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I am not really seeing how the first chart can be construed as AI disrupting the junior job market... The 22-25 red line had plateaued before the release of ChatGPT and was already…

> Thusly, what happens in code that accesses the string after the move is UB. No, it is implementation-defined behaviour. > In the implementation of C++ the article uses the string…

> So apparently, move does not prevent generation of a copy, but the empty string instead of expected text “Dave” is very interesting. Apparently, after termination of show after t…

As if typical HN comments were any better than typical reddit comments...

> Most FSD buyers seem aware they’re paying into a research effort. Shades of Star Citizen right there.

"Hacker" news, ladies and gentlemen.

It's eerily reminiscent of the x86 bashing that was going on in the early 2000s, only that in those days PPC was seen as the superior (new, baggage-free) ISA by Apple fanboys. Then…

My initial comment was correcting a factually inaccurate statement regarding CPU performance. It is you who barged into the thread with unrelated GPU performance numbers, but whate…

Those are Tensor flops, the numbers for the Zen CPU are "general-purpose" flops (sometimes called "vector flops" in marketing material). The vector flops for the 3090Ti are 33 TFlo…

Go and measure it yourself, if you have one :) https://github.com/Mysticial/Flops/ You can also get a theoretical computation of the Flops, which matches nicely with the experiment…

Eh? My 5950x (measured) flops are ~2 TFLOPS in single-precision, ~1TFLOPS in double precision (obviously, due to half the SIMD vector size). This is a desktop-class 16-core machine…

> Does anyone honestly think politicians in a specific part of the world are not corrupt? Just because American democracy is failing, it does not mean democracy is failing everywhe…

Another new lambda feature in C++20 is default constructability. I am surprised this is not mentioned in the article.

> If that's your main example, you are in for a ride. Since asutton branch is over 15 years old almost at this point, and it was by design that no work should happen in LLVM until …

> On top of that, many technology companies have built their whole platforms on top of LLVM. That is irrelevant, as most of those companies are keeping their modifications to LLVM …

No. GCC existed and thrived long before companies started putting money into it. It would clearly suffer if, e.g., Red-Hat withdrew its support, but not nearly as LLVM would in the…

The fact that you think that climate change is a "political" topic speaks volume about the success of the right wing propaganda machine.

> Korolev and his team made rapid advances. But even with the full weight of the Soviet economy behind them, they struggled to catch up. The main reason for this was organisational…

As a scientist myself, I strongly disagree. If you spend a non-negligible amount of your time telling a computer what to do, you are, indeed, a programmer. And as such you should b…

Hello, I have recently released version 0.3.0 of heyoka, a C++17 library for the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) using Taylor's method. The library …

> WW1 was a total war. Fascism was a response to total war which conscripted every civilian into the military. WWI was a contributing factor to the rise of fascism, which is a comp…

The Italian deaths in WW1 were overwhelmingly soldier deaths, as the fighting on Italian soil was limited to north-east border of the country (where incidentally I am from). The ci…

> Fascism was a direct result of, and contingent upon, the mass death and poverty caused by WWI. That is grossly wrong. There was no "mass death and poverty" in Italy during or aft…

> So you're saying if the code was higher quality it would have fewer bugs? I mean, well, yeah. That's not what I am saying, at all. You cannot do RAII in C. My point was that I be…