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Maybe investigate the background apps that are running on your laptop? By the way, I just opened a directory that I hadn't accessed in months. It contains 10945 log files, and Wind…

I am very curious about how chat messages are stored for a "billion-users" chat app (in SQL databases). Specifically, let's say a user is part of a hundred conversations. When thei…

It is surprisingly easy to use to obtain a type-safe data storage solution. And everything is Open Source : https://github.com/evoluhq/evolu Their future business model seems to be…

The analogy with Chess does not work: I can go on YouTube to watch how a pro player beats a specific boss, then use that to massively shorten how long I need to beat that boss. Wat…

I just tried with Bing AI (in "precise" mode), it ran a search, then answered: > There are many soccer players whose names contain a Z. Some of them include Zlatan Ibrahimović, Zin…

I would think that "lossless" implicit conversion are ok. Right? For example, implicit conversion from a 32bit signed integer into a 64bit signed integer.

Note that this answer is from "old Bing". It has nothing to do with the GPT-enhanced new Bing: https://oslo.town/@matt/109864320071232564 The main hints to spot new Bing are: The l…

I expect this deal to be a must for Microsoft. OpenAI is probably very happy to raise the stakes as much as possible. So we will see how many billions Microsoft ends up paying for …

In C#, you can write (pseudo-code): if (AVX2) { ... } else if (SSE) { ... } else ... Then, when you run the program, the JIT will pick the first supported option and eliminate the …

The most important "goalpost" is: Every major cross-platform AAA game gets released simultaneously on Windows, Xbox and PlayStation. When macOS gets added to the list in a consista…

Yes. And I see that its id is just before this one. So that's a solution to find its parent.

Indeed. I didn't think about this. I wonder how it managed to be N°2 in this Weekly Top 10 list for last week: https://github.com/headllines/hackernews-weekly/issues/137

I just experimented with the usernames in that video. Most of theme exist (except for "v2v3"). But a lot have barely any repos. There is even a "ferran" who doesn't have anything (…

This is based on a 2017 script that looks up if their domain names are attached to an Azure Active Directory Tenant.

Thank you for your detailed suggestions. I have a couple more months to make a decision, so I will continue to do some research. I see that you are also working on a desktop app an…

One idea that I have is to sell every major version (would be cool if I could give a discount to users of previous versions). Then, I could plan about 1 major version per year, whi…

I have been working on an desktop application for the past two years. I expect it to have limited appeal because it targets a niche of power users (I would be happy if I manage to …

Source: Their internal logbook (page 101) https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/blob/main/projects/OPT/chronicles/OPT175B_Logbook.pdf Here is the full list (if you don't want…

I think the writing was on the wall for a long time. Since it is only happening in 6 months, I wonder if the community will try to transition/fork it. Do you know if there is still…

Sadly, most publishers are not interested in developing their own proxy solution just for the sake of data privacy. They vastly prefer a ready-made solution that they can just use.…

Linode is a fairly underrated provider. Getting acquired will hopefully bring them more visibility. For Akamai, I wonder if this acquisition will have a negative impact on their ab…

To be clearer, Microsoft has a program allowing most governments to inspect the source code of Windows. This is not specific to one country.