skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will never use Etsy again after my first experience with it recently. I paid $200 for (what I thought) was a full size high quality living room rug. What I recieved was a polyester bath mat, that was shipped via DHL from Turkey, and took two weeks to arrive... I don't know what happened along the way, but I see Etsy now as simply an extension of Aliexpress.

No thanks.
> It sounds to me like they lost some sort of master reference table that maps customers to services, instances, data, and so on.

What makes you say this?
Most places don't import and consume much oil to keep the lights on. Worldwide only a small fraction of electricity production comes from burning petroleum products.
After the second atomic bombing, Japanese army officers tried to overthrow the Emperor to prevent the surrender. They narrowly failed, after successfully placing the Emperor under house arrest, because the surrender message was smuggled out of the palace. And this happened in Tokyo, which surely knew the horrors of war already, having been extensively firebombed for months. Had things gone a little differently, it's possible that two bombs might not have been enough.
From a pure fiscal standpoint, there is still a net gain to most households.

The net loss here is calculated by subtracting the "economic cost" of lost investment and jobs due to carbon pricing. This is kind of the point; you would probably expect industries that are more fossil fuel intensive to be taking a hit if carbon taxes are doing what we want them to do.
Thanks for the heads up! In that case, I'd prefer not to share this link with peers. Do you have an alternative source with similar high-level content to share?
If you had radically more than 20 amino acids (say 200) you'd have to have radically more metabolic pathways to handle them. Seems like you'd run into diminishing returns.

Meanwhile from the viewpoint of synthetic biology we can reassign some of the 64 possibilities to new amino acids so we have plenty of room with 3 codons.
Exactly. It sucks because I have bought absolute garbage from there. I know the seller matters just like on eBay but the trust that I’ll be getting a craftsman-made item when buying from Etsy is now firmly lost outside of specific stores. It is actively user hostile now.
I am just going to write it here, having no idea of the income of the Etsy sellers, but let's say that someone arrives and builds a fair Etsy, then how long until they go the same path? Or how long can you be victim of a corporate warlord? And I understand a small seller has less visibility and power to build a small e-commerce for itself alone... What I was thinking: how much of a stupid idea is for like for a bunch of Etsy sellers to put power together and create a marketplace where they have full power of votes about the marketplace direction and policy? Here seems that small players are getting fucked at every step, either on Amazon or on Etsy, but can small players fight back by joining forces and abandon these big marketplaces?
There is no propaganda on the other side.
When I was in school in the late 60s a slide-rule company gave a special offer to us, which all of our parents (wanting us to succeed in the bright technological future) duly bought into. As far as I know, none of us ever actually used them, preferring paper log tables.

We were also taught how to use mechanical adding machines, possibly the last people to be lumbered with this information, which mercifully I have completely forgotten.
I think we just don't have the infrastructure to build the iPhone, it would be astronomically more expensive unless they essentially just did the assembly of parts here. The Mac pro being built in the US seems to be mostly assembly of parts made overseas, and iPhone assembly is much trickier and finicky.
I think that McDonald’s is also fine in moderation.
Node's culture of tiny libraries is overstated. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30989539

What standard libs are you comparing? Node's to what other language? I've seen so many commenters say this, but still not sure what the magical thing that can't be achieved with Node built-ins is...

Developers don't write libs because you can't do it with built-ins, the write libs because developers like to write code and NPM is easy to use.
>> In more than a decade, crypto has still not found a viable use-case.

> In my eyes, having an alternative to high-inflation currencies around South America and Africa is one hell of a use case.

No it isn't. Why? US dollars and gold work far better for that use case than cryptocurrency.
HN is a bad analogy because it has a lot of invisible moderation tools used by the all-powerful moderators, including:

- banning

- shadow-banning

- deleting offensive messages

- detaching off-topic threads

The only difference with HN is that their rules are different. Everything else is very similar to Twitter.
Don't underestimate the power of a mesmerist: he promises utopia if everyone would give his ideas a try.

This was the same tactic used by Mao to promote the Cultural Revolution. He spoke of freedom from the shackles of Chinese tradition, and blamed his opponents every time his policies failed by saying that if only everyone listened to him, and there was no dissent, utopia would be the result.

A lot of people fell for it.

When his leadership lead to 10's of millions of dead Chinese, his response was, "Our policies are 70 percent good, and only 30 percent bad."
That's really insightful feedback. I will keep those in mind. Thank you!
I think a reference to https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/china-is-harve....
Juicero has proved to me that no idea is too stupid to win millions of usd in investment capital.
I absolutely love this one: https://www.cheapoldhouses.com/latestlistings/ it's literally just what the name suggests. It's homes (mostly in the US, but they have a list for "foreign" homes as well) that are < $100k with 3+ acres and usually they need lots of work.

It's fun to look at the history of the homes and think about how you could renovate it into a personal home, or a bed and breakfast or something.
Ways to Practice Strategic Reflection
(Canada Specific) There can be additional tax implications depending on if you're contracting under your own name vs. a company. Using materials supplied from the companies you're contracting from can get you labeled as a Personal Services Business and not a corporation essentially treating corporation income as your personal income. This means you'd be subjected to personal income rates vs. corporation.

It's important to note it's not just this one thing that can do it, but there's a collection of things that can get you labeled as a PSB.
> Why don’t they just make their own site?

Why don't the buyers just make their own art? Because they're a different set of skills.
So the last 200 years of peace doesn't account for any kind of stability? I highly doubt Russia would start messing with us out of nowhere. If we start talking about joining NATO though, then he's got the same leverage on us as Ukraine.
Could this be used to do firmware development on Pi? One thing I’ve always hated was having to either SSH and use vim, or login directly to the Pi and use an IDE directly on it.

I would love to use my main mac + VS Code to edit code and dispatch commands like compile / run
Well, back in the day, when California still had "extras" in public schools like photography with real 135 and 120 cameras complete with darkrooms, I learned photography "the hard way" like this and that included processing B&W film and printing it. There's a lot to be said for such a learning experience.

Reading this article I decided to see how much a C41 color film (Kodacolor/Fujicolor) processing system sells for - well, turns out they are not cheap but also not bizarrely expensive either. With some extra cash and time, you could set up a service for C41 processing using one of these machines. Sadly I don't have enough lifetimes for it but...

I'd still love to do Kodachrome though - I grew up with magazines shot in Kodachrome and I still like the look.
Any archives?
Apple is not just making for India, they have also started exporting. They have exported worth $1.4 billion, which may not be very large chunk for company as big as Apple, but Apple contractors are doubling down on India.

https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/apples-big-bite-ex...
The Anatomy of a 1:1
You do realize woke politicians are trying to make it legal to abort an infant after it was born right? For any reason..

At the same time they are sexualizing and grooming kids.
Thank you alok-g,

I would just correct the links:

-- article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10165

-- book: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.10165

-- your summary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27564506 (the link to the post is that "under" the date. You posted two identical links here)
The point of the guideline is, I think, that saying "Did you even read the article?" adds nothing of value, just spite and bad feelings to HN, and on top of that, wastes our time. The guideline isn't about reading the article or not, but being a jerk or not.
The author talks about getting into medium-format photography. When shooting film, I usually shoot medium format and I’ve been shooting mostly medium-format for 15+ years. I have observations about what the author says about MF.

> It seems like the vast majority of medium format cameras have fixed focus lenses though.

This is the toy camera movement. Holga, Diana, Lomo, etc. The cameras might cost you $20 or less and exhibit severe vignetting, fixed focus, lens flare, and even light leaks (people put tape on the cameras). These seem really common, but I think that it’s just that toy cameras are still manufactured and sold in stores so you see them a lot. I think you can get these cameras at places like Urban Outfitters.

> The alternative is getting one of the medium format SLRs with an actual focusable lens but those are again ridiculously overpriced for a box with a hole for a lens in it.

The Hasselblads are the other extreme end. They are collector’s items. They are also good cameras, but because they are also collector’s items, they are expensive. You might spend $1,500 for a used Hasselblad system.

There are alternatives between a Holga and Hasselblad, though! You can get Yashica TLRs for relatively inexpensive, as well as Seagull, Mamiya C, and some other TLR brands. I would expect to pay $100 or $200.

Around $500 you open up a number of more modern “workhorse” MF cameras including SLRs, like Mamiya RB67 & RZ67, various Bronica, Pentax 645, etc.

And upwards of $700-$1,500, you can get Fuji rangefinders, Pentax 67s, and maybe a Hasselblad.

If you are doing this as a hobby and just want to see if you like MF, I recommend going for a used TLR—they are inexpensive, light, and fun to use. If you want to suffer a bit more and have more control over your pictures, read lens reviews for MF SLRs.

> The film scans I've seen online taken through such cameras make it look like there's way less detail than my 35mm film pictures though.

Complicating the issue is the fact that you can get good scans of 35mm film with relatively inexpensive equipment. The only ways I’ve been able to get really good scans of MF film is with the Nikon CoolScan 9000 or drum scanners. Epson flatbeds do the job but getting good MF scans from flatbed scanners is tricky and requires some passion. Getting drum scans has, in the past, set me back around $30 PER PICTURE so it has to be something you care deeply about.

Unless you have a wet lab or are willing to invest in high-quality equipment, you are not going to get near the level of quality from MF that you’d expect, given the size and lens quality.
It would make sense to have a range extender as an option. But real-world statistics about PHEV usage patterns have been discouraging. (https://www.electrive.com/2020/09/28/phev-real-world-consump...)
Apple have been manufacturing some iPhones in India for a while. I found out when there was a massive strike at one of their supplier's factories in 2020 (over unpaid wages). https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-india-wistron-idUSK...
Driverless car appears to flee the scene after being pulled over by cops
If cars were invented today, they would be too dangerous to be allowed to exist. Almost nothing has been invented since 1970 that can cause any harm. Safety first and all that.
> Reddit is 100x worse than facebook and 100x more gamed than facebook. we will see once the war ends and the truth is revealed.

Let's just say that the traffic to certain subreddits stirring up the west dropped off a cliff when the Russian invasion started. It _was_ worse than Facebook, but the troll farms are no longer pumping nearly as much division.

If Russia had been in the middle of a war during the Brexit vote, there's no way they could have swung the influence they did.
>The argument against it is likely, "it won't scale", but I think and argument could be made that it could.

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
A Russian attack on a small NATO member state would result in a proportionate NATO response ... not whatever you understand by "WWIII".

All NATO members have allied troops stationed within their borders, so non-involvement isn't even possible.
The most fun thing in VM/CMS is REXX. It's an awesome language invented by Mike Colishaw with the express goal of being easy to program above all other considerations. Its PARSE instruction is one of the most powerful things I've ever seen in any language.

REXX was so great it became the standard scripting language for all IBM system products and was incorporated into the OS command line and the text editor, XEDIT. This meant you could have one language that ran commands and programs in any other language, could do anything at the command line (like create machines, etc), and could edit and save text files. Think about that for a second. It was WAAAAY ahead of its time.

Sadly, REXX predated the internet and never had a browser-savvy release. A miscarriage of REXX and OOPS called Object Rexx was also unsuccessful.

But it was an amazing tool for its day!
The amount of ad-hominems in replies to your comment is simply staggering.
That particular claim was refuted multiple times already. It is just a pure lie.
I think they were commenting on the portability of terminal-based applications and describing remote editing as a use case. You may think it's "bad" but it's also ubiquitous, resource-efficient, and free. Can you explain to this non-Windows user why vim+tmux is painful in Windows (with or without WSL) in a local or remote setting?
Ukraine was bellicose by objecting to Russia’s multiple invasions of its territories?
I guess a lot of people are finding out just HOW mission critical Jira is this week...
Be careful with things like this - it is ultimately an AWS marketing channel, so they’re not going to bring on people who say “we tried running everything on Lambda and it turned out to be a deployment nightmare”. The very best way to do this is find a tech meet-up around the sort of thing you do, and then go for the after event drinks. Get to know people, chat with them, and find out all the many ways architectures can shoot you in the foot.
Yes, and I can read Swedish and understand enough of our politics to say that the press release for the most part contradicts the linked article.

Will we join NATO? Still not decided but moves from S and SD has made it seem quite likely. Before summer? Very unlikely, discussions in Sweden have just started.
This is an article from newspaper The Times in the UK. The origin isn't a rumor on reddit.

I don't know if it's true or not - but if it's false, the real issue would be a credible news source, The Times, got it wrong, not reddit.
The main thing Etsy offers sellers is buyers' attention. My wife and I have sold on Etsy for almost 15 years (!!!), and she started selling from the first day she opened a shop selling bow ties. Over the years, it's very rare we'll open a shop offering something and not sell in the first day (and have never had a concept not have at least one sale in a week). It's hard to beat that kind of visibility with little to no investment honestly.

Even as our businesses have grown, the ease of use and convenience are hard to beat if you want to keep them to something casual. Sure, we could pop up a Shopify, ramp up advertising, really grind to get it "out there," but then we're spending more time and money to end up at the same spot.

A smaller marketplace won't have that sort of network effect. The only way I'd see it succeeding is if they really blitz on marketing and making themselves a real outlet for makers (and make sure they're perceived that way over Etsy). Their brand recognition and entrenchment would be super hard to overcome.
Ironically enough Ebay is probably the most trustworthy platform atm. It might sound insane but eBay listings are usually pretty clear on the origin and condition of the items. You know when the seller is from China, or if the item is used, and while there are tons of scams and misleading descriptions... for the most part sellers are usually pretty honest in the item descriptions. I don't mind buying knock offs as long as I know that they aren't the real deal, and cheap items are at least priced accordingly. Which is not the case on Amazon.
As noted in the reference to the post from martopix :)
No one is arguing that Black Americans are inherently violent.

They are arguing that "historical travesties" -> "current situation for Black Americans" -> "increased risks of criminality and violence" -> "more interactions with cops" -> "more deaths by police".

Which requires different tools to solve than "cops are racist" -> "cops shoot more Black Americans".

And if our goal is to actually help Black Americans than we need to be clear eyed about the causes even if that makes us uncomfortable.
There are a lot of things concerning about these cars driving themselves around the city -- most of which are typically covered in these comment threads -- but here are a few questions that seem relevant to this particular incident:

How are police officers trained to deal with these machines? Hopefully its more than "call this number"; are Cruise support lines required by law to be open when their cars are on the streets? What mechanism to police or city officials have to control these machines? Do they have some interface to put the vehicle in neutral and roll it away? Assuming no, why not? What's the right protocol if a car gets a flat tire or is driving around with a door open? Would a driverless car by a different manufacture follow all the same protocols?

I'm sure there are clear answers to similar questions -- for example -- for the BART or Muni. It is preposterous that something this significant and potentially dangerous can be deployed on streets in a city with tens of thousands of pedestrians, and no messaging to the public about these details.
https://www.theanalog.io/. Weekly newsletter focused on hardware and manufacturing, lots of interesting links related to the field. Strong EE focus.
Except you have to consider inflation has been galloping since the 1980s. So even these may be cheaper than back in the day...
Serious question: Why hasn't China been bombed and Fauci hung for covid yet?
Oh it's definitely a result of choice. Strictly speaking it is lots of choices that in aggregate give the classic result.

Some choices by sales, some by engineering, some by management. All doing their best. Each reasonable on a sufficiently small time horizon.
I don't personally like the idea of joining a military alliance with state like Turkey in it. I mean, Greece and Turkey are both in NATO but Greece tries to maintain "rough" parity with materiel with Turkey for obvious historical reasons ..

So what happens if they decided to go town on each other someday? A5 invocation, first come first served? I really don't know what that would imply.
Ads, NFTs and other badness: Pour one out for the decline of dumb TVs
Now that you bring up Nigeria, i am not sure skin color is the number one issue.

According to [1] and [2] there are problems in the south-east and to some degree also south-west.

Nigeria is right now divided into 50% Muslim and 50% Christian and it looks like the Christian part of the country in the South is unhappy with that.

I could very well be wrong here, but it seems to be too much of a coincidence.

[1] https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/467985-nigeria...

[2]
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/niger...
> Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-s...
There's no reason to do this as a startup. Someone could spin up an ecommerce site over a weekend and then put in the work to white glove onboard sellers without ever taking investment and turn this into a very nice business all without outside capital. As we're now seeing, outside capital which will want a large return doesn't jive with managing a business for artisanal/homemade sellers.
The reason I've heard why it is more expensive is that color development has been completely standardized. You put the rolls in the machine and the negatives come out the other end with little interaction from a person.

They never standardized black and white photography development so it all has to be done by hand, which is more time consuming.

As for 35mm, yes it's true that it is cheaper, but I got into this for the larger negative, so this is a self imposed financial hit.
Yeah, dust is a bugger. But it is amazing how W. Eugene Smith developed such great photos in some really primitive conditions.
https://www.tellmemoregifts.com/ does this for the artists that make gifts for their customers.
Demand curve has a great newsletter about marketing/growth: https://www.demandcurve.com/newsletter

Self promotion: I recently started https://saastips.com/ to catalog everything I learn about saas from podcasts, blog posts, etc
You can even see footage of Russian Tochkas on Twitter from way before the attack: https://twitter.com/MotolkoHelp/status/1509099435262976000
>I would love to see an Etsy alternative that is verified handmade goods rather than reseller junk.

Pretty ironic that if you replace "Etsy" with "eBay" in that statement, you have the original value prop for Etsy. The circle of life, I suppose.
These sorts of issues are why I moved my personal systems over to Kubernetes years ago for infra, and for code I focus on language ecosystesm with longer horizons.

very sad, but, also, yeah. :-/
Most Canadian households do get back more than what they paid.

The way that there are net losses to households is by calculating the "economic costs" of lost investment and jobs. This is exactly what carbon taxes are meant to do: internalize the externalized costs of burning fossil fuels.
Thanks! Infrared is very interesting. I recently got a digital infrared converted camera but haven't had too much time to use it. What I have shot with it has been cool.

Infrared on film is harder as it's difficult to judge how much infrared light is available. The focus point is also slightly off. Live view definitely helps in that regard.

I would recommend starting with infrared sensitive film ( e.g. Adox HR-50 ) and a red filter which will give infrared-ish results ( https://50mmf2.com/writings/adox-ir-hr-pro-50-film-review ). Since it sees visible light as well, it's easier to meter for and also focus.

Good luck!
Russia would love to join if it could, and there was some talk about it in the 90's when Russia was drawing closer to the west. There are several reasons why it didn't happen.

NATO has requirements for membership, and Russia is too corrupt and undemocratic to meet them ( this is also why full membership for Ukraine was always in the future).

NATOs main purpose is to project American power and influence foreign policy. Russia being in NATO would make this more difficult.