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dustedcodes commented on AI.gov   ai.gov/... · Posted by u/davidgomes
JohnFen · a month ago
> we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy.

Many in the US, including myself, are looking at the EU with increasing amounts of envy.

dustedcodes · a month ago
Until you come here and realise that your 300k US job only pays 60k here, of which you get taxed more than a third of it and then your taxes only buy you a 2 year NHS waiting list where by the time you get to see a doctor your tumour has grown to the size of a tennis ball and you’re going to die because you couldn’t get healthcare fast enough.
dustedcodes commented on AI.gov   ai.gov/... · Posted by u/davidgomes
dustedcodes · a month ago
Oh man... we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy. Our governments are so inept to even understand basic economics (currently the UK is trying to tax itself to growth), whilst the US government is enabling their own people and US businesses to flourish in emerging markets like AI.
dustedcodes commented on Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX   github.com/hyperdxio/hype... · Posted by u/mikeshi42
dustedcodes · 3 months ago
Very cool, reminds me of SigNoz.

How would I self host this in k8s? Would I deploy a ClickHouse cluster using the Altinity operator and then connect it using the HyperDX local mode or what is the recommended approach to self-host ClickStack?

dustedcodes commented on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source   blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/pentagrama
elif · 3 months ago
Every time I praise WSL on hn I pay the karma tax but I will die on this hill. WSL is more powerful than Linux because of how easy it is to run multiple OS on the same computer simultaneously. It's as powerful as Linux with some janky custom local docker wrappers for device support, local storage mapping, and network mapping. Except it's not janky at all. It's an absolute delight to use, out of the box, on a desktop or laptop, with no configuration required.

Edit: for clarity, by "multiple OS" I mean multiple Linux versions. Like if one project has a dependency on Ubuntu22 and another is easier with Ubuntu24. You don't have to stress "do I update my OS?"

dustedcodes · 3 months ago
I tried it and found it to be such an abomination. I can’t understand why any self respecting software developer would use Windows with a bastard linux like WSL instead of just using actual Linux. Feels like a massive skill issue.
dustedcodes commented on Getting forked by Microsoft   philiplaine.com/posts/get... · Posted by u/phillebaba
dustedcodes · 4 months ago
This is not the first or last time this has happened. Microsoft does it intentionally and when they get caught they then give a fake apology and pretend it was a mistake. These mistakes keep happening and the pattern is always the same, MS teams engaging with a developer to learn all about their business idea and then they steal it:

https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

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dustedcodes commented on UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex   bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9... · Posted by u/dustedcodes
fzzzy · 4 months ago
So you are saying that someone with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome should use the men's bathroom, even though they have fully female genetalia?
dustedcodes · 4 months ago
Huh? Nobody made any statements about bathroom usage or such, nor has the UK ruling anything to do with bathroom access. We are discussing the definition of sex and how the court ruling came to the conclusion .
dustedcodes commented on UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex   bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9... · Posted by u/dustedcodes
taylodl · 4 months ago
Most people typically look at genitals to determine sex. However, as beeforpork pointed out, there are individuals with XY chromosomes who have a vulva, a vagina, and internal testicles. Based on physical appearance alone, which is often the basis for sex determination at birth or during annual physicals, they would be classified as female. Yet, their chromosomes tell a different story. This complexity suggests that it may be inappropriate to strictly categorize them as either male or female. This is what it means to be non-binary. Beeforpork did a good job of detailing other instances where biological markers of sex don't align with the so-called sex chromosomes.
dustedcodes · 4 months ago
Ok what you both say makes sense but none of what you said so far negates the fact that strictly speaking sex is binary, defined by the existence of a Y chromosome and that this is also immutable. It’s completely possible that the externalities presented at birth may lead to a wrong sex assignment, but that is a separate issue of human error isn’t it?
dustedcodes commented on UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex   bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9... · Posted by u/dustedcodes
beeforpork · 4 months ago
Are you trolling?

Biological sex is not binary. There are (at least) three criteria to be considered:

(1) cromosomes. females are XX, males are XY. But other combinations exist: XXY, XXX, XXXY, etc. There is no universal agreement of how those combinations should be best matched to the binary system.

(2) phenotype. females have a vulva, a vagina, and ovaries, males have a scrotum, a penis, and testicles. But some people have no, or half, or a large, or small of one or another. Furthermore, the phenotype might not match with the chromosomes: one example is an XY chromosome type while the person has a vulva, vagina, and internal testicles. There is no universal agreement of how those people should best be classified to the binary system -- the best is probably to recognise that they are non-binary.

(3) hormone level. females have a typical level of hormons and males have different levels. But this is not universally clear-cut. This is one of the most frequent reasons for dispute at sport events when otherwise very obvious women have hormone levels that are 'too male'. Again, no universal agreement of what to do here: ignore the hormone levels in these cases? But why? Usually, they match. But not always.

There are also male outliers that have hormone levels that are higher than for males. These males might also be excluded from sports competitions for the same reason, despite being on the right side of the binary scale, but they are too far on that side. Again -- there is no agreement whether this is still the normal male category or maybe non-binary.

And this is just the biological sex. For gender and identification, there is more. If it wasn't so serious, it would be funny how some governments define sex as binary by reducing it to biological sex or maybe assigned sex -- it is really like making a law that pi is 3.

But note that the judges here made it clear that it is not their place to make a judgement on this complex topics.

dustedcodes · 4 months ago
Isn't what you described here just a variation of chromosomes? We know there are more than two combinations, but Sex is still determined binary via the existence or absence of the Y chromosome, no?
dustedcodes commented on UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex   bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9... · Posted by u/dustedcodes
taylodl · 4 months ago
Meanwhile, biologists and anthropologists recognize that human biological sex is complex and exists on a spectrum, rather than being strictly binary. This ruling is founded on legal definitions, not the full scope of biological diversity. Going forward we should strive to resolve the differences between legal and biological sex so we can make judgements that are more inclusive.
dustedcodes · 4 months ago
> biologists and anthropologists recognize that human biological sex is complex

Have you got any credible sources which support this statement? I have only seen papers which confirm that sex is binary and immutable.

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