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Gib probably has a handful of servers scraping, but the place is so small, it almost it eclipses normal traffic

Go nad or go home

We've never seen randon mutation and selective pressure ever really build anything, only trigger and exploit existing adaptive rulesets... pushed to extremes mutations may often yield a benefit in a narrow situation but at some greater cost, like throwing the backseats out of your car helps you accelerate faster, but reduces the overall utility and flexibility of the use of the vehicle. Im sure if we started honestly looking at organic systems as the product of thought, it would yield a greater understanding of them that we would be able to leverage in industry.

If you're interested in poly phasic sleep, the book "Life Time" by Professor (of circadian neuroscience) Russell Foster goes further.

It doesn't really matter, because their target audience does not care about that.

"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"

Its a nice start, but there is a certain irritation in that the popup text is directly over the puck. I felt like I was losing more because I couldn't see the puck under the combo counter than anything in the game.

Fortnite "Usage"

I like this choice of word, it seems fitting.

This is just advocating being lazy in communication. Which is entirely expected and in harmony with our time starved work environments.

So a company decided to send cold outbound to a targeted audience from a dataset they gathered from a public social network... so what?

"Scandalous behaviour" really? In the same year as the Epstein files?

Wishing a companies total demise over such a trivial matter? Honestly?

All this prissiness about some unwanted emails...

My favourite was a search result based ai digest suggesting that during storms large cargo ships could survive for days until eventually 'disappearing'; Perplexed (intended), I followed the citation, the source actually said that the storms themselves would persist for days until disappearing.

Seems like Ecclesiastes 5:12 playing out, once again: "Sweet is the sleep of the one serving, whether he eats little or much, but the plenty belonging to the rich one does not permit him to sleep."

After almost a decade of upheaval and change in the world around us, it's almost of comfort to see that the use of weasel words on OoL science headlines remains a reliable and permanent fixture.

Reading this, it's exceptionally confusing as to how many family members you're talking about exactly; Your use of they, them, their is causing me to imagine some microbiome obsessed tribe has moved in and is holding conferences on it in your kitchen...

1. One is building the index, which is a lot harder without a google offering its own API to boot. If other tech companies really wanted to break this monopoly, why can't they just do it?

FTA:

Context matters: Google built its index by crawling the open web before robots.txt was a widespread norm, often over publishers’ objections. Today, publishers “consent” to Google’s crawling because the alternative - being invisible on a platform with 90% market share - is economically unacceptable. Google now enforces ToS and robots.txt against others from a position of monopoly power it accumulated without those constraints. The rules Google enforces today are not the rules it played by when building its dominance.

https://roc.camera/

This was on hn this year, and it was, in classic HN fashion, dismissed as a problem in search of a solution. Well, perhaps people in this thread will think differently

In my case, as you said it may not have exacerbated it, but for me it certainly perpetuated it.

A retreat into the online world seems like a comfort in difficult times but it is a retreat, and the longer you stay retreated, the less likely it is you'll regain the ground again.

Yeah but I'm glad you don't consider the ipad a toy. It's not a toy, i predict that we're going to look back at this time of 'ipad + headphone kids' and roll our eyes as much as we roll our eyes at bloodletting.

"liberation"

It's more like inviting the troops besieging your walls inside and celebrating because "we have less enemies outside the walls to deal with now!"

It's the thin end of the wedge, you give it an inch and it will take a mile. The productivity boost you gain will quickly become an expectation, and then you'll be finding "liberation" by working on Saturday to get ahead of Sunday.

256 million rows, nice coincidence.

Yep

The government's where the offices of a software company are physically located exert control over them. To follow this logic to its end and apply it even handedly results in nation based NIH syndrome surely?

Really disappointed it's not the mammals being discussed here.

technological advances are permanent that have long term impacts

That's not necessarily true, look at the clockwork cylinder fished up from the ancient Greeks that was apparently an Olympic oriented calendar.

And.... the pyramids. Built by humans, yet the method is not well understood now, so little so in fact that aliens seems more plausible.

I would say that technological advancement is often lost to time, those are just two examples and I imagine there are countless more we don't know.

The easiest way is to actively work to make a high-profile project successful.

Reminded me of Proverbs 22:29 "Have you seen a man skillful at his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before common men."

There is absolutely a disparity between private and state teaching quality.

I don't think thats an objectionable statement.

Also, while not wanting to paint with a broad brush, people I know who work in state run schools are aware of how many other challenges students must face when they're on school grounds. They're fighting more than the test criteria, they're fighting their peers, outside criminal influences, prostitution, drug dealing etc etc.

Meanwhile this stuff is rarer and more swiftly dealt with at private schools because the parents won't have it, and they pay the bills and have some leverage, the financial incentives are different in the model and it shows.

I personally don't have a problem with loosening the grade criteria, even if it's gamed, the candidates are all interviewed anyway, it's not like a free pass, more an opportunity.

Having read a fair amount of the literature, it's not that compelling.

I would encourage people to stake their life on it, let's put it that way.

The source code of life is recorded and transmitted using physical matter.

Physics very much matters to matter.

For development of any information storage systems made of molecules, there must be a supportive development environment.

To even start the process of doing anything like what we see happening in a cell, homeostasis must be achieved first, and not inelegantly, its not good enough to have a complete cell wall if it has no ports for entry and exit of nutrients and waste product, thats also known as a coffin.

Both the walls and the gates and the information / physical systems to reliably exploit those features must be present at the same time to enable abiogenesis.

That's what the OP demonstrates....

This video [1] from a visual effects channel (Captain Disillusion) has an excellent visual illustration of how the Fourier tranform works and how its used in visual effects in his video about blurring and unblurring ("ENHANCE!") images.

1. https://youtu.be/xDLxFGXuPEc?feature=shared