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> Please provide scientific proof in the form of peer reviewed research or delete your comment.

I want to caution against this kind of gatekeeping on a forum like Hacker News.

We all adore the scientific method; nobody wants to dispute its worth and value to the species.

However,

1) As we've seen again and again in a wide array of fields, many of the systems of peer-review have failed to guarantee (or in some cases even provide reasonable assurance) that the results are robust and true. There is an ongoing replicability crisis in a number of fields, including health-related fields.

2) There is still value in logical assertions made without scientific proof; there is nothing wrong with taking personal observation and applying inductive reasoning as part of the toolchain of decision making.

> There is no room for these kinds of wild and ridiculous statements without proof.

I don't find anything wild or ridiculous inherent in the suggestion that the human body is capable of basic self-maintenance, nor that exposure to pathogens or other undesirables is a causal factor in the building of immunity and other defenses.
This sounds like an idea founded on experience, but without including any details about how you arrived at this sentiment the comment doesn't bring any value to the thread.
If I was in your boots, I would be quite upset. I can deal with some minor hiccups here and there, but the R key is quite crucial. I would weigh trying to do a repair anyway just to guard against against a probable future occurrence...
It's well worth watching Doug Demuro's review of both the BMW i3 and the Tesla model 3. It will give you a quick understanding of why BMW is behind the 8 ball right now with regard to EVs.
This is due to design as in what designers do. Usually website designs are fairly static with a mobile and a desktop reference design that frontend developers then have to implement.

Most designers do not work intimately with the content, so text is more shapes on the page than the main course. I do not mean this disparagingly, I have just seen a lot of designs in my time where the text is placeholder stuff in designs.

In reality text needs to be of a certain line length. If it gets too long then it can be hard to follow. Wall of text is a problem too.

The best way to do text is to make it proportional to the width of the browser window. If the lower font size is the 16px recommended by Google for accessibility then the maximum size can be what you might call enormous - on a 4K monitor. Everything can be just right in between.

If you do have a 4K monitor and you are using it for just one browser window then enormous is what you want - it will look good in the meeting room on a huge screen that everyone can see.

Some fettling of margins can go on too, so a small screen can have narrow margins, so 1rem on a phone and a lot more on bigger screens.

With these methods it is possible to make design a lot easier with everything proportionate to screen size. But if your designers are only thinking in terms of fixed with fonts and they produce the mobile and the desktop views with baked in font sizes that get signed off by the client then you are stuck with it.

It really is up to the design community to get with font scaling and to not be insistent on a couple of fixed font options.

This should be simple but in a multi-disciplinary team where most web design is then sausage-factoried with old layout hacks (so no CSS Grid or CSS variables) then progress is difficult if not impossible.
FAA Establishes Restrictions on Drone Ops Over Additional Military Facilities
I'd prefer they quit prior to gutting the M division and turning their motorsport legacy into mass market trash. Even the M2 is overweight, overpriced, and underwhelming, though its the "best" M branded car made in the past ~10 years.
Yet another article framing dystopian levels of surveillance as only bad if they malfunction. As if the only reason we wouldn't want to give complete control over our lives to authority, is because the authority might make mistakes.
How exactly is having 3 Firewalls in base system "poor defaults"?

The author never explains how 3 firewalls are bad.
It seems this is probably some Linux hack trying to slander FreeBSD.
The demonstration videos on Soul Machine's website (and also on youtube) show the level of realism is closer to artificial video games (compare to Unreal Engine 4 demo[1]) rather than the advanced and almost-undetectable "deep fakes".

But it doesn't matter that the fake digital personas are not "perfect" and has an "uncanny valley" look to them.

There's various research[2] that says that avatars with "eye contact" or "eye gaze" helps some children learn better. It seems plausible that avatars can also affect mood of customer service interactions or advertising.

If one looks at their technology page[3], it's like taking the Unreal Engine for synthesizing facial expressions combined with A.I. for understanding speech and responding in natural language. I.e. It's like adding a realtime digital face with emotional affectations to Apple Siri or Amazon Alexa.

[1] deep link: https://youtu.be/Vh9msqaoJZw?t=194

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=avatars+virtual+teacher+lear...

[3] https://www.soulmachines.com/technology/
I'll try.

I'm using Zsh, Ctrl-r is bound to fzf-history-widget. I start the history search with Ctrl-r using fuzzy as default, I input the command but it's not present in the history and something unrelated is selected, if I press Ctrl-g to abort the original input is erased.

I've found at least a couple of feature requests (#389 #993) where it's suggested to bind a shortcut to the --print-query function.

I think I've tried it in the past without success but having a fresh look at it right now, I think the blame is to the fzf-history-widget in the binary way it tries fetch an history line or reset the zle prompt...
All of those are voluntary, cell phones being the "least" voluntary but there are not laws requring one to have one, network effect makes it semi-required but...

Voice Assistants and Cloud Connected Camera however are no where near a requirement for participation in society
In the case of GraphQL and in the most prolific examples (Netflix and Facebook), you're not considering that the time to setup a GQL interface is less in aggregate than modifying many, many APIs for data that is distributed across varying data stores, often column/kv structures. These are also organizations doing more than just public facing pieces. For example, Netflix has to deal with art, media, and licensing that will vary by location, language and even distribution models under different contract terms for a different region. That's only one aspect of how things work.

In the end, an API written for one department may not match the needs of another, and another still may need additional related aggregate data. In the end, would you rather define your data sources once, or communicate API needs across several departments and maintain 3x or more the surface area to support them?

edit: I'm not saying GraphQL is appropriate for all scenarios... but I'm saying it is definitely better for many.
>The corrosive effect of misallocated inherited wealth. For context, BMW's biggest shareholders are the Quandt/Klatten family.

I dont know where you got that opinion from. BMW is perhaps Europe's most successful & profitable car company, probably second most successful globally after Toyota.

> That, in a nutshell, is why Germany's car industry is dying long-term. VW ownership same thing via Porsche SE.

The first company that will be dying soon is Tesla.
What if you’re breaking the privacy laws doing so?

Marijuana is illegal, so human tracking should be illegal too.
As crazy as the rest of your claims are, at least this one has real merit:

>Even the "healthy" ones on all-organic grass-fed Keto are starting to get sick after a few years on it. Welcome, Kidney stones.
> Is there truth to this claim?

No, there isn't. They invented quite some nonsense to add drama and the reactors blowing up like thermonuclear bombs is among that.

https://theconversation.com/ten-times-the-chernobyl-televisi... point 5

It's entertainment, not a documentary.
As someone who has owned both the Leaf and the Model S I agree with this. The only value of the Leaf was it was a very inexpensive but embarrassing way to get a carpool lane sticker in the Bay Area. It could not drive at highway speed for any material distance so “commuter’s golf cart” is accurate.

But now the Model S is the best sedan on the road at any price, and I’ve driven the 2019 BMWs and others. The interiors are cluttered up with incoherent “luxury” features to try to justify the price point, but nothing works that well together except for the drivetrain itself. I don’t want a crystal shifter knob and eight different buttons to lower the rear seats and a head-up display that occasionally knows the speed limit and iPads protruding from the seat backs and a lane-keeping feature that randomly jerks the wheel. This stuff makes the retracting door handles on the Tesla seem almost practical.

I do want a car that drives great and looks great and minimizes maintenance and running costs. No ICE drivetrain can deliver the same acceleration thrill as the Tesla drivetrain, so what’s the point? The only thing left is range and hauling power, so pickup trucks, vans, and for now, SUVs.
This is exactly what happened with incandescent light bulbs. The price for led bulbs dropped very quickly onve there was economy of scale driven by garunteed demand.
> but they emit more Carbon than they absorb

That’s a strange way to put it. The trees form a carbon reservoir. If they burn or decompose then they release carbon. But they cannot grow and release carbon indefinitely. If they emit carbon long enough then there won’t be trees left. On the other hand if the total mass of trees grows long enough they will have trapped more carbon.
>>The police are probably quite satisfied with the system's 19% hit rate.

lol, I am sure the police are, we as a society however should not be allowing the police to dictate what is and is not a "success". They have a MASSIVE conflict of interest here

The police would be happy with a 1% or even less hit rate
I paid for premium service from Dell (Alienware actually, but they were owned by Dell by then), which was around the same price as AppleCare. Someone came out to my house the next day and fixed the computer on the spot, replacing a part. This was for a part that failed because I was stupid and didn't have the computer plugged into a surge protector. After that, setting up an appointment, going to an Apple Store, waiting in the sea of people, and having to send in my computer, only to have to come back to the store later isn't exceptional in the slightest.
Similarly, there's evidence that in cultures where hearing voices is considered something spiritual or a gift instead of a serious illness, not only are the voices more positive, but those who hear them are able to integrate and function in society better.
My experience with FreeBSD is that the culture expects administrators to take on much more of a systems integrator role than most operating systems, somewhat like how Arch Linux or Gentoo compare to other Linux distributions. The overall experience is very different than either of those for a variety of reasons, but I think the similarities are there at a more abstract level.
> as these branches tend to no longer interact, that's an unfalsifiable claim.

The key word there is "tend". The branches can interact (via interference) it's just the the technological challenges of demonstrating this become more pronounced as you add degrees of freedom. The limits of falsifiability here are technological, not limits in principle. To be considered unfalsifiable (in the Popperian sense), a theory has to be unfalsifiable in principle, not just in practice.

In fact, interference has already been experimentally demonstrated on some very large systems, and work on quantum computing is progressing rapidly enough that post-quantum cryptography is a serious concern. The falsifiability of the universal wave function is at a similar stage as the falsifiability of gravity waves was a few decades ago.
It does, the whole thing is a thinly veiled OpenBSD uber alles rant. The author's twitter bio states "i'm a weeb / dj / photographer that likes openbsd" -- The references in the doc to LibreSSL, OpenSSH purity, OpenSMTPD, pf "unmaintained", OpenNTPD are codewords for "OpenBSD is better than FreeBSD".
How does that compare the the fraction reflected by a white paint scheme?
Wealth, education, and any number of other categories also matter a ton. We exclusively use gender and perhaps age to label people. Why?
Just wanted to say that I took a look at your book and it is really fascinating. I'm glad you took the time to write it and thanks for giving the ebook away. I'm a self taught FPGA designer (started out in software and switched to hardware because I like it more), so a lot of what you cover is totally new to me. I'll definitely be working my way through the material as my schedule permits.
Even without a lot of force, the new MacBook keyboards just sound like they're being abused and typed on with a ton of force. I make a conscious effort to type softly. My typing speed suffers a bit, but I don't get the anxiety that sometimes is triggered from typing hard and my body assuming I'm in some crunch mode.

I have a 2015 MacBook Pro and while there's noise when I type, you can barely hear it. I've used my SO's 2018 MacBook Pro with the new keyboard and it sounds (and feels) like I'm putting a ton of force on the keys when I'm not.

It's simply a flaw with the new keyboards. They're loud and fragile. It seems both of these criticisms are met with equal hatred amongst the community.

I'd like to add that the old MacBook keyboards can take quite the beating. I've seen people using 2011 and 2012 MacBooks while practically pounding on the keyboard and they have never had issues. I occasionally type hard on mine as well, but I've never had a fear of breaking the keyboard. I'm too hesitant to blame the way someone types when A) the keyboard is clearly a regression in feel, sound, and durability as well as B) the way people have typed hasn't been much of an issue with MacBooks in the past.
The met used to claim they had "super recognizers" doing exactly that. I'm not sure if it was true or just a lie to cover for the face recognition tech.
I coined the nickname "Deep Crack" for the EFF's DES cracker. I hope that's not objectionable. The first key's free!

Coming into Los Angeles
Bringing in a couple of keys
But don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/humor/deep-crack.txt
Or we could not do this at all in the first place and tell the authorities to go pound sand.
G Suite subscription downgrade deleted all my G Suite accounts
Or more likely: I clicked the wrong button when Cancelling my paid subscription (thinking it would just revert back to the Free plan).

I store my life, and my family's life, on my G Suite account. I have (had?) all my photos there, business accounts, emails, documents, domains, etc.

I was prompted to trial the paid version of G Suite, and thought "sure, why not? maybe there is something useful here!", but then I quickly decided that there was nothing I needed in the paid version and went to cancel the paid subscription (which you _can_ do; I checked before upgraded).

In haste, I must have missed the downgrade option and clicked through to something that deletes everything instead! All user, accounts, youtube channels, docs, subscriptions, photos, contacts, purchased digital assets, domains, etc. Everything.

I figure that at this point I need to treat this as if my accounts have all been hacked and deleted, with all data lost forever; I doubt I can even log in to my bank at the moment (I don't have the domain anymore).

I've contacted support at G Suite but they told me that only if the account was hacked and then cancelled would they recover the data. Because I've already fessed up to my mistake on record, there is no way to take that route anymore.

So, other than learning to read before clicking important buttons, what potential recourse do I have here? Anyone know of potential solutions to recovering my G Suite account?
I disagree web dev has always been entry-level. When I called it an entry level position, I meant only because the barrier to learning web development is lower than the barrier to get hired as an embedded C engineer or a backend API developer or a distributed systems dev. But there are plenty of very senior engineers that specialized themselves in web and are paid appropriately for their contributions. And in some cases the web component is the most critical component to the end user and requires very senior web devs to make it work properly.

I agree not to get caught up in the idea one developer specialty is better than another, they are just different and have different complexities.

In the end, the OP learning web dev is a great lower barrier way to enter the market and learn and find what they really want to do/build.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization#British_Empir...

> Independence for the colonies in Africa began with the independence of Sudan in 1956, and Ghana in 1957. All of the British colonies on mainland Africa became independent by 1966, although Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence in 1965 was not recognized by the UK or internationally. [. . .] Cyprus, which came under full British control in 1914 from the Ottoman Empire, was culturally divided between the majority Greek element (which demanded "enosis" or union with Greece) and the minority Turks. London for decades assumed it needed the island to defend the Suez Canal; but after the Suez crisis of 1956, that became a minor factor, and Greek violence became a more serious issue. Cyprus became an independent country in 1960, but ethnic violence escalated until 1974

The 1950s and 1960s were a process of Britain divesting itself of its empire and granting self-government to various entities.

Perhaps the closest parallel is Gibraltar, where Britain did give self-government over the 50s and 60s, but held onto the territory after a sovereignty referendum? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_development_in_mod...
When you say "disowning individuals" can I assume you're referring to something like setting very high rates for inheritance tax? Why do you think high inheritance tax 'historically does not tend to work well for innovation'?
I know Google Cloud by default encrypts the entire disk, which will include swap. Not sure about other providers though.
I once ordered a domino's pizza via paypal. The app did not complete the transaction. I did find however 20 transactions to dominos on my paypal account. I tried to reason with Paypal that I did not authorize 20 transactions (just one), but Paypal did not want to reason with me. In the end, Dominos refunded 20 transactions.

I now pay with credit card.
> cobble it all together yourself and then hope they remain maintained going forward

That is one benefit of deps.end over lein... deps.edn is language supported, lein is third party.
So if this ends up being found true it's entirely possible that some other viruses that don't kill you, make you sterile or cripple you might actually make you stronger. I'd be interested to see more of this type of research on other less-deadly conditions like chicken pox, measles, flu, etc.
"These risks are even more glaring in light of Facebook’s troubled past, where it did not always keep its users’ information safe. For example, Cambridge Analytica..."

ouch!
The Zen of Python (PEP 20, aka "import this") comes to mind.

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
Paper: "Untethered flight of an insect-sized flapping-wing microscale aerial vehicle"

> Heavier-than-air flight at any scale is energetically expensive. This is greatly exacerbated at small scales and has so far presented an insurmountable obstacle for untethered flight in insect-sized (mass less than 500 milligrams and wingspan less than 5 centimetres) robots. These vehicles1,2,3,4 thus need to fly tethered to an offboard power supply and signal generator owing to the challenges associated with integrating onboard electronics within a limited payload capacity. Here we address these challenges to demonstrate sustained untethered flight of an insect-sized flapping-wing microscale aerial vehicle. The 90-milligram vehicle uses four wings driven by two alumina-reinforced piezoelectric actuators to increase aerodynamic efficiency (by up to 29 per cent relative to similar two-wing vehicles5) and achieve a peak lift-to-weight ratio of 4.1 to 1, demonstrating greater thrust per muscle mass than typical biological counterparts6. The integrated system of the vehicle together with the electronics required for untethered flight (a photovoltaic array and a signal generator) weighs 259 milligrams, with an additional payload capacity allowing for additional onboard devices. Consuming only 110–120 milliwatts of power, the system matches the thrust efficiency of similarly sized insects such as bees7. This insect-scale aerial vehicle is the lightest thus far to achieve sustained untethered flight (as opposed to impulsive jumping8 or liftoff9).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1322-0
Mostly bullshit. A couple of studies on multivitamins that include zinc in developing nations showed a very small reduction in the incidence of an upper respiratory infections-approximately 8%. In studies of zinc supplementation and the zinc nasal spray in first world countries the effects of zinc have largely been disproven. It’s just marketing crap.
I had a similar thought, although I think fusing wouldn't solve the problem, as it wouldn't create a rough surface. That said, fusing might make it easier to fracture the sand and make rough surfaces.
Pretty exciting stuff, always room for ultra cheap laptops.

It will be interesting to see if they make their price point.
It comes down to how much time and effort you want to invest into learning a new system, which should depend on how many of the advanced features those systems enable that you will use. For me, that answer was as little as possible and zero. I just need a good static site generator. There are a bunch to choose from these days, but fewer back when I was faced with this decision in the early 2000s, so I wrote my own. If you don't need anything flashy, use something like my engine (First Crack: https://zacs.site/projects.html#firstCrack) to build the site and GitHub Pages to serve it. If there's a certain feature you want that a combo like that does not allow for, find the simplest engine that meets your needs, learn to use it, then go from there. Most of the big names are pretty good these days, so you can't really go wrong no matter which you choose.
Fuels generally have higher energy density than batteries. Research like ([0]) can, in time, result in systems which are on par or exceed biological ones.

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235043961_Fuel-Powe...
I used to want that too, but I've paid pretty close attention over the last couple years and that error has caught a nonzero number of what would otherwise have been runtime bugs.
Do groups of people have a right to free speech or just individuals acting alone?
It's like paying property tax to the government. Even if you own it, you have to pay to keep up the infrastructure, I guess.