skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is ironic since I actually live in Finland, and know exactly how wrong your comment is.

1. Finnish nurses need to learn to speak Norwegian to work there (nursing is not tech, you can't get by speaking english with your 75 year old patients).

2. Finnish and Norwegian are not at all related linguistically. Also, english fluency in the Nordics (and Europe in general) is grossly overstated by Americans whos only experience of Europe was spending a few months in a capital city with international students doing an exchange at Uni. English fluency declines dramatically among the general population each kilometer you move outside the capital and away from workers at international companies (same can be said for fluency decline by old age).

3. Nurses make only marginally more in Norway than they do in Finland, and when adjusting for cost of living (which is higher in Norway), depending on where you live you could make less. Best case you're looking at an extra 15,000 euro per year (with high taxes on that extra amount). Not an extra 300,000 per year with dramatically lower taxes like a talented engineer moving to the US would get. One is an actual opportunity to build financial independence. The other is a few bucks to piss away on a slightly nicer holiday.

4. Nurses in Finland are predominantly female (92%), and females are less likely than males to move countries for a job (not by a ton, but relevant for this analysis).

Even considering (4), I can assure you with 100% certainty, that if there were no language barrier and a nurse in Norway could make 350,000 euros per year you would see Finnish nurses making the move en masse. Finnish women are not stupid.
One of apple’s biggest missed with “AI” in my opinion, is not building a universal search.

For all the hype LLM generation gets, I think the rise of LLM-backed “semantic” embedding search does not get enough attention. It’s used in RAG (which inherits the hallucinatory problems), but seems underutilized elsewhere.

The worst (and coincidentally/paradoxically I use the most) searches I’ve seen is Gmail and Dropbox, both of which cannot find emails or files that I know exist, even if using the exact email subject and file name keywords.

Apple could arguably solve this with a universal search SDK, and I’d value this far more than yet-another-summarize-this-paragraph tool.
Why they have to make guesses at this and not actually know the reason? Based on my experience with ER visits there's a form specifically for things removed from a child's nose: 1. raisin, 2. battery, 3. coin, 4. army man, 5. intelligence-enhancing crayon(s) 6. other
TBH it's still possible to use a macbook air as basically a fancy unix-like workstation that has great battery life, and not buy into any of the apple ecosystem. No icloud account, no icloud backup, no iphone, no use of itunes or appletv, no apple synchronization of anything. The day that stops being viable is the day I stop buying them.

The extent of my 'cloud' involvement with apple is the operating system software update mechanism and having an account to download Xcode, so that I can install compiler + macports on a new machine.
Not for everyone.

Some were tired of the media ignoring stories like the Biden laptop story.

Others wanted more details on Hunters $500k no show Ukrainian job. Or disliked that Trump was tried on novel charges.

Personally, I think the way Hollywood has been weaponized is worth overthrowing. That’s a giant propaganda machine.

Institutions like NPR, which had 87 directors that are Democrats and no Republicans. Doesn’t seem right, does it?

So not everybody is alarmed. It’s only dark if you’re on one side of the political spectrum.
If you were able to keep your housekeeping out of my way I wouldn’t have been looking at metrics in the first place.

The “bug” here is system activity I’m not deliberately invoking.
Would you prefer the phrasing "US scientific and public health infrastructure has been subjected to capricious changes that will effect almost all aspects of research and health care for a decade or more"?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00954-y

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-plan-overhauli...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00780-2

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/report-us-scientists-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/28/trump-adm...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/trump-ame...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00525-1
Most are not keen due to anti money laundering.
Overactive imagination. Lack of evidence is not evidence. Many people buy new devices on trips so not even out of the ordinary.
I hate him because he's a Nazi, because of the Nazi salute.
search in outlook is abysmal and it is part of microsoft’s core business… :)
How did you compile this list? Asking some LLM service?

From the first link:

> It is important to note that there were insufficient data to determine if the low fluoride level of 0.7 mg/L currently recommended for U.S. community water supplies has a negative effect on children’s IQ

It doesn't seem in favor of this?
like +-50% or more? That's a very wide region.
Ok this is a little frustrating for me. Not because there aren't bad actors (there are, and LOTS of them, basically anything ad-supported.)

But we're in a capitalist system, right? We want companies to compete on features that have value to users. And privacy is definitely a thing of value.

And god help me, I never wanted to be an Apple apologist, they're a giant capitalist organization. But they're also the ONLY one that is attempting to compete on the basis of privacy.

And so they have e2e encryption on iMessages, most of iCloud, are the only people doing meaningful things with homomorphic encryption and AI, etc. They recently, very publicly, turned off these features in the UK due to recent legislation.

But if I look at what they're doing, and the audits they're admitting, and the political hits they're taking, and if I dismiss all that I'm supposed to be "candidly naive"?

Do you want us to choose our platforms on the basis of privacy, or not?

And I'm not just "trusting" Apple, I'm looking at their financial incentives. Which are focused around selling extremely overpriced, decent quality hardware. Not ad targeting. For me to believe that Apple is wantonly and deliberately harvesting my data would require that I believe they have an entire secondary advertising business that has remained completely under the radar.

Again, fuck you for making me defend Apple. They have so many issues. But also if we just go pure nihilist and don't even allow companies to compete on the basis of proper security, what's left, unless we go offline entirely?
> ChatGPT alone has hundreds of millions of active users that are clearly getting value from it

Idk about that, wouldn't pay for it.
One cent beer? Sign me up!
In principle a good editing tool could use Git for the edit operations (mere kilobytes!) and use multi-resolution video that can be streamed and cached locally on demand.
> All of this is a strawman. I said nothing about the other side of the aisle, and they get no excuses either. But whataboutism is not a valid argument nor an excuse for this current administration's behavior.

If your position is that Trump is doing something crazy then you absolutely need to show how what he's doing is different from baseline. And if you're suggesting people should have voted against him, which tends to be implicit in conversations about the president, then the alternative they would be voting for is absolutely relevant.
Hans Niemann almost certainly did cheat against Carlsen. Everyone who knows about chess found that game hugely suspicious (see Hikaru's comments on it).

The idea that Carlsen can't stand losing is a theory from people who don't know about chess. His lose rate is about 15%. All GMs lose games all the time. It's keeping the win rate as high as possible that makes them the best.

The notion that any GM would get so upset simply about losing a single game is just nonsense.
What actions would you expect to come out of problematic measurements like a "Culture Biome"?
A dedicated bin in front of my house for it? No.

I’m not really going to make a special trip to some place to recycle tiny little batteries - and most recycling is a scam anyway that either gets dumped in the regular rubbish or else gets shipped to a third world country.

For things that can be legitimately recycled I make sure to reuse them… cardboard is one thing that is legitimately recycled here with special places to drop it off that is worth the special trip.

For plastic trash, it isn’t recyclable and is one of the most irritating aspects of buying anything new: a mountain of unusable plastic. The same goes for takeout food.
The very fact that Apple thought they were going to run AI on iPhones says that leadership doesn't understand AI technology and simply mandated requirements to engineers without wanting to be bothered by details. In other words, Apple seems to be badly managed
It’s a signpost in a discussion about weather vanes.
I recently found out that this is not a thing everyone does. This is essentially how I survived my studies, I was never able to concentrate at home except under intense stress. Quiet uni libraries were my safe space to get work done.
I’m in a solidly red state. Nobody is asking for that.

What they want is mostly fair representation in media, entertainment, and politics. Look no further than Saturday Night Live to understand how conservatives are misrepresented and liberals are given a free pass. Fix that and people will generally be more satisfied.
I don't know if the Vision Pro counts as a stumble. If they were planning to make a mass-market product, they wouldn't have priced it so high. Apple doesn't reveal sales targets, but I bet they sold about as many Vision Pros as they expected to.
It was a mistake to call LLMs "AI". Now people expect it to be generic.
What about capital appreciation? Business losses?

I presume there are guidelines that get complicated? Like Halakha or Sharia?
My point is that allowing an A to implicitly convert to a pointer to A when calling a function that takes a pointer to A is reasonable, whereas always allowing that implicit conversion anywhere in your program is rather less so. The same applies to integer conversion; there are contexts in which it should maybe happen implicitly, but not everywhere.
It kind of does if the transfer is not between regulated entities. If you transfer crypto from one private wallet to another who is going to know you as a client?
How is ICE monitoring social media? Are these students posting publicly using their real names, or are social media companies providing the identity of users ? If so, Is this being done under subpoena, or are they just handing over data?
It’s also true that the Democratic Party is at record levels of unpopularity. Only 7% are very happy with the party.
Your car is presumably not unique. Both the model and well... it probably does more or less exactly the same as any other car. If you had an entirely unique one of a kind antique car it would be pretty different.

Estimating "true market value" of companies whose valuation is almost entirely based on their potential long-term growth isn't particularly straightforward until you find a buyer willing to buy a significant or it does an IPO.
It's a moral race to the bottom when the salary's good and competition is fierce. It's great that Google pushed back against Project Maven, but nothing stopped the other 21+ companies from participating.
Fluoride stays in your body, should be some way to measure it?
Do you have a write up on how you get this to work with Apple TV? What you have I consider the dream setup.
Arguably the most minimalistic new tab page is a blank one ;)

It does look quite clean for what it is. Cool work!
I actually believe the practical use of transformers, diffusers etc is already as impactful as the wide adoption of the internet. Or smartphones or cars. Its already used by hundreds of millions and it became an irreplaceable tool to enhance work output. And it just started. In 5 years from now it will dominate every single part of our lifes.
Slavery was always widespread; it was Westerners who saw the moral inconsistency between their self-image and owning slaves, and then fought wars with one another and others to end it globally.

The journey from serfdom to modern human rights was a long one, but it had a clear upward trend.
Not about “shoulds.”

Five eyes, Russia, China, etc are happy you’re comfortable.
And how could that possibly be enforced?
>The state has been able to prove precisely zero crimes in a court of law thus far.

Wow, in your country does the entire criminal justice process take place in the course of the same day of the arrest? Interesting. Care to share details?
Forgive me if I'm wrong about this, still trying to get my head around ECS concepts, but isn't the whole point that data and behaviours are uncoupled? Whereas Unity's Game Objects both hold data and are composed of behaviours (rather than being data-only objects that are operated on from with-out by systems)?
100% agreed. This is just someone self-reporting on their own recently discovered naivete, but projecting it into others.
What are some of the most impactful/eye-opening lessons you learned from biome?
liveportrait or faster-liveportrait are the libraries probably.
My jump to conclusions mat says "The author doesn't understand tech!"

I worked on on-device speech at Google, both frontend and backend. Unless there was a secret cabal mirror team that did all the evil stuff and made us think we were writing the code that was shipping, it doesn't come close to describing how things actually were worked through internally.

Most trivially, and narrowly, Most Evil Amazon would be just as happy with a transcript of what you said that was recognized locally. There's 0 reason they need the audio. I'd also hazard a guess they're not streaming audio to the server, no one would create a hotword detector that would rely on that, due to the latency and bandwidth demand alone.
It taught me that some managers feel that they're absolutely 99% right when they feel like firing someone. Managers are so good and firing is so hard that managers only feel this way when it's 99% justified.
As an aside, holy smoke the comments on that article are terrifying. So much hate, pointed in every direction.
Upvoted for the optional plurality of "intelligence-enhancing crayon(s)"
"mentions" and "seems satisfied" may not be sufficient sources of data, as (a) is easy to believe, (b) is much, much harder to believe.
ICE ≠ CBP. Importation of forbidden materials is handled by CBP, not ICE.
And.. looks like there was an update on the valuation from Bloomberg:
Aggregate over 100B, but less than 113B due to some mingled ownership.

https://archive.is/esoEN
Not in that particular locality, the only alternative was cellular with a cradlepoint at 10x spend for 1/2 the bandwidth, and connectivity issues in bad weather.

It was buried in the fine print related to IPv4 exhaustion.

The CFO I was working with was as flabbergasted as I after we'd found out, but I've seen it a few times now, even when there is another option because of a duopoly in an area.
Basically every editor decided it would be cool to be as slow as Emacs (said with love, as an Emacs user), and so now all the clever stuff is done in potentially several out of proc web servers, each of which uses gigabytes of RAM.
Is it just me or does this seem like a bad design where a TCP port is exposed to share information?
We should not pretend there might be anything normal about her treatment, which now includes 6 weeks of imprisonment so far:

From the article:
"The usual consequence of such a customs violation is forfeiture of the identified item, a fine of up to $500 or both"

"the officers had 'no legal basis' for revoking her J1 visa over this violation."
AI might be disappointing, but Apple Intelligence is definitely a stumble. I've been playing with Gemini and it works shockingly well. I fully expect Apple to catch up, but it will take a while for them to recover from the reputational damage.
Yes and no.

Siri didn’t need to suck all these years. Even before the LLM craze.
What in the grisly fuck is going on in that comments section?

> Thats the way to deal with iron fist for terrorist sympathizer. 99 percent of those non muslims dont even k now the facts that Muslim world and other empires in hostory have persecuted and oppressed Jews. Muslims have their encraochment agenda as usual. Give back hostages and Dont get bombed. Simple. [107 thumbs up, 8 down.]

___

> ... India should follow similar strict rules for jihadists from Bangladesh and also offer free one way tickets to Gaza to other sharia lovers! [153 thumbs up, 11 down].

... Please tell me this is just bots or something.
Maybe get the same problem as recruitment agents.

In theory an agent should want to match you to a good job. In practice it's a minefield.
And it's yet another terrible DSL that you must learn when it could have been a language everybody already knows, like Python. The query part isn't even that well done, compared to XPath/JSONPath.

I said goodbye to it a few weeks ago, personally (https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/03/a-common-li... https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/03/speeding-up...)
I hate it so much. Every time I read it, all I can think is "that's a typo."
well, I think the expectations from Apple's product on a much higher level, which makes the situation with search even more embarrassing.
It's not proof. And that's not what worldlines are. It's a story trope that that is how time travel consistency works, where "observable details" are things that the character or audience could notice, instead of being almost everything that's not microscopic.
> she apparently broke an explicit regulation

What I read was that it was a paperwork oversight — it wasn't that she wasn't allowed to bring the materials into the country, it was that she didn't check some kind of box on a form.
What do you mean? Lot of people pay, (me included) and are getting value. If you use it but don't pay, you still get value, otherwise you would be wasting your time. If you don't use it at all, that's your choice to make.
As long as you bind to localhost it's fine in theory. Though any network code still needs to be rigorously hardened.
> Rust is shaping up to be a major game programming language.

No it's not
I'm not Mormon, so I don't know for sure, but what I hear from people are or were Mormon, the enforcement is a combination of social pressure and the Church demanding you provide them with a copy of your taxes to remain a member. I assume it's pretty loose from there.
Guys c'mon... The desk is set dressed. Nothing in the photos makes any sense. Last of all, Geoffrey Richman isn't doing editing work in Ben Stiller's apartment.

> Geoffrey Richman reviews season two finale footage. In his at-home edit bay (not pictured), he works on iMac, which remotes into a separate Mac mini that runs Avid from a post-production facility in Manhattan’s West Village.

Yeah. That would be a horrible experience.
> Across the board budget cuts say nothing about supporting the scientific method.

Semantic nihilism. It’s a basic fact of political science that governments enact policies in order to achieve outcomes. Or if you prefer cybernetics, there’s always Stafford Beer: “The purpose of a system is what is does.”
The term you might be looking for is voxel games.
Crossing unfriendly borders is not a normal occurrence and therefore modest precautions are warranted.
> buoyed by government contracts, subsidies, and borderline crony-capitalism

What you're describing is Lockheed, Boeing, Rockwell Collins, etc. SpaceX is the opposite--it provided NASA a service that was necessary for NASA to operate, at a fraction of the cost of competitors: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20200001093.

The fact that NASA makes interim payments on the contracts doesn't turn a purchase of services into a subsidy. "Free market" does not mean "off the shelf." It's extremely common in B2B settings for buyers to shoulder some up-front costs to develop products or services that aren't available in the market. For example, Apple made a large up-front payment to a supplier to speed up development of sapphire glass: https://www.cultofmac.com/apple-history/iphone-sapphire-glas....

Buyers take-on some risk when they do that, but that doesn't make it a subsidy. In Apple's case, they take on the risk in return for the bet that a supplier can provide them with huge volumes at a low price. In NASA's case, it took on some development risk because SpaceX promised a large reduction in launch costs.
What about the 1999 PlayStation 2 advertisement disguised as a futuristic 2078 commercial for the PlayStation 9 [1]? I always thought it was directed by David Lynch, but I don't see it in this video.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/u1siyw/plays...
Even so there were clear steps in the right direction.

Monarchs grew steadily more circumscribed from a de jure point of view. Eventually they became constitutional monarchs, then mere figureheads. Their de facto power also went from absolute steadily downward.

The same trend happened with Christianity: at one time the Pope was so powerful, he broke up the Holy Roman Empire. But there were many reformations, revolutions, Protestantism.

There's a clear trend of decentralization across the entire West, spanning a thousand years - because of individuals insisting on what we now call their inalienable human rights.
Any one have experience with this and inkplate EPDs?
Regardless of where they got the list (edit: which I do think is a fair question)...

> the first link [...] doesn't seem in favor of this?

To me that falls under "the best evidence [available] in favor of this." It's not great, but it's not nothing; it's certainly something in favor. After all.. I guess I don't know about you, but I feel like if someone told me dose X of something is toxic, I would not feel comfortable feeding myself and the entire country 50% of that dose, on that basis alone.
Major AI Clusters Now Sit Idle as China Apparently FOMO'd into the AI Bandwagon
There are thresholds for every technology where it is "good enough", same with LLMs or SLMs (on-device). Machine learning is already running on-device for photo classification/search/tagging, and even 1.5b models are getting fast really good, as long as they are well trained and used for the right task. Something like email writing, TTS and rewriting and other tasks should be easily doable, the "semantic search aspect" of chatbots are basically a new way of "google/web search" and probably stay in the cloud, but that's not their most crucial use.

Not a big fan of Apple's monopoly, but I like their privacy on-device handling. I don't care for Apple but on-device models are definitely the way to go from a consumer point of view.
During covid I ran a home made ndi solution for remote color correction.

It worked.. Kind a
Given their download page[1] doesn't have any binaries, can you clarify if they still don't have Pivot tables, as Wikipedia claims?

[1] http://www.gnumeric.org/download.html
Every human language works this way...? This is why we have systems called "grammars" in the first place: they capture regularity in the structure of a language.

Human languages are, in a sense, "infinitary", so that they aren't simply a set of fixed phrases. However there are, depenging on the language, also patterns they don't allow. (And some patterns _any_ human languages don't allow.)

This logically necessities language to have regularities. We capture these regularities as "generative grammars".
Tracking-free link: Compilation https://youtu.be/197HVsjdsGU
Trough of disillusionment