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The connectedness of neurons in neural nets is usually fixed from the start (i.e. between layers, or somewhat more complicated in the case CNNs etc). If we could eliminate this and let neurons "grow" towards each other (like this article shows), would that enable smaller networks with similar accuracy? There's some ongoing research to prune weights by finding "subnets" [1] but I haven't found any method yet where the network grows connections itself. The only counterpoint I can come up with is that is probably wouldn't generate a significant performance speed up because it defeats the use of SIMD/matrix operations on GPUs. Maybe we would need chips that are designed differently to speed up these self-growing networks?

I'm not an expert on this subject, does anybody have any insights on this?

1. https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/05/10/135426/a-new-way...
Your position is very understandable. I wish Ukraine would be in that position.
My point is that Google Maps prevents the development of OSM.
They didn’t mention the biggest one that people (including me) complain about, which is the push notification API. That’s intellectually honest of them (it inherently requires explicit permission before activating for a particular origin), but pointing to these far less likely to be used APIs is not making a good case for neutering PWAs on privacy grounds.
One reason why not using color as the sole identifier in interfaces is critically important.
Not sure if this is just a front for testing demand, but agree with others that it feels very scammy. Never seen a paywall AFTER signing up without at least offering some trial.
It is a little tricky for the older CPUs that want 5v I/O. There's not a universal bi-directional level shifter that works well in all common situations.
“With Katzenberg singularly blaming the pandemic”...

If this wasn’t the best time to launch an online entertainment platform - I don’t know what would. With everyone unable to travel and consuming so much media the pandemic should have been a boost to their launch in my opinion.
Yeah, they miss the point. They can't compete against the virality of TikTok or YouTube on short video. People like streaming when they can binge. They are fine watching a show in chunks as they have time. But they want to be able to watch a bunch in a row if they have the time. Just not tested at all with users, a huge "build it and they will come" failure.
An an aside: I would say debugging is one of my favourite bits of programming!
The juggling one worked perfectly for me.
Time for you to move to move to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

After all, it's all in the name!

https://ifunny.co/picture/we-call-ourselves-the-anti-bad-guy...
That's not my experience, but if that's the case then one more reason for the break up.
I have one of those SCSI Ethernet adapters as well. We used to use a desktop computer with a modem running Vicom Internet Gateway, and then share that single modem connection with other computers over Ethernet.

For multiple people chatting on virtual worlds at the same time, it worked fine!
Since our Dear President is against toppling statues, I propose to just add a statue of Toussaint Louverture seating on Napoleon's tomb.

1) the monument already looks like a seat

2) nobody gets removed from any history book

3) no statue comes down.

(you might want to google the scale of the seat if you've never seen it in real life)
The UK - especially the UK Establishment - is spectacularly clueless about STEM.

When I did my EE degree a friend of the family was pleased that I'd be able to use my Honours Degree and mathematical insight into Maxwell's Equations to get a good job as a TV repairman.

There's a strong class bias against people who do things. The class ideal is someone who owns things and tells others what to do in broad terms ("business strategy") and then leaves the little people to fill in the details.

One of these people asked me to contribute to a course in iOS app development. There was a lot of fluff about work ethic and marketing, and then I was supposed to come in for half a day at the end and explain to a room full of teenagers who had never done any programming of any kind how to build a complete working iOS app - "Something simple, like a map of house prices in the UK, or something like that."
$6M buys you a lot of David Attenborough for VO work.
Which is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675892
The Machine Learning Summer School Tübingen is being live-streamed this week
I have used most streaming networks at some point and have never heard of Quibi before today. It's possible I've seen the name and assumed it was another Chinese social network, but I really wasn't aware that a service with this video format existed.

I live in the UK, maybe they aren't advertising in the UK? I do follow a lot of people in the US though and not heard any of them talking about it.
Yeah, I know since it's gate-level it will be slow (and it's already been tedious to code) but I wanted to get a better sense of how certain components actually worked. Multibyte RAM, for example, is not demonstrated in the NandGame which this is based off of. It has you put two registers together to make a two-byte RAM and then it magically extends it to a 16KB RAM, only saying that the design could be repeated recursively to get bigger RAM. Figuring out how to do that was interesting and enlightening.

Having no experience with netlists other than briefly reading through the Wikipedia page, it seems they are basically just a struct of subcomponents which is what I'm using. How would I go about abstracting that?
This kind of con artist / slimy 'business' practice is, i suspect, connected to the macro observations of capitalism where so many people in the US want to 'burn everything down'.

Not to say that matters. If i can make money and be a jerk id probably do it too, just too lazy + not sufficiently into making money just to have made it off any weird process.

It isnt so much to criticize your creative sunglass idea but to say i hope (really) this kind of glorification of making some bucks doesnt become its undoing.
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ADB is the main input bus for any Apple desktop computer made from 1987 until 1999, and any PowerBook/iBook (internal kb/trackpad only) on into the fisrt few years of the 2000s. It's not really relevant for Phoronix to call it "work for the Macintosh Ⅱ" for any reason but to anchor the 1987 release date to that model.
No Mac apps.
Very informative.

I use a TP Link 1750AC cheap router($60) that seems work perfectly fine for the whole house for streaming and surfing.

My internet is about 20mbps down and 6mbps up.

I never felt the need that my bandwidth is too slow somehow. What's the super 1Gbps wifi + ISP for? I never need it, maybe until I'm doing VR on Internet some day.

Transfer large files inside the house over wifi is the only time I felt wifi is not fast enough, but that happens once a year, for huge size files I can do USB transfer anyways.

In short, $60 router suffices for me. I see no needs for wifi6 yet for 99% of the households.
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Isn't it rather that someone else is taking the shipping cost?
Yeah, I firmly believe more software should be built on top of emacs to leverage its power and expressiveness behind a dicoverable interface for people who are too busy or have a life.
genuine question, is there any kind of logs that console app has access to that you can't view using unix commands? (i.e. tail -f /var/log/messages)?
FYI, these motorized desks can be dangerous, so be careful. My friend had a desk in a high position, and lowered it, not knowing a chair was off to the side slightly under the desk. It hit the chair and kept going, and tilted the desk and his monitor and desktop tower fell off the table. I've also had the arm rests of my desk get caught under them. There's lots of things that can happen, like catching an open door's handle. A child can hit the button and get hurt.

IMO they should have some sort of sensor thing that detects a change in resistance or something.
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I don't understand where did this perspective come from? Is it from movies? I've been in this field for 6 years now, and I never encountered the stereotypical nerd in this field whatsoever. Not during my CS course not during my career.
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> wide use in the appliance market through the 90's as well. Things like firewalls.

Thank you for clarifying with that bit... I was (very briefly) trying to imagine how a 90's era dishwasher or something might use a 68K CPU in a VME cage.
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My niece had almost the exact same opinion despite having multiple family members who didn't fit that description, including her mother! It wasn't until I introduced her to some of my younger female co-workers that she committed to being a CS major. She's now a third generation software engineer, which has to be fairly unique.
I remember first reading about BeOS and the BeBox in some 1994-or-thereabouts edition of WIRED (which featured an interview with Jean-Louis Gassee).

I was utterly amazed by the screenshots of the GUI and the thought of a computer with “parallel processors”. The slogan “one processor per person is not enough” absolutely smote me and I was hooked. BeOS looked like everything nineties non-dismal utopianistic science fiction looked like and the BeBox with its dual RISC CPUs and “blinkenlights” on the front to display workload and a “GeekPort” on the back for attaching random hardware were at the very least very exotic machines with a lot of presence and that made quite a statement.

At the time I also had my first interactions with NeXTStep, and I’m pleased how things went (overall) but back at the time, it seemed like “not choosing Plan Be” was going to have disastrous consequences. How wrong I was...
System settings were easiest in the Vista/7 era. Window Key+"sound" brought up sound settings, so you didn't need to know where they were placed in control panel. Now in Windows 10, doing the same brings up "Sound settings" which is a stripped-down settings bar barely more than a master volume setting. The actual sound settings are hidden in control panel, which doesn't come up when searching for 'sound'.

This (broken search) is the single biggest complaint I have with Windows 10. Everything else I can overlook.
I was including the whole academic background around this usage that I can use as a conversation springboard, but thanks for teaching me a second thing today :)
Whether or not it exists seems to be mostly a matter of interpretation. Is the incorrect mark just a misprint while Chinese products with the correct mark are just as likely to fail to meet EU standards? Either way, that cheap products from China regularly fail the standards does not seem to be disputed by anyone. And if those products are sold in the EU, it's fairly easy to address, but if they're sold in China and mailed to the EU, it's not so easy to enforce. The problem remains the same, whether or not you see it as intentional or not.
A larger entity would have more bargaining power?
In the US: I had no idea who they were.
Haiku considers itself the one true distro of Haiku.

https://www.haiku-os.org/community/guidelines_creating_haiku...
Those APIs should not exist. Web site creators need to stop acting like they are entitled to access whatever they want on someone's computer.

I dont care about your unique SaS usecase, these are invasive. Make a native app if that's what you need.
That is an extreme edge case. The vast majority of computing happens on x86 and ARM. Unless you're working on an IBM mainframe, you're using a little endian, IEEE float machine.
What do you make of Joy, Forth's functional cousin?
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Note that there is also a mechanism for association between two presynaptic neurons. Probabilistically, when those upstream neurons fire synchronously, the downstream neuron will be more likely to actually fire. When that occurs, the postsynaptic neuron will, as a result of Hebb's Postulate, increase the connectivity to the synchronously firing neurons. So, "cells that fire together wire together" is more true of presynaptic neurons than pre-to-post synaptic neurons (and the wiring together is occurring through the postsynaptic neuron)
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Thanks. Ironically, this also means that chrome has more visible support for tab-containering, with its clear support for simultaneous windows with different profiles. Can I do the same in Firefox?
I'll propose a test for whether it's true. We'll try writing instructions to a non-technical user how to perform some tasks. Then, we shouldn't know exactly which version they're using, only "I'm using OS X" or "I'm using Ubuntu." If they can reasonably muddle their way through the tasks without knowing the OS version, the OS's have remained consistent.

Example tasks would be, "run a program," "find a file on disk," "save your work," "copy and paste between applications," "close a window."

Examples that would often fail include updating configuration settings or manipulating disks. These are important tasks, but not core tasks.

Restricting Linux to the mass market distros, my limited experience is they've been reasonably consistent. They can probably use Win-R to run a program. These distros mostly use the ZXCV clipboard keys, and adopt other Windows-like conventions like Ctrl-S to save and clicking an X to close a window.

Some Linux distros could fail some reasonable tasks because of poor design; e.g. I recall Ubuntu's tiny hitbox for resizing windows being very annoying.

On OS X / macOS, Apple has chaned things up with features like autosave, which fundamentally changed how some applications behave. But according to my test, I'd just tell the person, "hit command S" and while it will create a new revision instead of saving the file, this doesn't do a thing we don't want.

I think the biggest lack of core consistency is in Electron apps and other non-native UI creeping in. I don't think I'd pin that on OS designers, though.
Most plausible:

* UK wants a big vanity project to show how much better they are out of the EU
Oh, I think you're being specious if you really have an interest in this subject but can't name a single company that would try to block farmers producing more using techniques from which the company can't derive profit... But hey, if you want to use the old 'conspiracy theory' saw to end the discussion, fine with me.
I think it was a combination of several factors:

1. Windows 95 USB support was terrible so nobody used it. But Windows 98 had just come out with good USB support.

2. Some PCs came with USB ports but most didn't. Legacy ports were always present. If you wanted USB you often had to add a card. So nobody used USB in PC-land.

3. Apple's market share was tiny but the "Bondi Blue" iMac (which only had USB ports, not legacy ports) was the first product they had made in a decade that was actually desirable. It was so popular that it made Apple a player in the market again.

4. Even though the Bondi Blue iMac's USB "hockey puck" mouse was ergonomically terrible, it didn't dissuade people from buying the computer, because they could just buy a different USB mouse due to factor 5.

5. Steve Jobs lobbied vendors to make USB peripherals by convincing them they would work on both the Mac and the PC. Which was true.

5 was probably the most important factor. Vendors had hundreds of peripherals ready to go on Day 1 of the Bondi Blue iMac's introduction, and most of them were blue. People plugged them in to Windows 98 machines and they just worked. The surge in USB device availability (plus Windows 98) caused PC manufacturers to begin including USB ports universally. But that surge was due to Steve Jobs' lobbying.
There's also the Cairo Desktop Environment[0].

[0]: https://cairoshell.com/
CS types in the movies are basically magicians. Something needs to happen, they open a laptop, they type away furiously, there's a cutaway which shows them frowning, then a red dialog box on the screen turns green, and the thing happens.

It's hard to get from that to the reality developing CRUD apps.

There may be some drama, but arguments about which framework to use are not usually very cinematic.
People have always wanted change. The issue is that the change some want is the opposite of the change the others want. We will see who gets what they want and who doesn’t, but I’d beware: the new boss will be the same as the old boss.
I wouldn't place too much stock in that Fortune analysis (in fairness, it's apparently just a summary of a larger work). It looks pretty slanted in some ways that have become almost stereotypical.

An analysis that talks about "the subsidies and legal monopolies that Congress bestows upon the post office" without talking about their unique costs - being required to deliver first class mail just about everywhere, at prices mandated by Congress that represent a loss in many geographic areas - is incomplete.
I agree and disagree! I've seen the comments where the issue is nuanced, but I'll add some of mine.

I play point-and-click video games remotely with a friend. We always try to stop our sessions when we have an idea of what we want to try next, because it's much easier to start again next time. You know that you want to try to attach the rope to the tree, which means you immediately get back into the game next time.

On the other hand, I've programmed a video game with the same friend. We programmed separately, checking out a shared file of code. This meant that I always wanted to pass on a functioning version of the game. It's obvious that I wouldn't want to check in a version mid-code line, but even more than that, I got a kick out of only attempting to add things small enough so that I could finish in one evening. Aiming to always hand off a functioning version of the game made me both take on appropriate-sized tasks, and made it more fun to check in the code so that my friend could try the latest version of the game when he started coding.

There's something to be said for checking out a functioning version of the game, looking through the list of features we want to add, and then picking the one that looks easiest/most fun right now. If I had a half-finished feature to complete, I may not feel like it the next time I start, which would make me put off working on the game.

A half-finished feature may make it easier to start, but aiming to always finish a feature made me keep my ass in the chair instead of switching to playing a video game or watching Netflix.

A lot of authors would agree with your advice (I think that Hemingway talked about it in an interview, and Stephen King in the book On Writing), but I suggest trying both this method and the variant where you always try to have a functioning project and add new small features.
Though, interestingly enough, Disney just threw money at the problem and came up with Disney+. Though to be fair there were probably a lot of lessons learned and hiring of very experienced people.

Edit: my point is, yes, it's easy in hindsight to think it would be a success (and surely, a lot of things help). But HBO Go enjoys much less success (and has a lot of technical issues)

Tidal was built to compete with Spotify, see where it went.
I dunno, the news of exorbitant salaries of SV programmers slowly make it into the mainstream media and those jobs are sometimes mentioned next to other traditionally highly desirable career choices, such as a doctor or a lawyer. Given how much America equates human worth with money, it should translate into increase in social status.

Another take: CS is in no small part just an obscure field of mathematics with only tangential contact with the real world. No wonder people don't care about it. Software engineering, on the other hand, should have higher social status.
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Maybe different categories for government employees in their public roles?

I think this highlights my original concern even more. While an ideal world would have some board at Twitter able to make these decisions in an ideal way, the implementation you desire requires subjective judgments. Based on the recent stories on HN about difficulties with app store filtering that should have an objective standard, I am still highly concerned about giving the power to make subjective speech filtering decisions to SV social media companies.
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I have experienced this with groups. I like joining various facebook groups, because I think the general idea of them could help make facebook a healthy experience. The other day I joined what looked to me like a fairly "vanilla" philosophy group, and all the sudden every single suggested group was for a bunch of anarcho-capitalist-primitive-whateverism fringe nutjobs. It's actually very scary just how fast the algorithm adapts to pull you into the fringe echo chambers.
Me, too! I never imagined at the time that 25 years down the road I’d be entertaining my daughter by juggling three balls. Great book.
True. Amazon also clearly has a problem with counterfeit goods (as addressed on HN repeatedly in the past), and that's not sufficiently enforced. But at least it's possible to enforce. That's not to easy when the shop is outside your jurisdiction.
That is unusual indeed!

The question for which I don't have a good answer is, why did your niece have the same opinion despite so much firsthand evidence to the contrary?
Yeah, this too. What I mean is that the MSc in SoftEng is a "normal" Masters program. Oxford has too many weird caveats to cover :D
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I don't know which is most plausible.

What makes you think that is most plausible?
Swden results? Are you serious? The last country you need to listen to is Sweden (and it is not because their approach, it is because they kept saying things, which turned out to be false: covid won't hit Sweden, there will be little number of victims etc.). If someone wants for whatever reason consult Scandinavian sources, it is better be Norway or Finland.

When I google something, I of course check only trustworthy sources such as CDC, Lancet, NHS etc. And they happen to come first by the way.

Of course it can pass through. It does not to protect you mostly, it protects the others from your droplets, and also dramatically lowers the speed and momentum of the air and viral particles, because of air friction in the layers of textile. As the result, the particles do not fly too far from your mouth.

Yes you are right, if you misuse, they become less useful for you personally; therefore do not adjust them with dirty hands, and change every 2 hours, as I do. Still, even misused mask prevents the others from you exhaled air and droplets.

One thing though I agree with that gatherings (be it BLM or Trumps rallies) were harmful and probably more than bars. But they are already the past. Right now we need to think about the present.
“There's a lot of non-techies outside of SV who seem to think that developers/designers/product-managers are just doing the menial plumbing of building out other people's ideas, and that anyone can do the same thing if they just had access to capital.”

That’s pretty much the idea of supply side and “trickle down“ economics. People with capital are the most important players. People who do the work are not important and replaceable.
Proof that there are servers in serverless
Founders and inventors were new grads once. Established founders and inventors usually aren't looking to migrate as easily. It's easier to get them when they are just starting out.
I don't want random web sites I open (and their ads) to ask permission to scan bluetooth in my area and use usb devices connected to my computer. A website has no business doing any of that. There is no justification for these API to exist.
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