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Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:56PM (#50198032)
I looked at this a while back but couldn't figure out how to migrate bookmarks from Arc to Zen. Is that possible now?
Re:Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:47PM (#46878488)
But randomness comes from the environment, no?
Re:SF Microclimates API on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:26PM (#46773799)
Can I suggest changing background color of the tiles between blue and red to indicate how warm each spot is? Would make it easier at a glance.
Re:Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @05:03PM (#45365923)
Does this work for packages with C/C++ extensions e.g. numpy and scipy?
Re:Selling numbered rocks, you get whatever's next in sequence on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @03:29PM (#45364937)
IIRC many websites (e.g. for buying concert tickets) have a lock mechanism where you have X amount of time to make your purchase during which time only a limited number of people can be in the checkout process.
Or... there is some elasticity with price and supply/demand, which falls totally within microeconomics
Re:Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT on Saturday August 30, 2025 @05:13PM (#45078059)
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Re:SynthID on Saturday August 30, 2025 @05:03PM (#45077978)
For answers like that, it probably wouldn't matter whether it was AI-generated or not. It becomes more relevant with long-form generated content
Re:Prompting by Activation Maximization on Saturday August 16, 2025 @02:33AM (#44920776)
I wonder what the prompt would look like as a sentence. Maybe activation maximization can be used to decipher it, maybe by seeing which sentence of length N would maximize similarity to the prompt when fed through a tokenizer
Re:Convo-Lang: LLM Programming Language and Runtime on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:51AM (#44897863)
I'm not sure what this is about, would anyone mind ELI5?
Interested in knowing this as well
Re:Scientists figured out how to write in water on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:35AM (#37506064)
If you read the article, it addresses this exact scuba pen, and why this is solving a different problem.
Re:Wittgenstein's Ladder on Sunday March 26, 2023 @05:22AM (#35312597)
Well, you are not really seeing an eye in a mirror, you are just seeing a representation of it. The medium cannot depict all the dimensions and details of the object, so again you are able to see depictions, representations, and simplifications of it, but never truly be able to grasp the object itself.
Re:Show HN: The Shark Programming Language Realease 1.0.0 on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:43PM (#35298260)
Why not remove the ability to set a key to the null value then? Raise an error in the compiler. It seems pretty undesirable to have undefined behavior in the language, and if high performance is one of your goals, remove the ability for users to do the low performance things.
Seems like an interesting way of doing it. Why generate the argument configuration from the documentation rather than generating the documentation from the argument configuration? Where there some pain points you wanted to solve from `getopt`, etc.?
Re:The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things on Friday March 03, 2023 @02:26AM (#35006797)
A river flows in one way rather than another because the particles that form the river have momentum one way rather than another. The reason they have this momentum is because the surfaces of the river interact with the air, obstacles, and the rock bed underneath it, and then pass on momentum to internal river particles, which pass on that momentum to other particles, etc. In this way, is the river not processing information regarding things it can directly "observe" about its environment at its surface, as well as the things it has experienced in the past, then processing that information deeper and deeper, until it ultimately leads to a decision on which way the river flows?
Re:Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:47PM (#34781148)
This is cool! I suggest adding some more hints to indicate how important/relevant different papers are. Maybe some tags to classify papers in different fields, and number of citations or amount of discussions online as a metric of how big a paper is? (I know that's not a great metric but I think it's still better than seeing a bunch of papers and not knowing which ones are worth reading). You can also spark discussions. Seeing "0 comments" discourages anyone to look at the comments, but even having an AI-generated summary as a comment can be encouraging and spark discussions. Just a thought.
Could you just create a GitHub user and ask your readers to add that user as a contributor to the repository they want to use for storing bookmarks?
Re:Galileo AI – Copilot for interface design on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:21PM (#34746026)
I think a better word might be "comprehensive" or "complete".
Thanks for the reply!

Would you accept a PR for first-class support for specifying constraints between variables (and object measurements) as part of the language or would that be divergent with the goals of the language? I find it to be an important part of SolidWorks etc. because often times I'm trying to build something where I know one of the dimensions is constrained a certain way but that's not how I'd parameterize the object. And I don't want to be doing math for e.g. calculating the diagonal over and over again as part of calculating parameter values or modeling constraints, I like that in Solidworks that's part of the package. I believe this issue is important to other mechanical engineers as well.

However I do want to say, great work, I think a programming language is a great step forward for CAD regardless, and this project seems to be pretty well done!

This is great! I've been looking for something like this for a while. My only question is: does this do constraint-based modeling like other CAD software or do you have to specify individual parameter values?
I guess something like this would be helpful, if turned into a chrome extension

https://www.summarize.tech/

Does anyone have a use-case for a programming language like this? I am finding it hard to visualize what it does.