Right. That’s why they overreact to everything, and bring old military equipment on swat raids.

They’re much more likely to panic and drive an APC through the crowd or return fire on a mostly unarmed crowd using automatic weapons.

Just ask yourself, “what has Israel done recently?” and remember that US police train with them.

I live in a walkable European city.

My nearest library is 5 minutes away, there’s a bigger library maybe 20 minutes away, and for anything further I’d take public transport.

I mean Nando’s was originally a South African company, and now it’s just a big multinational. Not sure what they have to do with the Netherlands though.

Worse, it seems to be Tony Blair.

Id cards were one of Blair’s most unpopular policies, and all the AI first stuff seems to be coming straight from the Tony Blair institute.

In practice it’s very systematic for small networks. You perform a search over a range of values until you find what works. We know the optimisation gets harder the deeper a network is so you probably won’t go over 3 hidden layers on tabular data (although if you really care about performance on tabular data you would use something that wasn’t a neural network).

But yes, fundamentally, it’s arbitrary. For each dataset a different architecture might work better, and no one has a good strategy for picking it.

Probably because there’s no good reason.

At least one intermediate layer is needed to make it expressive enough to fit any data, but if you make it wide enough (increasing the blobs) you don’t need more layers.

At that point you then start tuning it /adjusting the number of layers and how wide they are until it works well on data it’s not seen before.

At the end, you’re just like “huh I guess two hidden layers with a width of 6 was enough.”

That’s funny, because there’s also emoji associated with Trump.

🤏🍊🍆

How many electrical planes have you seen?

You can look up what Adobe are doing in this space.

Long-term it’s going to be something like every secure device comes with its own inbuilt unit for cryptographically signing the raw files. These signatures can then be matched against manufacturers databases of approved signatures.

This doesn’t guarantee that nothing has been tampered with, but it does provide a link back to the original device allowing you to inspect it.

There are huge privacy concerns as well, anything that’s used to indicate authenticity can be used to track.

Yeah, but it can be filled in with “house”.

Hexbear is already flooded with beanis posts.

Looking forward to seeing beanis everywhere in the next version of Facebook’s LLM.

Garmin sends all your health data to the cloud and the app won’t work without an Internet connection.

On the plus side, they’re not part of the Google/Apple/Samsung data ecosystems, and I don’t think actually they do anything with the data, beyond computing statistics for you.

Depends how much you’re prepared to trust them I guess.

For Ubuntu you just run sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop. Presumably it’s the same for the derivative you’re using.

After that gnome will still be there, and you just toggle between the two at login.

You’ve got it backwards.

This kind of voting forces the existence of two party systems.

Suppose you have two parties one left wing that gets 60% of the vote and one right wing that gets 40% in every district. Right now the left wing always wins.

If the left wing party splits into two blocks of 30% each, the right wing always wins.

So if you want to win, you can never split from the large parties, even if you feel unrepresented.

Depends.

You can argue that it’s basically art/political speech. You’ve done it to draw attention to flaws in the approach and to highlight how ineffectual the current system is, and that if you actually wanted to do make fake IDs you’d take a much less high-profile approach. As such, there’s no actual criminal intent required.

Don’t know if a judge would buy it though.

It’s just such a dumb take from the FT.

Trump is shooting the American economy in the foot with tariffs. Imposing reciprocal tariffs would shoot the EU economy in the foot too.

Talking him down so the tariffs are smaller and less damage is done globally is the best possible outcome.

Nothing is being legitimized, it’s just that America can not be stopped from fucking it’s own economy, and will have to unfuck it on it’s own later.

I knew Monty Python was a documentary.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-pU8TFsg0

Ok, but one of the most important use cases is non-local access.

If I’m at home I can just go to the door.

Go on, drop a rocket on Zuck’s Bond villain hideout.

Let’s see what happens.

It’s killed a lot of people.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/05/24/uk-contaminated-blood-scandal/

Desperate people sell their blood. They lie about drug use and infections because they need money. High-risk Prisoners had to sell blood at under the going rate, and then this was covered up for profit.

Things have got better with more rigorous testing, but there’s always the risk of a new illness or drug that falls through the current tests. There’s a reason that most countries ban it.