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by yccs27 4y ago
An idea about the student pass: The friction you mention is probably to provide verification, right? What if you removed that part entirely, and just trusted the user? There would certainly be customers lying about being a student, to use i
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Since everyone here seems to misunderstand how collusion works: Monitoring your competitor‘s prices to undercut them is the opposite of collusion - that‘s how competition is supposed to work, everyone trying to give the better price! It is
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by yccs27 4y ago
Thank you for the last sentence information. I definitely got that eerie "AI text" vibe, but as ChatGPT puts it, "it is not always possible to determine with certainty whether a piece of text was generated by [ChatGPT]".
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Does this have any relation to the search engine https://www.qwant.com ?
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How high the comment quality here usually is becomes really noticeable when it's lacking under a post. The most common offenders are political posts with outrage potential, especially while knee-jerk responses are flooding in and befor
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Rounding error https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33893153
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> You gotta love how a roughly %3 decrease in year-to-year revenue leads to a %97 decrease in the stock price and an increase in the net loss from ~$30 million to ~$300 million It's not that surprising. Revenue is worth nothing with
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Since this is turning into an anecdote collection: I was sceptical of the ribbon UI initially, to say the least, but it works pretty well for me.
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The law establishing public libraries doesn‘t just say "let there be public libraries". It designates a source for funding, making it a reason that taxpayers are less free. It forces publishers to sell/give books to the libra
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Thank you for clarifying! It's definitely relieving, after reading the post, to know that there is some limit for undefined behavior.
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The rules drastically limit the needed guessing with the "No random kickers" rule: The rank of each board card will alway be a part of at least one player's hand in at least one phase.
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Can someone with more knowledge chip in? If I define void bar(int* const p, int n) { for (int i=0; i<n; ++i) { int m = *p // other code (without UB) } } it might get optimized via loop-invariant cod
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My point, which I didn’t express well there, was about the call side: How do you call func(param1: A, param2: B) -> C with both parameters being secrets (secret1: Secret<A>, secret2: Secret<B>)? In Rust, it‘s f
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The secret (heh) is that any function defined on non-secret arguments can automatically be applied to secret arguments as well, and just returns a secret value now - without having to think about mapping/monads/whatever.
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It all gets more complicated when you want to pass more than one secret parameter, or the function already returns a Secret - now you need a monad. The key feature seems to be that the code does not need 'map' or anything, the sec
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Ah thanks, that's what I was missing. Such a mindboggling decision.
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I'm not really familiar with the US constitution, but doesn't the 1st Amendment only protect speech, petition and assembly? Is there some part I'm missing or did a court classify campaign donations as speech?
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That works? Wow, I need to try this.
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This would've been very convenient for lazy loading in a recent python project. I ended up making the husk turn into a transparent wrapper for the loaded object, unfortunately adding a layer of indirection to every subsequent call. Doe
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That‘s #list on the 15.
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+1 on the last paragraph: Predictability means the code follows a pattern, not that it is boilerplate. Some amount of predictable code is necessary just to spell out what the code does, so that even someone unfamiliar with the pattern can s
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Business insider has a link to the archived page at the end: https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005/https://www.sequo...
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But they did take down content from Twitter the App...?
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Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33449600
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Starting from quantum mechanics, the Lagrangian describes the phase change per unit of time. For most evolutions of a system, similar evolutions have very different phases and cancel out. But when the Lagrangian is stationary (derivative 0)
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How nucleons (neutrons and protons) are bound together is similar to a molecule. If they are close enough, they can 'share' their constituent quarks. You can calculate the interaction by a feynman diagram where the two nucleons ex
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This question seems to get an outrage-filled HN thread every week or so, which is probably why people think it's a gotcha. Latest post I can remember is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33202549
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OT: Looking at the Disqus comments below the article made me realize once more how great the discussion and moderation here really is. It's not perfect, but it's so much better than ~80% of the threads being political rants, ove
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I don't think the problems with German rail apply universally. The prevalence of low-speed tracks and frequency of delays comes from a period of missing reinvestment following the (semi-)privatization of Deutsche Bahn. Not every networ
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Was a bit confused that "Category n Hurricane" means exactly cat n, whereas "Magnitude m Earthquake" seems to mean at least magnitude m.

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