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Re:How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants
on Saturday May 17, 2025 @02:19PM (#44016024)
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.
Re:Northeastern's redesign of the Khoury curriculum abandons the funda...
on Monday January 13, 2025 @01:40AM (#42680703)
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.
Re:Boom Supersonic hopes to test-fly its supersonic plane in 2021
on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @07:39PM (#24288556)
More like they learnt nothing from the brain drain due to Avro cancellation.
Re:Racket 7.8
on Monday August 03, 2020 @03:20PM (#24042135)
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.
Re:Racket 7.8
on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:27PM (#24041451)
And still no proper dependency versioning, it seems that the progress made by Npm, RubyGems, Cargo is entirely lost on them.
Re:The Car, Reinvented
on Monday July 06, 2020 @01:21PM (#23750135)
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.
Re:Extracting video and audio from used police body cam
on Friday July 03, 2020 @04:20PM (#23727160)
Your Honor, the department misplaced the devices during the chaos of debriefing. By the time we retrieved it the data has self-destructed.
Re:I Am Deleting the Blog
on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:26AM (#23610847)
A New York Times reporter was also involved in that incident.
https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-nao...
Re:Show HN: Satellite is a forkable, P2P, publicly hosted social platform
on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:46AM (#23559873)
Where is the link to the source code?
Re:‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: Records police interaction, se...
on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @08:43PM (#23546295)
Re:Build yourself a weather station
on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @01:49AM (#23536277)
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.
Re:Build yourself a weather station
on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:19AM (#23527600)
So are you saying that they are only good at sales? Out of curiosity where do you normally obtain the raw sensor data?
Re:Build yourself a weather station
on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:34AM (#23527116)
HN ML practitioners would probably find the Climacell method of weather forecasting to be relevant.
Re:From scratch: reverse-mode automatic differentiation (in Python)
on Sunday June 14, 2020 @05:50PM (#23521677)
What do you mean by LS? Label Smoothing?
Re:Show HN: Instant search of 200K+ SVG logos from 100 sources
on Sunday June 14, 2020 @04:13PM (#23520919)
Neural network -> feature vectors.
Re:High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization
on Sunday June 14, 2020 @03:00PM (#23520306)
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.
Re:High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization
on Saturday June 13, 2020 @11:58PM (#23515006)
More like increased competition and computer generated avatars in the modeling and Instagram influencing industry.
Re:Venmo and Paypal Are Stalling Urgent Efforts to Bail People Out of ...
on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:11PM (#23505318)
Notarizations and medallions are not cheap.
Re:Ask HN: What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful tex...
on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:48AM (#23485868)
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
Re:A History of Clojure [pdf]
on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:57PM (#23419675)
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.
Re:Terahertz radiation can disrupt proteins in living cells
on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:01PM (#23396275)
Re:Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language?
on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:13PM (#23395799)
English is not that foreign though, it is also Germanic.
Re:Terahertz radiation can disrupt proteins in living cells
on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:56PM (#23395608)
HN needs something like r/science's level of rigorous moderation when it comes to comments on scientific articles that are not math/CS/classical mechanics related.
Re:What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9? (2015)
on Sunday May 31, 2020 @10:43AM (#23369876)
Welp, I called it two weeks ago -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23146976
Re:Show HN: Caldera – Phoenix LiveView for Node and React
on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:33AM (#23367441)
Can you add a flappy bird demo? I find that flappy bird demos for state-over-wire tech like LiveView and Blazor to be a great gauge for performance and latency. If there is the slightest delay or inconsistency in performance you will be able to tell immediately.
I have a longer list of such technologies here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19716696
Re:Bonsai CSS – an ultralight utility-first CSS framework
on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:58PM (#23354086)
Tailwind CSS?
Re:SHA-1 collisions now cost $45k [pdf]
on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:53AM (#23351465)
Depending on the algorithm, you might be able to skip from GPGPU straight to ASIC.
Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:05AM (#23350762)
If you truly believe in what they are doing, then buy their stock and prop up the price, because it is plunging right now. Words alone are about as useful as clapping for healthcare workers.
Re:Show HN: Redux with a UseState Hook
on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:53AM (#23346661)
Considering how verbose the current UX of Redux is, this needs to be merged into mainline React. Are there any significant performance overhead? This is a really great library, the ergonomics look amazing and the documentation is just gorgeous.
Re:Hypermodern Python
on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:07PM (#23341092)
Somebody needs to tell the Racket people about this. Dependency management in Racket is still C-style no-version-pinning-anything-goes. The third party dependency managers (see below) are all primitive and do not support multiple versions of the same libraries which is a standard feature in Go/Node.js/Rust/Java class loaders