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Europe is spending far more on defence because its leaders increasingly believe that Russia’s war could spread beyond Ukraine. Yet budgets and weapons are only part of deterrence. The harder question, Nathalie Tocci argues, is whether societies at peace can develop the psychological readiness to fight before a crisis forces it upon them.

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Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk (r/news)

• littlepup26: Friendly reminder that you can identify Taylor Farms products by looking at the production code stamped right next to the “Best By” or expiration date on the package. Letters like TF,  TFRS, TFRB, or TFPM indicate the item was packed at a Taylor Farms facility, even on store-brand or private-label products.
• 1877KlownsForKids: Guys, I’m starting to think those boring government folks who make sure our food is safe to eat might be important.
• TheGaslighter9000X: Third fucking recall for salmonella in a week? Jesus. Walmart and Chipotle now this.

Wildfires burning in British Columbia force 20,000 to evacuate (r/news)

• Regnes: Summer in British Columbia has been dystopian the past decade. You smell the smoke in the air, you hear of the devastation caused to entire communities, you see the refugee camps and support services being setup around town, and each year you wonder if this is finally going to be it and it will be your turn to flee for your life.
• ol_lordylordy: We cancelled our week long vacation in the interior because of air quality. Its insane to be in. There was a summer a few years ago when we had to clean our picnic table of ash every morning. It sucks that planning around forest fires has become part of the process for such a beautiful part of the world
• humansomeone: So happy Carney and Smith are building a new pipeline to vancouver. Keep the oil flowing for us all. Such a help while the country burns around us.

What was considered a major sign of status 10 years ago, but is now seen as cheap, cringe, or a waste of money? (r/AskReddit)

• Kobe-62Mavs-61: It wasn’t “status” but 10 years ago I feel like podcasters needed to be a bit more professional and prepared. Now it seems like every loser you know has one and the production value is atrocious.
• sagewhat: Limos
• Leading_Emergency218: A blue checkmark

Who’s the most famous person you went to school with? (r/AskReddit)

• nkmetcalfe: My grandmother went to school with Jim Jones. I remember when I found out I asked her if they were friends or ever hung out, and she snapped back, “NO! He was weird then, too!”
• KnittingKitty: I went to college with Jim Morrison (The Doors). Yes, I’m o-l-d.
• ravenlynne: The guy who founded Khan academy was my valedictorian.

What is the WORST song you have ever heard? (r/AskReddit)

• beefstewforyou: A really bad Christian song from the 90s about cartoons getting saved.
• brittlebk: 1-877-Kars for Kidz
• GamesOfOdin: Baby Shark. Not because it’s technically the worst song ever made, but because once it gets into your head, it apparently signs a permanent lease there. 😂

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SpaceX is doing so well! Who could have ever predicted this? (Blind)

• TBjy63 (Amazon): One of the most innovative companies in the world and then some braindead rando is bullshitting on their stock… lol
• UdXw86 (Carta): SpaceX is thriving, and real investors are doing just fine. Dumb money ate some 💩 - nothing new there. I’m up 18% on SPCX and expect 100% returns long term
• wmeB00 (Oracle): It’s overvalued at IPO anyway. Will go up in the next few years if story continues. Note Meta also fell below IPO price after going public, which is normal.

OpenAI no more Leetcode (Blind)

• Twduit (Google): It’s never been LC what are you talking about? They went fully practical a while ago. I can share the general prep material if you’re down to compare notes.
• insideball (JPMorganChase): Glad to see Leetcode die. Finally.
• abcxyz420 (Google): OpenAI has never done leetcode interviews

MIT students are dropping out of Computer Science (Blind)

• DarkMAGA (LinkedIn): Honestly, the better major is probably applied math, electrical engineering, or data science. something actually rooted in real engineering not just coding.
• out of (ByteDance): Kids are dumb and easily swayed by hype and propaganda.
• code4lyfe: It makes sense. What is the point of a cs degree with you can ask codex to do everything? And I’m sure most students are doing exactly that. Your degree becomes a joke.

San Francisco “AI” chatbot revealed to be one man manually answering every prompt, reaching 5,000 queries an hour. (r/technology)

• Quenz: Human: Become Detroit
• lazyhustlermusic: Reminds me of all of those articles like the Amazon Go stores.
• Donnicton: tldr it’s the guy’s art piece and does not actually cost anything unless you sign up for the “pro” tier which is made clear is a useless tier and is just to support his art.

Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default (r/technology)

• agm1984: I only use auto mode with dangerously skip permissions
• kir_rik: Well, unfortunately it’s unusable the other way. I’ve wrote a hook that bans python and node completely. Permissions list just broken for months and they never fixed it
• Exponential-777: Claude needs to learn how to use less words. Example. The solution to my issue is very simple. I need to change a typo in code on line 888 from kButtFloss to kbuttFloss. Instead Claude insists on telling me how that typo wrecked 20 things downstream with elaborate detail. He will write 1000 words and sometimes not even include the solution.

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A Bittersweet Social Emotion

Nostalgia mixes affection for a cherished past with the knowledge that the past cannot be recovered. That combination can feel wistful, but it may do more than draw attention backward. In “Nostalgia Keeps Friendships Alive,” researcher Kuan-Ju Huang describes evidence that nostalgia is associated with the motivation to maintain close relationships and may help protect those relationships as people age.

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Techmeme surfaced Meta AI Research’s August 10 release, “Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device.” Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter model designed for local agents, released with full-precision and quantized weights under Apache 2.0. The release is notable less because it sets a new overall intelligence record than because it brings a useful combination—reasoning, vision, tool use, failure recovery, and long context—onto a single high-end personal computer.

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Israel’s next election is formally a contest over who should govern, but the article argues that it is really a decision about whether the country can change course after years of war, political polarisation and growing international isolation. Binyamin Netanyahu offers voters continued military strength. His opponents promise repair. Neither side, however, has fully confronted the hardest choices that Israel faces.

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A 2-year-old at the center of a Texas brain-death dispute is taken off life support and dies (r/news)

• lilsqueakyone: Google Jahi McMath. That was a crazy situation. She was declared brain dead, but her parents refused to accept it. She has 2 death certificates 4 years apart.
• comefromawayfan2022: It’s sad that a two year old died. But I think we all knew that this was the outcome all along. That poor child died the day she drowned
• commandrix: I feel bad for the 2-year-old. Sure, you want to give the kid every chance to recover if recovery is at all reasonably possible. But at some point, you’ll do better to admit that there’s no point in keeping a brain-dead husk alive.

Child standing in seat and refusing a seatbelt cancels flight from Victoria, airline says (r/news)

• JurgusRudkus: Something very similar happened to me on a flight from PDX to LAX when my twins were 2.5. I was traveling alone with them and the entire journey was exhausting. On departure my son didn’t want to sit down in his seat and the flight attendant made clear that if he didn’t, the flight wouldn’t take off. So I had to literally strong arm him into his seat and PIN him down while he was screaming like he was being boiled in oil. It was the single suckiest moment of my life as a parent thus far but there was no way in hell I was going to let my child disrupt an entire plane full of people.
• succsforever: Every parent who has had a grouchy traveler child will read this and say “well, I’m not doing so bad”
• ninjplus: victoria sub has people who were on the flight talking about it. The girl was around 3 and they wasted an hour trying to get the child to stay in her seat while the runway was set to close soon. Totally idiotic on all levels. Dipshit useless parents who are fully to blame and crew members who should have turned around early enough to kick the family off so the rest of the passengers could get to their destinations. I would have been pissed.

What is a dark or unethical industry secret that you can finally share because you no longer work there? (r/AskReddit)

• lawlesstoast: The shear amount of mice present in long term care facilities. The city I live in, I have worked multiple sites. All have infestations they cannot control.
• Grim1067: The major cell carriers are pure profit in terms of the actual service. Most just don’t manage the infrastructure well on a regular basis. And most executive relations teams will just about give you what you ask for as a “one time exception”
• Cuddarfish: Not really “dark” but the markup you’re paying on prescription eyewear is absolutely criminal. Lenses + frames is a few dollars worth of materials.

Redditors who lost their spouse, what secret did you find out after their passing? (r/AskReddit)

• Dry_Clothes7489: My husband was conning gay men out of money via romance scams…
• daffodil-tears: Not me but my mom. She looked in my dad’s nightstand and found a little bag of white powder. Suddenly, all the little straws she’d found in his laundry made more sense.
• prunepicker: Ex-spouse. He had an affair while we were dating (1972), which resulted in a son, born three months before our wedding. I found out two years ago.

Medical workers, what is the scariest thing you have ever heard a patient say? (r/AskReddit)

• AlaskaTech1: I work in traveling eye care. When I was up in the Alaska bush, I saw a 21 year old patient who came with her 2 year old baby for an eye exam. She told me she became blind in her left eye when her boyfriend (notice I didn’t say ex) got drunk and punched her so hard he detached her retina. I was stunned and my face showed it. She then said, “Don’t worry. Everything is better. He’s nice to me now.”
• belfry_bat: Behavioral health patient once said to me “I’m a vegetarian because otherwise I would eat people.”
• quiksilver2101: Had a 2 vehicle head-on collision I responded to. Both occupants in one car seemed ok, then the driver says his back hurts. I asked what the pain felt like, and he said it felt like burning, almost like something was tearing…not too long after that he tanked very quickly and that was it..

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My coworkers talk like LLMS (Blind)

• XrLz00: Sooner or later that’s how everyone will be communicating. Get used to it. Adapt, Improvise, Overcome.
• boredddddd (Microsoft): I have a PM who always starts response with “you are right” whenever I confront him
• ImYourMgr (Amazon): My lead gave me feedback that is so blatantly AI generated that I almost got offended before I realized it just validated how stupid I knew they are for thinking anyone wouldn’t notice

I got my first offer after being laid off but the pay is really low (Blind)

• ktgD25 (Google): I would accept and keep looking. Better some income in the meantime than none…
• FauxAI (Microsoft): Yes just keep looking. If a company offers you shot pay, they shouldn’t expect you to stick around
• godandme (Capital One): What did you do for 360k in your previous role? If you don’t mind. I am asking this to prep myself to reach there. I can’t suggest you anything, since you seem to be doing the right thing.

Are the newest models really better than opus 4.6 for coding? (Blind)

• oshiokiyo (ServiceNow): They’re better at being agents: taking multiple actions, testing, fixing, looking at the rest of the codebase, etc.
• ClaudeCide (DoorDash): I think Fable is genuinely better than 4.6 but 4.7-5 are regressions. GPT models are far better than Opus now.
• pantaloon (NewRelic): Opus 5 is so bad I break my brain trying to understand why they released it

Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window (r/technology)

• TheFatalOneTypes: Lets see how upset people really are, then :)
• AvailableReporter484: It’s a shame that there are no severe consequences for politicians and corporations that deceive and undermine the general public. I feel like France had some good ideas on this topic back in the day 🤔
• That_Jicama2024: Interesting. They’re not locked out of burning it down and sabotaging it for its entire existence though, are they?

AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides experts warn such applications are way ahead of necessary guardrails (r/technology)

• traveleasily: Cyberdene systems.
• philodendrin: How long until a virus is created for the sole purpose of selling its cure?
• HeartoftheHive: Oh sweet, manmade horrors beyond our comprehension.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Department Highest Salary
• Topics: Database

What the problem is asking

There are two tables. Employee stores each employee’s name, salary, and department ID, while Department maps each department ID to a display name. The result must contain every employee whose salary is the highest in that employee’s department.

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Why Closeness Changes Giving

Helping a close friend often feels automatic; helping a near stranger can prompt a quick calculation of time, effort and personal cost. Psychologists call this pattern social discounting: people generally become less willing to sacrifice for someone as that person’s emotional or social distance increases. In “How a Tiny Brain Region Guides Generosity,” comparative psychologist Tobias Kalenscher argues that part of the amygdala helps make this response flexible rather than simply turning generosity on or off.