MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keybored | 2026-01-03 08:49:01+00:00
What data do you have that they don’t care? Waging a war is a pretty massive thing to not care about. I would think that someone would either be positive or negative towards it. Because even if they don’t care about invading countries per se they would presumably care about what their presumed tax money is spent on.

Of course being “nihilistic” is a different matter.

> Or they sort of care, but are too lazy and nihilistic to bother doing anything about it.

Typical.

Doing anything about US foreign interventions is a very tall order in a country where the vast majority are politically disenfranchised (with income and wealth as a proxy). It’s difficult enough for domestic affairs, like getting universal healthcare. Much harder to fight the war machine.

Americans did put up a fight against the interventionism of the Reagan administration. But that didn’t stop the funding of the Contras. “All it did” was force the interventions to become clandestine. (A big contrast to this admin.)

But ordinary Americans do have the largest power in all of the world to fight the war machine of their own country. That ought to be encouraged. But as usual we see the active encouragement of nihilism from comments where A Lot Of X are deemed to be useless for this particular purpose. Ah what’s the point, People Are Saying that everyone around me are useless or politically katatonic. Typical.
by dataflow | 2026-01-03 08:49:04+00:00
It's explicitly about oil, right?

Wikipedia [1]:

> Andrew McCabe quotes Trump as saying of Venezuela "That’s the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”

> In June 2023, Trump said at a press conference in North Carolina, "When I left, Venezuela was about to collapse. We would have taken over it, we would have kept all that oil."

PBS [2]:

> "We want it back," he added. "They took our oil rights — we had a lot of oil there. As you know they threw our companies out, and we want it back."

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

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-we-want-it-back-...
by lanternfish | 2026-01-03 08:49:04+00:00
That wasn't my point. My specific argument is about US operational policy on the ground in similar engagements. Based on precident, we would expect them to engage in the behavior the commentor indicts.

I dream that neither of these imperial powers - Russia or the US - will be allowed to inflict imperial violence, but I wouldn't be mistaken and assume that this military action will be any different than, say, JSOC in Iraq.
by bvrmn | 2026-01-03 08:49:46+00:00
> there's no central King whose greed for wealth can be satisfied once.

King and court and lords are the same amount of greedy bastards. The issue with kings is on another plain, what to do with power transfer to a new king. Democracy try to solve exactly this problem. What to do with individuals bending laws to be new kings is another issue to solve.
by energy123 | 2026-01-03 08:49:51+00:00
> Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria

There are 2 differences that stand out.

Intelligence seems more capable nowadays compared to 2003, probably due to better cyber/SIGINT. It took 3 years for the coalition to find Saddam despite a large ground presence. I wouldn't give Maduro more than a month if the US was intent on taking him out, after the capabilities that we saw in Iran and South Lebanon the last two years that simply did not exist 2 decades ago. For the first time, war has been inverted, and it's the regime that dies first instead of the soldiers.

Second difference is the absence of political Islamism as a dominant ideology in the culture. This makes it more comparable to regime change wars against Japan and Germany in WW2 than recent wars in MENA.
by Kwpolska | 2026-01-03 08:49:52+00:00
How is preventing delivery of legitimate email due to the sender's software being misconfigured "good for you"?

Also, RFC 5321 [0] says:

> SMTP clients that [...] do not maintain queues for retrying message transmissions that initially cannot be completed, may otherwise conform to this specification but are not considered fully-capable.

> In many situations and configurations, the less- capable clients discussed above SHOULD be using the message submission protocol (RFC 4409) rather than SMTP.

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5321
by Sophira | 2026-01-03 08:50:34+00:00
> if the firewall is misconfigued, then your NAT may not be working either.

But in that case, it's very obvious because your access to the WAN side of your router won't work from anywhere except the router itself.

I like this "fail-secure" nature of NAT. If your firewall fails on a network with globally-routable IPv6 addresses, it might not be so obvious as traffic might still flow through.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-01-03 08:50:41+00:00
> Virtually all of the younger system developers are already working in Rust

I'd love to know where you get your statistics from.

FYI, as an anecdote, I am 'younger', in the sense of 'only recently joined the workforce', and I write 100+ lines of C and C++ a day, both at work and in side projects. Haven't touched Rust once, although I would like to get into it.

And funnily, the one UI framework I did use at work is Avalonia, which is strongly inspired by Windows Presentation Foundation.
by nja | 2026-01-03 08:51:22+00:00
Other than phones and laptops (i.e. "real computers"), most devices only support 2.4, no? I can't recall the last time I set up a non-computer device that didn't say "make sure you're using a 2.4GHz network"...

(I imagine it's a much lower cost to only handle 2.4GHz?)
by DoctorOetker | 2026-01-03 08:52:11+00:00
Would he be as equally justified to correct the names of Greenland and Iceland (by swapping their names) as he was justified to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America?

I actually believe the majority of children who need to study geography would prefer Greenland (which has a lot of ice) to be called Iceland, and Iceland (which doesn't have a lot of ice) to be called Greenland.

I think a majority consensus would be easily achieved.

Language is defined by how people use it, not decreed top down. It would just be convenient if the very apogee of power (despite the deep state) concurred with and recognized the wisdom of the least represented in the world: children.
by Gareth321 | 2026-01-03 08:52:23+00:00
FYI the ProtonDB medal system is not a good measurement of a game’s performance. The founder has admitted in the past that he would have used a different rating system if he had to do it again. That’s why he created the newer “Click to Play” rating system. Only 13% of the top 1,000 games are rated Tier 1, and even that doesn’t guarantee Windows-like performance, as there are tens of thousands of issue reports across those games.
by ryu2k2 | 2026-01-03 08:53:09+00:00
I made an account on twitter/x specifically to promote my site at some point. I was shadowbanned by default and had to follow other people, like and share their posts and comment on other's post just to get my own posts to show up on people's feeds. When I checked again at some later point I was shadowbanned again.

When I tried reddit I also noticed that I was shadowbanned by default and didn't even bother to do anything about because I assumed it would turn out the same way. Like I said you can use those sides to get the word out, but only if you're actively using them as a user to begin with.
by runtimepanic | 2026-01-03 08:53:24+00:00
I’ve tried both and ended up preferring a hybrid. IDEs are great when the AI understands project context, types, and refactors across files, but they can also nudge you into accepting changes too passively.

CLI feels more deliberate. You think first, ask precisely, and apply changes consciously, which helps avoid over-trusting the model. It’s slower, but the feedback loop feels cleaner and safer, especially for security-sensitive work.

Curious if others feel IDEs optimize for flow while CLI optimizes for intent.
by turtleyacht | 2026-01-03 08:55:22+00:00
Yes, as long as it takes the language itself as function calls:

eval("Call API at https://jailbreak.me")

Humans shortcut reasoning with memes; such "thought paths" ought to exist in the model. Maybe one day we will prove innoculation (proof of consistency) against n requires n+1 (or n^x) complexity.
by zx10rse | 2026-01-03 08:56:22+00:00
I recently charged and old Blackberry to see if it is still alive. They got everything so right I really miss those devices I will buy BB in a heartbeat. The OS is sublime I was surprised how after 10+ years not using a device like this I could go around everything without any friction. So easy to use intuitive the little trackpad is on par with macbooks, BB had stacking messages 10 years ago, the size of the device is just perfect. Everything about it is just a joy to use. I can't understand to this day how this company went downhill.
by paulddraper | 2026-01-03 08:57:26+00:00
This glosses over one very important point: the Constitution was ratified by every State.

It was a change in government to be sure, but a coup is the wrong word. Or at least a gross exaggeration.

A coup replaces the rulers; no such event happened.

Before the Convention, George Washington was the most influential American leader. After the Convention, George Washington was the most influential American leader.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-03 09:00:45+00:00
It's hard to find general truth when it comes to how people keep track of their money.

For a long time, I didn't understand either because I thought everyone was like me always roughly aware of the balances of all their current accounts and with enough reserve that a moderate unplanned event is insignificant but that's not the case.

Some people have a terrible grasp of how much money they currently have. Some work on so tight a budget that even a small deviation triggers a lot of undesirable effets - banks are actually awful for that because they really milk their customers with treasury issue.

That's why budgeting is so effective for some people. If your budget is killed by a few overdraft events, just avoiding that will give you a lot of breathing room.
by martin-t | 2026-01-03 09:01:15+00:00
> the people are increasingly voting to go down the cliff, just to shake things up a bit.

1) I think a lot of people (correctly) feel that their quality of life is not improving the way it should be according to the (so often discussed) technological progress and growing economy, yet don't have the ability to think about the system as a whole and the root causes.

I could be wrong too but the way I see it is that an increasingly large cut of wealth goes to the already massively rich.

Any kind of passive income is IMO exploitation by a different name. If you're not putting in work, then the money coming out has to come from other people's work. Finite investment should yield finite reward. Owning companies should be illegal just like it's illegal to own humans already (at least in the civilized world but it took even us a long time to get here).

> since political pressure will stop them from being too hard

Calibrating the difficulty correctly will be hard but we won't know until we try. Politics is adversarial so the way of coming up with questions probably(?) has to be as well.

I think people should be able to vote on laws directly - see my other comments. That would hopefully cut down on some populism and also incentivize not voting on stuff you don't understand.

But as long as we're stuck with political parties, we could try systems where each candidate party provides a list of questions+answers (with a maximum amount). Or where anybody can submit a question if they collect enough signatures.
by zvr | 2026-01-03 09:02:15+00:00
Stanford University has published the complete set of lectures for their LLM course of last semester. 9 videos of around 1h50m each:

• Lecture 1 - Transformer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub3GoFaUcds

• Lecture 2 - Transformer-Based Models & Tricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT84Y5zCnaA

• Lecture 3 - Transformers & Large Language Models
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5baLehv5So

• Lecture 4 - LLM Training
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlA_jt_3Qc4

• Lecture 5 - LLM tuning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmW_TMQ3l0I

• Lecture 6 - LLM Reasoning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Fh-UgTuCo

• Lecture 7 - Agentic LLMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-7S6HNq0Vg

• Lecture 8 - LLM Evaluation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fNP4N46RRo

• Lecture 9 - Recap & Current Trends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q86qzJ1K1Ss
by donkeybeer | 2026-01-03 09:06:52+00:00
I don't feel nationalism. I want good public infra, more housing because it simply makes life better. For example, have you ever released anything FOSS? I haven't yet but it is my aspiration to, I don't care which country or person it helps. I will happily support liberal democratic elements whether they be Germans in Germany or blacks in America or any other group. And conversely, I would absolutely fucking hate any of my tax money supporting far right wing elements in my own country/race or otherwise. But I am not stupid enough to deny improvements in my country just to spite these retards.
by delaminator | 2026-01-03 09:07:51+00:00
I do a lot of AI coding

Receipts: https://github.com/lawless-m?tab=repositories

I started in Cursor - the tab completion is superb. As an assistant to the coder it is incredible.

But then I started to lean on Sonnet more and more. I expressed my ideas and they came alive.

As I got better at prompting I can code at the speed of thought. So I switched to Claude Code entirely. I’m a Max 200 customer now.

On Windows I still use VS Code because of the built in file browser and terminals don’t play nice with the Windows ecosystem. It helps to keep the windows organised. It’s also nice to have a few extensions like markdown renderer, graphviz viewer, png preview etc. I don’t use any of the IDE parts of the IDE.

On Linux I just use the terminal. I use i3-wm and have multi terminals each with a different instance of Claude.

I’m usually working on 2-3 codebases at a time and swap between them to give a new prompt.

I also run a Whisper server and have built a voice-keyboard program. It has some built in tool prompts “browse” launches a web browser, “desk 1” changes to virtual desktop 1, that kind of thing. It’s TheHand repo in my GitHub.

So I bounce from Cc to Cc and speak a new prompt, even to Windows as that’s via RDP and TheHand can type into it.

Then there’s Claude Code on the phone apps, so I can work on GitHub code with my phone wherever I am and not need a constant network - i have a terminal app on the phone too but it’s a bit scrolly - a phone emulating a serial console emulating a teletypewriter emulating a punch card system is so far beyond parody nearly everyone thinks it’s sensible!

I would switch to a Claude Code based editing system in a heartbeat, once someone build such a thing.
by girvo | 2026-01-03 09:08:31+00:00
Maduro is a piece of shit.

But a military invasion of another country to commit regime change is literally what Russia tried to do to Ukraine.

America has blood on it's hands yet again.

EDIT: If the reports are true that Maduro has been captured and the fighting stops, then that's the best resolution one could hope out of this horrible situation. I pray for the Venezuelan people.
by mrbombastic | 2026-01-03 09:09:27+00:00
I don't see a single comment in this thread praising Maduro, I have basically never heard anyone express this sentiment in these discussions: "Maduro: Democratic leader, universally loved by his ever grateful people for standing up to the autocratic regimen of the USA" the argument is that regime change and military intervention in foreign conflicts have led to disaster time and again.
by radu_floricica | 2026-01-03 09:09:36+00:00
It's probably just the disconnect between the two sides of american politics. On the right it's justified enough, on the left it doesn't matter what Trump says, the reaction is going to be exactly the same.

For example I'm not american and mostly on the right, and I think it's doubtful if it's legally justified (how does one legally justify a was anyways? it's extra-judicial almost by definition), but it makes a lot of sense, it aligns with realpolitik and it's morally good for several independent reasons. In particular it has a hugely disproportionate geopolitical impact, and less importantly it can bring a few million people from under a dictatorship.

As an interesting aside, I recently did a quick research on the Grenada invasion, widely spoken of as an embarrassing moment. It went... very well. They came, remove a budding dictatorship right after a coup, left in two months, and Grenada had no ill effects in the years after (both by subjective reporting, and by GDP per capita comparable to neighboring countries). The alternative would have been "do nothing", skip the reputational hit and have yet another hellhole in the region. The number of dictatorships that did well in recent history is exactly two, and neither was socialist (SK and Singapore).
by chrysoprace | 2026-01-03 09:09:39+00:00
I've made the complete switch recently (been using Linux on and off for years, including WSL as well) after my pleasant experience with the Steam Deck and it's been fantastic, but not without issues. A recurring issue over the years of trying Linux has been WiFi drivers; I really can't afford to have WiFi not work as I can't run an Ethernet cable to my computer room. I get that Linux heavily relies on volunteer work, but a broken WiFi driver due to an update is a big roadblock.

Beside that though, I'm happy to have left Windows behind completely.
by flyinglizard | 2026-01-03 09:10:36+00:00
"Justified" in what sense? Who does this administration - or indeed USA in general - answer to?

Folks there's nothing new or insane here. Countries attacked other countries all throughout human history. The surprise is when they don't.

Now it's not super hard to understand why Trump is fixated on Venezuela in terms of geopolitics. There's a decision by this admin to bolster US in the western hemisphere, possibly in preparation to coming to terms with a bipolar world split between US and China. So the US is now meddling with Canada and Greenland. Now with the shift towards the right in Latam (Milei in Argentina, Bukele in El Salvador, Kast in Chile) Trump is just pushing a few more bricks to create a more uniform American-led sphere. Plus, Venezuela was very close with the Iranians and Russians, so removing this regime surely serves some strategic goals.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-03 09:11:26+00:00
I used to use an application in France which automatically sorted all my expenses - it sadly doesn't work as well anymore.

I have to say seeing some macro-budget category summed on a year and seeing how much of my money they consume was quite useful just to recalibrate. It wasn't life changing but it triggered things like: am I really ok spending that much on restaurants?
by epolanski | 2026-01-03 09:12:33+00:00
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by olowe | 2026-01-03 09:13:52+00:00
AWS supports IPv6 on a number their services now: https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/ipv6/
For example there are options to use their hosted memcache/redis service IPv6-only: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/netw...

Shocking it took them so long but, hey, it's there now.
by silverwind | 2026-01-03 09:14:06+00:00
> That's great until you need to connect to a work/client VPN that decided to also use 10.0.0.0/8.

There's numerous other reserved IPv4 blocks that can be used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses#IPv4. Would definitely not recommend to use 10/8 for private networks.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-03 09:14:08+00:00
If your income is in the top 5% and you struggle paying bills, it's nearly always an issue with to much of your money stuck in mandatory expense: you are over mortgaged, or have to many car loans, or pay too much for the kids schools.

Budgeting can make that manageable by significantly lowering your living standard but small expenses are rarely the root cause.
by nospice | 2026-01-03 09:14:50+00:00
Right, and that's what the Allies did in Germany in 1945. I don't think it's helpful to paint everything with such a broad brush.

Russia is trying to annex Ukraine. They took part of it in 2014, then came back for more, and then organized sham annexation referendums in the regions they did control. Whatever the US is trying to achieve in Venezuela, it's probably not that. All war is deplorable, but some lead to good outcomes and some to bad ones.
by esseph | 2026-01-03 09:15:03+00:00
Based on the fleet and aircraft movement and mobilization reports, this was probably a combination of 3/75 Ranger Regiment and/or RRC, Delta/CAG, 24th STS, and probably 1 or more SEAL teams based on the sub movement.

The clear fly-out with rotary wing craft seemingly without a concern in the world tells me they absolutely decapitated Venezuela's air defenses.

Their intelligence must have been flawless to have this level of confidence.

This wasn't just a raid, it was an extremely visible one meant to send a message.
by rasulkireev | 2026-01-03 09:16:06+00:00
FINISHED:

- Traction by Gabriel Weinberg (it's ok)

- A Skill Called Luck by Jakob Greenfeld (very good)

- Unf*ck Your Sales by Jakob Greenfeld (very good)

- Books by Alex West (very good)

- How to Live by Derek Sivers (very very good)

- Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown (really enjoyed it)

- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing (it's okay)

- The Narrow Road by Felix Dennis (it's okay)

- Oh Crap! Potty Training by Jamie Glowacki (success)

- Вишнёвый Сад Чехов Антон Павлович (did not like it at all)

- Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift (liked it)

- Hunt, Gather, Parent Michaeleen Doucleff (this book is a game changer, strong recommend for every parent)

- MAKE by Pieter Levels

- Main Street Millionaire by Codie Sanchez

- Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling

- The Sweaty Startup by Nick Huber

- The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (did not like it at all)

- Чем Люди Живы Лев Николаевич Толстой (nice)

- 80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall (pretty good)

- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (eye opening)

- Growth Levers and How to Find Them by Matt Lerner (meh)

- Alexander Pushking Stories (very nice. crazy how he makes
rhymes yet the whole thing makes sense)

IN_PROGRESS:

- War and Piece (I'm shocked at how much I'm liking it)

- Scaling Fast by Swizec Teller (really good, about to finish)

- Unreasonable Hospitality (it alright)

- Mom Test (it's good, but for some reason I keep failing to finish it)

- Marcus Aurelius Meditations (reading it slowly as
inspiration strikes)

- Seneca Dialogues

- Ultimate Guide to Link Building by Garrett French

STARTED, BUT DID NOT FINISH (That's a big add list):

- Michel de Montaigne "Essays"

- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (feels to hard to tackle right now)

- Seeking Wisdom

- Product Led Growth

- Demand Side Sales

- Odyssey by Homer

- Full Stack Tao by Alex Kondov

- Logic for Programmers

- The Story of Philosophy

- The Story of Civilization Vol 1

- The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx

- Economic Facts and Fallacies Thomas Sowell

- The Beginning of Infinity David Deutsch

- Obviously Awesome by April Dunford

- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard

- American Kingpin by Nick Bilton (it's good, just felt irrelevant, will revisit)

- Indexing Beyond the Basics by Tobias Petry (only read it when necessary)

- The Mind Illuminated by John Yates (can't keep meditations to stick)

Note:

- I keep notes on books I finished on my site, but need to bring it up to date: https://www.rasulkireev.com/book-notes/