skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not that I don't care. However, I object to the huge amount of media/news stories driven by fear which leads to a generalized anxiety and depression about basically everything.

So, in summary, you think ignorance is bliss.

> The average person can do nothing about microplastics except be afraid of them. Also the average person cannot afford to have a healthy diet or avoid plastic and in addition, their diets are usually so bad that even if microplastics have any deleterious health effect, it's liable to be several orders of magnitude less bad than the effects of junk food or alcohol.

That's not actually true, or is only true if you inappropriately restrict yourself to uncoordinated individual action, and deny the possibility of collective action. Many people live in democracies, and a pretty well trodden path to change in them is:

1. popular awareness of an issue,

2. pressure put on political bodies to do something,

3. legislation or other political action addressing the issue.

This is not a clockwork process, and often nothing comes of it, but your idealized state of ignorance would prevent it completely.
Other than commuting, and grocery shopping, my car also stays parked. My wife and I only looked at small urban areas to live (we both lived urban when we met). I have telecommuted through COVID, and in the last year, I have only put 3500 miles on my car (now fourteen years old), and that includes three months of commuting before we went 100% on-line.
> The IEC 60320 connectors were specified for exactly that reason. Honestly, I don't get why these were not made mandatory for all kinds of appliances. There are even locking variants available if vibration is of concern.

I'm not sure what you mean by the second sentence but you can't use most appliances made for Europe in America and vice versa. Most electronic appliances depend on the input voltage and supplying 240V can easily cause a fire. That is true for almost all electronic appliances (water heater, fan, washing machine, etc) but not true most "computer related devices" such as a monitor, PSU, charger. Since those devices already operate on a much lower DC Voltage, they often have transformers (not sure if that's the right word), that can scale down the current from either 120 or 240. [0]

That being said, a mandatory IEC connector (and it's variances) would help a lot to cut down unnecessary e-waste. Instead of throwing away a device because the cable is damaged, you can easily order a replacement that is around $2 and high quality, instead of relying third party cords that might have bad wiring from a non reputable brand. The reason they are not mandatory, though, is that most companies like to have their own connectors so that you either overpay for it or just buy a new device.

[0]: You should still always read the specs on the input current for the device though. It is dangerous to rely on the fact that similar devices can operate at 120V/240V because yours might not. You can usually see the specs on the website/packaging or usually near the input plug.
Our bodies did not evolve around microplastics, so we're allowed to be biased against microplastics. So, waiting for some studies that microplastics are harmless (p-values < 1e10-5 only, please).
You think that’s bad, just wait till Apple starts selling cars.
Godox is very good price-performance wise. I am not sure under what brand they sell their video lights in US. I know that their strobes are sold as Flashpoint.
I am too thinking about Self-Sovereign banking.
I barely elected the government but I sure as hell didn't elect Bill Gates.

A pox upon both their houses
Show HN: Lightweight Vue 3 composition API store library with undo/redo
Stadia, GeForce Now, XBox Game Streaming and Amazon Luna just entered the bar.
> or happen to not be a white dude

do you mean asian? They're ~5% of the US population and ~42% of google's population according to the other user's link. Meanwhile blacks, hispanics, and whites have significant underrepresentation
ToriLisp – an ersatz Lisp for tiny birds
> accurate colour means you might be the middle ground of your users experiences, inaccurate colour means you can’t be sure at all

Having a setup with multiple cheap monitors is imho really underrated for design and development. Moving something between screens and seeing clear contrast disappear, or see pleasing color choices turn ugly can be eye opening.
Good, cheap, takeway food. I imagine that e.g. vietnam has it, germany doesn't.

edit: sorry, food...
>In the COVID era of online classes, class averages have gone way up.

Which is why there aren't great answers if certifications matter (and they do) whether in regular school or professional certifications. In the latter case it's right there in the name and it has a direct bearing on employment prospects.

Should schools be reorienting evaluations in a way that isn't as cheatable? Probably. Use take home open book exams and just use ongoing take home assignments instead of proctored finals as much as possible.

Maybe universities could have made classes in the current year pass/fail. But that has its own set of problems as many would just coast and be ill-prepared for future classes.

Getting rid of most controls just isn't always possible. And as soon as you start proctoring there's going to be a tradeoff between effectiveness and invasiveness.
Print RAM Usage of process including children
Prints resident set size (RAM) usage of processes including $1 in their name (includes children):

function ram() {pgrep -f $1 | xargs -I{} pmap -x {} | grep total | python -c "import sys; print('%.2f' % (sum([float([c for c in line.strip().split(' ') if c][3]) for line in list(sys.stdin)])/1024), 'MB RAM')"}

Been looking for a way to see total RAM usage of processes including their children, after a bit of googling I came up with this ugly one liner, but hey it works!
Ten Engineering Challenges Due to the Nature of Mobile Applications
Yes, parallax is the change in the apparent location of an object in the sky to an observer as the observer changes their relative location to it, e.g. by orbiting the sun. And, if you mean software, a lot of astronomers use old stuff like Fortran and IDL but modern tools like python and julia are becoming very popular.
The Most Influential 80-Plus-Year-Olds in America
I think that's true for the big players, like the Learning Management Systems (like Blackboard in your linked tweet.)

For everyone else, their problem is that they have to integrate with the big players.
Protecting Against an Unfixed Kubernetes Man-in-the-Middle Vuln CVE-2020-8554
One reason this isn't common is that you can make good revenue from charging for hosting, and it's relatively little work -- less work than supporting end-users installing it wrong on 100 different OS versions.
The major web design trends of 2021
The digital design industry is changing, fast. Check out what the web has in store for us this coming year.
This is the best advice. A high end mirror less camera will help a bit with its higher dynamic range, but simply optimizing your lighting will do wonders for any camera setup. All of the people showing beautiful mirrorless webcam shots have already optimized their lighting, so start there first.

Also, don’t be the person with the overly-complicated webcam setup who ends up delaying every other meeting while they fiddle with cables, tripods, camera batteries, overheating cameras, cameras going into standby and so on. Having crisp images doesn’t matter if your always late or frazzled because you had to tend to your perfect webcam setup.
> Could it still be that this variant is as infectious as others, but just happens to be the dominant one in the regions where the virus circulates the most, for reasons that have nothing to do with the genetics of the virus?

That can happen when general incidence is very low, in a small region, or for a short time. But this is not any more the case here, and having this happening by chance is very unlikely.
Author here, any constructive criticism, suggestions or other feedback is very welcome. Also see the demo[1] (source[2]) if you want to see the library in action in a simple Todo MVC style application.

PS. I'm aware the demo isn't exactly mobile friendly, my CSS skills aren't great. PRs are welcome :)

[1] https://korijn.dev/vue-store-todo-app/index.html

[2] https://github.com/Korijn/vue-store-todo-app
You totally underestimate the amount of influence and propaganda enacted by corporations and the government in the U.S.

Secondly, why is this an excuse to totally fail at handling the pandemic and to let the economy fail?
I don't really recall the whole timeline. But it wasn't long after the Digg debacle that reddit started getting gamed by content farms leveraging popular accounts. Then the process got more and more refined and professional as it also became more lucrative.
these are trying times, ive had a couple web cans myself
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/97076

https://blog.alcide.io/kubernetes-vulnerability-cve-2020-855...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/all-kubernete...
Maybe the documentation you've written hasn't been good?

I've found well-written documentation to be a good way to avoid having folks bother me. I tend to treat it as a first class citizen artifact of my work (along with tests). Have it be as auto generated as possible. The above being said, I've also sometimes struggled to put myself in the user's shoes to understand what are the things I should emphasize in the documentation.
You just made the GP's point, perfectly.
I find it incredibly comical that one of the biggest repeated refrains in the parent article is "CoreData is not an ORM!" and yet the comment section is filled w/ folks talking about how ORMs are bad and how CoreData is a bad ORM.

This article is very much worth reading.
Is this supposed to be bad as US and others seem to have well mote deaths per capita?
Howdy!

https://kube-vip.io does two things:
- Control Plane HA w/BGP or ARP
- Service Type: LoadBalancer w/BGP or ARP

It is similar to metallb but has a number of differences under the covers in how it works inside Kubernetes, it is cloud controller agnostic so as long as something attaches an IP to spec.IngressIP then kube-vip will advertise it. For edge deployments loadBalancers addresses can use the local DHCP for addresses etc..
They really aren't that small. A single wide is 500-1200 sqft, which is fairly competitive with apartments in major cities. A double wide is 1000-2000 sqft, which is competitive with most homes. High rises are basically just bespoke stacks of trailers; the units are just planned by an architect and custom-created, rather than being pre-fabricated and stacked.

I would probably live in a trailer if they were priced cheaper than other options and not in a terrible area. The latter is usually what kills it, as most cities have zoning laws that relegate mobile home parks to areas far from any kind of development.

Another complication is that in hot areas (the dense urban areas), most of your rent is going towards location, not to recoup the cost of building the thing. I have no doubt that in SF's financial district, they can probably recoup the costs of the building in a small number of years. I wouldn't be surprised if the land they're built on is worth more than the building on top of it. It doesn't make any sense to put up a building that's 10% cheaper, but ugly, when it only makes the whole project 0.1% cheaper.
Show HN: Capsule – Make “video” recordings of any website, but as pure HTML/JS
Nintendo Training 1991
There is a whole amendment protecting firearms that the government has spent considerable time and money violating for at least the last 100 years. Amendments don't help as much as you would think.
Why would this need to be on your phone? Many countries require proof of yellow fever vaccination before entry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of...

I guess because, "on an iphone", is the thing now days. Having a digital version would be convenient but should never be a requirement. Oh wait, they have a digital version.
The seed investor is remaining neutral.

It's not so much that they'll torch the company. They're just saying they don't have the cash so need to reduce my stake. They will budge on the 3% I'm sure, but I don't value the equity much if I'm not involved.

I'm not too sure what a lawyer would recommend at this point? I also can't really afford one personally - especially as I may be out of work soon haha..
Ignoring why the WSA chose 5nmol/L over something closer to the average cis woman's upper quartile (which is closer to 2 [45ng/dL as seen in [0]], not .6 as you're implying with the 7.5x figure), Im not sure what their reasoning is on that without more research.

Trans women don't tend to have testosterone levels that high anyway, and if they did their doctors would be worried about it. Obviously not a comprehensive study but, have the testosterone levels of a trans woman [0] (she's relatively normal, other than the fact she insists on debating strangers on the internet). That's ~.4 nmol/L (why sports and medicine use two different measures is also very confusing, unit conversion here [1]. Given the advantages testosterone gives in sports [3] I'd wager most women competing aren't hovering around the minimum levels (which is where most trans women are going to be by virtue of how anti-androgens work). Instead of unscientific blog spam, how about a study published by the National Collegiate Athletic Association [4].

Basically as the knowledge of the underlying science grows the idea of simple binary for fair sporting competition makes increasingly less sense, I wouldn't be surprised if elite institutions started to drift more toward "hormonal weight classes" (and so thinks these scientists [4])

[0] https://imgur.com/a/z9DR2cD

[1] http://unitslab.com/node/136

[2] https://sci-hub.tw/10.1210/er.2018-00020

[3] “[t]he available, albeit incomplete, evidence makes it highly likely that the sex difference in circulating testosterone of adults explains most, if not all, the sex differences in sporting performance.” https://sci-hub.tw/10.1210/er.2018-00020

[4]“[a]ny athletic advantages a transgender girl or woman
arguably may have as a result of her prior testosterone levels dissipate after about
one year of estrogen therapy.”
https://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/NCLR_TransStudentAt...
Upgrade a K3s Kubernetes Cluster with System Upgrade Controller
There is not much more than this to be found. The font seems to be still in development and does not seem to be available anywhere. The font viewer seems to be https://fontgoggles.org by the same author.
It is more likely that this is noted first in the UK. This means that there is some likelihood that it already exists in other countries, but was not notices yet.

However, this does not explains away that it appears to have much higher transmission.
Samsung Odyssey G7 and Samsung Odyssey G9 would like to have a word with you.
From adaptogens to psychedelics: What’s next for wellness’ mushroom obsession
And I'd add that there is a middle ground of higher end webcams that people can buy. Which in my experience as someone who would do the camera thing if I had no other option, works fine even for recorded video.
Nifty! Has it been working out for users?

Any thoughts on whether extending it to animated images might not/work? Might help with verbs?

Bigger picture, perhaps imagine a UI with two panes. One the regular app. And the other, a... bantering play space, where the app can do sciencey interactive jazz improv on what's been said in the regular app. Any feel for whether this would work, or be too distracting? Has anyone seen something like this?
Yup, I think the same. I think there’s a lot more “hype runway” left though. It’ll prob hit at least 50k
Paths to Get Your First Product Management Job
Offline voice AI used to control a retro chess game in .NET Core [video]
While I generally agree, there are a few exceptions.

Ethereum exists because Bitcoin isn't capable of running complex scripts.

Monero exists because Bitcoin is too transparent.
Nobody said it’s an unknown taboo. The issue is that they have an incredible biological advantage. We should absolutely not focus on making social spaces “safer” (a misnomer, because regular adult conversations simply do not jeopardize safety), we should focus more on making people anti-fragile.
Maybe beans should be assigned to unwanted contact attempts. Then the bean counters can count them at the end of the quarter, and see if the phone calls were a net gain or loss of beans.
How to get more qualified leads
I don't think the audiophile comparison makes really sense here (and I like to mock audiophiles more than most) simply because display technology still has a long way to go before it reaches the level of audio when it comes to "bang for your buck".

CD quality audio is less than 1 megabit per second per channel, uncompressed. HDR (10 bits per component) 4K60fps 4:2:2 video is around 10Gbit per second of data.

Of course data bandwidth is only a small part of the problem of correctly reproducing an analog signal, but it gives you the orders of magnitude we're dealing with.

I currently use a cheap ASUS 4K display. It's more good enough for coding, but I wouldn't trust it for any sort of graphical work. The viewing angle is pretty bad, so depending on what part of the screen I'm looking at I see colors differently, and some gradients become more or less visible depending on which part of the screen they're on. Contrast is pretty bad, making even some videogame display poorly: depending on the location and time of day contrast seems always too high or too low.

You can buy a good sub $100 pair of earphones and a sub $50 DAAC and they'll be good enough to do 99% of any audiophile work you could ever want to do reliably. If you want to do serious graphics work without having to constantly adjust for your display you'll have to go for something a lot more expensive than an entry-level monitor.
I was assuming since tasqa wanted to know, how it works on baremetal in contrast to on the cloud. And since they brought network virtualisation up, that they were already knowledgeable about the networking part.

Networking is handled in kubernetes with CNI plugins, Calico is one of them.
They define how one pod can talk to another.

Probably best described in how it does it is by the project itself: https://docs.projectcalico.org/about/about-networking

My simplyfied version: Calico uses the IP routing facilities to route IP packets to pods over hosts. Either from another pod or from a gateway router.

BGP is a protocol to exchange routing information, so it can be used to inform the router or kubernetes nodes (in this case physical hosts) about where to send the IP packets.

If a pod is running on a node, the node announces with BGP that the pod IP can be routed over the IP of the node.
If the pod provides a service (in the kubernetes sense), the node can also announce that the service IP can be routed over the same host.
Now, if two pods on different nodes are providing the same service, then both are announcing the same service IP. So, there are multiple routes or multiple paths for the same IP. That are the last to letters of the acronym ECMP (Equal Cost Multiple Path). Equal cost, because we do not express a preference over one or the other.

The router then can make a decision where to send the packets to. Usually that is done by hashing some part of the IP packet (IP and port of source and target for example).

Now the question is how is that hash deciding to which host it goes?
In most cases it is very simply that you have an array of hosts, and the hash modulo the length gives you the host.
Problem is, if you add or remove one item from that, practically all future packets will end up at a different host than before you did so. And they don't know what to do with it, breaking the connection (in case of TCP).
Resilient hashing describes a feature that the mapping won't change under changes.
If they all made the same error on the test, in the same way, they're almost certainly all guilty - except apparently for two of them.

Every single one of these people should be dismissed or resign. They are simply not officer material. The Honor Code is very clear. You lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do and you're not military material.

There simply cannot be second chances. Second chances here are what result in subpar military officers. The last time this happened, everyone involved was dismissed or resigned.
Those terms are orthogonal. Embedded typically refers to running on some HW that is not typically thought of as a computer. Embedded SW can run within an OS or on bare metal.
I've seen that a few times on /r/battlestations recently. Most of the posters say the quality can't be beat but it's a pain to get set up initially and building a good enough mount for it can be difficult as well.
Kubevela: Introduction
To make your list even more dire, it seems hard to compete with something like the Logitech BRIO at $200.
You know the potential harm the company you choose to work for, and you've decided to look past that for a presumably large salary.

It's no different to working for a chemical company you knlw are dumping toxic sludge into the environment then saying but i only work in the label printing department.

You probably aren't evil, but you have blood on your hands and don't bd surprised if people judge you for that.
> In it, Caplan argues that the true purpose of education is not to improve students but for students to signal their worth as employees to their future employers

I was under the impression this is common knowledge. There's a reason people continue attending college as college costs skyrocket - education is a competitive signal, and being below the pack is probably the worst mistake you can make, unless you have some way to make up for it.
Using Checklists for Software Testing
I've been using this for a whole now and really happy. Looking over the repo it seems there has been some software improvements so I will upgrade mine now - saving the settings will be very useful as it's too dark for me by default. Thank you!

Regarding the lens, I'm using the '6mm 3MP Wide Angle Lens for Raspberry Pi HQ Camera' and I have zero problems with it. I'm hardly moving in the way I use it as a simple webcam so I have no problem with staying in focus and I just don't get what a few people are saying about distortion, I must be blind. I looked up one of the recommended alternatives, the 'Fujinon HF9HA-1B 9mm 1.4', I can only find it pre-owned on ebay shipped from China for £70 (+ a load of tax I am sure). I will happily stick with my regular lens.
from https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/12/22/argocd-kubevela-gitops-w...

https://kubevela.io/en/developers/references/restful-api/ind...
> ... a practical tip is to eat only those things that people of his grandmother's generation would have recognized as food.

So, Lisp?
we are not talking about physical labor here, but work that requires the use of your brain.

observable physical weakness has no bearing on any other capacities, but what i said above is specifically about those other capacities.

i expect to see evidence that women are less capable programmers, project managers, etc.

the only thing that a salary measures objectively, is your negotiation skills.

i absolutely disagree that everyone should only be paid what they are able to negotiate for.

if there is an objective measure of performance (which, i admit is very hard, if it is possible at all) then equal performance should get equal pay. maybe add in equal responsibility, since that is also a factor.
I'd like to learn about design trends for 2021 but this page is unreadable and unsuable
>There are all pyramid schemes

Do you include ethereum here? if so you are woefully misinformed.
If you mean something like runV which runs Linux kernel in a lightweight VM still then how does that move the needle in the bare-metal direction exactly?
I have a large project that uses qrcode stickers to identify hardware. I tried with barcodes and found that iOS doesn't scan them as quickly or easily.

Why do we use barcodes?