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It does not have infinite cycles because of the 50 move rules and repeated position rules, so the same position is not necessarily the same state/position. Or depending on how you model the data structure, cycles at all.
That's not entirely true and a misstatement of how these work, take Blue Cross of Michigan. It is a nonprofit, it's board is controlled by the members, essentially they are the share holders, they have a interest in lower prices and an efficient operation.

How the board gets approved to be elected is a bit self selected, but in theory it should be controlled by people that have incentives, the same as a public corporation.

Now this is an insurance company and not a provider network,some provider networks are more self owned.

Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:56PM (#50329785)
They are very close, but I believe "want" implies a conscious desire, I want to go to the ball game. I don't want to rubber neck as I pass an accident, but I will.
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:13PM (#50320297)
I am not sure the personalize algorithm is based on what you want to watch, but what will keep you watching. That’s a measurable KPI.
Re:Simple circuits can create complex behaviors on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:06PM (#50317930)
> Aatish is a science journalist with a Ph.D. in physics. Previously, he was a graphics editor at The New York Times. Follow Aatish’s work for more visually-immersive interactive explanations about science.

That is excellent work and well demonstrated by the article.

Re:Git for US Legislation on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:54PM (#50268820)
You could tag yes/no/abstains to it.
Re:GPT 6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:20PM (#50250335)
I don't think that follows, they should all be upgraded over time to the 6.1 version, we are still waiting on both luna 6.1 and astra 6.1. We should expect these releases, and then a 6.2.
That’s only if you are referring to a case, in common parlance it is fine to use illegally to describe yet to be or never to be litigated actions. “Allegedly” is used to mitigate liability risk or hedge on uncertainty.
Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:53PM (#50155566)
Yes I agree, you should try generating your own custom AI assisted art. You might be surprised by the enjoyment you get out of manifesting a vision in your head that you could not have produced before.
Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:19PM (#50155153)
Being able to rapidly prototype concepts might help people get good at it, in a sort of I know it when I see it and need to explore, kind of way.
Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:46PM (#50154634)
Understanding the underlying implementation can have value even if rarely used. I think learning assembly has had a profound effect on my understanding of higher level code, but there is no /real/ point to learning it with great compilers, pre-ai.
Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:40PM (#50154563)
But maybe you can get good at the more important "taste" part first and to a higher degree, and not the mechanical part. Old time artists (think Rembrandt) used to have make paint by hand, a consuming process, and partially poisonous. Modern artists, it's my understanding largely save all this part by buying it in tubes, giving them time or more important things.
Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:17PM (#50154258)
I did not say I shipped anything.

With open source you can also have it improved, and have less trash software in your life.

Codex created a custom build of firefox with a feature I wanted (essentially the ability to override ssl dns like you get with curl --resolve option). Also, it was able to take apple-music-for-linux that I like for streaming apple music and update it so it would work again. There are incredible possibilities here.

Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:11PM (#50154169)
I disagree, understanding systems and problem solving, understand technical capabilities, requirements and delivering a product is what always paid for by consumers. Paying programming labor was just a means to an end, removing that expensive and time consuming part creates a world with so many more possibilities.

A few years ago the owner of a local bar and friend of mine, comes up and asks about building a loyalty program and bar operating software. It sounded well thought out and really good for his business, but I told him, at that scale you would need 20 or 30 other bars to split the cost of development, it just was not economically feasible. But with what I have seen out of codex, I started talking to him about it again a few days ago.

Even with art, I have a lot of ideas and concepts but can't draw or paint. Now I can create images that I personally enjoy. I don't post this slop anywhere, but I really enjoy it. One of my favorites recently is a humanoid robot 3d printing a baby robot to give birth, I am sure no one else would like it, but it makes me happy.

It's a great future.

> But if someone requiring sponsorship was the best candidate for the job, then they have to run an additional “fake” process that fulfills these requirements.

Without running a process how do you know someone requiring sponsorship is, and a correction to language, an adequate candidate for the job.

Monopoly is the wrong word, but it has a close cousin, “anticompetitive”. For free market people one of the major role of the government is maintaining competition and avoiding collusion, combining to competitors is straightforward collusion.
In some cases there is no stream involved at all, which is more problematic, but is pumped from groundwater.
It varies pretty greatly, but our golf course uses untreated water from a relatively dirty river that is not used for drinking. It looks like Google is using ground water from the aquifer. These are significantly different beasts.
I don't understand why this is memorable.
I could not get to the expected result, maybe I Was thinking about absolute truths, but the statement you are expected to answer is an absolute, but built on "usually" factors.

The explanation says : "Alan is kind with rough skin, so he's red". But they ignored "usually".

So for instance I could say country music fans are usually white. Darius Rucker is a country fan.

Statement: Darius Rucker is white.

Alan is young, round, and kind, but that doesn't mean he isn't also rough and cold at times, as well. … Young round people who are green are usually blue. … Kind people with rough skin are usually red because it's wind burn. If someone shows that they are red, then they are also showing that they are green. …

Statement: Alan is not blue.

A log-probability of −0.00182 is a probability of 99.82%. We asked for five alternatives and got none: Luna put essentially nothing on "true" or "false". And it's wrong. Alan is kind with rough skin, so he's red; red means green; young, round and green means blue. "Alan is not blue" is false, three steps in.

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Can someone explain this I got unknown as well. The problem statement includes the word “usually” a few times.

There is a certain appeal to not depending on more tools, and there is something elegant about the bug list traveling with revisions, if they are closed when the bug is fixed. So at any point you could go backwards and see known bugs at the time.

This also applies to certain project management flows and statuses.

Re:What Sun got wrong on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:50PM (#49789793)
I don't know, the clustering on Solaris was pretty amazing, if we are just judging "ahead of time"
Re:Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices on Sunday September 20, 2026 @11:46PM (#49782839)
Except you can grow the premium base by adding customers as well, as you are featured in a direct price comparison on the ACA website. Higher premiums mean less customers, unless you are offering more services that they find valuable.
Re:Backups Aren't Simple on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:13PM (#49734309)
Change the o in rotated to a 0 and you might have a secure password.
Re:How Big Are Factorials? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @04:59PM (#49732938)
I still kind of have a soft spot for XHTML, semantic web and progressive enhancement.
I don't understand how this is a wealth inequality issue, excess capital should cause bond prices to go down not up, as more wealthy are competing for more investments driving bond yields down.
On the other hand, it is fair to be upset when the objectives seemingly used to align and you had put significant work into creating content for the company as well as providing bootstrapping network effects only to have them change the software against your previously aligned objectives.
Re:The AI job market in 2026 on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:40AM (#49698822)
You can use it at different levels of granularity to fit your needs. I find a lot of the fun in designing the way the code interacts and class/module boundaries and responsibilities. So AI takes away the typing (code) part and makes it more fun at times. It give me more time to focus my thoughts.
Re:Why is privacy so hard? on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:12AM (#49696268)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12810892/

Look at the 23andMe case, which ended sort of ok. Previously, a company called Toysmart caused some legislation to pass some specific rules around it, but it did not go far enough.

> Can I sell genetically modified seeds that I signed a contract forbidding me from.

You can't but the court can adjust terms.

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