That's a neat form of accidental crowdsourcing. Instead of trying to predict where something interesting might be, you let people's travel plans generate the sampling distribution for you.
I think "origins of major parts of life" is still a bit too broad. It's more like the origin of one major cellular innovation that later became essential to plants and algae
The actual science is interesting enough that it doesn't really need the "origins of life" framing
Exactly. The scary part isn't any single bug, it's the mismatch between the sensitivity of the system and the apparent security model
And this seems designed around the assumption that the physical camera can be trusted indefinitely
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At that point network isolation stops looking like a privacy preference and starts looking like an adversarial relationship with a product you own
I wouldn't sell yourself short on the last one... the comment itself is a decent example of it :)
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The irony is that universities are probably best at producing founders when they're not explicitly trying to produce founders. Teach difficult things, put smart people together, give them access to equipment and enough…
I suspect rare here often means out of print or commercially obscure, not unique
Copyright holders are certainly responsible for keeping unavailable works inaccessible, but shredding is mostly an industrial scanning decision, not a copyright requirement
A genuinely useful project would identify publications that are actually rare, poorly catalogued, or held by only a few libraries, then prioritize those for careful preservation
Yeah, 2009-2014 feels more like the old social web to me
2009 is old web now, and this is how we find out we're old... Yet I think maybe "middle-aged web" is the more accurate term
HN is a good example of how little a website actually needs once you remove the requirement to constantly squeeze more engagement out of it. Though to be fair, its audience is unusually self-selecting :)
I think the audience could absolutely shrink back to something resembling the old web. I'm less sure the old web itself comes back
And I'm writing my comment to understand it better...
The really haunting part is that Europeans often arrived late enough to see the collapse, but not early enough to understand what had collapsed
Europeans often failed to recognize Indigenous land management because it did not resemble European cities or farms
I do not really believe the wormholes or computronium scenario, but letting my mind run through those possibilities resets my sense of scale
Yeps. The target-selection problem will likely solve itself long before the engineering does
I went through almost exactly the same thought process reading this :)
If Einstein had known about this, physics might have gone in a very different direction
Nature keeps finding engineering solutions we would never arrive at from first principles
That's a neat form of accidental crowdsourcing. Instead of trying to predict where something interesting might be, you let people's travel plans generate the sampling distribution for you.
I think "origins of major parts of life" is still a bit too broad. It's more like the origin of one major cellular innovation that later became essential to plants and algae
The actual science is interesting enough that it doesn't really need the "origins of life" framing
Exactly. The scary part isn't any single bug, it's the mismatch between the sensitivity of the system and the apparent security model
And this seems designed around the assumption that the physical camera can be trusted indefinitely
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At that point network isolation stops looking like a privacy preference and starts looking like an adversarial relationship with a product you own
I wouldn't sell yourself short on the last one... the comment itself is a decent example of it :)
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The irony is that universities are probably best at producing founders when they're not explicitly trying to produce founders. Teach difficult things, put smart people together, give them access to equipment and enough…
I suspect rare here often means out of print or commercially obscure, not unique
Copyright holders are certainly responsible for keeping unavailable works inaccessible, but shredding is mostly an industrial scanning decision, not a copyright requirement
A genuinely useful project would identify publications that are actually rare, poorly catalogued, or held by only a few libraries, then prioritize those for careful preservation
Yeah, 2009-2014 feels more like the old social web to me
2009 is old web now, and this is how we find out we're old... Yet I think maybe "middle-aged web" is the more accurate term
HN is a good example of how little a website actually needs once you remove the requirement to constantly squeeze more engagement out of it. Though to be fair, its audience is unusually self-selecting :)
I think the audience could absolutely shrink back to something resembling the old web. I'm less sure the old web itself comes back
And I'm writing my comment to understand it better...
The really haunting part is that Europeans often arrived late enough to see the collapse, but not early enough to understand what had collapsed
Europeans often failed to recognize Indigenous land management because it did not resemble European cities or farms
I do not really believe the wormholes or computronium scenario, but letting my mind run through those possibilities resets my sense of scale
Yeps. The target-selection problem will likely solve itself long before the engineering does
I went through almost exactly the same thought process reading this :)
If Einstein had known about this, physics might have gone in a very different direction
Nature keeps finding engineering solutions we would never arrive at from first principles