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New comment by sansnomme in "How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants"

sansnomme — Sat, 17 May 2025 18:19:19 +0000

They can try making more of what people want and charging for it with ads. People liked The Office, Mr Bean, Doctor Who. The BBC can produce perfectly good telly if they want to be competitive. Don't be Canada and subsidize mediocrity and bad art with public money. Soft power should be earned, not bought and paid by public coffers.

New comment by sansnomme in "Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum"

sansnomme — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 06:40:49 +0000

They need to get rid of the concept of weed out courses. It's bad for learning. If you are paying 30-50K a year for an education, course availability should be a given. Don't use the bell curve as an excuse to deny students an education, or if you are going to use a threshold, use a fixed one, not one that limits by percentage of students. The fat cat admins and professors need to be fired. Too many schools take the students' money and plow it into research and other areas, with zero regard for undergraduate education. "You are in university now, it's sink or swim. Can't make it? Too bad." This attitude is especially prevalent in the state/public unis, especially places like Berkeley where demands exceeds supply. Your traditional private colleges like Dartmouth and Harvard don't have this problem.

New comment by sansnomme in "Boom Supersonic hopes to test-fly its supersonic plane in 2021"

sansnomme — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 23:39:00 +0000

More like they learnt nothing from the brain drain due to Avro cancellation.

New comment by sansnomme in "Racket 7.8"

sansnomme — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:20:58 +0000

That's rich considering Python is routinely criticized here for lack of proper dependency management until recently. Just because Racket is a cute Lisp/academic language does not mean it should be held to lower standards especially considering their recent efforts in relicensing and marketing to be regarded as a "serious" production language.

New comment by sansnomme in "Racket 7.8"

sansnomme — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 18:27:01 +0000

And still no proper dependency versioning, it seems that the progress made by Npm, RubyGems, Cargo is entirely lost on them.

New comment by sansnomme in "The Car, Reinvented"

sansnomme — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:21:02 +0000

Rent the runway is a billion dollar company. A bigger issue is the danger of deplatforming and corporate terms of services when it comes to fundamental transport infrastructure.

New comment by sansnomme in "Extracting video and audio from used police body cam"

sansnomme — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 20:20:47 +0000

Your Honor, the department misplaced the devices during the chaos of debriefing. By the time we retrieved it the data has self-destructed.

New comment by sansnomme in "I Am Deleting the Blog"

sansnomme — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 07:26:21 +0000

A New York Times reporter was also involved in that incident.

https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-nao...

New comment by sansnomme in "Show HN: Satellite is a forkable, P2P, publicly hosted social platform"

sansnomme — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 04:46:29 +0000

Where is the link to the source code?

New comment by sansnomme in "‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: Records police interaction, sends location"

sansnomme — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:43:50 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529921

New comment by sansnomme in "Build yourself a weather station"

sansnomme — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 05:49:00 +0000

I thought when they said they use existing wireless communication technology, they meant something like Microsoft's distributed signal processing arrays:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/meeting...

Perhaps using 4G and GSM signal quality as an ad-hoc doppler or metric for precipitation. Is their landing page inaccurate? Are they no different from other companies (besides the good at sales and marketing bit)? They seem to have a lot of big names on their customer list.

New comment by sansnomme in "Build yourself a weather station"

sansnomme — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:19:58 +0000

So are you saying that they are only good at sales? Out of curiosity where do you normally obtain the raw sensor data?

New comment by sansnomme in "Build yourself a weather station"

sansnomme — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:34:16 +0000

HN ML practitioners would probably find the Climacell method of weather forecasting to be relevant.

https://www.climacell.co/

New comment by sansnomme in "From scratch: reverse-mode automatic differentiation (in Python)"

sansnomme — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 21:50:49 +0000

What do you mean by LS? Label Smoothing?

New comment by sansnomme in "Show HN: Instant search of 200K+ SVG logos from 100 sources"

sansnomme — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 20:13:31 +0000

Neural network -> feature vectors.

New comment by sansnomme in "High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization"

sansnomme — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 19:00:10 +0000

Because dependency management for anything C/C++/Python related has often been a massive cluster* * * *. Rust's npm style package management is probably the greatest innovation to have hit low level programming in a long time. Not to mention anything Nvidia related is often closed sourced so you are programming against a black box API by a vendor infamous for their bad driver quality on non-Windows systems.

New comment by sansnomme in "High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization"

sansnomme — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 03:58:51 +0000

More like increased competition and computer generated avatars in the modeling and Instagram influencing industry.

New comment by sansnomme in "Venmo and Paypal Are Stalling Urgent Efforts to Bail People Out of Jail"

sansnomme — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:11:57 +0000

Notarizations and medallions are not cheap.

New comment by sansnomme in "Ask HN: What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks?"

sansnomme — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 06:48:48 +0000

For biology, assuming a CS/engineering background:

Campbell's Biology

Synthetic biology: A Primer

An introduction to systems biology by Uri Alon (get the 2020 edition)

O'Reilly: Biobuilder

New comment by sansnomme in "A History of Clojure [pdf]"

sansnomme — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 17:57:07 +0000

There isn't enough officially supported first class tooling. Most things that are a given for Rust/JavaScript/Go are community maintained with only one maintainer in Clojure, development is slow and features take a long time to roll out. (Let's not delude ourselves that Webpack level of donations is even possible here) This is a problem with every language that is small but it is particularly problematic with Clojure as it has a commercial company behind it but you get the feeling that they are disinterested in promoting the language and ecosystem beyond selling their database software. Go also espouses "frameworks bad, libraries good" but the biggest difference is that they actually have a strong robust ecosystem of solid libraries while pretty much every Lisp claims to have production-ready libraries but expect you to cobble together the entire kitchen sink from scratch.