skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was confused at first too. It actually has to do with rhetoric, thus the name, RhetFig, a shortening of « Rhetorical Figure »

Only reason I was able to deduce this was because I have a big book on rehtoric, anadilopolis is not something that comes up in other contexts, and it is indeed the proper use of technical terminology to call somethig a scheme in rhetroic.

Super cool site though! Basically, it associates a rhetorical figure with its taxonomic classification (in terms of rhetoric), its linguistic associations, and its conceptual associations. For example anadipolis is repetition of the same morpheme at the ending position of the word so its associated with two concepts, repetition and positon. —i think thats waht anadipolisis is anway, been a while since ive brushed up on it (might be repetition at the start not the end)

edit: just looked it up, anadipolis is repetition of te end of one clause at the beginning of the next. (thus the association to repetition and position)

Really neat stuff!
Why Microsoft Is Dumping C and C++ for This New Programming Language
Dunno if this could be probiotics or it could be quack science. I think it's important that it warrants investigation (a double-blind RCT) - I always harbored hope that experiment.com could be able to create crowd-funded research for populations who are going to great lengths and using lots of resources for these cures.

Also, you're forgetting about the two following paragraphs after your quotes (which I just think is interesting to test in general):

> Perhaps, instead of destroying the bacteria directly, the venom’s effect is indirect, kick-starting the immune system. Bee venom studies have shown promise in combating symptoms for autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. According to Justin Schmidt, an insect venom expert at the Southwestern Biological Institute, in Tucson, it’s possible that when the immune system begins attacking itself, an injection of bee venom may help by providing an alternate target—“something to chew on,” he said, “and this tends to regulate the immune system so it does what it’s supposed to be doing, which is attack toxins that are getting into your body.” While Lyme is a bacterial infection, it sometimes mimics autoimmune disorders, and so maybe, somehow, similar rules apply.

> It’s also possible that the pain of the stings plays a role. “Maybe the venom is doing something to kick off pain receptors,” he said. Anecdotal evidence suggests that other types of venom may also work this way. A brief article in the Lancet, from 1983, described a 43-year-old woman in Arizona who had MS and went into remission for two months following a scorpion sting on her right foot. An immunologist in Houston told me she was contacted by a physician experiencing progressive MS who said he’d been stung by a sea anemone and went into temporary remission.
The summary misses out on some key details that are most likely in the paper but are really needed to evaluate this.

How do you ensure that two nodes are not initialised at the same place?
‘A Letter from Larry and Sergey’
What are your top three most interesting stories on the front page? I'll upvote them for you.

One of the things I love about HN is how austere and information-dense the front page is. There are only two stories in the top ten I'm remotely interested in, and I figured that out in about as many seconds.
Ah, no threat here. This post isn't a salvo in the platform war. Plan9 is not going to displace Android/iOS/macOS/Linux/Windows/ChromeOS/whatever.
Whaaaaaat. This is amazing! I know so many people who have difficulties collaborating on manuscripts the mismatch between skills document skills (life sciences vs. computer science), but thanks to WYSIWYG, they will now be able to collaborate.

The checkpointing thing is very impressive... typing + update is near instant. Never seen that before.
Also, the one about patients doing gut-transfers to help with their very difficult gut flora issues.
I listened to the first episode. Very good! I'll definitely listen to more.
This is one of those things that makes me wonder about synchronicity - was literally just browsing the Netflix queue and saw a title related to Plan 9 from Outer Space and it had me wondering about how Plan 9 was doing. Next glance at HN and whammo, right at the top - someone else was thinking about Plan 9.
> "the bear is sticky with honey"

If you don't understand the tweets, it's because they have a deeper meaning.
One obvious difference is that WasmerSharp wraps Wasmer. Wasmer and Wasmtime are different.
Oh I did not know that. The attack was behaving differently on Ukrainian targets? That's a pretty damning thing indeed and makes the question of the act of war very relevant.

Note that it could make sense to a pro-Russia Ukranian group to extort money abroad and to hurt economically on the target. That seems to be the Russian MO to not be directly implicated in the Ukrainian operations: help with tools, weapons and money the groups that are already in place.

They give up direct control over the actions in exchange of deniability.
I remember two occasions in the seventies that climate cooling was reported. Both times it was presented as something of "here's a bit of a crazy idea" for the last spot of the news. I don't remember any of the pop science programmes that I used to watch avidly back then ever covering it, though every series had one or two slots for some crazy or outlier idea... Sometimes to see potential, sometimes to debunk.

In the early 80s I picked up one of the "coming ice age" paperbacks, remaindered down to pennies, in the same category as Von Danekin's Chariots of the Gods and his Egyptian aliens. It was absolute garbage, but that's beside the point here. I probably still have it at the back of a bookshelf. Yet already by the early 80s climate heating was coming up in conjunction with acid rain and ozone depletion - they were a holy trinity that often seemed to come together, and they were starting to crop up regularly. Ultimately reporting of all increased throughout the decade, leading to action on ozone and acid rain, and formation of IPCC, at the end of the decade but also the start of the industry moves to oppose via disinformation and obfuscation - the tobacco playbook. Like the Bush administration effort to rebrand climate heating as climate crisis - as that sounds benign and normal.

So I'm old enough, and I doubt your tale - perhaps some sources were reporting it poorly, perhaps the US bought into some climate cooling cult in a way that was completely and entirely unseen here in Europe.
How much do you get when it's licensed on Getty for $50? It's an apples-and-oranges comparison to talk about your cut from 500px and the gross fee on Getty. I'm sure your cut on Getty is bigger, but I'm curious to know if it's 10x bigger or 50x bigger.
they weren't "Caught" - binning is a common practice in the cpu industrty. this isn't a problem
The people working on or using plan9 (front) today are different. Just look at the cat-v harmful section and you'll see the blatant elitism. They will keep the completely flawed concepts like the chorded mouse interface for ever for two reasons:

1. To keep normal people out

2. Because their "gods" (Richie, Pike, Kernighan, ...) can't ever be wrong. Claiming otherwise would be heresy.
The Infantorium
What we get wrong about time
This is great! Super similar to a project I put out 2 months ago: https://twitter.com/vctweetbot
McCarthyism 2.0 is going to be a bloodbath. Forget about "six lines written by an honest man" they'll have gigabytes of data in which to find something to hang you for.
Which is already more than any other FOSS UNIX.

As for macOS, I am sure that it will come, as these features have been slowly being added release after release.
Mute button + headphones
Honestly, if you hate reading about obscure OSs and seeing how people tweak their UIs... I'm not sure why you are bothering to look at Hacker News. It's... right there in the name; if you don't want to read stuff that's targeted to hackers, maybe read something else.
Why Shared Channels are So Cool
The rendering happens in real-time when you type! Is this using pdflatex? Because I've never seen an editor with this low of a response time.

Only slight nit is the blue progress bar/page load bar that appears across the top of the screen while you're typing is annoying. And the baseline kerning of the fonts in math mode seem a bit off: $$x^2 + 2x + 1$$ has the x in 2x a bit raised
Qualcomm abandoned it when they became a target of an LBO.

It made sense for them to reuse their design expertise and hedge into other markets so that they didn't get stuck exclusively with trends in mobile devices. AAPL told their suppliers to withhold royalties, hurting revenue. And once AVGO took aim, they needed better focus. Centriq was a long term bet that could've worked out (cloudflare had a positive review) but it just wasn't in the cards.
Fair point. I associate DJB with security and coding best practices, Javascript not so much. I can only hope the comment I replied to meant DJB the person.
As another example, you should never unpickle untrusted data. The machine for parsing pickles is too powerful.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25353753/python-can-i-sa...
> Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what their talking about.

... but I bet they can spell they're.
84% isn't that great for predictions compared to DNNs, RNNs or other modern ML algorithms.
I do too, but I find much of this behavior at early-stage startups, which don't usually have reviews on glassdoor or indeed.
What about PSP, PS3, & 360?
Stem Paradox: Why Do Muslim-Majority Countries Produce So Many Female Engineers?
Georgia Governor Appoints Bitcoin Exchange Bakkt CEO Loeffler as New US Senator
Saw your comment, thanks for bringing that up. Insurance companies dont take the prize, its the brokers--distribution is where the lion's share of premium goes. Wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21710050
Thank’s for sharing! I’ve been meaning to check out Luciano Floridi’s work for a long time.

I’m a bit skeptical of the whole program because philosophy is one of the last bastions of resistance to the overall informationalization of life, and one of the few disciplines that’s managed to remain somewhat free of a reduction to the concept of information; I don’t want it to be messed with. That said this sounds like quite the work. The reviewer has some interesting criticisms though.
We need a single payer--that's the answer. Wrote about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21710050
Sure they have caught on, among the C++, Delphi, Java and .NET communities, less so among other ones.

IDEs are the continuation of those models.
Also comparative advantage is a thing. You're probably making more than if you did your own thing. And if not, why are you there?
That doesn't seem like a high bar honestly. There's many games that much harder to get started with, you might need to buy an old console or buy a specific version of a game. Downloading and installing a cracked game should be easy.
"Because it’s there" (George Mallory, when asked why climb Mt. Everest).

Some people look for the most exotic art. Some people seek the most unusual foods. Some people want to know exactly what's out there in the universe (enough for humanity to keep chucking probes into deep space, no less). And, some people want to use their computer in a new way. Some of those people even end up deriving practical value from the exercise, but I would hesitate to claim that that's the reason we do it:)
Sony's mid- to high-end LCD TVs have a feature they call "X-Motion Clarity" that pretty much does that -- local dimming zones independently strobing (at 120Hz) depending on picture content/motion. Seems to work well.
I wasn't talking about binning, I was talking about when you have binned at a certain level, but the product is sold under its capability because you want to maintain the illusion of scarcity of the better parts.

AKA its a perfect part, but its being sold with a couple cores disabled or at a frequency below whats its capable of.
Interesting, I know that Oracle paid $850 million for moat analytics, would you happen to know any competitors that could have sprung from that acquisition?
Florida Keys Deliver a Hard Message: As Seas Rise, Some Places Can’t Be Saved
Great that you bring up margins--wrote about how the insurance ecosystem is what eats up the dollars https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21710050
Curious, which book of rhetoric is that?

"Rhetorical figures" are more commonly rendered as "figures of speech", according to Wikipedia. Website seems to be made by people in the English Language and Literature department of Waterloo, so maybe not linguistics (which I think of as a soft science) but more like a humanities.
That can be summarized as: unexpected interaction between independently secure parts.

Just because you've written secure components in a safe language doesn't mean you don't have security issues when you run them together.
^Totally agree with you. Single payer is the answer. The comments on this thread inspired this writeup--how the insurance distribution ecosystem itself sucks up a lot of the dollars https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21710050
A new study assesses whether inheritance taxes boost net revenues
IDEs, shader editors, game design languages like Blueprint, LabVIEW are examples of mainstream tooling that aren't purely text based.
That's sad and I disagree - category creation is amazing. Though indeed, I've observed that almost all VC's are indeed against this until it's been handed to them on a silver platter, despite what they may believe about themselves and their firms. So the tricky part is how to fund it over time :)
I assume there is a pretty big lag between AMD CPUs being much better and prebuilts including them and businesses noticing they are better.
Force multiplication. You can often achieve more as part of a group than you can on your own.
yes and no.
its a little work but you could whitelist a domain the NVR can connect to or maybe an IP. Block anything else.

for example:
if you want the NVR to upload to Dropbox, you would whitelist the list of domains that are needed for Dropbox to work.
if the NVR tries to connect to 'heartbeat.hikvsn.cn' it would fail.
So what? "Publisher" has no legal meaning in the context of a website, so who cares what they say they are?
This kind of geeky stuff is exactly one of the fun parts of HN.
> back in the day, everyone adapted its config somehow.

Yeah I know, although I don't remember coming across Tavis's config I did live through those heady days of customizing window managers and remember them with fondness. [Although that screenshot has emails dated 2006, which puts it well after that culture had peaked.]

I actually started using fvwm2 again recently on one of my machines, I am not sure why, maybe I had some nostalgia for that time period.
Not every corporation has proprietary x86 binaries they need to run on a server. Every company I have worked at has had entirely open source server software and a few proprietary javascript libraries.
It appears to be using a heuristic to update the PDF directly when you type, and then it periodically runs LaTeX to do global layout. Try putting the cursor before \LaTeX in the example document and input a few spaces. For me, it shifted the first characters into the later ones, perhaps because their heuristic couldn't detect that they are on the same line due to the vertical offset.
Thank you for an intelligent comment.

There are people downthread who are arguing that because numerical instability bugs exist and climate models are complicated, climate models can’t be trusted. Literally any flimsy pretext is used to dismiss work that people don’t like.

This conversation is dominated by people who have just enough knowledge to defend their pre-conceptions, but no more.
It's an -ism a little like sexism, racism, ageism and disability discrimination. There will be countless instances that will be hard to prove the loss - as you don't have transparency of what the other side is thinking/saying.

Whether it's some dubious data from suspect source, or it's your gender, you might find some opportunities more difficult, premiums more expensive, interviews not bringing job offer. When it's just one isolated, it proves little, but in aggregate... We already know many of these data models are very wrong. When Amazon recommend products for me, they do so terribly. When Google and Facebook famously opened up their respective "what we know about you" pages a few years back, they were - for most in our office - dramatically and hilariously wrong. Often getting every key point wrong like gender, age group, and 9 of 10 interests. AI models are often reported to have gained or inbuilt bias and racism.

It doesn't feel obviously bad, but in the cargo cult of targeted advertising, they've demonstrated they're unfit for purpose. Yet the vast data stores influence all our lives daily -- we really need an audit to identify all those micro impacts and data derived discrimination, as it's undermining any belief in a rational basis and a fair chance in society.
Reminds me of a strange story of mysterious 'modern art' arrangements, of leaves and twigs, that appeared every morning on a workshop stoop (spoiler, it was a fieldmouse):
"Elena's Messages: From Her Big Sur Sanctuary"
https://www.amazon.com/Elenas-Messages-Her-Big-Sanctuary/dp/...
Goes to Senate, goes to sleep.
Service spread exchange in Tokyo locals and out of Japan locals
Hi everybody,

I am an app developer in Tokyo,
I am fluent in Japanese and English, however, since I reside in Tokyo, I'm having difficulty in spreading my service, which is made for English speaking markets outside Japan.

If you are a developer or a marketer, and have any service you want to spread in Tokyo, or want to ask how I as a Japan resident think about it, please feel free to reply.

best

https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/simple-golf-score-counter/id1453327924?l=en
Dr. Eugene Parker Reacts to First Discoveries by the Parker Space Probe [video]
While it's a nice story, am I missing something about the title? The part about not being able to write is only briefly referenced a couple times. It's not a subject of the article.
This is indeed amazing! But I was wondering if it's possible to compile the whole TeXmacs into WebAssembly and have it in the browser. That will be a totally different world.
I've heard it's okay, but not as good as google home max which is again impressive for a smart speaker but still can't compare to other wireless speakers. At a certain level though speaker reviews get to be a bit too much for me to take seriously. The farther they get into audiophile territory the more skeptical I tend to become. Probably because I've been pretty happy with shitty speakers at much lower price points, but I figure if you're going to drop that kind of money on a wireless speaker it'd better sound incredible.
You can use blink XT2 cameras from Amazon to store free video clips
> because it makes the math a lot harder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
Honestly RAMDAC was more the limiting factor.
There are far weirder Discordian reality tunnels you could go down. Like the MVS 3.8J community – tinkering with a 1970s vintage IBM mainframe operating system running under emulation (that version was the last version of MVS that is legal to distribute, IBM put all the subsequent versions under restrictive license agreements.) Or, people who create enhanced versions of TempleOS, introducing to it the heresy of networking.
I, personally, despite modern trends, don't like Spring Boot. It was never a big issue for me to configure required beans manually. Spring Core reference has all the necessary examples to cover it.

I guess, Spring Boot makes sense, when you're producing a lot of little web applications with microservice architecture, so copying over that manual configurations can become burden. My applications are monolith and last for many years, so it's not an issue for me to spend some time configuring everything as I need it and it's always visible and obvious what's happening.
Here’s the book I was thinking of, Oxford’s encyclopedia of rhetoric: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/978019512...

The handlist of rhetorical terms, while not as exhaustive has a ton of great knowledge as well and covers all the key bits: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520273689/a-handlist-of-rhe...

And yes, it’s more common to just call these things figures of speech these days. But rhetoric was a rather sophisticated and complex field of study back in the day. Its lost its luster and is rarely formally studied these days expect in very small circles, presumably of politicians and other important speechifiers.

The latins abd medievals really had developed it into quite the art. They went so far as to distinguish the speeches sonic effects from its emotional ones, both of which were seperate from its logical import, and all of which were controllabe to degrees by the deployment of certain figures.

Technology has made these arts wither in a way as a lot of the impetus for their practice was driven by the need to keep the memory sharp—its easier to recall a set of several repetable rythmic figures than a freeform prose speech wihout fixed patterns—similar techniques were used in the recitation of oral myths—these days we dont need these “wetware” techniques as much since we have so many other technological memory supports.
> there's no communication happening, just reception.

Erm... In practice that's not quite true for many devices, depending on your definition of communication and the relevancy of side-channels (which may leak information).

So, first of all, Location Services is more than just GPS. It also uses cell and Wifi signals to estimate location (hence the pop-up that "enabling wifi improves location accuracy"). So using location services may affect the behavior of the cell and wifi radios.

Second, virtually all phones (and many other devices that expects to often have internet communications) use what's called "assisted GPS", which is where the satellite ephemerides and almanac are downloaded through a side channel and passed to the GPS chip (along with an estimate of the current time and location)

That greatly improves the time to first fix because the receiver knows exactly which satellites are above the horizon, and also doesn't have to wait for each satellite to broadcast its ephemeris data (ephemeris is only broadcast once per 30 second frame, and you aren't guaranteed to receive it correctly the first time).

Tangentially related to the above, there's a very interesting paper from Microsoft where they are able to recover the location of a very low duty-cycle receiver using only an estimate of the code phase relative to the internal clock (so the navigation message is never even decoded by the device).

They (of course) needed to record the ephemerides (at the "base station") during the periods where they wanted to know the receiver's position, and there are duty cycle minimums to avoid 'cycle slip' (because the receiver only knows the code phase to an ambiguity of n2pi).

Edit: Oh, here it is: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Which brings back to having a language designed for poor developer experience, given that tooling support cannot be part of the overall experience.

So if for language X, if I as language designer want to provide the same experience as Smalltalk, either I consider the interaction with IDE workflows, or I design command line tooling to go along the language (e.g. Go).

And the command line experience comes back again to the universe where it is more prevalent, POSIXy systems.

So I don't think I am making false assumption here, as one cannot have it both ways.