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Bush knew what he was doing - Hamas has the influence it has because the US wants it to have it. When Trump decided he wants them to release Israeli hostages he forced them to do i…

Currently these models have a limited context window, so the value of a session is not that high, at any rate at some point the model will have forgotten things. If in the future t…

I'm able to see how it's safer than Rust but what I like is that it works with existing C++ code; I don't think the extra safety relative to Rust is worth the performance penalty (…

I think Fil-C is awesome and I very much like the style in which you present your work as well. (Hope I'm not being too emotional here!) FWIW, I can see where TFA is coming from an…

Too cheap, charge 3x more at least

Certainly puts "good" into perspective

The Ukraine of China is more like it

Flush denormals to zero. Even their inventor had trouble writing correct code in their presence - see the Appendix to that "what every programmer should know..." paper

Indeed you're supposed to, but that way if someone calls exit(0), it looks like the program worked fine, when in fact they committed some debug code and made the program no longer …

While we're at it, when did central banks start to buy lots of gold and under which POTUS? Could it have something to do with the freezing of hundreds of billions of some sovereign…

What produces this Iranian "mercy" at a time when Iran is extensively bombed, if not a combination of defensive and offensive capabilities providing escalation dominance?

The optimal age to have children is way before you need to rely on frozen eggs (one reason among many being that this process doesn't always work)

Coding is a solved problem. Problems with the code - these are far from solved, in fact they're multiplying, but coding is definitely solved

Seems like a case of snobbery on behalf of these people. These are nice images but not "high art" which I guess prompts some people to scoff at them

"Ironically, among the four stages, the compiler (translation to assembly) is the most approachable one for an AI to build. It is mostly about pattern matching and rule application…

Thank you very much for your work. I think people envious of someone's compensation don't deserve a response

"Also, it [Claude Code] flickers" - it does, doesn't it? Why?.. Did it vibe code itself so badly that this is hopeless to fix?..

The list of the oil producers listed and omitted on a given forum in these contexts is always interesting. On HN it is often SA or Russia, and almost never Qatar or Iran.

How dare you question the rigor of the venerable LLM peer review process! These are some of the most esteemed LLMs we are talking about here.

std::move is definitely for there for optimizing application code and is often used there. another silly thing you often see is people allocating something with a big sizeof on the…

TFA explains how std::move is tricky to use and this is not a feature reserved for library writers

You could say the same things about assemblers, compilers, garbage collection, higher level languages etc. In practice the effect has always been an increase in the height of a mou…

Rust HashSets are HashMaps with an empty type as the value type, but the compiler actually optimizes away the storage for the keys based on the type being empty. Go doesn't bother …

The Chinese are ahead at too many things at this point to think they're only good at copying