skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm unclear on whether to pin this on the publisher or on the authors.

In the first example shown in the linked pre-print [1] there's a paper with 62 downloads that's been cited 107 times within two months. The pre-print looks deeper into a paper with 7 "real" references whose metadata has an extra 40 references not found in the PDF. This leaves us with three options:

* the author of a paper with 62 downloads (not an amazing number) was convinced into joining a citation ring along with 40 other authors,
* the publisher has been sneaking references onto unsuspecting papers, or
* the publisher has a vulnerability on their metadata system that's being actively exploited by the two scholars identified in the pre-print.

Whatever the case, I'm glad the solution is as simple as "you should parse the references yourself". I do however wonder: is someone checking whether all of the references are actually referenced within the paper?

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.02192
> Chevron deference is the reason the US works at all. Without it, we'll get back into a morass of endless lawsuits that stop any improvement.

I'll see you in a few years with the outcome of this prediction, but I'm personally not a big believer in single pillars that hold up entire 350-million person systems. It tends to take quite a few pillars falling out to lead to the kind of chaos you're predicting, even saying that Chevron was a pillar and not just a particular way of doing things.
If you run xlsclients it will list all applications running through xwayland.

[0] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xorg-xlsclients/
You've dedicated your adult life to massaging ABIs and openly admit your
"non-polished" solution is an idealistic holy grail, and yet you expect
some text editor with a non-existent path to profitability to have hewn
to your every private thought about Linux binary versatility, and that
sir is bullshit.
Absolutely agree. Again, I’m so grateful other members of the community heard my kvetching and shared my outrage and shared the news so we could fix the byline issue.
they will not have standing
I love seeing new accounts pop up that only seem to exist to support specific SCOTUS decisions with misleading claims like this one.
Interesting read. I have a lot of respect for people who develop emulator for x86 processors. It is a complicated processor and from first hand experience I know that developing and debugging emulators for CPU's can be very challenging. In the past year, I spend some time developing a very limited i386 emulator [1] including some system calls for executing the first steps of live-bootstrap [2], primarily to figure out how it is working. I learned a lot about system calls and ELF.

[1] https://github.com/FransFaase/Emulator/

[2] https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/
I'm never using this editor unless it can install itself and work completely offline, without going for downloads and making web requests , it is crucial, especially after totally not related xz fiasco and the white house praise for rust.
It's definitely both.

I'm sure plenty of professors use CUDA in their courses because it's what they actually use. At the same time, in 2013 when I was in college I took a course on "parallel computing" as a CS elective. The professor told us on day 1 that NVidia was sponsoring the course and had donated a bunch of GPUs to the clusters we could remotely connect into for the sake of the class. Naturally we used CUDA exclusively.

I know for a fact that this happened at a lot of schools. I don't know if it's still happening since I'm not in that world anymore, but don't see why it would have stopped.
Many large companies adopt a hybrid approach where they organize work into small, cross-functional teams
Zed is still quite a bit slower than Neovim in my experience.
The comment to your reply seems like the opposite of a credible defense. Was it edited in the interim between this comment and your reply?
It doesn't immediately do so, though. Part of the ruling is that the status quo is maintained; there's no obligation for agencies to proactively remove regulations in response to how they guess some court somewhere might rule on a hypothetical lawsuit.

So lawsuits have to be filed, first. So they will. Some of them may be resolved by the agencies just rolling over and doing the moral equivalent of pleading guilty, but if I know my principles of bureaucracy, that will be the rare exception, probably only so they can dedicate resources to some other more important lawsuit.
You never control the arc of your career
Who suffers more 'physical deterioration', someone who walks 1 mile every day (about as repetitive as movement gets) or someone who is bedridden?

You're not a car, you're an adaptable organism.
Not a coincidence that, following a takeover of the judiciary by the right wing, they now aggrandize the power of the Court.
Chevron allowed massive regulatory changes whenever a new administration took over. At a time of high political polarization, no one should be asking that we defer to the whatever the current executive branch’s interpretation of the law is.

You may agree with the current President’s politics, but chances are you won’t agree with the next one’s.

https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/chevron-deference-vs-steady-admi...
There was a presumption that the government is right, so the application of the law was not impartial.
> The whole AI image episode reminds me of something I saw when working as a music producer.

The music world is full of this sort of badness. The same thing happened with the vocoder, autotune, and so much more. Until people learned how to use the tools, the use of the tools made the music much worse.

I think the same effect threatens to happen with the use of generative AI for artistic purposes. The results of that use are going to be pretty bad until everyone figures out when and how it should (and should not) be used.
Similarly, I have unlimited persistent per-file undo turned on in Neovim. I can open any file I've edited previously and walk through the full history of how it got there. With Undotree [0], I can even navigate branching paths in development. I don't know how people live without this.

[0] https://github.com/mbbill/undotree
Haha interesting approach!
Does LaTeX allow this to happen? Maybe a simple typesetting change to exclude references that are not mentioned in the text?

This is a problem with the journal review and editors. Also, typesetting tools that create the final version can and should be setup to protect things like these. I know folks may want to go hunt for sexy genai tooling to solve this - but I think the solution is much simpler.
In obsidian I have a template to insert a timestamp. I have a "Work Log" file I refresh each month where I just jot down whatever with the timestamp. No further organization required.
It's not like the law doesn't have a way to ban a contractor from government contracts. In fact, the law has multiple offences that are punishable by a ban from government procurement contracts.
Weird, I had the exact opposite experience. I had a large Markdown file I was editing and VSCode would simply hang or crash when opening it. Neovim on the other hand actually was able to navigate and edit just fine.
Yeah, Warren Buffett compared to the Pelosis. Nancy Pelosi does this as a part-time job and kills it while simultaneously fulfilling her primary duties. We should be grateful that she didn't decide to get into managing a fund.
Or just maybe, 1.5 decades and "decades" are compatible when parsed by a human. Calling a story fake for that is a bit much, people just get details wrong, and that's okay
> It tends to take quite a few pillars falling out to lead to the kind of chaos you're predicting, even saying that Chevron was a pillar and not just a particular way of doing things.

One can say the same of any individual change, but it is hard to look back at recent, oh, I don't know, let's say decades, and to think that they have not represented, for better and for worse, fundamental changes in norms and modes of existence, in the US and worldwide.
Vivian Maier, One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century
> Your sense that an LLM being able to write a simple python script is good enough to replace engineers

Friend, I never said anything of the sort. You are literally arguing with voices in your own head.

> makes you reek of being a junior engineer.

I have almost 40 years of experience as a software engineer on some of the most prestigious projects of their time. Trust me, you do NOT want a dick measuring contest.

Please stop - you’re making an ass of yourself. I will not respond to you further.
Man, what kinda of QA do they have that they miss something like this? WSL can be considered the second largest Linux "distro".

Of course, zed has always felt like an osx first project with linux/windows being second class citizen.
When Chevron was active you could not challenge the US constitution not applying to border patrol because of Chevron. This is literally the CPBs only line of defense.

In the next year I would imagine there will be a movement to overturn what the CPB has done.
It's true that as companies scale, they often face challenges that can slow down operations
Ugh. Instead of 10 files in one directory, scatter them across 13 subdirectories. An anti-pattern in my book.
Well said.

It doesn't matter how they are marketed or described or held up to some standard generated by wishful thinking. And it especially doesn't matter what it would mean if a human were to make the same error.

It matters what they are, what they're doing, and how they're doing it. Feel free to be embarrassed if you are claiming they can do what they can't and are maybe even selling them on that basis. But there's nothing embarrassing about their current set of capabilities. They are very good at what they are very good at. Expecting those capabilities to generalize as they would if they were human is like getting embarrassed that your screwdriver can't pound in a nail, when it is ever so good at driving in screws.
I see this view a lot, but every time I look at the actual data it isn't borne out.

BLS official inflation: $100 in Jan 2010 had the purchasing power of $144.94 today. That works out to 2.6%/yr by my math. So that's the "official" number that we want to disprove

Gallon of gas: $2.77 in 2010, $3.20 in Jan 24. 15% increase, 1% annualized

Honda Civic [not doing Mustang because it's harder to find data and as a luxury vehicle the comparison isn't as clean]: $16,205 in 2010, 24,000 today. 50% increase, 2.8% annualized

Big Mac: $3.73 in 2010, $5.69 today. 52% increase, 3% annualized

I live in an HCOL area, and did in 2010, so both of these sets of numbers feel a little low to me, but they mostly match my experience. As far as I can tell inflation mostly matches what the government reports, with some sectors coming in under and theoretically balancing out those that come in over (the classics of education, medicine, and housing). Those sectors that are outpacing are a real problem! But I think the consumer goods shadow-inflation people complain about is not borne out by data.

CPI: https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm?mf_ct_camp...

Gas prices: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=e...

Civic: https://www.kbb.com/honda/civic/2010/ (original MSRP in Pricing section) and same URL ending in 2024

Big Mac 2010: http://www.maxi-pedia.com/big+mac+index+2010

Big Mac 2024: https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-glo...
What does your team use instead?
It has the feel of the fractal craze of the late 80's and the goofy websites of the 90's and I have yet to see an AI-generated image that improved the quality of a post on a subject other than AI-generated imagery.

To me it's a signal the author either doesn't care about the overall quality of their post, or doesn't know or care that it's no longer special.

Which may be fine for some kinds of posts but not a good look for anything significant.
This article keeps saying it's illegal, but doesn't say why. Is it full of drugs? Does it have a chemical the EPA doesn't like? Requiring a Ford employee present is a matter of company policy and things like NDAs, not law.
But Boeing is the only remaining US-based manufacturer of airliners (among other things). This didn't used to be the case, but through mergers and acquisitions it's true today. There is just no way the US government would ever let Boeing go under and let the Europeans or Chinese dominate airliners. Like the banks in 2008, Boeing is just "too big to fail".
What Do Software Engineering and Factorio Have in Common?
So I never needed an app to watch for power outtages. So correct the people. Do you claim there have been no outtages. Just during hurican season? Be precise
Overturning Chevron itself didn't allow for that, but the (less talked about but just as important) ruling in Corner Post did. The court ruled the default statute of limitations for an injury caused by a regulatory agency is six years from the time of first injury, instead of six years from the enactment of the policy (what it was originally). This means any interested party can create a new entity, fund it, and have it be injured by the policy they wish to challenge; and finally use it as the vehicle to sue the agency. Wherever this entity is created would then be where it'd have standing to sue, allowing for the shopping of a friendly judge.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/07/supreme-court-expands-tim...
There's rational fear, which is more a sort of respect I think, which seems to be what you're talking about. But with young kids there is often a sort of phobia sort of fear where they refuse to get into the water, refuse to dunk their head under the water, or refuse to let go of the side of the pool even when somebody is holding them. We spent a lot of time trying to coax kids through this sort of fear.

If their fear kept them away from water forever, it would serve them well enough I guess... the problem is, if you don't get kids swimming young then when they get older they will probably push through the fear on their own to fit in during social situation rather than in an instructional context where somebody is prepared to help them through the learning process safely. That's how you get teenagers jumping into pools during pool parties and immediately starting to drown.
It's not a modal editor, it just has a modal (vim) emulation mode.
Tax preparation company Intuit to lay off 1,800 as part of an AI-focused reorg
It depends what means by "business sense". Compatible makers have profited, did profit during PC era. Indeed, one of AMD's core businesses is make xx86 compatible CPUs.

Nvidia and standard-maker is limited in what breaking changes they introduce - these can harm their customers as much as they harm the competition. Intel failed to force all their changes on AMD as the xxx86 market expanded (notably, the current iteration of CPUs standards was set by AMD after Intel was unable to sell their completely new standard).

Still, I'd acknowledge that "business sense" today follows the approach of only aiming for markets the company can completely control and by that measure, CUDA compatibility isn't desirable.
If it's so misleading then explain why.
Now instead we will have judges deciding between industry paid experts and the regulators over every single regulation like how much poison it's acceptable to pump into water supplies. People with no background in evaluating studies or the subjects at hand are being given the reigns to arbitrate between businesses and the public over extremely technical issues.
Because this will remove intent and knowledge from consideration. Under the STOCK act, you have to prove they're trading based on non-public information. Under the new bill, they just can't trade stocks, period. Any trading is immediately an offense.
Sublime is the better Textmate. What would you do to subl to make it more like mate? I used textmate for years and years before switching to ST and it was a drop-in replacement.
A hedge fund isn't granted immunity from insider trading charges like Senators are.
Not specific to the Chevron deference, but I’ve always felt that judicial interpretation should be conservative, i.e. legal rulings should aim to not change society without a previous law change by the parliament. This would mean that the power to change how society works should lie with the parliament, not the judiciary.

I’m aware thus would also block some changes that I agree with, but longer term I think this would be much healthier for democracy.
It seems relevant that recently an employee who was secretly working at a startup in China was paying someone to go to the US office and scan his badge.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-ran-secret-s...
Only a tiny portion of people are interested in Linux in the first place. Of those it seems like around 25% dual boot.

https://linux-hardware.org/?view=os_dual_boot_win

It doesn't make sense to ex post facto try to justify what people SHOULD do when we can look at what in fact they actually do.

The idea that the only people that play PC games are ONLY play AAA games on their souped up rigs is also a counterfactual. People play games everything from 8 year old laptops to $5000 custom built rigs with RGB everything. You are oversimplifying the universe consists of many and varied irrational individuals not spherical cows.

Dual booting is simple and suitable for nearly 100% of machines running Linux.

Wine/Proton is suitable for nearly 100% of machines running Linux. Steam has reduces this complexity to a few clicks for the majority of titles.

GPU passthrough is unsuitable for 70-80% of configurations and by dint of complexity undesirable for nearly everyone which is why virtually nobody does this.
Isn't it amazing and cool!
The reactions are strange. The decision appears to have been the single biggest rollback of the parasitic state in modern times. It puts the people and the government on a more equal footing with respect to the law, which is something to celebrate. I will chalk it up to the Trump Derangement Syndrome.
I only use editors written in C, as God intended.
Just applied to the position!
I find there is a curious rift between IT people and the obvious ultimate conclusion (everything being automated, including surveillance) that we seem to struggle with, in what feels like an almost adolescent tantrum way.

What do we expect to happen, eventually? It seems obvious that all things that would otherwise be monitored manually and less efficiently will be monitored automatically. Is that not the promise of IT?

We seem to have trust issues around our institutions, and, fair enough. But is the only way here not obviously to make sure our institutions work, because tech will do whatever it possibly can anyway, at someone's hand, eventually? We seem to marginally resist the future but I don't see to what reasonable end.
I think it's like lending money to HFT.
That sounds good, but doesn't work in practice.

New technology advancements make once very well understood laws, now ambiguous.

Take AI as an example. How many laws have been written over the past few decades that could not have predicted AI use cases or its application.
Have the same. Also I realized that recently I’m subconsciously looking for some weird phrases or sentences that might be AI generated and when I spot it I lose trust in what I’m reading…
Note that in Europe (broadly speaking), this is a right people have.
Welp, looks like it is running native wayland yet the cursors are blurry. The only time I have ever experienced that is when an app is running under xwayland.
Right. Chevron was about letting agencies help interpret ambiguous statutes that delegate authority from Congress to an agency.

But by definition, Congress can't delegate authority it doesn't have. In particular, Congress doesn't have the authority to transgress the Constitution.

So there's no question of whether the statute permits the agency to transgress the Constitution. It never does and never can. Even if the law said "Congress authorizes the CBP to violate the Constitutition," the agency would still not be authorized to violate the Constitution.
Zed is nice and all, but I simply cannot trust a VC backed editor of all things. Eventually, enshittification will occur and I really don't want that to happen to one of my core daily programs.
It is possible to make Go builds reproducible. The first step might be to inspect two binaries with the diffoscope (https://diffoscope.org).
We just decommissioned a 2011 iMac for a coworker, pretty much only because it no longer runs a supported MacOS version. I did an Ubuntu install out of curiosity, and it runs fabulously. We don't know what to do with it; it would probably make a nice machine for someone for years to come, but we don't have anyone who needs one.
Ask HN: How to build software to last 20 years? 50 years? 100 years?
There are many old buildings that are still in use today:

https://www.grunge.com/327172/the-oldest-buildings-still-in-use-today/

While software longevity is not subject to weather and natural disasters, there are forces that impact software longevity:

http://laputan.org/mud/

If you needed to build software that does its job and stands the test of time, what choices would you make?

What programming language(s) would you use?

Why?
An interesting corollary to outperforming the market long term being difficult is that underperforming the market (ignoring transaction costs) is also difficult. If you could consistently pick bad stocks then buying everything else would outperform the market.

So sophisticated on its own doesn’t imply consistently outperforming the market. It does imply variance and thus windows where they will outperform the market even if they preform poorly long term.
It's funny because the supreme Court also provided an avenue for that to be done legally - https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-limits-scop...
It’s been explicit goal of Conservatives for decades to remove “over regulation” and now thanks to this precedent newly instantiated corporations in the Texas 5th district can shop around to whatever judge they want and effectively strip any regulation now and forever; which has in fact already happened with a Texas judge ruling the FTC can’t ban non compete clauses

(https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/07/10/preliminary-injunction-ftc...)
You can do nothing really, other than reduce your dose by drinking filtered water where you can or advocating for agriculture that has all of its inputs and outputs filtered (which seems to be more of a sci-fi premise than anything realistic given vertical farming type operations are extremely cost-prohibitive/don't make actual sense).

Microplastics are also in the air you breathe, so perhaps use a great air purifier at home or wear a cloth mask to reduce exposure if you really care.

And as a small act of protest and helping in a small way, you can try to avoid purchasing products that use these (easiest with microplastics than PFAS as with microplastics there at least is often a label that the good is made of plastic or synthetic fiber, PFAS is usually unlabeled in goods, as the chemical industry answers to no one).

And I guess finally you can vote for environmentally-friendly parties, and advocate for environmental regulation politically.
+1 for the Jetbrains gang.
> AI images are often at least as relevant as a stock photo

That's damning with faint praise, as stock photos are rarely very relevant or add to the writing they're tacked onto.