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New comment by maartenscholl in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

maartenscholl — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:00:48 +0000

Reminds me of US Pinball laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball#Relation_to_gambling

New comment by maartenscholl in "How well do you know C++ auto type deduction?"

maartenscholl — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:30:18 +0000

What is going on with the second element in the final example?

    std::pair x {1, 2.0};
    auto [v, w] = x;

Why is the second element a float according to the blog post?

    std::tuple_element<0, std::pair >::type&

New comment by maartenscholl in "Fluid Glass"

maartenscholl — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 05:59:43 +0000

The meandering movement of the droplets around the sides remind me of the Gray-Scott reaction–diffusion system

How Much Math Is Knowable? (Scott Aaronson Santa Fe Institute Talk) [video]

maartenscholl — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:35:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQC7AIT91_g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45205018

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Whom Do We Trust? How AI Is (Re)Shaping Our Interactions Today (Gillian Tett) [video]

maartenscholl — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:59:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVXnBLh9tWY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44655845

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by maartenscholl in "Advertising without signal: The rise of the grifter equilibrium"

maartenscholl — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 06:19:37 +0000

This has little to do with equilibrium analysis, it is just the market for lemons story but for the ad space. You need to investigate the buyers and what they believe about brand quality.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement"

maartenscholl — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 05:47:47 +0000

Meta famously tracks people extensively even if they don't have an account there, through a technique called shadow profiles.

Billionaires Convince Themselves Chatbots Close to Making Scientific Discoveries

maartenscholl — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:19:37 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44576946

Points: 20

# Comments: 7

New comment by maartenscholl in "OpenAI for Countries"

maartenscholl — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:21:00 +0000

Democratic AI is non-negotiable

New comment by maartenscholl in "Migrating away from Rust"

maartenscholl — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:26:58 +0000

I experienced the same, I had to disable my adblocker to view it, it seems the content is inside a tag `

New comment by maartenscholl in "Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs: The Performance Impact [pdf]"

maartenscholl — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:18:27 +0000

I think in the example the parent gave `arr[3]` is past the end of the 3 element array, where `i` might reside, potentially changing its value.

New comment by maartenscholl in "The 2005 Sony Bravia ad"

maartenscholl — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:51:27 +0000

Not really, the lava lamp's fluid dynamics are very sensitive to initial conditions and the fluids behave chaotically, whereas the bouncy balls have highly predictable trajectories.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Rust inadequate for text compression codecs?"

maartenscholl — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:11:42 +0000

The author claims to be an expert in C++ but begins the article with a detour that incorrectly states that static and dynamic dispatch are necessarily orthogonal in C++. In reality you can do both within the same hierarchy using CRTP combined with a virtual base method. Compile-time inlining eliminates the overhead associated with the virtual call, so you can match Rusts flexibility with the same performance.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Amazon’s delivery drones are grounded in College Station, Texas"

maartenscholl — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:51:50 +0000

Businesses just rise to meet demands. Texas is the ideal place for the highly individualistic, neighbors an environmental issues be damned attitude. It's not like the cities there are designed so you can take a leisurely walk from your house to get some victuals.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Show HN: Cot: a Rust web framework for lazy developers"

maartenscholl — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:10:15 +0000

Then why shouldn't those people choose Ada, which also has Ada Web Application (AWA)?

New comment by maartenscholl in "Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died"

maartenscholl — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:10:12 +0000

This is sad news, I was aware of his work on Half Life 2 through art books, and I bought the first Dishonored game because of it

New comment by maartenscholl in "Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me"

maartenscholl — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:56:29 +0000

Meta AI asks permission to do this, but note that in some U.S. states personal publicity rights end upon death. Isn't it hilariously Wallacian that this technology can be used to make targeted ads featuring the viewers deceased loved ones?

New comment by maartenscholl in "Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours"

maartenscholl — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 11:16:21 +0000

I guess it is a century behind because Europe hasn't scrapped their commuter rail for roads. I took a train from Manhattan today and its theoretical max speed is 110 mile/h, so the US has fallen behind Europe by your logic.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours"

maartenscholl — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 11:11:44 +0000

Yes but the train from Manhattan to Newark is an additional hour and is terribly slow, taking almost as long as the subway to JFK. Going by car is as slow or slower if you get caught in traffic.

New comment by maartenscholl in "Parsing millions of URLs per Second (2023)"

maartenscholl — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:39:07 +0000

I had a lot of fun writing low latency parsers for various message standards C++. There are a lot of fun things you can do when you can take ownership of the read buffer and you can figure out how to parse in-situ (modifying the data in place as you move along)