skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> still millions of humans working in factories

Yes, there are. But that's not caused by lack of humanoid robots, but because these humans are rediculously cheap.

There's absolutely no way that automation and tech can undercut (effective) slave labor.Though already this is happening: your tshirts and socks are probably not hand-knitted by "Bangladeshi children" or Chinese "prisoners", but by machines tailor-made (pun intended) for t-shirt and sock-knitting. This is happening slowly, and in the supply chain there's still loads of manual labor - cotton picked and processed for these socks is more and more automated, but still requires armies of cheap farm-hands.

And then it's really hard to undercut the price of cheap "western" labor with full automation in many sectors. Part of that is due to some form of 90/10 rule: the last 10% of automation is magnitudes more expensive. And many automation leads to a higher TCO, as the people programming, maintaining and optimizing the robots are far more expensive than an "army" of low-wage workers.

Humanoid robots may be an answer in some future, but currently and in near future will certainly not solve these economics. If ever.
> I even had a native Dutch person tell me "I heard in the US it is legal to do post birth abortions"

Americans really do not understand sarcasm; no matter how much you may claim to do so!
I can buy bigger, but it’s hard to buy better. Tipping people that don’t expect it makes them happy and well inclined.

There is so many ways the quality of what you get can be modified:

Is the meat fresh from the spit or is it already cut off at the plate below or even in the little box at the side ?

Do you get the tomato slices from the from or the back?

Hot sauce from the shelf or from the side stash?

The funny thing is, it really only works if the tip makes you stand out positively.

So, yes please don’t tip, so my little hack keeps working.

Disclosure:
I had the displeasure of being forced to work at a kebab Imbiss.
Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder
I've built a static web app called IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder that lets you query a database of 1.5 million IMDb titles using SQL directly in your browser. It’s entirely client-side, so all the data processing happens locally on your machine — no server involved.
Non-native English speakers might also be a contributor to this, for instance in Swedish the words are the same so "assembler" can refer to either the language or the tool.

As usual in natural language it's pretty clear from context which one is meant. Not sure about other (larger) European languages, it seems it's possible usage in German but it's not the primary case from a quick search.
SpaceX is under severe US restrictions regarding sourcing of its employees and subcontractors due to the military sensitivity of what they do. This is no 'secret' as Musk has been very open about this.
Show HN: Carbon Emissions of GitHub/Gitlab Pipelines (Eco-CI)
Eco-CI is an open source plugin that works on many major CI/CD vendors: GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins

It leverages an ML energy model to estimate the power of the current machine executing the pipeline and correlates that with the carbon grid intensity of the public IP.

It then can show directly in the Pull-Request how much energy and carbon is used.

That functionality is paired with an external dashboard that can be hosted which is also free and open source and can show the carbon emissions over time.

Here is an example link where we have for instance been tracking the carbon emissions of Django on GitHub: https://metrics.green-coding.io/ci.html?repo=green-coding-so...
Now now, let's not forget that there are already direct democracies at work in the world ahemtzerland and the general inland consensus is that they work.
Why is your original comment downvoted? It makes no sense to me. This is simply common sense. Most of the very high quality places to live are also wealthy, highly developed countries.
There's an interesting geeky story here about how partisan polling firms have learned to juke the stats to manipulate these polling aggregates (and betting/prediction markets).

Its not totally new, and I'm genuinely confused about whether it actually helps in a normal election where turnout is key so seeming just behind is possibly optimal. But in a world where false accusations of voting irregularities have already resulted in riots and deaths it's probably something we'll be talking about in the future.
No. Boeing is a case in point. When companies act defensive like that they burn trust that they are a serious engineering organization. I simply don't trust them at this point because they don't appear to be vocally self critical (or at least just quiet while the facts are being collected).
So you’re saying my mountain dew addiction is making me dumber ;-)?
The %w printf verb. It yields much more than a stack dump. Get meaningful error annotations from every step back up the callstack.
Technically, you don't have to manufacture the board yourself.

There's a telegram channel where people exchange and send boards everywhere, you basically need to cover shipping costs, and then send it on to the next person after you're done.

If you know how to solder, Hypfer, the creator and maintainer, will send you the parts, again for the price of shipping, or you can contribute more,if you want.
Making onscreen content available to Siri and Apple Intelligence
this is pretty cool. pretty slow though. maybe scrape in parallel?
I found the OpenAI page to be more interesting https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/latency-optimization...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement#Birth_of_C...

this is a good place to start.
Funny, I have a similar analogy when it comes to mice: Small children lacking verbal communication skills can only point at things, which is the equivalnet of using a"pointing device". When they grow up, they learn to speak meaningful sentences to express themselves. Which is equvalent to learning to use the command line...
Every time the amygdalae come up, I always point out it affects almost all tings human: https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/13/1/43/4596542
Speaking of "subcommands" that add some features, I recently built a tool to provide a better experience for splitting a commit into multiple commits than doing a soft reset and using `git add -p`: https://github.com/Artamus/git-split/.

Maybe someone will find it useful :).
ah, I've seen that recommended before, didn't realize it was the same guy.
We actually have a "watercooler" channel that specifically doesn't include manager people. It's where all the non-work stuff gets posted and it seems to work out pretty well.
What are you building? Even if you can't submit, let's share what we're building and connect!
So bribes work. I wonder if same would work with police in USA, slip them some money. Or maybe judge, in early hearing hand them envelope as tip for their services. Would that change the later outcomes of cases?
Plus there's the whole "it doesn't make economic sense for X to attack" which doesn't seem to have worked anywhere. Ideology seems to not just trump economic rationality in war, but to literally be the only factor.

X can be:

* Hamas

* Hezbollah

* Russia

* Sudan RSF or SAF

* Iran

* Afghanistan

The list goes on. All of these suffered greatly economically due to beginning unprovoked wars (only RSF has any real claim to being attacked, and even then they could easily have halted the fighting quickly if they wanted to)
What about the lesson of not 'appeasing' the Weimar Republic?
It's slow on the first load as you download a 100mb parquet file with all the IMDb data. It'll be cached on the second load though (using browser's indexeddb to cache).

Not sure what you mean by scraping in parallel.
oh i thought you were convert html to sql. nevermind.
Any disruption due to having the change the clock seems insignificant relative to natural seasons variance if you're far enough north. If there is a 5+6 hours difference between when the sun sets in June and December that 1 hour can hardly make a huge difference?
One question: Why do people make PDFs in A4 format? Wouldn't it make better sense to start making them in A5 or A6, so that they could be better read on e-readers, phones, and on part of a computer screen (which is landscape oriented)?
What's that saying about developers and herding cats? :)
> The whole world ran on 1.44mb

There were small pockets of Amiga users that could store 1.76mb on the same floppy disk due to a different type of hardware
But ruth i am factually correct here, or do you have problems reading too? Do i have a new stalker with you now?
I'll give up my Go when you pry this PDP-11 emulation from my cold, dead hand.
Blood sugar monitoring is the latest craze in the dieting scene in Asia. You can not buy the little monitors online and people are doing it because they believe that a blood sugar spike is what is tied to obesity.
I wonder how related it is to claim[0] that mental disorders are caused by metabolic disorders of the brain. Does it mean that sugar is like oxygen to fire and your brain just "burns" faster?

[0] https://brainenergy.com/
> get them restarted

How can you run a good restaurant business if all the chefs and customers were gone?

A nice setup of kitchen appliances surely means a lot but the key is the people.
I wonder what happens to get those numbers for the air transportation industry? I definitely didn't expect it in the top...
Apparently the retractable keel was noisy (creaking sounds?) so was left up at night.
> If a soup has multiple steps, you can easily end up paying the cost of building up temp and releasing twice.

I think most people tend to avoid dishes that have multiple steps for that reasons. Generally the most you see is sauteing in the bottom of the pot before deglazing and adding more ingredients and bringing it up to pressure. Although I'm sure some people get fancier with them. At that point though, you probably aren't saving time or effort over just cooking normally.
Can I upload pictures as well? Or is it only scanning through camera?
Honestly laggines of Element on Android forced me to use Signal more frequently.
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> The Economist about Germany's economy

Yes but that's about industrial (natural gas) prices, not consumer (natural gas) prices. They can be very different.

> with shutting down all nuclear power plants

With shutting down the last 3 (I think) nuclear power plants. The nuclear shutdown process started in 2000. They had plenty of time to invest in enough replacement capacity, but didn't. And it was quite clear at least since 2009 that Russia is not a serious partner, so again, they had plenty of time, and did nothing.
> expand NATO and giving up Russian speaking Ukraine parts.

you realize this is literally just a russian excuse, yes?
In a past life the room all the programmers was in was quiet as a library. Anything above a whisper seemed like yelling. It was terrible for collaboration and communication. We ended up going for walks in order to talk about stuff, which actually helped in multiple ways. Walking seems to stimulate the brain in weird ways and talking freely was very productive.

That said, I would not trade WFH for anything. Those walking times with co-workers was great but it's not worth being forced to go into an office every day.
> Then we got CDs, which were fine, but read-only

You could format a CD-RW to use it pretty much like a (slow) USB flash drive. I don't remember the details but it definitely was an option in Windows.

But then, before CD burners became popular and blanks cheap, most files I had to carry between computers (e.g. to school or to/from a friend) fit on a floppy. In the rare case they did not, I used WinRAR to make one of those split archives.
> The whole world ran on 1.44mb as a hard limit on how large files could be.

Not Microsoft, they used 1.68MB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format

Not me either, I used some utility whose name I've forgotten (might be fdformat as mentioned on that page) to get something like 1.74MB pretty reliably. I think I needed a driver loaded for it to work, but seem to remember either Windows 95 or 98 supporting it natively.
This article about a 2T reduction in the US budget doesn't mention Congress once.

Of all the articles I've seen entertaining this absurdity only two mentioned the obvious:

* Excluding entitlement programs and defense, stuff promised off limits, that's the entire rest of the USA budget. So it makes zero sense on face value.

* Good luck getting congress to pass that budget. Oh, did we all collectively forget what branches do what?!
There are a few things that could be done to remove the artificial advantage of (primary) residential property:

- remove the exemption (or reduction) for Capital Gains Tax

- remove Income Tax relief for mortgage interest

- remove any exemption (or reduction) for Inheritance Tax

Not all these advantages exist in all jurisdictions.

Then there are other changes that could mitigate distortions, inequality and volatility:

- separate interest rates for residential mortgages, commercial property, consumption and productive investments (industry, infrastructure, education)

- separate institutions for these different credit markets, with different reserve ratios and other regulations

- promote sound(er) money, to reduce inflation, and reduce the necessity to protect wealth by asset investment

- break cartels of real estate agents and aggregators to reduce transaction costs

- streamline the planning process to enable more houses to be built, without delay and costs of excessive eco/nimby appeals

- level the playing field between landlords and renters (means different things in different local jurisdictions)

Finally, there are more radical combinations of these things, such as removing the claim of mortgage interest as a business cost for landlords, which would raise their corporate taxes and deter high leverage.
Gorgeous. Maybe there is a universe...
Oh, the touchy-feely CS industry. I miss the old days when feelings didn't really count. I dont care if not-quite-a-whole-sentence of mine makes people afraid of things they dont know enough about.
To make this work you need to re-define "memory safety" to the point where it loses any value in a discussion about programming

Valgrind has no way to detect trivial global or local array bounds misses so long as they don't stray out of the defined memory. It can't spot this because the resulting executable (the only thing Valgrind sees) is not doing anything that's prohibited - it's nonsense because you used a non-MSL, but the actual executable has some defined behaviour.
for that amount of money there should be a movable weight machinery to automatically keep the boat stable similar to how cruise ships do. It would also improve sailing performance (and i remember that somebody (Oracle?)several years ago wanted to do that in big races, yet it was prohibited).
That was possible on DOS with the standard hardware, just different formatting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fdformat#DOS_tool

I relied on it for years until CD writers became common and affordable.
Cutting sugar (and snacking) completely out of your diet is a good starting point.

After that, intermittent fasting or OMAD are excellent at keeping blood sugar under check.

After over two years, never been better. Feel better than in my 20s, while in my 40s.
Not just Asia. Limbo are selling this in the US, Ireland, and UK.
Last time they shot few times at the wrong thing

https://cimsec.org/analyzing-the-german-frigate-hessens-near...

and then realized there is no more ammo

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/03/missile-woes-fo...

They might have a ship, but it has nothing to shoot targets with.
Was just in Arkansas meeting with some of the funds operated by the Walmart Foundation. Their focus is definitely shifting towards AI, tech, and software as all the companies invited (including us) was 2/3 at a minimum.