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> OS/2 was a massive leap in the right direction. It was well ahead of its contemporaries of the time.

Agreed. But...

> in the late 80s, computers were rare

I'd dispute that. At the time, I was British. PCs were rare, as in, IBM PC-compatibles. Computers were everywhere.

One view of OS/2 2 in the context of the time was that it made a 386 PC into what the Amiga, Atari ST and Acorn Archimedes already were: full-GUI multitasking computers with sound and decent full-colour graphics, and a fairly rich desktop.

Because Windows 3.x was none of those.

> No-one I knew had an Apple Mac, they were expensive.

Agreed. Businesses only. I met one (1) private owner in that time.

> Windows 95 wasn't as good as OS/2 3.0 (aka Warp)

"Good" is much to narrow a word here.

As an OS design, better? Yes. Better multitasking, better memory management, better filesystem.

As a desktop? No way. Win95 had a much better desktop. Note how every Linux desktop except GNOME 3 and Pantheon is an inferior knock-off of Win95.

Better for ordinary users? No. Win95 was much more compatible, with more hardware and more software.

Better for networking? No. Win95 had a full network stack as stock, dialup and LAN. OS/2 made that an expensive optional extra.

Better for developers? No. MS had lots of cheap dev tools.

Sadly, mostly, OS/2 2.x was only "better" in academic, almost theoretical terms. In the real world for real people, Win95 was better in every way that counted.

It banes me to say it, because I paid for OS/2 2 with my own money, something I've almost never done for software, as I work in the industry.
Apple's just slicker at conning you.

It's actually more inflexible than Windows.

It only "gets out of the way" once you've been brainwashed into doing everything the way Apple thinks you should.

And surprise, surprise the "right way" involves not using anything where they don't get a cut.
It is good, but author, when he try to "sell" his language, uses terse, alienating, notation, and not this one (but using unicode multiply and arrow instead of ASCII * and = or <- looks like show-off without any practical advantages for me anyway).
Welcome to racing. It never was simply about "driving civilian cars fast", it was about skirting rules, in this case, alcohol prohibition.

They were always modified to be faster and to hide booze.

From day one.
That's why I mentioned Ubuntu; if anyone has incentive and resources to contribute to all these projects and get smooth scrolling working it's Canonical. If _they_ can't, I guess that means the whole community is screwed on that side. Maybe it's going to work 20 years from now, when we've moved on from trackpads to AI voice interfaces.
> I'd argue it stems from the interaction between ad revenue and SEO and the weird and unexpected incentives created in when mixing those 2.

Personally, I highly dislike this handwaving of SEO. SEO is not some sinister agenda following secret cult trying to disseminate bullshit. SEO is just... following the rules set forth by search engines, which for quite a long time is effectively singlehandedly Google.

Those "weird and unexpected incentives" are put forth by Google. If Google for whatever reason started ranking "vegetable growing articles > preparation technique articles > recipes > shops selling vegetables" we would see metaphorical explosion of home gardening in mere few years, only due to the relatively long lifecycles inherent in gardening.
What's a good alternative on Ubuntu/Linux?

I haven't found anything that works as smoothly and consistently with flaky connections. It also seems to handle edge cases better than Linux filemanagers.

For instance I never managed to get Dolphin to work with usernames/passwords that had an `@` symbol in them (don't blame me.. NASA FTP servers auto-assign your email address as a username)
> injecting money into the economy, which always results in inflation

This can be disproven by simply plotting the quantity of money in circulation compared to the inflation rate.

For instance from 2005 to 2020 the US went from 6.5 to 15 trillion dollars in circulation yet inflation was around 2%.

Same story for the eurozone which went from 3 to 9 trillions euro in circulation, with similar inflation (despite the Quantitative Easing policy of injecting currency in financial markets).

The eurozone provides another clue in that its member states experience different inflation in spite of sharing a common currency.

The true effects of injecting money in the economy are more complex than a straightforward increase in inflation. Most notably, since economic projects must be financed before they can be undertaken, injecting money in the economy can result in the economy increasing in size if there is spare productive capacity and resources.

There are indeed cases like Venezuela where injecting money results in inflation because there is a supply crisis (more money attempts to buy the same quantity of goods) but it cannot be generalized to all economies.
90s are back.
for linux, try the scp command. It works wonders!

Also, rsync is very useful https://phoenixnap.com/kb/how-to-rsync-over-ssh
I know 3 employees at SpaceX and he is seen as a hero in their eyes regardless what of news media gets paid to post about him.
Pretty accurately I would say. I studied technical computer science. 4.1% of use were women.

I lived in a shared apartment with 2 women and almost all their fellow students were women. Not computer science or anything technical of course.

To me the gap is closing because tech firms have more non-technical positions.
I'm definitely not educated enough to answer with nuance and certainty to some of the questions you posit. Nevertheless, I'd be interested, actually, in your opinion of what constitutes 1) evidence and 2) consensus. I, personally, have an intuition for it, but it's not very reasoned out. I'd love to develop it more in the future.

You argue that consensus is not really required in "hard science judgements". While I haven't studied proper philosophy of science, I'd say "measure things or do an experiment and be done with it" is, precisely, among the best ways to produce/allow consensus; or rather, the capacity of 'hard' science(s) to reason about a series of phenomena in such a way that consensus is 'easy'. One could argue that precisely the phenomena that 'hard' science inspects lends itself more to be inspected under a strict scientific method, too.

I'd say that any 'fact' is dependent on consciousness and intersubjectivity; yet at the same time, some things are more factual than others. Gravity as a phenomenon is more factual than, say, the Stendhal Effect. One can be more and better reproduced under more stringent conditions, thus having more predicting power and being more likely to be 'true' regardless of who interacts with the phenomenon, or reasons about it and its implications.
NASA thanks to some trump staffer did put all eggs in.

Every mission in the past had a fallback contractor for all components.

For Artemis due to political pressure they dropped all fallback options and use spaceX as only contractor! crazy but thats how corruption works

This is the reason Blue Origin sued some years back.
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Programs are not mathematical proofs, and when they are (in systems like Coq) they, maybe, will be better with mathematical notation.

Also, all these comparisons with mathematical notation left out that mathematical notation is not linear and one-font-size-fit-all, as our programs, even in array languages.
And as Gemini famously demonstrated, tell you what its trainers want you to hear. LLMs will detract from critical thinking about politics at least until thoroughly jail broken.
Technically he provided exactly the same amount of information that was available to indict tech with being anti-women or something. The exact same amount for that matter.
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What, no!

In any system people have to work to live: food, housing and such cost money. Doing "good" has nithing to do with it, and I never said that. The question is, do you care about more than the monthly pay check for something you pass most of your day doing or not?

What keeps the workers showing up to work is the need to live. What keeps them at a particular place is a myriad of things. Individualism is not part of that.

And why do you go immediately to "remove the pay"? There is quite some territory between working for free and not valueing a sufficient salary above all else.

Funny so, how everybody working in a sector withbstrong labour unions is basically making more, for less hours, on average than those without them. Seems individualism is a great way to devide and conquer for people holding all the power, because once peoole are convinced individualism is better than cooperation, they voluntarily devide themselves.
Does Conway’s law imply that an organization of size 1 produces a system with components that are optimally integrated?

I sometimes wonder what would happen if a company hired 100 software engineers, gave them all the same task to program the entire thing independently on their own, and then paid them as a monotonic function of the ranking of their output against their peers. (Obviously, there are limits on what type of product could be developed here, but I think this still encompasses far more company products than you would suspect.)
If you’re hoping they uncovered any secrets OpenAI failed to reveal in their technical report, prepare to be disappointed.
Frontpage of hackernews usually has that effect.
Also it’s not as snappy when you cross the 1GB limit, although it does work, mostly.
> news media gets paid to post about him

huh? All media is eating out of his palm, painting him as genius inventor that will save the earth.
Surely there's a lot more going in through the system prompt. Stuff like don't help create weapons of mass destruction, do-it-yourself bombs, organize terrorist acts, etc.
Alternatively, ignore the public network (it's still useless) and run it as your own crawler. Seed it with your browsing history, some aggregators like HN, your favourite RSS feeds, etc. and you'll be good.
I like to joke that Germany doesn't have a political left because most of it was killed or killed each other in the period between the end of World War 1 and the end of World War 2 and what was left (heh) was then repressed in both German states (via capitalist anti-communism in the West and conservative vanguardism in the East).

There are some occasional flare-ups like the WASG splinter party that split off the SPD after accusing the SPD-Greens coalition Schroeder government of neoliberalism (which then went on to merge with the East German SED's successor party PSD to become Die Linke) but the most leftist forms of activism you see in practice is the ideologically very moderate trade unions like Ver.di and IG Metall and the ideologically incoherent anti-capitalist anti-state anti-whatever brick throwing troupes during the annual Labor Day riots.

I struggle to even describe the Wagenknecht party as left-wing despite her personal ideological origins.
A calculator outperforms deep learning on basic arithmetic tasks.

Tree-based models are extremely good at finding clustering patterns; they outperform trained humans at that, thus we have commercial applications such as fraud detection.

Deep Learning is most promising way of getting us to general intelligence. So far only known general intelligence, human intelligence, has many quirks at specific tasks and I think Deep Learning won't be any different. However Deep Learning models can recognise their own weakness and call tree-based model if they think that's appropriate.
>No, the mindset there is that workers wants money, just like everywhere else. Not sure why you think otherwise.

Because I know people that work there, and money surely isn't the first reason you are teaching a bunch of brats while having parts of the public look down on you if you can easily get double the amount somewhere outside of the field. Same for political work, crowdsourcing, .. People take gratification in doing something that matters to society. Yes, they want to survive, but they are quite often not doing it for the money, the money is a nice bonus and enables to do it full-time, but that is not always the reason you do it.

Also you are goalpost moving, you said first they are only doing it only for themselves not for "the company", and people often do it for the institution that employs them. Not because they are paid, but because they believe they are doing something that matters.
Apple fixes two new iOS zero-days exploited in attacks on iPhones
> Yeah new teams is much less of an annoyance in terms of change as it was already a slow web app and users don't really expect much from it. And the UI didn't change at all.

They still broke some things. Instead of custom contact lists in Chat, you're supposed supposed to use the People app, and until just right now, that one didn't (!) show the presence status of each contact. It seems that very very recently they've finally fixed that, although it's still less compact and at-a-glance than the old contact list.

And "Notify when available" is annoyingly missing in New Teams, too.
If Apple doesn't like this, they should provide cross-platform native APIs for developing applications.

It’s not in Apple’s interest to do that. It would cost a lot of money to develop and only benefit the competition. It would also slow down Apple’s own ability to innovate on the APIs until the competitors catch up.

Or are you saying Apple should develop the APIs for Windows and Linux as well? Why would they do that?
Next year: Deloitte fires half of it's accountants.
Facts folks no need to keep downvoting. These are facts. But feel free to show ur ignorance and hatred if u must.
The cursor moves the same way, it's just a bit harder because you can't let go of the cursor and start over from the corner of the touchpad with more room to move once you've pressed. But thanks to acceleration, you can move fast towards e.g. the left, slowly move back to the right (covering a much shorter distance), then move fast back left to finish the travel, if you missed it the first time.
The comments in this thread alone would indicate the the crowd is pretty split even after this blog post
The whole point this thread seems to be missing is the collectivist vs individualist debate that this relates to is about how society is governed. People assembling to address their needs/wants collectively might be collectivist in the broad sense, but it requires individualist governance framework to exist, because under a collective governance framework such freedom of association would not be permitted.

Just like how a large company is essentially governed in the same way as a planned economy is, but nobody’s under the impression that JPMorgan is a socialist institution.
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Using "may" when you know full well it's "will" isn't honest. And I imagine the UI to install the "offers" makes them not really an offering, but a default.
Or just your file manager. Both Dolphin and Nautilus have very good support for (S)FTP. At least Dolphin can have bookmarks, dual pane, transfer resume, etc. Also thanks to KIO, the remote storage can be transparently used from any applications not just to transfer files directly inside Dolphin.
I don't think that you need an alternative for Ubuntu or other linuxes. The FileZilla project is open source, and as such, is present in the major package managers. And surely the sponsor stuff is not there in these builds.
This evokes some strong nostalgia. My formative years were spent playing Doom IPX on LAN (DOS), Trials of Battle (OS/2) on LAN, and Galactic Civilizations, learning to code with REX, and spending time on internet chat rooms. We had an Windows NT 4 box in the house which was for my dad's work, and I didn't touch it much as DOS games either didn't run or were a real PITA to get working, so OS/2 Warp 3/4 and DOS were where I resided most of the time.

Good memories. Thanks for the post.
Is there some executive summary of this? I find it hard to wade through the waffling and while I appreciate citing sources by pasting e-mails verbatim this doesn't exactly make the statement easier to follow. It sounds like they're damning Elon with faint praise?
Non profits are allowed to own fornprofits. Mozilla Foundation owns Mozilla Corp which brings in tons of money for years.
I disagree, power isn't a requirement for discrimination, you have wrong priors.

In fact making that a premise leads to quite a few assumptions that are clearly wrong that falsification is trivial, even if you could nail any sensible quantification of power.
> Oh, and count on an Nvidia update to randomly and regularly break your system. But that blame lays squarely on Nvidia.

That is the problem both with the OS and the users sorry to say. Of course the problem is with drivers. Well and Bluetooth and Wifi and streaming DRM but I digress: I do not care whose fault it is if I can't work. Companies do not prioritize desktop Linux drivers , that's just a fact. And users will say "oh it's not the fault of Linux" as if it would matter.
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A first-class programming language (not an LLM) to talk to the computer's OS along with a rich library is the most important missing component IMO.

Humans communicate mainly with language and no OS provides this in a satisfactory way for the average user.

The result is users mostly clicking on signs to choose among predetermined tasks, like monkeys in a lab.
NewsCord 2.0 – uses GPT3.5 to find news coverage differences and summarises news
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- Chrome Extension, find coverage differences to the article you're reading right now
Hey thereg always gets a pass.
Active Record or Sequel: Which Best Fits the Needs of Your Ruby App?
Also, mathematicians are much more well- and long-trained than typical programmer.

And it is good in both ways: some times ago there was idea that everybody should learn a little of programming (see, for example, BBC program in UK which brings us BBC Micro and, later ARM processor ;-) ), because now almost everything is computer (including my wahsing mashine). Now, it is not popular idea, now all corporations try to build non-programmable walled gardens, but it was not so always.

COBOL (and SQL) were created with managers, not programmers, in mind. Goal was to allow managers automate their business-processes without calling for IT consultant.

Spreadsheets are VERY near to this goal. I've seen A LOT of business and finance automation made in excel by people, who will punch you in the face, if you say them that now they are programmers.

If we want to have very specialized, PhD-requiring languages, it is perfectly Ok. But then don't try to sell them to Spreadsheet users.
Somehow the search function will turn into a cellular automaton in the near future.
That's only going to affect part of your apps though. Last I checked, Firefox on Ubuntu finally had a kind of pixel-perfect scrolling, but it wasn't smooth and didn't keep momentum if you let go of the trackpad while scrolling fast. That just feels bad, even after getting used to it.

And Qt apps will scroll differently than the GNOME project's apps which will scroll differently than other Gtk apps. It really feels disorganized and unfinished.
I don't see the benefit for the attacker besides novelty. Am I missing something?
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A whole lot of noise
The problem is that car racing is very boring if you allow engineers to go wild. For example using airflow to increase grip at some point gives advantage to the car in front. Pair that with powerful engine and there won't be any passing ever once that car is in front.

Making fast, unpassable car is just to easy. Regulations are about crippling them enough to make racing interesting. If you have to do it anyway then why not add other lofty goals like driver's safety, efficiency, disallowing solutions that would drain everyone's budget etc.
Tbf your tool looks 110% more useful and well built than a simple single screen showing the logs with an in-browser search. Keep at it!
Yes and Homer's Odysseus can be read as an allegory of PTSD. So pretty old.

Edit: The quote is followed by "Everything about this claim is still controversial(...)"
Insistence that LLMs aren't intelligence and are just parrots and glorified autocomplete make me think of the argument against evolution where there's this missing link between Australopithecus and Homo Sapiens (though that's in, itself, an outdated theory) and if only scientists would find that missing link, then they'd believe in evolution. Just in reverse. Obviously my time machine is as good as your time machine, so I have no idea if this will lead to AGI, but even as it stands, these things are useful and are such a good fascimile of intelligent that it's easier to call them an artificial intelligence. there's this notion that they can't create anything outside of their training data, which means they're not intelligent in the same way that humans are, but that's the whole point of calling them artificial, because they aren't! can humans create things outside of their training data? is Dali an LLM,
unable to create beyond the bounds of his training data because, even at the height of his creativity, clocks and melting are preexisting concepts? do humans create new things? of course. can an LLM create a new thing? hmm, that's less obvious, except that when it's writing or drawing, that particular arrangement of bits hasn't existed before, which means it's creating things on the face of it. Creating new things, then, is entirely within its capabilities. We had older models that created entirely new words, but we rejected them because all they created was giberrish. GPT-2 was great at making off-kilter poems. where do new ideas come from in humans? I don't know, but it's based on their training data. in predicting the next word, LLMs predict something from its training data, far more vast than any one human could hold in their mind. can it create an entirely brand new thing? that seems like the wrong question to ask when it does it every time it answers, like asking where's three missing link, every time a new link is found.
I could see Twitch streamers preferring to run android games on a PC for streaming purposes, especially making use of a wired connection.

But yes, it doesn't seem like a huge use case.
They should get to space first.
From: Elon Musk

To: Ilya Sutskever

The most promising option I can think of, as I mentioned earlier, would be for OpenAI to attach to Tesla as its cash cow. I believe attachments to other large suspects (e.g. Apple? Amazon?) would fail due to an incompatible company DNA. Using a rocket analogy, Tesla already built the “first stage” of the rocket with the whole supply chain of Model 3 and its onboard computer and a persistent internet connection. The “second stage” would be a full self driving solution based on large-scale neural network training, which OpenAI expertise could significantly help accelerate. With a functioning full self-driving solution in ~2-3 years we could sell a lot of cars/trucks. If we do this really well, the transportation industry is large enough that we could increase Tesla's market cap to high O(~100K), and use that revenue to fund the AI work at the appropriate scale.

Surprise.
Yeah, this and another thing that annoys me basically itch me to start a fork (I connect once a month to a known server, so I'm in the target group of people who would complain about update nags and the security argument is moot in my case). There is another warning about an expired security certificate I can do nothing about - a few years ago I could just add it to exceptions but not anymore, I need to click a few times more. These are just little annoyances but at some point someone will get upset and actually start the fork - the software is very mature so basically I don't care about any new features, I want to use it as I did 10 years ago :)