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oh, I love the connections benchmark.

Just curious, can you share what are those hardest puzzles that even the top models can't crack? sometimes when I find the puzzle absolutely undecipherable I like to ask LLMs to solve it, and I haven't seen them fail yet.

> The pattern: destruction in blue states, red states

Which of CA OR VA IL CT(the states mentioned above that sentence) is red? Virginia I guess is the closest one but still rather blue...

Re:Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:13PM (#47786558)
Ah, thank you. I'm not a native speaker so that's not what I imagined when I read that he "attended the protest for 5 minutes".
Re:Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @08:14AM (#47777996)
> This caused many accounts to "lose value" and thus rank lower on searches

wouldn't this make some other accounts rank higher on searches then? I mean it couldn't have been a problem that affected absolutely everyone so for someone it must've been a positive change.

Re:I'm Not a Robot Game on Saturday September 20, 2025 @06:46PM (#45318287)
The Empire State Building level was very satisfying to pass.

I just didn't like that you had to use your camera. Oh well I only gave them my ceiling and shutterstock pictures.

Re: on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:35PM (#42687796)
That Elon/Twitter part was really out of place, like a VPN ad integration in the middle of a Youtube video. Attributing the rise of wokeness to students becoming deans and administrators sounds kinda dubious but maybe, he could use more evidence there.

Otherwise a great piece.

If one can choose A or B, can always change A to B if one wants but can never go from B to A, the choice is kinda obvious I think.
The most surprising thing is Billie Eilish letting them use her name for this. Even if she's legally insulated, still looks like a very bad PR.
Re:How I ship projects at big tech companies on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @07:14AM (#42114927)
As any worthwhile piece of advice, this post is not saying "Do good things, don't do bad things" but instead "Prioritize one good thing over another". Hence lots of comments. I wish there were more submissions like this.
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @08:42PM (#41653361)
Can anyone tell me more about Mira Murati? What else is she known for? How did she end up in this position?
Re:Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn on Sunday September 15, 2024 @11:53AM (#41548212)
Is it known who set it up and for what purpose?
You can choose a diagonal segment but it doesn't count even if the concatenated digits give the M.N.
Re:Sieve is simpler than LRU on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @04:00AM (#38852073)
Why call it "FIFO queue"(isn't it just stack?) when actually you need to remove elements from the middle?

Also I think you could do away with storing "prev" for each node and make it like std::forward_list(with some additional work during eviction).

> We pushed SIEVE a bit further by letting it peek into the future – well, sort of. We tested how well it could guess the next request. It turns out, with this extra bit of foresight, SIEVE is nailing it, outperforming the rest in almost all scenarios.

No idea what they mean here.

> A CL (or Pull Request) is created in Google’s in-house code editor Cider

Since the article is pretty accurate about everything else, I just want to point out that this is(was?) just one way of creating a CL. I was using IDEA and was mostly creating CLs using a command line.

> At any given time, Google has thousands of employees who are under a litigation hold for document preservation.

Crazy, it's an order of magnitude more than I'd guess.

> Lim testified that the thought process that he might need to save something that was said because he was subject to a legal hold simply “doesn’t occur because, as I said, I’m under so many legal holds, it’s impossible to think that way.”

This is also a crazy thing to say. But I guess I misunderstand something here, just before that it says that he did try to save _something_ copying it into docs etc and the problem is that he wasn't saving _everything_.

Re:US CFTC Sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao on Monday March 27, 2023 @06:26PM (#35333632)
The original report in English, linked in the article https://transparency.org.ru/en/news/from-moscow-city-with-cr...
Re:Hindenburg Research Outs Block Inc as Fraud on Thursday March 23, 2023 @03:39PM (#35280196)
How does this end if you don't have CashApp installed?
Re:Alameda took 1B hit in mobileCoin trade to prop up FTX on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:44PM (#33838518)
Very weird, the information is not sourced at all and this is FT, not a random website.

>Two people familiar with the matter said...

who are they? Current/former employees/someone who knows that trader? Is this from some of the bankruptcy proceedings filed docs?

Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:24PM (#31868832)
Thomas really is a conservative extremist and I agree that his concurrence is very concerning. But no one else joined his opinion and the majority explicitly stated that all those cases shouldn't be affected(because of how abortion affects "two lives").
Re:Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:28AM (#31353843)
Do I understand this correctly: there's no inherent incentive to put the "correct" price, they just need to agree with each other. Essentially playing "Guess 2/3 of the average" but it's just "Guess the average".
Re:Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:03AM (#31353507)
* 1USDT is always $0.999 on tether.io

* But only if you're exchanging at least $1'000'000(and you can't exchange at all below $100'000)

* But only after you've paid $150 verification fee.(all per https://tether.to/en/fees/)

* And of course "Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens" (https://tether.to/en/legal/)