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This is not at all my experience. I'm an American living in Germany who pretty regularly goes to the Alps, the roads are nothing remarkable. The amount of infrastructure built in the Alps is remarkable, but Americans are not going to bat an eye at the road conditions in the mountains of Europe, nor are they comparable to what people are talking about here.
I use an app called Manual Camera DLSR which has served me very well. Agreed that the LOS camera app is garbage.
I'm getting your book - thank you. Also wanted to say I really like the site you have put together. Minimal yet everything there. Perfect.
What about the waste reycling contractor who classifies electrical waste. Especially further up the food chain where there's a greater concentration of these devices.
I successfully designed a commercial LPR system using non-ML methods that handles all those kind of weird real-world cases you get that are never mentioned in papers about LPR and OCR.

Check out some of the hard cases here: https://waysight.com/lpr-technology/#examples

I couldn't use neural networks at the time, because 1) it had to run in a single core 200 MHz ARM at 20 fps, and 2) it took too long to "debug" the NNs (often you want to improve performance and the failure cases seem fine to you)

So the resulting performance of this system was and is state of the art in that in practice it captures everything correctly, so there is no point wasting cycles on an NN solution.

On the other hand, starting from scratch, an NN solution can allow you to advance quickly with little domain knowledge.

I would like to repeat a word of caution other posters mentioned as well - it takes years to collect the training data required for successful commercial LPR, both for NN and non-NN methods (as you need regression tests even if you don't need it for training), to get plates from all seasons and weathers and vehicle conditions.

Interestingly, now almost 10 years later, when I look at more modern deep NNs and analysing their initial stages with modern tools I see a lot of similarity to my original "standard" algorithms. In essence, the code I wrote did the same thing a modern convolutional deep NN would learn to do.

In particular, see this recent analysis of how (some) convnets learn:

https://www.lyrn.ai/2019/02/14/bagnet-imagenet-with-a-simple...

Which, as it turns out, is really similar to how 80's and 90's style classic OCR algorithms work!
Why are people so keen on restricting the rights of others? You have your solution and everything is fine, no?
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Can you elaborate more on how it can be caught and make users more trackable?
Even if there are more "signals", individual advertisers won't necessarily be able to know that the same user clicked on all other advertisers' links.
I've had good results sending messages to mailbox named "hn" in the "ycombinator" domain, in "com" TLD.
I see a lot of hate here, but this concept fits my use case nicely.

I'm really not worried about my computer being stolen or pwned. I'm more worried about somebody trying to access some service from elsewhere in the world, with a password they would have obtains from another mean.

In which case, OTP on my laptop is sufficient, and it also has the nice property of being a backup of the seeds on my phone, which I can loose.
In Philadelphia, you jaywalk if 1) The next car arrives in 10 seconds and 2) You believe you can get across the street in 9 seconds.

If you wait for the light, or because a car is in sight, people think you're weird. People have loyalty not to the law, but to nothing other than self-preservation. Absolutely no consideration for legality is given, whatsoever. This is in my experience in stark contrast with German culture.

I assert that there does exist in Germany a cultural appreciation for rules. This is not an exclusively German trait of course, I see similar in Seattle, but it is a trait that Germany has and some other regions do not.
OK, so as kazinator has pointed out, awk is now a mandatory part of Posix, and so is genuinely a part of "shell". My reply there says that I and my colleagues still think of awk as fundamentally different from other pipeline facilities such as tr, sed, sort, uniq, and so on, but I can see why it could, perhaps should, be though of as being "shell".

So it's shell. I might, however, given my background, and remembering as I do its first introduction, always have trouble thinking of it as such.
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I don't know

But I know I will keep blocking ads because they slow down the website and consume a lot of bandwidth
It's not just employers. It's everything now. Just recently I went car shopping. The sale agreement requires arbitration. Cell phone contracts require it.

Come think of it, is there anything left that doesn't require arbitration?

About the only way out seems to be to have no business dealings with the company. If an airline drops a huge chunk of blue ice through my roof, and I haven't used that airline, then I guess I can still sue them. This isn't much comfort, because nearly every situation in which I might want to sue a company would involve doing business with the company and thus being subject to an arbitration agreement.
Polish has some of those problems too, at least the ones with conjugations. The words mom (appearing in your contact list), mom (as in call mom) and mom (as in send money to mom) are different. That applies to proper names too, and it isn't regular. It's not easy to figure oujt who the user refers to if you just have the contacts list and the command.

Polish had problems way before nlp, for example "Annie has sent you a message" and "John has sent you a message" would be translated differently (because male/female), same for "2 minutes ago" and "5 minutes ago". Also programmatically formulating natural messages like "Dear John" is nigon impossible.
Nothing is zero risk, including owning a car; include the risk in your calculation. Your time frame is not one year, but typically 3-5. If your loan is at 2%, you don't need your stocks to hit 8% every year. You need them to be no worse than 2% p.a. over the entire period of your loan. That's significantly smaller risk than the risk of stocks not performing at your expectation of much higher return.
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Not sure if this is useful or not but this has been discussed on HN a few times before, here are some of the most popular occasions:

"AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13222733

"AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109251

"AdNauseam Banned from the Google Web Store"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327228

"Pale Moon blocks AdNauseam extension"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15112524
Not really. The algorithms described in the article are pretty worthless (edge, blob detector) until the very last step, where they use the width / height ratio to filter out all of the noise and get the license plate out. As the parent comment said, this doesn’t work in the real world because of transalation/rotation. You can spend ages tweaking parameters manually, but the CNN will beat you - actually we have discovered that two DL models work best, one to locate the license plate, then the other to OCR (the former is faster computationally)

The methods described in the article are dated, and worthless

Disclaimer: I build number plate recognition systems
Well, maybe a subscription for every site is not the right business model, we could imagine a lot of different ones. For example, automatic tipping when you spend more than x minutes on a website (something similar to what brave is trying to do), or pay by article (a few cents) on news sites.

Eventually people won't be able to subscribe to every site they want content from obviously. Look at netflix / hulu / amazon videos / youtube red ... It adds up very quickly.
The ones I would actually use.
International politics has always been like this though, powerful countries get to do what they want. Maybe the main reason it's eye-opening for you is because now it's done by a government you do not approve of?
From what I've read they can still gather your public data, but to a lesser degree than they can from the direct use of their services. The second-hand scraping is a lot less specific - "he visits X website, at X time, X times a day" as opposed to "he works at X, is featured in X type of photo, shares X type of content, has close relations with X people, is likely to click X type of advert". They can extrapolate a lot more accurate assumptions about someone from the latter set of data.

I'm sure they're much better at data scraping then they were when I read that last though. Thankfully people much more intelligent than myself are making it easier to obfuscate this activity. I've had a lot of luck using the advice below:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150700/https://iotdarwin...
The original IBM PC had a speaker in it, that was driven simply by connecting one lead to an I/O pin and the other to ground. The speaker could be driven only by a square wave. The sound waves were simply converted to a square wave turning the I/O pin on and off.

This hopelessly crude device worked rather amazingly well. Certainly far better than the sound samples in the link. I wonder if that technique could be applied to the implants.
A system crash is a bug. Period. In many cases it could lead to Denial of Service. An insulin pump can stop working.

I remember when C# came out almost 20 years ago. People said "I can forget about managing memory so I can focus on the logic". Programs kept crashing, memory problems were still there.

The article goes with "...remove the burden of memory safety from our shoulders, allowing us to focus on logical correctness and soundness instead...". More or less the same, and admitting that said problems won't go away.

But here we are, it's 2019 and we're still using C/C++ as if nothing happened.
True, I'd never put salt on a cherry tomato for instance.
I once had a multi-day argument with the other 2 devs on the team about whether a set of MySQL queries and code would scale to thousands of reporting devices. My stance was that it didn't matter because if we didn't make the TWENTY devices we had work by next week, we'd lose that contract and pretty soon our jobs.
I really enjoy this kind of articles even if I don't necessarily agree with all changes that the author made. Sometimes looking at the old/new comparison makes me consciously think about what makes it a good design for me and what doesn't.
I trust popular extentions that are open-source and have been well-reviewed far more than any advertiser or tracking network.
No numbers or other details to the question about building a Death Star. The best was:

> There is no actual limit to the amount of energy that can be unleashed using, for example, a Hydrogen bomb. Moreover, some studies have said that it might have the sufficient energy needed for something similar to a Death Star — however, hydrogen can be unstable and very difficult to control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7n9eK_v2ZM references https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/pst/article/view/19... as needing 2E32 J at minimum - the power of the sun for a week. Manley estimates 3E36 J for the observed destruction of Alderaan.

At minimum that's 5E20 Tsar Bombas, https://www.quora.com/How-much-energy-would-be-required-to-d... . Or 5E24 for the observed behavior.

Let's pretend Tsar Bomba was 1,000 kg instead of 27,000. That minimum of 5E20 bombs would weigh ... 5E24 kg. Which is almost the mass of the Earth.

So, no. It's all a SF dream, and not even close to a reality.
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First of all, it's the other way round. This extension will execute the ads and send data to advertisers. If you don't want that, you need to use an ad blocker, not an ad clicker.

And second, you trust them with totally different things. Ads run in the context of a website. Which is heavily sandboxed. Extensions run outside of it and can do anything they want to your browsing.
Most of them. And the ones I wouldn't pay for I wouldn't miss.
Those are sports cars. They don't compete with a Model 3 or Model S. They compete with the Tesla Roadster. Have you ever been in one? You can't hear each other at all it's so loud.
Is it just me or is has otherhand.org suddenly started looking for a login?
Read most of it yesterday, went to read the rest today and now can't :(
The problem is not the car. It's the credit score system.
I have been using LineageOS 14 on my now very old original Nexus 5, and its fantastic, really gave it a new life line after my 6p broke. A little sad that its not supported for v16.
> the entire community vets

Pardon my ignorance, but not every extension is open source? Recently been a few stories of popular extension maintainers offered money to either include coffee or hand over all control to shady people.

Personally I wouldn't count thousands getting auto-updated malware installed in their browser before the world notices as vetting.
> But browser extensions are even worse. They can see everything you do on any website.

Using an operating system is even worse than that. It can do everything. Browser extensions are not bad for privacy, untrustworthy software is.

You may have a point when it comes to proprietary niche extensions with an anonymous author. This is a fairly well-known open source extension made by multiple people whose real identity is known and who have a reputation to lose.

> Besides, using this thing result in sending even more data to the advertisers.

Yes, garbage data.
I’ve read parts of most of those books. Some I’ve read from cover to cover.

But none of them are books with info that you couldn’t read in other books. Some definitely better written or more up to date.
Whether or not the motorist is likely to be capable of stopping in time is factored into the "is it safe?" calculus that people in jaywalking cultures perform. For instance in Philadelphia when it snows, people are more conservative in their jaywalking because they know the stopping distance of a car on ice is longer than a car on dry asphalt.
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What is a "visit"? Is it executing JavaScript on the page it visits, and acting completely like a normal browser? If not, trivial to detect?
Well, since we're talking about NASM, go to https://www.nasm.us/ and download the latest stable build for Windows.
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I believe FileSystem API is one of them.
Is a series of tubes a sufficient abstract definition of the Internet? I'm not trying to be pedantic; rather, I'm asking myself what would a good abstract (literary) definition of internet be? The minimal and maximally general definition that distinguishes internet from, say, the animal blood vessel system or a plumbing system (or youtube (joke)) and other things that fit the definition of series of tubes.

Having never thought about this before, I'm still surprised that this question bewilders me a bit. I guess I don't know that much about the internet.
Your comment should be somewhere on top or in the beginning of the article. It completely changes the outlook on this community and it's a shame one has to dig down this far to find this out.

Argueably a very legitimate stance on the part of the community.
I wonder what oddities lie in Linus Torvalds' "perkeleen vittupää" (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/13/132).
It is not as simple as your one line comment suggests.
Same, it was working for me yesterday and now it's asking for a login. Just look up the page on the wayback machine.
Did you read the article? It obviously focuses on China, since that's the subject, but it ends with a non sequitur dig at the US for exactly what you're talking about: "Then again, when it comes to poor privacy protection, the United States seems to be doing its best to take on China."
I wish the work you did could be open sourced, including the data set. Work like that is lost to humanity because it's done for only a few entities, and once they are being replaced, the initial work disapear with it.
This thread has convinced me to try to switch, but one thing that I love in Mendeley is the ability to watch a folder, and have any pdf in that folder automatically imported into my account, which then gets synced across devices. That, and the document detail lookup based on a manually input doi, which fixes author names etc. are the two sticking points. When I add a doi to a pdf in Zotero, there doesn't seem to be a way to look it up and import the relevant information to the file information in Zotero. Does anyone have any way around them?
Yeah, encryption will ensure the farmer can't remove the tag and put the tag from another pig on a pig, or that when the tag was created, there was actually a physical pig!
Most websites use ads (which contain malware or redirect to scam websites a lot of times), tracking, and sell user data to third party. The point of this addon is to harm these ad networks. I know websites need money to run but most don't even give you the choice.
Following a trend is no excuse for doing that in my opinion.
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The point was that developers themselves are often browsing repositories they do not own/contribute to.
o_o ... I can't really think of a less generous interpretation, but still coherent, of my comment than that.

I was of course referring to the fact that for a handful of clear ice he travelled 3000 km, contributing to climate change to visit one of the natural objects that exact behaviour is rapidly exterminating.
So, does that mean that if OpenAI's text generator turns out to be as "dangerous" as it's being marketed, we can all just switch to Finnish as lingua franca and Skynet won't have a chance? :)
> Pardon my ignorance, but not every extension isnt open source right?

No, but this one is.
I was ok with this until the part where OP changed the background color of the top of the page. From there, it all went downhill and very quickly became yet another "yay everything is flat and overly saturated" design.
Boring and less usable.

I'm not even going to talk about that abomination done for the content.
This is not the right way to go about making anything better about the internet.
I feel ok about making binary libraries difficult. I want open source to be the easy path. I think the idea of abi compatibility forces a lot of unnecessary overhead on designs. Consider the radical design of TempleOS where everything is c source, jit compiled when run.
Neat idea, but why exactly does it need to read my browsing history?
Well, the Romans had a custom of charging less rent for many-story buildings, because they were widely recognized to be susceptible to collapse. I don't think they're really high-quality architects.

I had a look at some Roman houses in Ostia Antica, and the really striking thing is how little the techniques of architecture have changed. They could do some impressive architecture from time to time, but on the whole, they built stuff about the same as your average cowboy builder would today, minus a bunch of legal requirements (fire proofing, etc).
Names/urls of the trackers and scripts?
To be fair, the Bolt/Volt confusion between an EV and a hybrid was just abysmal branding by GM. It's an incredibly easy mistake to make for people that aren't following this stuff closely.

It's kinda like how people think the self-driving company Cruise, mostly owned by GM, developed Super Cruise, GM's high-end driver assist system. Nope...nothing at all to do with each other. And neither have any relation to the Chevy Cruze, either.
I'm in advertising and I'm not sure I get the hate towards ads.

I mean, anyone here does not have a business? Do you really expect to build a company based on product quality and the ocasional blog post? I guarantee you that 99% of postmorten posts posted in HN are because said startup couldn't figure out their marketing strategy.

Anyways, isn't this click fraud?
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Maybe not exactly those techniques but I've heard of non-ML techniques being used in real life situations incl. translation/rotation to identify the plate (not read the numbers, just identify the plates)

Edit: They are dated and might have made sense some 8 years ago which is when I heard of them being used
I like the "dog example" too, which highlights the different forms/cases:

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/72936-english-swedish-g...

I'm a recent immigrant to Finland, and while the regular grammar makes some things simple, the cases and suffixes are enough to drive me crazy! The simple things are easy to handle if you're reading a textbook, but remembering them in real-time when speaking is very hard.
Not but this one is. A lot of popular extensions are.

And even the ones that are not are quite easy to read:

- extensions are a just a zip file full of static assets

- they are rarely minified or obfuscaded

- they use a manifest and a set of standard API

- they are distributed through one plateform

So it's still way easier to keep them in check than ads, even if we didn't have to take the number of them in consideration.
Most of the ad networks already fight with ad fraud and validate clicks and redirects. Their technologies are very sophisticated. So I don't think that it does more harm to ad companies than to plugin users, who marked suspicious and fraud. There are already plenty of bots who scrape ads and click on them. By different estimates around 20-30% of web traffic is already caused by bots. As for me plugin is a kind of way to say how you hate ad market and web in general, nothing more.
Judging by the writing style on the ad nauseam website, it is written by a college kid who probably never tried selling anything.

Tracking by government is dangerous, tracking of your interests to get you better, more relevant advertising is good.

I keep finding very useful stuff via ads served to me by Facebook, and my own little side business would not survive if I couldn't target my ads properly.
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