Unfortunate name choice, it's the name of an established open source project

https://xapian.org/

who?

Attempting to bully into silence first amendment protected speech with the threat of a SLAPP lawsuit? There should be penalties for this

Could inflation be a driver of these numbers (wage and spending growth for lower and middle households vs high) growing in tandem? Didn't see that mentioned in the article

I believe the data strongly suggests structural demographics is driving up wages, with the labor component being somewhat inflationary (depending on vertical/industry). The labor market is resilient because (as of this comment) ~4M Boomers retire a year, ~11k/day, ~2M people 55+ die every year, about half of which are in the labor force; that means ~13k-14k workers leave the labor force every day in the US, ~400k/month.

America's missing middle: The shrinking 45-64 population - https://www.axios.com/2026/07/07/gen-x-population-shrinking-... - July 7th, 2026

Semiquincentennial snapshot: the US at 250 years - https://usafacts.org/articles/semiquincentennial-snapshot-th... - July 1st, 2026

Is the U.S. Labor Force Nearing Its Peak? - https://www.kansascityfed.org/research/economic-bulletin/is-... - June 29th, 2026

The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival - https://www.suerf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/f_fa99ccdbe... - October 2020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680794 (citations)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

So, the Ministry of Truth is going to declare any outputs that Dear Leader doesn't like are illegal deceptive advertising?

Corporate profits have grown (inflation adjusted) from $2.45 trillion to $3.62 trillion over the past 10 years. I think they'll be fine with letting their workers take leave

https://www.macrotrends.net/3607/corporate-profits-after-tax...

What do Xinuos even stand to gain at this point even if they win?

What switches are you running it on?

Netgear GS308T, Netgear GS108T v3, and HPE JG925A.

I dont get it, how would AI cause humans to go extinct?

The magical super-AI will turn into a basilisk and start torturing every human that didn't assist in building it by simulating them forever.

Or something like that.

The doomers unironically panicked when Roko wrote that (vaguely based on their nonsensical "timeless decision theory", I think as a joke) and banned discussion of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk

A variation of the paperclip maximization.

Essentially, the entire AI resource supply chain becomes so automated that AI acquires the ability to optimize those messy, irrational, low-efficiency humans out of existence.

This actually seems pretty cool. I hope they can make it to production. However I wonder how much it would cost. Will it actually sell for a price people would be willing to pay for a device of such limited utility?

I think risk of fire is the big reason that they are trying to stamp out fireworks. Wild fires have devestated California in recent years, and they start easily with the dry conditions