skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If what you propose was possible to do, if it was possible to overcome the problem described in the above article by using 3d models of real-world objects, then it would also be possible to train on those models in the first place, i.e. we wouldn't need to train machine vision algorithms like CNNs on large datasets of digital stills or photographs- we'd just generate millions of 3d models of objects and scenes of interest, already fully annotated for supervised learning, and train on those. But, as you can probably tell, this is not what happens and instead we have to make do with "real" images, painstakingly collected and annotated with the classes of objets within them "by hand".

What you propose is, essentially, training on a simulation. That doesn't work very well because statistical machine learning algorithms generalise very poorly from training data to unseen data and when your training data is a simulation (such as a 3d model of an object) and the unseen data is the real world (such as a video still, or a digitial photograph of that object) the resulting model will be very bad at predicting the unseen data, so identifying objects in images of the real world.

It might seem to you (and to me!) that modern 3d simulations (as in high-end CGI and video games) is a very faithful simulation of the real world, but that's primarily because we look at modern 3d through human eyes and perceive it with our (presumably) human brains. We don't know how that works exactly, so we can't reproduce the process in computers, yet, therefore machine vision systems essentially "see" and "perceive" something completely different than what we do. In the end, what looks like a very close approximation to you, is pretty much useless for them- or in any case, they are not able to learn to generalise from that to real objects.
What? If you're an EU citizen you're "under GDPR" no matter who your provider is.
It's interesting to see the competing claims:

- the kernel community is comprised entirely of people who will never be abusive, so it doesn't need a code of conduct

- the project is surrounded by people who are so dangerous that they will abuse any kind of process, even a code of conduct
I always hear about Vivaldi as an alternative but how sustainable is their business?

Is this run by a passion of ex Opera CEO?

If this is just a struggle without enough business model to back it to last at least 10 years, I don't think it counts as an alternative.
I'd like to add https://soverin.net/features here as well. It's similar to Posteo but offers unlimited aliases and more storage. Servers hosted in the Netherlands.
> What email service is best for privacy?

There's no simple answer, because it comes down to your threat model.

What do you want to keep private? Just content? Or also metadata, including your identity and the identities of your correspondents?

And who are your adversaries? Random cybercriminals? Competitors? The email provider? Criminal investigators? Foreign intelligence agencies? Your government's intelligence agencies?

> With the recent thread on privacy in Chrome, I'm thinking of switching off Gmail.

OK, so the email provider is considered an adversary.

If that's the case, the only prudent option is end-to-end encryption, done locally, and not using the provider's services. But that's barely workable. Most correspondents won't cooperate. Configuring clients correctly is nontrivial, to avoid attacks like Efail. Also, there's no forward secrecy, and metadata is not encrypted.

For privacy at that level, you ought to be using something with forward secrecy, like Signal. And if anonymity really matters, you ought to be using something that does P2P via Tor .onion services, such as Briar or Ricochet.

But anyway, you could use email with end-to-end encryption, use pseudonyms, and minimize metadata with some mix of VPN services and Tor. And then use providers with better reputations about privacy and security. Such as Autistici, CounterMail, Posteo, ProtonMail, Riseup, ScryptMail, Tutanota or VFEmail.

However, there's no guarantee that any of them will refuse "lawful" access. For example, Autistici acknowledges that they might "lose control" over their servers, perhaps through seizure by police, or that their servers could "run into accidents that could undermine [their] security".[0] And Riseup redefined their warrant canary policy to exclude investigations of individual users, or groups of users, that don't put Riseup users generally at risk.[1]

Even so, you're arguably OK as long as they can't decrypt messages, don't know who you or your correspondents are, or where y'all are located.

0) https://www.autistici.org/faq

1) https://riseup.net/about-us/press/canary-statement

edit: alphabetized provider list
I second this. Their service was exceptional for 3+ years I've been with FastMail. Got many small businesses I've worked with to migrate.

Only thing which annoys me is that their push-enabled iOS app does not support multiple accounts. It has been like that for years, I've heard that a new app was in the making, but nothing came out yet.
I'd like to add that the Firefox DevTools are excellent now. For a long time there was this weird stuff with built-in devtools but-you-still-kinda-needed-FireBug and it was a mess (a sufficiently big mess to keep me on a random Blink-based browser), but these days it's just great.

Firefox is a truly great browser, they really made amazing improvements on all fronts in the last years. And I say this as someone who never used Firefox as their daily driver until half a year ago or so.
I use both ProtonMail and Zoho Mail.
- If you go for better security, ProtonMail. I use this for my personal email.
- If you need better UI/UX & some other utilities, use Zoho Mail. It's free though.
Is anyone aware of Revolut-ish online Maestro card providers? I'm in a European country where most small merchants only accept Maestro.

Edit: oh, apparently bunq does.
Cool. I am an american living in Jerusalem, working at mobileye.
This is the opposite of my experience. Getting _anything_ sorted with a physical bank takes a long time, prone to error, needs multiple phone calls/in person visits.

The one time I had a problem with Monzo they sorted me out over chat inside the app in ~2 minutes.
Ask HN: How are you protecting your privacy?
I'm continually trying to improve how I handle my privacy online.

I've slowly been migrating off all Google services with the intention of deleting my entire account (got Youtube and Google Maps to tackle next).

DDG for primary search (but unfortunately have to fall back on Google a lot)

I'm using Fastmail for email, caldav and carddav.

I use Private Internet Access as an always-on VPN.

I use Firefox with uBlock and Privacy Badger enabled. I try to use containers for Amazon and Google.

I use Resilio Sync for syncing files between devices.

I use Timemachine for backups and have x2 NASs at home and off-site. I'm planning on removing my Backblaze cloud backup soon.

I'm planning on swapping my Android phone for an iPhone on the basis that at least I know what Apple are trying to sell me.

How do you handle your privacy?
This is quite damaging to many of these smaller print hubs. This will eliminate local pickup as an option and delay prints and ultimately lead to inconsistent quality as you won't be guaranteed continuity with the printer. Obviously this is their attempt to centralize service on the backs of their select "Fulfilled by 3DHubs printers" while losing all the individual and positive aspects of local printer hubs. Same and next day service was crucial to me.

If you use 3DHubs, or have a connection to them please write their support and voice your opinions on this change. IMO this is another example of gig-economy backfiring and leaving those that believed in them swept away.
> as someone doing precisely this kind of engineering for almost three decades, I can assure you that this is not the case

Same here.

> Unless one is an operating system vendor (like Joyent, redhat, SuSE, Debian, Canonical, CentOS, ...) third party and unbundled applications must never be installed into /usr

That's what I wrote: "native package managers should install binaries in /usr/[s]bin and libraries under /usr"

"native" as in: provided by the distribution. Not third party.

https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/80 is about using /opt/nimble and you wrote "If you implement that, you instantaneously take away the ability to deploy applications through OS's automated deployment", hence the confusion.
1. The CoC normalizes abuse.
2. If someone is abusive without a CoC thryvcan ve easily removed.
3. They aren’t abusing the code of conduct when they use it to attack people, that’s what itcwas designed for. It was designed by a person with an axe to grind who makes no secret of their agenda.
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This seems pretty easy to prove or disprove based on the comment history of said accounts. The few I've checked out seem perfectly legitimate.

Unless FastMail are paying people to spend all day maintaining perfectly normal HN accounts for the odd occasions that a discussion about email comes up... dons tinfoil hat
Perhaps some families are net negative, but low income areas are more net positive then high income suburbs.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
Sadly, no, nothing out there is comprehensive (Arch Linux's SSH keys article is not bad, but still pretty limited). There's always the manual: https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen
With the Chrome Incognito mode you can do all of your stuff on a cookie to cookie basis. Just do something, log out, close incognito, then open again. Of course this involves trust that incognito is real.
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So, there are two separate-but-related products here.

The first is e-mail.

The second is an extremely hard-to-validate promise of future work, such that (a) cutting-edge security and privacy protections are maintained; (b) properly designed regular backups and redundant infrastructure ensure your e-mails won't be lost; (c) staff ethics, training and oversight will protect against insider threats; (d) protection against spam and phishing will be effective - but will not block legitimate e-mails; (e) e-mails you send will get delivered and not marked as spam or silently discarded, even when sending to the likes of gmail; (f) no e-mails sent to you will be silently discarded or otherwise lost; (g) if issues do arise, that they will respond promptly and competently; and (h) as webmail technology advances and market conditions change, they will keep up-to-date and stay in business.

There's no way for me to validate most of these things. Instead, we rely on a supplier's "reputation" - an amalgamation of their past performance, their visibility and their marketing.

There are many e-mail providers. There aren't many e-mail providers widely known as reputable.

In other words, Fastmail doesn't face much price competition within the market of "e-mail services recommended by users of Hacker News" even if they do within the market of e-mail services generically.
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Actually, because they're using BAT as the medium of exchange, hypothetically anyone could build another browser / client / extension that could be used and users wouldn't need to worry about any sort of "lock-in".
As I was trying to explain - behavior in the project is certainly more important, but outside behavior can’t be entirely ignored. Just like in a workplace.
So, I came across this when I was looking for Lambda support for Ruby (aws). I came to the same conclusion as this thread (and FooBarWidget is here evidently telling us we're not wrong), that it was unmaintained and won't be maintained again soon, unless someone steps up.

I'm just wondering does anyone use Lambda with Ruby (with this or otherwise?) Is it as kludgy as it looks?

I found a couple of better looking options to do FaaS-style development on Kubernetes with Ruby, namely riff and kubeless, but I don't expect supporting code to come for AWS or from Amazon any time soon. Anyone who uses Ruby disagree?
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> If someone is accusing you and they don't want to hear you, stop contributing.

You're assuming he's contributing privately and can stop at leisure.
I set this up for a client a while back and it was a very painless experience. They've been happily using it for a few years now with no complaints.

(usually I sign people up with GSuite and roll it into the hosting charges but this client was very insistent on it being self hosted)
Does Netcraft confirm it?
And on the topic of this thread, Safari also has the best privacy protections: <https://webkit.org/blog/8311/intelligent-tracking-prevention....
The problem with Kuhn is that his central thesis of incommensurability as it is commonly interpreted is false. Classical mechanics arises as a specific limit of quantum mechanics. Galilean invariance arises as a specific limit of special relativity. Ray optics arises as a specific limit of wave optics. Newtonian gravity arises as a specific limit of general relativity. In fact, many of these theories were explicitly developed with the constraint that they reproduce the old theory in a certain limit, see e.g. Bohrs correspondence principle. Kuhn knows this, but many of his fans don't. That is partly the fault of the biases his fans, but partly the fault of Kuhn for intentionally deemphasising this most critical aspect of scientific revolutions. What's special about scientific revolutions in physics is not the supposed "incommensurability", but the mathematically precise way in which the old theories survive as limiting cases of the new theories. That doesn't happen for other paradigm shifts. The god-is-punishing-us-for-our-sins theory of disease did not survive as a specific limit of the germ theory of disease. That physics is not like that is what's surprising! Kuhn has his story exactly backwards.

If you want to understand those scientific revolutions, don't read Kuhn; get a physics bachelor.
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I have a task for you. I'm going to send you data on US real estate areas completely scrubbed of any racial or location indicator. All you'll have is important impartial data like crime rates, income rates, development rates, foreclosure rates, etc. Your job is now to take this information and rank areas in grade A-D in terms of investment security and desirability. Now, unless you intentionally hamstring your measurements, some guy is going to be able to run around declaring you're a "redlining" racist. Race is not a facet here. Most people, and absolutely most companies let alone banks, could not care less about race but they do care deeply about other things. And those other things are not equally distributed. Focusing on race is, at best, going to be divisive and counter productive.
Being a webdeveloper and having Safari as my main browser i often need to look at my websites not just in different browsers but in a browser with actual DevTools. Looked around, couldn't find anything simple for viewing current page in a different browser so i made my own solution. This is "share menu extension", you can configure which browsers you want to see and it recognizes all the browsers installed in your system.
Google too shut down AdSense just a few weeks ago for a project I work on/for. We only use AdMob to serve ads as alternative monetization.
No warning, no reason given, no way to contact anymore. This is definitely not the right way to go about this.
Long story short they give no indication as to why their data center cooling systems were unable to handle voltage changes caused by the storm and their systems are not designed for speedy restoration into another region.
No, it’s not inclusive at all. It is very leftist, however. Thryvtalk avkit diversity, but they can’t abide people actually being different (speaking about Rust specifically here.) If day of all the language projects it’s the least inclusive.
> I guess you might defend the "Socratic" method as a way of encouraging student engagement. But I suspect that it really appeals to people who like the idea of discourse as combat (DEBATE ME!)

I think that is the trait that law schools want to select for.
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I think link to sources would help here.
Scale is not everything. There are types of fusion that would not build such huge monstrosities.

We should look at a broader range of ways to do fusion and then finance the ones most likely to work.

As you said, most of the money on ITAR is hardly directly related to fusion. A few companies get lots of money to do research to hit very specific performance that are specific to ITAR. The problem is this does not really build a broad range of companies that work in fusion.

It was simply to early to engaged in such a huge project especially because the technologies are evolving so fast outside of the project and some parts of the design are already not up to date 20 years before it will really be ready.
> He works with some family of polynomial functions who agree on the sets K[a] that have open interior (2.1). Of course, two polynomials that agree on infinitely many points are identical.

Consider f(x, y) := xy and g(x, y) := xy^2

Fixing x=0 note that f and g agree along {(x, y) | x = 0, y in R}. But f is not identical to g. There is no open subset of R^2 such that f and g agree throughout the subset.

Would rewording "two polynomials that agree on infinitely many points are identical" as "two polynomials that agree on any open set" fix this? Or restrict the statement to polynomials in one variable only?
Not citizenship, but tax law. The US is the only major country in the world which taxes its citizens when they live abroad, so EU fcompanies need to know if you're one, so they can report to the IRS and tax you properly, or handle their anti money-laundering responsibilities.
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>> Is a car still a car if it's taken out of context? To us, yes. To an AI, it might not matter.

A system that can't recognise objects out of context is either completely useless, or only useful to the extent that it can recognise a very large number of objects in a very large number of varied contexts. Essentially, it's a system that learns primarily by memorising specific cases, rather than memorising and generalising to new cases.

This kind of system is limited by the number of objects and contexts with which it can be trained in practice. Which is why you need large datasets to train machine vision algorithms- because you basically have to show them many examples of everything you want them to learn.

In your example, the problem is not that the "AI" would not be able to recognise a car in space as a car, in space; it's that it would not be able to recognise it even as debris - unless it had already seen such "debris" before. Obviously, if it hadn't observed the behaviour of such debris it would also be incapable of predicting its behaviour, also.

The inability of statistical machine learning models to abstract and extrapolate from available observations, in the same way humans do, can be very surprising, especially in light of their othewise excellent abilities to recognise objects they have seen before.
It’s on in Safari Technology Preview: https://webkit.org/status/#specification-webgl-2

We have no particular stance against it, though I agree with the other poster that WebGL is more the future.
the joke there is that the utility of children is a) constant over their lifespan and b) negative 10 billion to start with.
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The spin and misrepresentation in that article is a perfect example- take a consensual action of an adult and pretend like they were being coerced, in order to smear a guy who has not committed a crime.

This is exactly how it’s done every single time.

Vague accusations or outright lies are used to characterize someone and demand they be removed or punished.

The reality is they don’t like his sexual choices.

It’s literally the same as if Christians went after a gay man like me and claimed I should be removed because I’m a criminal committing sodomy (in my own home they assume) which is illegal in many states.
I switched to Firefox for two reasons:

-Google tried to block Ad Nauseam(its debatable effectiveness and value is a different matter - the fact alone was what irked me).

-Firefox is being slowly, bit-by-bit re-written in Rust. What kind of Rustacean I would be not to use the product that's been the raison d'être of this language?
And how does not having a CoC stop that? Like, if someone takes a dislike to someone, and they have sufficient power, they can remove them anyway.
You don't need to use their app for push on iOS. They worked with Apple to enable push in the built-in client.
These CoC's are weapons, disguised as a harmless decency. In the case of linux, it was yielded within a very timely manner:

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/9hhnev/less...
A finding of this magnitude which was actually proven in a way that the post seems to suggest would not be something you see only in one hacker news comment, because it would be huge.
/r/linux has been full of arguments about this recently.

The moderation team claims that many of the people arguing against the CoC appear to be new to /r/linux.

> We have noticed a large influx of accounts this past week that have never commented or posted in /r/Linux before. We have also seen a large number of accounts being created just to comment on these posts.
~ /u/Kruug

From https://aa.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9i43t9/dont_worry_the...
They are still better than the incumbent banks on security though. An example is how they both issued new cards to their customers affected by recent Ticketmaster data breaches, or British Airways hacks. After those events, they just contacted anyone who's shopped with the affected retailers and sent them new cards.

I don't think this is an example of "not taking security seriously". No incumbent bank has done this, because it's expensive to issue new cards.
Indeed, having good runtime debug tools is absolutely necessary for debugging dynamic objects [1].

I've come to this conclusion during this particular experience and I've confirmed it time and again. I've recently seen an older video of Gregor Kiczales on Aspect Oriented Programming and if I did not read in too much he emphasizes the same issue with proper debugging tools.

Thanks for the tip; it might be what I needed for me to download LispWorks and try again.

[1] Some kernel developers just don't get this even after you show them a call using a function pointer. Read the code they say. Right...
I used Lambda with mRuby, the embeddable version of the language. The (subset of) Ruby code is compiled into a bytecode that is linked to a C program that is run in Lambda and interprets it. The downside is that you either write all your Ruby code or use the few Ruby gems that work in mRuby. They must also be compiled and linked to the main C program.

https://github.com/mruby/mruby

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Does it require public URL like Google or is it based on classification?
It was for me as well, but lately I have been experiencing incredible slow-downs in Firefox. I thought it must be my imagination until I tried other browsers and the difference was like between day and night. Firefox is just too slow, even with their new engine.
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Monzo also offer out of the box integration with IFTTT: https://monzo.com/features/ifttt/