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From a post in /r/cpp [1], > As of C++20, the right way to write a trivial getter in C++ looks like `[[nodiscard]] constexpr auto GetFoo() const noexcept -> Foo { return foo_; }` C++>11 is such a mess than most useful cha
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Why is a launcher even needed? Isn't it better to provide downloads and payments from their website rather than paying 25% of transactions to Valve?
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Ehh... I started reading the Dune novels after loving the movies, and they have honestly have been disappointing. Some parts of the first book dealing with environmentalism are great, but the rest is kinda meh. My main problem is that the D
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My main use case for KeePassXC and KeePass2Android is security against obsolescence. I don't trust LastPass or 1Password to keep working in 2032 or 2042, but I'm certain some version of my personal .kbdx file will still exist and
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The problem is that old discussions become effectively invisible. If I reply to a post or comment that's over several days old there's almost no chance the author will ever see it.
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I think there's a huge difference between creating an AI that generates copypastas and creating a general AI that can learn the concept of copypasta without being taught directly by a human.
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He's probably wrong, but it doesn't matter. A deep NN can simulate any function. One that's big enough can generalise input data in any way, including in the same ways the hims mind works. The universe of possible knowledge o
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No matter how hard I try, I cannot convince myself that this was written by an AI and not by a person. Text models have improved an incredible amount in the last 5 years. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if we pass the Turing Test
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Most goods didn't go up in price in the years before the pandemic despite consistent ~2.5% inflation. Companies try to raise prices as little as possible, which means accounting for inflation in previous and following years.
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I used the Dex Mode of my S21 as my main driver in the month when I was laptopless between jobs, and it was _so close_ to perfection. If Samsung fixes anti-aliasing and let you customise a few more things it could very easily replace a comp
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It's descriptivism vs prescriptivism. Prescriptivist "data" is plural because it comes from the cartographical term "datum". Descriptivists say it's singular because nobody in the 400 years has used the term in
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What a weird bot.
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I think it's a generational thing: in the last 10 years we all became old and grumpy. For all I know, there's might be a perfect HN replacement on TikTok which is incomprehensible enough that Zoomers get to participate.
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I miss the times TED talks were cool, back when Internet sites like HN were good to find the best ones on a lot of random topics. Now that a thread about them is full of people linking the ones they _did not_ like, which is the opposite of
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I thought I was sick of remote work until I tried going back to the office. Here's what I had forgotten: 1. Foul air in unnecessary air-tight buildings without a single open window. 2. Time wasted in making people believe you are worki
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I see a lot of blame to the Olympics format here, but I think it's the broadcast model making it harder to adapt to modern times. The Olympics have a lot of 1-minute clips that would be perfect for TikTok or a short YouTube video, but
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The last 7 Olympics were in China, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, Russia, Britain, and Canada. 5/7 are democracies, which is a much higher ratio than there are in the world. I think this is first worlders thinking "democracy = the We
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(I didn't read the article; the page seems to be down). A lot of these cases end up with the manager not necessarily having a lot of blame since they might not have full information on what's happening. They might also be in a sim
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Can anyone explain like I'm a C programmer what's this thing with owners and collects in React?
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All social networks with voting systems are optimised to maximise engagement and promote outrage. Just look at how every single country subreddit is a constant flamewar. HN _mostly_ prevents this by having strong and good moderation, but th
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If Amazon has been a bad place to work for SWEs for the last many years, why would it be imploding now?
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Always remember that everything you see on the internet is false. Unless it comes from anywhere outside the internet, "some company is imploding guys believe me I totally work there" is always a lie and will appear in your feed be
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The UK is an unitary state with 3 autonomous areas that have different devolved levels of self-governance, similar to Italy or (in theory) China. The difficult part comes from calling these autonomous areas "countries".
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Just curious: Isn't this exactly what most supermarkets do? Do merchants decide the price at which their product appear in stores?
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> housing prices are driven by the average income They are driven by the average income of the wealthiest $number_of_homes renters. If there are not enough homes in a single city then a lot of people will pay very significant part of th
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AGI seems hard because each year more and more problems that were previously considered close to AGI are solved. Playing Chess at a grandmaster level was considered something only a human could do until the 1990s, and now no human has beat
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What if an ant is trying to go up a steep mound in a spiral?
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I agree with you on Workplace, and I had an equally good time using Github than Phabricator. Still, current Workplace is very slow and its amount of whitespace-to-information grew a lot on the last years. Most other tools are just unambiguo
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> I do miss a bunch of Facebook internal tools. Phabricator, Workplace, Scuba, Deltoid and a bunch of others. I had the opposite experience leaving Facebook for a company that uses externally-available tools. I do miss 2017 Scuba, Workpl
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I wish! At least I enjoy studying for them.

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