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Image classification without the server seeing the image.

The value is in being able to get the prediction from the model without ever giving unencrypted data to somebody you don’t trust.

You could have an LLM generate code for you without ever giving the operator your proprietary source code.

What do you think happens in war? Clean fighting from side to side?

You really think the massive amounts of death and destruction aren’t top ten? What do you think happens to the local population when an invading force arrives? You should go and read about the rape of Nanking. And just read about what happened in wars before the modern era.

Iran is not David in this case. They’ve shown that their drone warfare is just a little bit under what the US military can provide. Remember that they destroyed a quarter of a trillion dollars radar installation. And the US has spent billions on munitions. The US can’t actually keep going in this war.

This story is so unbelievably sad!

That leaves the question of automatic emergency braking: why didn’t the truck slow or stop itself before hitting stationary vehicles at a lit intersection? AEB is designed for exactly this scenario — it detects vehicles or obstacles in the truck’s path and applies the brakes when a collision is imminent, regardless of driver input. Most modern Class 8 trucks are already equipped with collision-mitigation systems from suppliers like Bendix and Detroit Assurance

So Tesla made a decision to make their semi less safe than the average for the vehicle class.

They could have had basic safety equipment, but they wanted to save a buck. Now two people are dead and another is almost dead. This is gross negligence on the Tesla semi truck’s engineering team and the executive leadership.

Even in his hypothetical, the founder is still not even earning a billion dollars. The actual people working to earn that collective billion are the employees.

that you don't have to cheat to become a billionaire

I think he’s feeling some sort of way about this. He’s probably coming to terms with the fact that you do have to cheat to become a billionaire. Uber et al. showed you can just keep breaking the law and bribing officials to get to a billion quick. He and his buddies are currently having fun bribing Republican Party officials to make billions.

J6 was organized as a violent insurrection from the beginning.

Trump helped organize and encourage the January 6th insurrection. He was president during the insurrection. So yes, there was a lot of federal Republican help during that one.

Not at all.

Ok, so you don’t understand that ALPR is two commodity technologies: object detection and OCR.

The same kind of thinking was used on encryption algorithms in the 90s.

The entire Republican party in all branches of government is supporting Trump. His politics and the Republican party politics are one and the same. The last election the party did not have a platform because, quite literally, they said that whatever Trump says _is_ their platform.

I dont think they have any obligation to save anyone else's life.

That’s the problem with republicans. They reject basic tenets of a society.

You do have a responsibility to do the absolute minimum to not harm other people.

Michael Scott: I am a victim of a hate crime. Stanley knows what I'm talking about.

Stanley: That's not what a hate crime is.

Michael Scott: Well, I hated it, a lot, okay.

Does a tree have a direct blood connection to a person? Does a tree die if that connection is severed?

It’s a purely political app, not an official US government.

So yes, it’s weird and illegal for the republicans to force all government employees to have a propaganda app on their work phones.

Ok boomer.

It’s not ageism. Don’t be so sensitive.

This is an idiotic take.

The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is basically a billion dollars. At this scale, it’s the same comparison between a billion dollars and a homeless person.

It’s a scientific protest.

That’s not what free speech is.

The actual free speech violation is the federal government withholding research funding based upon what the organizations and people receiving the funding say publicly. This person was pointing out what the Republicans are doing right now.

but unfortunately, due to deficiencies and how the American legal system works, this person can’t actually sue the government for mass violation of constitutional rights. Despite all of us being harmed by what the Republicans are doing, we wouldn’t actually be able to show “standing” to have our suit be heard.

Of course, we run up into the larger, structural problem in American law: we’d have to be obscenely rich to even be able to sue. In such a Court) case could take years before any action could even start.

This kind of behavior from the government is exactly what free speech is all about. It’s blatantly illegal for the government to censor people’s speech. This isn’t a story about a person trespassing and the local government reacting — that would be like looking at a program and declaring the final operation in a sequence the only thing the program does.

What do you think the term woke actually means?

You need to read the article before you give generic comments.

it was claimed Boring Co has no chance of duplicating or significantly improving on the speed

The claim holds up. The article shows evidence that this is not faster than existing transport at all. It is in fact slower. How did you not read this??

Now, after Loop demonstrated vehicle rates that would beat most light rail projects

They did not demonstrate this. Why put this lie out there?

that it has minor usability quirks

Major usability problems. It is strictly worse than every existing transportation system.

The author is correct. It is incredibly simple to trace how public research spending creates scientific advancements and how private companies add on the last 1-3% to commercialize the research.

If you want to learn, go trace how deep learning was funded. It started off with USPS.

A mayor who balanced the city’s budget.

With their balanced budget and no social services cut?

Don’t make emotional investment decisions!

Got ‘em!

Rust lacks a uniform error type.

Not quite true. The unifying error trait is std::error::Error.

pain when you have to pass them upward through a chain of calls

Kind of? You just make an enum with the various variants that need to be passed through and use the #[from] macro to generate the conversion code automatically.

It’s more characters than eg. A union type in Python or TypeScript, but it’s not much more.

Plus, it makes you think about your error design, which is important!

DOGE only fired those who were loyal to the facist. Anyone who is competent was illegally fired.