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by steebo | 2026-01-03 15:43:29+00:00
This feels a lot like the arguing that went on during the transition to Python 3. The Python 2.7 hangers-on were so preoccupied with themselves that they didn't notice that the pool of people interested in having the argument at all was getting smaller and smaller.

Until somebody turned off the lights, that is. It is not much fun arguing with yourself in the dark.

I think that's what needed and needs to be done here. I will agree with the IPv4 advocates on one thing: IPv6 adoption has been slow in part because it doesn't work like IPv4 + kludges. That is the point. Clinging to IPv4 standard practices while you switch is just going to make you miserable.

In 2006, the hesitation to go to IPv6 made sense. Support was spotty. In 2026 it does not. IPv6 support is now more than adequate, and a clean cut will force the stragglers to get their asses in gear in a hurry ("fix your IPv6 support RFN or enjoy nobody using your product"). Change is painful, learning new stuff when you were getting by just fine on the old stuff is painful, I get it. But it will happen whether you like it or not. Why not just get it over with?

I finally made the switch to IPv6 last year, and I wouldn't go back.

The pain of change is real, but mercifully, it doesn't last. Within a year this debate will seem quaint.
by ACCount37 | 2026-01-03 15:43:34+00:00
The claim I make is that LLMs can be AGI complete with pretty much zero architectural work. And none of the "brain-like" architectures are actually much better at "being a brain" than LLMs are - the issue isn't "the architecture is wrong", it's "we don't know how to train for this kind of thing".

"Fundamental limitations" aren't actually fundamental. If you want more learning than what "in-context" gives you? Teach the usual "CLI agent" LLM to make its own LoRAs and there goes that. So far, this isn't a bottleneck so pressing you'd want to resolve it by force.

LeCun is laughing stock nowadays, he didn't get kicked out of Meta for no reason.
by adolph | 2026-01-03 15:43:45+00:00
> exile Maria Corina Machado

Machado seems to be the opposite of an exile until she escaped to accept the Nobel Peace Prize last month.

Machado was prohibited from leaving Venezuela by a decade-old
government-imposed travel ban and, by late 2025, had spent months in hiding
amid the risk of arrest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-03 15:43:53+00:00
In the 90s, the status of Crimea was an internal dispute in the newly-formed Ukrainian state. The status of Crimea as a part of the new Ukrainian state at this time was not yet settled in any way. The territory only became firmly a part of Ukraine in 1995.

The 2003 dispute over the island of Tuzla - whose status had not been clearly settled during the independence of Ukraine from the USSR - was settled diplomatically. If you call this occasion an "attempt to annex Ukraine", then we could equally say that "Romania attempted to annex Ukraine" when the countries had several rounds of negotiation and arbitration for control of Snake Island in the Black Sea.
by pfdietz | 2026-01-03 15:44:35+00:00
One notable exception to this is superconductors. One might naively think that because superconductors have zero electrical resistance, they also have zero thermal resistance. But this is wrong (sorry, Larry Niven)! The superconducting charge carriers (Cooper Pairs) have zero entropy, so they can't carry heat. Thermal conductivity of a superconducting material drops when it becomes superconductive.

I believe high Tc superconductors have been used (or at least proposed to be used) as current leads for carrying current into low Tc superconductors from somewhat higher temperature normal conductors.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-03 15:44:52+00:00
This has been done multiple times in research, see Verve OS from Microsoft, even Assembly is verified, that is where Dafny came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verve_(operating_system)

However, worse is better on the market, and quality doesn't pay off, hence why such ideas take decades into mainstream.
by krapp | 2026-01-03 15:44:53+00:00
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Nowhere in there does it require "tech in the story."

You may not consider anything non tech-related to be interesting, but that isn't your decision to enforce on behalf of the community.
by Etheryte | 2026-01-03 15:45:13+00:00
I don't find this argument convincing. You could make the same argument when you see a parent physically hitting their child, that it's not anybody else's business, but most of the civilized world agrees that you should intervene, either directly or by contacting the authorities. The child is helpless to defend themselves. The same applies in many countries worldwide today. Even if the majority of the population wants a change of regime, coordinated military power held by a handful of individuals is more than enough to suppress any hope of that.
by MBCook | 2026-01-03 15:45:20+00:00
That’s true. You’d have to be a little picky. I know you can plug in a KB and mouse but… why?

Still there are a huge number of games from indies or small publishers that may not make it to console but would still work fantastically with a controller. Or maybe they’re successful and they will make it over, you just don’t want to wait the two years.

Those kind of games are the ones that make me consider getting a Steam Deck.
by skywhopper | 2026-01-03 15:45:54+00:00
I’m concerned you are overestimating the value of the certificate of authenticity you’re getting from your supplier. While you may be right that the compounds you intend to take can’t possibly be all that harmful, there’s a good chance what you’re getting may not be what you think, may not be entirely what you think, and likely contains other things that may be harmful, particularly over a longer period of time.
by grufkork | 2026-01-03 15:46:16+00:00
Any details/sources on this? I thought it was strange that the airspace seemed almost entirely uncontested. Scrambling fighters take a while of course (particularly if unmaintained and you're corrupt), but I had at least expected some ground-based air defences to be active. Maybe they were being blown up in the first few videos that surfaced? Unless they were disabled by other means, that's another catastrophic display of the Russian systems.
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by nirui | 2026-01-03 15:47:06+00:00
That brings back my memory (again) installing Mandriva on my old old old computer which has a NVIDIA TNT2 graphics card. It was a completely nightmare back then to install driver for it in order to get it to output at the correct resolution and refresh rate...

Now I have a Thinkpad T440p with a GeForce GT 730M dGPU which NVIDIA no longer provide driver for newer Linux kernels, so I have to use slower nouveau driver.

Ah, something never change.
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-03 15:48:47+00:00
As of 2025, Iraq looks better than it used to.

No strongman in charge, sorta-kinda democratic government (more democratic than almost anywhere else in the Arab world), violence has subsided, the country didn't disintegrate into pieces unlike Yugoslavia, the economy has grown moderately, and they haven't become an Iranian puppet regime.

Frankly, by the standards of the Near and Middle East, this is very much not an abysmal failure.

The insurgency that preceded this was very bad, though. No denying that. But some other modern nations have such insurgencies in their recent history, such as Ireland, and that didn't stop them from developing towards prosperity.
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-03 15:49:15+00:00
An ASN with a /32 allocation (the smallest for ISPs) is four billion /64s. It takes dozens of yottabytes of traffic to exhaustively scan one single /64. The entire v4 space takes 0.00000001 yottabytes, or about 110 GB/port in more understandable units.

There's a ton of things you can do to cut down on the scan space for v6, but it's still far huger than v4 can be.
by dismalaf | 2026-01-03 15:49:19+00:00
> Which government was relatively moderate? Gaddhafi who threatened to slaughter the rebellious cities block to block on TV? Assad who did just that and gassed his own people for a good measure?

Both of them were more moderate than ISIS lol.

But yeah, Egypt is more moderate than the Muslim brotherhood. Jordan is moderate. The non-Hezbollah part of Lebanon. UAE, Qatar, Oman all quite moderate. The Saudis are even secularizing a tad to try calming down fundamentalist sentiment. All these states actively suppress Islamism and generally are pro-west.
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-03 15:49:47+00:00
Even if a peace deal is reached, and even if that is part of the peace deal, that doesn't mean we are accepting it: we [Europeans] fought (mostly economically) a good 5 years to try to prevent it, and lost. Accepting this would have meant not providing any aid to Ukraine and instead just saying "Russia has a clear doctrine of not allowing NATO control of the Ukraine region" as if this justified and their actions.
by anthk | 2026-01-03 15:49:50+00:00
Political news will affect technology in one way or another. Chat Control in Europe shoven down out throats. Venezuelan oil and a war excuse for it in order to distract from Epstein (and to avoid news on Tesla being really behind BYD on sales). Further wars in the Arctic because of shipping routes. Unless some permafrost virus kicks out both armies fast and some ceasefire happens for the good, because that would happen.

And vulcanoes, too; if some biggie erupts in the Canaries or some Asian place, that would kickstart some really big tsunamies or something worse.
That would be news in HN too because it would affect shipping too, if not literal industries in California, China, Russia or Japan.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-03 15:49:55+00:00
Some reports that she is already in Moscow.

I am not sure what you mean by "control the government had"...they are the same thing. It is like the situation with IRA and Sinn Fein, this bizarre roleplay where people (for various reasons) went to massive effort to imply they were separate when it was obvious they were led by the same people. There is no distinction between the government and cartels...the assumption that there is makes no sense at all given the latitude they have to operate.
by Deprogrammer9 | 2026-01-03 15:50:19+00:00
My entire life, we have always been at war. :|

“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
― George Orwell
by FractalParadigm | 2026-01-03 15:50:20+00:00
What burned me was that there was no updating from WP7 to WP8 - After playing around with one and genuinely enjoying the experience, I convinced myself to buy a Lumia 900 in April of 2012, just for Nokia/Microsoft to effectively say "that was stupid, wasn't it?" when the Lumia 920 and WP8 launched just 7 months later. Releasing a so-called flagship device that they knew would be incompatible with their upcoming OS, effectively killing software support before the year was even finished, really doesn't inspire confidence in the longevity of a product.
by pwdisswordfishy | 2026-01-03 15:50:21+00:00
Please also enable CORS[1] for your RSS feed. (If your whole site is a static site, then please just enable CORS site-wide. This is how GitHub Pages works. There's pretty much no reason not to.)

Not having CORS set up for your RSS feed means that browser-based feed readers won't be able to fetch your feed to parse it (without running a proxy).

1. <https://enable-cors.org/>
by baka367 | 2026-01-03 15:50:25+00:00
There is none to be found. The people need to play the zombie apocalypse - arm and survive.

The main players:
- current government
- local army
- invading army
- chinese and Russian proxies
- multiple smaller groups
- opposition

And probably more will play the power struggle in the foreseeable future. Unaffiliated people will somehow need to find a way to navigate this mess
by serial_dev | 2026-01-03 15:50:27+00:00
While it's true that so far they only removed Maduro, removing a sitting president and his wife is a show of power, it's a "we do whatever we want". What is stopping the US to remove the next person, and continue doing so until as they find someone that they like? Or to organize an up-rising or a coup? The writing is on the wall.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-03 15:50:29+00:00
Um, I think you're taking my comment reversed. Using a new car for Uber is what you should never do. You should be using the shittiest car possible. Buying a new car for Uber is not good. The cost per mile, as calculated by IRS, goes up with a new car because that cost includes depreciation and interest. The cost is not actually that high if your car is old.
by xtiansimon | 2026-01-03 15:50:32+00:00
> "Perhaps the middle ground is to have the LLM write the classifier..."

There was a time when I'd read this comment and then go looking for a tutorial on building a basic "Bayesian classifier". Invariably, I'd find several, which I'd line up like soldiers in tabs, and go through them until I find one that explained the what, why and how of it that spoke to my use (or near enough).

Of course, now ChatAI does all that for you in several Chat sessions. One does wonder though, if Chat is trained on text, and that was the history of what text was available, 10 years from now after everyone stopped writing 10 Blog posts about the same "Bayesian classifier", where's the ChatAI fodder coming from? I don't even know if this would be an outcome of fewer Blog posts [1]. It just strikes me as interesting because that would be _a very slow process_.

[1]: Not that this is necessarily true. People write blogs for all sorts of reasons, and having knockout quality competition from ChatAI does not KO all of them.
by clanky | 2026-01-03 15:50:48+00:00
> The US positively, endlessly interfered in Europe for the past century. That interference has overwhelmingly turned out well.

Are we counting the financial support that Wall Street and the budding CIA boys at Sullivan & Cromwell gave Hitler to harass the Soviet Union, which ultimately had to take care of the problem they created, in the "turning out well" column here?
by topspin | 2026-01-03 15:50:50+00:00
> China moves on Taiwan

What is the risk calculation one would perform before attempting to invade Taiwan while Trump is calling shots? Whatever else you think about Trump, for better or worse, he is not bound by establishment prerogatives: make the "wrong" move, as Trump exclusively defines it, and anything — literally any conceivable thing plus a distant horizon of things you are cognitively incapable of conceiving — might happen.

Maduro is in a cage somewhere pondering this right now. Iran's leaders are all thinking about the threats Trump made not 48 hours ago, possibly to the great benefit of rebels in the streets right now. Federal investigators are closing in on Walz and friends in Minnesota right now: he could find himself in a cell within earshot of Maduro at any time.

Don't forget to breathe!
by conradojordan | 2026-01-03 15:50:52+00:00
Yes they know what "hypocrisy" means. It is the hypocrisy of western media of jumping to say "evil country X bombed/invaded country Y" when it's a non-western country doing something (not that I'm justifying any country bombing/invading another) but when it's done by a country like the US the report is just "wow these buildings in Caracas just popped, crazy huh?"
by jrudin | 2026-01-03 15:50:56+00:00
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by AdrianB1 | 2026-01-03 15:51:09+00:00
Compensation can be the issue if the cost of living is creating problems. If you need 150k to just live in an area, 160k is not motivating while 250k gives you the peace of mind to focus on the work, not just on surviving. If you live in Bangladesh, the difference between 160k and 250k is almost meaningless.

Also compensation is a sign of respect and influences motivation. If you position yourself lower in the market, there is no reason to deliver top results for less money, correct? This attracts mediocrity, especially in management, and slowly kills companies. Usually there is no way back, no large company can replace the entire management and once and the mediocre ones will reject new, better ones.
by sneak | 2026-01-03 15:51:09+00:00
You think that missing out on talking to high schoolers is worse than missing out on the harms of smartphones?

We must have very different views of the world. I would never let a child for whom I am responsible have a smartphone. They are not required, despite what you may have been told.

I’m an adult and I’ve been experimenting with leaving mine behind when I go out. It’s more than fine.
by mothballed | 2026-01-03 15:51:10+00:00
It's down here for a reason. Anything that even alludes to the fact that Trump's broken clock might accidently be right for some people twice a day can't surface. Thus the anti-regime Venezuelans get their comments pushed down into the shithole, because we can't outright say the very people we are white-knighting are wrong so we just ignore them.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-03 15:51:20+00:00
Trump agents out in full force, I see.

Counter any of them with real evidence, I dare you.

1. Trump is a pedophile. This is confirmed by the fact that he's been sued for his pedaristic actions, and "wished well" his former Mossad-backed recruiter.

2. Weapons makers and oil companies have quite literally had their executives and shareholders go from the board room to cabinet or VP level positions in the US government. this isn't a conspiracy.

3. Venezuela produces very little of the drugs the US consumer consumes. Mexico, Colombia, etc.. produce far more, like double-digit multiples more. Context: I live in SoFLA and interact with Venezuelans daily, and I lived in Mexico for several years and am pretty familiar with how their cartels operate.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-03 15:51:35+00:00
Afghanistan was a weird "how long to we have to pretend to give a shit before we give it back to the guys we never really wanted to take it from in the first place" situation.

Iraq was a textbook example of why you don't dismantle the entire administrative state.

I don't think either is relevant here. Other central american shenanigans are the better reference points IMO.
by sejje | 2026-01-03 15:51:59+00:00
I didn't say it required tech, just that it didn't have any. It's exactly what they'd put on mainstream news. It IS mainstream news.

I'm usually in the thread defending the unusual, non-tech posts. One of the most consequential reads of all time, for me, was a personal blog posted by Paul Buccheit about the death of his brother.

I'm all about the intellectual curiosity aspect, so you read me wrong.

The Venezuela story that is/was near the top of the front page is just pure politics. There's nothing else it brings.

I'm not policing or enforcing things on behalf of the community, no need to be a smarmy jerk. I'm presenting my arguments just like you are. Thanks for the lesson, Chad.
by NalNezumi | 2026-01-03 15:52:12+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

Ah a textbook case of outgroup homogeneity bias. [1] Your follow up comment about Bernie and AOC is icing on the cake.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity
by devnavigator | 2026-01-03 15:52:20+00:00
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by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-03 15:52:22+00:00
You may be wrong about the oil industry, Trumps already saying it in between the lies/pretense about drugs.

"Trump says that the US is going to be "strongly involved" in Venezuela's oil industry moving forward." [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqygxe41pt
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by politics1989 | 2026-01-03 15:53:01+00:00
I agree with your condemnation of this and other conflicts, but disagree that this is in any way new or worse than any purported golden age.

One month after the Berlin Wall fell the US invaded Panama to kidnap its leader so he could stand trial in the US on drug trafficking charges [1], an almost identical situation to this one.

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