MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johanvts | 2026-01-03 15:34:33+00:00
The US spend years building the UN and the system of international law and it benefits a lot from it. The US is like 4% of the world population and 2% of the area, but dominates pretty much anything you care to measure. It is really not in US interest to overthrow the current system. Its wild that the main threat to international order is coming from the US. Not just this latests development, but the talk of annexing Canada and Greenland, the undermining WTO and WHO etc. Read Hobbes, even the strong do not benefit from “jungle law”.
by CjHuber | 2026-01-03 15:34:50+00:00
Were they really campaign goals or were they just marketing material to win an election? It makes so much more sense to not view everything MAGA as stupid „because they are lying“. Well they’ve won the election. Is that not the goal of a campaign? I‘m not saying lying is good, but it’s not like a only minority of politicians do that and it’s not like only a minority of politicians then do the exact opposite of what they promised and incur damage to their country. Some do it by benefiting themselves like Trump, some do it by being to indecisive and weary like Merkel or Biden
by MrDarcy | 2026-01-03 15:35:00+00:00
TLS SNI routing has fixed the multiple authorities listening on one IPv4 address port 443.

Most ISP’s implement IPv6 by using the single IPv4 address as a v6 prefix. This results in the entire LAN needing to change local addresses every time the public IP changes. In practice this means a single brief power outage causes hundreds of devices to break instead of none.

Generally speaking ipv6 is useless for most home network users.

Overlapping 10/8 with corporate networks is not a problem, wireguard has solved this in all cases I’ve run into.
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 15:35:13+00:00
An observation:

> This argument means that any time a president wants to invade a country "legally," he just has to get his DOJ to indict the country's leader. It makes Congress' power to declare war totally meaningless.

* https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2007450814097305734#m

Also, the irony:

> the administration's position is that American courts can hold any president accountable for crimes, except the American president

* https://x.com/SevaUT/status/2007433614657552640#m
by drunx | 2026-01-03 15:35:23+00:00
I talk about people, not government. Unfortunately it's two different things. And of course I don't mean 100% of people. But percentage wise - you wouldn't say that majority wanted to "get it back". And that's my point - leaders are less and less represent the people.

As for the government - your are absolutely on point. And I don't disagree.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-03 15:35:26+00:00
It's also a threefold solution to Trump's current problems -

1. it takes the Epstien files completely out of media discourse, which is what Trump wants after it was pretty much confirmed that he's a pedophile.

2. it satisfies the biggest donors to the republican party - weapons manufacturers and oil companies.

3. it allows Trump to control the narrative, and makes the media forget about the drugs that were supposedly being exported from venezuela. truth is there are effectively no drugs coming in from venezuela. i saw a deep explainer on reddit (yes, it could entirely be bullshit) that basically said that venezula produces between 0.02 to 0.08% of all illicit drugs entering the USA per year. No idea how that is calculated, but it makes sense in the context that Houndouras' president was effectively pardoned by Trump, and Hondouras by its very location is balls deep in the drug trade

Bonus: honors the practice of a republican president invading a country under bullshit premises to capture oil. Bush I and II both did so.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-03 15:35:57+00:00
It was the goal with UAP and UWP, but they clearly messed up the execution.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/win32-and-com/win32-an...

Win32, the C API, is stagnant since Windows XP, other than some ...Ex and ...ExN kind of additions.

As mentioned above, the new APIs are mostly delivered as COM, occasionally with some .NET bindings.

There is still a silo trying to push WinRT now on Win32 side, although given how they made a mess of the developer experience only those with Microsoft salaries care about it.

This oldie shows some of the background,

https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt...
by pfdietz | 2026-01-03 15:36:00+00:00
Reducing ferric oxide to magnetite, perhaps, but I think if you tried that with ferrous oxide you'd get iron vapor coming off along with the oxygen.

An issue with any high temperature process is things start evaporating. This is part of why carbothermal reduction of aluminum oxide doesn't work: at the required temperature aluminum oxide is volatile.

(There are thermochemical water splitting technologies that exploit partially reducing transition or rare earth oxides at high temperature, then reacting them with steam at a bit lower temperature to make hydrogen. I believe cerium oxides are the current best approach there, although still not competitive.)
by ssunboyy | 2026-01-03 15:36:27+00:00
Hi, I'm Jeevan. I built this platform to document my journey learning electronics from first principles.

One of the biggest hurdles in learning hardware is the need for physical components to experiment with. Unlike computer science where all you need is a laptop, electronics usually requires a lab.

My goal is to bridge that gap by building a sandbox where anyone can simulate and experiment with circuits realistically. These interactive lessons are the result of my own learning process.
by throwaway777x | 2026-01-03 15:36:46+00:00
I don't think the US Congress has declared war since Word War 2.

I would say this is the exact same thing we did with Manuel Noriega in 1988.

Personally, I hate that we do these things but it is certainly not impossible in the long run the lives of the Venezuelans will be improved.

It is hard to get an exact figure but inflation last year was 150-200% and that is an improvement from what they had. 50,000% hyperinflation at the end of the last decade.

Given I was just annoyed at my grocery bill an hour ago because of 3% inflation I really can't imagine what life is like with that level of inflation.
by apawloski | 2026-01-03 15:37:26+00:00
It's interesting that you're anti-economic sanctions but pro-tariffs. This administration talking points specifically justify tariffs as punishments for countries' behaviors.

Anyway be clear, I'm talking about this administration. Specifically their choice to invade Venezuela and capture their head of state, while simultaneously pardoning the ex-Honduran head of state who was convicted for the exact same thing. When I say inconsistent, I mean: they are saying (vocally and militarily) that they are anti-drug cartel, but also they are apparently pro-some-cartels? It makes no sense to me.
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 15:37:30+00:00
> Note the US administration contends that he wasn't the legitimate head of state. [1] [2]

Trump contends that Biden wasn't the legitimate President because the 2020 election was rigged.

If Trump ends up contending the 2026 mid-terms are not legitimate is that valid too? Are they able to act on those contentions to… do stuff?
by macybosts | 2026-01-03 15:37:52+00:00
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. I'm still easily amused by simple gadgets. Currently, I can't stop playing with this thing called Square Face Generator. The avatars come out looking so cursed yet adorable (ugly-cute). I've made like 50 of them today, send help lol
by vmg12 | 2026-01-03 15:37:55+00:00
What happened in Europe after WW2? Dick Cheney didn't invent the idea of America liberating a country and being greeted as liberators, it had happened before, specifically in countries that had a history of liberal democracy.

For some reason he thought it would apply to Islamic theocracies and it clearly didn't. Pattern matching Venezuela against Iraq or Afghanistan is an obvious mistake.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-01-03 15:38:18+00:00
I live in one of Venezuela's neighboring countries. Everybody knows he wants the oil. Everybody knows there's pretty much nothing we can do if he attacks in order to get it. America's military capabilities are so far beyond south america that it's actually pretty sad. There's nothing to do but try to look at the bright side.

Honestly, I was hoping for an actual war against the drug gangs. Had he gone to war and won, he would have taken care of a huge problem for us. I for one would have been extremely grateful. Now it looks like he's going to get his oil without any fighting whatsoever.
by siscia | 2026-01-03 15:38:38+00:00
This is not an AI tool, this is a CLI that has very verbose output and documentation.

It can be used by human or by AI agents.

I experiment the same with other mechanisms, and CLI are as effective - if not more effective - than MCP.

Granted, having access to AI I would use AI to run it. But nothing is stopping a manual, human centric, use.

I believe more tools should be written like that.
by lynndotpy | 2026-01-03 15:38:45+00:00
Yeah, I should have been a bit more nuanced. I don't mean to dismiss the incredible mass of raw human achievement that is open source.

Microsoft is one of Valve's direct competitors and Valve is totally dependent on Microsoft. Among the notoriously poorly-received changes in Windows 8, Microsoft also started to clamp down on who can run software. Valve saw the writing on the walls and released their first Steam Machines. But those flopped due to the state of Linux gaming at the time, they started pouring resources into Proton, which had the distinction from WINE in that they would develop Linux-specific patches.

For sure, Valve would have nothing if WINE hadn't already done the bulk of the work, if Vulkan didn't exist, if Linux didn't exist, etc. But there's a world where Microsoft decided not to rock the boat with Windows, and in that world, Linux gamers would almost exclusively be dual booting.
by sweezyjeezy | 2026-01-03 15:39:11+00:00
I think one of the best arguments against US interventionalism when it comes to tyrants is just how 'variable' (let's say) the outcomes have been over the years. For every Panama, there's two or three Guatamalas, Irans or most recently Iraq. Generally the hard part is not the removal of the head of state, which for the US is usually pretty quick. It's what beurocratic structures remain functional and whether the power vacuum created brings something better and more robust, or just decades of violence.
by tzs | 2026-01-03 15:39:25+00:00
I was curious so checked my network. I've got 21 things on 2.4 and 16 things on 5.

The 16 are 4 computers (2 Macs, a Surface Pro 4, and an RPi 4), 3 mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch), 3 media devices (Fire TV, Nintendo Switch, and Kindle Oasis), one smart plug, a Brother printer, 3 smart speakers (Google Home Mini, two Echos), and an EV charger.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-03 15:39:32+00:00
From your source: "Venezuela, for the American oil companies, will be a field day," Florida Republican congresswoman María Elvira Salazar said in a recent interview on Fox Business.
"American companies can go in and fix all the oil pipes, the whole oil rigs and everything that has to do with... oil and the derivatives."
Trump might seem open to such arguments.
He campaigned on the slogan "drill, baby, drill" and has generally called for expanding oil production, which he has tied to lower prices for Americans.
/quote

It then goes on to note that output could be more than doubled in two years. That alone would put them as the 11th largest oil producer and the third largest in the Americas. The decade timeline and budget was for creating maximalist infrastructure for fully exploiting the resources.

The strongest proof that the article has that trump isn’t interested in oil is his word that he isn’t interested in oil. How much faith do you put in Trump’s honesty?
by justajew | 2026-01-03 15:40:17+00:00
You will soon see many comments "misteriously" disappear without leaving traces, especially the ones telling the truth about US, "democratic values", "rule of law" and their similars. The better the comment, the faster it "evaporates". As such comments do in Russia or China related discussions, whatever the exact mechanism is.

This forum is not for you to get information about the american "public opinion". It is rather used to shape it (as a myriad of other similar forums in the "free world").
by thenaturalist | 2026-01-03 15:40:23+00:00
Yeah as someone being born in the early 90s to Eastern European parents who experienced generational joy when Causescu and his wife were shot dead, the globalization that followed hasn’t exactly delivered for people - mostly so in the West.

Yes, millions of people in the poorest nations have been raised out of absent poverty since, but beyond that, wealth has flowed to the top 1% any country you look at (check median wealth ownership in the US, basically plummeted for the average Joe since the mid 80s), the environment has gone to shit and the generational promise that the children will have it better than their parents has gone over board with asset prices ballooning.

I‘m right there with you, the societal promise of meritocracy and the middle class was broken in the early 90s and so far there is no replacement in sight.
by rcarmo | 2026-01-03 15:40:28+00:00
Never stopped doing it. And my resolve strengthened when most blogs started doing summary feeds to force people to visit —- I kept doing full text feeds as a matter of course, and if it wasn’t for the Twittergeddon, I would still be automatically posting to Twitter (now I do it to Mastodon - https://mastodon.social/@taoofmac)
by solomonthewise | 2026-01-03 15:41:09+00:00
Location: Anywhere in US or Canada

Remote: Remote or in person.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rust, C++, Python, Bash, Go, Java.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1irE7slDirPM8mXUrD1OsEQnlY8H...

Email: shlomoalon9@gmail.com
I’m a programmer with two year of experience. I currently work for Huawei on Gaussdb (a fork of Postgres). I love working on challenging problems and collaborating with teammates. I have a deep knowledge of rust, python and C++. And have worked on a large performance oriented code base as well as a small startup code base where development speed is essential. I’m passionate about the work I do and take pride in my ability to ship good code that gets the job done.
by Sporktacular | 2026-01-03 15:41:27+00:00
"That interference has overwhelmingly turned out well."

What an absurd thing to say. The US doesn't only overthrow dictatorships - it supports them too, as it suits its self-interest. Why not include the US interference when it SUPPORTED Hussein and later changed its mind - still think "interference turns out well" after backing a genocidal monster, supporting his invasion of a neighbour, invading twice and related deaths of 400 000 people?

Countries stabilise over time, that's what their people make happen. You ignore Indonesia, Iran, El Salvador, Nicaragua and dozens of disaster of US imperialism but give credit to the US when their populations rebuild them.

The US has done some positive things but they're the convenient accidents you've cherry picked to make your point.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-03 15:41:37+00:00
Practically as the adult in charge you have to recognize when this is going on.

With Junie and other IDE-based coding agents my experience is that sometimes the context goes bad and once that happens the best thing to do is start a new session. If you ask it to do something and it gets it 80% right and then you say "that's pretty good but..." and it keeps improving that's great... But once it doesn't seem to be listening to you or is going in circles or you feel like you are arguing it is time to regroup.

Negation is one of the hardest problems in logic and NLP, you're better off explaining what to do instead of saying "DO NOT ..." as the attention mechanism is just as capable of locking on to the part after the DO NOT as it is on locking onto the whole thing.

Reasoning with uncertainty is another super-hard problem, I tend to think the "language instinct" is actually a derangement about reasoning about probabilities that cause people to make the same mistakes and collapse the manifold of meanings to a low-dimensional space that is learnable... LLMs work because they make the same mistakes too.

Circa 2018 I was working for a startup that was trying to develop foundation models and I was the pessimist who used a method of "predictive evaluation" who could prove that "roughly 10% of the time the system loses some critical information for making a decision and that gives an upper limit of 90% accuracy" which was right in the sense that I was thinking like a math teacher who rejects "getting the right answer by the wrong means" but wrong in the sense that people might not care about the means and be happy to get 95% accuracy if it guesses right half the time. My thinking was never going to lead to ChatGPT because I wasn't going to accept short circuiting.
by gheavy | 2026-01-03 15:41:45+00:00
He used “I feel” language. He didn’t say it is or isn’t. Every small change, like a butterfly flapping its wings, can have profound negative effects in the future. Inaction too can have profound effects. It’s not a useful question imo other than to notice that radical changes are typically favored by progressives, while no change is favored by conservatives. Here we have an inversion of that, which to me is interesting.
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-01-03 15:41:47+00:00
I think you’ve swallowed your own propaganda pill and are having a hard time digesting it.

Yes, warfare has changed - but Russia’s war-fighting doctrine has changed along with it. Their war industry is ramping up to meet these challenges, and anyone paying actual attention, rather than being spoon-fed nightly news’ hot takes or funker530 clips, can see this on the ground.

> they didn't plan it anyway

So, where in the SMO doctrine did they ever make the claim their goal was to capture all of Ukraines cities? They’ve captured the cities they set out to capture.

But .. You’ve clearly educated yourself about their military goals - so where is it stated in the SMO that this constant capture of cities is one of their goals? Not your Western-propaganda spoonfed standard, actually theirs.

Perhaps you see this conflict from the perspective of a sports fan - but I assure you, the Russians do not.

> I can't believe you can be so delusional, it's just amazing what russian propaganda does to people.

“Doubleplusgood groupthink, ungood, wrongthink rectify.”

If you think Russia are the only ones using propaganda to obfuscate the nature of this conflict, it is you who is delusional.

Take a step back, have a look at the actual state of things on the ground, compare it to the stated goals which were put forth at the beginning of this SMO, and lets continue to discuss this rationally, if you can. So far Russia has got what it wanted - a buffer corridor to Sebastopol, control over the eastern oblasts, destruction of NATO bio-weapons labs, and a massive degradation of Ukraines military capabilities. Yes, perhaps at a far greater cost than intended, but nevertheless, today they are in control over the territory they set out to control.

Just because I’m willing to see this doesn’t mean I support Russia - or Ukraine for that matter - because I seriously don’t, but I’m also not going to just kowtow to western media. I’ll look for myself at the conflict from both sides and make my own assessment based on real facts on the ground. BTW, I live within a few hours driving distance from this conflict, have worked with assisting refugees arriving in my region for two years now, and have formed my own opinion by direct contact with those involved in the conflict as a priority over any information gleaned from mass media. I strive to avoid the propaganda, which is why we’re having this discussion in the first place.
by ahmetomer | 2026-01-03 15:42:02+00:00
Laws often fail to matter in cases where they should. If a country as powerful as the USA wants to handle a problematic country (from its perspective) by whatever means, they will do so and with a glaikit smirk on the faces of its leaders and politicians. "Here's democracy and justice on your face," has been a typical American foreign policy for a long time whether we like it or not. A lot of people thankfully do see through this pretence, but also at the same time, the fierce followers of Cheneyism are trying hard to find possible explanations to legitimize this.
by deknos | 2026-01-03 15:42:15+00:00
IMHO:

And it will not be, as long as

* (S|D)NAT are not first class citizen in IPV6 Standards and Implementation
* there's no mapping of the IPv4 Adresspace into the v6 space, so people can reroute stuff which is needed.

because only then, we can
a) migrate
b) rebuild the same structures.

because people will never let go of something.
by rendx | 2026-01-03 15:42:20+00:00
"In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by sneak | 2026-01-03 15:43:01+00:00
Scientific consensus is often NOT the defining measure of what a state (and thus a prosecutor) considers truth, and thus what they consider misinformation.

The dangers of medical misinformation, regardless of scale, do not negate the fact that criminalizing _what the state calls_ misinformation allows the state to arbitrarily imprison people publishing things, because it demands that the state be the arbiter of truth, something that does not have an objective legal
method of determination. If it somehow did, promoting religion would of course be illegal as it is clear misinformation.

Also, consider for a moment the insane amount of harm the delusion that is religious belief has wrought. Should we be outlawing that, too? The suggestion that prayer is an effective treatment for ailments is a claim they have been making for millennia. Shall we somehow square your anti-misinformation law with religious freedom?

People should always be free to be wrong, because we often don’t know what is right until many decades or centuries or millennia later.
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-01-03 15:43:03+00:00
I dunno, I think the US probably has a lot of weaponry it has held in stock in its conflicts as well, and yes it does tend to send its chumps into the meat grinder first - but we will have to see when the US actually takes on an enemy capable of fielding its own symmetrical response. So far this century, the US only fights asymmetric wars against much weaker opponents it knows it can defeat.
by susam | 2026-01-03 15:43:28+00:00
We are talking about different ASPs. I am referring to Active Server Pages (ASP), the server-side scripting language supported by Personal Web Server (PWS) and Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows. It is similar to PHP Hypertext Processor (PHP) and Java Server Pages (JSP) but for the Windows world. I began developing websites with ASP. Over the years, I dabbled with CGI, PHP, JSP, Python, etc. before settling on Common Lisp as my preferred choice for server-side programming.