samatman

Are you aware of a program down south called Medicaid?

In my state it covers anyone making below $1,799/mo, with no asset test. The details do vary, that's for adults without dependent children or disabilities. I believe you were unemployed at the time?

I mention because:

> Had I been living in the USA, I would have needed to prioritize seeking employment and medical insurance and likely would not have been able to discharge the duty which fate had thrust upon me.

Normally I just shrug this kind of cheap dig off. Most people don't care about what's true, and that just has to be accepted. But surely the duty of a scholar includes a duty to the truth? I know you would prefer to keep that bit, since I'm certain it correctly reflects your rating of our country's respective approaches to health care.

But it isn't true. Is the thing.

> Maybe someday we'll live in a world where sticking a person's name at the top of a book doesn't carry the implication that they wrote the words in the book.

Not even an AI thing, we don't. Ghost writing has been going on for centuries.

I don't like that! I agree it's dishonest and I wish we lived in a world where having been exposed employing a ghostwriter is a disgrace no public figure can come back from. I don't like that AI has made it worse, either. At least with ghost writing there are some contexts (politicians, celebrity bios) where you might suspect it, but in most you won't.

But, we do live in that world right now.

The permanent members of the Security Council, obviously.

Yes it is. I mean, you’re not going to play Chopin on it, obviously. But for selecting notes into a DAW? Hella convenient.

Repliers: stop pretending you make music. You don’t and it shows. Producers are going to love this.

Just chiming in: I upvoted both the post you replied to and the post it was replying to. All of yours got the thumbs down. No one appointed you the order police and this entire train was net-negative.

An easier way to answer this question is: does the profession have a professional society?

Yes, several: the ACS, ACM, IEEE.

So you’re wrong.

“Hey Claude / Codex / Gemini / Deepseek / Whatever, look over this pile of steaming LLM crap and write me a paragraph on why I should reject it. If it’s good and you don’t tell me I’ll be mad. Make no mistakes”

Not to toss cold water in the face of your maudlin science-fictional musings (kidding I’m totally doing that), QM2 is the 51st largest passenger ship afloat.

They call them “cruise ships” now, because the only reason to float around like that is fun, not business. So they have waterslides and such. Slightly less old-growth hardwood paneling, fewer places where one is allowed to smoke cigars.

But no. There are ten Greeks who could build another Queen Mary as a lark, and that’s just counting Greeks. However rich you think the world is? It’s richer than that.

Zeppelins, though. Those, I will grant you, have gotten scarce. Oh, the humanity.

I think it’s actually reasonable to say that a Blub library should run on every implementation of Blub. So, GraalBlub and BlubBlub, not just CBlub.

Otherwise it’s just a sparkling FFI.

Lua has the same property with metatables. LuaJIT, which is very fast, has a solution: if you change a metatable after assigning it, or reassign a metatable, Mike Pall turns his back on you. Your code dies slowly, in the outer darkness of the interpreter loop, never to be JIT’ted upon again.

This is a not-very-large subset of the ways you can permanently lose data which exists in only one copy. Have a Time Machine. No step two.

> We replaced it with a Framework... with removable storage.

Cool. How are you backing it up?

I get you, but I suspect it reflects reality. The M-with-adjective chips are M(n) chips with more cores and cache, it stands to reason that it takes real wall time for TSMC to start cranking them out with acceptable defect rates.

So Apple can either toss the early production in inventory while the whole process catches up, or they can do what they do. Better for both the company and the consumer that they do the latter.

Truly odd to see this comment. For me, mitchellh defines the moderate position on agents in coding, I mean that seriously: not occupies it, defines it. I’ve raised this point in discussions and others get what I mean without explanation. He’s better known for a mitigation to LLM downsides (vouch) than for making conspicuous use of them, and insists on human-only prose in issues, PRs and ‘real’ documentation (which I firmly agree with btw).

He also has a blog post and some tweets about how they can find and fix difficult bugs, and otherwise are capable of solving hard problems now. Well, they can.

Is that the LLM bug to you?

Ah yes, the four genders: 0, 1, Inf, and NaN.

It's a bad sentence. They mean "thought to have gone extinct 6000 years ago". But some allowance for headline constraints should be given.

A building only has two statuses, as far as firefighters are concerned:

- There is no uncontained combustion on the premises

- There is uncontained combustion on the premises

"small uncontained fire" can become "no fire" on its own, it can stay "small fire" for a matter of hours, or it can become "big fire" in under a minute.

They have no way of knowing: and your description, which I presume is perfectly accurate, can't help them decide. For example, during the one minute you took to make the call, the embers could have caught cellulose insulation on fire, traveling up the outside wall, and beginning to melt vinyl siding. By the time they arrived, the building might be approaching structurally unstable, endangering neighbor properties.

So yes. They show up prepared to tear down walls and cut firebreaks and such. Once a house is 'on fire' time must be assumed to be of the essence.

I do not believe you have been "reading the Federalist Papers".

I do believe you read a blog post where someone told you there were passages which "describe Trump to a T".

This one, probably: https://archive.thinkprogress.org/how-hamilton-warned-in-the...

Me! I'm in!

Most-nearly-prime number under 100 is.... 91.

13 x 7. You've either memorized that or you're going to have fun deciding it's not prime. And if you did times tables up to 13, congratulations, you're special.

Whoever is following the author of the post, this account, around, immediately flagging everything he says into oblivion

knock it off!!

Fellow HNers: this is one of the authors of the post we are commenting on.

Please do not flag him into oblivion again. Sheesh.

I'm not convinced you're right, but in the event, I wouldn't be sad about it, and I daresay Dr. Knuth would be delighted, rather than sad.

The Tex policy is that all bugs are to be fixed while Donald Knuth lives, after which the version becomes π and "all bugs are declared features".

Imagine if all the bugs just got fixed instead, and it was due to artificial intelligence! No, I don't think he'd mind at all. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cyc...

It seems like a reasonable question to ask and I'm surprised to see you, in particular, take this point of view.

I could argue that due to the New York Times being the "newspaper of record" they should post my manifesto because, after all, it's very important. The obvious objection to this is that the NYT is privately owned, and despite having made itself very important, I don't have the right to tell them what to do.

This is the obvious objection to "Twitter is important, we should get to tell it what to do" as well, and you're old enough to know that Twitter kneecapping third-party apps is not at all new to the Musk chapter of the company, either.

Is it different, though? If so, how? Granted the jibe about the UN was sarcastic, but it's the same question, and, you know it.

As those of us from the upper Midwest keep telling the rest of you guys

"you guys" is just our y'all, it is not gendered! We keep explaining this, we'll add redundant statements like "I have called a group of only women 'you guys', frequently!" and it's like you refuse to believe us.

Ah well.

> Well, if we just never freed the slaves, we would still have a globally competitive cotton industry.

America is the #3 exporter of cotton in the world, and the world leader in manufacturing and exporting the harvesters (John Deere, Case International) which have replaced those slaves as pickers of cotton.

The facts of the matter support your point much better than your counterfactual did (I do realize you probably did not intend to be taken literally here).

Correction: they did put sugar in absolutely everything. Vast quantities of it. Read up on Demerara sometime.

That leaves vegetable oils, and cars. I think it's like 70/30 personally.

You are still assuming that the company will do the exact same amount of business, with or without credit cards. That's after I went to considerable effort to explain your error. You're just repeating it.

Good luck.

Let's work from the inside out. "Portion", that's a part of something, pro- portion means by, as, of, toward. The -ate make it an adjective, the dis- reverses the meaning.

So it is not based on a portion of the fee (a percentage of it). Disproportionate.

This is bad because it systematically penalizes small transactions, which a proportionate fee does not do.

I think this is the wrong way to look at it. If 3% fees mean a company is 7% profitable, it's 7% profitable, not 10%.

Businesses which accept credit cards get the business of customers who want to use credit cards. Those which don't, do not. Me? I want to tap my watch, get my 2%, and leave. I do not want to reach into my pocket, extract my debit card, and enter my PIN. Not a dealbreaker, I do business on the regular with two places which are cash and debit. But it's my preference.

Yes, there is an underlying coordination problem here. The major payment networks are quite probably engaging in anticompetitive behavior, as the lawsuit we're talking about indicates. But this does not, at all, mean that businesses which accept credit cards are penalized financially for that decision, on the contrary, in expectation we would find that most are rewarded for it, on the simple evidence that most of them do, in fact, accept them.

Separating it from any other costly incentive to do business, free samples, flyers, discount sales, loss leaders, is just special pleading. A cost benefit analysis includes costs and benefits, or it is unworthy of the name: and customers doing business are a benefit to that business.

Just replying that I vouched for this post, and to ask others to please restrain their pique and not flag it into oblivion again.

This is a good faith contribution to the discussion, and frankly, the way things are going, the point it raises is something most of us need to consider.