skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is newsworthy because the Swedish healthcare system recently discovered that prostate cancer patients who took oral Terbinafine to treat toenail fungus had much better cancer outcomes. The same holds for Terbinafine and colon cancer.

We are currently in the WTF is going on here phase. $5 of anti-fungal medication cuts some cancer death rates in half? Is a tiny amount of fungus in cancer tissue driving growth and metastasis? Does Terbinafine have some other anti-cancer mechanism?
They can do that but if it's a real paywall then it's not very appropriate for linking on HN.
One big thing for games is that Microsoft swapped out older DirectX libraries to be fairly poor emulations/translations instead of being handled directly by the graphics card.

You can get better translation/emulation libraries that you can swap in to an application, like dgVoodo2 that can improve things hugely (but unfortunately buggy with some games). I think Wine's translation is also much better than Microsoft's for these older DX versions.
It cannot possibly be for technical reasons.

It's almost certainly something to do with this:

https://www.vectis.com/media/vectis-ip-announces-call-for-pa...

Which is complete bullsh*t.

Looks like Fraunhoffer and Dolby intend to go after any commercial product using Opus, and demand fees. They claim this is only for hardware devices … for now. As to software, they only state they do not intend to go after open source software. But since Virtualbox is also commercial software, Oracle is at risk.
Does this mean google won't kill off the service?
> Wine is the oldest alcoholic beverage ever produced.

Is that true? I thought it was mead, and a brief search suggests mead does still have a greater claim to that title.

Some references call mead 'honey wine', but to me that feels like like calling vodka 'potato whiskey'.

I accept the same yeasts can be used for wine and mead, but a) we don't know what yeasts they were using millenia ago, and anyway, b) yeasts will certainly influence the flavours, but generally don't determine the name of, the end product.

For example, some historically champagne-only yeasts are a relatively recent favourite for beer makers.
Yeah this is my experience as well... As much as I love to crap on Microsoft this is the exact opposite of my experience.
I was also somewhat surprised to hear there weren't any grocery co-ops in Eastern/Central Mass (notwithstanding the chain that closed), but it could be the co-op niche (small store, high-quality groceries) is already filled in the area by the many small markets, delis, etc. that have been there for decades.
I agree with most of what you said, except that you can't remap CMD+P and a few other keys used by FF itself whereas on Chrome you can. I made a patch to my FF to make this possible.
Perspiration?
They just went ahead and sent us an invoice. Sales by extortion... so I made sure to replace our JRE in places (where Oracle snuck in) and uninstall anything else Oracle across our fleet.
> I don't know anyone who still uses their address book on the desktop.

Raises hand.

But I don't use gmail, chrome or Edge. The mac desktop contact manager is integrated into calendar, messaging, mail etc and all that is true on ios. I use a third party calendar and used to use a third party desktop address book and integration is perfect.

Clearly these are internet apps but not web apps. I can't see how web would add any value, just friction.
I have hours of corporate anti discrimination classes I am trying to cram in before the deadline while trying to prepare for a major release. Its on my mind.
This is no longer true, M1 and A14 introduce hardware virtualization support.
What Google products do you foresee being used in the middle of a firefight?
I tracked down the guy who invented this, if this is the version you're thinking of, and wrote him. It wasn't a vaccine so much as it was a replacement of your oral flora and fauna with a non-cavity causing bacteria.

This was maybe twelve years ago, but he said essentially that the FDA really really really didn't like the idea, and he had to sell off bits and pieces of the concept.
If you want great video performance you are doing it wrong. You can watch videos probably but I've never gotten good sound performance out of it. Most of my development is backend and web and it's fine for that. You absolutely have to not skimp on ram, cores, and need at least an SSD. I find it acceptable for what I do (rust windows programming) when I give it enough cpus on the 8 core system. Sure it's not straightup native but it's okay. You have obviously install all the guest additions (open source ones) to get about the best you're going to expect.
As a longtime user of both Microsoft Office and Google Suite, I will pick Gsuite over Office in an instant. Microsoft is security theater at its worst. You can never tell where your file lives. Is it on OneDrive or Sharepoint? How many links or direct access thingies has shared the file? Who actually has access?
Every shithole has its redeeming qualities.

The gang rape issues alone keeps pakistan firmly in shithole territory for my mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Pakistan
Or NFL quarterbacks!
While it is true that no _entire country_ has GDP increase for _sole goal_, it is often the main metric used for government driven economic and social policies, and more often than not, compared to concurrent and/or rival country GDPs, when applicable.

Trying to change that means going from a productivity driven economy to a social wellbeing driven economy (as per government economic policies).

That's quite a shift, in line with the idea of universal basic income.
It doesn't originate with the author. Can confirm that chinampas have long been referred to as 'floating', as well as the Aztec capitol of Tenochtitlan being a 'floating city' in Mexico. Incidentally those pictured are not typical, they're usually smaller.

Your aquaponics analogy is apt. The canals are periodically dredged for fish manure in addition to some fish and axolotl (salamander) harvesting. Compare the Incan soku kollu technique, which starts with land and digs irrigation canals close together in which fish such as talapia are raised and harvested. The water serves as thermal mass and the mist they emit during frost events protects the plants.
The front end app maintains its own state. The front end fetches all of a given users links when it loads and stores them in application state (memory within the front end application.) If you lose your internet connection, the front end will continue to use the links that it has in its application state.

This isn't how Linkidex works right now, but using Linkidex as an example, the front end could queue up tasks such as "create link abc", "delete link "bcd", and "edit link cde" when offline. Then when your device regains an internet connection, it could send all of its queued up tasks to the back end and reconcile the changes with the database. PWAs make this kind of thing possible, and fairly simple to implement.

I am a huge fan of "The net ninja" on YouTube, and he has a great tutorial on PWAs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XT23X0Fjfk Note this is 3 years old and front end stuff changes quickly so this may be slightly out of date, but I still recommend this video series. PWAs are awesome.

Edit:

To clarify about linkidex working offline, you can still search your links when offline, assuming you loaded your links before going offline. You can't create, edit, or delete anything though, and if you refresh the app it will fail to reload just like any other web page. Maybe its unfair for me to say it 'mostly' works offline. I'll do a better job communicating this in the future.
>If we call any US election which was unsuccessfully interfered with by a foreign country "hacked", I think every election for the foreseeable future will be "hacked", no?

No doubt Russia, and probably other nations, will continue to try and interfere in US elections, yes. To use the common term, they will continue to "hack" our elections. And whether they were unsuccessful in 2016 is unknown, it's premature to say they failed.

>In Canada when we say a system was hacked we mean someone had unauthorized access to it, not that they hired teenagers to make memes.

You're confusing a technical industry term with a colloquialism. And I'll bet if you look around, you'll find Canadians who have used the term "hacked" in an imprecise, non-technical way.

>...they hired teenagers to make memes

>...what had really happened was just a lot of social media spam?

This is an extremely naive way to describe a concerted, state-sponsored effort by an adversary to influence an election in its favor. It absolutely was equivalent to 9/11 in the sense that it was an attack with major national security implications that we were unprepared for. I'm not going to change your mind, but know that it doesn't really match the opinion of the US military and intelligence communities, who, as I've noted, beg to differ.
Except that if they don't realize FF is using it and decide to drop it completely in their next update. That'd be a fun day for FF users.
CHERI doesn't do anything for use-after-free. It's basically a bounds checking solution.
Respiration
If at all, $400k is too little, considering Facebook revenue is ~$1.5 million per employee.
What I actually want is mediocre camera, high build quality, small form factor. But I’m pretty sure there are not enough of us, so I have to go with medium cam, build, and size.
> Sarcasm aside, I don't understand why the West kowtows to Saudi's.

They have oil, and they're willing to use it politically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis. Democracies are very vulnerable to that kind of stuff.
Could be something has changed, or else something else is at work. I had wretched teeth throughout my youth and through my late 20s. I have 8 or 9 crowns maybe 16 teeth, a few with fillings; some were pulled for orthodontic work. Then about 10 years ago I stopped regular dental hygiene practices: I brush my teeth once a day (most days) and rarely floss. Haven't had a "watch" in years since I dropped the practice of flossing once a day and brushing twice. My breath isn't foul smelling, either, except when I have tonsil stones (which is rare these days). Maybe for me the hygiene disrupted whatever was in my mouth that was disrupting the bad bacteria.
Great news everyone: Google might not cancel Google Workspace without at least a year's notice now.
Ancient Mars could have been teeming with microbial life, researchers find
I doubt it. It’s not that different from looking at photos
I find libvirtd to be fine other than sound when compared to virtualbox. I never did get sound to not be laggy and jerky in qemu on linux hosts.
lol requires microphone access to type a note? get lost
I really hope it reverts back to the old documented approach if the new API breaks things, because I can the see the day that Apple pushes an update to remove this API without any prior notice.
Why we get paid
"Upgrade". Not what I would call it. Thinking of removing my external TPM since I never use the thing anyway and maybe it will stop nagging me to upgrade to 11. I hate the cloud and this seemingly inevitable march towards Windows As A Serivce bullshit.
Can we start a petition against Google? Surely we can get enoygh support from engineers and developers to get the message across that using Google services is a bad idea.
The problem with prototypical inheritance is that people will use it. And now you can’t add anything ever again without this risk.

I absolutely love the ability to monkey patch in upcoming features. But I avoid adding my own array functions. Unfortunate, IMO, because it’s a really neat trick.
That place is notoriously kind of a cult. I can see it from a place I frequent, and some of the staff at that place are co-op members. They occasionally engage in illicit gossip, any the co-op sounds awful. They also boast among their members several 60s era leftist terrorists, and weather underground hangers on.

Wild place, but their apiary is cool.
Technically, you should be able to subscribe to any comment’s descendants. But that is not implemented anywhere I know, sadly.
> I'd personally put running an RCE into that category, but it's subjective.

I think that would depend on what code is being run. If it is something innocuous that just reports back that it was run, without any data, that doesn't seem disruptive or like it would access private information.
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Struggles
Your key point is that scientism, rei-ification of science is borderline belief-system behaviour, at the very least. Your pejorative language says you think its pushed well into the space. Fair enough.

What I am doing is saying "baby/bathwater" time. Public communications depends on not legitimating anti-vaxx (for example) but if it depends on belief system behaviour rather than being able to apply objective science outcomes to demonstrate the "why" -it's got problems.
At least with social VR, teleport-style locomotion is a decent alternative to sliding controller locomotion, because you're going to spend most of your time planted in one spot and talking to people near you.

When I was new to VRChat, I mainly played with teleport locomotion. (Well, "holoport locomotion": you point somewhere and hold a joystick, your point-of-view stays still while you and everyone else sees your avatar walk there, and then when you let go your point-of-view teleports into your avatar's new location. No unnatural nausea-inducing sliding.) Though there are some game worlds in VRChat that involve running around a lot that don't work well with holoport, and I would occasionally try sliding controller locomotion mode instead. Eventually, around the time I put in a hundred hours into the game, I found I could use sliding controller locomotion without issue, and switched to it for good.
thanks for all of this info!
Indeed, anticipating the likely future points of change is one of the hallmarks of a senior engineer.
So are we better than them, or not?
Yeah, I'm still fascinated by these 2 lbs GPUs and wondering what the actual value of 4k 144hz monitors are doing.

I just can't see what the limits are
I discovered a few days ago that VMware now offer a 'Fusion 12 Player', which is free (as in beer) albeit you have to register to get the download + key. Might be worth looking into that?
Lines don't mean anything. In Haskell a few lines accomplishes a few hundred lines in other more verbose languages. If you use a library, one method might be thousands of lines. Not to mention, you could use very long variable names or have lines wrap in less characters. This is a really bad metric.
> we end up with entire countries whose sole goal is to eternally increase their GDP

This is a pernicious straw-man. No county focuses only on GDP. No government focuses only on GDP.

Unemployment, interest rates, inflation, balance of payments, national debt etc, are all prominent indicators in any economy.

And show me a country that doesn’t also measure educational achievement, crime rates, divorce statistics, birth rates, suicides, alcohol consumption… the list is endless.

The only people who want an alternative to GDP are the ones who mistakenly think that the economy or society can be summed up in a single measure.
Thank you! There are some commercial toothpastes (like Tom's of Maine [1]) and chews (like BasicBites [2]) that contain arginine. I expect we'll see it incorporated in more products soon.

RE: oral probiotics, there is some promising evidence of oral probiotics in improving oral health. We wrote a guide [3] based on the available research that might be helpful.

For lysine, we're still looking into the evidence, but we're excited to see more innovation and research into oral care product ingredients that work with the oral microbiome.

[1] https://www.tomsofmaine.com/our-promise/ingredients/arginine...

[2] https://www.basicbites.com/

[3] https://www.bristlehealth.com/post/a-guide-to-oral-probiotic...
> Neom might just be the best argument against totalitarianism, such stupid ideas wouldn't even be up for consideration in a free(er) country. Just looking at the website makes me so sad, it legitimately feels like some passion project of a megalomaniac who doesn't care for the wellbeing of his people.

On the other hand: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-...
Now you know what's goin' on when your gums itch. (:
Completely uncomparable. This is a great example of why CVE counts are a useless metric.
Turning a pointer loading into an addition and then a pointer load is not that much overhead.
Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec
It looks like Fraunhoffer and Dolby are going after hardware devices using the Opus codec.

'The planned Opus program will focus on hardware devices and will not be directed towards open-source software, applications, services, or content.

'“We are pleased to act as administrator in the development of this important patent pool which aims to support efficient, fair, and transparent access to hundreds of patents covering technologies used in the Opus codec,” said Giustino de Sanctis, CEO of Vectis IP. “The reasonable royalty rates of this pool will balance the interests of both the program’s innovators and end-user device manufacturers whose products benefit from use of these patented technologies.”

'Vectis IP expects to launch the program in the coming months and for the program to include access to hundreds of patents with a royalty rate in the range of €15-20c per unit. Royalties for willing licensees will be applicable from the program launch, with further incentives available for licensees that promptly execute a pool license.

'Vectis IP welcomes other innovators with patents essential to Opus to submit applications for consideration in the program at opus@vectis.com.'

In other words: Yeah, we know that the IETF put out an IPR on Opus years ago. We don't care. We smell money.
I dunno, whichever ones do, or none of them even. I would be surprised if no one's been able to nail it even once. I just think that if you found one that tasted identical to Coke, it wouldn't matter.
Hope it sticks around
We're working on this right now! If you send us an email at info[at]bristlehealth.com I'll send over more information shortly.
Best Place to Survive Nuclear War in the U.S.
What sort of foods do you recommend? I've heard good things about yogurt, cottage cheese, and kimchi; but don't know for certain.
I've heard that there's sufficient yeasts on the skin of a typical grape that you can get fermentation without human intervention. If that's true, then for a sufficiently broad definition of "wine" and "produced" it seems to follow that wine probably predated mead.

Deliberate - and particularly large scale - production by humans is a more interesting question, of course.
No Man's Sky: Most of the time you sit in a pilot's seat

If you enjoy the pilot's seat I can't recommend Microsoft Flight Simulator in VR enough. The easiest way to get it working in a quest 2 is through Steam. You'll need a beefy GPU to run it comfortably though.
In terms of largest number of people, sure the JSDF might be larger, but in terms of raw fire power, I don't think anything comes close to America. And it's not like America has just one or two bases in the region to project from.
But it was probably posted because people were making wine jokes on the WINE thread.
For drive letters, IMO it's wrong design of Windows. Network drives and some apps' driver letters are assigned to users, while physical drives (and emulated drivers) are machine-wide.
The original Quest displays ran at 72 Hz, and the Quest 2 just barely manages to hit 120 Hz for an incredibly small subset of titles. Most run at 72 or 90 Hz.
At BlueCat we're looking at offering a DHCP replacement, here is the GitHub of where we're at:

https://github.com/bluecatengineering/dhcproto

Disclaimer: I work there. My own opinions.
As a FYI pigz also can speed up decompression as well, but the performance boost is minimal. The decompression is still in a single thread but it spawns other threads for i/o and so forth. For compression the speedup is quite linear.
US stopped using floppy disks to manage nuclear weapons arsenal (2019)
As the grandparent mentioned, the native virtualization framework requires an entitlement that Apple will not grant, however, the next version of UTM seems to have found at least a temporary way around this.

TrollStore:

>Jailed iOS app that can install IPAs permanently with arbitrary entitlements and root helpers because it trolls Apple

https://github.com/opa334/TrollStore

UTM v4.0.7 (RC2) release notes:

>(iOS) QEMU Virtualization for M1 iPad. With the release of TrollStore, you can now enable Hypervisor on iOS. Note that only M1 hardware and kernel have support for Hypervisor. iOS 14.4.2-14.5.1 is supported only on M1 iPad Pro jailbroken with fugu14/unc0ver. iOS 14.0-15.5b4 is supported on any M1 iPad running TrollStore.

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases

Otherwise, UTM has their own built in virtualization framework with JIT.
How would it know the right device id to spoof? (Definitely doable in a MITM scenario, but more complicated in others).
A lot of VR games have features for grabbing objects at a distance (Half Life Alyx makes this canon by giving you "gravity gloves"). Many games have menus where you point your hand and pull the trigger instead of moving your hand all the way to touch a virtual in-game button. I think a few more innovations like these would help.
Delaying the punchline until after 2. made your joke much funnier. When we write the spec for joke syntax we'll have to include this sort of... what is it, lazy-evaluation?
Most of us can't afford to ignore the price!
The latter. Effect of an effect of an action.
Why would AI be required to search a text document?

If you meant OCR, then I completely understand.
Is there a way to decompress in parallel? Afaik pigz can use a few threads to separate decompressing and i/o -- is there anything can we can pass to tar to ungzip faster?
This sounds extremely foolish to me. There are fates much worse than death and that’s one way to flirt with them.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Trumper, and don't think we should leave NATO. But the US military expansionist policy is tiresome for the US as well as for the European population who complain about it. There are a vocal minority (maybe not even a minority) who want our young men and women to come home and have our spending aimed towards education, our crumbling infrastructure, clean energy, climate cleanup, paying down our national debt, health care and fixing social security. Those are just the top things, there are other items to do that don't involve violent expansion or nation building. We don't mind working with NATO for peace keeping missions, though. Those seem to have broad support, but the media's spell seems to have been broken for a while on this rah rah, invade every country for any manufactured reason so the few can make billions =[
Also, undoing those decisions would likely just be replacing them with new and different bad decisions.
I’ve flirted with conspiracy-like thoughts on the dental industry and how they might be “confidently wrong” about things the way the rest of the medical industry famously has been on numerous topics over the centuries.

I wondered (with absolutely no basis in fact) things like, “maybe the calcified tartar forms a barrier?”
It might have been because the guest was trying to do 3D compositing without acceleration. 3D acceleration was in really bad shape in VirtualBox 6, being completely unusable on nVidia cards and buggy elsewhere. The release notes say they finally fixed it so I'm excited to give it another shot.
Can you imagine if there was one authoritative shared folder where the comprehensive strategy docs lived? Ah, an efficient government, what a dream!
Everything old is new again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5028218

https://www.sitepoint.com/anatomy-of-an-exploit-an-in-depth-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5167508)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5145397