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by hinkley | 2025-04-03 18:32:01+00:00
If I could copy one feature from Steam to the Apple Store it would be seasonal sales. And bundle prices. If I could copy two features from Steam to the Apple Store...

My friend had to go through huge gyrations to offer a discount for upgrades on a productivity app. Your choices seem to mostly be either never get paid again by old customers or over/undercharge people.

On Steam you can sort it out with a bundle discount.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-03 18:32:02+00:00
> the gamer-stupidity seems to forget this and give all credit to Valve which is ignorant and disrespectful to the work Wine has put in over several decades

You seem to be forgetting that Steam Machines existed back then, and Wine barely supported D3D9.dll in those days. Valve and Codeweavers did the majority of the work bringing up DXVK, without which there would be no DX11/DX12 game support on Linux at all. It's not exaggeration to say that the Steam Deck would not have been a success if DXVK never existed.

There's certainly cause to celebrate Wine's accomplishments reverse-engineering Win32. But it's far from the only thing required to get games running, and I think you've oversold it's importance.

> Lots of Linux ports have been cancelled since this is becoming the norm..

Shocker. Given the way MacOS is treated by game developers, I'd much prefer translation be the focus instead of courting native ports that will break in 2 months from a glibc update.

> to sell a handheld running wine on battery I'd be pissing myself laughing from how inefficient and terrible that sounds

I'm not sure why. The GPU is where the lion's share of power consumption happens, and Proton uses the same Vulkan API that modern, native Linux titles target. Sure, you have to wait for shaders to cache, but you have to do that on most Windows PCs nowadays too.
by jeremiem | 2025-04-03 18:32:08+00:00
I agree that conversation is generally not very productive as we often talk past each other.

I would recommend anyone that struggle to discuss divisive or controversial topics to learn and watch Street Epistemology [0], or Compassionate Epistemology [1]. It's comparable to a Socratic dialog.

The basic idea that I got out of it is to unwrap one, and only one, person's beliefs at the time, find their best reason for that belief and see if the reason holds if it was used to believe something else. Repeat with the next best if not. By hiding your opinion on a topic, it's a lot easier to explore someone else's as they shouldn't get defensive or combative.

There are a lot of videos of this kind of interview, my favorite channel: Cordial Curiosity[2].

[0] https://www.streetepistemology.com/ [1] https://compassionateepistemology.com/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/@CordialCuriosity
by f33d5173 | 2025-04-03 18:32:09+00:00
>Companies in country X tend to develop their products in conformance with country X

You have the order wrong. The companies came first, then came the laws. So we might reverse this statement to: "countries with company X in them tend to develop their laws so that company X is in conformance with those laws". This latter statement seems likely enough to be true, and is exactly the point of order in this discussion.

>By the same token, I would be surprised if US companies habitually developed products that don't conform with US law.

It's called "growth hacking". Uber was quite famous for it. The only time you'd benefit from breaking the law in a foreign country vs. your own country is if you intend to exit the market of that country; you don't have to worry about paying fines if the country can't reach you. If the intention is to continue doing business there, then any punishment will have to be borne just as if you were headquartered there.

>This means that the fines are not high enough and don't fulfill their purpose.

You're missing the point. The laws scale so that eventually they will be high enough that the company has to conform. The point I'm making is that a company's willingness to break a law shows that the law is costing them money, and we can even estimate how much money it costs them by the size of the fine. If we assume that all laws are fair and just then this just means that the company is evil. However, as we showed above, some laws are unjust, hence them costing a company money can be a way of unfairly extracting money from those companies.
by CharlesW | 2025-04-03 18:32:12+00:00
Item Flow is a unified system that could generalize and replace today's layout-type specific Flexbox, Grid, and Masonry, and along with simplifying layout, would unlock new abilities.

> As we worked through the details, we started to get excited. Suddenly new features for Flexbox and Grid that people have wanted for years had an obvious home. Things seemed to click together elegantly. New capabilities emerged: (1) Flexbox could gain a way to do dense packing. (2) Grid could gain the ability to turn off wrapping (3) Masonry layouts could now be triggered with a value for item-flow, and more…
by mywittyname | 2025-04-03 18:32:19+00:00
> What are the flaws in this thinking?

That the national debt matters.

A) The Fed & Treasury have the ability to buy back the securities at any time if they wanted, since they can basically poof the currency into existence. And t-bonds are as good as cash anyways, so that money is basically already in the economy.

B) The country's national debt is also our citizens' savings accounts. Every major company in the country (and the gov't itself) holds an absurd amount of t-bonds because its the best place to store billions of dollars for safe keeping. Paying off the debt means this capital needs to go somewhere. Should it go to China? The EU? Canada? American real estate?

The national debt is probably the most misunderstood concept in the country. It's denominated in USD, unlike other countries, whose debt is borrowed in currencies they don't control. And "paying off" the national debt risks capital flight and/or asset bubbles - both of which are detrimental to the economy.

The system we have in place is a good one.

Thought experiment: consider what would happen if the US Treasury decided interest rates are negative. That is, you pay $10,000 for a bond and receive back $9,900 after 10 years. What do you think this would do to the economy?

Now ratchet up that negative rate to 100%, that is, you pay $10k for a t-bond and eventually it's worth $0 after 10 years. That's pretty much what paying off the national debt would do (in fact, that's probably how the national debt would be paid off, if ordered to do so, the fed would purchase these bonds and the treasury would use the proceeds to buy existing bonds off the open market). It's two sides to the same coin, but instead of prohibiting the purchase of t-bonds, you just disincentivize it.
by FeepingCreature | 2025-04-03 18:33:00+00:00
Yeah pulseaudio was like "you need this so you can have two apps playing music at the same time" entirely ignoring the existence of sound cards with mixers or the alsa soft mixer. Similarly, systemd was hyped at the time for, among others, allowing parallel service start entirely ignoring the several init systems that were already managing parallel start quite happily.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-03 18:33:35+00:00
The problem with expanding the definition like that is that it also includes the violent death of the aggressing coalition. We could argue that America's relationship with the PKK or Peshmega was "human rights abuse" under that sort of umbrella. Or you could go full stupid-mode and argue that the Vietnam War was an attack on American human rights, foisted onto Northern Korea under the evil auspices of... checks clipboard ...American-provided military regiments.

Again, read what I said and not what you think I meant. The alternative to "liberal hegemony" in the examples you provided are uniquely catastrophic and inherently impact America. You cannot even fathom what 9/11 would have looked like if the US treated Balkan denuclearization as a back-burner issue.

Yes, it sucks the absolute biggest dick that we have to send American troops to defend these interests. No, it is not a good enough reason to forfeit being a world superpower and let ourselves get glassed because AIPAC has American politicians by the balls.
by tastyface | 2025-04-03 18:33:38+00:00
To them, removing empathy allows doing “what needs to be done,” like sending undesirables to a desolate work camp in a foreign country without any legal recourse.

See also: “the sin of empathy.” https://www.reddit.com/r/SaltLakeCity/comments/1i942hf/ogden...

Peel apart the layers and at the root of it all is white male supremacy — by any means necessary.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-03 18:33:39+00:00
> It’s naive to think we can clean out the NSA, FBI, and CIA.

It's naive to shoot the messenger and think you've killed the message. If USAID is a conduit for the FBI and CIA's wrongdoing, then we haven't actually punished anyone responsible. We're cheering on our own ineptitude, patting ourselves on the back for dismantling a "deep state" on paper, one that still exists with the exact same motives.

If you have any privileged knowledge of USAID that proves me wrong, I welcome you to share it. It sounds like we both agree that the real problem is intelligence agencies that would disguise themselves in a Red Cross truck if given the opportunity. But sure, let's demonize the Red Cross instead of the people ignoring the conventions of lawful warfare. They are the issue.
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-04-03 18:33:39+00:00
We are AI 1.0

Just like Web 1.0 - when the best we could think of to do was shovel existing printed brochures onto web pages.

In AI 1.0 we are simply shoveling existing programming languages into the LLM - in no way marrying programming and LLM - they exist as entirely different worlds.

AI 2.0 will be programming languages - or language features - specifically designed for LLMs.
by HelloMcFly | 2025-04-03 18:33:46+00:00
I get the frustration with art discourse that it can feel exclusionary or pretentious. There are definitely versions of that discussion that are more about gatekeeping than appreciation.

I think the original, parent comment was coming from a much more generous place. Like that top parent commenter, to me the Halberstadt organ piece isn’t about being highbrow or obscure; it’s about a kind of radical optimism—committing to something weird, beautiful, and long-term in a world that often feels very short-sighted. I don’t think you need to read Derrida or listen to Stockhausen to find meaning in that. Just as you don’t need to love AI or NFTs to appreciate innovation.

Many may think that's stupid or useless because it lacks utility (or any other reason) or seems arbitrary. Reasonable people can disagree, but I think such reactions are truly missing the point; that is simultaneously completely OK, but also personally dispiriting at times. There’s room for a lot of perspectives in how we engage with art, and I think it’s more interesting when we try to understand what someone finds meaningful before writing it off.
by jancsika | 2025-04-03 18:34:14+00:00
> Surely it doesn't really start until the first note is played?

That question itself is built on a radical assumption. Example:

Just skimming, it looks like 38 out of 48 of the fugues from Bach's WTC Books 1 & 2 begin with rests followed by several beats worth of melodies in the first measure[1]. If you think the piece only really starts when the first note of the melody is played, then you've got problems. Either:

1. You hear the first articulation of the melody as the downbeat. But that would mean the first measure is in a disparate (and probably irregular) meter. Radical!

2. You hear the incomplete first measure as an anacrusis, or a kind of unaccented lead-in, to the second measure: OMG even more radical!

You can use accent patterns on a modern piano to play any of these fugues using either of these methods, and it will sound silly to non-silly keyboard players.

What's more, non-silly keyboard players do feel the pulse for the first downbeat of these pieces when they perform. Most of them will even inhale before the downbeat, as if they are somehow singing the melody through their fingers.

Finally, lots of music begins with rests: not just conservative cases like Bach, but progressive cases like the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth, and of course the radical cases like Cage's.

This leads to one of the things I love about Cage's music: it compels criticisms that reveal fundamental misunderstandings about music. E.g., you don't buy the radical case-- perhaps reasonable. But you then speculate there are no cases-- which is at odds with common musical practice.

If Cage's music did nothing but compel these questions it would be worth its weight in pine nuts.

Edit:

1: Bach does this because nearly all the fugues have three or more independent melodies singing at the same time. If they are all singing on every downbeat it can quickly sound really clunky and predictable.
by mingus88 | 2025-04-03 18:34:29+00:00
In other words “interpretation”

It’s so funny coming from a musical background and reading all these comments of people who have no idea what they are talking about criticizing one of the worlds most famous modern composers

Every performance ever done has been the performer interpreting the composer’s score and making it their own. Nobody want to hear a robotic perfectly accurate recreation of what is on the page, because even the act of transcription alters the composer’s intent. The score is not the art!

There is no perfection in art. It’s all subjective, by the literal definition of art.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-04-03 18:34:34+00:00
> "...women, ... and other minorities..."

According to polls, slightly more women voted for Trump in 2024 than in 2020 and significantly more minorities voted for Trump in 2024 than in 2020 (https://www.nbcwashington.com/decision-2024/2024-voter-turno...). One party energetically claims to be on the side of the oppressed but the oppressed don't exactly seem to be flocking to be on the side of that party. Makes you think, doesn't it?

The Democrats cannot win as long as there's a substantial faction inside it unwilling to face the reality of what voters actually think instead of what they want to tell the voters to think.
by llsf | 2025-04-03 18:34:49+00:00
Natural language is poor medium at communicating rules and orders. The current state of affair in US is a prime example.

We are still debating what some laws and amendments mean. The meaning of words change over time, lack of historical context, etc.

I would love natural language to operate machines, but I have been programming since mid 80's and the stubbornness of the computer languages (from BASIC, to go) strikes a good balance, and puts enough responsibility on the emitter to precisely express what he wants the machine to do.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2025-04-03 18:35:00+00:00
This is exactly backwards. You should have declarative schemas but inferring migrations is crazy. Only pain will follow.

Instead, I am a fan of doing both: either committing the resulting schema of a migration, or hand writing it aside the migration. Then have tests to ensure the database schema matches the expected schema after a migration.

Generating these artifacts is fine, but in TFA's case there is no chance I wouldn't inspect and possibly modify the generated "diff" migration. It's significantly easier to go the other way: write the migration and show me the resulting schema diff.
by goatlover | 2025-04-03 18:35:02+00:00
> Christains might see living is the light of Jesus as the ideal life, and while not for everyone, you should at least be able to understand why they feel that way (as opposed to a religion of self inflicted torture).

Yes, but also we've seen how they've behaved in the past when they had vast political power in Europe. And we see what the goals of the Heritage Foundation is with Project 2025. There have always been a decent number of conservative Christians who want prayer, the bible and ten commandments in school. Who don't want legal abortion or gay marriage. And the more power they have, the more they would restrict. They also tend to believe in a lot of conspiracy theories, like the Democratic Party being controlled by satanists and communists, who have also infiltrated the "Deep State".

So you can imagine how those beliefs play out with enough political power.
by skinnymuch | 2025-04-03 18:36:01+00:00
Tibet was a slave society. What are you talking about? Tibet was also a part of China for many many years.

America is a liberal western democracy. Just because you disagree with the democracy of China does not make it true.

You know in Tibet, 90%+ of people still speak their native language. Do you know how many indigenous people in Hawaii or the continental US speak their native language? Not close to the same.

I am Muslim. I see what the west does to Muslims. I have looked into Xinjiang. If Xinjiang was near Europe or in America, the Muslims would’ve been genocided.
by parhamn | 2025-04-03 18:36:05+00:00
Depends on the setup and what your goals are. Anycast typically takes the shortest route based on topology. This is particularly nice when you use something like caddy (because of the huge plugin system, you can do lots of stuff directly on the edge) to build your own CDN by caching at the edge or go all in and use caddy-lua to build apps at the edge. Gluing together dns systems (health checks, proximity + edge nodes) can be similar but the benefits of being "edge" largely go away as soon as you add the extra hop to a different region server.
by wand3r | 2025-04-03 18:36:12+00:00
This makes 0 sense. Democrat and Republican "values", to the extent they are even real, no way represent the full spectrum of values one can have.

Further, the Democratic party has a 27% approval rating and the Republican party had like 47% and I bet its falling. So even within your narrow framework this is a bad proxy because both are clearly unpopular.
by J5892 | 2025-04-03 18:36:24+00:00
I was talking to a very drunk Republican girl the other day. We were having a small argument about why we would send medical support to Africa for AIDS. Her argument was something about fixing America first (I was also drunk).

I asked if she regretted her vote for Trump after several people she knew lost their government contracting jobs, and she said "No, fuck that guy, I didn't vote for him."
by soerxpso | 2025-04-03 18:36:56+00:00
> The US doesn't have the people to do the actual manufacturing

I am willing to move anywhere in the US to do any manufacturing job if it means that I will be paid enough to afford a house with two bedrooms and basic living expenses. I have a bachelor's degree and have been unable to find such an arrangement. So where exactly are all of these unfilled jobs that you speak of? Are they unfilled because we don't have the people, or because they're trying to pay in peanuts? Unfilled because we don't have the people, or because HR departments are filtering away qualified resumes based on voodoo? This outlandish claim you're making that we don't want to work is offensive to a lot of people who are aware of their own existence and know that you're spouting bullshit to trick people into more wealth inequality.

Your 7 million young men aren't 'missing', you're just refusing to hire them. The jobs don't exist.
by alach11 | 2025-04-03 18:37:01+00:00
This is basically a big dunk on OpenAI, right?

OpenAI made a big show out of hiding their reasoning traces and using them for alignment purposes [0]. Anthropic has demonstrated (via their mech interp research) that this isn't a reliable approach for alignment.

[0] https://openai.com/index/chain-of-thought-monitoring/
by jacobgkau | 2025-04-03 18:37:51+00:00
There doesn't seem to be a conductor at all in this performance, and there certainly wasn't one for the entire 17 months that the rest lasted. (The person in charge of this project, Rainer Neugebauer, is not conducting; the linked article makes mention of a speech before the note was changed, but nothing about marking time.)

Not that I'd expect a conductor to be needed for a soloist performance, but it makes the whole "when the conductor raises his hands" point a little off-topic.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-03 18:37:58+00:00
> A group of Minnesota Senate Republicans which included Justin Eichorn introduced a bill in March 2025 that seeks to classify "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a mental illness and incorporate it into the state's legal definition through amended statutes.

> [...]

> On March 17, 2025, Eichorn was arrested during a sting operation on suspicion of soliciting a minor for sex. On March 20, he was charged in federal court and resigned from the Senate as Republicans and Democrats prepared to expel him.

Clearly this is a rhetorical tool used by only the most serious and dedicated of American patriots.
by bigmadshoe | 2025-04-03 18:38:15+00:00
We don't have a complete enough theory of neuroscience to conclude that much of human "reasoning" is not "algorithmic pattern matching mixed with statistical likelihoods of success".

Regardless of how it models intelligence, why is it not AI? Do you mean it is not AGI? A system that can take a piece of text as input and output a reasonable response is obviously exhibiting some form of intelligence, regardless of the internal workings.
by knallfrosch | 2025-04-03 18:39:30+00:00
I find it easy to discuss politics with friends. The hard part is listening, being open to persuasion yourself. Walzing into a discussion believing the other ones are stupid people with simple arguments rooted in misunderstandings — yeah, that won't fly.

You can smell it in the article. it's right there. The author thinks he's intellectually superior and arrived at his opinion though a pure intellectual pursuit, where the stupid conversation partners can't follow.

I completely understand how you're not having fruitful discussions.
by tom89999 | 2025-04-03 18:39:44+00:00
I am confronted in my daily work with a massive amount of good-to-know knowledge. To be precise, i am a field technician for copy machines. Every brand and model has its own details like which drum unit fits there and what to change to get $result. What helped me the most is just to simply touch the machine and build graphical impressions of the machine and the dark blue toner carton. I am not a friend of blindly accumulating knowledge without understanding. What uses you a fact sheet without knowing what those parameters do? I have tried such a website for learning all(why does that matter?) all countries in the world by finding them on a map. As a european, it was pretty annoying being asked the 50th time where italy is. I think its not necessary to really being able to find the last exotic island on a map, you will forget it after a year or so, if not even earlier. This sounds very against this app, but i am a instructor for my apprentices and i would never demand simply learning stupid facts, in the field, you will lack the ability having built up transfer knowledge. The rest is written in service manuals, nobody has on hands standing in front of the machine. You can research some stuff, but most of the time you have to combine facts that occur out of the blue in very changing circumstances. Nobody asks you every fucking parameter of such machines. So, dont rely alone on facts you know. I know academic learning is different what you experience later at your workplace, so i recommend to develop thinking and problem solving.