skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it would; being recessive just makes the process take longer.

I've pointed out on other HN threads that homosexuality has much lower concordance in identical twins (around 40%) than almost any other trait, making it an especially unlikely candidate for direct genetic causes.
"Ganna and his colleagues also used the analysis to estimate that up to 25% of sexual behaviour can be explained by genetics, with the rest influenced by environmental and cultural factors — a figure similar to the findings of smaller studies."

An argument for gay rights has been that people are "born that way". That appears to be false. Does this suggest that it may be possible to shape the environment to reduce the incidence of homosexuality? I wonder if societal normalization of homosexuality through the recognition of same-sex marriage, Pride Month, and LGBTQ clubs in schools and colleges have increased its incidence, and if the same is true for transgenderism.
Not neccessarily. Humans are social creatures, our genes' survival is not solely dependent on our individual ability to pass them on, since we share genes with our siblings and parents as well as offspring. For example, families with some non-reproducing offspring may fair better due to having a higher adults/children ratio.

If such a gene existed (which perhaps it doesn't), it might benefit families who had members carrying it.

This is the same reason some species have evolved alarm-calling when a predator is nearby. It benefits the collective (who share the gene), but at an obvious detriment to the individual's ability to pass on their genes in this case.
Ah! I see what you mean there. An emulator that could take an x86 Symbian binary and translate the calls like this for ARM Symbian. Yes, that should probably be technically possible.
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while you work on restoring ubiquitous internet

the rest of us in the wasteland still have something better than a bottlecap based economy

you described something that temporarily puts it on equal footing with checks, but presented a higher standard exclusively for bitcoin to meet
Gay males reproduce by having sex with males when they're younger.
I think you mean most secure, not most stable. It has the first mover advantage, it's well known, it's trustworthy. It's the coin with the largest market capital Technology wise it isn't that impressive, but it's simple and seems to work good enough. Another thing to remember is that a bitcoin's value is not necessarily tied to the effectiveness of the Bitcoin network. Bitcoins can be migrated and live on newer and better projects.
Livelihood is frequently the reason why biases creep in. Independent labs tend to do better.

Here's a look at two different Texas crime labs. Compare and contrast, and see if you can spot the differences.

https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2021/02/beyond-aid-to...

It starts with one pledging to:

aid law enforcement in the detection, suppression, and prosecution of crime

whereas the other seeks to

provide medical examiner and crime laboratory services of the highest quality in an unbiased manner with uncompromised integrity.

and goes from there.
Deflating currencies are bad for day to day transactions because no one wants to spend them. Economic man will discard whichever currency has the worst inflation. However if you’re buying a Tesla, you aren’t doing it because you think it has a good ROI monetary-speaking, you’re doing it because you want a Tesla.

There may be cases of people who are fucked on cryptocurrency taxes due to excessive transactions and being able to buy a Tesla could be a nice parachute to exit their situation.

The most rational part of this situation is Tesla deciding to accept cryptocurrencies for payment. Appreciating currencies boost the balance sheet more than depreciating currencies.
After 12 years and billions invested in its pyramid, the numbers appear to suggest it's also a much sounder investment than your average asset:

https://www.casebitcoin.com/images/stories/charliebilello_re...

Another way to look at Bitcoins meteoric rise over the past ten years is as a catastrophic crash in value of the assets it (and currencies like it) may be in the process of replacing.
That is a pretty self-contradicting statement in multiple ways.
How is that different from a DNA testing kit "as one would normally think"?
That won't work as the same bad actors typically dabble in CC fraud as well. They will typically already have thousands of CC numbers at their disposal.
Interactive sky map viewer: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org
> incentivised to favour a result indicating guilt

Exhibit A: Annie Dookhan of the Massachusetts State Crime Lab who is suspected of falsifying thousands of drug tests

[0]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/massachusetts-lab-tech-arrested...
Earlier discussion thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935
If we can remove what's going to destroy us, that's a win, even if it doesn't deal with what's going to damage us. (I don't buy that it's going to destroy us, BTW. But if you buy even that it's going to be highly damaging, then run with every promising way of attacking the problem.) Don't reject good answers because they aren't perfect.
Does it mean people are socialized into being gay ?
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Oh, right. Completely overlooked that bit.

I agree with you. It certainly will be interesting to see how this works out...
Oh, weekly Github is down.
The argument around this is that it's of social benefit rather than individual. Particularly when child/infant mortality is high and women have lots of children, it could be helpful to have a pool of adults supporting the child-rearing of others, especially their immediate siblings.
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> Out of my network of ~200 astronomers/physicists, I haven't heard one person support the idea that this is an alien probe.

I've heard little to nothing in any media articles of anyone supporting alternatives.

Is it once a year these are thought to come through, or 100 times a year? Do we get things that are 100 times smaller at 100 times the rate?

If people won't make a public call, then lets run with aliens.

I was a fan of it's not interstellar, just more fake 'life on Venus' science, but reading some journal articles[1], it seems like it is expected. But it's been hard to work that out.

[1] Realistic Detectability of Close Interstellar Comets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/825/1/5...
Not going to defend Bitcoin POW, but that's some world class Tesla FUD right there :)

First, I think JPMorgan, GS, MicroStrategy, Grayscale, pumping billions into BTC this year and the OCC announcing that banks can use blockchain for settlement probably has more to do with BTC being viewed as legit than TSLA jumping on board as a tech company.

Second, about 25% of energy is consumed in passenger transportation and Tesla is pretty much single-handedly moving the world to electrifying that making it a) 5x more efficient, b) possible to run from renewables.

Third Tesla is the only organization in the world ramping up to do planet-scale battery production that will make it possible to transition all energy production to renewables. (If people want to pay to produce and consume clean energy for arbitrary purposes that's fine by me... as long as they don't kill me in the process).

The idea that Tesla's influence on BTC mining will waste more energy than their electrification efforts have saved and/or redirected to renewables is nutty.
An innate desire to form an atypical pairing in a non-reproductive fashion.

Honestly i have no idea but this might be one of the last places left on the internet you can ask a question like this without getting dogpiled.

I've batted for both teams in my life and i still can't tell you.
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Maybe for some, but look what happened in Massachusetts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dookhan
Ah, next season is the final season but has an air date in the future. Thanks! Added to my growing bug list.
Absence of proof from an infinite pool of choices isn't proof of absence, but complete understanding of the genome would eliminate it by exhaustion.

In terms of XY exclusively-gay, I think epigenetic is still the leading hypothesis and not genetic by itself. It would be interesting to learn how the genetics set-us up for epigenetic influences.

Other non-heterosexual and flexible sexualities for XX and XY seem more fluid and complicated to unpack. For example, I am unsure what proportion of lesbians are gold star and cannot be aroused at all by males, but I suspect it is low.
> The worst of all is losing access to my @gmail address of over 15 years.

I've read quite a few of these stories over the years, and it is really bad if all your digital life is tied to the Google account.

A couple of months ago I took the courage and started migrating to a new email (using mailbox.org) with my own domain purchased via namecheap.

Took a few days to migrate most of my accounts to the new e-mail, but I highly recommend for anyone in a similar situation looking for some peace of mind.
To be fair the LGBT movement purposefully pushed that misconception because it was more convenient for civil rights purposes.
BSD is interested in systemd. They have enough complaints about implementation details that they probably wouldn't use a portable systemd if it existed though. Interest in the good parts exists
Agreed - “no gay gene” is akin to saying “no intelligence gene” or “no autism gene”.

My understanding is that most psychological traits are now thought of as polygenic, so a statement like “there is no gay gene” is really misleading, because genetics simply doesn’t work that way.
That requires you to clone. It's a minor hassle if you search over a single repo, but when searching across an organization or the whole site, using grep is not an option.
What responsibility is there to diffuse? There is no obligation to form a relationship. Internal ass-covering maybe? But really that would just shift to whomever decided upon the AI system - if they had a system that just rolled a die and picked a resume by index their bosses would not be pleased.

While there is cliche angst about being mediated by machines that has existed since bueracracies - but the parts were humans. Sadly the bueracracies qualify as an improvement over literal fiefdoms.
No one should use mail in voting either...
There's an assumption here that Google would behave differently for paid consumer accounts which I do not think is justified/safe.
How many Nigerian princes have asked for your bank account number via physical mail? How about via email?

The internet lowers the barrier to certain forms of abuse substantially enough that I don't think you can so easily say you won't have made it any worse.
An online detector for GAN-generated faces
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WebRTC Stream Limits Investigation
If you can easily move function between pets, it's not a pet, it's cattle. :)
Depends on the crowd size and philosophy. The only true store of value is a diverse portfolio, anything below that you need to use your own priors and data to decide what kind of risk you take.
Cancel culture is calling for Big Tech to ban a YouTuber for a medical disorder
Not necessarily.

* the same gene can have different phenotypes in different individuals. One phenotype may be net negative but the benefit from the other makes it net positive.

* in social animal gene can be carried by relatives. Extreme example is ants and bees, most of them are not fertile but they help to spread their genes by helping those who are.
Russell's teapot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
Not necessarily. If the gene is recessive, it will be passed on. The question then is: what happens when that gene expresses itself?

The naive reaction is: individuals with the "gay gene" won't reproduce and it will eventually die out. A more nuanced perspective is that while that individual won't reproduce, their presence in the community helps the clan's survival, so a community with the gene is overall stronger, so the gene will stay around.
That being said, ETH 2.0 and bitcoin lightning will solve those problems without the need of polkadot.
Very early in my career, I did an open house where I chatted with their principal architect and got hired. A few weeks later, after I had been working for a week, I received a letter from HR rejecting me. I wandered over to the HR office and meekly asked if I was still employed - and thankfully was. Apparently they had just gotten to screening the resumes that were handed in at the open house.
Black Lives and the Preferential Option for the Poor
> If you are an indie dev with a track record and works with Steam, XBLA, Epic or Nintendo, you will be in touch with a company representative.

Yep. I worked for a small video game publisher with only four people in the entire company and we had a designated account representative at Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft we could (and did) contact when we had issues.

Might be harder as an indie dev, but if you have any track record, like you said, I'm sure they know someone they can contact.
The PGP trust graph is the ultimate fallback here. As long as your public key is out there you can even not have DNS and change your IP address and still be able to prove the identity.
So these 'bad actors' are they just out to find a way to DoS your service or do they have some other motive for forging millions of requests. (I get that email sending is a target - that has been the case since forever - but I'm asking about 'what else'?)
Not sure why you're being downvoted. You're right that human sexuality is nowhere near as clear cut as blonde/brown hair, or spotted fur on animals.

Still, that doesn't mean genetics do not play a role in determining human sexuality, binary or otherwise.
That's right. But…

Ten+ years ago we were all told that the decentralised cryptocurrency would enable the unbanked masses to make micropayments to one another — and indeed, we could do that in the first few years. However, the mining fees are so exorbitant these days that micropayments end up being very expensive, at least percentage-wise. I didn't have any expectations about the bitcoin exchange rate ten years ago, but the “cheap micropayments” expectations were blown to pieces a long time ago.

Bitcoin Lightning, is that so simple that even my mother could use it without my help? For me that's the acid test.
You want to take a second crack at that? I'm not even sure what you're trying to say.
This would naively seem to be a yes to psi. Bem got a strong signal and Scott doesn't believe in psi so he thinks science in general is deeply flawed as it currently works.
one more I liked here: early GitHub

free for public / oss projects, pay for private

- most personal projs and oss are covered: like slack, that supports successful viral collab!

- but as soon as you are doing commercial work and want that privacy (eg, you are being paid to do it), ok to charge a bit

they eventually got big enough that they could wait even longer to charge. squeezing a few $/mo from tiny accounts doesn't matter if that causes churn before bigger adoption. for a co that straddles both smb + enterprise (1% of customers are 50% of revenue?), that is a suggestive trend for prosumer freemium

another good article here is Greylock's Unit of Value essay
Depending on other conditions (environmental and genetic), a particular gene may not be expressed in the same manner (or at all). You can find simple examples in recessive alleles. The phenotype of such genes will only be expressed when both alleles are of a compatible type.

Another striking example: Sickle cell disease will only be deadly if both alleles carry the unfortunate mutation. But the unhealthy allele is unlikely to be eliminated by evolutionary pressure because carrying one allele provides significant protection against malaria.

The interactions between genes and their environment is usually more complicated that these simple examples, but I hope it illustrates that evolutionary pressure may not suffice to erase some apparently unsustainable alleles from the population.
When I was in middle school, one day I noticed that this one girl was the most amazing person on the planet and I couldn't stop thinking about her.

I imagine being gay would be a lot like that, except it would've been a boy.
In the TV shows and books, opposing counsel always want to inundate the protagonist with truckloads of boxes full of printed papers when they could just handover a flashdrive instead. Are there any lawyers here who can speak to the accuracy of such portrayal?

It would seem the next logical step would be for every other lawyer to say they shouldn't hand over discovery because it would take to long for the otherside when they bury them in paperwork.
There's a lot of parallels between this Harvard dude's theory, and some risk management material I've been studying lately.

It goes something like this... yes, anything is possible. It's possible an alien launched a giant dildo-esque probe from 20 billion light years away as a means of wooing the citizens of Earth.

But it's likely improbable to the point that it's near meaningless to even consider it.

So what is the meaningful math behind this that provides a reasonable level of confidence behind the alien probe theory?
Usually refers to romantic and/or sexual attraction to the same sex.

> Is it dislike, fear(?) of opposite sex?

Not generally, no, just like most straight people don't dislike members of their own sex.
Streaming your own media (Plex, Kodi, etc.), hosting your own password manager (BitWarden), home automation (Home Assistant, Node-RED), torrent seed box, a VPN so you can remote into your own network (OpenVPN), security NVR (Unifi Protect, Shinobi), a general file backup server (which can mirror to Google Drive, DropBox, etc. automatically with RClone), etc.

Really just depends on how much work you want to put into it. Pretty much any service you use online you can self-host a version of it.

That's not to say I don't pay for any online services. I still use Google Drive, Netflix, and Spotify, but self-hosting is getting me closer to "cutting the cord" with some of these.
With some planning we could have accommodated the 120K rps rate and more, but just out of the blue it caused a lot of issues, the database shards for historic information tended to be configured for infrequent access to large amounts of historic data, their access completely thrashed our caches, etc. We did want Google to index us, if there had been an open dialog we could have created a separate path for their traffic that bypassed the cache and we could have brought additional database servers into production to handle the increased load, we even had a real time events feed that updated whenever content was created or updated that we would have given Google free access to that so they could just crawl the changes instead of having to scan the site for updates, but since they would not talk to anyone none of that happened.
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Celebrity tweets make or break cryptocurrency markets these days
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> A company called Lavo is selling such a thing right now.

A link would be nice. The only thing I could find is a home battery from Lavo which costs $26,000 and doesn't say anything about being able to compress and deliver hydrogen safely to a car.

> If you can accept that a fuel cell car can match a battery powered one on efficiency,

This is laughable. Here's some numbers direct from your Lavo home hydrogen battery:

> "But the process of generating hydrogen by electrolysis using a proton exchange membrane is only about 80 percent efficient, so you lose 20 percent straight away. And at the other end, you'll lose somewhere around half of what you've got stored in the process of converting the hydrogen back into energy through a fuel cell."

So ever watt of power you put into it you get 40% of the power back in the for of go-juice. That's not even accounting for carting all of the hydrogen around the country to keep fuel stations supplied. Nor does it account for any drain from compressing it to deliver it to a car at home.

By comparison, you lose about 15% efficiency pushing the extra 500 pounds of Tesla around.

> If you can accept that a fuel cell car can match a battery powered one on efficiency

Efficiency isn't even close. Why would I accept what is clearly something which only exists in the imaginary future in your head? It's not even in the ballpark.

There are a lot of potential future applications for this technology, but large scale adoption of hydrogen in personal vehicles is not going to happen.
I'm curious if they instead focused on a simple neural net that is fed genes + gay/straight flag if the NN would actually successfully predict it.... in other words, NN's don't care about "finding" that specific gene, they kinda include everything and it "finds" the gene without actually pointing it out.

That's very different from the human approach which is to try to find something specific.

I mean compare it to blood diseases based on genetics. There are many genes that lead to health problems that comes down the shape. But it's not just one thing, it's a spread of things. We're thinking Gay is a specific gene we're just as unlikely to find it.

Not arguing any specific direction, but I just suspect the findings if they don't include variances in their methods.