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I hope you're all gearing up for a wonderful holiday season! I wanted to share a cautionary tale about American Express prepaid gift cards, based on a recent frustrating experience I had, and hopefully, it can help someone else avoid similar issues.

So, a few years ago, I received a $500 American Express gift card as a holiday present. I was excited, but I decided to save it and use it towards a bigger tech purchase to treat myself to something I'd been eyeing for a while. To my dismay, when I tried to use the card at the checkout, it was declined, even though the printed expiration date was still valid.

Naturally, I reached out to American Express customer service, expecting a quick resolution. However, that's when my frustration began. The representative informed me that the funds on the gift card had been sent to "unclaimed property" and couldn't be accessed. This was a shock to me, as the card had a valid expiration date, and it was a brand new gift. I escalated the concern just to run into a frustration loop for a few weeks with the same response. My state's unclaimed property insisted to reach out to American Express... you can see how this went. I lost out on the funds.

My purpose in sharing this is not to bash American Express but to caution everyone about potential issues with their gift cards. It's disheartening to think that a seemingly thoughtful gift can turn into such a hassle. So, before you purchase or receive an American Express gift card this holiday season, please be aware of the potential risks and consider alternatives to ensure a smooth and joyful shopping experience.
Has anyone else had a similar experience with American Express gift cards, or any other gift cards for that matter? Share your stories and let's help each other navigate this holiday season without any unexpected hiccups.

Stay vigilant, and happy holidays, everyone!
Nepal is mostly Hindu. In fact it was the last Hindu kingdom in the world.
Hypothesis: population growth looks like /, while public land growth looks like - or \ (e.g. cursory search for statistic shows federal acreage drop of 4.9% from 1990 to 2018)
Are you comparing Google with a democratically-elected national government.
Nous-Capybara-34B – Local LLM with 200k context length
Author kinda summed up the problem a few paragraphs in.

> I needed a machine that a) could run Logic Pro (the finest music-editing software available to humanity),

So saying

> If you want a modern, sexy, lightweight, high-powered laptop? Go get something pricey from Apple or Microsoft.

should rather be

> If you need to get modern work done, you will likely need to obtain a modern, high-powered laptop that the modern tools were designed for, and this will likely be something pricey, but not optimized for long service life from Apple or Microsoft.
(read: all the popular ones at the time)
And its a healthier attitude that existed even in America before the war.

However these kids aren't living in their mom's basement because the culture has changed but because the economic and social outlook is collapsing.

Our society, that is our neighbors, our cousins, our brothers, our children are being strangled.
correct. and bad people doing EA or bad people doing EA badly doesn't make EA bad.

I'm not a huge fan of EA, but I'm sick of seeing HN and EA endorse tribalism by saying that all Christians this or all Republicans this or all white people that or all rich people that....

-rich white Republican Christian
Agreed. I'm starting with C.
Good luck and have fun! I would love to be in Texas for this :D
OpenAI offers $10M pay packages to poach Google researchers
Yes, but whatever the elevation difference if it were done at sea level (presumably the average between the two nominal levels on both sides) there would always be less water to be displaced in the resulting locks and that would in itself be a win, but the amount of material displaced to make the channel may well outweigh that by a considerable margin. I take it the engineers have run the numbers and decided that the current solution is the optimum or very close to it in terms of economics.
There’s a difference between having the site and actually doing anything with the information, including providing a copy of the report to the person trying to file it. I have friends, family members, and neighbors who have all had this experience with OPD. The news, Nextdoor, and Reddit around here are also full of stories of people who get nowhere with OPD and SFPD. Anecdotal, sure, but it’s been an almost universal sentiment amongst everyone I’ve talked to.
The economy is a bogus argument because you can always blame the economy for not moving out.

If the economy is bad then you can't move out.
If the economy is good well then it is just about to get bad so you can't move out either.

There was never a time in the past that renting didn't eat up most of your money. I didn't know anyone who moved out when I moved out that wasn't also dead broke. This was in the mid 90s though and it was the most magical time to be on your own and young. I don't think I would bother moving out now though if I was young because why pay so much more money just to fuck off on your phone in your own apartment instead of your parent's basement?

The economics are pretty much the same. The culture though is night and day different.
Ask HN: Suggestions for Meeting Co-Founders
I have a friend who has an idea for a startup / mobile app that he wants to start developing. He has some amateur programming experience but is looking for another developer to work with him on the project. I'm currently employed and not doing any consulting work at the moment so cannot work on his project but am trying to provide some advice.

He has some budget and was looking for a developer to hire to work on the project. I was thinking it would be better for him to find a collaborator (if not co-founder) than just a contractor for hire---even if this collaborator would need some stipend to cover their time.

It has been a few years since I have been working with any early stage startups or trying to do my own so I wanted to ask out for advice on how and where to look for a co-founder.

He is going to be moving to New York City soon so I'm curious if anyone has any in-person suggestions for him to meet folks (I'm from Boston-area myself so don't have suggestions in NYC). I'm also curious if anyone has any suggestions a "job board" of sorts but for finding co-founders (co-founder internet dating?)? Both to help him look for someone before he finishes his move to NYC and also because he may be interested in collaborating with someone remotely.

I didn't feel like I had any up to do date suggestions for my friend so any suggestions y'all may have would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Yes, that is indeed the next step in the legal process of clawing back cash you were scammed out of.
That seems absurdly onerous for indie devs. I hope Apple doesn’t do anything as extreme.
12 years is 60% of 2 decades, so not quite 'nothing'.
Don't think folks in the PNW got the message, since trails and outdoor areas are bonkers crowded.
> It is absurd and not worthy of a board like this. I'm sure many you know people that work at TikTok? This just isn't happening, at all.

Honestly, I feel like you're right.

But at the same time, it'd be a genius strategy to destabilize a country. We'd be getting beat at our own game we pull on other countries.
...Friday is pretty much the weekend, right?
Seeing the technology and the parties involved, I think it's reasonable to suspect some form of Patent Ambush [1].

Even if it's not strictly a patent ambush as per the definition, certainly it would have been more ...polite... for Broadcom to have disclosed their patents to MPEG earlier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_ambush
Interesting, I'm curious but what opinions have changed?
I'm posting from my X220 (circa 2013). It's a laptop of Theseus at this point, but bits of the original still survive. (The keyboard is the single most-replaced component, and I'm on my third motherboard.) I can't stand more modern laptops - I've yet to find a newer laptop keyboard that's comfortable to type on. Performance-wise, it's perfectly adequate to run Linux Mint or Windows 10. And I get a kick out of having an SSD, an MSata, and a M2 drive in the ExpressCard slot (plus the SD card, which I use for additional backup). And at 12"x9" its a very convenient carry size. (Only better carry laptop I've had was a Fujitsu P1120.)

And yeah,
San Francisco got a facelift ahead of APEC
To be honest, everything we learn is cherry picked by someone.
this is by james somers! long arc from 'there's a gold rush and I'm the shovel' back in the day
Oh yeah, I don't expect anything to come from police reports. It's the same here in Oregon. They're useful for insurance claims but I don't expect the police to spend even a minute investigating them afterward.
TikTok hosts "Western" content, doesn't it? China has Douyin (same app, different content) afaik.
Phew, luckily the US doesn’t have a corporate monoculture controlling most of these media empires and pushing their own set of values. Oh wait… crap
I was planning on making the trip but the earliest I can be there is Sunday. Nasaspaceflight's youtube channel mentions this as the best hotel to watch the launch and where they hang out.

https://www.margaritavilleresorts.com/margaritaville-beach-r...

I stayed in Port Isabell a few years ago visiting some of my wife's family in the valley. There's a big freaking bridge there that you can see the pad from. I bet that bridge would be a good place to watch as well.
The biggest failure was the delay in the flight termination system working. If it had sailed towards the town they might not have been able to terminate it in time.
Why would they consider themselves to be on the spectrum then? I mean technically the whole thing could be a spectrum of not austic to autistic. But it seems odd to have the spectrum not end at either point, the diagnosis or the one capturing all people.
?? Fines are not the price a government is willing to sell something for. They are a mechanism of enforcement when it's otherwise not realistic or possible to enforce rules. You levy fines when you can't just arrest people or similar, not because you're okay with the behavior.

All you're saying is that we should tax things we don't like, which... duh. We do that- see alcohol, cigarettes, etc. Actual taxes work way better than fines, since they take into account the revenue involved instead of just being an arbitrary number. But an obvious consequence is that you aren't actually banning the thing, and in the case of a digital product like tiktok you're not even discouraging it.

If you levied a recurring fine on tiktok in return for allowing them to do what they want, you're actively encouraging them to collect and sell as much data as they possibly can, to recoup the fixed cost of doing business with you.
What if I bet all my money at the lotto and win?

That is the wrong question... what if I lose? Even not having a clue of the science behind this predictions betting up to everything is not smart, or is plain criminal if you try to convince others.
"From the beginning, I had the sense that there was something wrongheaded in all this."

What was your first clue.
It seems a bit naive, given his list of business successes, to think that the positive things that happen at these companies under his leadership only happen because his employees overcame him as the obstacle to success.

I can understand not liking his politics or what have you, but logically speaking, what you’re suggesting doesn’t make any sense.
SpaceX has five weekend closures allocated per year in Boca Chica: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/13/spacex-... (last paragraph)
What justifies the strength of your confidence?

From game-theoretic point of view: is China a geopolitical adversary? Yes. Does China control TikTok? Yes. Is TikTok a tool to tweak how citizens of your adversary think? Yes. Is that powerful? Yes.

So the facts our - our adversary is in control of a tool which can influence how we think, which is valuable to them. We don't know for sure that they use the tool but... why wouldn't they?
Do we know the plan and goals for this flight? Orbit for Starship and RTLS for booster? Is an ocean “landing” for booster (or both) planned?
MY wife and I have homeschooled our two kids through high school. It's been a positive experience for everyone. MY response to concerns that you might not have the skills, I bet whatever skills you lack can be more than made up for by teaching at a ratio of 1:1 and being able to tailor things. If you need help my wife has a homeschool blog with a lot of resources to help you get going: organizedhomeschooler.com
20 people is just a start. I expect it to ramp up and effectively lock out indie developers. This alone would've prevented stuff like Flappy Bird from ever being published.
You can do it without insulting the chicken on social media.
You can reduce mistakes, but you can't make mistakes impossible. This is a very rough take.

We wouldn't have the level of tech we have today if we were to require 'mistakes to be impossible', Rapid growth requires mistakes to be acceptable in some situations.
Top Payment Companies in 2021 by Revenue (2021)
I think what the author meant is that they dislike questions that require too specialized knowledge, so once you know the trick the question is easy to answer, but whether the candidate knows that particular trick is not otherwise correlated with candidate skill.
They could charge $2000 per month for GPT-4 and it would be more than fair.

Well, it's hard to argue with that.
Apple is pretty good at long service life.

I recently had to upgrade the OS on my moms Air and it was a pain in the butt because she ignored updates for so long that all the SSL authority certs expired and the internet didn’t work. Plus Apple’s upgrade software was no longer supported by the servers – server wanted 2fa, moms laptop was too old to know what that is.

After a few manual hops, she is now smoothly running the latest and greatest MacOS on a 9+ year old laptop. Everything works fine.
No.

This is the second integrated flight test. Even if this flight fully meets all of its goals, it won't /really/ be a successful launch by standard measures.

Starship (the top part) has successfully completed several suborbital hops, including a "bellyflop". So in that sense, yes.

This upcoming test involves launches with both Starship and the Super Heavy Booster. Succeeding the current mission goals would be the booster soft(ish) landing in the ocean near the launch site, and the Starship obtaining a parabolic arc before surviving reentry to crash into the ocean near Hawaii.

To really have a "success" by standard measures under their belt, SpaceX will need to target having Starship actually orbiting with a test payload (probably Starlinks). After that "success", they're likely to still have secondary mission failures with landing the booster, and deorbiting and landing Starship.
If you are involved parents, it is difficult to make a wrong choice.

There is nothing wrong with homeschooling and it works best when you have a network of people who are doing the same to add-in social opportunities. The only thing that I would be a little concerned about in your specific situation is the timelines. Transitions are the hard part. Setting up the homeschooling methods/practices/habits, and then switching back to traditional school methods/practices/habits. Homeschooling for just 1-2 years eats up a lot of time in transition.

If you have a decent public school option. Consider participating in it. Get involved, volunteer, give feedback in the school board meetings. Take however much time you planned to spend on homeschooling and invest it there. Both your child and others will benefit significantly. However, don't sacrifice yourself or your kids to try and save a bad situation. It also means that socially there will be some pre-existing friends for that first year of high school.
if your article starts out explaining why you might have never heard of a term before, "why all the excitement" is maybe a poor headline.
Nice question. Reminds me of the famous saying: “never underestimate the power of sorting.”
My Samsung qx410 died miserably (motherboard gave up the ghost) after only 2 years. Bought in 2010, died in 2012. Replaced it with a hand-me-down thinkpad t510 which is still going strong after 11 years. (Not my primary machine anymore of course but it still works quite well)
In terms of scope, it's already left the most highly-skilled people a light year behind. How broad would your knowledge base be if you'd read -- and memorized! -- every book on your shelf?
Is most of the content Chinese?
3/4 of Americans are overweight or obese, which, I suspect, precludes an appetite for the outdoors.
Got it! Thank you for the explanation.
> This case is indeed not ideal, but many developers would be happy if an AI could create the fake data for testing that is representative of real data.

I agree: synthetic data has many well-intentional use cases. It may also remedy privacy issues, among other things. And you can easily enough generate synthetic data without AI, but the issue, I think, is that AI makes the generation easy also for laypeople, and I suppose you can prompt LLMs to generate custom "high-quality" fake data that no data sleuthing can detect.
Why complicate things? Just fire him.
“Western Values” is one of those words populist rhetoric just loves to conjugate.

Government enforcing “social harmony” by limiting access to entertainment and cultural outlets is just another form of political censorship.
That path leads to where the line between not illegal and not getting caught blurs away.
Or maybe a sharp shooter with a cartoonish wooden slingshot and some pebbles
In a large part due to scalpers, and also people who book spots "just in case", but have no incentive to cancel if they end up not going.
The western value being a liberal media market, not the contents of the consumed media itself.
That’s just libertarianism applied to social issues, and has the same problems as libertarianism as applied to economic issues. People need social support to help them understand what decisions are good, and make good decisions.

How many overweight and obese doctors and nurses are there? They’re only slightly healthier than the general population: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/healthcare/why-don-t-doctor.... Smart, educated Americans can’t force themselves to limit their eating. But in say east Asia, extensive social shaming over weight helps people stay slim.

Humans didn’t evolve to be libertarian sovereign individuals. They’re members of communities and their welfare can be increased by allowing community reinforcement of good behaviors and decisions.
It's hard for me to relate to this point of view. Sure, my local park isn't the Grand Canyon, but on a day-to-day basis, failing to make the "top-100 list" doesn't impact my enjoyment of the outdoors.

Fresh air, literally. Sunlight during parts of the year. Observing the changing seasons. Seeing plants, and maybe animals. Exercising by myself or in organized sports. Being in a shared space with others in my community enjoying themselves.

These all seem like pretty small asks for an outdoor space. Sure you probably won't appreciate them in a highway median, but I also doubt that most people would have to drive 200 miles to find something like this.
The sprites weren't modified. The vendor of the online version (GOG) had patched-out the button that he patched back in.
I think Thermo can only be taught if you have a solid foundation in statistics. And stats... is not really taught in the US? I tried to selfstudy a bit, but the textbook situation with stats make math look amazing. For very intro practical things, there are stuff like John Taylor's book... but past that anything rigorous - I actually have no idea how people learn anything
Yes, the rules of chess are simpler, which is why all this happened many years ago for chess.

https://gwern.net/note/note#advanced-chess-obituary -- here is a reference about centuar/advanced chess. The source isn't perfect as the tournaments seem to have fizzled out 5-10 years ago as engines got better and it all became irrelevant. Sadly this means we don't have 100 games of GM+engine vs. engine in 2023 to truly settle it but I've been following this for a while and I have a high confidence that Stockfish_2023+human ~= Stockfish_2023.
Well that ends my app...
That is true, but it also tends to make the original statement meaningless. Now you're saying that (1) "in order to detect fraud, you have to have some fraud", and (2) "everyone everywhere, with no exceptions, has some fraud". This means there is no requirement for being able to detect fraud that is not automatically satisfied by everyone. Why bother talking about a requirement that is automatically satisfied?
Did any of the hired programmers for Amazon work at the Amazon search?

I don't mind O(n²) if I get good result but Amazon's search seldom gives me good results.

Same with Microsoft's search in the start menu. Doesn't find Excel if I type "exc".
This behavior is independent of starting point. Drawing the star counterclockwise demonstrates.
I've had 3 Macs so far since work is on the Apple train. The first failed due to the discrete GPU desoldering itelf. The second didn't technically fail but the battery swelled up to the point the laptop was almost 1cm from closing at the edges. At least the latter problem is not so much an issue with a removable battery since it's, well, removable :-)
> Every alternative to the big frameworks (looking at you htmlx) feel like minor syntaxic sugar for jQuery

Have you used htmx? Since it doesn't solve the same problem jquery did (UX for client side JS), the accusation is misplaced. htmx is (primarily) a way of avoiding writing JS by extending the server-side rendered html paradigm to partial pages instead of full page re-loads.
You have to consider here that anyone posting on hacker news is a pretty smart cookie. We’re the clever kids in school, the ones who were curious and insightful.

Now, chatgpt in its current form cannot think better than me. Faster, for sure, but not better. Its arguments and its explanations are a bit simple and it can’t make really insightful observations. Mostly it just states the obvious.

However.

There are people in the world that it can out-think. For every one of us there are 10 or 20 people who are pleasant enough but kind of thick, and gpt can already speak more eloquently than them. So where’s the bar for “intelligence?” Does it have to outclass the smartest human alive before we can call it intelligent?
I understand critique of his personality and personal life, but there are people who try to imply he is dumb and all his successes were luck or somehow invalidated by his dad's emerald mine.

People cling to this belief that to improve the world via your enterprises, you must be a good person. It's a strange form of essentialism, borne out of the hard to accept notion that bad people can be a greater net good to the world than good people who don't make a huge contribution. It's an unsettling notion but a very true one.
Still using MacBooks from that era - a big differentiator might be whether it has integrated graphics or is using a discrete GPU.

The discrete GPU ones (i.e MacBook pro) can eventually fail due to the video ram chips getting loose.
The fpga probably only does routing, it certainly can't handle effects
Frankly, I don't want to hire people who are too timid to ask a simple clarifying question in an interview.

A big part of this job is dealing with ambiguity and communication. If you feel the requirements of your task aren't clear, then go to the person who made the task and clarify them.
What's the alternative, exactly? Staying silent and waiting? Wasting time implementing the wrong solution?