skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other uses for the material: [..]Outside of its obvious potential in dentistry, Kotov envisions the material being used to build better and longer-lasting pacemakers for people with heart conditions, or to reinforce crumbling bone in those with severe osteoporosis. He says the material could even be modified to create a “smart tooth,” a prosthetic chomper containing sensors that could sync to a smartphone. Such a device could monitor a person’s breath and mouth bacteria for anomalies, which would allow doctors to catch conditions such as diabetes before a patient is aware of them.[..]

I am especially intrigued by the ‘smart tooth’ which have sensors connected to smartphone.

Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/synthetic-enamel-...
Virtually everyone in the world aside from a handful of declining European countries believes that “stable home environment” = “married parents.”
> The Russian economy is unusually self-reliant

Not anymore from what experts are writing, but only time will tell. Aircraft industry is a good example [1], as most planes operated in Russia require western maintenance parts that can’t easily be replaced.

Other examples are in gas and oil drilling equipment [2].

> The Economist was pretty consistently writing deranged propaganda about Russia even 5 years ago

You call warning about the danger of Russia invading neighboring countries driven by the ideological shift towards imperialism “propaganda”?

[1] https://www.frost.com/frost-perspectives/will-sanctions-from...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/putin-admits-western-sancti...
True, from a programmers mindset this is totally true. But I think that some customers will just come looking for an e ink calendar - and then get confused/repulsed by the complexity of a tablet with apps.
You could also get nicely printed (engraved I think) log paper (in a number of different scale configurations) for much longer. Also from K&E. Like printed Smith charts, though, it has gone the way of the dodo - people that need one just print out a pdf.
> “I don’t have goals. I don’t have ambition. I only want to be attractive.” This apathetic declaration is the start of a TikTok rant that went viral for its blatant message: to reject hard work and indulge in leisure.

It’s weird to see these opinions presented as a new phenomenon. Wanting to avoid work and indulge in leisure is a tale as old as time. It’s even a common theme among characters in ancient writings.

What is new is the way people with these feelings can go online and connect with millions of other people who want to talk about these feelings as if they were the real truth about life. How everyone else is wrong if they don’t see it. Many of these forums become de facto “safe spaces” where rules explicitly forbid anything other than supporting and agreeing with these perspectives.

It was easy to dismiss these as fringe movements when it was incels writing unhinged rants blaming women for all of their personal problems, but for some reason the media is trying to treat the “antiwork” style rants as something deeper. Of course, this falls apart when the content and actors are examined in any remotely critical manner, as famously happened when the antiwork moderator gave a disastrous direct TV interview without the carefully crafted veneer of journalistic thinkpieces obscuring the sheer absurdity of the echo chamber they’ve built for themselves.

I grew up just barely before internet access and social media were ubiquitous. There was no shortage of people eschewing work and embracing lives of leisure right out of high school or college. I knew a large number of people who embraced “couch surfing” lifestyles or international vagabonding as their way of life. As far as I can tell, the difference was that by the time they reached mid 20s they were quickly running out of peers who would tell them it was a good idea to embrace such a lifestyle forever. The real world catches up and you notice that your real-world friends who work normal jobs and “settle down” are actually having a good time (on average) while the vagabonding lifestyle gets progressively less glamorous as you get older.

Not so much in the social media era, where a new set of friends and confirmatory feedback is always just a few clicks away on your phone. Want to read posts about how it’s actually someone else’s fault that you’re not successful? No problem, the internet will deliver volumes of such content.
Useless anecdata: I grew up in Southern California and absolutely adore eucalyptus trees. The smell is wondrous.
I'm a millennial and feel the same way. I'm just coasting at work after they've screwed me over a few times. I don't think any other company would actually be better. The work I do is meaningless.
Whether we want it or not, they our successors. Gen X was also written off at some point... I'm rather optimistic about the future - with or without labor
Not if the run depends on external data, which might happen to create a data forest with stop the world effect caused by domino effect of deletions.
I'm Swedish, not Norwegian, but I can understand not making the connection between "Kjølen" and "Kjolen" because both of those are words and have completely different meaning, and as you say 'ø' is quite distinct from 'o'.

Just to take a random example, if you were to say "Bird Peak" instead of "Bard Peak" it wouldn't be immediately obvious what you meant.
Fahrenheit is such a dumb temperature scale. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit simply took the lowest outside winter temperature of his hometown as zero and the highest summer termperature as 100 degrees. If he had lived somewhere else or at a different time, the temperature scale would be different.

Although Fahrenheit was German, Germany does not use this scale. It would be nice if the remaining parts of the world that still use the Fahrenheit scale could eventually switch to Celsius which at least makes a little bit of sense.
Regarding messaging, contrary to popular belief WhatsApp is great for privacy as well. It is now end-to-end encrypted since it recently adopted the Signal protocol [1]. It's cross-platform and more widely used on a global scale.

[1] https://scontent-ams4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.8562-6/271639644_...
Curious how all of the issues are resolved. If workers (as they should imo) get paid more, it will result in more inflation, resulting in their purchasing power on key things like housing effectively not changing as inflation adjusts the cost of housing to be more expensive.

I'm also curious to see if companies run by Gen Z pay better or worse than Boomer run companies. If they're not I don't see how the situation will change for the next generations.
I don't really agree. Those audiophile companies aren't exactly lying in their product specs. At least not this one.

These people aren't claiming that their 20A cable supports 200A, for example.

The claims are always subtle and about things you can't measure, like "that your system can deliver maximum performance without losing sound subtleties due to irradiated noise" in this case. Which sure, might also be the case for the €3 cables I just bought yesterday for my TV.

So, these cables are most certainly better than my €3, but of course they aren't 1833 times better. But that's just how the law of diminishing returns work. This is, of course, an extreme case.

Also, I feel like most of the "lying" that happens within this specific industry is perpetrated by the consumers themselves: "I can hear things with this cable that I couldn't hear before" on forums and so on.

I'm not really into this world (I still only use Airbuds...), but as an electrical engineer I often see this claim, but I rarely see any manufacturer outright-lying. Confusing marketing? Exaggerated claims? Sure... but nothing close to "Lamborghini [...] claiming their cars had 50 million horsepower".
I read the subject and thought "duh" but when I got to the content... I never would have thought of hold vs press. So obvious but so not obvious too.
What does adjusting for “cultural biases” mean?
Though Linux might be a small platform it's the only one that really matters.
Ask HN: Entry to Hacking for a 5yo?
I'd like to help my 5yo kid to eventually get computer literate, possibly without too much games, no social media, etc. Barely possible probably. Anyway, do you know of general ideas, tools, apps, tutorials, robots, devices to facilitate understanding and be just fun for a curious kid with almost zero phone/computer/writing skills?
There's also a bit of over romanticism regarding being depressed and everything being shit which I think throws boomers a curve ball. They see the existential dread response to lack of prospects and think people are like this because they don't have avocado toasts, when the only way out is to breadth first search for Google. If you don't want that, I don't know what your prospects are nowadays coming out of university. I don't envy the kids that had covid high-school or university either, that must've been a terrible experience.
But isn't it doomed to be a self fulfilling prophecy if you approach every new company with these beliefs?

Google is a great example of one that started out very differently, but unfortunately became much like the companies they strived to set themselves apart from. Many startups still foster that culture Google originally had.
This is another example of what I mean by complex sovereignty, from the SFNM today:

> Last month, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed 10-year intergovernmental agreements with the leaders of two pueblos — Picuris and Pojoaque — but other tribes are still not allowed by the federal government to grow marijuana.
While it's obvious that milton friedman is right, you concisely make the case.

I think the blog does actually discover a possible additional rule.

As inflation takes off there are winners like gasoline who are going to be earning big money suddenly and they can give raises to their people, retain people, and also even politically lobby and so you have an associated political power structure created. Alberta for example just won big and this blogger sees why. Whereas the federal government have been actively attacking them for years. They haven't been feeling on the team for quite some time.
"Psychopathic personality traits in adolescents are associated with delinquency and delinquency can contribute to future dating success for boys..."

I would take statements like this more seriously if it weren't for the fact that most psychology researchers (like most academic researchers of any sort, and for that matter also like me) as youngsters did not have a relative LACK of success in dating as adolescents. I think there might be some researcher bias going on here.
> “I simply want to live my life slowly and lay down in a bed of moss with my lover and enjoy the rest of my existence reading books, creating art, and loving myself and the people in my life.”

… and our article author thinks what, that Gen Z invented this? That generations before Gen Z "dream of labor"? Dreaming of labor is called a nightmare. I work to make ends meet.
> It's correct that Matrix is complex to implement server-side, more complex than XMPP, and it's also correct that it does a lot of things very differently from older protocols like XMPP. But here's the thing - that's a deliberate choice and it is for good reasons, not just a case of ignorance or "bloat" like you seem to be implying.

I agree with everything you said about decentralised MUCs, and for the "communities" [1] use-case it will be great when XMPP eventually gains this capability (sadly, a lot of effort in IM protocol development has been split to a shinier new thing these days, so I guess progress is slower everywhere than it could be).

I also agree that decentralised MUCs are inherently complex. What I don't agree with is all the other reinventing of the wheel in Matrix.

If your claim is that every decision to start from scratch (leaving aside decentralised MUC) in Matrix's protocol design was based on well-founded technical reasoning rather than either deep-seated NIH syndrome or a desire to build from scratch to maintain more control / extract more value (I strongly suspect the latter), then you should be able to point to that reasoning — these decisions were discussed in the open in a standards forum, mailing list or the like, right?

[1] My use case for XMPP has always been more like an open WhatsApp/Signal replacement than an open Discord replacement, where the largest MUC is a few people who all know the server operator personally, so I tend not to notice this missing feature — but I completely agree that it is a missing feature.
Earth–Mars Cycler
It's neat to see this on hacker news. Good to hear that folk are noticing that our system works! I've been working on embedded systems at Zipline for 6 years, and oddly haven't made it out to Rwanda yet. Everyone there seems to know my name, though, because of all the weird problems I've helped remotely debug over the years. I think Zipline's flight operators deserve the lion's share of credit for our success in Rwanda.
Nothing, things like this have existed for a while:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KMSCON
Yes, there is a smartphone app for configuring the calendar.
Basically that’s for the “consumer” market.

By I have also
noticed demand from makers for a more open platform. That’s why I decided to expose the bmp feature. That’s for the “hacker” market.

I’ve sold a few of these so I know that there is demand - but I am struggling find a marketing channel. Maybe there isn’t enough demand, it’s possible.
The lack of dignity and social respect conferred upon those who perform jobs like trash collection is precisely the cultural ill OP is describing.

One of my favorite parts of living in Germany has been the relative lack of social hierarchy associated with one's job. I'm in a martial arts class with a mix of doctors, lawyers, musicians, carpenters, students, and (actual) garbage collectors, and not once have I noticed a stratification or class connotation in discussion during or after class. They have very different economic means of course, but "dignity and social respect" is exactly the right description for the quality they all grant each other as contributing members of society.

It's a cultural quality I've come to accept as a marker of a functional social democracy.
because the counterculture of old actually had a "counter" part often with significant impact and organization. In Japan in 68 and 69 students shut down much of the university system for over a year[1]. And even though eventually dying down these movements had lasting impact on culture. It's where green political movements were born, sexual rights for women were gained, and so on.

Gen Z 'counterculture' doesn't have a music genre because it doesn't need one. it's not pushing back or claiming anything, it's just nihilism with memes.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%E2%80%931969_Japanese_uni...
I wish my experience was similar. About a month ago, Facebook started showing really low quality, and even spammy, content as "Recommended for you".

I spent a day or two reporting every recommended post that I didn't like hoping to tell the algorithm to leave me alone. To no avail.

I still see these posts on my feed whenever I check it. And it's very bad.
I keep Excel spreadsheets with simple todo lists for things I need to do… for example, taxes, renewing a drivers license, purchases that are easy to forget, books I want to read, etc.

It’s sort of todo lists and one line notes, all saved into one folder.

I’ve found for myself that I just need something very simple and easy to use. There are programs out there that let you use mark down, or they sync your todo lists or your notes. All this extra fancy stuff just adds complexity and for me, distracts me from the actual stuff I need to get done.

Of course, this isn’t a silver bullet for everyone.
Is it actually a trend or is the media pushing another narrative that likely applies to 2% of the targeted population?

Reminds me of this essay by Paul Graham:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Honestly, what if full time jobs (40 hour work weeks) are just a form of day care for men? Someone who worked "hard" all day and is the bread winner has way more leeway to get away with more anti social behavior than someone who is at home all day and doing the same thing.

The politics of endless growth are actually just a way to keep people busy. No wonder depressions and their massive loss of jobs lead to so much instability.
There’s also a couple of billion people in Asia who think the exact same way as the author about families and culture. I’ve never read Laffer or Kudlow. I’m interpreting society through the values of my Bangladeshi parents. And they lead me to the same conclusion.

And given the remarkably higher income mobility of Asian kids raised in the bottom income compared to white kids, I think social liberals are sticking their heads in the sand by trying to hand wave away these social trends and blaming conservative think tanks.
At the moment, I use Todoist as a front end and have a bunch of automations that run via the API.
Looks like it's armchair sociology day on HN
Self-direction: navigating agency and responsibility
Most of human evolution occurred below 40N, so even if that point were correct, it would at best be limited to the adaptive behaviors of a very small group of human ancestors.

However, there's plenty of evidence suggesting that there wasn't any such regionally adaptive behavior. The original find that suggested starchy plant consumption in H. erectus was analysis of the Dmanisi fossils at ~41N. Later work tying these sorts of results to typical European Neanderthal diets has been done for North Sea sites (~50N). Of course, Neanderthals never went much farther north than that due to the climate. As for AMHs, I've seen papers of sites near Smolensk (~55N) indicating moderate to heavy starchy plant use. That's not far from the glaciation line.

Moreover, there are fairly convincing arguments that a nearly pure-meat diet doesn't work in winter due to the general lack of fat (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.016 ). There are caveats and workarounds here, but this whole idea that high-latitude hominins had limited, homogeneous diets is on increasingly shaky ground.
The answer is to build more housing, it is simple supply and demand
I didn't say self selected, I said opt in.
I hate the prices on rare items, that stuff sucks. The price of things is far above what people should be willing to pay, but sellers have no incentive to sell for less and buyers have no choice if they ever want to mess with old computers. Frankly, old Japanese computers are easier to get a decent deal on because for one reason or another, Yahoo! Japan Auctions tends to give pretty damn fair prices.

What I’m talking about though is actually not the second-hand market, but the very interesting market of making new retro-computing goods. TexElec has some good examples of said things; accessories or expansions for old computers, or hell, sometimes even successors or recreations of them, like the Vampire V4 standalone, which from my reading is meant to be a successor to the Amiga 4000.

There’s always emulator boxes like the “mini” consoles that have been popular, but frankly I think those have firmly left “niche” territory by now, and only some of them are marketed at the niche. Nowadays the niche markets seem much more palatable to more expensive, but somewhat more versatile FPGA based emulation. (Well, maybe that’s not fair; software emulation can do things FPGA based emulation can not, but FPGA based emulation can do things that software emulation can’t do either, and you can already get software emulation on most computers, phones, and game consoles anyways. It definitely adds some value for being unique.)
The marketplace of ideas can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Besides hardware mitigations (radiation hardening, ECC memory) what would be software mitigation techniques for this?
Always disappointing when people lack the comportment and courage to
formulate a persuasive challenge. :(
> Dreaming of labor is called a nightmare. I work to make ends meet.

I don't know... I think it's possible to think about work not as a zero-sum game but as an opportunity to grow and promote growth. But at the same time this is kind of a white collar mindset... it's hard to sell people on growth when the work is more demeaning
As a Gen Z it's not that our entire generation is lazy it's that we've seen our parents give their entire lives to a company or industry just counting down the years to retirement. That personally is my worst case scenario for my career. Sure some people my age just want to be famous and not do any hard work, but I'd say the majority just don't want to be a "good employee" for 40 years just increasing the number every quarter for shareholders.

There was another article on here the other day about how half of Gen Z wants to start their own business and I think that's more accurate. Or at least give that a shot before giving in to working for someone else all their life. It just seems archaic now to give half of your waking life to a company.

Most of us would gladly give even more time just to start something that we get all of the profits from and therefore have more control over the whole of our lives. And I'm not talking about starting a billion dollar tech company, just something to pay the bills and save a little.
And these people conduct wars.
Housing is not free to build, though. I agree in general that more housing should be built, but it's not some sort of silver bullet.
Yeah Sun of course later bought the tech they developed themselves. Totally dumb.

What do you mean 'they did them' as far as I know they never did extensions to their main CPU specifically to improve garbage collection.
A good part of Chinese high tech factory machines are made in places like Germany [1]. This is slowly changing though as China is becoming a major exporter of production machinery themselves, albeit starting from the low tech side of things (think plastic molding).
> Income after taxes and transfer payments has grown for everyone since 1970

It's grown for every group used in that breakout, but while it breaks out the upper income groups on relatively fine categories, it groups the bottom half as one category.

(It's useful for the graph's original purpose of discussing top-weighted inequality, it's not useful for the argument you are trying to make with it.)
The average house sold in 1946 cost $5.25K. The median salary at the time was $3K.

The average house sold today costs $374K. The median salary is $51K.

You can argue that those houses that were sold back then were smaller, but they were also made of vastly better materials than modern home construction, and it's not like people even have the opportunity of buying those smaller homes unless they want to live in a slum.
No one dreams of labor. The people who “dream” of labor dream of other people performing labor and getting rich off that.

Shit article.
For those on NixOS add boot.binfmt.emulatedSystems = ["aarch64-linux"]; to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and it will enable running ARM binaries.

https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=21.11&show=boot.bin...
I deliberately leave a project in a broken state when I am done for the day (e.g. a broken test) if I am coming back to it tomorrow.

The reason is that it’s very easy to get started again - the test is broken, so the next task is to fix the test.
This is easy to fix if the political will is there. In Norway yoghurt containers, etc., are made of polypropylene not polystyrene
How they gonna pay the bills?