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apexalphaon Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

The EU heavily regulates this specifically in the, here infamous, "AI regulations" .

Though GDPR would also ban this probably.

apexalphaon Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

You elect to buy an Android and not an Apple I suppose.

apexalphaon Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest'

See, we can just go and get our gold out of London if needed. :)

apexalphaon Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest'

GDP is a proxy for economic output. This is a static collection of a certain element producing nothing.

apexalphaon My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini

I have the exact same stack (macbook pro in stead of mini) and swapped from qwen to: https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B

Literally today, but it feels like an improvement.

apexalphaon Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

I personally know 5 people using Macs with their unified memory for OpenClaw / Hermes.

Also the demand is really there. Or do you think Apple just removed certain options from sale for fun in stead of RAM being out of stock?

apexalphaon You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

Yeah: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

Billions of people are getting access to information through it.

apexalphaon You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

Watching the US go from laughing at "silly EU bureaucrats making regulations" to "oh shit there's a national, privately owned AI surveillance network already" in two years is interesting.

apexalphaon Trade (and Tariffs)

I was not aware this comic was a reation to new developments for US-CAN. I thought it was just a generic take on tarrifs and responded accordingly.

I agree the current US strategy behind tariffs is pretty retarded. Good example of fools trying to use a powerful tool.

apexalphaon Trade (and Tariffs)

Oh this is a good point. I was not aware of new developments with US-Canada today, that makes the more-than-normal stingy reactions expected.

Sorry, I'm European and can't keep up with the erratic US Gov. I read a summary at the end of the week.

apexalphaon Trade (and Tariffs)

I am European... Tariffs are completely normal here we protect our workers all the time.

It seems I've 'stung the wasps nest' on HN by not denouncing them outright it seems.

apexalphaon Trade (and Tariffs)

It's not a perfect example of course but the gist that tariffs do and should protect workers is true.

Tariffs aren't inherently bad, they're a tool.

apexalphaon Trade (and Tariffs)

Imagine a factory line where each worker makes 10 items per hour.

In, say, China a worker doing 996 will make 720 items. Te average working hours in the Netherlands are 36 hours or so per week. Making 360 items.

As long as there is free trade the Chinese factory will simply outproduce the Dutch one since they utilise their capex better.

Obviously European workers can't be reasonably asked to compete in an open market when labour laws, salary, health inspection etc... in China are at a 1920 Dutch level.

apexalphaon Trade (and Tariffs)

This is a pretty reductive take. If a nation works 6 days a week, 12 hours a shift then obviously they will outcompete any nation where people work 5 days a week for 8 hours.

Protecting workers from that kind of competition seems fair. Tariffs aren't bad in itself. They are just a tool.

Unfortunately fools wielding a tool like this can cause a lot of damage, but that's true for any tool.

apexalphaon The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement

Since you're British just imagine finding gas in Northern Scotland (on land, not on sea!) but control over it is in London.

Imagine how that would roughly unfold over a period of 70 years.

Sorry, I'm on mobile and it's a complex issue. This covers a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen_gas_field#Phasing_ou...

apexalphaon The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement

As a Dutch person I can confirm this article is: 1) Roughly correct chronologically. 2) COMPLETELY devoid of the actual political reasons behind this being done.

apexalphaon U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

Same for ICE. Clamping down on illegal immigration makes sense, but it doesn't make sense for ICE to behave like some unaccountable secret police that hires the biggest assholes they can find who can then do whatever they want.

To you.

But the existence of a secret police has a lot of upsides if you plan to not leave office.

apexalphaon More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding

This isn't new. "Lies. Damned lies and Statistics" as a phrase is already quite old.

Many people selectively shop around statistics that match their prejudice or their social circles social etiquettes.

apexalphaon Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

Guess most Americans are coming around on those “ridiculous regulations” the EU put in place.

apexalphaon OpenRouter is joining Stripe

Great product, been using it for a while.

Turns out even a proxy can be worth $8bn with the right business model behind it.

Users get an array of providers competing behind a single API, meaning they have to compete on price and quality not vendor lock-in. This encourages users to join OpenRouter over specific model vendors.

Providers get easy access to revenue (and data) and new customers with little to no ad spending, encouraging them onto the platform too.

And that's all you need. Win win.

Well done and congratulations.

apexalphaon Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

During the whole BLM thing a few years ago my emplyer wanted "to do something" I guess so they added one of those "inclusive language" SaaS buttons.

This seems more plausible to me. "Bosom peril" is not in any way a synonym for cancer. But if you think 'cancer' as a word will trigger people then softening it with 'peril' makes sense.

apexalphaon More German than many Germans

I don't think most of those votes are about hating foreigners. Some people believe the story they get every day, that the country is broken and that immigrants are the problem.

I just don't understand this. It's not about hate or racism, it's about the speed of the change.

We've had too many immigrant, too fast. But since there's no brake on this thing apparently the only option normal politicians seems to have is to be dismissive of negative effects of mass migration so they don't have to admit there's no brake lever.

This then pushes people to a party that will at least admit the negative effects.

apexalphaon Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

It was for me too but the new deepseek pricing is too good to ignore for now.

I honestly think that with my electricity prices running qwen 36B myself is more expensive than hitting the cache rate at deepseek.

apexalphaon Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow

We've had these for years? My brother has two solar panels on his balcony and plugged into a normal socket.

apexalphaon Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

Is this an ad?

Why is this provider specifically on the front page?

Also why is this not available over openrouter?

apexalphaon Our position on open-weights models

It really barely matters. Even if the US closes itself of for Chinese models; Europe won't. The rest of the world won't.

Even a completely closed US economy would not merit the current valuations Antrophic and OpenAI have.

apexalphaon Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace

This has to be one of the craziest uploads on the internet up until now.

Raw fucking intelligence at your disposal, free to download.

If you'd describe what's happening now to someone from five years ago they'd think you're hallucinating or mad.

apexalphaon Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

>Someone please enlighten me what the actual argument here is, cause I can’t see it.

These people paid a lot of money to Trump and now they want to cash in on that bought influence.

apexalphaon Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

Then Apple M series is also a joint European-American effort, no? Since ARM is European?

Weirdly enough it never seems to work that way in discourse.

apexalphaon TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

I also tested tailscale, headscale and netbird and found all these drain your battery on mobile.

Others report no issues but I had massive drain on iOS even with only 4 connections open.

Native wireguard is unnoticeable.