MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bertili | 2026-01-03 13:54:43+00:00
It's not a failure of IP6 but a failure of society.

We all thought the internet would become decentralized and that everyone should have an IP and a funky website. But instead social media took over, big tech and a few big discussion sites where we all must fit in a digital life and watch ads and share our data to become a good product for all the others to consume.
by troad | 2026-01-03 13:54:48+00:00
They remove political content that doesn't add anything to a website devoted to tech, which I agree with and support. You can get your political heroin everywhere else, must it really infest every corner of the Internet all of the time?

Personally, I'd down-rank this thread too. It's just uninformed speculating about an event of which we know next to nothing, which naturally just becomes a ritual recitation of everyone's established political identities. Nothing is learned, nothing is gained.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-03 13:55:06+00:00
Because nations have laws and the majority of nations laws don't give a leader unilateral authority to call for self invasion. In fact, that's usually called "treason".

For Venezuela, this would be something that, if any organization could call for it, it'd be the "Supreme Tribunal of Justice" [1]

And before you say it, yes I get that they are corrupt. But there are still laws. 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.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Tribunal_of_Justice_(V...
by bmacho | 2026-01-03 13:55:31+00:00
If you have some hard numbers supporting how much Americans don't like Trump and how shit is their life under Trump, then ..maybe? (Also, why the USA, why not start with North Korea, Venezuela etc first.)

We kinda have the obligation to ensure that Earth is not a practical hell for many people.

"Bomb San Francisco" can mean many things, and it is ultimately a Trolley Problem[0], but the answer is not a simple no.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
by willis936 | 2026-01-03 13:55:31+00:00
Do gravity-based defects outweigh displacement defects from fast particles?

Also, there are large headwinds from having to ship up a large quantity of raw material and have to deorbit a payload so fragile that any amount of shock is unacceptable. Maybe a high purity silicon boule pays for these headwinds with room for profit on top. I'm skeptical, but time will tell.
by csomar | 2026-01-03 13:55:57+00:00
I honestly have little sympathy, and not because Maduro is a dictator or whatever label the US has given him. It's because he spent his country's resources on useless, incompetent staff that fell apart before any conflict even began. Say what you want about Iran, but at least they maintain a solid defensive posture.

Any country that doesn't invest in its own tech stack gets what it deserves. This is information superiority in action; made possible by the deep proliferation of American technology. The US is now leveraging information warfare for what used to require physical force. The difference is stark. We've seen it with the Hezbollah pager attacks, high-profile targeting in Iran, and now this.

Natural selection in progress.
by cornholio | 2026-01-03 13:56:02+00:00
Trump was extraordinarily lucky here, the Maduro regime was wholly unprepared and he was immediately extracted from the county; he can claim "mission accomplished", parade Maduro in front of the world media and watch from afar the PSUV leadership tear themselves appart.

But the dice Trump rolled could have easily falled onto a well prepared Maduro regime, which could have downed a few Blackhawks, torpedoed the ship from which they launched, captured and killed a few dozens to a few hundreds service men, paraded them in the streets of Caracas and used them as human shields protecting the main targets etc.

I.e, Trump could have easily committed US yo a long term war and ground invasion, without Congress authorization, against the desires of its allies, and with Iraq or worse long term consequences.
by satisfice | 2026-01-03 13:56:04+00:00
I have the same problem with woke slop as I have with AI slop: it is data without a coherent context. You think you are receiving an intentional message from a specific person, but lo, you are merely being manipulated.

With woke slop, the authors aren’t telling you the truth of their experience as they see it, but rather as they think they are allowed to believe.

I read the original version of this book decades ago. I found it helpful, and it was a useful exercise to translate it into modern terms for myself, in real-time.
by russdill | 2026-01-03 13:56:07+00:00
Devil's advocate. There could be a extension for ipv4 stacks. Ipv4 stacks would need to be modified to include the extension in any reply to a packet received with one. It would also be a dns modification to append the extension if is in the record. Ipv6 stacks would either internally reconstruct the packet as if it were ipv6.
by stiray | 2026-01-03 13:56:12+00:00
All those discussions are making it harder than it need to be.

I have ONE static external IPv4 for my network.

I can handle everything I want with it. And block everything I dont want my network to be.

So I just disable IPv6 on router (Mikrotik).

Not interested, not wanting it. That is it. If someone needs it, feel free to use it. I wont support double configurations on my router because of it.
by Etheryte | 2026-01-03 13:57:47+00:00
I see the point you're trying to make, but I'm not fully convinced it's as black and white as you make it out to be. I think we can both agree that lawfully and democratically elected leader of country A having a lawfully and democratically elected leader of country B captured is bad, for all the obvious reasons. What about dictators? What about military coups and forcefully reversing them? Election fraud? Etc. Whether any one country should be global police or not is a very difficult question to answer, but at the same time I could easily see situations where some of these could be beneficial for the greater good.
by alt227 | 2026-01-03 13:58:01+00:00
Apologies maybe slow death was the wrong phrase. I did mean that, but only in the non-mobile space. Obviously mobile device networks have made good use of IPv6 and will continue to.

However In another thread it was argued that when IPv4 addresses become very expensive, that could trigger a big shift to IPv6. I agree with this statement and so IMO it is possible that IPv6 may well become ubiquitous in the future.
by wsatb | 2026-01-03 13:58:17+00:00
> Two examples of military intervention / occupation working out in the long run are Germany and Japan in WW2. Maybe even South Korea (stabilization of a dictatorship and economic development lead to a democratic revolution later). One can be hopeful that this starts a better chapter for the Venezuelians as well.

Ignoring the fact that we have been using these examples for decades now as reasoning for going to war, these were all done after years of war. What makes you so convinced that this is "over" and the Venezuelean people can live happily ever after? History says it's far from over.
by jorvi | 2026-01-03 13:58:32+00:00
Windows Phone was dead in the water because many services did not have first party support, and the third party clients kept getting killed / people banned from said services.

Google was extremely aggressive in muscling Microsoft out. They refused to release a Gmail, YouTube or Maps client for Windows Phone but made sure those services did not work (properly).

And indeed on top of that, Microsoft switched UI frameworks 3 or 4 times. And they left phones behind on the old OS releases repeatedly, that then couldn't run the new frameworks.

Still, Windows Phone its UI concept was really great, and I sorely miss the durability of polycarbonate bodies versus the glass, metal and standard plastic bodies of today.
by kaashif | 2026-01-03 13:58:59+00:00
Look I agree this whole thing is wrong, but to say this instance of regime change, unprovoked attack, war, whatever you call it is UNIQUELY unconstitutional is obviously wrong.

Every US President since the end of WW2 has waged war without a formal declaration of war from Congress. And presidents from both parties will continue to do so.

This is not to say it's right or good. But there is surely widespread agreement that it is constitutional to do things like this, and there has been for nearly a century.
by favflam | 2026-01-03 13:59:11+00:00
I want to echo this comment. I am on Map-e in Asia and it is very difficult to get an exclusive ipv4 address without paying extra money.

And I want to connect to my machines without some stupid vpn or crappy cloud reverse tunneling service. Not everyone in the world wants to subscribe to some stupid SaaS service just to get functionality that comes by default with ipv6.

I think Silicon Valley is in a thought bubble and for people there ipv4 is plentiful and cheap. So good for them. However, the more these SaaS services delay ipv6 support, the more I pray to any deity out there I can move off these services permanently.
by michaelt | 2026-01-03 13:59:32+00:00
According to [1] at one Belgian university 61.8% of students reached a milestone within 2 years (with 41.4% reaching it within 1 year)

That's quite a high non-completion rate - but it's nowhere near 99%.

[1] https://nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/content/2023/42-6-of-new-stude...
by einsteinx2 | 2026-01-03 14:01:14+00:00
I think the president only needs permission from Congress to officially declare war (or rather only Congress can declare war), but the president is commander in chief of the US military and can do, for lack of a better term, “special military operations” without any approval (all joking aside, I think it means the president can always order military action just can’t declare war against another country, and I don’t believe the US has declared war on Venezuela).
by joseda-hg | 2026-01-03 14:01:55+00:00
A forever war implies people in the ground that actually would want to resist, and barring conscription (Which will be limited, because diaspora) I don't see how that could actually work

Check social media or go ask a trusted Venezuelan / Latino, happiest I've ever seen the community, because regardless of what's comming, it looks like the light at the end of a tunnel
by dimitri-vs | 2026-01-03 14:01:56+00:00
In theory, yes. In practice the shit data you are working with (descriptions that are one or two words or the same word with ref id) really benefit from a) an agent that understands who you are and are likely spending money on b) has access to tool calls to dig deeper into what `01-03 PAYPAL TX REFL6RHB6O` actually is by cross referencing an export of PayPal transactions.

I think the smarter play is having an agent take the first crack at it, and build up a high confidence regex rule set. And then from there handle things that don't match and do periodic spot checks to maintain the rule set.
by IgorPartola | 2026-01-03 14:02:04+00:00
No it is not:

IPv4 header: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/IP...

IPv6 header: https://bitjunkie.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ipv6-Header...

Notice how the IPv6 header is simpler? That’s because it is. It has normal working semantics, got rid of fragmentation, TTL is replaced by hop limit, and link-local addresses actually work as intended. The addresses look scary != more complicated. Please stop perpetuating this myth.
by beloch | 2026-01-03 14:02:25+00:00
A wrong, followed by another wrong, followed by another wrong, followed by another wrong, followed by yet another wrong...

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"Flood the zone" is a political strategy in which a political figure aims to gain media attention, disorient opponents and distract the public from undesirable reports by rapidly forwarding large volumes of newsworthy information to the media. The strategy has been attributed to U.S. president Donald Trump's former chief political strategist Steve Bannon."

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Pay attention to the context of this moment. The timing of this invasion is no coincidence.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone
by lazide | 2026-01-03 14:03:22+00:00
It's just realpolitik laid particularly bare. The major complaint seems to be that the paperwork wasn't done 'right' here, not much else eh?

What is the real difference between Iraq and what just happened, except this was arguably done much cleaner, and with less BS (no having to come up with Yellow Cake, or fake WMDs, for example).

This does have the effect of hopefully waking up anyone who is still confused, but I doubt it.
by markus_zhang | 2026-01-03 14:03:25+00:00
Is compensation really the issue? Like, people earning 160k simply can’t take a dive into the OS source code and make proper fixes, but people earning 250k magically can?

I don't know. I know there are a lot of people who want to work on the OS source code, given the chance, but need some hand holding in the beginning. Companies in general are not willing to give them the chance, because they don't want to hand hold them.
by anthk | 2026-01-03 14:04:01+00:00
Also, the Monroe Doctrine will just radicalize the Left supporters in Latin America shifing pro China. And that's bad for the US. Really bad.

Unless China and some miracle happens and they make the fusion energy viable and then they render anything gas/oil related -except for plastics- obsolete. That move would just make the US grow some balls and toss money like crazy for clean energy sources.
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by epistasis | 2026-01-03 14:04:49+00:00
Unlike popular opinion before other US actions like this, opinion polls show any military action in Venezuela as being very unpopular, like half the popularity of Trump, 20% popular.

That can change after the action, especially depending on how the media covers it, so we will see. The past few years have greatly lessened my faith in the inherent goodness of Americans, and I believe that we have let ourselves abandon our traditional ideals.
by ciconia | 2026-01-03 14:04:55+00:00
> I could easily see situations where some of these could be beneficial for the greater good.

The greater good of whom? Regardless, we have international organizations where action can be taken by a coalition is states, which provides not only legitimacy but also some level of judicial control.

This is so obviously an imperialist power play for the world's largest oil reserves. That some would portray this as acting for the greater good is beyond ridiculous.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-03 14:05:05+00:00
> but to say this instance of regime change,

A regime is not a single person, e.g. Mr Maduro largely continued from Mr Chavez.

If it is true that Mr Maduro has been abducted, there will surely be changes to the regime in Venezuela. A complete change of regime, however, is not guaranteed. And trying to do it might require more application of forcer, with all the attendant risks of that.
by phtrivier | 2026-01-03 14:05:25+00:00
Case in point : if you had the biggest military in the world, and no one to credibly oppose you, you'd have a lot of arguments to convince everyone that your bank account is actually full.

Lesson 1 of W.Spaniel course on international relationship is that "international order" is the longest running form of anarchy.

Pray you stay on the good side of the Emperor closest to your home.

It's a good thing the current emperor is old - at least we have patience and trusting biology as an option. Successions are often messy, and I don't see Emperor Trump as the kind to cautiously pick his heir.
by DrewADesign | 2026-01-03 14:05:58+00:00
You’re either arguing about semantics or missed the point they were trying to make. If it doesn’t have to be publicly reachable, why should it be publicly addressable in the first place? I can’t think of any common requirement that will be afforded to users having devices that will never need to be publicly reachable be publicly addressable. Considering most peoples use cases solely involve home networks of devices that they definitely do not want to be publicly reachable, why is needing to explicitly disallow that better for them?

In non-abstract terms, I just don’t see how that works better.
by bsenftner | 2026-01-03 14:06:02+00:00
Lots of emotional commenting here. This guy, Panos Ipeirotis, is seriously on to the way university testing and corporate seminar testing will be done in the immediate future, as well as going forward. Complain all you want, this is inevitable. This initial version will improve. In time, more complex and multi-mod voice agents will do the teaching too, entirely individualized as well.
by int_19h | 2026-01-03 14:06:12+00:00
> But what are we doing? Twerking in front of ICE in frog costumes?

Once again, the people who are broadly approving of violence as a way to solve problems, and who actually have the guns, are largely supportive of what ICE is doing. Many of them are quite literally itching to pull the trigger on some libs. I've been in the middle of that crowd and seen it all close up. Those people are not the potential solution - they are a part of the problem.

Countries with oppressive regimes see revolutions if the population gets discontent enough that a strong majority wants it, or is at least willing to go along with it. That is certainly not true of US right now.
by alt227 | 2026-01-03 14:06:14+00:00
The only ISPs issuing IPv6 only connections are mobile device operators and Telcos. THey are a small subset of ISPs in the world and IPv6 only connections will never gain any traction outside of that world.

I agree it will not die so I retract that statement, but it will never fully replace IPv4 in standard wired internet connections.
by andrepd | 2026-01-03 14:06:26+00:00
Trump has spent the last year (decade actually) doing a disgraceful show of pleasing a dictator who invaded his neighbour. To say nothing of his own authoritarian projects at home. And let's not even get started about Netanyahu.

How can you talk about this as if it was a crusade for justice against dictators? Some people are just terminally gullible.
by TrackerFF | 2026-01-03 14:06:54+00:00
Not too much info out yet, but I'm guessing one of these happened:

A) Maduro negotiated some deal for himself and his family.

B) His whole military leadership sold him out.

(A) Makes sense if you assume that he had no other exit strategies. If he could have fled to Russia, he'd already done that. I'm thinking that Trump pressed hard on Putin not to take him. With no strong allies left, there's no exit for him. At best he'd be exposed to full-scale invasion by the US, civil war, or other internal power struggles.

(B) Makes sense if you assume that someone simply took the bait, and were flown out of Venezuela with the US operatives. But from a military perspective, it wouldn't be easy - any serious country has contingency plans, and there are many moving parts. Obviously one (or many) generals could provide these things in great detail, but there are still hundreds, if not thousands, of military personnel that will stick to their procedures once shit hits the fan.

From what I've seen, some airstrikes took out AA systems. And there's been reported some fighting back.

I don't know. (A) sounds a bit more likely to me. By any measure, the man was backed into a corner. I think his hail marry was for Putin to offer to save him. But that never happened...a big clue will be how Russia, and the Russian disinformation campaigns react to this.
by sejje | 2026-01-03 14:06:55+00:00
How many is it? Your link gets us to 1, and it's from months ago. I expected you to link the number since you're claiming it's high.

Supposedly there's been 500k deportations, and 2.5m "self-deportations" in 2025, so what would be high here?

Edit: I also googled that man's name. A quick read of nbcs article suggests it's not clear he's a citizen. The judge said he "had a substantial claim to citizenship," which means nothing either way. He was born in Thailand.

"In his Nov. 3 brief, [a lawyer] contends Souvannarath stayed in the United States for 19 years after his removal order without challenging it or seeking proof of citizenship."
by IgorPartola | 2026-01-03 14:07:31+00:00
It is so disappointing to have people who allegedly work with networks and technology act like IPv6 is too much for their delicate sensibilities. From thinking it is more complex than IPv4 (it is in fact simpler), to thinking that NAT is a security measure (the firewall is and routers have an IPv6 firewall on by default), to thinking there are no benefits (the benefits are clearly there), to thinking nobody uses it (loads of mobile devices access the web via IPv6 and lots of enterprise networks are IPv6), and so on, it is anti-curiosity and anti-hacker ethos. Go ask your favorite LLM how it works if you can’t be bothered to Google it but if you start your comment with “it has no use cases” or “it is too complicated” you are just outing yourself as ignorant on this subject.
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