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MLE - Anthropic vs Meta (Blind)

• daTing3 (Meta): Why’d you even ask this here. Humble brag?
• dnxuli (Meta): Ladies and gentleman, op is what we call “hutya” ⚡️
• apple145 (Meta): Is this some kind of sick joke

Everyone wanted to join either Facebook or Google. What went wrong? (Blind)

• !AI-native (Meta): You are kidding me if it still isn’t
• hopeonly (Google): I joined for a few reasons but prestige wasn’t one of them. Am I the only one?
• oeGp70 (ex-AT&T): swe was never prestigious to begin with. only in the minds of other swe. doctor or pe/vc is more prestigious.

Stay at Amazon or join Salesforce? (Blind)

• jaskeerat (Salesforce): If your wlb is ok, stay. I made this move, there’s no learning or career progress here. No wlb either in a lot of teams
• Grind_LC_8 (Salesforce): Stay at Amazon, I too switched from Amazon to Salesforce but regret it now. There is no learning here
• carenoone (Salesforce): Salesforce is very chaotic now

Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment (r/technology)

• buttorsomething: Surprising no one.
• sniksniksnek: “Dad, how did we win the war against the machines?” “Crackheads, son. Never forget, we owe them our lives.”
• chevalier716: Finally, meth heads everywhere have found a way to work for the benefit of their communities.

Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined (r/technology)

• neat_stuff: The guy who brought us the VR headset Metaverse might not always get things right? Impossible.
• Imaginary_Manner_556: This guy is so lucky he bought instagram. His own ideas suck.
• Crivos: AI bubble go pop?

Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5% after 3 years, only 1% use it weekly, yet prices went up (r/technology)

• Impossible-Ad6326: Because it’s shit, forced down our throats and people generally don’t like to have shit forced down their throats.
• antaresiv: It makes search more complicated because now I gotta fact check what it gives me
• odelay321: Copilot, how do you remove copilot from my pc?

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Pentagon restores mandatory flu shots for all recruits as boot camp outbreak sickens nearly 300 (r/news)

• StevieOfPhoenix: Wow it’s almost as if vaccines could have prevented this in the first place.
• OrderAdditional1791: “Nobody knew” this could happen
• TheRexRider: Ok. So what have we learned?

Camp Mystic, site of deadly Texas flooding, files for bankruptcy (r/news)

• Icouldusesomerock: And that’s what happens when you don’t prioritize saftey
• Dull-Ad8161: It should also be facing criminal charges.
• CaseyAnthonysMouth: CANNOT BELIEVE they were trying to reopen this year.

Arby’s manager accused of giving customer herpes after spitting in food, court records say (r/news)

• Similar-Wolverine-10: As if I needed any more reason to stop eating fast food.
• FlyingFlipPhone: This is why you should NEVER return food to the kitchen.
• Health_throwaway__: And this is why I don’t eat out

Millions lose food stamps under Trump cuts. Arizona is hardest hit (r/news)

• justmitzie: Poverty exists not because we can’t feed the poor, but because we can’t satisfy the rich.
• africanlivedit: Time for those who voted for him to pull themselves up from their bootstraps!
• Fit-Let8175: On the bright side, the very rich are richer still!

Powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas (r/news)

• lee7on1: Early videos are already looking very bad, this is so sad…
• Itzli: This is awful, it’s the last thing they needed. Fuerza Venezuela!
• sjhesketh: We’re in Aruba on vacation and felt an aftershock around 6PM. Very noticeable.

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Does anyone use Gemini for coding inside Google? (Blind)

• lppmsj (Google): Everybody
• fcEs35 (Google): No we like to give token money to other companies instead.
• fhfdodmk (Google): Everyone

The golden age of tech is over (Blind)

• horn dog (Meta): Elon
• slackerswe (Microsoft): ZIRP
• gh443 (Google): Chinese 996 workers and AI

Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will “Never” Go Back to Normal (r/technology)

• zooommsu: They have to say this because there are many people postponing purchases and skipping updates in the hope that things will improve in the future.
• cotd345: It’s in their best interest to say that now. Then the bubble pops and the story changes to ‘we could have never predicted that’.
• pazz: So Bitcoin fucked up the GPU market and now AI is fucking up the RAM market? This reality sucks.

AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them (r/technology)

• mokunuimoo: You thought we were getting AGI and we’d live in Star Trek but instead it’s going to be The Slopularity and Idiocracy
• Niceromancer: They ain’t learning shit.
• wesweb: this will end up being the biggest waste of capital investment in history

Windows 10 support extended to 2027 for free — Is this Microsoft admitting Windows 11 isn’t enough? (r/technology)

• View-Maximum: This is corporate customers noping out of an expensive hardware upgrade.
• SlowCrates: Windows 11 sucks.
• ZombieZookeeper: Linux only just removed the 486 code, just saying.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Permutation in String
• Topics: Hash Table, Two Pointers, String, Sliding Window

Problem gist

Given two strings s1 and s2, the task is to decide whether s2 contains any contiguous substring that is a permutation of s1.

That means order inside the matching substring does not matter, but the character counts must match exactly. If s1 = "ab", then "ab" and "ba" are both valid windows. If s2 contains either one as a length-2 substring, the answer is True.

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NVIDIA’s official Technical Blog published Enhancing Goodput in Large-Scale LLM Training with Nonuniform Tensor Parallelism, a July 6, 2026 post about keeping frontier-scale training jobs productive when some GPUs inside a tightly coupled training domain become temporarily unavailable.

The post is interesting because it treats training resilience as a parallelism problem, not only as a checkpointing or replacement problem. Large LLM jobs run across thousands of GPUs for long periods, and the useful measure is not raw peak throughput but Goodput: convergence-driving work completed over time. If one device in a tensor-parallel group slows down or drops out, the usual failure mode is disproportionate. A local hardware issue can stall a whole data-parallel replica, and because synchronous training waits on the slowest replica, that local issue can reduce throughput for the broader job.

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Scientific American’s January 2026 article by Diana Kwon examines interoception, the brain’s ability to sense and interpret the body’s internal state. The article’s central argument is that mental health cannot be understood as a purely brain-bound problem. Heartbeats, breathing, hunger, fullness, pain, gut rhythms and immune signals are not background noise. They are part of the information stream from which emotion, fear, self-image and distress are built.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this July 7, 2026 report, Tech jobs market in 2026, part 3: hiring managers & job seekers. Based on conversations with more than 50 hiring managers, engineers, and engineering leaders, Gergely Orosz argues that the software job market has become stranger than the aggregate data suggests: hiring teams say they cannot find the right people, while experienced candidates say they cannot get seen at all.

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Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr. (r/news)

• handDrawnEevee: I am honestly surprised that something as risky as stem cell injection is the goto for ‘treating’ autism among antivaxxers. Like it’s so much more complicated than just a getting a vaccine, you can’t be anti-vax and pro-unregulated stem cell treatments, that’s nuts.
• avid-shrug: Medical experimentation on the disabled is honestly the natural conclusion of the anti-vax movement.
• imoftendisgruntled: Don’t the conspiracy theorists think that stem cells are from abducted children?

Judge orders Justin Baldoni to cover Blake Lively’s legal fees for Wayfarer lawsuit (r/news)

• SquareSecond: Don’t pay expensive lawyers to file meritless lawsuits.
• shanghaisnaggle: Let us never speak of this again.
• rThundrbolt: Counterpoint: can everyone just stop talking about these people?

Former Louisiana mayor sentenced to 90 days over rape charge, inspiring outrage from his daughter (r/news)

• SpaceForceAwakens: Would almost be more acceptable if they just let him go free and stated they don’t care.
• BaronGreywatch: Rapist gets 90 days.
• BiteMeHomie: That’s it, we are officially beyond parody.

Active shooter barricaded in building in Midland County, Michigan; police officer, civilian wounded (r/news)

• comfortably_nuumb: I work in the building across the street from that hospital. Yesterday was extremely surreal.
• Expensive_Plastic186: I love my country so much, but holy shit America do you have a gun violence problem. I can’t even imagine
• Only-Newspaper-8593: This shit is exhausting

Gene Shalit, ‘Today’ show movie critic, dies at 100 (r/news)

• AudibleNod: I love this quote from Roger Ebert “Gene Shalit has a merry way with words, and a mustache to match.”
• skarekroh: Gene Shalit was still alive?
• ThePiggySlasher: 100 years old. Just a kid.

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New Harvard study proves AI isn’t a bubble? (Blind)

• placement (Amazon): This is not definition of non bubble
• Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): Result depends on who paid for the study.
• Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): You can find a study for almost everything your heart desires.

Made it to the final round at OpenAI and got rejected by someone who had been at the company less than a week (Blind)

• cQfh64 (Intuit): It is all luck my friend. Accept it and move on..
• VLSy66 (Apple): Maybe this person was hired for your position.
• fjvueje (Amazon): I hate such a 0/1 interview outcome while the process is so thorough

Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware through anime girl wallpapers (r/technology)

• M39FG9SFGQ: That’s hilarious
• xangbar: Glad I stuck to my Genshin wallpapers instead. Been using the same ones for 5+ years.
• BiBoFieTo: They attacked at our weakest moment.

AMD silently removes memory encryption from GPUs without explanation (r/technology)

• JackSpyder: Forced by the US gov and cant legally say why? My bet.
• Super_flywhiteguy: If it sounds like a backdoor being cracked open, its because its a backdoor being cracked open.
• lazyhustlermusic: They sure get more douchebaggy as their market cap increases.

ICE appears to be buying immigrants’ tax data from LexisNexis (r/technology)

• drewc717: I had a business law professor years ago whose life’s work was basically hating the fact that LexisNexis existed
• Aggeloz: How tf is this kind of data even allowed to be sold and bought????
• SmoothConfection1115: It’s almost definitely not just “tax data” like this headline might make you think (to me I think of W2s and 1040s). LN is an incredibly powerful tool to find all kinds of information about people from disparate sources. Reverse searching phone numbers and email addresses is a common one, but it can also provide detailed information about employment, assets, criminal history, traffic stops, and associates. LN doesn’t produce anything but just slurps up data from all over the place and makes a centralized place to search it.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 6, 2026 item in its cluster on Anthropic’s J-space research, linking to Anthropic’s post, A global workspace in language models, and the full technical paper, Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models. The piece argues that Claude has developed a small, privileged internal workspace for concepts it can report, manipulate, and use in deliberate reasoning, even when those concepts never appear in the model’s visible output.