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Surprised that one of the greatest comedy shows of last 20 years "Parks and Recreation" did not make the cut. The finale was superb!

I own a 2023 Outback and love it!

Merry Christmas to the HN community!

Having competition and options for customers would incentivize banks to provide good service affordably. Also, having local/regional/small banks in sparsely populated areas also fills a gap where big banks do not want to be due to economics and the ROI of cost/benefit. And not all customers can use digital tools to fulfill their banking needs and would like a physical bank nearby for their needs.

- The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem

- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

- Moneyball by Michael Lewis

- 1984 (re-read again!)

Facebook has lost trust so many times that I can’t even count but it’s still a Megacorp, isn’t it?

I think what's going to happen is:

- Sam would return to OpenAI as CEO and Greg as President

- Sam's request to change the Board would be accepted and Board members will resign

- Ilya would be Out

- Sam would change the governance structure from current dual nonprofit+forprofit to just for-profit corp.

From NYT article [1] and Greg's tweet [2]

"In a post to X Friday evening, Mr. Brockman said that he and Mr. Altman had no warning of the board’s decision. “Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today,” he wrote. “We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.”

Mr. Altman was asked to join a video meeting with the board at noon on Friday and was immediately fired, according to Mr. Brockman. Mr. Brockman said that even though he was the chairman of the board, he was not part of this board meeting.

He said that the board informed him of Mr. Altman’s ouster minutes later. Around the same time, the board published a blog post."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/technology/openai-sam-alt...

[2] https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594

why don't have both? SD for indie games such as Factorio/Stardew Valley etc. and PSPo for AAA Sony exclusive games!

Wow! This seems like a really good upgrade just for that screen and longer battery life. Time to finally buy the SD to play that ever-increasing backlog of games in my Steam catalog.

so the official race between ChatGPT vs Grok vs Bard has begun! I am assuming Apple will throw in its own AI bot sometime in next few months.

$100 per year? As much as Netflix sub for a personal fin app to track savings...it is way too pricy!

This blog is great. Thanks for sharing.

5 perfect gives you 100% on those 5 attempts but then your overall % is calculated based on at what margin you missed out on other attempts. ex: if you got 42% instead of 50% in an attempt then that would impact your overall %.

93% w/ 5 perfect cuts here. :) I now trust my 'visual intuition' more after playing this game! fun experience for sure!

There is an excellent video on YouTube by MIT Prof Sontag on Casual Inference worth checking out [1]

And if you like it, 2nd part is here [2]

[1] https://youtu.be/gRkUhg9Wb-I?si=6oMUgdjia_4g6-DR

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-NvNoJQQ

will this apply to foreign transaction fees that Banks charge when someone books a flight for example originating from a foreign country to USA? These fees (~3% of whole transaction $)sneak up into the CC statements and always surprises me.

there is something wrong with the CA law if companies can post jobs with such huge salary range?

I read somewhere a while ago (can’t recall the source) that services has way more profit margin than their hardware and it’s somewhere around 50%.

will this allow me to digitally file my amended federal taxes? That's the one thing that I was looking forward to when I started reading this and possible may impact most taxpayers but looks like IRS still needs amended tax returns in a paper form being mailed out to them?

I used to subscribe ALL of the streaming services (Netflix, HBO Max, tv+, Paramount+, Disney+, Hulu etc.) but cancelled all of them because it was getting too much choices on too shallow content. Now I rely on PBS (Passport that comes with my monthly donation), YouTube and Peacock (comes free with Xfinity wifi) and if I like a movie I could just rent it. This is working out well for me.

I donate to KQED as a sustaining member. Can someone tell me if that money goes to just KQED in SF or also to NPR?

'Marketplace' [0] daily and 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me' [1] on the weekend.

[0] https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444600/marketplace

[1] https://www.npr.org/podcasts/344098539/wait-wait-don-t-tell-...

FYI: Hindenburg Research on Block (Square) has been going on for last 2 years. Not saying the release of the report is strangely coinciding with all the bad news we are having about Finance/Banking industries but wanted to add this info.

Also wanted to add: never forget that “the law of averages” is our friend when this happens. It ensures that there is always a good chance to lend somewhere if one keeps trying (submitting applications and giving interviews).

Do you think MSFT has rolled this out too soon rather than getting it tested with huge test user base like their own employees similarly to what Google is doing?

Apple Reminders native app

This is disappointing news. I automated my donations to Signal Tech Foundation (the non-profit behind the Signal chat app) through purchases at Amazon. Now I will just need to directly donate to them separately.

I would like to add couple more titles to recommend: Firewatch, Fallout series and entire Metro series (2033, Last Light and Exodus). Fallout and Metro games are very similar to half life just not that hard to play.

For the great narration with stunning visuals and great story, you might like to play Bioshock series. Right now I think they sell entire collection (Bioshock 1,2 and infinite) on sale on Steam.