skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its time to design a new Instruction set architecture
Genes aren’t a good way to explain most things. They’re more like LEGO blocks. It’s how the cells use and express the genes that matters.

So you want to look at regulatory regions of the genome, promoters, and even how and when the dna folds up to inactive large regions. That’s where all the action is.
“Slack transcodes some files you upload, including removing byte order marks ”
Thanks for the tip.

It wasn't quite the solution I was looking for. I wanted my DNS server to "just work" for people who downloaded it—I didn't want to force them to re-configure systemd to accommodate my software.

Tweaking my software to accommodate systemd.resolved took ~4 hours. It was an enjoyable dive, but I'd rather not have had to do it on the first place.

I continue to think it's a bit of an overreach for Fedora to include a DNS server by default.
Use hCaptcha for sign up and other sensitive parts of your application.
This reminds me of the nfl combine but for jobs. There are plenty of examples of players that do well in the combine but fail in the nfl. Your test just selects for individuals who are good at testing and not necessarily good at their potential job.
When you're trying to convince the majority to quit discriminating against you, then you push whatever evidence you've got. Convincing them that it's genetic, and therefore not a choice, is a prime goal.
The striking example that you gave is more striking than that. Having one allele actually brings protection from malaria. So the recessive is selected for..as long as not too many people have it.

That is why sickle-cell anemia mostly shows up in people whose ancestors came from places with a long history of malaria.
Taxes wise for the US
fiat -> crypto: nothing
crypto -> crypto: capital gains
crypto -> fiat: capital gains
nothing -> crypto: income
> What do we do about those who are at low / very low risk from Covid19?

We give them the vaccine to stop the spread, once the vaccine is proven safe. After all: the vaccine slows down the spread of the disease (probably at a lesser rate than it prevents hospitalizations, but a slowdown in any case is good).

I'm not sure what you're trying to insinuate in your post. Since the vaccine has been given to over 30-million Americans, we know it is safe at this point (with issues occurring in literally one-in-a-million allergy issues, which is largely solved by just watching the patients 30-minutes after injection).

EDIT: I should note that we should vaccinate the high-risk / high-impact population first. The only reason we don't vaccinate the low-impact / low-risk population yet is because we don't have enough vaccine yet. But as Johnson&Johnson, AstraZeneca, and Novavax release their doses, things will go a lot faster.
EncroChat, targeted equipment interference, and the Court of Appeal
When I was involved in hiring, we received a steady stream of CVs and then had to decide if we want to interview and eventually hire or reject a candidate (typically we decided right after the interview or programming task).

While there is a short time window in which multiple candidates might be evaluated, this approach is pretty close to the assumptions of the secretary problem.
X Æ A-12
Her concerns must shelved
The name's not weird, damn it!
It's commonly seen on the red planet!
Brilliant comment
thanks for your precocious feedback. I will try to improve my search results. Regards
Sexually antagonistic pleiotropy perhaps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antagonistic_pleiotropy_hypo...
I speak for many readers when I say: "What?"
The "born that way" argument was always a compromise/simplification.

The true argument is that gay relationships, regardless of cause, are just as worthwhile and life affirming as straight relationships.

But, if you're stubborn, and refuse to acknowledge that, "they're born this way" might temporarily get you to acknowledge the absurdity of your position. It feels cruel to condemn someone for something they can't control. But that's not much of an argument--I don't think pedophiles choose to be attracted to minors. The difference is that pedophilic relationships are harmful, not worthwhile and life-affirming.
Thank you for expressing this sentiment that whirled in my head when reading that particular blogpost.

It felt like an impersonal scolding from a person I do not even know, a list of bullet points where you failed, or at least didn't do well enough.
The best you could probably do would be to match twins, so about 65%[1].

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8494487/
I think this is called a Spandrel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)
> In fact, generally presuming alien technology artifact shuts down experimental futures... Whereas interstellar rocks will require advances in our rocketry and mission staging so we can hopefully find one we can get on an intercept trajectory with.

Sorry, but in my mind this is reversed. I think the general sentiment, if you asked a large portion of the populace, would be that something we assume to be of technological origin warrants a much larger investment in time and resources in order to catch up with it and study it thoroughly than something of natural origin. The last thing that comes to my mind when thinking about the possibility of an alien probe having discovered us is to sit around waiting for them to show up.

In either case, we should be a bit ashamed that we're unable to conclusively determine the difference between a rock and a solar sail and we should probably put more effort into developing the capability to do so.
Consider adding 2013 to the title. (Not sure if it's possible).
AI Incident Database
Commodity money has existed for thousands of years. There is a much better explanation for the 1929 crash than "gold broke all of the sudden". In short:

The international gold standard did not collapse during the 1930’s because of its
inner contradictions — as schools inculcate the idea into all students. The truth
is that the victorious powers inadvertently caused the collapse of the gold
standard (with a 13-year lag) by disallowing its clearing system, the
international bill market, to reopen for business after the cessation of hostilities
in 1918. [1]

[1] https://professorfekete.com/articles/AEFNewAustrianSchoolOfE...

This makes sense if you study the functioning of the bill of exchange, which is a form of commercial credit that solves the problem of workers wanting weekly wages for producing a consumer good that takes months to sell: https://professorfekete.com/articles/AEFMonEcon101Lecture5.p...
Is that a reference to the infamous C64 Summer / Winter Games? Where you had to twiddle your joystick as fast as you can?

Fascinating that should carry over into the 21st century hiring process.
Indeed. Many people on HN talking on this thread are forgetting bisexuality, demisexuality, etc. Even comments as simple as "you see a beautiful [x of opposite sex] and feel no attraction" miss a lot of vitals.
> We also have SLAs so they can't just cut off our account.

hold my datacenter

Do they have to honor the SLA if you are doing stuff against their ToS or if you were hosting illegal content?

I'm pretty sure they can and will shut your account off if they think you are being naughty, that's the problem with AI making decisions. The reasons are good enough.

I'm saying this as a heavy GCP user. What we did are the usual recommendations, have an extra owner for the projects as a fallback (not a fake backup account for the love of god, someone real and trustworthy). Buy your domains somewhere else. Have backups/replication outside Google's reach. Have a doomsday scenario plan to bring everything up.
Unless you are physically handling your $1000 cold hard cash from your hand to receiver's hand, there are many steps in the chain that could go wrong, and then it's gone.
Consider cloudron if you want an easy to maintain mail server. It works really well.
> decentralized planning essentially the current economy

No it isn't, decentralized economic planning involves communal ownership not private (shareholder) ownership which allows communal management and prioritizing the needs of people and not the wants of those with most money/capital.

The current political-economy in most countries is Liberalism. ( https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Economic_liberalism )

> If I have a skill to provide a service, I can start my own business in my town to make a living.

If you have a skill then under decentralized economic planning you would provide it as needed and not start a business (own or otherwise)

> I can more or less accept payment via other goods such as food for my family. In smaller towns this is still not unheard of.

That would be barter, it is more common to accept non-currency IOUs when doing communal work / services rather than directly into goods/services.

> If a competitor opened up next to him, they'd both then compete, thus trigger your decentralized planning since they both have to innovate or come up with methods to gain customers.

In a decentralized planned economy if someone else wanted to work as a mechanic then they would cooperate rather than compete.
Neural nets for genetics are probably a good fit, and perhaps arguably, a better biological analogy than actual neurons. But they're likely already getting the gist here. They actually say that with genetic analysis (implying more than one gene at a time), they could explain 25% of sexual behavior. To be honest, that's a lot more than I would have expected. In biology, that's a pretty high predictive power, and I think is a way more interesting headline than "no single gene controls sexual orientation".

At the end of the day though, many other factors will contribute, so genetics can only explain so much. With aggressive data collection during development, I would wager we could get sexual orientation prediction much higher. Probably not high on the proverbial bio-ethicist's wishlist of things to make broadly available.
'git grep' allows the search within the repo, assuming that you have it cloned locally.
To your point, I had never heard of Redux toolkit or those hooks. Thank you for sharing!
I don't think it's making that strong a claim. They can't identify a specific gene. That's not quite "you are not born a homosexual." Plenty of studies over the years have shown statistically very significant genetic links. We just can't explain the exact mechanism yet.
Google should have fixed this years ago.
It would be nice if they included the upper bound of the genetic component from twin studies. Without that it's hard to say whether the 8-25% they found here is as much as we'll get, or if large studies are needed.

It would be pretty surprising if they found a single gene though. The omnigenetic theory says that every complex trait is influenced by small contributions from many genes.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/omnigenic-model-suggests-that...
Is the big underlying motive for LISP its connection with symbolic AI?
Republican Rep. Ron Wright of Texas Dies of Covid
Easy, Open-Source AutoML in Python with EvalML
I have done my first and will with no code that was faster and easier; yet looking for a no code team that would be available was an exercise. Every success, guyz!
> The only resolution guaranteed to work is to break up these companies down to smaller parts until they no longer act like quasi-governments.

Why not both?

A consumer bill of rights and breaking up Google are not mutually exclusive. Consumer protection laws protect consumers from all companies big and small, present and future. Breaking up Google won't do anything about the "next Google".

It's a bit strange to think that antitrust is a long-term solution when the successful antitrust case against Microsoft didn't prevent Google, Facebook, and Apple from arising.
You probably can’t carry cash around safely all the time. If Bitcoin was ubiquitous and easier ways to use it and carry it were in place, that wouldn’t be the safest thing either.

Western Union just needs the verification code and proof of who you are to give you money. I don’t see the big barrier with it.
Off-topic, very sorry:

Are there any resources you particularly recommend if I wanted to learn more about quantum computing and how quantum computers work on the hardware level?
I looked at the bottom of https://app.jiga3d.com (the link in the post) and not the main page, that's why I missed it. Thanks!
How much uncertainty in the system are you willing to live with if you were falsely accused of murder?
Left and right are relative really. Wanting to shift to a constitutional monarchy was once "the left" or having only Chrisianity as first class citizens in comparison to only Catholicism or Protestantism.

International politics should be contextually anchored essentially. So you say "Party X from country Y is further left than part A from country B." That is putting aside "mixed political aspects". Is a communist country which outlaws homosexuality to the left or right of a free market capitalist country which has gay marriage?
They are becoming the AT&T Wireless of Cloud providers.

If you have no problems, it's fine. The first time you need to call customer support, you start wondering if TMobile or somebody else would be a better provider.
Its not fair when you have to get attention on twitter before getting issues like this resolved. Some of us don't use twitter for one thing
Do you cater to Indian startups?
700 sounds like a pretty decent sample size to me.
I don't think Python has the same issues. It was very popular as a scripting language long before it became good at numerical and data science work. It has always been free/open source and never required special hardware to run. Even if ML tanks, the impact to Python would be minimal.
If you take a simplistic view of genetics where you draw Punnet squares and check if the offspring has GG alleles, maybe. Even if there are social benefits to there being some gay people around, that would still make those alleles pretty unlikely to be passed on. That doesn't imply there isn't a genetic component. Real genetics is a lot more complicated than that.

The fact that something is genetic doesn't imply there is no social component. Genetic factors could lead to a predisposition for a certain behavior that would still be altered by environment. There could be many genes that each has some small effect but none of which is an on/off switch. Those would lead to more complicated selection pressures.

We are pretty sure there is a genetic component. We are pretty sure that it isn't just "if you got the gay allele then you's gay".

Also, some gay (or mostly gay) people have children. This is because a) most people are at least a little bit bisexual, b) people may want to have children even if the sex act isn't appealing, and c) there are social pressures to conform.
I wonder if effective DDoS protection today is inextricably tied to having to route your traffic through centralized third parties like Cloudflare.
Don’t fall into the trap of being an expert before you’re ready
The economy throughout history was not based on artificial deflationary currencies that are controlled by the banks and governments. It's time to go back to them and put power in the hands of the working people, not corrupt individuals who control the amount of wealth as they wish.
>we know that SARS-COV-2 infection can DEFINITELY cause long term health issues in a significant minority of people infected.

Only 10% of positive cases (not including asymptomatic, untested cases) have any symptoms after 3 weeks.[1]

This is not significant compared to say, pneumonia.[2]

>we also have no reason to believe that there would be long term health issues

Medical history is replete with doctors and pharmaceutical companies making this claim for new treatments which ended up having horrible long term effects for many people.

[1]https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-long-term?fbclid=IwAR1R...

[2]https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pneumonia/treatment/
Rethinking the software developer interview: Send questions in advance
Attention Shoppers! (1997)
Imagine a world where spammers could be identified, prosecuted, and convicted reliably. The amount of economic energy unleashed would be staggering.

We are still in the early days of the internet. It is a frontier territory where crime is rampant.
I hear you.

Any developer knows/understands if the offer comes from a legit source or scumbag. I cannot make other people's choices for them. My answer would be 'no' even for 100k, BUT I am in HN and I suggest people get off facebook and google because they are privacy nightmares (also certified in a couple of audit/security areas - so there's that). Btw I did have an app on Apple store, target audience was children (3-6 years old), it did OK, I just didn't have the time to keep it around (for the little revenue it was bringing).
It worked 100% offline, no tracking, no ads, no nothing. I have a free version as a sample and the full version at $0.99. I chose to sell than help the ad beast grow bigger and track children more.

But that is just me. $50k is a serious amount but it won't make me or break me. For some other parts of the world, where a monthly salary may be $200.....
Gosh sorry guys. Something about the techno babble in the article made me want to make a Star Trek reference. Bad judgment!
non-reproductive workers benefit the reproductive insects. For instance, worker bees benefit the queen. The queens that lay the eggs in the most beneficial ratios are most likely to survive and pass on.

For this analogy to be equivalent, it should lead to having gay children benefit the adults enough to allow for more successful breeding.

I do am not commenting on one's gayness has a genetic basis, because I also have not idea.
> In the event that they get caught up with a biased lab, wouldn’t it look bad for their reputation? As in, they can’t even perform due diligence on their sources, how can you trust them in a promoted role?

I am not a lawyer but as I understand the U.S. criminal justice system (which is adversarial between defense and prosecution with the judge officiating and the jury picking the winner) prosecutors are not experts in particular technical fields which is why courts allow expert witnesses. The defense is responsible for calling their own experts who can dispute other biased witnesses. If no one successfully disputes an expert witness over time the prosecutor's trust in them is very likely to grow.

A prosecutor will always claim they did due diligence by selecting a reputable expert witness up until it's proven that the witness was not in fact reliable, but claim (likely in good faith) that they had no way of knowing the expert witness was biased.

A better solution might be to mandate that expert witnesses get independently tested but again that's something a defense council could facilitate and bring into evidence. If no defense team finds it valuable to do this kind of work then it's unlikely a prosecutor will see it as useful either. Lack of challenges implies that the evidence is more or less indisputable from a legal perspective.
> Anyhow, it's impressive that Intel can even be in the same ballpark using much larger and much more power hungry 10nm gates made in the good ol' USA

Depending on how you choose to read this, this could also be a very strong signal that Apple still has plenty of room for optimization when node size bottoms out. Has Intel already used much of that optimization headroom? Will those optimizations necessarily transfer from 10nm to 7 and 5 and below?
Ok good point but I was thinking of daily use. Storing value is not daily use, it's just laying there.

Just look at the stories of darkweb markets they take down. Thousands of sellers, catering to tens or hundreds of thousands of buyers.

There is no other market anywhere in the world using cryptocurrency to that extent.
What Is Polkadot (DOT)?
http://archive.is/3HYYl
Ouch, it looks like I'm picking up the UK version. I need to make handling shows with the same name a priority. I downloaded shows ordering from most to least popular. When generating pages I go in the same direction. I must be generating the page for the Office US and overriding it with the Office UK. Thanks for highlighting!
Or a software input device
But if they worked they wouldn’t be objectionable?

Being forced into them would be objectionable, but being forced into your family farm doesn’t mean farming itself is bad. If conversion therapy was a thing that worked and you could choose it if you wanted, it would be like any other life choice - changing career, religion, nationality, etc.
Good comeback :) (if you're posting on HN for others reasons that honestly and constructively discussing things, you might be better off posting somewhere else).

I hope you didn't take my "be quiet" as a "shut up and don't criticize" but more of a "put your money where you mouth is". We need people who are skeptical as much as we need people who are optimistic. But instead of complaining and asking "how can people do this?!" you're almost certainly better off trying to enact the change your want to see in the world, than posting about it on random forums.
Completely agree except for "Until you have data in a control group comparing the rate of these events to the vaccinated group, you have absolutely nothing other than fear mongering."
If these vaccines were released under a normal process, it meant that there was enough trials/scientific consensus that they were effective and did not cause significant adverse reactions. There were limited trials and many at risk people were excluded from them. So you can't say that "its safe for a pregnant woman to take the vaccine". You can only say, "there is no information that says it is not safe for a pregnant woman to take the vaccine". All you know is that 5 adverse reactions (miscarriages) were reported. How adverse reactions was it based on how many took it? You don't know. It wasn't in a trial.
This was great, thanks for the recommendation!
Wombat poop: Scientists reveal mystery behind cube-shaped droppings (2018)
I see Bitcoin and cryptocurrency as part of a larger movement that's looking for an "exit" from institutions like, well, Harvard.

I think the building of those alternatives is actually rather important, given how poorly these well established institutions seem to be at solving problems, including the ones you list.
As in, my managers always talked about their piles being “presorted by HR” which was just code for a computer did it. I never thought some well paid HR person was actually sorting through those, but maybe I guess.

There’s no evidence to bring? Like, in the case of bunch of people bringing personal anecdotes you can still create a sense of truth without evidence Christ.
This is an interesting idea. I wonder if we could then use something like [0] to trace back "gay-ness" as well as other "personality features" (I'm not sure what the correct term is here) to the exact genes.

One potential issue I see is that the DNA of any person has an arbitrary length, which poses some challenges in the design of a neural network. Traditionally, this has been solved with LSTMs or RNNs, but as far I know these are designed for data with a temporal dimension (such as text or speech, which progress with time). I'm not sure if that's true for DNA.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06321
#define WORKING 0
// set to '1' for testing
Great idea, that shouldn't be too hard to add. I'll look into it.
It was easier to fit in as a bisexual person in the past, than a homosexual person, so bisexual people didn't need as much representation in the past.

Ironically, now we're at a point where that's flipped, and you need to be either gay or straight and can't be somewhere in the middle; but, earlier on, bisexual people could escape persecution and therefore weren't the primary focus.

It's a lot more effective to have the discussion "Dad, I like guys!" and get the father to accept that in the 1950s than it was to say "Hey dad, I like guys and gals". The father could just as easily go "You know, I think there's some good looking men out there, too" and completely miss the point.