skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The call itself is not very expensive, but the effect of having to jump through vtables can prevent other optimizations in a way similar to calling a function in a DLL.

Not a huge issue for business logic bits or if your virtual functions are quite large, but using virtual functions for small often used calls such as specific getters or some mathematical function can cause a big performance hit.
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Yes, you won't regret it.
They will not allow that, if that would result in Germans buying less German cars.
I would second this. I visit stack overflow multiple times a day always from a search result.
> unlikely to face any substantial consequences for (at least publicly) standing up to the government

Well, they could take a market hit if customers find out they've been acting contrary to their words.
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Those framing pieces of aluminum or steel look awesome. They look great for quick mechanical structural work.

Anyone have any idea where to buy them from ?
I agree that anyone pumping serious money into VR right now is either misguided or overly optimistic. The adoption rate has flattened, the hardware and software are both lacking innovation, and the costs to enter the market for consumers are insane - relatively.

Until you get Vive-like tracking on a Gear-like device I would avoid VR in general. People just will not buy gaming PCs on the same curve in which they adopted smartphones.

I worked at a prominent (still alive) VR company and the experience was enlightening.
26 in what period? Like over the life time, year, month?
Decreased usage domestically, increased overdose in other countries, Sweden for instance, by a lot.
We use it to subsidise our hosting fees and time to keep things up to date. It's often more convenient to control the website when doing online marketing work.

Changes may be a flat monthly fee, free as part of a larger retainer (if simple) or ad-hoc pay as you go based on amount of work.

It's not a lot and doesn't form a big part of the business but helps provide an all-in-one solution for clients who typically have no idea where to go next.

One thing we are winding down and I urge you to avoid is email support. It's simple to set up but you can quickly get overwhelmed by the amount of support involved. Email is often a fundamental to business, depending on industry, and it should be treated as such. We suggest clients use Gsuite. This leads to my final point.

You are not a hosting company, unless you pivot that way. You are not an email provider. You are a web design business and you should not let hosting overwhelm the core of what you do. Be ready to cut it off if it distracts too much from your core.
The author is just spouting off on a topic he doesn't understand. It's just a rehashing of Chomsky's hatred of statistical NLP. He pulls off the neat trick of approximating knowledge of artificial intelligence by hoodwinking the New York Times, but he doesn’t have insight into the topic he's talking about.
Sounds like you're not really their target customer.
I read from somewhere saying that Emacs was invented at a time where the control key reside at where the caps lock key resides now.

One day, my pinky genuinely hurt from stabbing the control key of my work-issued keyboard. I remapped the control key to caps and never looked back.
I think as individuals we can never look to either corporations or governments to protect our freedoms in general. We're going to have to look for alignment of interests depending on specific concerns.

In this particular case there is clearly an alignment of interests between users and some corporations - VPN providers. At the same time there is a divergence of interests between the same users and another corporation - Apple.

Similarly, Chinese citizens surely expect their government to protect them from some actions of corporations. For instance, the Chinese government recently banned a lot of health related advertising, because apparently there was too much snake oil salesmanship going on.

The case that triggered this intervention was a complaint by the relatives of a diceased cancer sufferer who had received ineffective treatment following an advert on Baidu. However, the clinic that had advertised that treatment was a government run hospital.

I think this affair shows how complex the alignment of interests can be, even in dictatorships.
uBlock Origin blocks some scammer websites (just configure it). It's not a complete solution though.
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Most polymorphism is actually statically determined, and most that isn't is static at compile time is static after program initialization. There is a lot of optimization you can do based on this knowledge.
That what I wanted to convey, I am not a native speaker and sometimes I tend to be somewhat unclear.
.. fun? Hehe.
New areas of research become "well studied" in a year or two in AI. GANs are considered both new and well studied, for example.

Machine Learning works on a different timescale from everything else.
I'd help them find someone else to transfer responsibility to.
> I don't understand why some people think companies should be above the law.

I think certain aspects of justice are above legal frameworks. For instance, slavery is wrong no matter what the law says. Companies like Apple, by lobbying the government for various non-business things (gay rights, climate change, etc.), recognize this.

I think wholesale restriction and manipulation of political speech is just wrong even if it is legally mandatory. And, while understandable, I'm not sure (still chewing it over) it's a valid excuse to say that we were just complying with the law.
I still have my Faber-Castell slide rule, used it in college.
> ...my stuff (skis, bikes, windsurf + sails, mountaineering gears, etc..) to where I need to be, not something for showing-off and asserting status.

Not everyone shows off with fancy cars. Some people like to talk about their rugged athleticism and outdoor adventures.
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Could Apple really ever decide to not do any business in China - could they extract their phone/computer business without affecting their manufacturing business?

Without access to Shenzhen and Foxconn, it seems like it would be a literal corporate suicide.
Governments don't force Apple to allow installing apps only from App Store, it's their own decision.
I wrote to my MP, switched ISPs to a (more expensive) one whose stance aligns with mine, and took up the other citizenship I have access to. I am deeply concerned about the views of some of my country's leaders. But ultimately, moving countries would be a big cost, and I don't think anywhere else is significantly better? The status quo here is: leaders talk an anti-free-speech game, propose outrageous unimplementable measures, what actually gets done is at most a trivial inconvenience. Where could I move that would have a firmer commitment to free speech, privacy and the like? US? Canada? I don't feel like I'd be a lot better off in any of those. Maybe Germany but I feel like they're drifting into the restriction-of-speech direction after their migrant issues.
Heh... apparently it's for everything, you haven't quite solved the problem of having it be "for videos" yet, unless you're just planning to delete non-video submissions.

If you want to limit it to just video submissions, you might want to have a whitelist of sites users can select from in the submit form, and then do some scraping/API work to find actual video links in the URLs. Having embeds in the threads would be nice, too.

Also, to me personally, your favicon and banner color look a bit too much like Youtube's.
I drove a Leaf daily for two years. Wonderful vehicle. Know the limits, drive sensibly.
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Well only if you are in US
Just going to add my random 2¢

this is what engineers do (I'm an engineer). All they can see is the tech and ok, maybe that's that they enjoy but it really has little to do with a hit game (here come the comments ;)

It's like claiming that most movies couldn't be made unless will build our own cameras from scratch.

The thing is, building engines and tools is conceptually easy. It might be a lot of work but it's mostly known solutions so we (engineers like me) see a big todo list and just do it. We get in the flow. We get proud of our solutions (even though 40k new games shipped this month that some how solved the same problems).

But arguably the real work is in design and design is much harder, at least for me, because it's a blank slate. I don't have to reinvent how to read joypads or stream files or serialize data. Sure I might write my own but it's arguably a waste of time. They real hard work is figuring out the game itself. Prototyping, trying out new ideas. Grab some working solutions (Unity, Unreal, or your favorite open source libraries, spend as little time as possible on tech and as much time as possible trying out ideas).

Of course I write that advice and I've believed it for years but I still fall back to my engineering ways and find busywork to do like add some unit testing system or automate some other step. Meanwhile no prototypes. No games.
That was a total customer value that leaked a few years ago, if I remember correctly.
I assume it would have to be trained with existing material, which would mostly consist of US ships in US waters and Chinese ships in Chinese waters.

You are implying that the problem would have been in the set that was used as input, but my understanding is that in many a case you would realize that mistake when it's already too late.
You cannot do business in China without doing what they tell you. Period. Either you do it or you leave. I work for a big company (you would all know) and we have a large business unit in China, they own 52% of it. They decide what goes in and how customers can use it. We don't get to decide anything without government approval. It's so easy to claim the West shouldn't do what the leadership of China wants in China, but in reality the only alternative is to abandon China to those who will do what they are ordered to. The market is too large to leave. If you don't agree to their rules you don't play in their sandbox.
Fiduciary duty, in the sense you are using it, is a myth (most likely created to justify shameful but profitable actions from corporations). A few sources:

https://medium.com/bull-market/there-is-no-effective-fiducia...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578437/-The-Myth...

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

There is such a thing as fiduciary duty, but it's not related to the common usage of public companies needing to maximize profit for shareholders.
What about PostgreSQL? Last time I tried it I had to install it on Windows because of some reason I cannot remember...
This is really strange criticism.

You have very specific needs that are already being met by existing solutions.

Why would you expect a niche car maker to address those needs with a single product?
Apple has never been pro-free-speech. They have historically censored people in their marketplace from distributing software that disagrees with their political views. For example, they would not allow software that provides factual information about abortions and where to get them in their marketplace -- while at the same time they would allow software from "crisis pregnancy centers"[1] that frequently lie to women and make incorrect claims about dangerous risks of abortions.

It boggles my mind that anyone could think Apple is somehow a vanguard of free speech. Their iThings are jails, they restrict what software you can run on them and they are the final arbiter on what software is allowed. What aspect of that is in keeping with free speech?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_pregnancy_center
For those that do, where are you hosting the site? Are you using a reseller package or just put the url onto whatever host you're using now?
The 90s called, they want your comment back.
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There are advantages to having Calculus operations as first class citizens.
"Nobody cares about your code"

That's a peculiar claim about people who hire employees to create code.

"It’s not the code that counts, it’s the product"

So is everyone only hiring programmers who write code which can be sloppy and full of technical debt and impossible maintain, as long as the product works okay for now?
> In short, you know nothing and yet feel entitled to throw around authoritative baseless assumptions regarding a well established tool that has been widely adopted by a whole industry.

Wow, what a thoughtful, well-reasoned response. You've completely changed my mind! /s

Anyway, you're off your rocker if you think the entire software industry (or any significant portion thereof) uses CMake. CMake has significant marketshare in C and C++ shops, and nowhere else.
Because it's a very bad law by a single party government that is a bit notorious by now. Apple also is so big on freedom, rights, LGBT, etc. but at the same time deals with countries that respect none of that.

In any case, go to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14679276 and you'll see people calling for US companies to deny service to all Germans and overthrow their liberal democratic and otherwise stable government that way, all this for just wanting to ban online hate speech that is already illegal everywhere else in Germany.

Just don't say US companies shouldn't topple allied democratic liberal foreign governments that do little to no wrong on their citizens or you'll get downvoted like I did.
Maybe because, gods forbid, people judge by real-world results and not by the words of a bunch of narrow specialists patting themselves on the back?

The author's points still stand. Robots do fall over trying to open doors and they don't invent new ways to climb a chair. This is a fact. The terrible characterization you speak of is well-founded in observable reality. That is a fact as well.
This is horrible, but in England and America, I'm 100% certain that similar policies will be applied - in the name of law, and public security.
I agree with you, but thought you might find this drag race funny. The Chrysler Pacifica minivan does 0-60 in 8 seconds:
https://www.cars.com/articles/drag-strip-challenge-chrysler-...
DuoCopter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
A former coworker from China said a lot of real estate (particularly civil construction) happens when a new mayor or other leader gets appointed. New construction is a great source of graft - I will order the new construction if you give me 10% (or whatever the rate is). So things get built over and over again, or built and abandoned.
What is the difference between Newton's Method and Gradient Descent?

Edit: Found an answer: https://www.quora.com/In-optimization-why-is-Newtons-method-...
How many of Apple's devices are manufactured in China? The Chinese Government could completely cripple Apple in a second. It really isn't Apple that has the leverage.

Censorship is fundamental to Chinese government policy. It's totally non-negotiable. You either do as they say, or you don't operate in China. No negotiation, no compromise. Given the manufacturing situation China has Apple by the short and curlies, and Cooke knows it.
There is no such thing "the role of a corporate". A company is what you do with it.
I believe he has much more insight than most AI researchers/engineers. What's going on in AI right know looks exactly like what happened in the 1960s, sucking all the resources into something (i.e Deep Learning) without looking at the big picture, without looking at epistemological questions, and not training new grads on solid AI foundations anymore like probability theory and logic. Not asking the right questions in terms of expressivity of models, sensitivity analysis, robustness and manifold learning. The next AI winter is coming.
You can worry as much as you want. And I'm free not to worry as much as you want.
I had been doing the hosting with 3rd party providers but I realised that I could actually do it better myself if I built a multi tenant platform. For the support, I was doing a lot of the support anyway so I realised I might as well do it in my own platform.

For these reasons, I've deployed my app on a Vultr server, have a couple of clients on it for my beta and so far so good.

I'm still working on the billing system for my clients so that when they renew their hosting the next time round it will be on my platform.

A couple of things I didn't want to touch include domain selling and email hosting. My platform has turn key ecommerce tools that are good enough for customers to want to pay for. Domains are still done by a 3rd party (but they're mostly cheap) and as for email, I would rather provide integration with Zoho or google apps. I don't like the headache of email deliverability; it's not worth the effort at this stage in my startup - heck, even Shopify don't touch it.

Once I'm done with billing, my next big problem to solve is logistics. I need to find a way to help my merchants ship to their customers easily as it is still a very big problem for them. It will mean partnering with a myriad of logistics providers and creating an ecosystem for just this.
These kind of overly broad patents which should have never been granted in the first place are really thing biggest thing killing innovation in the USA.

Nothing like giving a few years of your life to a project and having it shut down over a bad patent.

On the other hand it was nice to see them using a number of innovations I created in 2005 but didn't patent.
Can anyone enlighten me on P&G cost cutting and board activity?

I've read they are "hurting" wondering if this is just cost cutting and not a deep analysis of ad/$ performance.
Is there any reported upside to storing that information in the blockchain instead of a stupid old database - except for guaranteeing funding for that project due to the hype?

I mean really - Blockchain is the new MongoDB... I haven't seen any real world problem I've seen them solve (well, better than any existing tehnology at least) that wasn't cryptocurrencies.
I feel there's a huge lack of electric/hybrid vehicles in the truck/pickup space, although for understandable reason.
However I've heard of a company that's working on a fleet version of an eletric pickup truck and I think they're now looking for client interest.[0]

The caveat is that it's not fully electric. 80 mile all-electric and then the generator kicks in, giving it 310 miles per tank. However pretty good gas mileage and safety was definitely a concern.

[0]: http://workhorse.com/
> Usually you see SysAdmins ... but still maintain their code.

Very well stated. I work in health care as a sys admin. In our environment, stability and reliability are paramount.
No surprise here. What DevOps actually means is still one of the best kept secrets these days.

You will probably not find a single article or github repository shedding a light on how to implement it.

To make it worse, even the ones provided by "official" resources such as companies providing DevOps tools are never actually working.

So DevOps either means: figure it out yourself, stumble over all of the issues, or sign a contract to hire someone to do it for you.
OK, there's no reason for YOU to write code in assembly.
Tech companies must play a long political game and spend their vast fortunes to lobby, to own media and influence policy and control the message.

Once they do this the will no longer be in conflict with governments and their policy.

Take note in coming years as the tech barons buy up media to control the message.

They will of course do this and then the real problem will not be uppity governments but mega tech corporations who semi covertly run the world.
A misconception about China is rule-of–law.
Nitpick: Moving your eyes to look at a speedometer is a conscious muscle movement, not a saccade. Saccades are involuntary, automatic and not consciously felt; they're the sensory system's way of automatically building up the visual "scene" in your brain from multiple images even though you feel like your gaze is fixed on a single point. You can't focus on the road and read the speedometer from your peripheral vision.
Just a note that the lock you found may have not been abandoned.

Many bike posts in my university's undercover bike shed often had several locks without a bike in sight. It turned out many people leaving bike locks on posts they often use (it doesn't take up much space or prevent someone from using the post).

It saves those cyclists the hassle of carrying the the lock with them (only the key), which is particularly an issue with those very heavy bike U-locks and D-locks.
Yeah. Code is the product.

It's like saying, "we don't sell ingredients, we sell meals".
I don't think Apple is going to die if they don't sell in China.
Can you describe what you mean by "he doesn't understand"?
His background is in psychology and neuro science so his view on intelligence is probably quite different than person coming from computer science.

For me he puts words onto something I've felt recently, that what we're doing is cool and all, but just doesn't feel like the right way to approach it. We're just putting loads of data and computing power into something that produces results that looks intelligent, but digging deeper bares no resemblence to what a neuro scientist would call intelligent..
Just wait for the new and shiny model using AI+cameras+cloud to recognize dirty spots on the floor, go cleaning them,then report back to the owners phone that either the job is done or they need a wiper replacement, or Billy's giant teddy bear is in the way and it can't complete the task.

Adding malicious code to such a platform will be just too simple. ...And tempting.
Worse: I eat a lot of animals.

Better: I'm creating a better language for humans.
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Yes, and i'm not cheap. I have 2 HA clusters with 2 different providers, with sync and failover between the 2 sites. I also have DO as an emergency fallback / overflow. I manage and maintain everything for our clients. My cost is about $500 per month for 6 machines in total, 16CPU/64GB RAM/25TB SDD per machine.

My minimum monthly charge for hosting a site is $150 for a simple site, $300 for something more complex, and most of my clients are at $500. This includes 1/2/3 hours support/site changes respectively, and dealing with security, patching, speed, uptime etc.

If you can build something like above and keep it running, it is a nice money-maker.
EU actually has a ban in place about drugs exports to make sure they won't be used for lethal injections because death penalty is illegal in EU and illegal or suspended everywhere else in Europe except in Belarus.

Of course EU is satan for banning Nazism online too and should be overthrown by USA companies, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14679276
> SLA for fixes

Very curious how you price this...per fix or standard monthly fee? If it's a fee, how do you deal with absurd feature requests whose development costs far outstrip what you've quoted?
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Correct. We're likely talking econometric/MMM modeling which likely tells them at the channel level what is or is not working, but they may not have enough data for that at the campaign level or lower.
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I wrote this post (first) on Gradient Descent that will be helpful if you liked the OP.

http://thelaziestprogrammer.com/sharrington/math-of-machine-...

This looks at the algorithm the same way that the OP does (mathematically, visually, programmatically), only it applies it to a simpler Linear Regression model.