skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Logic Gates in Fungal Mycelium Networks
Seminar today at 10am ET. Recording will be available shortly afterwards at the same URL.

Abstract

The living mycelium networks are capable of efficient sensorial fusion over very large areas and distributed decision making. The information processing in the mycelium networks is implemented via propagation of electrical and chemical signals en pair with morphological changes in the mycelium structure. These information processing mechanisms are manifested in experimental laboratory findings that show that the mycelium networks exhibit rich dynamics of neuron-like spiking behaviour and a wide range of non-linear electrical properties. On an example of a single real colony of Aspergillus niger, we demonstrate that the non-linear transformation of electrical signals and trains of extracellular voltage spikes can be used to implement logical gates and circuits. The approaches adopted include numerical modelling of excitation propagation on the mycelium network, representation of the mycelium network as a resistive and capacitive network and an experimental laboratory study on mining logical circuits in mycelium bound composites.
Walk into a store with cash.

Buy a pre-paid debt card.

Use that card to publish.

That's anonymous, isn't it? Or does this site not allow that?
The argument for this is that it removes the argument of "cops life in danger" which they think will reduce or eliminate shootings of unarmed suspects.

There are several arguments against this, but the one that concerns me most is that this turns police encounters into a video game which will dehumanize the people on the other end.
Yes. I think if your private opinions don't affect the carrying out of your work duties, then I don't think they should get you fired.
> Unfortunately salaries rot. Like vegetables in the fridge. I've been doing this a long time, I can assure you that most if not almost all companies let your salary go through attrition by itself with inflation, while new hires get paid market rates.

This is one reason that co-workers should absolutely talk about their salaries. Especially when management tells them not to. This is one of those problems that has a known solution, which is collective bargaining. It's just that every programmer thinks they're a special 10x snowflake and that they're going to lose out on their good-boy treats if they don't compete with their co-workers.
It sounds cool indeed. That's why this project includes a reticulateSplines method :)

https://github.com/jgosar/mine-city-2000/blob/master/MineCit...
I second that! I've tried to explain the "click" before but to no avail. You just wake up one day and have the motivation. I wish you could DECIDE to have it!
>It just don't understand how they stared from "Protect your privacy from sites like translate.google.com by using this add-on to translate webpages locally!" and ended up at "Let's make firefox users connect to Google's servers every time they use this feature!" If you're creating a product designed for people concerned about their privacy, it should beyond obvious that making your users send data to Google is a problem.

Don't you think that except for the PII data which shouldn't be used for training at all those (training) datasets can be stored at any place and it does not make a difference from the privacy point of view? Or I wrongly interpret their purpose...
Add sleep(400) when Elon takes over. Then comment it out to save your ass in emergency situations.
I do. I'm frowning but I'm unaware. It is just my "I'm concentrated" face.

Story time: Shortly after I was hired at SiemensVDO, my group leader came by just to say "Hi" and looking at him with my "concentrated" face I asked in a husky voice "What do you want?". Totally caught him by surprise, so he barely mumbled "I only wanted to say Hi" and walked away. The floor was open office, with at least 50 people in the room. He was known as a very severe manager, which demanded a lot from the programmers (also he was a former Uni teacher hired by Siemens 10 years earlier), and whenever he was entering our big room, everybody rushed to look busy and kept their head down, not wanting to be caught in his gaze.

Funny thing about the situation is that I was unaware it was him when I said that, and only after he left I fully understood what just happened. In any case, he was severe but also a just manager and recognized hard workers. After that little incident he treated me differently than any other person in that floor. When talking with me he started using a "sweet" voice, reserved only for his bosses while continuing to use his "rough" voice with everybody else. I became "de facto" person to tell him unpleasant stuff for that room, and funny enough this led to an even better relation between us. One of the best managers I had in my 10 years tenure throughout different corporations before I became freelancer.
For significant weight loss it’s more than a little bit. You have to reshape your life and environment drastically.
I follow Nikkei very frequently for tech news and I enjoy Barron's for market viewpoints.

My view is that Western Europe has become less relevant to North American culture, technology, and finance over the past five or so years. Latin America and Asia are now far more relevant to North American life and the future thereof.

I share your thoughts about the Economist and I feel it has gone downhill. I wonder how much of that is due to the cultural and economic decline of the UK and the public narrative shift accompanying that decline. Brexit brought some very unsavory and counterproductive sentiments to the fore.
What would that word be?
So you take a job at an upscale sex store owned by Playboy, Honey Birdette, that sells bondage gear and sex toys, then complain about sexual harassment? You’re an adult and know exactly what you signed on for. Quit with the fake naivety.
It is a reverse hostage situation. Banks enable the modern society to work but if they are gone so is our economy because of an insufficient "investment" in diversifying the money system. In theory we could do a multitude of alternative money approaches like barter clubs or local complementary currencies and then the risk of major banks failing wouldn't be the complete loss of the economy, only a big chunk.
Show HN: 100% open-source feature flags and feature management platform
Great article!

Yes fills time, no makes time.

https://jondouglas.dev/saying-no-will-make-time/
How often do people get banned from GitHub for reasons anyone would disagree with? (besides projects that are targeted for DMCA, but you seen to be talking about personal accounts being unable to participate in the community of an open source project)
My top 3 (with a recency bias of course):
1. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' - most of the book I thought "but it's obvious", but it still made me actively think about system design choices not from the standpoint "how it should be used" but "how can it be misused"
2. Thinking fast and slow - just another reminder that my brain is a lazy bastard and information/awareness hygiene is very important
3. Hooked - whenever I work on any side-project I repeat the mantra "solve your personal problem first!". It was a catch for my long-term motivation in cases when I ask other people on feedback for a very raw project...
> When people say that the quality of a publication has declined they often mean they disagree with things that are published.

> a rag like Jacobin
Great suggestions here, but one thing I would like to point out to the original poster is that, while I have read a lot of books, people have had a far greater impact on my thinking than any books. So I don't discount books, but it you want to be a better thinking look around for successful people and pay attention to how they work.
Not an artist myself, but it reminds me that maybe ten years ago or so I produced a series of "movie abstracts" which were whole movies accelerated to last 10-15 seconds by temporally averaging frames (the tmix ffmpeg filter).

I don't think I have them anymore, it was just for showing to friends. But the result was interesting, especially for some Wong Kar-Wai movies or, as I remember, Hero, where colours play an important role.
It works for me on Chrome Android. Not even running the latest version, so it's probably working for a while already.
> Like bro, you want to do stuff with “diffusion models”? You don’t even know how to add two normal distributions together! You ain’t diffusing shit!

This is funny. Great article with lots of truth.
I read Bloomberg and listen to CNBC. I think at bottom knowing what’s really happening matters to finance peoples’ bottom lines, and that has a way of focusing the mind and cutting through partisan blinders.
Google paid radio hosts to endorse the Pixel 4 – even though they hadn’t used it
Verbatim Mode
> My freedom of speech ends where I insult or threaten someone

nice belief, but I've got foundational law protecting my right to freedom of speech
I've been reading The Economist, on and off, for about 17 years. Since about a year or so I've come back to reading it each week, after a pause of a couple of years. I also did notice the same change of quality as you also noticed, and I'm not really convinced that it's only caused by me noticing stuff all of a sudden.

As a specific example, them calling whatever the Trump supporters say about the 2020 elections as the "Big Lie", capitalised, it's something that they wouldn't have done ~10 years ago. I'm talking about the same magazine that had a 3-page mostly congratulatory article on Blair long after the start of the Iraq war (I'd say around 2010-2012). They didn't capitalised any "L-s" in "lies" back then, I'm not even sure they called out Blair as being a liar.

As an answer to your specific question, for the moment I'm also trying out Foreign Affairs. They're even more ideologically one-sided than The Economist, but at least in their case they wear their ideology on their sleeve, so to speak, which makes it more bearable for me to read them. Their book reviews (including the longer "review essays", as they call them) though are less ideologically one-sided, or at least so I found them, and imo they're intellectually worth more than many of the featured articles.

For example the September-October issue has this excellent review called: "Old World Order - The Real Origin of International Relations" [1], commenting on a book called "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders" [2], which presented the "birth" of international relations via Mongol rule in most of Eurasia starting with the 1200s. In so doing it also makes some passing references to Russians Eurasians like Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Vernadsky or Gumilyov, and what their writings and theories might mean for modern Russia. Really interesting stuff and pretty on point, which stuff I didn't see mentioned in almost any issue of The Economist (where the underlying belief is that the West is fighting the Russian Asiatic Horde, and they leave it at that).

I've also been a FT reader for 20 years, again, with big on-an-off periods, but, the same as with The Economist, I found that their biases have changed quite a lot, in a way that I don't like (there are exceptions, like Martin Wolf, with whom I mostly don't agree on a political level but which has been mostly on point, plus their finance-related reporting is really good, at least for non-experts like me).

[1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/old-world-order

[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/before-the-west/78E4B5C...
Okay, but also being miserable about it isn’t going to help the fat guy. In fact being miserable makes it statistically more likely he stays fat or gets fatter.
The sound of one hand clapping is the powerful slap I give across the face to the absolutely vile product manager that added the new absurdly loud Android TV YouTube startup sound that cannot be disabled:

https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1337950347231440899?t...

"Why is the startup sound so loud?" asked Minsky.

"Because they don't use their own products" I replied.

Minsky began scribbling in his notebook at a furious pace.

"What are you writing?" I asked of Minsky.

"Just another obituary for an undead product" replied Minsky.

At that moment, I became enlightened. I realized Gmail was undead, and YouTube was on its way to becoming a zombie too!

"So Google is purgatory?" I blurted out, flustered.

"As much as a slap is one hand clapping!" replied Minsky.

I instantly became enlightened and Ram Dass appeared, as if from the heavens. I knew what my mission now was. To ridicule Google on Hacker News in front of their employees so they reverse this beyond stupid decision some idiot in a position of power made. ;-)

/slap

goldenkey slaps YouTube PM around a bit with a large trout
I use and really like neeva, even paid for the annual subscription.

It's incredibly nice not to be shown ads, especially mixed in with search results.
> I don't think anyone ever thought I'm gay because I hang out with him, but if they did I just don't care. My mate is more important to me than some random prick's opinion.

They very clearly did not say that.
Also known as "INTJ Death Glare", https://intj-explained.tumblr.com/post/10233359295/the-death...
I guess everybody is pendantic about something different. To you "It's absolutely fucking wild [...] that somebody would invest this amount of effort", but I can understand the point of that magazine, too.

Besides a somewhat harsh tone, they are presenting really solid facts, and kind of forensic work, to prove that nothing is like it seems in those images. And if you care a lot about life in/around mountains you are pendantic about local animals and where they appear (or can't appear).

This might be especially true if people have searched/visited that area a lot over the years, and never seen a snow leopard and then somebody comes along and just has that one in a million experience that nobody every had in that place.

Also the digital artist has tried to deceive the viewers into thinking that this is not a composited image: "Squinting through my camera’s telephoto lens, I noticed something in the shadow of Mount Pumori. At first, I thought it was a rock, but it was exactly what I was looking for."

So, was there a snow leopard _at all_ in the end or is that just another (stock) image? What is to be believed by that digital artist? I think this can anger people if they care a lot.
> IBM pushed block chain a lot.

No they didn't, they gave the illusion they did and never fulfilled on anything or ever developed anything with the tech, they only used it as a marketing gimmick to garner more money from the multi-nationals who already pay for their legacy software.

They had everything going for them, but their is a reason they've since been broken up into 2 different companies. It's just sad, and a cautionary tale of what happens when your company gets complacent and relies way to heavily on the archaic model and refuse to adapt to modernity.

For posterity's sake go look at what connections they had with Stellar and Ripple, and see how blind their management class were as they ended up in the cross-hairs of the SEC.

Honestly, this is one of the times I say good riddance; we never needed them and their arrogance and eventual failure were predictable!
Did Blue Peter always have such cool backing music? That sounds like Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy...
I am not able to spend enough time on solving problems and my mind wanders away. What books/resources do you suggest to improve this?
Came here to say the same thing. The other books in the series are pretty good too.

E.g. The Little Prover https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262527958/the-little-prover/

and

The Little Typer https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262536431/the-little-typer/
Anyone who works with other human beings can make improvements to his/her professional interpersonal skillset by reading Influence by Cialdini.
Yeah, this is one of many non-browser runtimes, e.g. see https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-runtimes

Lunatic is more opinionated than most of these or node, though, in that it's trying to emulate a particular concurrent system design pattern borrowed from Erlang/BEAM.
As far as a career goes, at some point expressing an opinion crosses over to creating a hostile work environment.

As far as people yelling at each other online goes, you can’t really stop that. If you want stronger moderation, then people will complain that the mods are censoring them, if you want weaker moderation, people will complain about all the other people shouting at them. Not sure what the suggested solution would be. Perhaps the author wants the platform itself to favor her opinions specifically?
Add a sign: if i look angry, I'm just focused.

With a smiley

And then don't care anymore :)
What are your options to make yourself a going concern as a media company in 2022?

Become a tech company, like the NY Times (separate subscriptions for cooking & games, affiliate via Wirecutter, get into podcasts, newsletters, etc.) - they've kind of Buzzfeed-ified themselves.

Or get a rich patron. The latter has worked for decades for money-losing conservative journals. (For interesting anecdata about one of them, check out this analysis of Commentary: https://danielstone.substack.com/p/commentary-finances-john-...)
I'd just like a sofa that looks like the Cray used in the movie Hackers...
> Playclassic.games does not intend to violate any copyright or violate any license of a game.

I thought there was a chance this site might have arranged licenses from the original publishers, funded by revenue from the (many) ads, but no, it appears to be good old fashioned piracy.

Edit: I tried Settlers, which has one of those copy-protection systems that involves entering information that can be found in the printed manual. Either I got very lucky, or this game has been cracked. Or, as the site euphemises it, “unblocked”.

Now, I’m sympathetic to the cause of video game preservation and use of abandonware, but the second you put ads around it and make money off it for yourself, you cross a line.
Haha, mine often says "are you ok?" - my response is always, "yeah, I'm just thinking."

(usually thinking: stop asking me things, I'm THINKING! haha)
The problem for me is that Mr Wathan misrepresented « Good CSS » in his essay. His examples are BAD CSS, not good CSS. He then sets out to correct a problem with CSS that HE created by writing dirt poor CSS.

`.author-bio > div > h2 { color: red } is NOT good CSS. The div part has no reason being there (why would the div change the color of the title ?). After presenting this auto-created problem, he sets out to solve it with BEM, where you need untold numbers of classes for everything. So now, CSS has a naming problem, created to solve a non-existing auto-created CSS problem. And Tailwind now solves this pseudo-problem.

Apart from this, the thing that really bugs me is that every advantage claimed (apart from one) is also non-existing because if you do your CSS right, the same claimed advantages arise in pure CSS. Design tokens ? No need for json, custom properties are all you need. Specificity ? Cascade layers, pseudo-selectors are here for you.

The only "advantage" I see is the possibility of working in one file only rather than a couple of files. And that, for me at least, is not a real advantage but only a justification for being lazy. There's no way the price of all these processes and dependencies complexity are worth the laziness-added value.
No, but I look annoyed while I work so everyone thinks I'm busy.
This is really my main complaint about "Windows sucks" complaints. Nearly universally, something was written for Linux only to be hacked to work, if at all, on Windows while complaining about Windows as if it's supposed to be Linux. Then all the hacks and bugs of the same tool on macOS are ignored because it's a Unix-like, apparently.

Another comment here mentions NT being full of all sorts of quirks. Such sentiments ignore all sorts of quirks with Linux. For some reason, they're ignored or forgot about because people like digging into the internals of esoteric design choices of Unix tools and the Linux OS.

I find myself fairly OS agnostic having spent about equal times on macOS and Windows and a little less on Linux other than as a programming target. In my experience, Windows is the best these days to work on because I get both Linux and Windows on one machine and OS. macOS and Linux all by itself are too much of a compromise as a Linux and as a desktop OS, respectively, for me.

I am currently working on a cross-platform windowing tool with GLFW. Linux and macOS are by far the problem children because of strange limitations in Cocoa/macOS and because Linux has no "built-in" windowing solution.
Frowning faces are common while deep in thoughts.

Personally, I sigh loudly. Not out of annoyance or fatigue, I just sigh.
Yes, I do. Every time I've seen a picture of me when I was focused on something I look pissed.

I can't control it though, it's just that naturally I get a frown with squinting eyes when I'm deep in thoughts, or looking sideways while I left my mind wander around the problem I'm thinking about.

From what I observe with colleagues and friends it seems to be pretty natural as well. My housemates doing their PhDs usually look super-pissed when studying or analysing data at home.

On top of that the general disconnect from the normal world when you are deep entrenched in your thoughts probably doesn't look inviting either, haha. I just think it's quite normal in my experience.
Startup vs. Big Tech Rivalries
The Amazon vs Diapers.com story is an interesting one. I wonder how much it actually cost Amazon to lose money on selling diapers at a loss just to force their competitor into a merger.

Does anyone have other startup / bigCo rivalries that come to mind?
for this php 8.1 is a killer.
I only got one wrong and I want to know which one I missed.
It's absolutely a problem. Aka the sysinternals / Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich problem.

To wit, Windows has plenty of debugging functionality. Historically not as extensive as Unix, but it was there.

However, 0% of that was exposed in any sane way, because Microsoft...? Actually, I have no idea why it wasn't. For the price of 2 senior engineers and a willingness to actually release tools, Microsoft could have drastically improved the situation.

Instead they just (eventually) bought sysinternals. :(
> Do you have any evidence she is lying about death threats?

She lied about that picture and tried to deceive viewers into believing everything happened that way.

Why should I trust her when she says she received threats?
Alzheimer's drug lecanemab hailed as momentous breakthrough; targets root cause
Either that, or frustrated. I can realy relate to the Baum guy from The Big Short, if I am curious I am not angry and / or frustrated.
The Properties of Money
I think you have a point... and, furthermore, declinism today is just about the same as it always has been.
I wonder if it is also because she didn’t receive any formal education in art (as per her website) , so she is highly oblivious to some ways things are done.

At the same time she tries to appear as if she is some celebrated artist (mentioned by National Geographic etc.)

She seems to be have chosen ambiguity as her mode of communication which is troublesome.
Some of the strongest gun control laws in the country (Mulford Act) were made not because of a liberal idealism against firearm violence but rather as a direct reaction to the Black Panthers doing armed patrols of police and community watch under a republican state government.
I predict you'll see more of this as more minorities lean deeper left and the culture war types start blowing gaskets about armed antifa whatevers.