skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An argument for gay rights has been that people are "born that way". That appears to be false

Only if you take the strict literal definition of the phrase "born that way" to mean your genetic make-up.

A person has little to no control over their environmental factors during their upbringing. Everything from average air temperature, food nutrient makeup, airborne particles, etc are environmental factors that we know influence other aspects of human development.

Your comment is making the assumption that the environmental factor that causes homosexuality is witnessing other members of the species be homosexual, which is a large leap of logic to make. Especially knowing that homosexuality is quite common in the animal kingdom despite penguins not participating in Pride Months.
Well you can always just create your own courier. If you want true free speech these days you need to build your own stack from the ground up anyway.
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I think you would need to use only datomic's transactor and tx log and then build your own incrementally maintained query engine, which is basically what this project declarative dataflows does. Differential dataflow and regular dataflow are both ways to implement this. Differential dataflow has the restriction that your query engine must be implemented in terms of diff-aware primitives (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22095199). Regular dataflow is like Excel; it works with any functions, but is not as good at incrementally maintaining things like large lists and nesting – if you're familiar with React.js, at a high level, regular dataflow works a lot like React.js rendering which can call any function during rendering. (Note React.js is highly specialized to html view maintenance, not general purpose incremental maintenance of any computation). Someone correct me if I've said something wrong.
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That's pretty much an impossible (or at the very least, asymmetric) amount of money in much of the world.

So charge them less? Now the scammers will call from those places.

How does msft handle support contracts from customers in the developing world?
at this point chrome and firefox both have media keys support, and it works on the major streaming services. so within the past few months it's become not a great choice.
> Reading inaccurate information and taking it all seriously still leaves the reader ignorant, it just gives a false illusion of being well-informed.

> I try to take everything I read with a giant grain of salt while remaining humble and recognizing my own ignorance. If a topic really catches my interest I'll try digging into it by going through primary sources, but otherwise I try to not hold very strong opinions about things I haven't researched extensively. Even after I've done a bit more research on a subject I try to remain humble since there's often many concepts with which I'm unfamiliar.

I think that's a reasonable attitude, though it has the tradeoff of being maybe too indecisive.

> With social media you can now follow many real experts on a wide variety of subjects and they'll happily help explain new and interesting developments in their field. Although even in that situation it's still important to exercise caution, since the illusion of expertise is often abused as a means of advancing some political or financial agenda. Another possibility is that the person explaining the topic might not actually be that well informed or they might've even misunderstood certain parts.

There still aren't enough hours in the day for someone to do even that with any breadth. It's also worth noting that activity is basically journalism with an audience of one.

My general thrust though is to argue against the individualist rejection of institutions, which seems to be really common and I think is pretty misguided. While those institutions always have flaws, there's also good reasons for their existence and use, which are often weirdly forgotten. The reaction to those flaws are often individualist ideas that have even deeper flaws, and often don't actually correct the flaws they're responding to. To make an analogy: it's like a novice programmer reacting to seeing a few dozen Windows bugs and declaring they can't trust Microsoft anymore and they're going to write their own OS instead. That's a huge project, way bigger than one person, and a novice programmer is unlikely to actually do a better job than Microsoft (dispute its flaws and mistakes).
I am not convinced of the deflationary spiral.

No one invests for a "net benefit to society as a whole." They invest for a return, and you can NPV your project in both inflationary and deflationary environments.
The news suggests they are delaying the second dose, or at least strategising.

If there isn't enough vaccine to go around (which there isn't) giving people the recommended 2nd dose is also a gamble.

> The UK’s strategy to delay the second dose of both ... vaccines is so that more people can be vaccinated with their first dose rather than giving a smaller number of people both doses. The hope is that this will save more lives

-- https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/20/revisiting-the-uks-stra...

Do you think the advantage of the 1st vaccine is less than that of the 2nd? i.e that it is better to have 1 person with the recommended 2 vaccines, and another with no vaccinations; versus, two people with only the first vaccination.
There are some pretty straightforward solutions for this;

1. Don't use personal gmail accounts for your business.

2. Don't mix different business units on the same account. (Your 5-year old adsense page you forgot about probably isn't compliant anymore).

3. If your personal account gets banned, hire someone whose job it is to manage your business google accounts and don't touch them.
Self-custody has risks too, most notably theft or loss of the private key. It's tradeoffs all the way down.
You don't know any people from Venezuela I take it, or any countries experiencing hyper-inflation. And not to say that that is THE killer use-case, but it certainly is A use-case for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin started with essentially novelty and "collectibles" value, like baseball cards or celebrity signatures or fine art pieces, but doesn't depend on shifting interests or demand to justify its underlying technical/foundational values of decentralized trust.

The comparison to digital gold is apt, especially if you don't stumble on the red herring that gold has physical industrial/commercial applications beyond just being shiny-and-rare-and-has-history. But, physical gold has pitfalls too: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/Mystery-of-2bn-of-l....

What is the economic value of being able to 100% prove via battle-tested cryptography, that you own the asset that you say you do? What is the value of the technology behind being able to do that? The token's value is simply a proxy for the technology. Bitcoin being a store of value doesn't mean that, a bunch of idiots keep convincing each other that it's more and more valuable; it really means that, the global economy recognizes that they'd rather have provable ownership over X amount of bitcoin, then some equivalent $Y amount of fiat.
That would be ideal, but some people need to be convinced that it is not a choice before they will consider treating gay people with respect. So long as they think it's just a behavioral decision, they can rationalize their bigotry.
I'd definitely be surprised if a significant portion of homosexuality wasn't environmental, but to my knowledge there is a degree of heritability shown in twin studies. Actually reading the article shows that they found several genes that each contribute, but no single gene. That shouldn't be surprising to anyone, considering that almost every complex trait is somewhat affected by a huge number of genes each tweaking the result by a small amount. Remember that DNA controls the development of the body through an insanely complicated Rube Goldberg machine, no one should expect a 1:1 correspondence between any complicated trait and a gene.
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This. In the past, there was a lot of prominent personalities who were suspected of being gay, but left progeny.

Social pressure to have children, especially if there is a title / wealth / prestige to inherit, would certainly play a role.
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> The study authors also point out that they followed convention for genetic analyses by dropping from their study people whose biological sex and self-identified gender did not match. As a result, the work doesn’t include sexual and gender minorities (the LGBTQ community) such as transgender people and intersex people.

I don't get it, isn't this the whole point of the study? The G in LGBTQ stands for "gay", did they exclude people who self-identify as gay from a study meant to find the genetic basis of being gay?
"What does it mean to be gay?" is a question that gay people ask themselves, especially while forming their identities. So there are many, many places where you can find kind and thoughtful answers to it.
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There's some strong data that suggests it has to do with the interplay of hormones between the mother and fetus.

If this theory is proven correct, it wouldn't be either socialization or genes.
Agreed, and it isn't a static thing defined at birth by nature, it can change backwards and forwards over a lifetime.

Not sure why i'm getting a hard time from our co-commenters. I assumed this place being primarily US and Tech it would be quite liberal.
This is a legitimate question. Has our sexuality changed in recent decades (in aggregate), or are we just more open about our differences which were always present?
I think few people are willing to risk that.

When there was some kind of micronation-mania some years ago, with multiple mainstream papers mentioning Sealand and that Australian farmer and whatnot, I went to check, and found out that the UN itself is quite dangerous, in fact is why being "UN recognized" as a country is so important (for example why Taiwan would want to be a country officially), the UN navigation laws state that everyone that is a member of the UN has several rights of navigation, and the US for example is one of the main enforcers of these (US warships patrol around the world to ensure "free passage"), but the way those rigths is written, imply that if you are NOT a member of the UN, any member can sink you without any penalty.

Thus the only way to be anywhere on the sea while not being in the UN, is if you are ally of the US (Taiwan), because otherwise you are at risk of being shot at.

I don't think China has yet the navy needed to counterbalance that.
I think the size of the business is a big consideration in this whole discussion of free plan vs. not. The examples in this article and the other one are big, established, mostly VC-backed companies. I don't think it's a question with a one-size-fits-all answer.

When the company has lots of money to spend on supporting those free users, having the free plan probably makes a lot of sense to grow faster.

When the company is just you in your spare bedroom, there are fewer cycles to spare on the prototypically-needy free customers, so optimizing for fewer -- but paying -- users can be a good trade.
I am simply pointing out that the usage of Bitcoin or something else is better assessed as comparison to global consumption. Trying to map energy usage per product/category to energy usage per country is not insightful and misleading, as it suggests the product/category is not part of the country's energy consumption.

I am not at all arguing that Bitcoin is useful, or that its energy consumption isn't excessive.
I've always viewed staying up with the latest tools, technologies, and practices as part of my job. I've also found that the people who tend to not do this or display a similar sentiment you touched on with your comment, it's because you have carved out a large enough amount of success or niche with what you are working with. Am I reading into this too far?
Even if you had plenty of DNA material, going with multiple labs comes with a risk that one of them comes with a "no match" result - and that is something that is supposed to be disclosed to defense as potential exculpatory evidence - and is a nice source of reasonable doubt for a jury. It's something that is terribly inconvenient for the prosecution when someone has already been charged with the crime...
What's easy to do for a thousand apps is impossible to do for a million apps.

Large scale is not a new quantity, it's a new quality.
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Code review is not the way to validate statistical inferences.

Even during internal review of statistical inference code, committers argue correctness through a combination of readable code, readable tests, and statistical validation on a combination of synthetic and real data. While I agree the TrueAllele source should be provided, the "zero-defects" bar is neither sufficient nor necessary for correctness of the inferences made.
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You don't have to go that far down history to find laws you disagree with. Do you sometimes drink alcohol? Have you ever went above the speed limit? Always done full complete stops? Always been on time at work? Life is full of rules we ought to follow. Doesn't mean we need to.
Entirely right. Even more: "environment" in this context includes the pre-natal environment.
Or even conversion therapies. I'd much rather not be talked to ad nauseam about it!
Are you seriously suggesting Aristotle isn't discussed by philosophers, and isn't considered a philosopher by academics?
If you never knew it happened, how do you... know it happened?

I can't conclusively say one way or the other. I have been a hiring manager at a F500 tech company and have never seen direct evidence of any automatic filtering or rejections.

Anyone speaking with complete confidence in either direction needs to bring actual evidence...
Nice work on a quick project. One note though. I searched for "The Office". The results I got were...

https://next-season-of.com/the-office/

https://next-season-of.com/the-office-the-accountants/

The first I've never heard of before, and the second is some kind of web episode series for The Office (US). If I search on IMDB, the first result is The Office (US) and the second is The Office (UK), which is what I would expect based on ordering by popularity. Both of those seem to be missing from your results.
Is it bad that my first reaction would be to bind autohotkey to spam out space bar events?
> If they did this, how would you prevent people from saying that is unfair, or making it seem like it is pay to play, or something like that?

You can't please everyone; here is how I would frame it.

Stadia developers and business partners receive Enterprise Support.

It's absurd that they aren't already doing something like this.
> It's painfully clear at this point that we need a consumer "bill of rights" to protect us from these giant tech companies.

Nope. That gives players like Google a platform to negotiate from now and in the future, and it won't curb abuses long term. These abuses are a symptom of economic concentration and a lack of competitive markets. The only resolution guaranteed to work is to break up these companies down to smaller parts until they no longer act like quasi-governments.
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As far as i'm aware it's usually not the case in most countried.

In canada we have Interac Online that allows you to send money instantly to anyone in the country but when it comes to international transfer it's usually really slow. (3-10 days). Bitcoin allows tou to send that money anywhere almost instantly.
No, it means they haven't found a gene. There is ample evidence of a genetic link, even if we never find a specific gene or set of genes.
The fourth word on Tether's wikipedia page is "controversial". Nobody is under the impression that it's fully collateralized. Would you care to make the case that a different, trusted stablecoin isn't fully collateralized?

DAI specifically is collateralized with ETH using smart contracts - it's over 100% collateralization is incontrovertible.
It varies: generating inconvenience(for fun or hate towards a particular service), spreading scam URLs(leveraging existing trust relationships), SEO and improving discoverability of their projects (porn, streaming of pirated content, etc) and many more.
Heh, the political spectrum of this place is broad and well-distributed, but the quality of discussion _tends_ to be more respectful than most forums.
The trouble with that argument is that it also works with,

"If there was a genetic cause for shortsightedness, why is it still around?"

"If there was such a thing as a genetic disease, why haven't they evolved out?"

"If not having X-ray vision was genetic, wouldn't the absence of X-ray vision have been selected out?"

You really can't expect evolution to accomplish its "goals," per se. It is sort of a gentle flow down a lazy river, towards adaptation.
i think we can all agree that black boxes are not desirable.

But let's not jump the gun here, and assume ill-intent.... to explain something that can be attributed to negligence, or simple human error.
If anything this headline means the opposite, right? That you are not born a homosexual, at least from a genetic perspective.
It also neglects that you'll always have a bottom 10%, even if those people are absolutely amazing: hire 10 Harvard PhDs and one of them will be at the bottom.

I can't believe stack ranking ever caught on.
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> What do you do if you pay someone online with bitcoin who then just doesn't deliver what you've ordered?

This is the big problem with crypto. Trust moves around. But there is one solution: escrow backed by smart contracts - see here for one implementation [1]

Personally I think what we'll see in future is people being offered the option of going through existing institutions as a form of insurance for the reasons you mention, but an alternative on offer for people who just want to minimize fees or who don't think they'll need those conflict resolution services.

[1] https://particl.wiki/learn/marketplace/mad-escrow/
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Interestingly, I've heard about many people who went from "straight", married with children to leaving their families because they've found out they're gay. I even knew one whose first sexual experiences were with women, and he decided he was gay later. In his "straight phase" he could have had fathered children if he weren't careful. Curiously, I've never heard about opposite cases (spontaneous [1] gay -> straight transition). Make of it what you want.

[1] Spontaneous = ignoring attempts to "cure" gay orientation.
I would be interested in any use case that isn’t insanely extreme.

How much cash do you really want to walk around with if you have lost your wallet which likely included some Of your identification.

Normally, you just have to show Western Union the verification number and your name. You don’t need to chat up the front desk.

> If I had a bank account with balance, why would I use western union?

How often would you not have a bank account, not know the local language, and not be near people you know who would help with money in some extreme case?

—

The other two sibling comments repeated more points. Really all of us are wondering what use cases you’re thinking of.

I don’t think you realize how easy services like Western Union are. I didn’t either until I used it recently.
To the people on HN who constantly try to talk about how stupid cryptocurrencies are, or how it's all a pyramid that's going to collapse, it's all stupid etc.

What do you know that Tesla doesn't know? If you could sit down with the board of Tesla and explain to them what they've missed, what would you tell them?
Yes, the ability to control the currency and who people send money to is powerful and can be used for good, but often isn't. Just look at Venezuela, Zimbabwe, or all the other nations that inflated their currency out of existence or used it to fund genocides.

Perhaps nations would be less likely/able to do things like this if citizens were able to flee without leaving behind their life savings.
It seems reasonable to have a lower bar for challenging expert witnesses in criminal cases versus civil ones.
IMO no government in the US is going to indefinitely ban large indoor gatherings, indoor dining, bars, schools/universities as usual, physical conferences, etc. And any "rules" notwithstanding I fully expect that when summer rolls around and a lot of people, especially the more vulnerable, have been vaccinated whether it's imperfectly or not are going to back to beaches, bars, concerts, etc. At some point, it's just another disease of which there are many that sometimes kills people.
Sending NANO around the world: 11 countries, 1 min, 0 fees, consumed just .41Wh
It gets even more fun when you add folks from India- they're often on calls very late in their day. Or I'm up very early- we try to switch it up...
> I can't help feeling that the habit of removing identifying markers (names, ages, etc) from resumes to try to ensure equality in hiring is also part of the same ill-fated direction.

What? There is well documented and clear evidence that these indicators actually lead to highly biased decisions regarding who gets interviewed. Removing them is the right thing to do.
> are already in 100% profit

If they didn't cash out, there are not profit. Bitcoin could take a 80% dump within an hour and most people would be screwed.
To be fair it isn't entirely their fault.

I feel like all of these platforms are trying to satisfy the media. But of course that isn't possible, the media is only satisfied by the hits it gets from dramatic atricles.

They will constantly publish "Platform X has unsavory content" as if it is surprising that some people will communicate "bad" things on a communication platform. But for whatever reason they feel the pressure so they start making it harder for bots, spammers, scammers and people that they disagree with to participate. Of course then the media has a new weapon "Platform X censoring good person Y!".

I'm not saying that all moderation is bad. But these platforms have backed themselves between a rock and a hard place.
My Pixel 4 uses a different mac every time it connects to a wifi network by default. You can disable it per-network.
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Everything potentially controversial seems to need an “As a ____, ...”
I wasn't sure whether the snark was for the size of the logistical hurdles the much-hyped "trustless solutions for the unbanked" face or the proposed solutions invariably involving some sort of bank, but it's always worth underlining the latter part...
I think you're underestimating the usefulness of scapegoats. If biased results exist, a lot of people look more effective. If such a bias is discovered, only a subset of those people will be blamed.
The other posts cover possible reasons why being gay may be actually good for the utility function of a gene.

There is another hypothesis for why this hypothetical gene might not evolve into extinction. Being gay may just be a side effect of it, with some other benefits being the reason this gene stays in our gene pool.
I am seriously suggesting that most of what Aristotle wrote was not philosophy. Some of it was, but that doesn't mean the rest of it was too.
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Why shouldn't we assume ill-intent? The precedent and the incentives are there.
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This same pattern happened last week - Webhooks reporting issues, then Pull Requests, etc. This one seems to be affecting the rest of their systems a bit more (or maybe they're just being a bit more detailed in exactly what is down this time).

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/5zb8gfbl7qkt