skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure exactly how to interpret "the bulk of commercial photographers' work are weddings".

Do you mean by total revenue, or for a given photographer?

I ask because in general people who do weddings tend to focus on those almost exclusively for their income (the same is true for some of the other categories I mention below).

The way I think of it is that there are perhaps only a few sources of steady income that pays a livable salary with photography:

- weddings

- headshots

- real-estate

- advertising / marketing

In many cases either photographers are being asked to do more these days (e.g. write the editorial that the photographs go with) or people who wouldn't traditionally have photography as part of their job are being asked to do the photographic work on top of their existing responsibilities (e.g. journalists who are asked to bring a camera along and snap some shots for a story).

[EDIT: I am not sure where the day and a half of work figure comes from, either. It is typical for something like an edited/touched-up photo album to be delivered a few weeks after a wedding shoot, with the photographer doing a few shoots in between and then sitting down and editing several in a batch over the course of a week or two until they are happy with the results.]
Man, I sure wish someone would screw me over with a high-six-figure cash bonus like they did those founders.

Being poor is having no idea what that reality might seem like.
a fair point - but if it wasn't clear, all opinions expressed were anecdotally happening between a single pair of my ears.
My apologies if you'd adjusted your personal realization of the world around you, based upon my post
(although, I can't pretend my ego wouldn't have fluttered a bit)
As far as I know, Eero is still a running business unit. You can still buy Eero stuff. I don't think that Amazon wanted to wind the company down and do a pure aqui-hire. If they had, they presumably would have paid less.
interrupt or exception, the handling mechanism remains the same: The CPU jumps to a handler routine by retrieving its address from a table. On Intel x86, Both interrupt and exception handlers are stored in the same table.

From Intel x86 manual

To aid in handling exceptions and interrupts, each architecturally defined exception and each interrupt condition
requiring special handling by the processor is assigned a unique identification number, called a vector number. The
processor uses the vector number assigned to an exception or interrupt as an index into the interrupt descriptor
table (IDT). The table provides the entry point to an exception or interrupt handler (see Section 6.10, “Interrupt
Descriptor Table (IDT)”).

The allowable range for vector numbers is 0 to 255. Vector numbers in the range 0 through 31 are reserved by the
Intel 64 and IA-32 architectures for architecture-defined exceptions and interrupts. Not all of the vector numbers
in this range have a currently defined function. The unassigned vector numbers in this range are reserved. Do not
use the reserved vector numbers.

Vector numbers in the range 32 to 255 are designated as user-defined interrupts and are not reserved by the Intel
64 and IA-32 architecture. These interrupts are generally assigned to external I/O devices to enable those devices
to send interrupts to the processor through one of the external hardware interrupt mechanisms (see Section 6.3,
“Sources of Interrupts”).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_vector_table

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_descriptor_table
In the vast majority of OOP language, the object allows one to do virtually anything behind the scenes with a bit of construction (plus of course functional programming is opinionated. There are a whole variety of definitely bad practices an FP programmer will point to as being disallowed by the FP).

See: "Closures And Objects Are Equivalent" etc.

http://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent

And

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497801/closures-are-poo...
You Are Naturally Short Housing (2012)
> Not all model legislation is driven by special interests or designed to make someone money. Some bills were written to require sex offenders to register with law enforcement, while others have made it easier for members of the military to vote or increased penalties for human trafficking.

It's rough, and not always for a bad intention. For example, I work for a company that does election services work. One of the things we've worked with the various districts we serve towards is simply using printing structures that are easier to scan, such as with ballot initiatives. Various states and counties have many different formats they may support, including writing in the margins etc.

In the end, this makes it horrible for locations with a lot of people, or those with so few, but enough to make manual handling end to end more difficult to be accountable for.

I've often thought it would be nice to push a standard set of interfaces for some of the data and publishing specifications not just for my company, but all servicing companies to work together with the states/counties themselves. There are a lot of election laws that make a lot of things difficult for those handling actual ballots and elections. There's a reason why so many districts are so late in returning verified results.

Of course it all should be a case by case basis, and shouldn't favor one company over another. I've seen that happen with other industries too much. In the end, I think more legislators and politicians need to actually read and think through things more.
No, not really.

It clearly says you need to have had the loan for 10 years and been paying on time payments and have a stable job. Those requirements don't seem absurd, outlandish, nor designed to make people fail.

If you don't meet those minimum of requirements, why would the tax payer want to forgive your debts - you clearly didn't hold your end of the bargain, yet want to be released of potentially thousands or tens of thousands of dollars of public-money debt.
I believe the concept of this program is to act as an incentive for (former) students to go into public service. If nobody can use it because of kafka-esque procedures, then the program isn't serving its goal.
It's definitely something tangential to McDonaldization. It's kind of Instagramization. IE. When cold brew coffee or whatever new trend gets popular then it's in every metro instantly. It's rare to go to a place that has it's truly unique thing--using the coffee example, Greek or Turkish coffee.

Bronies sounds more like a marketing demo than a subculture.
At such a close interval, yes.
I’m not making the argument that posting all time highs means a crash is coming, I was simply pointing out that it doesn’t mean that it’s not.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Modern Monetary Theory is kind of just giving a name and theoretical application to something that is essentially contemporary, defacto monetary practice.
I was referring to Iceland/Norway more there.
Every time I see one more way advertisers force their garbage on you, I think of drug dealers. Wake up, we are allowing this to happen.

As for Google - shame on you.
The point is that there's no specific reason that the taxi industry "deserves" to be terminated with extreme prejudice by disruptive startups.

Even given its current state in the places you name, I don't believe that justifies handing over billions of dollars to sleazes like the ones at Uber, especially given that the people who do the actual work to make them that money are often working at what works out to less than minimum wage.

Two wrongs don't make a right.
Did you borrow a large sun of money from said SaaS company? Kind of changes things, no?
How early?
Spreading Intelligence from the Cloud to the Edge
Sleeping Dogs is one of my favourite games of all time. It got me hooked immediately from the login screen with the unforgettable soundtrack. Thanks for your contribution to the game.
The way I usually put it is "I'll happily code for free, but if you want me to code up your ideas, you have to pay me more than all the other folks that want me to code up theirs."

Interestingly this holds up even though I'm now coding up my own ideas - even though I'm calling the shots on what I work on, they're still constrained by what there's potentially a market for, and so it's still not really passion coding. If I were completely free of constraints, I'd do stuff that's more useless, more prestigious, more beautiful, with fewer corner cases and fewer dependencies on outside software. That's economically unviable (and kinda solipsistic, too), so I don't.
PyGame is a really approachable way to play around with 2d graphics. I believe it's based on SDL.
Thanks, glad to know that!
It’s a bit annoying though when people complain about cutting federal funding for PBS under the guise of “saving Big Bird,” yet the taxpayer doesn’t have access to the fruits of those tax dollars. Similar to publicly funded research being hidden behind paywalls. If PBS has the money (some from taxes) to make the programming, they should have enough to provide the content for free either via their own streaming services or via commercial services.
My Netflix DVD queue was 100% movies I couldn't torrent / find available to buy. They would be at the top of my list for years, presumably one copy getting slowly making it's way around the country.

Netflix even had a production company called Red Envelope Entertainment that did some really great alt comedy movies (an early Zach Galifianakis special with the Netflix exec sitting front row with his Netflix hat on like a nerd, for example).
I don't think anyone has considered Nietzsche a Nazi for a long time.

He was hated by all my high school teachers, both the communists and the religion teacher. I bet that he will be called a nazi while there are communists and christians.

I think what they hated most about him is that he likened both groups.
That has UX implications, with the mouseover statusbar link target popup and the right/middle mouse click to copy-url/open-in-new-tab features making it much more obvious.
The Pyret programming language
A lot of these morale problems happen after layoffs as well. If the layoffs are deep enough it makes sense to move the entire company to a different city and completely reboot. In those situations I've seen as much as 90% of the company churn in the course of the year. Once the dust settles it's basically a new company and can feel like a high growth startup.
This seems far more complicated than necessary. This design assumes that a trusted execution environment is available, and it also assumes that a trusted hypervisor is available. If you have both of those, then why can’t you just run your software in an enclave directly protected by the trusted hypervisor?
Nietzsche was extremely interested in the entire cannon of Western philosophy. He analysis of Socrates as a "decadent type" is crucial to his positions. All of Nietzsche's work was a debate around the ongoing questions of the philosophy, art, religion and so-forth of both Western and world civilizations (he was interested Buddhism for example - calling decadent but still appreciating it more than Christianity).

But the tendencies calling themselves "individualist" like Stirner, say, evoked only contempt in him (and basically little mention).
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I would not bother learning anything before OpenGL 3. The core stuff from 3 onwards is still reasonable for use today, and most changes build upon it rather than fundamentally changing the model, but the older stuff is quite different.
32MB on ordinary 1.44 floppy media by just switching from stepper to voice coil head servomotor https://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/10/23/32mb_on_a_humble_fl...
Optimizing Build Size in JavaScript
At a certain point, Blockbuster had some sort of "guaranteed to be in stock" kind of thing, which meant they would just have walls and walls of one single movie.
Why would any "<pejorative> <disenfranchised_class> studies" title be acceptable? I wouldn't take issue with "Modern Anglo Studies" or even the gendered "Experience and Perspective of the Modern American Male." But that's not what this course is titled.

But it's not just the name. The content of the course (I did read the description!) implies that the grievances of "angry white males" are extrinsic, an objection to equality of others rather than their own unequal treatment. It implicitly de-legitimizes the position of the "angry white male."
The store itself was big enough, but their use of space was not very efficient.

I'm not sure why they chose to have that focus, but it was clearly a choice on their part, not something they were forced to to.

My guess is that they did what they thought was most profitable for them, because most of the customers they catered to just preferred to watch mainstream, very popular movies.

Good independent video stores had a different model of catering towards viewers with more discerning tastes, so had extensive selections of more obscure films.
Umple: Model-Oriented Programming
Us: you're clearly partisan because you only publish bad things against muh abuela.

Also us: you don't self-censor to benefit your self-interest? That's just not smart.
I think you might feel differently if you'd actually read the documentation as it existed 8 years ago (I've not looked at this in years).

Or talked with customer support agents for the program that who told my wife that a formal loan forgiveness application was not required, and would be a waste of time. Just meet the criteria and apply when your 10 years were up.

But what those criteria were was not described clearly enough to make 10 year plans on. And the general confusion was so massive, the program so obviously a shambles, that we decided there was little chance that the program would survive, and passed on it.
The rudder / vertical stabiliser snapped off this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587
If only the IRS felt the same way. Any income should be treated the same when it is realized as currency, none of this bogus taxation on unrealized gains when your equity doesn't have liquidity.

That way we could exercise our options as they vest, instead of holding out until an event to get some liquidity. It keeps people trapped.
How did the employees get screwed? Hardware is expensive and the company was sold for basically pennies. If anything is screwed here is people's expectations of how employment works.
I started law school shortly after the PSLF program was created. The program created a loan forgiveness option after 10 years of qualifying public service. The criteria for qualification are clearly specified up front. Among other things, you need to make 120 monthly payments on a qualifying income-driven repayment plan. None of these criteria are arbitrary or hard to understand.

Nonetheless, because so many people couldn't figure it out, Congress allocated an additional $700 million to help those folks. But, as far as I can tell from the article, the people being denied are the ones who still can't figure it out. 28,640 of the 38,640 had not previously applied for loan forgiveness. Of course those people must be rejected--this $700 million is a supplemental program for people who goofed up and got rejected from the regular PSLF. It would make no sense to let people get money from that program before they were rejected from regular PSLF. The other reasons for rejection are even more meritorious. If you haven't been paying for 10 years, or were paying less on your incorrect plan than you would have under the PSLF plan, you shouldn't get loan forgiveness--you haven't paid in what you were supposed to. Likewise, the federal government cannot do anything about private student loans. It goes without saying that people who don't have 10 years in a qualifying public-service job shouldn't get forgiveness. Literally every reason mentioned in the article for rejecting these applications are good reasons for rejecting these applications.
Options like quitting a job you don’t enjoy, supporting your parent because the ACA doesn’t cover enough of their healthcare costs, or paying for IVF so your partner could have a child they otherwise couldn’t are not distractions. We’re not talking cable TV, smart phones, or fancy coffee.

Mindset isn’t a silver bullet (although it’s helpful and will keep you sane). Sometimes you’re going to need dig deep for that grit and find those dollars you need.
All I know is it gets even worse in technical products where not just different versions, but entirely different products are bundled together equally as often. Worse is when you have what is the same product listed as 2-3 different items in the search results. Which one do you pick?

I wish there was an "Amazon Only" version of the site, with only products sold and distributed by Amazon and high quality affiliates only. Of course with comingled inventory, this is much less useful.
His broader point is that the medium melds the form of the message. In ancient times we'd have "Old Wive's Tales" that pass the good information around. In a Technopoly you have the same information taking the form of scientific papers. Even for things which may not be science.

The secondary point is when you divorce these pieces of information from their culture they become something else.

> Do we really think that people with lesser access to technology have better understanding of the world than those that have no internet access?

This seems related to what Nassim Taleb would say, "It's easier to macro bullshit than to micro bullshit." IE. Your barber/chef cannot bullshit you, but your economist/software engineer can. Over time the good information gets processed via something like natural selection and you end up with good ideas persisting. So it's not clear to me that a society with the level of information and no clear anchors is full of more understanding than those in the past. See: Lindy Effect

It's a very convincing argument. See Twitter, Facebook (/r/insancepeoplefacebook) et all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Why Cancel Buttons Should Never Have a Color
Redbox has inferior copies sometimes though (usually sound).
People do less drugs then they did in the past. Especially young people.
This delay seems to be only when requesting specific permissions such the “all url” one. So most extensions shouldn’t need to wait that long.
>I used to rent a ton of movies, and never once ran in to a rude employee.

My guy, the rest of your comment is great. You've gotta realize how wildly useless this line is, though.

Bad service exists and video store employees were known for being in this stereotype, as were theater employees. You just got lucky.
That says "In FY18, a total of 396,579 individuals were apprehended between ports of entry on our Southwest Border."

It's on course to be higher this year, but well under 1 million.
It's not "civil conflict", it's terrorism led by a branch of Islamic State killing thousands of civilians. Have you wonder why all major media release articles about Xinjiang every week but ignore this important piece of information intentionally? What kind of consent are they manufacturing now?

Let's make the conversation a bit more constructive, can you offer a better, effective and peaceful way to prevent future terrorist attacks from happening?
That's capturing it from the air, isn't it? From what I understand that's a lot more expensive than sticking your equipment directly on the output of the power plant. Also natural gas specifically is quite carbon-light.
Not to mention the whole "sorry" smugness intended to make it sound like graphene is now suddenly useless.

There is some overlap, but the practical use cases described seem more of a more complementary nature. The novel attributes don't really seem to put these two in competition.

And there is the expectation of more to come, since we can expect discoveries into other substances that produce useful effects when treated and applied in ways similar to graphene and now borophene.
There's this idea that everyone is in the same boat together, for better or worse. Especially in a startup. And to see some get huge bonuses while others see large losses -- especially in the same company -- doesn't seem entirely fair.

> and I could take $10M in investment at $100M in valuation, and then the next day liquidate the company

True, but that's the CEO and board that can do that. The employees can't just liquidate the company.

The issue is that the investors and management get preferential treatment first. But the employees -- the ones that execute the corporate vision -- get shafted.
>what i think mostly irrational in Christianity isn't the belief in the accident of semen finding its way after non-penetrating sexual encounter.

That's not what Christians believe. They believe that Jesus was conceived within the Virgin Mary's womb directly by God, no semen involved. That's the unavoidably irrational bit.

>What really puzzles me is how strongly that belief in that semen accident drives Christians right into the desire to burn witches and, when they cant burn them outright, prohibiting gays from the "joint" filing option on the 1040.

Because the Bible says so. For witches, Exodus 22:18 -- "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." That's it. One verse.

Regarding homosexuality, it seems to be a combination of extrapolations from the Bible declaring homosexual sex and extramarital to be sinful, and the belief among conservatives that allowing legal parity for homosexual couples is both an attack on traditional cultural ideals and Christian morality.
I am a big fan of the "humans are social creatures" mantra. In that regard, if something is more stimulating than social interaction it is likely to be harmful but if something is less stimulating than social interaction it is probably fine. [1]

In this simple model, I would probably say books are definitely less stimulation, TV is probably about equal (I have no idea), and modern videogames and social media are definitely much more stimulating. So, books would only become a problem in the presence of other factors but social media can become a problem for anyone.

In highschool I would play high stimulation PC games while browsing the internet on another monitor while listening to music while using voice chat. I also had almost no desire to socialize while in highschool.

[1] It goes without saying that we probably can't reduce activities to a single metric like "amount of stimulation" but I think this is a useful thought experiment.
Why do the executives still succeed when a company fails?
You can find a similar case against Nietzsche near the end of Enlightenment Now.

The key point being that Nietzsche believed that superior people should rule over inferior people, and should achieve that rule through violence and war. Which are uplifting activities for those who engage in it. And once it is established who is superior, what is done to the inferior doesn't matter.

This was an inspiration to the Nazis who, of course, decided that Germans were superior, should establish this through war, and inferior people should be killed or enslaved as the Germans saw fit.