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Google Warns Pending Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the Internet
barrons.com
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US Attorney Gen. questions need to shield big tech from liability for user posts
reuters.com
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Godaddy Is Taking Uniregistry
uniregistry.com
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Biden Calls for Repeal of Law That Shields Internet Giants from Liability
finance.yahoo.com
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Google manipulates search results to hide controversial subjects and favor big b
news.yahoo.com
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New approach could make HVAC heat exchangers five times more efficient
phys.org
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Instagram’s Shadow Ban on Vaguely ‘Inappropriate’ Content Is Plainly Sexist
huffpost.com
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India's antitrust watchdog fines Google for search bias
I've been wondering what it would take to have a delivery robot go to a storage facility down the road, grab my pallet of [holiday next] - and bring it to the garage and grab the pallet of [previous holiday] from garage and drop it into the storage place down the road.
and cost benefit bot to determine and then move my 7 pallets from place A down the road to place B further down the road to save $50 per month after electric and delivery is calculated.
right-click make rule about this sender
delete all the stuff in the email address (from left to right) up to the domain name (not just the name and @ symbol, but subdomain too )
click drop down to select the trash
click save
wait for popup.
click run single rule.
I am blocked by meta from running ads for reasons it won't say, and I have several local business ideas I want to test with meta ads to see if they should increase.
But my Fb is blocked from running ads or boosting posts and using the meta pixel or something.
Good idea and nice system from my few minutes of checking.
A write up about why vaseline is top choice noted when searching 'acne' (just discussed more in total? more than others per year? )
I typed 'fungal acne' into the search and it changed to 'acne'.
Would be cool, although difficult I am sure, to show a price range of products mentioned.
Would be interesting to say, show only results of the past 6 months / 3 months.
Not sure if it's possible to drill down into info via different regions of the world.
I have been learning about products and usage while helping develop web assets for esthetician wanting to help people with products and services for better skin via https://modernskinscience.com/
I'll be suggested your portal for others to learn what the discussions are around the products.
As I look back and see that there are some price notes but the contrast and font size made me miss them completely on first purusal.
Love that you can get to the discussion threads right from the individual pages.
Well done!
When I see "Watch out — Acne
Toleriane Double Repair often causes breakouts, especially in sensitive, acne-prone skin due to its heavy, potentially comedogenic formula."
I kind of want to see a * or link to where that data comes from.
ran ads for a week, and also got the message
“As a result, our technology took action.”
The AI said it couldn't tell me why the ban since it may help shady people understand what they ban people for.. and then told me I can read all the policies and guidelines to know why.. and said no appeals, final decision.
I was running ads offering help people make their google ads and facebook ads more effective.
I made a third attempt to get the AI to tell me why - same 'no details, no appeals'
Talked with some other fbook ad experts and it was suggested that newer ad accounts can sometimes get banned faster.
So I wonder is it because my bank refused charges 3 times in a week (for like $3.90) ? if the anti-fraud ai at my bank pissed off the anti-fraud AI thing at fbook maybe?
- Is it because I had some logos in one ad? (I changed that ad to comply if that's the reason - but I don't know if that's a / the rule!) -
Tennessee just passed a law saying that Google has to provide reasons for banning google business profiles, maybe Meta will be next.
while I agree with the sentiment in general, I think it's safe to say that people have been giving up their darkest secrets to google and social media companies for many years.
Some people feel there is nothing they can do about it. Many people do not know / understand just how much they can know about people, so seeing it that way, yes it can be surprising to see so many giving the data right on the screen; as opposed to giving data passively / not understanding the value of combining or that they are even collecting passive data like location or what you type and delete, or what you hover / keep on screen..
I don't have hope that there will be any laws stopping the collecting and combining of data by any of these companies.
I do like the idea of an every year reminder sent to users showing what they can see with the data that has been collected and stored.
That is doable, and possible to get people to change some of what they share if the portals are honest in what they collect and how it can be combined with other data to paint more intimate / detailed pictures of you and those connected to you in some way.
many of the gas stations, I think cracker barrel, and many other tourist knick knack stores around my (tourist heavy) city have them.. of course printing your own is not hard these days.
I do think many people with websites an visiting websites would enjoy using webrings again.
Interesting to see some misconceptions in this comments here, and the graphic at wikipedia showing it as an actual ring of links, but I don't believe that was ever a solid explanation.
Sure there was the option to add your website to most webrings, and some had checker settings to see if a recip link existed then plublish and share.. but that was short lived because spammers, and google's change of 'bad neighborhoods hurt you' - then corporate rollup / walls up..
However on many websites it was great to find similar sites and other sites the author had an interest in and wanted to share with friends / visitros.. recip link or not.
It was a useful tool for discovery and sharing. Google got so important so fast that people (and even at the software level (starting at you wordpress)) removed blogrolls entirely.
Now that it's understood that you can share with the nofollow attribute added to links, I think we will see more people adding blogrolls / webrings and that will naturally lead to more links back, and people appreciating sharing of other places of interest.
I started developing a new webrings plugin to make it easier for people to share and get submissions / suggestions, with options for checking for recip links, having a default nofollow link and such.
This led me to thinking about other uses for the same data / DB / fields.. and decidedly that the same backend parts can also create 'directory pages' - which are essentially what webrings were just as a footer scrolling widget verses full page per category.. so I added that.
Then I realized the same bits are basically waht is needed for creating a directory or associates.. could be other people who meet at a conference, could be people you work with, other companies you've done business with, or other professionals you've bumped into at other job sites / projects.. so I added that and it also is becoming a contact sharing / directory / roledex kind of system.
Right now I'm working through the backend being difficult to chose what shows up on the front end and under what conditions.. hope to have sorted by end of month - when will hope people will help with testing and suggestions.
Trying to make it as standalone react system that can work into any website and a wordpress plugin at the same time has led to so challenges.. but it's getting close.
I expected more information from the article and 'the paper' -
I see nothing that shows any system was making a decision on race. How is the race being presented to the AI?
All this is showing from what I can see, is that certain groups of people were more often denied a next step in the process - but why?
Was the AI going by spelling and grammar? Were there names that were different but the rest of the resume was exactly the same? Were there pictures?
There were mentions that the rate of each group may be more prominent in the data when you split apart different types of jobs instead of all jobs in aggregate..
One could read that like it's inferred; that more warehouse jobs are offered to a race and less admin jobs..
but that same would happen if AI was more focused on perfect grammar for one job and it was not as much of a factor for a warehouse job.
Also if the people applying for the various jobs were self selecting, acceptance percentages this would skew things based upon which ones were applied / not applied to right?
There are so many ways you could draw conclusions like this from data, however correlation is not causation, yet this seems to say it is.
I feel this is an important thing to watch, but Stanford may not be the place to trust with 'Policy Recommendations' as it's very unclear there is any proof that 'AI Hiring Tools Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection' from this study and paper.
PS - now that I see the HN title did not have the word "can" in it, and the title of the article is actually "Tools Can Yield" - maybe that is less accusing and more noting.
I was thinking this months ago and asked AI what would be done.
IT quickly spit out a half dozen things it expected to be issues and the counter measures that would be deployed instantly and likely proactively.
It showed me videos of things like these 24/7 drones for people detected and less lethal things like soundwaves as deterrents.
It showed me videos of cables hardening and other systems being used to prevent cutting cables and stealing electricity.
Discussed the size of the jails that will be built, an expected number of people that move into a few groups of cybercrime (and which would continue to thrive with that) -
Had numbers of number of people that will be eating mealworms for lunch, the political and cult shifts that will occur, all sorts of interesting things.
I'll be putting out a movie about all this that AI already knows and expects to happen. And this is all with currently known and in use technologies.
Millions will be leaving many cities, and direct to needy from farms systems may keep people alive. Office buildings being converted to mealworm and similar farming may happen.
I do not see the millions of people who make a living via call centers to be able to find similar paying jobs. Most of them, and the people who currently make a living supporting them (sandwich shops, cleaning, etc) - will be competing for delivery jobs, which will depress wages, and they will be competing with robots and x-tunnels, etc.
I need to get a working title for all this info I gathered and come back and edit.
Really appreciate you taking the time and thinking of some alternative methods!
Not sure if there is a blocker from youtube in some way, but making backups of public playlists would certainly come in handy for a lot of people.
Seeing the articles and youtube videos and other articles about how to find your YT profile URL and searching the archive - obviously it's a thing bigger than I thought, and not something I ever considered.
The pivotal displacement I believe is going to come for all of the call centers, India has several major cities, and there are others in the US and elsewhere that could be seeing millions that no longer have a job in customer service and IT support - that had been keeping them working, and 1 or 2 other people in their local economy.
Many of the workers in call center IT, sales or customer support I do not think will find a lateral move in any workplace - which will put pressure on the no skill job market like uber and similar, which is already being displaced by waymo for rides and the 200 new delivery robots deployed in LA (and already taking jobs in Chicago)
Finance support jobs in NC, call people in Arizona and Vegas and others will be hit hard.
I have a bunch docs I may turn into a movie on this soon.
AI customer service is already better than many of the call center employees and depending on needs may replace a worker for under $100 / month, right now.
Only thing keeping these places afloat is contracts already in place, and that it may take a few months to ramp up the knowledge bases.
As far as fast food goes; Bojangles a block from me has AI voice bot that handles orders, questions, substitutions, different accents.. I tried to trip it up - and its better than most humans I have at the speaker box.
The inside kiosks at McDs started replacing humans long ago, if they took cash they would be better than humans today.
Replacing humans with cooking or cleaning? There are so many poor people in the US that it will likely just be cheaper to have humans doing that sort of thing.
Other commercial cleaning will likely replace 2 of 3 (or 1 of 3 if they are using child / other limited labor) workers with floor bots not too long from now.
When robots are skilled enough to clean chickens is when I worry about the impending desperation around my local in the US.
would be great if they could recover youtube playlists - I recently discovered that clicking to edit your playlist can turn into an oops deletion when you are off my a milliliter - and there is no 'are you sure delete' modal - it's just gone.
searching for 'recovery my deleted youtube music playlist' basically says find the url and go to internet archive and pray. Mine was shown in two IA pages, but clicking to view list was some 404 type error.