MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stale2002 | 2026-01-03 18:17:48+00:00
> The argument you make just plays in their hand

Who cares? What are they going to do about it?

> Because in your framing leaves open who gets to decide what it means to be democratically legitimized.

That was already the case. Our enemies don't care about the concept of hypocrisy. They aren't waiting for some moral high ground. They are going to do what they want to do regardless.

> You're argument opens the door for unlimited military intervention.

No it doesn't. If it is bad to invade somewhere, we can simply not do that. And we can judge this based on the situation and the consequences.
by bloppe | 2026-01-03 18:18:07+00:00
This is the attitude that permits world wars. In the aftermath of WW2, a lot of people genuinely believed in the power of international law to prevent WW3. Now, it seems like a ton of people think that's just BS, and the fact that so many people think that is what makes it BS. If a strong majority of people actually believed in international law, it would be "real".

I guess sometimes you just need WW3.
by staticassertion | 2026-01-03 18:18:31+00:00
> I think the most practical reason not to flag which bugs are security bugs is to avoid helping blackhat hackers by painting a giant neon sign and that should be more than enough.

It doesn't work. I've looked at the kernel commit log and found vulnerabilities that aren't announced/ marked. Attackers know how to do this. Not announcing is a pure negative.
by xpe | 2026-01-03 18:18:44+00:00
> Vice President J. D. Vance suggested on X that this morning’s incursion is legal because “Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism.” But as my colleague Conor Friedersdorf has noted, this logic would mean that the president can order an invasion of “any country where a national has an outstanding arrest warrant.”

- The Atlantic
by tim333 | 2026-01-03 18:19:00+00:00
I'm not sure about the dead end thing because you may be able to add on to them?

In human terms LLMs seem similar to talking without thinking but we can also think as a separate activity to waffling on.

In AI research terms, DeepMind have done some interesting things with Mind Evolution and AlphaEvolve, the latter being the one that came up with a more efficient matrix multiplication algorithm.

(https://deepmind.google/research/publications/122391/

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-co...)
by andsoitis | 2026-01-03 18:19:11+00:00
> Just like outright stealing Greenland from Denmark "for national security" in his crazy narrative likely is.

> And now I wonder what fucking insane manufactured casus belli he will create to invade and annex Canada.

Your mind is crashing. He's not going to steal Greenland from Denmark or annex Canada.

Separately, but related, it should be noted that Greenlanders overwhelmingly want independence from Denmark, their colonizer. It is even in their draft constitution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlandic_independence
by stale2002 | 2026-01-03 18:19:26+00:00
> The UN Charter isn't real?

Correct. The UN charter is a piece of paper.

Pieces of paper don't do anything. They are not magic spells that enforce anything, and they only matter in so far as they are enforced by other actors with real power.

If you want to talk about what other countries with a military or trade power might do, go ahead. But the piece of paper is rarely relevant at the international stage.
by axiolite | 2026-01-03 18:19:27+00:00
I believe your recollection is off by several years...

What you're describing is PuttyGen. According to Wikipedia, the first Putty release was in 1999. Archive.org doesn't have any snapshots of the Putty website before 2000, so that checks-out.

The RSA patent didn't expire in the US until September 2000, so that's when free implementations like OpenSSH first became widely available. That's precisely when I started using it...

The original SSH was first released mid-1995. There would have been a small number of installations in 1996, but absolutely negligible. It was not well-known until later, circa 2000.
by staticassertion | 2026-01-03 18:19:59+00:00
"A bug is a bug" lol.

There's a massive difference between "DoS requiring root" and "I can own you from an unprivileged user with one system call". You can say "but that DoS could have been a privesc! We don't know!" but no one is arguing otherwise? The point is that we do know the impact of some bugs is strictly a superset of other bugs, and when those bugs give control or allow a violation of a defined security boundary, those are security bugs.

This has all been explained to Greg for decades, nothing will change so it's just best to accept the state - I'm glad it's been documented clearly.

Know this - your kernel is not patched unless you run the absolute latest version. CVEs are discouraged, vuln fixes are obfuscated, and you should operate under that knowledge.

Attackers know how to watch the commit log for these hidden fixes btw, it's not that hard.
by rented_mule | 2026-01-03 18:20:19+00:00
I've been using https://www.beatunes.com/en/beatunes-matchlist.html (35€ for Mac or Windows) to create static playlists like this for years from my library of ~13K songs. I've created a few dozen such playlists with light curation (just kicking a song out here and there). I find myself listening to these playlists far more than the ones I created completely by hand.

I suppose you could do it often, or maybe even script it (e.g., with Keyboard Maestro on Mac) to get something a little more dynamic. But it's not something that just matches songs on the fly server side.
by jgrahamc | 2026-01-03 18:20:27+00:00
Thanks, but doesn't look like that'll update the box on the main page that reads:

"Who counts as a blogger?

I explain more in my methodology page, but it’s basically anyone who blogs as an individual rather than as part of a company or a team. As an example, John Graham-Cumming is the CTO of Cloudflare, so I count his personal blog but not his posts to the Cloudflare company blog."
by xpe | 2026-01-03 18:20:32+00:00
> There is no international law.

This is incredibly confused.

A reasonable person can say international law is unevenly enforced. This does not mean it does not matter. Both positive (what exists) and normative (what is ethical) considerations matter.

Communicating well matters. The above style of exaggeration is unhelpful if one cares about making sense of the world. Try to predict what happens in the future without factoring in international agreements and laws. Predictions from such models will be inferior, relatively speaking, to a version that does include paying attention to law.
by 29athrowaway | 2026-01-03 18:21:28+00:00
Just watch one of the sessions of the UN general assembly. There are many speeches about fixing all kinds of situations. If the best ideas were implemented we would be in a utopia with flying cars, free ponies for everyone and open bar. But we don't live in such world because if one motion somehow makes one of the countries with veto power uncomfortable, they will just veto the resolution and that's the end of it. And countries with veto power are backed by military power. That's the world we live in and it has always been like that.

And things work like this at every level in every organization. For example people in your line of reporting at work can veto any decision you make unless you are protected by law, which is an entity that can shut down your company by force.
by MisterMower | 2026-01-03 18:21:41+00:00
I’m skeptical any of this is true.

How does Maduro being ousted change the physical realities of an amphibious invasion of Taiwan? You think international law is what has been preventing Xi from invading?

Trump does only respect power, as do all other serious leaders. Power is all that matters in the end.

How do you think the system of international law came into existence? It was imposed by the US at the end of WWII because of their overwhelming military strength and the fact that no other nation had nuclear weapons at the time.

The armchair analysis from some folks on this topic is really lacking. You guys are just wrong, and the hubris you bring with your “analysis” is really off putting.
by drweevil | 2026-01-03 18:21:43+00:00
>Venezuelans in the capital have voiced mixed reactions to the US’s operation, with some celebrating the “positive change” and others saying Maduro’s capture creates “an even worse conflict.”

A claim backed up by...a link to itself? What? (as of now, the link is in the phrase "voiced mixed reactions".) Our media is showing us how much rot actually prevails within the large news orgs. How did they arrive at a framing like "some do, some don't"? Did they have reporters on the ground?. Or is this an unfalsifiable phrase designed to sow doubt? (fwiw, the only ones I can think of who would approve are members of the old ruling class, who form a small minority of the country's population.)
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-03 18:22:05+00:00
You keep using the term "AGI" without defining what you mean by it, other than implicity defining it as "whatever can be achieved without changing the Transformer architecture", which makes your "claim" just a definitional tautology, which is fine, but it does mean you are talking about something different than what I am talking about, which is also fine.

> And none of the "brain-like" architectures are actually much better at "being a brain" than LLMs are

I've no idea what projects you are referring to.

It would be certainly be bizarre if the Transformer architecture, never designed to be a brain, turns out to be the best brain we can come up with, and equal to real brains which have many more moving parts, each evolved over millions of years to fill a need and improve capability.

Maybe you are smarter than Demis Hassabis, and the DeepMind team, and all their work towards AGI (their version, not yours) will be a waste of effort. Why not send him a note "hey, dumbass, Transfomers are all you need!" ?
by DrProtic | 2026-01-03 18:22:51+00:00
You seem to think US did this because Maduro was a dictator. They themselves clarified it's because of oil.

Why they don't attack Saudi Arabia then? Saudi's even had a role in 9/11.

Decades of lies shaped the narrative that all invasions US do is because countries have dictators, it's being the narrative even now when they explicitly say it's because of oil.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-01-03 18:23:41+00:00
You and I are subject to the law. This is not voluntary and it will be enforced against us by the state.

On the other hand, countries are sovereign. They are not subject to "laws", and if they do it is on a voluntary basis. Ultimately it boils down to military and economic strength for a country to be able to stand its ground and do what it wants. We never left this behind, this has always been the case.

From the replies it seems that commenters believe that countries are subject to "laws" the same way that they are...
by uecker | 2026-01-03 18:23:52+00:00
See my other comment in this thread with my preliminary benchmarking results. I have a patched GCC with two new builtins __builtin_static_chain and __builtin_nested_code (needs a better name), that give you the static chain pointer and the code pointer without creating a trampoline. Then I put both into a structure to simulate a wide pointer. Later I call it with __builtin_call_with_static_chain.

A trick one can do is to let it create the trampoline and then read off the two pointer from the position in the code where it is stored. Not portable and you still have the overhead for creating the trampoline, but you do not need the executable stack anymore.
by foobiekr | 2026-01-03 18:24:15+00:00
"What happens when multiple devices in your /8 want to listen on port 80 and 443 on the public address?"

This is a feature not a flaw. The average person doesn't have anything acting as a server, and that's a good thing, because the only servers they'd have would be embedded garbage in poorly maintained or completely abandoned IOT devices with incompetent code that should not be publicly exposed, ever, in anything but a call out model.
by nosefurhairdo | 2026-01-03 18:24:17+00:00
My read of your argument: international law says don't intervene in foreign government, and by intervening we legitimize future violence.

I'm not sure this argument makes sense. Maduro stole an election to force his way to dictatorship, is widely blamed for running the country into mass poverty, and continues to hold onto power through threat of violence. The Venezuelan people don't have any recourse here.

Also, in your example of Ukraine you indicate that Russia frames the uprising as a "US coup", suggesting that the reality of whether there even was external involvement isn't so important.

Even so, if some nation tried to use this strike on Venezuela as further justification for violence wouldn't they be violating the same international law you cite anyway?

Obviously the US has a rough track record of replacing foreign governments (a much stronger argument against this kind of act IMO), but so far this mission has looked pretty ideal (rapid capture of Maduro, minimal casualties, US forces instead of funding some rebel group). There is opportunity for a good ending if we can steward a legitimate election for Venezuela, assist with restoration of key institutions (legal, police, oil), and we avoid any deals regarding oil that are viewed as unfair by the Venezuelans.
by simoncion | 2026-01-03 18:24:22+00:00
Yes on the same computer. Pretty much every multicast-capable host has a unicast address and has multicast groups that they join when they get an IP address. [0] Edge routers almost always have -at minimum- a global address and a "site-local" address. Any host that has multiple active interfaces can have multiple "categories" of addresses assigned to it.

You might also be unaware of the fact that network interfaces can usually be assigned multiple IPv4 addresses, just like they can be assigned multiple IPv6 addresses.

> ...the application does not have to figure out which one it has to use.

You might be surprised to learn that that's the job of the routing table on the system. Applications can influence the choices made by the system by binding to a specific source address, but the default behavior used by nearly everything is to let the system handle all that for you.

[0] You appear to be unaware that multicast addresses aren't assigned to a host. I suspect you're unaware that IPv6 removed the special-case "broadcast" address. It's now treated as what it actually is; the "all hosts" multicast address.
by chasil | 2026-01-03 18:24:42+00:00
I would not agree. Intelligence operatives are often in place for long durations in hostile sovereign territory, and some were likely used in this event. Their presence is not an invasion.

Air operations also are not seen as invasions, and the recent stealth strikes by the U.S. in Iran are not seen this way.

It appears to me that armed troops in place that are taking and holding territory for a prolonged duration are the definition.

The dictionary definition below is "the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invasion

Is Maduro and his wife "plunder?" That would stretch this meaning, I think.
by wpietri | 2026-01-03 18:24:43+00:00
Agreed. Honestly, I think of those as two very different needs that should have very different systems. To me a bug tracker is about collecting user reports of problems and finding commonalities. But most work should be driven by other information.

I think the confusion of bug tracking with work tracking comes out of the bad old days where we didn't write tests and we shipped large globs of changes all at once. In that world, people spent months putting bugs in, so it makes sense they'd need a database to track them all after the release. Bugs were the majority of the work.

But I think a team with good practices that ships early and often can spend a lot more time on adding value. In which case, jamming everything into a jumped-up bug tracker is the wrong approach.
by gizmo686 | 2026-01-03 18:25:04+00:00
That is the reasoning that is most at risk here. China's tactical ability to succeed in Taiwan is not really related to America's ability to succeed in Venezuela.

However, assuming the US gets away with this diplomatically, this does set a real precedent that countries can get away with this diplomatically; which will make it harder to organize diplomatic and economic responses to China.
by Teknomadix | 2026-01-03 18:25:07+00:00
PS: All of this got me thinking about the past and dislodged a bunch of memories from my old crusty techno battered brain.
In that early interview where Bangalter loosely mentions their production setup: an E-mu SP-1200, an MPC3000, and "Logic on a PC." He doesn't specify what kind of PC, and he doesn't say who made the software—just the word "Logic." One thing is for sure he wasn't talking about an Apple computer or software product.

I was working in studios around Europe in the late '90s and if you said "Logic" in a studio context, you were certainly talking about Emagic Logic, and "PC" didn't mean a Windows box. In that era, particularly in France, "PC" was often used colloquially to mean any Atari ST or Falcon, which had been the backbone of European electronic music production for a decade. Given Daft Punk's roots in the French house scene and the timing of Homework's production (1996-97), there's a strong chance they were running Emagic Logic on Atari hardware, because at the time, the ports of this program to other platforms were garbage and were not to be trusted.

The lineage of the software is an entire saga unto itself. What became Apple Logic started life as C-Lab Notator on the Atari ST in the late '80s which dominated Euro electronic music. In late 1992, after a dispute with C-Lab's owners, the core developers, one of whom was Apple's own Gerhard Lengeling, walked out and founded Emagic. They rewrote everything from scratch as Notator Logic, which eventually dropped the Notator prefix and just became Logic.

Around '02, Apple came knocking and swallowed the whole operation. They immediately killed the Windows version, and dropped the Emagic branding entirely with Logic Pro 7. Like I said, Gerhard Lengeling is still at Apple, now their 'Senior Director of Software Engineering for Musical Applications' according to his LinkedIn.
by mikaeluman | 2026-01-03 18:25:24+00:00
The world is complex... It is a fact that Chavez and Maduro have completely ruined Venezuela.

That doesn't mean things can't get worse.

I pray the majority of Venezuelans really have had enough of socialist dictatorships and can find a way to govern themselves. The US should not govern Venezuela - but neither should Maduro or his cronies.
by lioeters | 2026-01-03 18:26:02+00:00
Best quote of the year so far. Love me some C.

He continues: "C++. Well, I've programmed in it but it's kind of like, please spare me - so I prefer C."

I also liked this part:

> ..From a specification perspective, Lisp and SmallTalk are like seniors to me. There's a lot I can reference from them. They're like a treasure trove of ideas. If anything, I often go to them, get ideas, and incorporate them into Ruby.
by the__alchemist | 2026-01-03 18:26:15+00:00
I think I can summarize this: In life and devices, I often find processes I find are high-friction, or have room for user interface or other improvements. There is a guarantee that there will be people who will tell me these concerns are invalid.

In the case of Linux usability desires, I will make the cautious conclusion that there is a group of people who consider Linux part of their identity, and any desire for improvement or shortcoming is mentally a personal challenge. I am just a human using computers as a tool, and don't have a desire to play politics on this subject.

I think the "it's fine" / "works for me" / "Actually this is a good thing" / "Why don't you just" replies like this are an obstacle to improvement, but is often overcome.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-03 18:26:17+00:00
Not to justify what happened here, but your argument would mean that the US would likely have remained a British colony given that French intervention on behalf of the colonies was a contributing factor to the success of the revolutionary war. It also would heavily imply that once the allied forces had beaten the Nazi's back behind German borders, that they should have stopped there. An extreme non-interventionist policy might be the best default policy, but it is implicitly an endorsement of might makes right as well. There are almost certainly times when a country should feel justified in intervening in another country's "regime change", but those times should be very carefully considered and (IMO) never ever viewed as a first or easy step, only a last (or nearly last) resort.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-03 18:26:47+00:00
> Today, congress can be largely ignored by the executive and congress seems to support it vocally.

I seem to remember the 116th and 118th Congresses pushing back against executive power, which were the last times the US had divided government. https://history.house.gov/Institution/Presidents-Coinciding/...

And I wouldn't exactly say that Congress is wholly supporting unrestricted presidential power currently either. E.g. Senator Thune continually shooting down Trump's more oddball pleas.

There are very vocal supporters of the president in both the House and Senate GOP caucuses, but they're not the majority.

I think the strongest version of your argument would be something like 'In recent US Congressional history, both parties when in power have used congressional power to tactically check opposition party presidents, but neither have sought to permanently expand and defend the bounds of congressional power.'
by vladgur | 2026-01-03 18:27:53+00:00
Thanks for sharing this — amazing resource and resembles my experience with US health care.

I recently asked my doctor at Stanford - a pretty expensive hospital but one of the top cardio hospitals in the country - to get me an APoB test. He said that it may not be covered by insurance.

So instead I spend $360 or so on a year worth of biomarkers from Function Health that included ApoB and others
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2026-01-03 18:28:00+00:00
NATO is invading. They just don't do it overtly. You don't think those Chechen "freedom fighters" were, like, independent? It was USA all along. It was not a mistake, some leftover from Cold War or something, some project they forget to close now when Soviet Union broke. It was the policy all the time. There is no way to somehow negotiate it to stop short of surrendering. We have to fight. We do not want to, but there is no other option.

Recently there was a terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow and about 150 people were killed. The actual attackers were rather simple-minded Tajik people. No way they could plan such an attack themselves. You do realize that there was someone else? "A quiet American"? (Or maybe a British; doesn't matter.) Some timidly looking guy visited that concert hall before that attack, walked around and made notes. He noted, for example, whether the finishing materials were flammable. He did that reconnaissance in several places and finally picked that concert hall. That fellow belongs to a group that does this kind of things. They have something like a list of cases, teaching materials and lectures. You don't see such people in the news; but they surely do exist.

This is how a modern Western invasion looks like.
by FridayoLeary | 2026-01-03 18:28:24+00:00
It's a great point. Maduro won't be missed by anyone. But the top posted comment here perfectly captured my feelings. There's the wider picture to look at. I personally would love it if America did that to Iran, Russia, Cuba etc, but i feel there should be more of a process and i'm allowed to be suspicious of the motives.

If Venezuela actually becomes a functioning country again and drugs, gangs and illegal immigrants stop flooding America then i personally would applaud the operation. Still, you really shouldn't just kidnap other countries presidents just like that as a general rule.