skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Has Amazon been hounding you?
I was talking to a friend about how Amazon recruiters have sent me an email almost every weekday since Decemberish (sometimes two or three) and they mentioned that they had experienced something similar. It is different recruiters, so it's not just one particularly persistent individual.

Is anyone else seeing similar? Is Amazon desperate?
If you print to paper and scan you are mostly safe, but if you do a software print to a pdf document you might use a tool that saves the actual content as invisible text or the whole word document as an attachment to the pdf. I would print and scan physically if it was something important. Or just edit the word document to remove the stuff and then print and scan to avoid saving the edit history since I don't know if that will be saved somewhere.

Usually I'm in full control of the software myself so I just output X instead of the secret data.
If people using Disney+ get an ad for Firefox, that would be great. Firefox needs more exposure to combat Chrome's ads in all of Google's apps.
How much cancer is attributed to pollution?
High field magnets do enable potentially economically viable designs. There are still engineering challenges that require effort. Materials will be in high neutron flux and high thermal gradients for years.

Throwing money at problems warms up the industries around them. No one will get good at making HTS tapes unless they can pay to keep the lights on. Also, the plasma physics research is far from complete. Study of burning plasmas (coming with ITER) and different configurations of optimized stellarators (coming never?) are important places to shine the flashlight on.

We aren't on the home stretch, but that isn't a reason to stop, slow down, or even not speed up.
Show HN: Wordle Solver with Python and Playwight
I disagree; I used Chrome for a decade but recently switched back to Firefox because I found it increasingly bloated, and the Chrome team keeps making user-hostile decisions that works to circumvent privacy on the web.

Saying "Chrome supports the open source package its built on" seems like a cop-out as well, because it's not the same browser. That's like saying MacOS is awesome because it was built on BSD, and BSD is easily available. They bare little resemblance to each other.
The only takeaway from the study was that it warranted a similar study with more participants.
dude we get it

How many more comments will we read yet another copy of a nanos sales pitch?

The post is about unikernels, so, obviously every single comment will say something about them.
Yes. For a slightly more complicated explanation:

When two patterns are overlayed there is a third pattern which is the interference of the two patterns, or a pattern of the sums and differences of the two patterns.

If the first two patterns have a simple fractional relationship you can visualize the resulting pattern in your head, and the brain when hearing perceives this as predictable and regular, and predictability is boring and sounds consonant.

If the fractions are more complicated we end up with a more complex combined pattern which is harder for the brain to predict and is perceived as richer or more dissonant.

If the patterns get very far from the fractional relationship (for example
If an instrument is out of tune) these patterns start to feel non deterministic or non repeating to the brain and we tend to hear this as unpleasant.

If the patterns have no particular mathematical relationship we end up with a completely non repeating pattern that is indistinguishable to the brain from randomness, and we call this unpitched or noise.
I'm not sure I follow the distinction between Steam going away (and having to pirate your games) and Stadia going away (and having to pirate your games).
> The article would be fine if it recognized that it was speaking in trends and generalities. But the information is presented as universal and individually applicable.

I agree. I assume that's just the journalist doing a bad job of getting the nuance across.

> No doubt women find it hard to accept someone lecturing them on their preferences without allowing them any individuality.

At the same time, we humans are notorious for rationalizing nice sounding, preferable reasons for why we engage in certain actions. I don't have the context on these personal discussions, of course, but perhaps those women were indeed acting in ways that were more congruent than not with the evo-psych explanation espoused here.

> The diverse spectrum of human sexuality and romantic disposition is completely at odds with the simplistic view presented in the article. The system is too complex to understand in a few generalities.

I agree with the complexity. Again, I assume that much of it is just the usual pop-science article being a pop-science article. Perhaps I assume wrongly.

I do think however that overall, this is a research direction worth pursuing. There's a diverse spectrum of human sexuality and romantic dispositions, but what are some of the common driving forces in the background across time and culture? Why are some romantic experiences (e.g. an unreasonable crush on a specific person that fades over time) so common in the general population, and why do these experiences happen and play out in these common ways?

> I think It's more often part of an anti-understanding of higher level cultural phenomenon.

Quite possible, but IMO we shouldn't let popular misunderstandings of science detract from the actual scientific inquiry taking place. A lot of woo spiritualists have repurposed popular misconceptions of quantum mechanics for their own ends, but that doesn't detract from the legitimacy of actual quantum physicists.
This study says otherwise https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34133415/
Yea, if this is like the many other similar studies, they are restricting the antibodies counted to the ones specifically made to match the spike protein.

Natural immunity makes less for the spike, but more overall, both in breadth of type and total number.

Artificially limiting the count to one type of antibody is like claiming to be richer than Warren Buffet because you have more cash in your wallet than him in line at McDonalds, and ignoring the fact that your wallet contains your total net wealth.
Because for every battle they lost, they won several others. The only reason we're not all using Internet Explorer is because Firefox lost some battles and won many others.
However, it doesn't just allow you to necro any archived post. I can't determine any rhyme or reason to which ones are open for necro and which ones are sealed.
Having broadly-deployable (i.e. few geographic limitations), toggle-able, economically-productive ways to burn power that are carbon neutral or negative is the real solution.

There's no reason prices should ever be negative... except for a lack of power sinks. If there were intermittent hydrogen production facilities, or direct air capture of carbon + a carbon market that rewarded that, the intermittency accounting quirk would correct itself.
The headline is posted here, it should be possible to determine if it is a technical post or not.

If you've decided to impose some extra downside on yourself... I think that's a bad idea, but the rest of us don't suffer for it.
Nobody who is capable of finishing a game alone thinks it's easy. How could it be? The programming touches on so many highly complex areas, you need both
visual art and music, on top of having to engage with what's going to be a completely new area for most: game design. From the perspective of a developer, not a player. If you're doing 3D, say hello to even more advanced programming topics, plus an entire world of 3D art techniques.

You don't do it because it's easy, you do it because you enjoy the journey. If you actually want to produce a video game for commercial reasons in a reasonable time frame, hire a team or partner with like-minded people. Cut your scope in half, or more.
A Lightweight CQL Proxy/Sidecar for Apache Cassandra Written in Golang
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials#Ex_post_fac...
In practice most people are forced to use bail bonds. If your cash bail is set to $150k, you're going to go to a bail bondsman and pay them $15k instead (and lose that 15k forever).

Cash bail is a monstrous creation.
> what would you instead recommend to the government to do so that people could carry on with their lives and not have their likelihood shut down?

I understand how frustrating this is for Canadians who don't agree with either the protesters message or their tactics, but the suspending civil liberties for all Canadians is a dangerous precedent. It should only be used as a last resort and I don't think the Canadian Gov has exercised all their existing legal options yet.

> What could the government do?

1. The leader of the Canadian government is the leader of all Canadians, even those he doesn't agree with. Rather than paint the entire protest movement as racist, misogynists with unacceptable views, one reasonable first tactic could have been to engage in dialogue with the protesters to hear out their grievances, perhaps with the aid of a mediator. Dialogue leads to de-escalation, marginalizing dissidents leads to escalation as we have seen here.

2. Before resorting to suspending civil liberties, access to the courts and due process, perhaps the government could have started by enforcing the laws already on the books. This is what they did at the Windsor-Detroit border and it appears they were able to end the blockade without violence from either side. It appears that in Ottawa, the police were reluctant to enforce the existing laws. This is a different problem and pretending the government had no choice but to employ draconian measures is disingenuous.
The great tech posts are mostly on hacks.mozilla.org. I think blog.mozilla.org is mostly for firefox update stuff and Mozilla Foundation stuff.
I don't know - it also went away with the bust. I picked CS as my major shortly after the bust and everyone advised me against it. Between the bust and outsourcing I was told I would be making minimum wage.

And, welp, here we are.
Can someone say what the benefit of this is over just using existing Ethernet jumbo frames?
Wow! Cheap! Each Space Shuttle launch was at least $500mm. And we still don't have anything that can go to orbit with the same versatility -- without the Space Shuttle Hubble would have been disabled ages ago. So much for the rocket people...
While it is true that many will absolve the decision makers without thinking, or with thoughts of revenge, a deeper analysis shows that it was a reasonable decision. You write them off as "strongly, strongly taboo". Is that as far as that goes then? Wasn't everything, starting with Pearl Harbor, strongly, strongly taboo? Is it ok to murder someone just because they are in a uniform, because two humans, who we will call "kings", or "emperors", or "presidents" have a disagreements? Bottom line you're walking into a moral discussion about war with the idea "killing is bad". Think you need to up your game.
Dan Carlin has a fantastic podcast episode on this, he called it Logical Insanity [0]. The main argument being that by the time of the atomic bombs, all powers had scaled their "strategic bombings" of civilians to a level that made the atomic bombs just a small step in the logical conclusion of the path of the war.

We should not judge the atomic bombings without the context of US, UK, USSR and Japanese bombings of civilians.

[0] https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-42-blitz-...
Nope. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34133415/

“The data demonstrate COVID-19 mRNA vaccines effectively induce spike antigen specific IgG and IgA and highlight marked differences in their persistence in serum.“
It's far from just writing though, isn't it? With the massive shift in the percentage of GDP that flows to capital rather than labor, the motivation for almost all economic activity to focus on the desires and whims of the rich gets stronger and stronger. Luxury spas, housing, boats, clothing, resorts, processed foods, even popular entertainment: cater to the whims of the rich, and you seem to have more of a chance of making a living than catering to the needs of the less-rich and poor.

Of course, this is more or less precisely the opposite of what an economy is supposed to do, but is simultaneously obviously the inevitable behavior of an economy structured and run by the assumptions of 21st century US capitalism.
Yes, multiple times a week, and I previously worked at Amazon too. They all go straight into the trash.
One of the things datacenter people want is to avoid dpdk-everything just because they put 4 200GbE in their server. I sure would like to just zmq everything... Especially for internal streaming applications, that would be a boon.

I haven't read the patchset yet but I'm wondering whether it would work with UDP. TCP can be too much 'kitchensink' if you don't need reordering or many-resends.
I always saw them as separate tools because I always had predefined colors I wanted to mix/manipulate. But it's a really great idea to think more in the sense of a workflow (or steps) instead.

Thanks for the suggestion! I will see what I can do.
Even if I could, I wouldn't sign up for workplace giving, because I know it's just a ploy to get tax breaks for the company. I'd much rather donate directly, and get the max tax breaks for myself. Same with giving donations in the checkout line. Amazon Smile is the only one I use, because it doesn't cost me extra.
I've noticed that if I skip breakfast, I intently focus on how hungry I am until lunch time. However, if my breakfast is too "heavy", it makes me feel extremely tired. My go-to these days is whole milk greek yogurt and homemade granola.
In the case of Ukraine/Russia, they certainly set out with the goal of disruption.

Hate em or like em, there is no denying that Russia has some awesome cyber capabilities.
Hi all -- I built this because I consistently find myself re-creating the same spreadsheets to do long-term financial planning. I also find it hard to see how small changes in the near-term impact long-term compounding. I hope you find it useful, and I'd love to hear any feedback.
Yes, at a low (assembly-like) level, "circuits" define how a series of gate operations are applied to qubits. Various abstractions make this easier, including the languages and frameworks mentioned in the linked article.

Interesting to note is the recent formation of the Linux Foundation's QIR Alliance[0], which has specified a quantum intermediate representation within LLVM to bridge the quantum software/hardware ecosystem.

[0]: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/new-quantum-in...
So bold. So brave.
Good grief.
Yeah same. From the source code, the answer is a random 14-character string, generated on load:

function randomPassword() {
let letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
let digits = '0123456789';
let punctuation = '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~';
let s = letters.repeat(7) + digits.repeat(4) + punctuation.repeat(3);
let length = 14;
let res = Array.from({length}, (() => s[randomInt(s.length)])).join('');
debugger; // どうぞ
return res;
}
Do US contributions to ITER come out of the DOE budget?
This generalizes interestingly to any tooling that makes things easier. You may feel more efficient with better tooling but it's an arms race and once everyone has access to it you're all competing equally again (and it's back to whoever puts in the biggest product of time and energy).

Hence why you should sell shovels in a gold rush, and why it's a bit of a lie to sell any tool as "be able to do 2x in the same amount of time", since that's only a short term effect until everyone is aware of it and '2x' is the expected new norm.
Jeez, this has been around for a decade https://search.googleblog.com/2011/11/search-using-your-term...

Now I'm embarrassed about all of this wailing and gnashing of teeth. Excellent pointer, thank you!
You have to pay taxes in the county's fiat, right? Thats what is meant by being forced to use it because if you don't you go to prison and if you resist that you get killed.
This is hilarious, I love it! I've already shared it half a dozen times...LOL!
Yup. This is my new favorite color tool website. Excellent work.
This is a really good technology demonstration. I must admit I still think JSLinux is more impressive.
EDIT: Author has pointed out that the interpolation mode can be changed. Very slick!

It looks like this is interpolating in HCL or HSV space— that tends to produce unexpected results, including intermediate colors with unrelated hues (pink between orange and blue?), or sharp discontinuities if one of the endpoints changes slightly (try mixing orange and blue, and then shifting the blue towards teal until suddenly the intermediate pink pops to green).

This document[1] also illustrates pretty well.

Interpolating in RGB space has its own issues (more so if gamma is not handled correctly) due to the human visual system's differing sensitivity to different colors— the result is often that two bright colors will have an intermediate color which is darker than either endpoint.

There's a known solution, thankfully: Mix colors in a perceptual color space like Lab or Oklab[2]. The behavior is very predictable and aesthetically pleasing.

[1] https://observablehq.com/@zanarmstrong/comparing-interpolati...
[2] https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/
lol, unintentionally. yeah :D
Firefox's closest competition, feature-wise, in early versions was Opera, which was adware with a pay-to-remove-ads option and already did pretty much everything that Firefox brought to the table, and then some. I loved Phoenix/Firebird/early-Firefox, but it's hard to make the case it was better than Opera for ordinary users at the time—except that it didn't have ads, and was a little smaller/leaner.

Firefox became far more successful than Opera, at least outside the embedded market.

Maybe the adware browser model can make a comeback and be super-successful this time because things have changed, but it didn't work very well the first time.

("But these aren't ads, they're optional themes" true, but you wanna bet they won't advertise it with one or more pop-ups and/or focus-stealing-to-new-advertising-tab thingies, like they do with everything else? Which is funny because one of their big selling points originally was automatically blocking pop-up ads)
If you're searching for a specific post or comment (rather than trying to find posts and comments about something), https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/ has been my go-to power search. Thanks to its delays in syncing, it occasionally will return deleted and edited results that may have already been scrubbed from Google or Reddit native search.
To me there is a world of difference between refusing to send me files based on where you think I am and requiring me to run your code on my computer to ensure that I don't do something that you don't like with the files you sent me.
> 1. How does that make it any better? You didn't want to provide your location, you were strong armed into doing it once and that's okay?

As other commenters have mentioned, allowing bluetooth access also potentially leaks your location. The alternative of not asking for permission isn't exactly better either. Therefore it's hard to characterize this as some sort of nefarious attempt by google to coax location information from you.

>2. If you are using an app for device management (e.g. Google Home, Samsung Wear) it will be started next time you connect and then it's permission-madness all over again.

I'm not sure how other apps work, but for the companion app I was using it continued to work afterwards, even with location permission denied. This persists across app closes and device restarts.
"I am not the only one who believes that in the long term the atomic bombs saved millions of Japanese lives."

Anything to justify the bombing, huh?
Private keys and certs are multi-line. Just tested the secure note and ssh key entry types.
I don't think it's very difficult. In the ii-V-I, slightly shifting the root of the ii sounds fine, and most other problems can be solved similarly. I've made plenty of music in just intonation, here's a recent example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkUs-BdxtN8 To me it sounds like very standard harmony, but "cleaner".
And specifically on the atomic bombing: Logical Insanity, https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-42-blitz-...
Although I don't have a problem with this kind of promo, I think it's a shame the sweepstake page [0] does not clearly explain that only US residents who haven't previously subscribed to Disney+ are eligible. To find this out, you have to click a tiny link to the official rules [1] which are full of legalese.

It personally feels a bit deceitful that they're, in a sense, tricking people into signing up for Firefox news under the guise of a sweepstake that many people won't be eligible for.

[0] https://truecolors.firefox.com/contest

[1] https://truecolors.firefox.com/contest/rules
Mozilla is like Barack Obama for certain people, it's a symbol of everything they politically hate.

Teaming up with Disney is like Wearing a Tan suit or a bicycle helmet, it's only the worst thing ever when your politcal enemy is doing it and you have nothing better to complain about.
Based on how many fellow programmers I know who play instruments or write compositions or otherwise produce music... it doesn't actually seem off putting for programmers to get into music. Is your experience different?
Hey, this is a really great tool, thanks for making and sharing with us!

One thing that I think would help is for the tool to not lose state when changing between tabs. You have the manual randomize color button, so it doesn't make sense to randomize on tab switch.

Then, in addition, sending colors from one tab to another. For example, I want to modify a color, and then send it to Mix Swatch 1.

Also, like everyone else, I love the color names! I'd love to see these applied to more swatches, like in the step names in Mix, or the color combinations in Info. Maybe it could show the names, and then flip to the hex value on hover.

Also, I would love if I could save off my settings in different tabs. I know I could just bookmark, but having an in-app method of saving/restoring would be wonderful.

Again, thanks for this! I am definitely adding this to my color toolset!
I wanted to pay someone to work on a dpdk layer for zeromq, I'm not sure anyone would be interested but I feel it'd help alleviate part of the dpdk pain.
It would matter a great deal if Signal allowed other people's forks to connect to their network, because they would lose the ability to deploy new privacy features. The whole point of Signal is that it consistently makes tradeoffs in favor of privacy and against UX. An "open" Signal network would immediately be dominated by clients making the opposite tradeoff, because users value good UX far more than they value privacy.

This is pretty obvious, so much so that I'm immediately suspicious of people who believe it's some nefarious plot. You don't have to agree with it, and many people don't, but if you say you don't trust their intentions (with respect to this one issue), you're saying more about yourself than about Signal.