skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rate of taxi replacement for old diesels is currently doubled, with the lifetime of a (Euro 3, 4, 5) diesel taxi reducing from 15 to 12 years over the years until 2022, so each year two years worth of old taxis will be too old and replaced by ZEVs or other low emission vehicles.

Yes, they're a big polluter, but they're also moving a LOT of people around the city, so that sort of cancels out. If anything the taxi drivers remain annoyed that this means they're going to be buying a (very expensive even after grants) new taxi sooner than expected.

The Mayor spent about £25M basically bribing those in younger taxis to upgrade to ZEV anyway, paying them over £10 000 each in some cases to swap from an old diesel (which would then either be scrapped or sold outside London since it can't hit criteria to be newly licensed as a London taxi now) to a PHEV.
This is a bad excuse for too much (internal) complexity. 64bit is over 10 years old at this point and there's no reason NOT to update programs.
Thanks, I didn't know about text-only zoom.

> the "zoom amount" is remembered per-site, irrespective of toggling.

I'm pretty sure it isn't with stock Firefox - I use an extension for that.
Maybe this will start encouraging politicians to re-think city planning and transportation. Maybe they would go as far as banning diesel all together as well as creating pedestrian zones. Electric scouters are currently banned so they could overturn that.
Hence diesel is so popular as fleet cars.
It's the same reason why having two kinds of TSA lines is less secure--there's now a second vector of attack!

All anyone has to do is become a "Trusted Traveler" and they have less security theater to go through, just send in your info, pay the fee, and off to terrorizing you go.

Also, my private data was leaked because of the OPM "hack" which I think was more like the Awan Bros. gave China the passwords to get in.

The only reason to want to break encryption is power and control over the masses. There is no "24" scenario that ever happens where people die because some file couldn't be read, that is just Hollywood bullshit.
>This is the natural and predictable outcome

No it isn't. This is alarmism.
Especially in the Bay Area. There's a reason sour dough bread is a thing, for example. It's in the air.
For my uncharitable half-formed view? Sure, though I can only actually remember one [1].

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n06/terry-castle/desperately-seeki...
The harder task is to convince management when there are lots of free alternatives that "do the same thing".
Why is Web Accessibility ignored even if is easy to solve?
Now I am really worried for Chinese kids. pls don't build generation of machines. This will not help at all to Great China. This looks like Gattaca -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
You can only think at a high level for so long. passive things like watching TV, meditating, sleeping, fishing require little thinking. Sports is tiring, but not so mentally taxing. Programming is entirely different.
I wonder how much worse this is for US vendors, than it is for China?
How Spa Treatment Is Beneficial for Health? – Salonist Blog
If it bothers you, try alpine. I think the minimal rootfs on their site is 3MB or so.
I really don't appreciate how you accuse the Trump Admin of doing something that only Democrats have been caught doing. It's like you can't think or something.

Who used the IRS to target conservatives?
Who ran guns to Mexico in order to create a reason for more gun control laws?
Who is using the FBI to subvert the 2016 election?

Who indeed.
Neat - MES Scheme is apparently named after Alan Kay's description of Lisp as the Maxwell's equations of software.

https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
> What should be happening is that the FCC / international communications bodies should be directly funding a project like OpenWRT ...

The exact opposite is what actually happened. In late 2016, the FCC specifically banned owner-based firmware upgrades[0]. It was ostensibly due to RF configuration, it could also be seen as a concession to the manufacturers.

0 - https://hackaday.com/2016/02/26/fcc-locks-down-router-firmwa...
About the 200,000 contract with 500,000 donation “to make things right”

Sure, give a rapist the Nest cam that monitors the house of the victim.

And make up for it by offering the victim a paid subscription to Spotify — to offset the trauma.

Newsflash, this administration is breaking the law, and they are in contempt of Congress.

They are able to give the people the finger because of actions like this one
If you ask this, you have to first model your risk tolerance, on some levels no electronic chip is safe to use!
Physicists report a way to 'hear' dark matter
It is taken granted that if you are reading a high level maths paper, you are capable of deriving the authors' working intuitively. Papers would be excessively bloated without that assumption; besides, how far in detail do you go with the process and intuition?
At the moment, my Dad gets a company car though and the Tesla Model 3 just popped up as an option on their portal. He and serveral of his colleagues are in the process of swapping.

My Dad does about 20,000 miles a year for work.
Taiwan should just start including pictures of Winnie the Pooh pics on Wikipedia articles to get the whole domain blocked in China.
Just to add to the research ksaun shared, this article reviews and discusses a lot of the key research related to the use of fasting for chemotherapy.
https://longevityy.com/fasting-and-cancer-how-fasting-before...

There's an impressive body of research on this subject already, it's just unfortunate that many (most?) oncologists haven't caught up yet with the science.

A common objection is that chemotherapy causes weight loss, and it's important that patients keep their weight up. Where this argument falls down, is when you look at why chemo patients lose weight - and it's primarily due to the treatment reducing their appetite.

So if you're then able to reduce side effects of chemo (which it appears fasting does), patients are then more easily able to eat and maintain/recover their weight.
Only a matter of time until the U.S. government classifies dogs as a "Schedule I Substance" and these positive health-related research statistics begin to disappear.
In the twin example, what is to prevent your twin from taking your documentation and receiving a public/private key in your name?

Or simply access that key of yours and use it?

The public/private key only prove you hold the keys, not that you are you.

Not identity, just proves you have access to the keys.
Thank you. I missed that part. But yes, odd about the missing white paint :)
> Well, the government is now one of the relevant parties. It doesn't change anything fundamental about the encryption.

It does change something fundamental: now you have three parties instead of two. Take for instance the most popular key agreement protocol, Diffie–Hellman, and suppose Alice wants to use it to send a message to Bob. When the only parties are Alice and Bob, she can do some calculations with her public key and Bob's public key, and then she has the shared key to be used to encrypt and authenticate the message; these calculations can be done fully offline. If you try to add a third party (George), not only are the calculations more complex, but also they need to be online (all parties have to exchange messages before any party knows the shared key), which makes important use cases harder or impossible.

And note that I said above "encrypt and authenticate": possession of the shared key allows one to also forge messages. When there are only two parties, this works fine (Bob knows he hasn't forged anything, so the message can only have come from Alice); with more than two parties, that is no longer the case.

That is: the design of a three-party protocol is very different from and much more complex than a two-party protocol. And it gets even more complicated once you want one of the parties to be able to decrypt and validate but not forge messages.
Farther back than that even, go watch movies like Gung Ho from 1986 with Michael Keaton which did a good job at vilifying Japanese companies/Japan.

>The local auto plant in fictional Hadleyville, Pennsylvania, which supplied most of the town's jobs, has been closed for nine months. The former foreman Hunt Stevenson goes to Tokyo to try to convince the Assan Motors Corporation to reopen the plant. The Japanese company agrees and, upon their arrival in the U.S., they take advantage of the desperate work force to institute many changes. The workers are not permitted a union, are paid lower wages, are moved around within the factory so that each worker learns every job, and are held to seemingly impossible standards of efficiency and quality. Adding to the strain in the relationship, the Americans find humor in the demand that they do calisthenics as a group each morning and that the Japanese executives eat their lunches with chopsticks and bathe together in the river near the factory. The workers also display a poor work ethic and lackadaisical attitude toward quality control.
I wonder how many of you actually have been to China and spent sometime there?
>Of course it’s illegal?

Fraud tends to be illegal. That’s as far as I’m willing to believe your “of course”.

I do not believe most countries have laws regarding caller ID spoofing.

I know that in my country IMEI spoofing is (Bizarrely!) sort-of prohibited as forgery (as in IDs, documents or “anything of evidential/testimonial(?) value”), but can’t find anything regarding phone numbers.

I know that in the US it’s only illegal to spoof your number for fraudulent purposes.
This is purely anecdotal and dependent on location/neighborhood. In my suburban ‘hood with white picket fences, you see people walking dogs everyday - and we’re not an exactly good example of a walkable neighborhood.
Ecouraged by tax reductions in the service of CO2 efficiency.
I vaguely remember reading there are cases of Auditory Brain stem Implants (to restore some forms of hearing) running for decades. No idea how similar that is to this case though.
Does the person in question spend 30min-2hrs a day watching TV?
Here's the text without paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20191009015429/https://www.nytim...
Exactly that, yes.
You need to upload your ID to cancel the account or to revoke permissions to process personal data based on GDPR. Upload Winnie-the-Pooh instead.
Capital One has an app, every time my card is used I get a push notification. This is the best solution in my mind. I can actively monitor my card usage and call if I see something suspicious.
Love this! I will write a small tutorial on it and I will use it too to make forms better!
So true! I have 0 visibility into the Hearhstone world, but now I've canceled my pre-orders and my WoW account.
>This is objectification turned to 11.

Fans like those stars for their whole package (myth, personality, songs, artistic expression, style, etc) not e.g. just for their body (which is usually implied by objectification).

It's also not much different than our pop idols, especially of yore (up until the 00s or so, before several other occupations, such as games, social media, web surfing, selfies, and tons of higher quality TV and movies) basically replaced pop music as the major obsession of western kids.

There have been idols attacked (and even murdered) plenty of times in good ole US.
For me the business model was the biggest turn-off.

If I wanted some big CCG company to take my lunch money, I could always invest in an established platform already, like Hearthstone.

What I'd consider an interesting alternative, would be a less greedy game with an initial AAA entry fee ($60), and then nothing else. Just, nothing else. It's financially viable, if a giant production like The Witcher 3 can profit this way, any card game can.

If they really wanted, they could introduce maybe some cosmetic card back covers, announcers, avatars etc. in a silly gem shop I'll never visit anyway, but the game loop and the outer loop of getting new cards and deck building should be free. In fact, for such competitive games, it should offer no pay2win option at all. Let me play the game, win and get stuff after every match, feel that I'm progressing through the game without ever having to worry about my IRL wallet. If I win, I win, if I lose, I know that I lost fair and square and I must improve.

There are enough venues in this world for pissing contests over money already, why would I ever want to concern myself over real money in a virtual world. For most genres of games paywalling the progression is pretty much unheard of (except for maybe (bi-)yearly expansion packs), yet for CCGs this is considered normal, and no company ever tries to flip the table.

Maybe there was no demand for yet another money-grabbing CCG.
When I'm researching something I write about the thought processes and the meta-cognitive process involved, including comments on other resources (technical or not), so when time comes I have a technical article and a not technical article ready. I'm speaking as a student who doesn't writes papers for scientific publications, but I think the same methodology would benefit scientist in general.

One of the most promising things I was taught at high school in Argentina were methods to think about how and why I think what I think. It's true that you don't have to apply it to any topic, but if you're serious about writing is really helpful to grow with that in mind.
Some of the waterways even feature grade-separated junctions. The largest one is near Magdeburg: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_Water_Bridge, and for the pictures https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Kanalbr%C3%BCcke+Magdeburg&t=ffcm&...
Another English article that's a little better:

* https://www.tokyoreporter.com/crime/saitama-man-used-eye-ref...
Great stuff!

Btw how did you make the diagram?
I wasn't talking about Russell.
Artificial Intelligence: Powering Human Exploration of the Moon and Mars
Nice trick. I commend it. However my hard rule is to simply never continue incoming calls.

If it really is a serious situation, they'll just have to chill until I call back to a verified number.

As far as I'm aware, this will stop all attacks like this. Unless they've hacked the phone network and can reroute my calls? :)
I suspect that the big part of that 120MB is bootstrap-guile (Guile is a Scheme implementation)

if you want to go really minimalistic, see stage0, it's like 500 Bytes

https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

details are in the article
Unfortunately, many books are ONLY available from stores that still use DRM.

Physical books are much less convenient in that I can't carry 50 of them around in my pocket like I can with books on my phone.
This article reviews and discusses a lot of the key research related to the use of fasting for chemotherapy.
https://longevityy.com/fasting-and-cancer-how-fasting-before...

Papers it discusses include:
* Starvation-dependent differential stress resistance protects normal but not cancer cells against high-dose chemotherapy – Lizzia Raffaghello, Valter Longo et al. (2008)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wmq7q6azyzfsubm/AACoCigKOQYxthruL...

* The effects of short-term fasting on tolerance to (neo) adjuvant chemotherapy in HER2-negative breast cancer patients: a randomized pilot study – Stefanie de Groot et al. (2015)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4595051/

* Fasting and cancer treatment in humans: A case series report – Valter Longo et al. (2009)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815756/

* Fasting-Mimicking Diet Reduces HO-1 to Promote T Cell-Mediated Tumor Cytotoxicity – Di Biase et al. (2016)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27411588

* The effects of short-term fasting on quality of life and tolerance to chemotherapy in patients with breast and ovarian cancer: a randomized cross-over pilot study – Bauersfeld et al (2018)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29699509
ASK HN: Are there code standards for using Pandas DataFrames in production?
I'm working on a Python project where some modelling has been implemented using Pandas. I'm helping to add an API over the modelling logic, and when I see a function that accepts a dataframe (sometimes many dataframes), it feels like it's not obvious what that function requires without reading through all of the function's code (e.g. which dataframe columns it requires, maybe even their types, etc.).

Requiring series doesn't seem like the right thing either because sometimes a function might require a few columns whose rows are related.

Is there an accepted way to define these sort of functions that lets the caller to easily understand what columns (or even types) are required? Or am I missing something obvious and this isn't a real problem?

I can think of a few ways to do it (mostly thinking decorators) but it'd be awesome to hear what people are doing in the real world.
I have grown up in a family that always had a dog. So naturaly when I was in at the point I could support a dog me and my girlfriend got a puppy. The first years I spend a lot of time with my dog, training, walking and stuff. But then our first child was born, I got bussier with work. And now there is no time left to spend on the dog. Most of the long walks are replaced with a boring short walk to the back of the yard to do business. He gets tired half way along the shortest walk we can take that allows us to leave a busy street and let him roam free. So even the long walks are not always that enjoyable. Our dog often enough takes no for an answer and is lazy. But if that is cause or effect I don't know.

Some weeks are better than others, and some weekends allow for time to take the car with the family and the dog to a forest. But often that requires planning and stress as well.

So just like a baby won't save a mariage, a dog won't guaranteed bring you more happiness. And I didn't even mention yet that if you have bad luck with your dog and it gets injured or a hereditary disease. Then your dog even becomes a burden.
What are private jet pilots paid? Are they independent contractors? I'm guessing the pay and benefits aren't good enough or there wouldn't be a shortage. What am I missing?
Western Canada, but I don't think that's the problem. I'm on my phone, and just noticed it looks like it loads, then redirects to /mobile which is where the 404 actually appears. Switch my phone's browser to Desktop mode send to load fine, although a little awkward to use :)
In our data division, we stick to Python and Scala, with a little bit of PHP and Javascript for integrations.
Everything is politics. Your decision to try ignoring politics is quiet assent to the status quo, which is the politics of least resistance.

Your protest against someone taking a stand against authoritarian rule is itself politics.

Your decision to use one licence over another when using or publishing software is politics.

Everything is politics, because everything that involves more than one person is politics and the decision to do something without other people is politics.

Everyrhing is politics, but politics isn’t everything.
> All this effort to distill user behavior and user intent from logs... why not just ask them?????

Because users lie, intentionally and unintentionally?
It’s worth saying the average pollution levels are not capturing the full health impacts. You could easily have a spike along roads due to diesel but at the same time a reduction in the average, because roads are only one of the emission sources. But they are where people spend a lot of their time, in cars and buses in traffic, walking, cycling; and nearby many people are living, and going to shops and cafes. A lot of the effects of pollution are hyper local.
Any light you can shed on this (pun intended, of course) is welcome. Still, sounds incredible, is it just on peak times or on a daily basis?
For some reason, gamers appear to care about Hong Kong but didn't bat an eye when other gaming companies shut their servers down in Syria/Iran in order to comply with the U.S..

If a large portion of Blizzard's players hadn't been Chinese they wouldn't have reacted that way. So to me, Blizzard is the victim here, they were put in a lose-lose situation.

Regardless, I don't see how a company refusing to have its events politicized is considered so bad.

If people are so adamant about sticking it to China, they should boycott their actual products instead.
Sales have a long tale. I recently bought a widget I saw advertised 3 years ago but didn't need until now. My parents still buy a sauce because the company ran a great at 25 years ago (the sauce is good, but they haven't tried the competitors).
"They need to hire engineers who can take an algorithm implemented well by somebody else, and apply it to a business domain."

I dont think so. While Engineers are needed to operationalize the models. For Statistical Learning part, understanding of data preprocessing is an important step which requires knowledge in statistics.
You can buy them as long as they are built in europe.

Edit: a quick look at mobile.de will show you diesel is cheaper than petrol.
> It’s one thing to keep politics out of games, which I am still a proponent of doing. It’s another to unfairly and harshly punish voices that speak out against corruption, against abuses of human rights, and freedom.

What does he mean by this tweet? It seems somewhat contradictory. I assume he means that he's against Blitzchung bringing up politics, but he's more against Blizzard's punishment? Seems like he wants to have his cake and eat it too. Not sure how you can prevent politics in gaming without creating and enforcing rules to prevent politics in gaming, which is what Blizzard has done here.
It is interesting to look back at the last ~50 years from a strategic standpoint. The West gambled that economic prosperity would usher in an age of Chinese liberty, if not actual democracy, and that attempts to resist that would lead to economic collapse.

With benefit of hindsight maybe that strategy was too passive. China has embraced the technical aspects of Western society but it looks dangerously like it will carry them with an authoritarian philosophy. It is a pity; particularly since the English Common Law system combined with separation of power is the greatest accomplishment of the Anglosphere and China would have really ushered in an age of enlightenment had they taken that on.
Why Coding Your Own Makes You a Better Developer
Though the kernel itself might sit at ~60 MB (depending on compile-time options), and you might need to addd another 120MB for the firmware.

Of course, this can be stripped down a lot if you decide to taylor the kernel to your system (less drivers, etc).

To answer GP, a full texlive installation takes around 2GB on my system. That's mostly fonts, but also packages, tools and documentation.
I take the bloat for convenience, because I can afford a few extra GBs nowadays. If you want to go for minimalism, you still can (and even reach smaller footprints than back then), but that's no longer the mainstream option. Not when a GB is a few cents.
> Why do you force applicants applying to Automattic to do something that violates the company's own conflict-of-interest policy?

There's no forcing there. Most other companies allow you to work outside of the company, or know that it's unenforcable to tell you not to, so you do the trial. Otherwise, you do the trial at your own peril or quit.
It's something to explore. More sunny places to nap for everyone! But the toll on bird life would be substantial.
“Brain-Picking” is for Zombies – Here are better ways to ask for someone’s time
There's an open-data win here.

Also a technology win in that sites that have had digs still revealed new archaeology with lidar mapping (aeroplane and drone).

Presumably we have enough tech now that the Dr who found the 27 new sites can train an ML algorithm to recognise sites and buildings (and do metrological analysis automatically?)? Is there a generalised image analysis system for aerial imagery that catalogues buildings/roads/ruins/foliage/etc.?