skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good question. I would argue you do it by creating policies to help all low-income families, irregardless of identity.

Many government policies aren't just systemically racist (some indeed are), but are also systemically "class-ist". Meaning they are designed to keep poor people poor and rich people rich. If you segment a population (say Black communities), they will become disproportionately more poor over time, and if you segment your stats by race it then appears to be specifically targeting that group. In fact you can find similar stats for Mexican/Latino-americans, who are also victim to the same policies.

So if we focus on just fixing Black issues specifically, we are now ignoring another minority group. Why doesn't Google show "Mexican-owned" businesses, or "Asian-owned", or "Female-owned" businesses? This isn't progress, nor is it useful. Perhaps more useful identifier would be "Community-owned" or "Low-income-family-run establishment", so if people are really interested in helping these poor communities, they can do so universally. Segmenting ourselves by racial or gender identity does not solve the problem, and is in fact guaranteed to make things worse in the long run.

As a progressive I am frustrated that people who call themselves progressive are now promoting regressive racially charged policies. This is not what progress should look like.
Gosh, I'm pretty much as anti-copyright/pro-freedom of information as anyone you would ever meet.

However, I think there has to be a reasonable way to implement copyright so that artists can get paid for their creations in a reliable way.

A third party shouldn't be able to host/index a bunch of someone else's IP, sell ads, and make bank at the expense of writers, musicians, etc.

On the other hand, Michael Jackson is dead. Why is his music still copyrighted? The material has earned zillions of dollars already. The ownership of those rights by corporate randos is ridiculous. Copyright holders have, in my lifetime, behaved in a ridiculous way--even abusively towards original artists via DMCA take downs. But the notion of copyright is still important.

All that said, platforms that pay artists pennies while making billions on the activity they attract are probably a bigger threat to art these day. That also needs to be dealt with.
Limiting Network Bandwidth for Testing
I worked at Best Buy #583 in Mt Laurel, NJ from 2001 or 2002 or until 2003 Or 2004, from age 17 until 20, I think. I started working in their PC repair area when it was still “Best Buy services,” black shirts instead of blue, a few years before the Geek Squad thing happened, and left a couple years after that transition. I went in to interview for the PC sales department, the manager thought I’d be better fixing computers, and it was the start of my whole career in technology.

Even back then, I remember a lot of their corporate-produced video content played at quarterly meetings would talk about the value in reinvention. They were very aware that companies that didn’t adapt to the market were doomed, they’d reference old department stores for comparisons. It’s not surprising that even though they stumbled for a few years, they still managed to turn it around.

I remember being very aware of the high production value of those same quarterly videos. They looked so expensive and were occasionally funnier than they had any right being. It stood out because we all felt under paid and under valued, we’d talk about how much those videos must have cost and how much we all could have used some help.

A few times a year, I still have anxiety nightmares where I’m late for a shift or I show up and there’s a line out the door and nobody to help me. Or there will be miles of racks of computers that need virus scans run and I have to do all of them before I go home. It was the most stressful job I’ve ever had, possibly the most stressful job I’ll ever have. It taught me more about troubleshoot software and dealing with angry people than I ever could have predicted. Simultaneously one of the worst experiences and a crucial one. Funny how that works.
> Boeing 747 and A-380 aircraft were no longer being ordered

I think it was more multi-faceted than that. For a while, 747 and 380 served the "hub and spoke" model, where giant planes would fly a gazillion of passengers between the hub cities, and smaller aircraft would distribute smaller quantities of passengers to their actual destinations. This worked especially well for Airbus and their European customer base, which invested in their mega-hubs in AMS, LHR and MUC.

Boeing's 787 Dreamliner was a surprising success (maybe even for Boeing itself), as lighter materials like carbon fiber got cheaper, and allowed for a medium-size plane to ferry passengers between some very distant (but overall not very well-trafficked) pairs like LAX-Warsaw or NYC-Oslo, eliminating the need for an overlay in a hub. All that at a fairly competitive cost per seat per mile.

A bunch of carriers suddenly had a Dreamliner-centric business strategy that undercut the old-school hub-and-spoke rivals. Norwegian and ANA come to mind - convenient direct connections between city pairs that are not that popular. And the market share those carriers aimed for frequently belonged to the airlines that bought 747s and 380s.
Well most of the people in the world are locked into their countries. This is just crying for a privilege lost for a short amount of time.

Yet for a foreigner must be difficult to be locked in the US. I’d freak out.
Ahh, what’s an example of capitalism working sanely in a regulated industry?
I can totally see this abused for channels / topics with toxic communities. Personally, I've only seen this work largely as intended. Overall, it's a net loss, I don't really see many communities replacing this feature by coordinating with the creator. Frequently, videos I watch doesn't even get automated transcription feature - there's a lot of good foreign content out there.
Maybe the documentation equivalent would be to have a program halt early on and ask the user to perform an action detailed on X page of the manual, so the user would need to at least acknowledge the existence of the manual before getting anything done.

Not sure if that would just piss off users beyond toleration, but it's an interesting idea.
> The best way to deal with a bug is to not design a system where the bug could appear.

Correct. The problem right now is that prosperity around small businesses tends to be stumbled-upon by people with the necessary networks and safety nets. Said people largely tend to be White, and as a result, there's a bias in the number of White-owned businesses which succeed.

Affirmative Action and other policies (including this move by Google) recognize this and realize that the only way to level the playing field is to artificially boost the signal on Black-owned businesses, Black attendance in higher-ed, etc., because with policies that completely remove all handicaps, momentum is sustained, and momentum right now is in favor of sustained systemic racism (even after the protests).

That's also why policies like this generally aren't considered racist: because they act to level the playing field when a certain group has an outsized advantage.

> The only thing I don’t like about this social pattern is that it can over time lead to people becoming more prejudiced. Filter by white-owned, Chinese owned, etc. The worst version of it was when Germany labeled Jewish owned businesses.

To this point, it's also a difficult balance to strike. How can we get to as close to level as possible without instilling the wrong search practices long term? I don't think anyone knows the answer yet.
Maybe if you're a landlord in an empty town. But if you're a landlord operating at 70% occupancy, then you're not in a major city of most advanced economies. Cities have demand-driven pricing. 80% of Americans live in an urban area, according to the Census Bureau. There is constant and ever-growing demand, so there is no downward pricing pressure in cities -- Corona aside. I, as a landlord, can take any price the income levels will bear. That is why urban incomes and housing costs must, in tandem, rise unbounded.
My personal reason for caring:

Without saying that white-owned businesses have it easy (no one has it easy these days), I believe that black-owned businesses face additional, unique challenges that white-owned businesses don’t. Some of those challenges are new (eg communities of color being disproportionately impacted by COVID-19) and others have been around for much longer (ranging from black communities being historically disenfranchised to the the mental overhead of code switching when talking to the majority of the country). Taken as a whole, I feel they contribute to a reality where owning a business is harder for a person of color than a white person.

That appeals to my sense of fairness in business: someone shouldn’t have to work 10%, 20%, or 100% harder to achieve the same outcomes. I feel ill-equipped to address this unfairness systemically (volunteering my time to teach code is the only example I can think of at the moment) but letting the reality of a black-owned business’s challenges factor into my purchasing decisions feels like a valid way to tip the scales back a bit closer to equilibrium.
> Once you have same language captions for a video, your community can submit translations to help you reach a global audience.

Oh so they realized it's free labour and whant the users to train their speech recognition AI.
It is too bad that the automated speech to text isn’t good enough to allow them to turn this feature off without losing a great deal of high quality subtitling.
The next logical step of course is to start bumping up "disadvantaged" listings in search rankings.
Another thought: google has become very aggressive at indexing new content, so much so that old stuff becomes hard to find. There’s pages I know I visited that I just can’t find anymore, no matter how hard I use advanced search.
Gold signet ring was unearthed by a farm labourer
I think you hit the nail on the head, with the salient point here being that in the near future "creative" things will be automated first (see Image GPT, Jukebox, etc. Google has 100 billion dollars cash and countless TPUs, best engineers, infra, etc - they could probably replicate results far better than each of these OpenAI projects within a few years). One of the things that got me into ML research was the notion that we could automate a lot of the hard work humans do every day (agriculture, cooking, desk jobs, etc) so that humans could do things that were uniquely theirs & interesting, that were human, that were beautiful... Unfortunately it turns out that classical music and waxing poetic are easily generative in an enjoyable way. In the most ironic fashion possible, it turns out that the very thing we do when we conduct ML research, what you call the "logical domain", is one of the only things that stays human-only in the foreseeable future.

GPT-3 and other projects seem to drive hype cycles in the tech community and convince people like Elon Musk that the AGI revolution is near. But I think recent progress is just another example of machine learning models being able to generalize on super large datasets, even if it's the biggest model so far. It's not clear to me that larger models will solve this in the limit; take the way GPT3 fails on addition past a certain number, and the fundamental inability for transformers to learn certain algorithms. It is certainly still possible for this type of large dataset, large model style of ML to make human life better in many ways - like Tesla is trying to do with self driving cars, or Covariant with automating Amazon-like jobs. But I think when it comes to tackling the hard problems of true intelligence, we're missing a dimension somewhere.
While the problem is unlikely to have an ideal solution, I suspect that patron style systems are the most practical solution.

It is probably the system that is most likely to encourage people to contribute based upon their assessed value of the content and the least likely system to be gamed.

How do you ensure that creators are compensated equitably? You don't even try. Instead, creators depend upon the randomness of the decisions of contributors. It won't always be fair, but it is doubtful that it would create a race to the bottom.
As a professional the price is nothing but the value proposition is questionable. We simply don't use our breadboards very often around here, and when we do it's never for sensitive work. Basically, I've never had a case when I've cared who made our random stock of breadboards. Either they're definitely good enough, or they're definitely bad enough that I need to prototype some other way. (It's common to find that the only circuits I am interested in derisking at the breadboard level are the ones that I can't prototype that way, due to parasitics.) But then, I consider an SOIC-8 package pretty big in our line of work, so what do I know....
No, they are removing the ability to create them. The existing contributions will remain.
> My phone region wasn't even North America.

The spread of US internal issues to the rest of the world is quite frightening to be honest. A social unrest in North America has way, way more influence in Europeans countries than our own local issues (I'm in the EU), and both our news and politicians react quickly to it, even though US problems are mostly irrelevant here. Even without living close to America, or try to be only consuming local content, it is impossible to avoid whatever is happening there. This country has really too much impact over the rest of the world, which wouldn’t be necessarily an issue if not for the fact that it is widely dysfunctional.
> As of yet this hunt has not been successful.

How current is your information ?

I think I've seen random instances in some of the more recent SAT competitions with only a few thousand variables that have not been solved. That said in theory there should be 100 variable instances that are too hard to solve but I haven't seen any really hard instances that small.
I think this is one of those problems that are nice to have. It could be challenging, scary and difficult but it's also a nice opportunity.

Just be careful and good luck.
"Community Contributions" is the name of the feature, but the title could be phrased better
I'm working on something similar. In chrome you can request an image of the active tab from a background page, write it to a canvas to downscale it, and then dump it into indexeddb as a blob of base64. This only captures tabs that have been active at least once but I haven't noticed any additional latency using it.
Don't forget about Konrad Zuse's Z3!
America knew exactly how to target Black people with legalized racism during slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, etc. All we have to do now is the exact same targeting, but in a positive direction to correct the centuries of economic warfare and legalized racism that was targeted against Black America.

None of this means that no other disadvantaged groups don't have a case either.
Google just wants to eliminate any remaining trust users have in them, don't they?

Every feature they remove, they do because it is a burden on feature velocity or maintenance. Fine, but why are they so bad at weighing it against long term trust? At this point, I expect the search box to search, Gmail to send emails, YouTube to host videos, maps to do navigation, and docs to edit docs. One core feature per platform, all other features will probably be dropped sooner or later.

It's a bad look, Google.
OOOOoooooo snap. One word, but it's so true. And that's exactly how Amazon thinks.

I got my Amazon Fresh grocery order last weekend, sourced from the Whole Foods up the road. The delivery was cheaper than every alternative (Instacart, etc), the produce was great, and the process was painless.

If 5 years ago you told me I'd be ordering fresh produce from Amazon with same day delivery, I wouldn't have believed you. Which do you think is more difficult for them logistically? Delivering perishable goods or digital services? Lol.
GPT-3 generates output word by word. And it doesn't make distinctions between prompt words and words it has generated. Generated words are selected somewhat randomly (if temperature >0). So "the train of GPT-3 thought" can be easily derailed by unfortunate random selection of a single word.

When it generated "I don't know what you mean by", it had to continue with something relevant. In this case "no legs" was selected.

In other words GPT-3 doesn't have machinery to stop and think "What I'm rambling about?".
I'm curious how much profit you can make especially after touring the country.

That sounds extremely expensive.
Highway self-driving will immolate short and medium flights.

Would you rather have YOUR car drive you overnight on a highway while you sleep and get to take far more luggage and have a car when you get there and spend about 20$ in electricity at a lower carbon footprint and you can leave and return and change your schedule at will?

Or go to the effing airport?

400 miles is about the same amount of time at a far lower cost and flexibility.

500-600 miles is an extra hour or two, and you can stop and see friends and eat food, or just sleep overnight.

700-1000? Sure a bit more annoying, but still you can take more, is cheaper, and you get your car when you get there.

So in my opinion, any trip under 1000 miles will probably be driven once self-driving takes off.

And highway self-driving is the easiest to automate, and highways are the infrastructure that will be "converged" or adapted with self driving first.
Highway self driving will make virtually all of those obsolete as well.
Does this ever actually happen though? I'm not aware of variable length passenger trains along a single route. And the stations for boarding are only so long.
I posted this, besides a good story, to discuss security and jewelry. Here is a beautiful device that exists to provide security and a signature.

Now, I use my phone for 2FA and I have used some ugly devices as well. But nothing as beautiful as this ring.

And a ring is not something you take off, often, or forget to bring with you. Is anyone developing ring based security devices that are also beautiful?
Yep, Best Buy has a customer for life in me because one time they replaced a nice laptop that was clearly outside the warranty. I was shocked and said it shouldn't be covered but the returns guy insisted. Whenever Best Buy comes up in conversation I mention my experience: the free PR they've gotten from that one return they gave me is probably half their total revenue by now :)
This is obviously false. People who are far from independently wealthy write and create art right now despite never having any realistic expectation of receiving a dime for it, regardless of copyright. Frankly, if your main reason for writing is the misguided hope that it will make you rich then you probably don't have anything worthwhile to say. Revoking copyright probably would reduce the volume of publications in this area; to which I say "good riddance". On the other hand, if you do have something to say, it's never been easier to get it published and distributed to a worldwide audience at practically zero cost.

Copyright is sowing conflict, crippling our technology, and impoverishing our public domain—our shared culture—all to maintain subsidies for something that never needed to be subsidized.
Same day delivery £3.95 has been really helpful during lockdown.
>hunger would potentially become a problem for people blowing their money early in the month (or getting robbed?)

How is the likelihood of this connected to the source of their money? Is hunger not a problem for people who work for a living and blow their money early in the month (or get robbed?)
Because the jobs they're offering are shitty, demeaning and menial, and most people who take them are doing so because they need to survive. Absent the survival need, the companies will have to dramatically improve working conditions to maintain the sheer quantity of labor they require.
Well this is the most depressing thing I have seen recently. Was interesting to see the South Australian bushfires one where you can see the land slowly recover after each fire.
"Other races" don't get special labels on their businesses.

Putting tags like "Women Owned" de-legitimizes the owner. It makes women owned business seem stigmatized, as if it's unusual or especially notable. It strips them of their dignity.
They're intermingled though. I get whiplash browsing my feed because one post will be about 3d printers, and the next one will be about my local baseball team, and then the next will be a political cartoon, etc.

This project is an interesting take because I can browse all of them simultaneously without having to context switch so much.
The advantage with the train though is that it can use renewably produced electricity, whereas the plane burns hydrocarbons.
What would :443/thing.jpg mean? Is that a port or hostname?
They are indirectly helping the community by prodding them to look for decentralized alternatives like peertube, lbry, etc. every now and then. They can't say it outright as they have to care about shareholder and corporate interests, etc. but even they know where the future lies internally!
Google, the company that runs gmail, can't filters a little spam? That's their excuse for removing accessibility features?

What utter shitheads.
Maybe. But at that time, the population of Germany was malnourished and short of food, fuel and other commodities. Civilian death rates began to increase.

So like our plague deniers today, some people probably deluded themselves into believing victory was near. But I’m sure most knew it wasn’t going well.
HEPA filters should reduce lead. You should be running a HEPA filter anyway.

I get this is India, but once you make clean air normal for the middle class, since they also have to go outside there is an incentive for them to also want pollution reduced.

Make the middle class understand the dangers of PM2.5 and know how to measure it.
Affirmative action as currently implemented based primarily on race is just as bad, shifting the inequality of opportunity at best. White people of low socioeconomic status are disadvantaged while people of color with high socioeconomic status unfairly benefit. The idea of affirmative action and “anti-racist” policies are fundamentally fine, but it’s almost completely socially unacceptable to disagree with the popular strategies.
Most of us understand the "anti-racist" philosophy. We just don't agree with it.

BTW, it's the height of passive aggressiveness to use this rhetorical trick of naming things (antifa, anti-racist) in such a way that you use the very name to shame people.

I mean, meet my new group: the anti-evil collective. What's that? You're don't agree with us? Well, you're against evil, aren't you? Are you some kind of a demon, or a devil?
> With utilitarianism, we attempt to maximize pleasure (very roughly speaking). But part of that is because pleasure has been tied to good events by our built-in wiring. If we have the ability to make any event pleasurable, it feels like we need a new ethical system that employs a full gradient of emotions, including low-valence ones, to appropriately reflect the difference between the desired and the actual reality, and avoid a dystopia where everyone is happy. How does wireheading take this into account

TFA is entirely about addressing this. Wireheading is a common argument against utilitarianism. Furthermore, if everyone is happy, is it a dystopia?

If someone steals my wallet, and it doesn't make me unhappy, then am I really hurt? Money that can't increase my happiness isn't useful
I don't get it as well, I've never seen magstripe being used in person, this technology has been retired since the 90s in France at least. Magstripe tech sounds kind of VHS to me.