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Re:Benchmarks Are Dead (For Us) on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @03:30PM (#48925922)
Poetiq's RSI loop now automatically builds its own benchmark harnesses with zero human intervention — and has hit SOTA on six diverse benchmarks including doubling the previous best on a long-horizon planning task, and a 2M-token retrieval benchmark using a model that doesn't even appear on the base leaderboard.
Re:Rethinking Heating on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:01PM (#46826871)
1kWh of heat is 1kWh of heat... but there's more to the story
Re:Keeping Syncing Simple on Friday November 18, 2022 @11:39AM (#33657282)
Pretty general programming/SWE advice
Re:When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [e... on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @07:27PM (#23992678)
This isn't logical. It's the same in percentage terms.

Whether you sell 1000 copies at $100 or 100,000 copies at $1, assuming the percent of refunds is constant, then the effect is identical. Right?

Re:Two Assessments Hackerrank on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @06:45PM (#23992396)
The original message from GS

"""

    Time limit: We expect you to complete the challenge(s) within the next 7 days. Please note, once you start a challenge, the timer begins and cannot be stopped.

        Programming challenge:
            Time allotment: 120 minutes
            Format: Data structures focused questions that can be completed with your choice of programming language
        Math and programing challenge:
            Time allotment: 180 minutes (120 mins programming + 60 mins math, combined)
            Format: Combination of the above programming format and a series of math multiple choice questions
"""

Two Assessments Hackerrank

Posted by oliversisson on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @06:44PM
from the self-post dept.

Hi, GS gave me two assessments on Hackerrank. I completed one in 2 hours (time limit: 180 minutes). The next day I went to do the other (120 minutes) and it wouldn't let me in. I emailed support and they said:" It is a test with both the parts together. The timer would not stop after you finish first part and would run for the second part as well."Has anyone else had this issue?

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Re:How Wealthy People Protect Their Money (2015) on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:07AM (#13864911)
This article is wrong about Eduardo Saverin. He lives in Singapore but never took citizenship. He renounced his American citizenship but kept his Brazilian.
Re:Anu Hariharan on Network Effects [video] on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @03:26AM (#13818839)
I didn't think this was good. Her basic definitions at the beginning (eg virality) was very poor. Either she doesn't have a clear understanding of these or just isn't that good at expressing herself (hopefully the latter). Her thinking is quite convoluted. Did anyone else think this?
Re:Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile on Monday March 21, 2016 @02:32PM (#11330524)
This is the original email. My name is Oliver Sisson and I work at Coursera.

From: Oliver Sisson <[email protected]> Date: March 20, 2016 at 10:02:25 AM PDT To: [email protected] Subject: [recruiting] I created a project for Coursera, could you confirm? Reply-To: Oliver Sisson <[email protected]>

Hi Coursera,

I created a project for Coursera: [Project description redacted] Could you please confirm the project, by following this link:

https://angel.co/l/3248d1520e525149b6bf36369d0b519a/MbVzt

Thanks, Oliver Sisson

Re:Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile on Monday March 21, 2016 @02:31PM (#11330506)
They used my name in the email from and reply-to fields, and to sign my name. I've replied to my original post with the actual email.