MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Frieren | 2025-04-26 20:07:23+00:00
> Wedekind found that the women overwhelmingly preferred the T-shirt smells of men who had the most dissimilar MHCs to their own.

Is deodorant making people more likely to have kids with closely genetically individuals? It would be funny that being cleaner and polite increased genetic diseases. And I do not mean close relatives, but non relatives that just by chance are genetically similar.

Is there any study about how generic diversity has changed thru the centuries?
by Zigurd | 2025-04-26 20:07:24+00:00
There are half a dozen successful commercially available surgical robot products out there. None try to mimic a surgeon's hands.

Even if biomimicry turns out to be a useful strategy in designing general purpose robots, I would bet against humans being the right shape to mimic. And that's assuming general purpose robots will ever be more useful than robots designed or configured for specific tasks.
by smitty1e | 2025-04-26 20:07:30+00:00
One is always selecting from a subset of the available information is any conversation.

Maybe the point could be elaborated "never mislead".

As a parent, while I don't want my children to grow up in a shoebox, I also don't want them awash in the hedonistic filth of our day, either.

So I tell them "form follows function" and express the importance of actual marriage, not the modern variations.
by bawana | 2025-04-26 20:07:35+00:00
Unmentioned is the significance of dietary modificatioon. In one study, Japanese men had 10% of the incidience of problematic bph as americans. The offspring of the japanese in Hawaii had half the iincidence. The second generation had no difference. The analysis suggested that phytoestrogens in tofu, tempeh,etc are responsible of prostatic involution.

Animal fat contains elevated levels of lipid soluble hormones and diets high in fat (meat) are associated w bph as well as elevated risk of prostate ca.

Finally, this craze of T replacement is greatly increasing the risk of symptomatic bph (along with other cardiovascular risk factors)
by atoav | 2025-04-26 20:08:21+00:00
Unlike you say, my argument is completely unaffected by that premise and could be about an entirely made up hypothetical car, the core ethical argument would still be equally valid.

Why? Because the axiom that the car does not meet the safety standards was established by the poster I commented on. I do not need to proof an axiom someone else set up for the sake of discussion.

Now you could argue that safety standards are discoupled from actual accident numbers (something I have never seen evidence for), but that is a different argument and thus the burden of proof that this is in fact the case is on you.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-04-26 20:08:27+00:00
It isn't. Some of their data has been suspect for a very long time, unfortunately (and ironically) there is also a partisan reason why the Economist doesn't mention the series that is most suspect: population estimates. These numbers are known bad for over two decades now...they have done nothing.

The US has had a far more serious approach to economic statistics, the ONS is a complete joke. It has never been easier or cheaper to collect stats but the ONS, for some series, is using collection methods that haven't changed since WW2. This is typical of government in the UK, completely isolated from the rest of society.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-26 20:08:58+00:00
Please provide them. Here are mine.

https://www.northwesternmutual.com/life-and-money/how-much-d...

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/its-getting-more-expensiv...

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2017/01/13/cost-raising-chil...

https://illumine.app/blog/how-much-childcare-costs-by-state-...

https://childcaredeserts.org/
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-26 20:09:06+00:00
There is so much time spent “debunking” audio recordings being shared with various entities it makes me more suspicious.

Just like Facebook’s “we never sell your data (we just stalk you and sell ads using your data)”. I’m sure there’s a similar weasel excuse… “we never listen to your audio (but we do analyze it to improve quality assurance)”
by BSOhealth | 2025-04-26 20:09:07+00:00
Probably not "incredibly stupid"

But, "the economy" is generally just a descriptor for what people need/want, and what they're willing to do for it.

A phrase like "slaves of the economy", with the implication that someone should be entitled to escape that condition, is about as ridiculous as thinking you are a "slave to nutrients" or a "slave to oxygen" or any other physical constraint. You can't escape it; you have to eat--what are you willing to do to get food?

However, what I think you're probably more upset about, and what you probably should instead be phrasing it as, is economic manipulation. That is something that can legitimately be unjust. Power and information are some tools to manipulate or benefit from economic conditions to a greater extent than others, and therefore have more boats or leisure time or political positions (or food or N95 masks or jobs etc etc)
by zeroonetwothree | 2025-04-26 20:09:24+00:00
Are you a single parent? If so then yeah you have it hard, no doubt there.

But if not shouldn't your spouse be doing some of this? Why are you getting the kids ready and making dinner and doing all the homework/school stuff and working full time?

Why not have grandparents watch the kids when they visit (or you drop them off)? Why do you need to be there at all? Great time to go meet a friend for lunch. Or grandparents can take the kids to sports. Or you make friends with other parents at those sports activities so you can interact while the kids are there.
by low_tech_love | 2025-04-26 20:09:50+00:00
So basically you came to the same conclusion as everyone else who is against this (and who I assume you would consider to be your political opponents): that even though it sounds good and reasonable on paper (as a populist concept), in practice it is invariably used for arbitrary exercise of power.

Here is the thing: hard and complex problems require hard and complex solutions, but you chose to put in power the people who like easy solutions. I hope it’s never late to learn a lesson.
by mrandish | 2025-04-26 20:10:37+00:00
I have no doubt that Dialog Enhancer features, which are available on many streaming devices and AVRs, can work well. They are basically variants of multi-band dynamic compressors tuned to target vocal frequencies on the center channel.

Both my streaming device and AVR each have their own flavor of dialog enhancer and they do help improve the problem substantially. But I don't feel 'good' about just leaving this kind of post-processing feature on long-term and certainly not as a widely recommended best practice (except for hearing impaired users). I guess the reason for my reluctance is more in principle than practical. It's just not the right technical approach to solving the root problem, and any automatic algorithm, no matter how adaptive, dynamic or clever, will sometimes fail to do the right thing. It also bothers me that every implementation of dialog enhancer I've seen is opaque and undocumented.

I've been in and around video and audio engineering for most of my career, especially on the broadcast tooling side creating new gear. I go way back to the analog days when we could only dream of having such a pristine digital signal throughout the entire signal chain. We were always battling generation loss and noise on the production side and on the home theater side, we spent time and money slathering various noise reduction and other 'enhancement' processing to fix the worst aspects of the degraded analog signals we received.

At long last, today we live in that sci-fi future nirvana where the same levels the director approved on the mixing stage can be exactly what you hear at home. So, yeah, I have some PTSD about still needing to slap some post-process on at home to fix issues that should not be there in the first place. We waited decades for this tech to arrive, so the engineer in me wants it to work - without fixes or user patches. And that means addressing the issue at the source.
by frereubu | 2025-04-26 20:11:02+00:00
> At the same time as not strong arming these bodies, at least one might be? What is the implication here?

Yes, exactly. Most don't but one looks like it might be.

> How is less trust/revisions in the data today connected with what Britain was doing 70+ years ago?

Because up until the pandemic the data had been getting steadily better with fewer "surprises", now it seems to have stagnated: "Two factors have now brought progress to a halt."
by lysace | 2025-04-26 20:11:09+00:00
> but I still can't understand why everything in our lives have to be entirely devoted to "the economy"

We all live in a global trading economy. This has been the case for thousands of years. We don't have a global dictatorship. This is good.

Also, this is a thing:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-worldbank?tab=chart&c...
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-26 20:11:25+00:00
If what you're talking about is the source of the ad, why did you see the ad yourself? Were you shouting about ear wax removal at your phone?

There are millions of ways the adware running on your phones could've correlated your profile and spread the "infection" to your friend. Basic location access being the most important one, but sharing an IP address (your friends' WiFi?), being near the same Bluetooth beacons, having the same stored SSIDs, or mere coincidence that your friend saw the same ad targeting a wide demographic are much more probable than "my phone is listening 24/7".
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-26 20:11:25+00:00
It's weird because I can do this and I'm sure I never sent them any verification. Because I'm always incredibly hesitant to do so, it would have been a dealbreaker. Our national IDs contain a lot of sensitive info. The government even advises us to black those out. But then most companies refuse it.

I do have credits paid up though and I've had an account since the early days of DALL-E. Maybe having a payment method serves as verification? Or it only applies to recently created accounts?
by BSDobelix | 2025-04-26 20:12:01+00:00
>You blanket-declared that any/all governments have it as their number one priority, with no nuance I might add.

No nuance needed, there is no single country who flourish when people fear every day for their life. Not being murdered is point number one for living beings...again no nuance needed.

>Additionally, are you somehow completely unaware that the American government is sending people to that country's worst prison

That's a "you" problem, not that of El Salvador. Fix your country without killing a million (for example) Iraqis....and btw stop calling people from other country's "aliens" fkn disgusting!

>Instead you've transformed it into something approximating: "now el salvador is safe and everyone is happy, there was no need for liberty or human dignity to be respected then or now."

Now you try to make me a Fan Boy of Bukele, and to be honest your framing is childish. There was no space for "human dignity" when gangs ruled the country, now it is at least a unwritten letter.
by wormius | 2025-04-26 20:12:09+00:00
I've seen such bad editing lately. Basic grammar rules being missed/capitalization issues, personal opinions and hearsay cited as "fact", lack of references. Seemingly unrelated topics except in whoever made an edits eyes.

So yeah, you don't even have to be an expert. What's weird is that there IS a lot of edits by ideologues of many kind. And it doesn't have to be "foreign agents" and this Trump attack reeks so hard of yet another attempt at authoritarian control and NewSpeak. Biden gave in with the TikTok to Trumps initial games, and now it just feeds the game. We have to resist this sort of thing from below.

I wish people had a good "sniffer" for bullshit. I'm not saying I'm perfect (we all have our blind spots) but after a while you can tell when certain things are trying to put a spin on something... It's especially odious when it comes to national identities trying to put a spin or tie either themselves or their enemies to a particular view point. The worst part is it's not necessarily obvious, to a lot of people if you don't have the knowledge, or the ability to critique and ask questions.

So we need people to keep asking questions for sure, and sniffing out this sort of thing. But it has to not be "IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY" but rather "IN THE NAME OF OPEN KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL". Otherwise you just become a front or spokesthing for a given state, and that's no better than fucking Pravda.
by roxolotl | 2025-04-26 20:12:11+00:00
Given the context of the list I suspect they don’t mean any of them quite as strictly as you’re taking it. Of course there are situations where lying is actually is morally correct. However I do think that many situations where one is tempted to lie simply omitting information is equally effective, or even more so as you don’t have to worry about being caught in the lie.
by hnburnsy | 2025-04-26 20:12:22+00:00
Here is a better article with competing studies...

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/02/fast-food-minimum-...

>On Tuesday, the industry released its own impact study, conducted by the Berkeley Research Group, a private consulting firm. It found that wage increases have reduced fast food employment, shortened the hours worked, compelled fast food franchises to use more automation and resulted in markedly higher consumer prices.
by ajross | 2025-04-26 20:13:05+00:00
> But I can't see what is what "the economy" has given to us in return.

Stuff. You like stuff, I like stuff. If you had more stuff of one kind you could do different stuff, good stuff, even. And the people out there doing good stuff could do even more if they had more stuff to do it with. Everywhere you look, people like stuff. People with more stuff are happier on average, every time it's measured. People with serious stuff deficits end up being the ones to start wars, even.

"The Economy" is just the stuff. There's no magic here. You're imagining a villain, but it's all just stuff.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-26 20:13:56+00:00
> When I voted for the leopard party I didn't think the leopards would eat the faces of people I like

This isn't a good-faith interpretation of their comment.

There are plenty of illegal immigrants with a criminal record. Trump's pitch was to deport them. There was also a pitch that strongly hinted at deporting basically anyone who isn't white, and I think this appealed to the racist fifth of Americans [1], but plenty of people were messaged the first part with the second being segregated to rallies, NewsMax, Twitter, et cetera.

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/poll-finds-suppo...
by gmuslera | 2025-04-26 20:13:58+00:00
So if Theseus was aboard his ship for many years it would add another layer of it that ship still is his own?

In Vernon Vinge’s A Fire Upon The Deep you have pack of dogs that are not so smart individually, but they had a pack personality that was smart. Even (for one case in the book) the dogs could be replaced but the personality remained.

Changing individual cells doesn’t change what is the you of your consciousness and memories. Of course, even without cell replacement you change with time, new memories, insights and so on, but both changes happen at different abstraction levels.
by remarkEon | 2025-04-26 20:14:10+00:00
Nowhere in the economic research does it explain what you are so confidently stating, that wages are, somehow, the only thing in all of economics where positive supply shocks do not matter. The arguments that tend to be made are that, on a long enough time horizon, mean wages increase because overall economic output goes up, and mean economic output goes up because there is a higher supply of available labor.
by dismalaf | 2025-04-26 20:14:17+00:00
> Maybe I'm incredibly stupid but I still can't understand why everything in our lives have to be entirely devoted to "the economy"

"The economy" is a sum of all human activity. Not the other way around. We don't work for "the economy". "The economy" is the result of what we do.

Trying to understand what we do, why we do it and how to make life better for everyone seems like a pretty good goal IMO.
by testing22321 | 2025-04-26 20:14:32+00:00
I’ve spent decades thinking the same, and decided I don’t want to be a part of it. I work as little as possible and spend my time exploring the world, hiking, camping, eating cheap street food.

Even driving my own vehicles around the world I spend less than $20k a year, so I don’t need to work much.

I just don’t participate in the things I don’t want to - no phone, no tv, no new clothes, used car.

I Enjoy time, not money & things.
by low_tech_love | 2025-04-26 20:14:55+00:00
Every individual involved in this is doing it because there is something to be gained. The system is basically saying “the more you deport, the more numbers you generate, the more funding you get and the less I will check what you do with it”. We can blame the individuals sure, but if they keep getting showered with money for doing the wrong thing, of course the system has a big responsibility. Why should the people involved not do this if they are being explicitly encouraged by their employer to do it?
by zug_zug | 2025-04-26 20:15:26+00:00
I don't know, that seems like a rather defensive response to me. Perhaps self-reflection is in order.

Is the idea that friendship might be transactional too scary a thought to consider head on?

Here's some science on the topic that is food for thought: https://www.thecut.com/2016/05/half-of-your-friends-probably...
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-04-26 20:15:41+00:00
The real gap is "the economy" vs "living standards". For example, quality adjustments for inflation stats are so bad as to make comparison over long periods meaningless (a few years ago, the ONS had to retract decades of inflation data due to poor quality adjustments...and this was for components where quality adjustments are quantifiable).

One of the reasons why is because you can clearly see that life today in most rich economies has plummeted in quality. Technology has spilled over from the US but if you take away those gains, there is very little underlying improvement. Skills are collapsing, governments/companies struggle to provide basic services, disability is skyrocketing, it is a complete mess (and this is often linked to "the economy", look at Canada, look at the UK, set on paths of permanent decline for short-term political gain).
by programmertote | 2025-04-26 20:15:56+00:00
That's true. I currently work for a boutique real estate consulting firm. A senior guy, who has been working with Census-sourced data for two decades or more AND has good sources within the Census bureau--of the firm told me that Census department is considering of stopping some survey data (some sections of American Community Survey or some sort is what I recall as an example he used; but please don't quote me on that) due to lack of sufficient budget.

One trivia that I learned: some parts of the Census building permits data is collected in the old fashioned way via mail. The Census bureau has to consolidate these disparate sources of building permits from 3100+ counties and deliver monthly, annual revised monthly, annual summary values. It's kind of labor intensive and error prone (and thus, revised data is released once a year) to collect.
by georgeburdell | 2025-04-26 20:16:01+00:00
The fast food chains seem to have a bifurcated response. Some, like McDonalds, seem to have cut crew, while retaining relatively low prices, so service is generally quite poor now. Others, such as Chick-fil-A, raised their prices, and a plain chicken sandwich at my local franchise is now about $7.

Edit: In-N-Out Burger is the only one I can think of with low prices and good staffing. It is also privately owned
Show HN: Built my first iOS app to quit smoking
by iamshihab | 2025-04-26 20:16:04+00:00
Hey everyone, I’ve been a smoker for years. Tried dozens of apps, tried quitting cold turkey more times than I can count. Nothing really clicked.

Most apps I found either felt too robotic, too motivational ("Just quit now!"), or they didn’t fit how I needed to change — gradually. So... I built my own app. It’s called QuitFlow, and it’s my very first iOS app (yep, 45k lines of code later).

I’m actually a backend developer (Go - primary language) by profession — React Native gave me a way in, and honestly, props to AI code editors too. Without them, this would still be sitting half-finished on my laptop.

But this app is different because it’s built by someone who gets it — not just a dev team guessing what smokers need.

Here’s what QuitFlow focuses on: - Track both electric (vape) and non-electric (cigarette, weed, etc.) smoking in one app. - Connect every smoke with a craving — QuitFlow links each smoking session to what triggered it, so you can see deeper patterns over time. - Understand your habits — quickly spot when, where, and why you smoke the most, and make smarter decisions to avoid those situations. - Encourages delay, not just quitting — the more you delay your next smoke, the more you stretch the gaps between sessions, the less you smoke overall. - Built-in habit tracker — quitting gets easier when you replace the habit, not just fight it. - Simple health tracking — track symptoms like coughing, poop, gastritis, and sleep, and notice real improvements. Privacy: Requires no permissions.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quit-smoking-tracker-quitflow/...

I’d love your feedback — whether you’re trying to quit, cut down, or just better understand your smoking patterns. - Check it out if you're curious - Ask me anything about the app, building it solo, or quitting strategies — I'm here.

Thanks for reading.
by martin-t | 2025-04-26 20:16:35+00:00
A do believe causing harm without justification should automatically result in punishment that causes the same harm to the abuser multiplied by a multiplicative constant but 10x is probably too much. Usually, I'd suggest something between 1.5 and 2.

He was facing 10 years IIRC, giving them 15 seems reasonable.

This constant should increase with repeated abuse so people who are habitual offenders get effectively removed from society.

Some countries already have something similar, like the 3 strikes law, but that has issues with discontinuity (the 3rd offense is sometimes punished too severely if minor). I'd prefer a continuous system, ideally one that is based on actual harm.

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We also need mechanisms where civil servants (or anybody else, really) can challenge any law on the basis of being stupid. If the law is written so that it prohibits any amount (or an amount so small that it is harmless, even if he imported dozens of these samples), it is stupid and should be removed.
by avereveard | 2025-04-26 20:16:57+00:00
instruction following is good most of the time, but hands are still regularly coming out garbled and there's a small percentage of failed generation in the mix. style following is also a bit hit and miss, I'm producing watecolor mostly, but every now and then a generation is photographic

site is not really ready for this, but if you want to get an idea go here https://d2uua1ig5ocnwt.cloudfront.net/ and search these:

amber ladybugs north

I manually remove failed gens, but the proces doens't scale to where I'd like if I have to manually verify images. and I have to have a few automatic rejection in the pipeline, like top border not white or image not squared.
by SnazzyUncle | 2025-04-26 20:17:03+00:00
The stuff they showed on those videos a few years ago were a lot of the often balloons or children's birthday balloons and the incredible speeds were ~40mph.

There is several guys that on YouTube that seriously investigate the UFO sightings and almost all of them are either flares, children's balloons or in some cases people literally filming a reflection of a light fitting in a hotel room.