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Not directly relevant but interesting...

https://github.com/google/santa

This is a product developed by Google that has at least been utilized internally to some extent. It's not perfect, but my previous company used it and it does prevent unexpected unknown code from running in the background.

What it does not do is prevent someone from intentionally downloading and executing a library unless the upvoter actually comes to some demand that you do so. I found that it quickly became a bit of a "alert fatigue" where you approve things your coworkers send you so they can get back to work without properly vetting.

Re:The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:51AM (#35352769)
I think the previous commenter was implying that one may be worse than the other and trying to get you to reevaluate the idea that you see banning tiktok to be the same as banning US social media because of the differences between the Chinese government and the US government.
Re:$100B later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:42PM (#33219329)
I imagine they have a way to replay incidents from their cars in a simulation and even if it's not super accurate, they could likely look at camera data and rebuild a similar situation (Sim or real life to identify and test the edge case)

I work at another autonomous car company (as a security engineer not ML related work) and I know we have a Lot of simulated situations that we run the ML against and add more from situations collected from actual driving.

Re:$100B later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:22PM (#33219201)
I totally agree with you that Tesla FSD seems more likely yo have a serious crash, but if actual fully autonomous cars are the end goal, then the behavior of learning/beta models doesn't really matter except to the extent that it let's them get to the end goal (for the sake of this argument).

All fully autonomous cars are in a different legal situation then Tesla. Tesla sells Joe Shmoe a car and then tells him he can rub FSD but he's responsible and has to remain attentive then they get info about every disengagement and (mostly) avoid legal responsibility or accidents in many cases.

Waymo is fully responsible for every accident, etc so they HAVE to proceed more cautiously or they'll lose the ability to run their cars. As someone else pointed out they often are only operated in very specific areas, and often even specific streets within a geofence. So while on the surface Waymo may have full self driving operating more effectively with less problems, they're doing so in a much more controlled environment and not getting the variety of data that Tesla has from cars disengaging Literally anywhere in the US.

Re:$100B later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:14PM (#33219159)
Not sure about the current state of the actual ML, but compared to other self driving companies Tesla has a treasure trove of data because they have so many vehicles on the road at all hours of every day. The edge cases are the parts that are hard to identify and solve so having all that drive time data to identify edge cases would seem to give them a big advantage.