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Three lions die in zoo as Japan battles extreme heat (r/worldnews)

• PPGN_DM_Exia: Japan is sadly not known for its high quality zoos, not in terms of visitor experience or animal welfare. I went to the Tennoji Zoo in Osaka and it was very run down and depressing.
• alexsensei: Japan must have pretty lax laws for animal welfare, based on what I saw out there. I went to a small zoo off of Himeji Castle and they had a pen for two polar bears that couldn’t have been more than 8x5 metres. And the heat was stifling. It was dreadful.
• phiwong: This seems like incompetence. Losing one might be a fluke but 3 and they all show signs of dehydration?

Man charged with setting Spokane’s largest wildfire went to prison for killing his father (r/news)

• SparklingSloth: I don’t understand how purposely starting a wildfire that destroys lives and property isn’t charged as a form of terrorism
• JordanPetterPans: Imagine if this guy was just in a mental institution all along??..
• paypaypayme: America has a serious problem with antisocial freaks. There’s something about our society that breeds these type of weirdos. Perhaps its a lack of the whole village dynamic of ancient humans. Everyone’s in their own little bubble insulated from each other. Is it the fault of the idyllic suburban dream?

Chipotle pulls jalapenos from some restaurants amid salmonella probe (r/news)

• OuterSpaceBootyHole: To eat at Chipotle during an uncontained food contamination crisis is to not give a single fuck about anything
• Inside-Yak-8815: Everywhere I go to eat (or get food) has a salmonella outbreak a few days later, wtf is going on?
• ThisNameIsHilarious: Boy it would sure be nice if we had a regulatory agency to help track, fix, and prevent this stuff.

What is a sign that someone is emotionally unintelligent? (r/AskReddit)

• Whatabouttheteachers: Every hard conversation becomes an argument
• thunderfart_99: They have great difficulty seeing other people’s perspectives.
• Wooden-Wolverine-917: a complete disregard for how their actions affect others + the assumption that just because they feel something that that makes them right

What is a 9/10 or 10/10 game that you’ll never play again because of one small thing or section? (r/AskReddit)

• scalectrogenic: Metal Gear Solid V - I really enjoyed it first time through, but cannot be bothered with crawling through the hospital at the start again.
• yuuzhanbong: I love Far Harbor, but FUCK the Dima memory sequences
• Happy_goth_pirate: Uncharted, loved the damn thing but honestly the jet ski/ exploding barrels section was so frustrating, I’ll just skip that installment

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The AI bubble is POPPING!!!!!!!!!! (Blind)

• 600TC (Google): Yeah good luck getting DeepSeek V4-Flash to output the same code quality as 5.6 Sol
• c8ycyloy (Salesforce): All this shows is that LLMs are becoming MORE viable. Adoption will get pushed even more if the prices are actually lower. It’ll start getting used for stupid things that wouldn’t require it. As the product gets more efficient the usage will go up. Jevrons Paradox
• TULS62 (Grammarly): I hope it bursts. I just want cheap memory and cheap storage again

I gave up on having kids while I’m at Meta (Blind)

• bdbdbdb (Microsoft): Don’t push out personal milestone due to your profession. Life will find a way to make it work.
• OGvb84 (Aurora): When you are 50, no one will care if you are both senior directors or just senior managers. There are many potential sources of income, don’t give up anything for Meta, no employer is worth it. When they do not need you any more, they’ll just throw you away, imagine knowing that you gave up having kids for this company.
• shbts5468 (Meta): My wife and I are expecting our first child soon. I’m gonna take my leave, spend quality time with my family, and when I come back, make sure I balance them with my work. If that’s an issue, they can fire for me for all I care. My job is replaceable. My family won’t be.

I’m just a human wrapper for LLMs at this point (Blind)

• eb7beo12 (Google): SWE pay will decrease significantly. What value do you do provide that a McDonald’s fry cook can’t? A fry cook can do all of that too.
• le_adhd (AutoScout24): Not a “wrapper”, you are a harness!
• ynBp23 (Salesforce): Correction, you are an accountability sink. AI does the work, you take the heat when it fucks everything up

Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium (r/technology)

• Budget-Purple-6519: This is only because a recent poll showed that his Democratic competitor, Gina Hinojosa, is only one point behind him. That’s a big deal in Texas, so he’s panicking to seem connected to the big issues.
• psychoacer: Until after the midterms
• mkt853: 1,800 data centers to do what? Am I crazy or is that a lot of data centers?

EA is now officially owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and private equity (r/technology)

• grimace24: If you thought EA was bad before you haven’t seen anything yet.
• consumersguide: EA just entered its billionaire era. From selling loot boxes to being owned by Saudi Arabia, private equity and Kushner what a timeline
• orangeowl8: Do they still make Star Wars games? I hope they get that pulled from them, I don’t want to pay journalist killers money to play my favorite franchise

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Large-model inference is often described as a race for faster kernels, but production serving is at least as much a problem of fitting the right data into memory at the right moment. In “Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale,” the official Cloudflare Blog explains how Workers AI serves long-context mixture-of-experts models by treating prefill and decode as different workloads, compressing only where the tradeoff helps, and adding an integrity check for the shared memory that higher density puts at risk.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Reorder List
• Topics: Linked List, Two Pointers, Stack, Recursion

Problem gist

The input is a singly linked list in its ordinary front-to-back order:

L0 → L1 → L2 → ... → Ln

It must be rearranged by alternating nodes from the front and back:

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When the Ruler Changes with the Person

Depression questionnaires turn private experiences into scores. A patient reports changes in mood, sleep, appetite and other symptoms; researchers or clinicians then combine those answers into a number. The result looks objective, but it depends on a crucial assumption: the questions must measure depression in the same way for everyone being compared.

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Techmeme surfaced Steven Levy’s August 5 WIRED report, “4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup,” about Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals leaving Google to found Discovery Loop. The departure is notable on its own: the four helped create systems and techniques that underpin Google’s infrastructure and modern machine learning. The more consequential part is what they are building—a company organized around automating the experimental loop of research rather than producing another general-purpose chatbot.

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The Federal Reserve’s balance-sheet problem resembles a city built around a reservoir. Quantitative easing filled the financial system with liquidity; banks, markets and regulations then adapted to that abundance. Kevin Warsh, the Fed’s new chairman, would like to lower the waterline. The difficulty is that draining it too quickly could damage the system that grew up around it.

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Two Deaths Linked to Cyclosporiasis in Michigan (r/news)

• Money-Lifeguard5815: I miss eating lettuce and other fresh produce 😭
• Valturia: Remember, FDA said everything is fine. Dying to lettuce is the new norm.
• aakundun: Deregulation at work. Profits over people.

Iran says no talks are under way with United States after Trump calls off attacks (r/worldnews)

• MyNameisClaypool: Why is the market still reacting to what he says? Everyone knows it is BS, but the market reacts as if it is not, makes no sense.
• KamKorn: He already got his market manipulation….. it doesn’t matter what you say Iran
• WearmyMark: Why people are surprised when Trump lies is a mystery to me. He did so regularly during the pandemic to try and keep everyone (and the markets) calm. He thinks the ends justify the means. He doesn’t understand or care that he is harming his own reputation as well as the nations. He doesn’t care if he makes himself a laughing stock. Whenever he opens his mouth he lies. It is at the core of his character.

What hobby or job has a divorce/breakup rate that feels like it’s close to 100%? (r/AskReddit)

• 0x14f: Not so much a job, but medical students don’t stay in relationships
• the__mom_friend: Stage Technicians, especially roadies who follows shows on tour. I realized during the last few weeks of my senior internship that every single stage tech employee was either a.) A divorced chain smoker or b.) Married to a person who worked the same shows they did.
• Slow-Rutabaga-7241: When bodybuilders use steroids, there’s one called Trenbolone, or ‘Tren’ for short. It’s also called divorce in a bottle because of the side effects of mood instability, irritability, hypermania, and apathy.

Coffee addicts, \$1,000 a week (tax free) for the rest of your life, but you have to sacrifice your daily fix. What are you doing? (r/AskReddit)

• movealongnowpeople: Is caffeine the fix, or is coffee the fix? I’d have no problem abandoning coffee. Caffeine in general, I’ll still take the money but I might be a giant prick for a few days.
• Nouvi_: As much as I love my freshly made coffee every single morning, for \$1000 a week, I would drop it with no hesitation.
• sofa_king_we_todded: I enjoy my morning latte ritual - I’d probably pick up some other morning ritual like rolling around in fresh wads of cash

What was it like when Obama was elected President? (r/AskReddit)

• WinterFilmAwards: Times Square became an enormous party. People were singing and dancing and hugging each other. Older black people were just openly weeping and couldn’t believe it happened in their lifetime. So much joy and hope for a better future
• benlau: We literally partied in the streets and hugged strangers.
• valkrycp: Kind of a collective sigh of relief for the majority of the country especially the youth and the minorities. It genuinely FELT hopeful - like the future is going to be better rather than worse.

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Google to Microsoft AI. 700k to 2.2M TC 🔥 (Blind)

• pvhk13 (Microsoft): Really, how come peanut factory paying so much? What’s their role?
• gkdnwodrnn (ex-Amazon): Only to work 70-80 hours a week in MAI with terrible wlb
• Avf31sd (Microsoft): As someone who has been in both Google and Microsoft, and is in AI space, MAI is a shithole, infrastracture is shit, bureaucracy is high and nothing can be done. Google is a spaceship for Microsoft. Move from Google to MAI is like when Ronaldo goes from Real Madrid to Saudi Arabia for the money, but it’s career ender unless if you know how to play politics. I’m personally not in MAI, but feel bad for folks there, some of them are paid 300k and work more than those being paid 2M - cause Microsoft. Also one of the reasons why I’m happy in CoreAI and don’t want to move to MAI, like why would I why you will overwork me and bring someone from outside who will work less than I do for 5x TC.

Claude code is making all of us dumb (Blind)

• tmo_r (T-Mobile): Lot of old engineers would have felt dumb when they were importing packages from open sources projects to simplify their work. But they adapt and build more apps. If you are not doing the same now with AI, you will feel dumb.
• dkjdfd (Snowflake): I let it write trivial code for me but not design or core functionality. I’m as smart as I was before.
• ESxR80 (Capital One): I think I’m doing more complex work and forcing myself to understand what’s being done which is good, but I’m sure my writing skills r getting rusty

The Era of High TC in Tech is Over? (Blind)

• cliff 🥜 (Meta): Researchers aren’t good at predictions. It may be true but the guy telling radiologist will be without jobs 10 years ago predicted the opposite of what transpired
• CEOInCA: It’s been out of control for over a decade. Other groups deserve to earn more at this point if anything.
• DigiArbitr (HP): “Computer Science” isn’t an industry. It’s a college major. “Software” is an industry. Is that what he means?

Sam Altman says a ‘cool use case’ for ChatGPT is a daily AI podcast about your kids. The replies were brutal (r/technology)

• null-interlinked: He is so out of touch, and it tells a lot about what a shit parent he is himself. If these are truly his views on how you should connect with your loved ones.
• UnsureAssurance: Yeah I’m betting Sam Altman has like 10 nannies for his kids and does everything he can to keep AI away from his children. So funny seeing these tech CEOs tout how child safe their products are, but in reality they keep them away
• SunWukong18: He is a diversion for the wholesale extraction and plunder planned by his type and their investors. Never forget.

Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. (r/technology)

• HikeCarolinas: I sent my wife a photo of a blueberry bush I planted for her. 15min later I got on TikTok and a “blueberry bush” greenhouse advertisement. With blueberry bush literally in quotation marks . There is zero privacy in snapchat
• MJ-Franklin: Why is everything turning up the batshit dial to 11? There is absolutely no reason for things to be this insane.
• para_blox: Side note, I didn’t even know real gun emojis exist. I thought only the squirt gun did. Just another layer of stupid to this story, I guess. Like the surveillance state is baiting people with emoji content.

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The Brain’s First Sorting Question

People can usually tell speech from music almost instantly, even when the language or musical style is unfamiliar. That effortless judgment hides a difficult problem. Both signals are complex mixtures of pitch, rhythm, timbre and changing loudness, yet the auditory system must decide quickly whether to direct them toward neural machinery specialized for language or for music.