MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by martinald | 2025-11-23 02:59:48+00:00
Not definite imo to be some sort of cron job. More likely there is some sort of electromagnetic interference happening at that time (a classic one used to be cheap Christmas decoration lights which would be on a timer and cause chaos).

This person needs to get the actual DOCSIS diagnostic logs from the modem to figure out what's going on with the physical line, not just ping tests or speed tests.

Also, why wouldn't starlink be an alternative?
by inerte | 2025-11-23 03:00:13+00:00
My 13 year old has a phone. Most of the apps are blocked. Messages is open, and we tweak based on expectations how much he has access per day, and when. Right now it's 8:30pm to 9pm (so after sports and homework).

He can call and text me and my wife anytime of the day. Thankfully the school bans phone usage, so it's not a lot.

A handful of his friends have no phone. Most have, and all apps are accessible (not sure how parents configure age restricted content/apps).

It's a lot of work to limit and tweak and even his 1 minute a day on Safari (because I couldn't find a way to cut to 0) allowed him to create a TikTok and Instagram account (on web). I am a technologist... and gee my 13 year is a genius when trying to find ways to circumvent the restrictions. Every other week I have to change some minor thing in Settings. But my point is that it's a LOT of work... I can see why some people either completely ban or allow. But to me it's worth. Messages is open because I believe he needs to talk with his friends, but fuck Tiktok and Instagram and Youtube.
by tfvlrue | 2025-11-23 03:00:14+00:00
I had a similar problem with a different ISP, Optimum, in Northern NJ. It wasn't as regular as the author's problem -- my cable modem would desync intermittently throughout the day despite the signal strength numbers being in spec.

I replaced everything downstream of the drop from the street, all new wiring inside, a new modem/router/etc. All signs pointed to the problem being outside the house. I went so far as to connect an oscilloscope to the coax line to look for patterns. I discovered that if I physically manipulated a particular section of the line from the pole, a huge interference pattern appeared and the modem's connection dropped. Eventually I could reproduce the connection loss fairly easily.

Convincing the ISP to actually do anything about it was much harder. Despite first-hand evidence that the coax from the pole needed to be replaced, their tech support insisted that someone had to come into the house to inspect the interior wiring. No amount of insistence on my part would convince them that it was not necessary. The building was a vacation home, and this was during peak COVID time, so there was basically no chance of that happening. The appointment came with threats of service charges if they sent a tech and could not enter the building or reproduce the problem, so I cancelled it.

Coincidentally, I happened to discover that the mayor of the town had started a hotline specifically for reporting home Internet problems in the town. So I sent in a message to that service, not really expecting anything to come of it. But shortly after I get a phone call from some higher-up department of the ISP. They had a truck out within a few days to replace the drop -- with no one home -- and the connection was rock solid ever since.

This experience taught me that ISPs often have distinct support channels that governmental departments use to contact them. I think they called it the "executive support team" or something along those lines. Basically, if you can get a message in that way, it's possible to circumvent the useless consumer-level support. Long story short, I think escalating this through the local or state level government may be the author's best shot at getting this resolved.
by ilamont | 2025-11-23 03:00:16+00:00
> after his 40s was trapped in a sad cycle of reunion tours because the band still needed the money.

Celebrity memoirs are often written for the same reasons, or to promote other ventures. For instance Peter Wolf seemingly reluctantly shared vignettes about Dylan, The Stones, Faye Dunaway, and rock 'n' roll life in the 1970s to promote his newer stuff:

"I was putting out solo CDs. Not to sound self-congratulatory, but I thought each one got better and better— but they weren’t finding an audience. I thought a book might encourage people to check out the other stuff. So basically, the intent of the book was to find a wider audience."

https://www.boston.com/culture/books/2025/03/10/peter-wolf-m...
by crazygringo | 2025-11-23 03:00:38+00:00
Who on earth thinks the doctor is working for free, or the nurse, or anyone else...?

This is the most strawman of strawmen I might ever have heard.

By your logic, the word "free" should be banished from the English language, because literally nothing could ever be free.

Except, for people who have common sense, "free" means you don't have to pay for the thing directly.

In this case, your taxes get aggregated with everyone else's and then some gets split up into health services. But since there's no direct connection between the two -- you don't get more healthcare if you pay more taxes individually, and you don't get to pay less taxes if you don't go to the doctor -- it's conceptualized as paying taxes on one end, and getting free health care on the other. This is just common sense. Everyone understands how this works. It's the same way we have free schools. Or you think schools aren't actually free either...?
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 03:01:10+00:00
> That you’re even discussing graphite moderated (?!!) makes this pretty clear.

And why would this be? Is graphite expensive? No it isn't. Also, we created a working one of these designed in the 1960's without computers. You seriously think this is hard compared to other types of engineering we do today?

A LFTR can also do things that a PWR or BWR can't and has several major advantages. But since it uses pencil lead apparently we can't even try it.
by hnthrowaway0328 | 2025-11-23 03:01:45+00:00
I cold turkeyed once and did not feel much except for the first few days, probably because I am not a heavy drinker.

However, I picked it up later because I always want to drink something with taste, and the mix of coffee, some milk and sometimes a bit of sugar does provide satisfaction without feeling the guity of gaining weight.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-23 03:02:16+00:00
I partly agree. Firefox moving to Webkit or Blink isn't as bad as people put it, but under one critical condition: Firefox still keeps the capacity to steer away from Google's roadmap and shoulder a competitive and full implementation of the engine on its own (100% maintain a fork that can deviate from Blink as much as needed, including becomming fully incompatible).

Under that specific scenario, we would get the best of both worlds. There would be less engine variety, but it would save Firefox and offer an out of a Google owned ecosystem.

Now I think that's absolutely not trivial, and if Firefox could pull that out it could probably as well push its own engine way more forward right now.

For instance Apple played that game, ended up basically alone on Webkit, and I'm not sure Safari is more competitive to Chrome than Firefox is. Safari keeps some market share, but the reasons are elsewhere.
by gusgus01 | 2025-11-23 03:02:25+00:00
Yeah, the person making the claim never responded. But I was more responding to your comments, specifically:

"Just searching 'chemical imbalance debunked' yields a wide array of sources. So why ask?", and "One of the first search results for me was a paper published in Nature. Other top results were from respected institutions like the NIH and Harvard University. Hardly grifters or crazies."

Those both trivialize the process of finding sources and interpreting them. I picked my top result which was from nih.gov and gave an example of why it's hard for a lay-person to interpret journal entries because it uses field specific terms that come across as wrong or conspiratorial. Heck the paper itself references other papers on other journals that appear legitimate that argue for the chemical imbalance theory, eg an article from JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) from 1993. Just because the source has NIH in it or is in a journal does not guarantee correctness or reliability because time passes and new science is done. The link in question was of a paper from 2006, which we are now further from than the 2006 paper was from the 1993 paper.

I am not claiming to be a scientific luminary and even agree that the chemical imbalance theory that was espoused for years was probably incorrect for many issues. I was just arguing against thinking it's easy to investigate and source claims. It's much easier for the person who is making the claim to provide their sources, and preferably they have a large body of evidence behind them and are recent or even better a source that has done that leg work of reviewing it and distilling it down.
by LPisGood | 2025-11-23 03:02:43+00:00
> Bell Labs’ One Year On Campus program, in which they paid new-grad employees to earn a master’s degree on the topic of Bell’s choosing

I wonder why companies don’t do this anymore. Is it something to do with the monopoly AT&T held, is it related to corporate tax structures, is it related to how easy it is to find PhD graduates who studied similar topics of interest, or is it something else entirely?
by userbinator | 2025-11-23 03:03:16+00:00
They thought the camera’s file system was unencrypted, when it was encrypted.

Unfortunately this situation is likely to get more common in the future as the "security" crowd keep pushing for encryption-by-default with no regard to whether the user wants or is even aware of it.

Encryption is always a tradeoff; it trades the possibility of unauthorised access with the possibility of even the owner losing access permanently. IMHO this tradeoff needs careful consideration and not blind application.
by wahern | 2025-11-23 03:03:32+00:00
I have a friend who, once he started steadily making mid-high six figures in Silicon Valley, began taking the HOV lane on his commute into work, despite driving alone. The calculus was easy. Assuming $500,000 salary (I think he made more), 8 hour days, 50 weeks a year, that's $250/hour. As a manager, he couldn't shuffle his schedule around very easily, unlike when he was programming and could come in late and leave late, or when you're a young programmer and come in early and leave late (or just sleep under your desk). The 30+ minutes saved during his commute each day was well worth the amortized cost of some tickets, and that's before accounting for the stress saved, marginal value on the dollar, additional personal time, etc. Though, when he told me this he hadn't yet accumulated many, if any, tickets, and I don't think automated occupant detection had been installed.

In the past couple of years there's now a toll option for some HOV lanes, which is how it should be. He's generally a very conscientious person, but time is money, particularly so when you're well remunerated.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-11-23 03:04:59+00:00
I would like to see the browser be the Users Agent. IE: "Cookie Banners?" That's a browser, not website issue. I really care less about the interpreter/VM than I do say, how we built a browser on it (which is why webkit is great, and I had my own webkit GTK browser that did exactly what I wanted, and why so many webkit based apps exist!)
by toast0 | 2025-11-23 03:05:11+00:00
I've had pretty good luck everywhere I had cable internet, not much in the way of regular outages. Obviously a limited sample, I haven't lived too many places, but at least living where toast0 has lived is a scenario where cable internet is reliable. Not my current address though, cause Comcast won't service it.

Certainly, there's problems in some part of the network, and getting past level 1 tech support is hard. Physical security is pretty much unlikely. That said, I don't think those boxes are going to take much abuse to open even if they are locked.
by Duralias | 2025-11-23 03:05:37+00:00
I guess that doesn't matter in games where the world ultimately doesn't matter, it will be better procedural generation, but personally I adore games where the developers actually put effort into designing a world that is interesting to explore, where things are deliberately placed for story or gameplay mechanics reasons.

But I suppose AI could in theory reach the point where it understand the story/theme and gameplay of a game while designing a world.

But when anyone can generate a huge open world, who really cares, is the same as it is now, gotta make something that sticks out from the crowd, something notable.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-23 03:05:55+00:00
I’m not sure where you’re getting these conclusions from, because AA191 was an issue where the engine separated from the wing and took hydraulics with it, creating a sequence of failures that resulted in the loss of the airframe. The UPS flight also had a separation of the engine from the wing and created some sequence of events that resulted in the loss of the airframe, but they’ve made it very clear in the report that the how and the why are still very much open questions.

My point - and from what I see in the report, a grievance shared by the NTSB, given their citation of AA191 - is that both aircraft come from the same lineage (DC-10/MD-11), the same manufacturer (McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing), had the same failure (engine separating from wing assembly during takeoff roll), and with all involved parties throwing up their hands and swearing they followed all the rules and maintenance schedules.

And that’s too many coincidences to just dismiss outright from the get-go.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-11-23 03:06:06+00:00
Sure, if you're living fully in your own application code, and you don't need to consume things from an API you don't control, it's easy to live in a walled garden of type purity.

I can recognize that most people are going to go for inaccurate types when fancier semantics are necessary to consume things from the network.

But we also have the real world where libraries are used by both JS devs and TS devs, and if we want to offer semantics that idiomatic for JS users (such as Array.prototype.flat()) while also providing a first-class experience to TS consumers, it is often valuable to have this higher-level aptitude with the TS type system.

As mentioned earlier, I believe 90% of TS devs are never in this position, or it's infrequent enough that they're not motivated to learn higher-level type mechanics. But I also disagree with the suggestion that such types should be avoided because you can always refactor your interface to provide structure that allows you to avoid them; You don't always control the shape of objects which permeate software boundaries, and when providing library-level code, the developer experience of the consumer is often prioritized, which often means providing a more flexible API that can only be properly typed with more complex types.
by safety1st | 2025-11-23 03:10:24+00:00
My point is that is a shallow and not especially productive discourse. Companies respond to market incentives. If they have to compete for their market share they'll do stuff consumers want. If they don't because they have no competition, they'll focus on maximizing their profit margins at the expense of their customers, suppliers and everyone else.

These responses to incentives are in the DNA of every corporation and any solution which ignores that will fail. Competition for the consumer's dollar is the key and what you need to promote. These are basic economic principles that go all the way back to Adam Smith, a lot of problems would be solved if more people were aware of their significance and considered restoring competition to markets where it has been eliminated a main function of our government.
by nschampions2004 | 2025-11-23 03:10:54+00:00
I reduced my coffee intake gradually back in ‘21-‘22down to just green tea in the morning. I did not notice any real changes in my life aside from two points. I took longer to ramp up productivity and alertness in the mornings. I also now eased into my “go to bed” routine at night whereas on coffee it was a much more dramatic crash. We ended up having our first kid mid-‘22, and I got back on the java wagon. Of all potential vices, this one certainly feel lightweight. I just don’t drink it after Noon.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-23 03:11:41+00:00
There were only about 18 aircraft of all types still flying at the time and none are dedicated passenger aircraft. Indefinite grounding is the most sensible move.

Now, Boeing, et. al. are trying to evaluate the deficiencies in existing D checks and put together an inspection regime (i.e., NDT) that would proactively identify fatigue that would economically permit continued serviceable operation. If this feat turns out to be impossible for technical or cost reasons, then and only then will the grounding will become permanent.
by pseudolus | 2025-11-23 03:11:47+00:00
There's a fascinating and redacted interview with an "anonymous" subject about the disaster. To say the least it's an unsuccessful attempt to hide the identity of the individual:

"Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible operations?

A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named..."

https://media.defense.gov/2025/Sep/17/2003800984/-1/-1/0/CG-...
by fragmede | 2025-11-23 03:12:22+00:00
They're not? If you're the type of person to pay taxes, that money gets used to pay the teachers. The pizza restaurant that offers free delivery - that's also not free. They use the money from the customer buying pizza to pay the delivery driver. If you're in a country that allows businesses to get away with that, that might explain your confusion, but not all countries, eg Germany, allow businesses to get away with false advertising like that.
by AngryData | 2025-11-23 03:12:25+00:00
Its not like it is some monumental task. Fiber is cheaper than copper, and we managed to lay copper telephone lines and power lines to everybody. Where I live right now didn't even have DSL available at any point in time, the local telecomm didn't want to spend money on replacing some of the poorly functioning 60 year old copper lines despite everyone clamoring for any kind of wired connection. And yet a startup ISP managed to not only lay down gigabit direct to home fiber to the entire county in under 2 years, but they provide it for significantly cheaper than people's wireless/mobile internet. And they are still expanding across the entire state so are obviously earning money from it.

Existing telecomms have zero excuses after being given billions of dollars to do this after seeing startup fiber companies manage to do it profitably after the fact in even in some of the lowest density areas east of the Mississippi.
by komali2 | 2025-11-23 03:12:36+00:00
> chosen” historically means chosen for responsibility, not privilege.

> moral responsibility

Yes, this is identical to how it was stated by the three separate Israelis I had this conversation with that said it exactly this way.

I ask genuinely if you understand this:

Do you see how believing that a supreme being has granted "your people" a moral responsibility could easily lead to any actions "your people" do being ipso facto "moral" by definition of the fact it's performed by "your people?"

Do you see how just the mere separation of people into "chosen by god (even just to live better)" and "not chosen by god (not responsible for living better)" can easily create a supremacist ideology?

Do you understand that, from a scientific perspective framed in sociology and anthropology, there's no such thing as a Jewish person or non Jewish person in any externally consistent definition, that the definition is only enforceable by internal justifications, and that therefore it's arbitrary who is chosen and who isn't? And therefore exploitable by supremacists? See: e.g. Whiteness; Jews are white when it's convenient, and nonwhite when not convenient, same for Italians, Irish, Catholics...

Not to mention: Hassidic Jews in Israel refuse to participate in the military. Other Israeli Jews say this is traitorous to the Jewish people, not doing their part to keep Jews safe. Some Israelis say horribly racist things about Palestinians, comparing them to animals and openly calling for their extermination. Others don't. Which Jewish people are correctly implementing the moral responsibility set forth by the Jewish god?
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-23 03:13:32+00:00
The brazilian supreme court has been breaking the law and relentlessly usurping power for years now.

It began in 2019 when some magazine ran a damning article on one of these judges. In response to that they launched a "fake news" inquisition where they were the victims, investigators, prosecutors, judges and executioners against unspecified persons for wildcard crimes covering the whole brazilian territory. Thus began the escalating abuses of the court.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382

The "fake news" inquisition was eventually repurposed for political censorship when Bolsonaro was up for reelection. Political censorship is explicitly unconstitutional, by the way.

It's pretty ironic to watch them condemn Bolsonaro for a coup attempt. Their own coup was quite successful.
by DREDREG | 2025-11-23 03:14:16+00:00
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by temp0826 | 2025-11-23 03:16:02+00:00
The interesting thing about DMT is that it doesn't really seem to affect your mind/cognition (that is, if you can observe all the weirdness happening in a very detached way instead of being overwhelmed by it, it is an exceptionally clear-headed experience). Not exactly the same but I've drank ayahuasca hundreds of times (worked at retreat centers/apprenticed) and it's amazing how much work you can do on a light dose vs being blasted to the center of the universe (though, that is good once in a while to get over blockages). It can be hard to get a footing with dmt because it's so fast (and it's really hard to land in the "workable" zone compared to drinking ayahuasca).
by tyre | 2025-11-23 03:18:16+00:00
I like the author’s suggestion of an enterprise build. At every company I’ve worked at, we told internal users to use Chrome exclusively.

We could have chosen Firefox (most devs seemed to prefer it), but as the market share numbers bear out, most people are familiar with Chrome; most are not with Firefox.

If Firefox had specific features that made it easier for enterprises, or even internal teams at startups, then companies would happily pay $10/user/mo for something as critical as a browser.

There isn’t any such reason afaik.

Edit:

Some examples off the top of my head include

- VPNs

- user and permission management (identity)

- ad- and tracker-blocking

- internal auto-updating and easily managed/deployed extensions