at war with Eurasia

We as in the West, are always at war with the east. We want a world order where we are at the top of the food chain and we'll stop any attempt to rise. If we're going to prosper the rest of the world has to remain as cheap labor.

Look into any conflict this and the previous century and you'll see the same pattern. It's always been a game och risk between the East and the West.

One interesting thing to look into is which countries along the Russian border are not Nato members. Correlate this to where there has been pro-Western protests and even coup attempts in the last decade.

The world is run by psychopaths and they have most of their populations living in ignorance of how geopolitics actually work. My most important principle in life is to judge "my side" harder. Russia and China don't have to be our enemies, but a country is easier to run if there's an external threat. And that's why Oceania in Orwells' 1984 is always at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia.

It's a big subject and it's difficult to summarize in a comment, that's why I listed a few questions to look into. I can dump facts and events all I want but the best thing one can do is to look into these conflicts themselves and find the patterns. It's always about who's allied with who, and who's extracting the resources. Gas/oil/minerals/power.

We were fine with Saddam (that we put in power in the first place) trying to exterminate the kurds, but mention leaving the petrodollar, oh no you didn't.
by stusmall | 2026-01-03 15:31:12+00:00
> The people in Venezuela want democracy. It's a fundamentally different situation.

"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" - Dick Cheney (but I'm sure it'll work out this time)

There is a whole lot of directions this can go after we arrest the dictator, but a liberal democracy magically immediately popping isn't on my list. There might be one in the future but there will be a lot of chaos and violence between now and then.
Show HN: I built Planndu when task lists stopped working for me
by bashmaster | 2026-01-03 15:31:44+00:00
I used to take on way too many projects at once. One day, I opened my laptop and just couldn't work on the same thing again. Staring at my growing to-do list only made it worse. I was basically paralyzed by my own plans.

Then I tried something ridiculously simple I remembered from school: Pomodoro technique. 25 minutes. One task. Stop if you want. Somehow that tiny bit of focus actually worked.

That's why I built Planndu. It combines tasks, notes, and a Pomodoro timer in one place.
Sometimes, the simplest trick is all it takes to get moving again.
by Saline9515 | 2026-01-03 15:32:42+00:00
I gave you an example. You have similar examples in the XXth century, such as post-war amphetamin consumption in Europe.

The reverse is also true: the crack epidemic was caused by a dramatic increase in the supply of cocaine, which allowed even the poorest members of society to afford it. It's happening again now in Europe.

We can discuss about the criminalization of users and its effects on society, but in the case of the sellers I don't really see a case, especially when you know the conditions in which drugs are produced, involving often borderline slavery and wide corruption networks.
by basilikum | 2026-01-03 15:32:51+00:00
I'm not commenting on the Bitcoin economics, but on the specific problem of a partial hash inversion which Bitcoin uses. If any amount of compute you can bring up would grant you any significant amount of information about the likelihood of a (partial) hash inversion for an untested input in your search space by means of having searched a significant amount of the search space, SHA256 would be broken.

In hopefully simpler words; You want to find a hash with all zeroes. So you start trying inputs from your search space and hash them to see if they match that criterion. Every single input you try has the same probability of matching. After trying a lot of inputs you have exhausted a part of the search space. You have already tried many incorrect inputs. At some point if you keep only trying incorrect inputs you should have exhausted the whole search space and the last remaining possible input has to be the correct one resulting in an all zeroes hash. So the probability of the next hash being the correct one should go up during your search as you learn information about the remaining candidates in the search space. If this information is in any way significant in practice with any feasible amount of computing power, the cryptographic hash function is insecure. Of course with Bitcoin you aren't searching for a full hash inversion with all zeroes but only for a partial one starting with some zeroes, but that does not change the fundamentals. It should be infeasible to learn any significant information about the output of untried inputs by trying other inputs.

If SHA256 was to be broken in that way, we'd be in big trouble and Bitcoin would be the least of our worries.
by cataphract | 2026-01-03 15:33:30+00:00
What's that have to do with it being a sovereign state? By that standard, neither Russia nor China are sovereign states.

And it's not like the US gives a shit about democracy outside its borders. The CIA overthrew Jacobo Árbenz in the 50s, supported the military coup in Brazil in 1964, pinochet and Hugo Banzer in the 70s. This is normal behavior for the US in Latin America. It's nothing to do with concern for Venezuela's citizens.
by energy123 | 2026-01-03 15:33:57+00:00
I'm sorry that I spoke so uncarefully as to cause this reaction in you. I did not knowingly lie, although I may be wrong about many things. I will try to speak with more care next time, especially on topics related to people's identities, which is understandably a sensitive area of discussion that can contribute to fears even if that is not the intention. The world definitely doesn't need more xenophobia on social media.
by sandworm101 | 2026-01-03 15:34:08+00:00
Um... i see some red flags. This test to heat gasses in a furnace looks a little sus. It is basically a micowave oven ... in space!! My kitchen microwave can hit 1000c. Let styropyro at it and it could probably do 10,000c. Then i came across this gem on thier website.

>> Radiators facing cold space can freely produce temperatures near absolute zero for ultra-fast curing without the need for cryogenics.

https://www.spaceforge.com/

I dont see a path to a product. I see a company farming investment and government programs with overhyped "experiments" that have been already done many times. They even talk about testing a heat shield for reentry as if that tech is somehow new. Want to bring samples back? Send your microwave to the space station and bring them back like everyone else.
by michaelt | 2026-01-03 15:34:12+00:00
Right but "Don't kidnap/assassinate the enemy leaders" is often a good policy even when nobody will enforce that rule on you by force.

For example if your country is subject to a terror bombing campaign, it's very tempting to assassinate the one leader who had the power/respect/authority to order the attacks to start but often they're also the only leader who can order the attacks to stop

In the 1970s/1980s presumably the UK could have had IRA leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness assassinated. But it sure turned out to be useful, in the late 1990s peace process, that the IRA had identifiable, living leaders who could engage in negotiation, sign an agreement, and get the bomb makers to stop making bombs.