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Re:Meta announces nuclear energy projects on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:07PM (#46578714)
Don't think so but after seeing electricity prices rise and even double in areas by giant data centers many areas are requiring them to provide their own power
For what ages?
I don't think saying any of that resulted in being banned because I saw it constantly.

Also you are still wrong about most of that. The vaccine is certainly safe and effective, masks definitely help, lockdowns definitely helped the overrun hospitals. Yes there were adverse effects in some of these policies unfortunately.

Re:Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase on Friday August 23, 2024 @02:36PM (#41331722)
Yea you can use it client side and sync to PowerSync or electricsql if you aren't using js on the backend

https://tinybase.org/guides/persistence/database-persistence...

Re:Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase on Friday August 23, 2024 @09:28AM (#41328828)
I use TinyBase for the client side store, it can sync with pretty much all the technologies people are talking about here

https://tinybase.org/

The video title is the title of the article they are reacting to and mostly not agreeing with
Re:Mamba Explained on Saturday March 30, 2024 @03:35PM (#39877883)
We're running out of the ability to make transistors smaller and closer together so beyond some major breakthrough I wouldnt expect Moore's law to continue nearly long enough to get to the point of running GPT4 on consumer hardware in the short term
Re:PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability on Thursday March 07, 2024 @10:59AM (#39630614)
When you are a product that people build businesses on top of and start by burning money to grow as fast as possible and then switch to caring about profitability with a months notice to your customers that's a shitty thing to do.
Re:PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability on Thursday March 07, 2024 @10:02AM (#39629921)
For those looking for alternatives check out https://neon.tech/, https://turso.tech/ and https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/.
Re:PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability on Thursday March 07, 2024 @10:01AM (#39629904)
Yea this seems like a gift for https://neon.tech/, https://turso.tech/ and https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/.

Planetscale is definitely popular and they get a lot of free advertisement from tech influencers (may change without the free tier) but most people I know in enterprise haven't heard of it.

Re:ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood on Saturday March 02, 2024 @08:54PM (#39577689)
Double checking I think I'm wrong. I may have been thinking of some specific crime. But Milwaukee is specifically bad due to historical segregation issues. Anyway drug and addiction issues have hit rural issues really bad
Re:ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood on Saturday March 02, 2024 @08:12PM (#39577434)
Big cities are pretty safe. For instance you more likely to be a victim of a crime in rural northern Wisconsin, like Barron County, than you are in Milwaukee.

Don't let your narrative be shaped by stats that aren't proportional.

Well Elon was forced to buy Twitter that way
Turns out it less necessarily when you don't have to worry about opening the door to an AR-15 or worse.
Re:Show HN: How we got fine-tuning Mistral-7B to not suck on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @11:26PM (#39298126)
Actually missed this was covered in the post, thanks
Re:Show HN: How we got fine-tuning Mistral-7B to not suck on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @11:25PM (#39298122)
Actually missed this is answered in the article!
Re:Show HN: How we got fine-tuning Mistral-7B to not suck on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @11:12PM (#39298020)
What is the advantage over using Retrieval Augmented Generation ?
Google is the one pushing them. Apple has the incentive to keep people on the device though because they don't have an advertising business

https://fugu-tracker.web.app/

That's precisely what gets them in trouble though. Every bank, credit card, giant corporation has an app and has to pay Apple nothing but indie game developers subsidize them
Re:Emacs Commands I Got by with for Years on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:36AM (#38866800)
Just try it. Your favorite editor almost certainly has a vim motions plugin, try it for a week and see if you go back.
Re:It's "shakeout" time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5B on Friday December 29, 2023 @08:39AM (#38804742)
Disney really shouldn't even be included in the first sentence of this article, according to itself they have 8 million subscribers and are expecting to be profitable next year.
Re:Epic Games wins Google Play Store Antitrust Suit on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:05PM (#38608839)
The consumer harm rule of antitrust isn't actually part of the law just how it's been interpreted for a while, but I do agree that's how a conservative court will likely rule.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1197954487/antitrust-double-f...

Re:You don't need JavaScript for that on Saturday December 02, 2023 @09:30PM (#38504245)
Forms aren't even a react feature. They are part of some meta frameworks and there are hundreds of packages you can pick from... Doesn't sound like it was solved to me
Do you have any examples of this?
Yea the point is the people losing the 8B are not the people saving the 1 trillion, or getting most of the Covid relief
Re:Ship Shape on Monday November 13, 2023 @08:59AM (#38250163)
After being called out lol
Re:A lot of the magic of ChatGPT is nothing to do with AI on Sunday November 12, 2023 @11:17PM (#38246851)
"it feels like we definitely had the technology to do this a LONG time ago!*

What...

Re:Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @10:09AM (#38191438)
Why should I take your word, or anyone else's word, over the person themselves.

For example, go try to change Laverne Cox's Wikipedia to male you will have the same issue.

Why limit it to trans people, go change J.K Rowling to Male because I think she is male, if I get enough Wikipedia editors on board we should be able to do that right?

Also in all of these cases the gender of the person is one of the least interesting and important things about them to me as someone who doesn't know them, so why would I care to tell them what gender they are. Why would anyone else?

Re:Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:29AM (#38190744)
That site seems to have a captcha issue.

Wikipedia editors shouldn't have more say in someone's gender than the person themselves. I guess that seems obvious to me.

And yea being inclusive of trans people and accepting current theories of psychological and medical treatment is a Western bias.

But I don't think any other angle would make sense, people are the gender they say they are seems to be a very simple policy.

Other discrimination against women seems to be a separate issue that should be addressed

Re:Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:04AM (#38190427)
Would you like Wikipedia to claim something that is objectively false like your doctor or parents or "society" tell you what gender you are and your thoughts on it don't matter?

Maybe if you give an example of what issue you have seen?

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