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by laughing_man | 2025-10-30 19:34:09+00:00
They knew the vaccines had substantial side effects before they were released to the public. Those results were put under a 75 year gag order, at least in the US. I'm not sure "hand waving" is the right way to describe what happened, but they certainly could have been more honest with us.

A public health authority's only coin is the extent to which the public finds it credible, and the US public health establishment may never recover from covid.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-30 19:34:10+00:00
I disagree. Raw UDP is about as useful as raw TCP if your application matches the protocol's features and weaknesses. Plenty of protocols work by spamming packets around the network where it doesn't matter if half of them go missing or arrive out of order.

TCP is also barely enough to be a real "protocol". It does a bunch of useful stuff but in the end raw text is pretty useless as a protocol. That's why everything from IRC to HTTP has its own protocol on top.

SCTP is a bit of a weird outlier to be placed at the level of TCP and UDP, but there's no need to go all QUIC and reinvent TCP if you want to use UDP. DNS, NTP, and plenty of other protocols don't need to rebuild reliability and streams to be useful.
by vitorsr | 2025-10-30 19:34:27+00:00
> Typst has made some basic choices, which as someone who typsets a lot of math, makes it a no go.

For me, breaking from not just a 40-year-old history of mathematical typesetting but also from the American Mathematical Society recommendations is the dagger. Plus doubling work if you want to reuse what you wrote to render MathJax or KaTeX.

> $\alpha x$ is correct and $\alpha\beta$ is correct, but $\alphax$ is not.

Like you said, braces can be used so all of the following are valid: ${\alpha}x$, $\alpha{x}$ or the odd $\alpha{}x$.
by munificent | 2025-10-30 19:34:28+00:00
I don't think that logic quite holds up because when you have two NaNs that do have the same bit representation, a conforming implementation still has to report them as not equal. So an implementation of `==` that handles NaN still ends up poking around in the bits and doing some extra logic. It's not just "are the bit patterns the same?"

(I believe this is also true for non-NaN floating point values. I'm not sure but off the top of my head, I think `==` needs to ignore the difference between positive and negative zero.)
by eptcyka | 2025-10-30 19:35:13+00:00
TCP does not guarantee delivery, but it guarantees that if you receive an ACK, then the acknowledged bytes were received. UDP provides no such guarantee. Yes, it is OK to call it unreliable, because you can't rely on it to reliably deliver packets - the sender will never know if the packets it sent were ever delivered without any external validation. Game servers and clients work around this by being fault-tolerant. QUIC runs on UDP but the way it achieves reliability is by implementing reliability of TCP in the application layer. You cannot expect to receive all UDP packets you send to yourself on localhost, I think that it is reasonable to call such a network protocol unreliable, in the sense that one cannot reliably know if sent packets have ever been delivered within the confines of the protocol itself.
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-30 19:35:14+00:00
They coordinate, but coordination doesn't mean totally aligned behavior and interests which never diverge, nor that they don't try to spy on each other. Multiple people in the United States have been been caught and convicted of spying for Israel and are serving lengthy prison sentences because of it; Israeli lobbying efforts have tried to get their sentences commuted, so far without success. That's not what you would see if "coordination" went as far as your post implied.
by peteforde | 2025-10-30 19:35:25+00:00
I'm feeling some real hurt seeing this announcement.

I bought the Affinity v1 apps, buying into the vision for a no-BS forever app.

I was surprised to see a v2 app show up a year after I bought into v1 with what I remember was something like a 25% discount. But this was going to be the new forever app, and I understand wanting to get things right on a second pass.

Reading about how v2 will no longer get updates just makes me see red.
by shrinks99 | 2025-10-30 19:35:53+00:00
I'd buy some of these explinations, except the depth estimation, colorization, and super-resolution ML models they use in the app DO run locally and are still subscription-gated.

Apple has been doing on-device machine learning for portrait blurs and depth estimation for years now, though based on the UI, this might use cloud inference as well.

Granted, these aren't the super heavy ones like generative fill / editing, and I understand that cloud inference isn't cheap. A subscription for cloud-based ML features is something I'd find acceptable, and today that's what has launched... The real question is what they plan to do with this in 2-5 years. Will more non-"AI" features make their way into the pro tier? Only time will tell!
by linsomniac | 2025-10-30 19:35:55+00:00
Naw, dawg, Imma try and try to encourage them to get started early and put a little bit away, because it's good for them. I'm acutely afraid of a scenario where they have bad habits and anything I leave them they flush down the toilet because of those bad habits. I'm hoping to leave them plenty, but they need to be in a position to not waste that for it to be worth anything.
by dottjt | 2025-10-30 19:36:06+00:00
I think it's actually a bad thing to think about money early on. Because it adds a layer of responsibility which I think takes away from simply enjoying life and focusing on what you might be truly passionate about.

One of the things I hate about my 30s is that I'm focused on money now and it feels like I'm not living the life that I want. It just feels like I'm preparing for death.

Which I'm not saying isn't the sensible thing to do, there's just something inherently managerial about it which doesn't seem intuitive to living a meaningful life.
by lloydatkinson | 2025-10-30 19:36:20+00:00
I got the email just now about this. I was happy to pay real money for good software as I had done for Affinity V1 and would have upgraded to V3… but now it’s free because we are the business now.

With a big dollop of AI slop on top.

Every single time some acquisition happens, this happens.

I am more than happy to pay good money for quality software to support a business so it doesn’t need to resort to this. Even a monthly subscription would have been preferable.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-30 19:36:39+00:00
It is not quick. Whatever goodwill google had, it is gone based on their actions alone. And this is beside the point, because, I am not judging on what they intended to do, but what their actions, including after intense community backlash, were. In other words, their intent is irrelevant given the circumstances. Their actions, however, even without intended malice, will cause tremendous damage all around.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-10-30 19:37:13+00:00
IPLD is literally a merkle tree data structure format standardised by IPFS which is heavily rooted in cryptocurrency and in fact has its own cryptocurrency created by the IPFS devs: Filecoin.

DIDs were created by cryptocurrency orgs. The standard was created by a bunch of cryptocurrency groups working with the W3C and the entire time it was being developed, it was derided by non-cryptocurrency people as just another way for cryptocurrency to scam people. It doesn't stop being related to cryptocurrency once you realise it's useful.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-30 19:37:31+00:00
> What does anyone care about the people who attacked Israel?

I want to see theocracies gone.

> The Arab Gulf has rivers of oil required for driving human economic progress forward.

Solar energy is cheaper and it doesn't need to be trucked around on ships, threatening insanely expensive disasters.

> they have been consistent about suppressing Islamists within their borders.

... and instead funding them in Western countries, yeah. Saudi funded madrasa schools or imams funded by oilsheik countries are a massive problem, although I admit a part of that is our fault as well for not running theology studies in our universities for Islam (unlike for Christian denominations).

> Pinning Hamas on the Arab Gulf might advance your narrative, but it's provably false for anyone willing to actually probe that claim.

Well, Hamas is strongly supported by Qatar and Iran.

> LMAO. Imagine a (likely) Western European preaching about morals after ethnically cleansing three entire continents?

Just because we did massive mistakes in the past, there's no reason we have to continue doing them now.
by eesmith | 2025-10-30 19:37:49+00:00
> since the chief living in the office may actually be better for response time

If only the police chief made that argument first, in public, instead of sneaking around the rules.

> This article makes me feel

That's because you seems like someone who really, really doesn't want to live in the place you work but don't have an option to work remotely.

> as a political move more than in the actual interest of safety

Then the police chief is extremely poor at understanding the rules and how to work within them to effect change.

> I would hope he gets the same treatment that those living on the street ... support from the community and no repercussions at all.

You really are ill-informed. "Millbrae is now the first city in San Mateo County to implement a no-camping ordinance intended to prevent unsheltered homelessness and remove encampments." https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/millbrae-passes-sa...

Ha! "It allows Millbrae to remove personal property and campsite-related items in public spaces with 24-hour notice for individuals. If personal items are removed, they will be stored at the Millbrae Police Bureau for up to 90 days." so technically the police chief could keep his personal items at the station for 90 days, just like homeless people could. But that's not what you meant since homeless people aren't being given free shelter at the police station.

I get it. You don't like California cities. You want to live some place cheap and with guns, while making a good income. Sounds great. But you are letting your emotions make you blind to anything outside of your tunnel vision and gut feelings.
by atoav | 2025-10-30 19:38:04+00:00
There are legit use-cases for "fire-and-forget"-protocol. E.g. anything that is more about "hey, here is a new value, just like the past 100.000 I sent within the last second" than about "here is a critical command where it would really suck if we didn't know about it not arrive at its target system.

Not caring about whether every single transmission arrives is a totally legitimate technological choice and it can have some tangible benefits when it comes to throughput, latency etc.

As with every piece of technology UDP gets problematic when you are ignorant towards its limitations and misapply it.
by jonstaab | 2025-10-30 19:38:12+00:00
> With our unique financial rewards model, scale matters. The more justice you unlock, the more monetary compensation you receive.

> In fact, we pledge to distribute to tippers $200 million out of every $1 billion we collect.

What? Donating 20% of profits is great, but this sounds very weird. Is the only thing that drives this revenue donations? In which case, why do we need a rent seeking intermediary? Nostr has bitcoin tips built in, and you don't have to pay anyone to send money to whomever you want.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-30 19:38:15+00:00
It's possible that in some configurations of aphantasia the brain is still doing some sort of processing that is made available via a subconscious process.

So you can't visualize an occluded surface in an active way but your brain still prevents you from running your rear bumper into another car.

Many people with aphantasia still dream at night.

Congenital aphantasia and emergent aphantasia may effect brain structures differently, perhaps some forms just disconnect the pipeline that feeds the brains computed data back into our visual centers for further visual analysis.

It's very interesting, in running down these differences we would probably learn a lot about the brain.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-30 19:38:22+00:00
I'm guessing the upper-class managed to convince people of that as well as they managed to convince them of "the dangers of unions". There seems to be (at this point) almost an innate reaction to just hearing "union" or "general strike" that makes people recoil, even though they're necessary part of a society where capitalism exists, otherwise there is no way of stopping it when it outgrows any other concerns.
by skrause | 2025-10-30 19:39:10+00:00
You always combine solar power with wind power, that already solves more than 90% of the storage problem. In places like Europe the darker winter is usually quite windy.

For example, last Sunday Germany covered more than 100% of its own power load with renewables even though winter is approaching. Only a small part of that was solar power, most electricity was generated by wind turbines: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c...
by kulahan | 2025-10-30 19:39:24+00:00
Have you tried a dream journal? We forget most of our dreams because we might have them at 2 am and wake up at 7 am. If you wake yourself up in the middle of the night one or two times, you're more likely to have been in the middle of a dream, and it's still up there in your brain enough to write down. The more you do this, the easier it becomes.
by swores | 2025-10-30 19:39:42+00:00
> I understand this will be downvoted by people who have their self-image tied up in this, or synesthesia, or any number of untestable hypothetical mental states that are painted as mysterious superpowers.

FYI, I don't have any part of my self image related to any of this sort of thing (I never think about it except when it comes up in discussions like this, during which I briefly find it a bit interesting and then forget about it again), and I downvoted you because I think you're being confident to the point of cockiness yet talking absolute rubbish.

So please don't assume there's some biased reason behind every downvote you get for that comment, at least some of us just think you're completely wrong.
by Herring | 2025-10-30 19:39:42+00:00
Everyone understands Trump is the racist president who will screw over "those people" for you. Even rural Mongolians get it. It was clear from day 1 when he came down the stairs calling Mexicans rapists, almost 10 years ago. They just like to cheer tariffs and govt firings and grants cancellations, then smirk and pretend they don't understand it.

Well as we see in the article, this world is very interconnected and you can't hurt your neighbor without hurting yourself.
by pfgallagher | 2025-10-30 19:39:46+00:00
Your metaphor isn't bad, actually. I just don't visualize anything. It's more like a feeling of abstract relationships. It often feels like most of my brain is in RAM; I can usually recall things almost instantly. And if I can’t, I can do the trick where you think of something else and let your mind crunch in the background until it pops up.

I should clarify that I can still imagine what a room looks like and what’s in it. I just don’t see it. It’s more like I feel the layout or know where things are, almost like navigating a mental map without any visuals. Specific details like colors, patterns, etc. are much harder to recall unless I am intimately familiar with the object or whatever.
by sbohacek | 2025-10-30 19:39:49+00:00
This is an example of US not carrying "all the water." The second link shows that the EU+UK (countries + institutions) sent more food aid than the US. The UK has roughly 1/5 the population of the US and sent more than 1/5 as much as the US. Or, the UK has roughly 1/8 the GDP of the US and sent far more than 1/8 as much as the US.

Also, the data is 2014-2018 when US food aid was managed by USAID. What is the US percentage now that USAID has been eliminated?
by bccdee | 2025-10-30 19:40:11+00:00
> Irrelevant, as a) that's just your own personal and very subjective opinion

Yes? And it's just your personal, subjective opinion that this is irrelevant. Most meaningful judgments are subjective. Get used to it.

> DDD is extensively documented as the one true way to write "good code"

Who said this? I've seen it described as a good way to write code, and as a way of avoiding problems that can crop up in other styles. But never as the only way to write good code.

> "Underlying ideas" means cherry-picking opinions that suit your fancy while ignoring those that don't.

No it doesn't. What? The only way I can make sense of what you're saying is if you're cynical toward the very concept of analyzing ideas, which is perhaps the most anti-intellectual stance I can imagine.

> The criticism on anemic domain models [...] is more than enough to reject any claim on how functional programming is compatible with DDD.

Why would an author's criticism of a certain style of OOP make a methodology they have written about incompatible with non-OOP paradigms? That's like saying that it's impossible to make strawberry ice cream because the person who invented ice cream hates strawberries.

> But the point that this proves is that there is no one true way of producing "good code".

There's no "one true way" to build a "good bridge," but that doesn't mean bridge design is all a matter of taste. Suspension bridges can carry a lot more than beam bridges; if you want to drive 18-wheelers across a wide river, a beam bridge will collapse, while a suspension bridge will probably be "good."
by neilv | 2025-10-30 19:40:12+00:00
I might not be the most representative example (I seem to use visual and spatial more than most people for abstract reasoning), but here goes an attempt to convey one data point...

If I imagine a particular model of car, for example, I can instantly visualize much of what the entire car looks like. I can also move my attention around parts of the visualization, to see more detail. It's more than facts, and more than feelings.

This visualization is different than seeing with eyes, and is not confused with that, but seems to be using some of the same machinery.

I could sketch a detailed drawing from what I'm visualizing, a bit like the car was physically there, and I could keep looking back to it for references. But when it's in my head, I don't have to take my eyes off the drawing, and I can kinda merge my drawing and the reference in my head.

In contrast, if I try to imagine the scent of tire rubber, or of cooking, or any other scent, I cannot. Not even the tiniest bit. There's just nothing there.

As a point of reference for comparison, that's pretty dramatic and binary.

Of course, when I smell a familiar scent, I often identify it instantly. And while I am physically perceiving it, I can experience it, and move my attention around it, and introspect on its character, and have other reactions to it (e.g., good, bad, etc.), etc. But immediately after I stop physically perceiving it, I again can't imagine it. I can only recall previously registered facts about it: that vanilla smells good, kinda sweet(?), and maybe creamy(?). I could know more facts if I was a baker or cook, and I guess reason about how to use vanilla, but I still doubt I could imagine perceiving the scent of vanilla in my head.

And some scents will quickly surface related memories of previous times I perceived the scent, even decades ago. And those non-scent memories will remain activated and linger after the physical scent is removed. (Any rare accompanying wow deja vu sense is brief.)

I can picture the visual appearance of various glass and plastic bottles of vanilla flavoring I've seen over the decades, and how some vanilla flavoring looks in a particular stainless steel teaspoon with ambient light reflecting through it, etc. I can also visualize in detail the visual appearance of things that come to mind when I try to think about things I've seen that have vanilla flavoring. I just can't imagine what they smell or taste like.
by blackcatsec | 2025-10-30 19:40:39+00:00
As with any protocol and application, there's a big, massive, "it depends" on pretty much everything. There are pros, cons, tradeoffs to make that sometimes it's easier to just have the underlying platform make those trade-offs, or to surface those problems to the application layer for developers to decide how they want to handle those problems.

Folks shouldn't necessarily argue "one is better" more so than they should consider all engineering aspects of why you should use one technology over another.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-30 19:40:41+00:00
> you're being confident to the point of cockiness yet talking absolute rubbish.

Profound. I'm convinced. Ever consider speaking to the argument, or is this just easier?

> So please don't assume there's some biased reason behind every downvote you get for that comment, at least some of us just think you're completely wrong.

I'm guessing from the comment that you self-describe in this way? If so, why in the world would I change my assumption? I have to be honest: your taking my (confident) disbelief as an insult seems like a hit dog barking.

edit: and no degree of upset is going to make me understand what a mental image is. So apparently, I don't have them either.
by linsomniac | 2025-10-30 19:41:12+00:00
I'm doing a 529 as well as wanting to set up the ROTH Note that you can also just take money from your other investments, deposit it into a 529, and then immediately pay yourself back for educational expenses you've paid for off the 529.

My kids have some 529 buffer, and we are paying for my daughter's school right now (though she's paid us back for the class she got an F in). My son, it's not clear that the typical school track is going to be the right thing for him, but we also have a 529 for him that I've been contributing to.
by handsclean | 2025-10-30 19:41:19+00:00
You’re right, my bad, Spigot (from Bukkit), not Fabric. I got the impression it’s actually using ~~Fabric~~ Spigot code for this because you’re using plugins compiled for Spigot and both a paper.whatever and spigot.whatever config file, but after looking it up I see that they forked it.

I’m not really clear on mod vs plugin vs mixin, I was just trying to refer to whatever software does the decompilation work rather than just consuming APIs provided by projects that do.

Sounds like it’s correct that Paper didn’t do its own mod API, but incorrect that Paper doesn’t do its own decompilation work.

> By playercount, it is the largest (custom, standalone) MC server software in the world.

Do you have a source on this? Not trying to accuse you of anything, I just know that a few servers claim this, and don’t know if we have reliable numbers.