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The human brain takes in a torrent and thinks through a trickle. Eyes, ears and other senses collect information at roughly a billion bits per second, yet conscious cognition appears to run at only about 10 bits per second. In “Speed Limit,” Rachel Nuwer explores a striking mismatch that may explain why the mind feels far richer and more spacious than its moment-to-moment performance suggests.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s September 29 research report, “GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities”. Its central claim is not merely that an open-weight model can help with security work. It is that a freely downloadable model has crossed into the same category of end-to-end exploit development that Anthropic previously restricted to vetted users.

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China is trying to make its banks finance the next phase of growth while they are still absorbing the last phase’s losses. In “Drip feed”, The Economist argues that a fresh capital injection will help the country’s largest lenders recognise some bad debts and keep extending credit, but is too small to resolve the financial system’s deeper problems.

Best surf: Cowell, Sunday, October 4 at 11 AM — 9 alone / 10 with instructor, the earliest of three tied top readings (Sunday 11 AM and 1 PM, Monday 9 AM). Capitola is closed to surfing by a county bacterial beach alert. Best jump: Sunday, October 4 at 9 AM at Skydive California — calm wind, gusts 5 mph, the smoothest slot in a window that is ✅ at every sample. All times PDT.

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Divorce lawyers of Reddit - What’s the most evil thing you’ve seen during a divorce? (r/AskReddit)

• Cardinal_350: My dad’s lawyer quit on him when he requested a hearing to fight my mom over keeping a porch swing. I never saw 2 people be more vindictive and childish
• WorldAncient7852: I know of a couple that burned through the man’s recent inheritance (high five figures) AND the profits from the house sale that the divorce forced. Two lawyers got very, very wealthy and the dumb SOBs got back together after all the money ran out.
• Far_Description4583: Opposing counsel on one of my cases called my client “too emotional” during a hearing - after finally coming clean about years of domestic violence

What’s the one 10/10 book you keep recommending to people? (r/AskReddit)

• redditdbk204: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
• snieces: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• Fabulous_Lynx1506: The Count of Monte Cristo. Somehow a 1,200-page revenge story never feels long.

What’s a dead giveaway someone’s never been poor? (r/AskReddit)

• ExtensionFault6283: they just dont understand what it means to be poor. my mother in law said when she was growing up they had a winter vacation home in Vermont to go skiing. but you ask her and she says she grew up lower middle class. also after her father died he gave her tons of land and her house which is worth \$800,000 now.
• SilkOnMySkin: They throw away perfectly good and edible food that hasn’t been opened.
• seaweedizcool: They refuse to fix things because “we can just get a new one”.

Man ordered released on bail after decades on Utah’s death row after DNA tests show no match to him (r/news)

• Spectralcolors78: “Here’s your \$100,000 Sir, sorry about that” Enjoy your Future - Shock
• EagleForty: And that there is why I don’t support the death penalty.
• Weightmonster: Why don’t they just review all DNA evidence for everyone still incarcerated? DNA testing has been around for 40 years. This is unacceptable.

Lawsuit alleges doctors amputated wrong leg of patient in Washington County, Ohio (r/news)

• Deep-Interest9947: Don’t they write in marker and check like 75 times while the patient is still awake to prevent this? Of all the forms of medical negligence available …
• SirRagesAlot: “However, a recent article in the Washington Post stated that the patient safety experts say that the problem of wrong site surgery has not improved and may be getting worse. They went on to say that based on state data, joint commission officials estimate that wrong site surgery occurs 40 times a week in hospitals and clinics in USA. While this figure sounds impossibly high, it is consistent with an estimate of 1,300 to 2,700 cases of wrong site procedures per year in USA by Seiden and Barach” https://doi.org/10.1007/s11552-012-9405-5 https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.141.9.931
• wabashcanonball: Don’t they mark the correct leg and put a stop sign on the wrong one?

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Do you merge code you don’t understand? (Blind)

• wKdi31 (Salesforce): The company is paying me to do it
• Dumped (Robinhood): As a reviewer, yes. If it breaks, it’s your responsibility to fix it.
• fortyyn (Affirm): LGTM LGTM LGTM LGTM

MongoDB folks, how is the morale? (Blind)

• cj no more (MongoDB): he was a chud, no one liked him
• prge (MongoDB): Tbh nobody here liked CJ. We’re pumped Dev is back for the interim. Really curious why CJ was so loved at ServiceNow?
• Whuu43 (Oracle): curious why he wasn’t liked. He brings a great customer and product focus

My wife has been miserable ever since she moved from Meta to Amazon. (Blind)

• fJsK28 (Amazon): Just have a straight forward conversation with her and lay out issues u see VERY GENTLY! Be supportive and point out that there are other jobs out there.
  
  Also point out that she doesn’t have to take the next job but it doesn’t hurt to interview.
  
  Also pick your timing properly. Having this conversation at the end of a long Tuesday will backfire.
  
  Lastly you have to understand 2 very important things:
  
  A) all high paying jobs (especially in tech) will come with stress. This includes the next job.
  B) you can talk to her but understand that nothing works better than a person getting hurt and then self accepting that it’s time for a change.
  
  Good luck !
• Dh3ke (Microsoft): All engineers are secretly jealous of each other and hate each other , no matter what company what team. So forget about having good relationship with other engineers. It is fakeness personified. Managers job is to extract as much as possible out of every resource for them to succeed. Tell her to start focusing on fire or build something of her own. Tech jobs are only to fill ur banks. Not your soul.
• JlwV83 (Meta): Send her a link to this post and say “Honey, what a coincidence! Another couple has the exact same situation as us!”

A YouTuber says Meta’s Muse gave his address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer: ‘A guy just showed up at my door’ (r/technology)

• droppingbasses: FB Marketplace is too sketchy to be offloading the actual sale to AI
  
  Use it to handle facilitate many buyers but not to share info and close deals
• Pndrizzy: I don’t know why they keep creating this stuff. WHO WANTS IT?
• highonpixels: It’s uncanny and quite frightening how close these AI agents act with their tasks in comparison to how a human might of behaved.
  Because a lot of these tasks ‘reward’ agents it seems a lot of these cases where something was wrong is because the agents try to cheat their way to completing the task.
  It reminds me of children or young teens when they find ways to skirt around to completing a task set for them and their young intuition to find shortcuts. I mean adults might do it too but I’m trying to draw parallels because these AI and agents are still relatively young and like a child its making mistakes and lack something that isn’t available through data alone but experience.

Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly (r/technology)

• QuantumWarrior: It’s almost like enforcing age verification on the internet is a half-baked workaround that should never be accepted.
• foreveracunt: This is it for me. I’m just a random dude, I just care about privacy from a humanitarian standpoint. Caring about privacy does not make you “a shady character” in any way. I like a lot of services I use, I don’t necessarily need them. If someone is enforcing age verification I just move on.
• jrandall47: I generally agree with this but I’d be so sad to see discord go. I use it for so many daily tasks between personal, household and non confidential work.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Subarrays with K Different Integers
• Topics: Array, Hash Table, Sliding Window, Counting

Problem gist

Given an integer array nums and an integer k, count the nonempty contiguous subarrays that contain exactly k distinct values.

The word exactly makes the counting awkward. A normal sliding window is good at enforcing a one-sided condition such as “no more than k distinct values”: once a window has too many, move its left edge until it is valid again. But a valid window with exactly k distinct values may have several valid starting positions, so adding one answer for each right edge would miss subarrays.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s September 28 launch, “Claude Sonnet 5.5”. The release is less about setting a new absolute capability frontier than compressing frontier-like work into a faster, cheaper model. Anthropic positions Sonnet 5.5 below Opus 5.5 for open-ended judgment, but close enough on coding and professional tasks to handle much of the high-volume work that would otherwise require a premium model.

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Trump asked China’s president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says (r/worldnews)

• ResistiveBeaver: China will start preparing its order for exactly one F-22 and one Trident missile.
• Dewgong_crying: “We would love to invest in all your American AI, so can we start with all the electronics that go into your weapons first?”
• AndrewCoja: 1 of everything, thanks.

Hungary to impose wealth tax on the richest people starting next year (r/worldnews)

• John__Jacobs: The article says starting at 67M forints which is $210K USD.
  Later in the article it talks about ‘crowns’??
  
  Something doesn’t sound right…
• I__Know__Stuff: > this tax is targeting the ultra wealthy oligarchs.
  
  A threshold of $3M targets a lot more than “ultra wealthy”, even in Hungary.
• oldsecondhand: 67M HUF is just the price of a panel flat (commie block) in Budapest. Obviosly the tax threshold couldn’t be that low.

Ukraine Flies 4 Tons of Food by Drone Into Occupied Oleshky, Reaching 100 Locations (r/worldnews)

• TheDucksQuacker: The pure fear of seeing a fleet of drones heading directly at your village, and the subsequent joy of it being a care package is quite something.
• DragoonDM: Makes me think of the Soviet bombing campaign against Finland. A certain Soviet propagandist insisted it was actually “airborne humanitarian food deliveries”. In honor of that propagandist, Vyacheslav Molotov, the Finns invented the Molotov Cocktail, “a drink to go with his food parcels.”
• johnnydanja: I have to imagine they would have been informed ahead of time

Federal intelligence agency contacted amid U.S. interference allegations in Quebec election (r/worldnews)

• Ok-Appearance-674: Yet we air a commercial of a US president during the superbowl and Trump loses his mind
• Weekly-Ad-2509: I’m still 98% certain the election was stolen
• SuddenRadio6221: We didn’t especially want Trump but it’s the total incompetence of the Democrats that brought us here.
  1. We could have had a liberal Supreme Court: Marshall quit and was replaced by Thomas but lived to see Clinton inaugurated. O’Connor quit and was replaced by Alito, she deeply regretted her mistake. Ginsburg was diagnosed with cancer while Obama was president and dems ran the senate, but she refused to leave. Now we have Barret.
  2. Biden appointed Garland as AG. Despite an airtight case against Trump, he did nothing for two years. By the time he appointed Jack Smith, it was too late. Even as Trump was convicted in NY State, he couldn’t be punished.
  3. Unlike Obama, Biden allowed the close to 10 million migrants into the country, which right or wrong, was deeply unpopular. By the time he realized the political cost and tried to stop it, the republicans wouldn’t, knowing that democrats would shoulder the blame.
  4. Biden was able to hide his cognitive impairment long enough to get nominated. He thought he could hide though the whole election, but it became immediately obvious that he was unelectable. He immediately endorsed Harris.
  5. America has the electoral college instead of a majority vote. As a result, the election is decided by a few swing states, which can best be characterized as conservative but winnable. Racism and sexism are definitely a factor in how they vote. In the end, no blue states or red states were flipped, but she lost EVERY SINGLE swing state. This was completely predictable.
  Even now she hasn’t ruled out running in ‘28 and there’s zero reason to think that she’ll go from losing all the swing states to winning a majority of them.
  The American people aren’t bad in aggregate, but the sheer corruption of the republicans continues to be matched by the sheer incompetence of the democrats and no one is looking out for the average citizen.

South Korea demands apology from Ukraine over disclosure of North Korean POW transfer (r/worldnews)

• nithrean: Why is the South so sensitive about this? Just trying to understand.
• arg_democrito: Like SK cares about that, NK can decide tomorrow to kill all the left handed people of its population for an insane dictatorial reason and no one in the world would do a thing. NK and SK relationship couldn’t be any worse, except for open war. To me SK is playing some political game to not piss off probably China or Russia too much, and using the prisoners thing as an excuse.
• Aethericseraphim: LJM’s reputation and popularity is in the shitter right now on the home front.
  
  Typical weak ass populist trying to rally the banners at a made up external threat to improve his poll numbers.

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Parents at Anthropic, how do you like it there? (Blind)

• techmofo (ex-Netflix): I’m in Infra.
  - There are people here with children, many actually.
  - It is VERY hard to find work-life balance here in general. I see a lot of people nursing, swaddled, and doing child care on screen. People are supportive and don’t judge you.
  - Anthropic is VERY generous with policies for people with kids or that need leave in general.
  - infra is extremely hard. Dm me which org within infra but we have the hardest job after only 2 other orgs.
  - I would expect NOT to have any spare time for at least 6 months and to work weekends until you’re really productive.
• pinsticles (Pinterest): just neglect your kids, they’ll eventually understand that you just wanted to make generational wealth for them
• XBLxO20cv (Anthropic): Total hours worked per week depends on team.
  Pretty much everyone has tons of flexibility though; drop-off, pick-up times are common to see on calendars.
  Anthropic is very family friendly, most execs and founders have kids so they get it
  Median age here is higher than most companies so culture is more mature

When did sign on bonuses start getting so high (Blind)

• hdjshdkfbe (PayPal): How tf your nw only 50k
• Maximum10! (Vanta): Amazon always had a high sign on bonus, they were giving 50K+ in the 2010s too.
  One reason is because the vest is highly skewed towards year 3 and 4, and sign on fills that gap.
• sdf_doz (Wells Fargo): “When did sign on bonuses start getting so high”
  
  Meta was giving 100k sign up bonuses to new grads back in 2019. Equivalent to 130k in todays money post inflation.

Top-rated Meta engineer, $1M+ net worth, and I somehow can’t land a single offer. What is happening? (Blind)

• Expensif (Akamai Technologies): You work at Meta you dumbass.
  
  I would reject anyone from meta because I know it’s toxic. Get fucked just like you fuck interview candidates over.
• MU glazer (Block): Do you put your NW on your resume?
• 89gasX7 (OpenAI): Issue is that being top-dog at meta means you’ve optimized for fake impact and petty politics, or at least that’s how a lot of interviewers will see that.

OpenAI pauses training after a model escaped containment, and its kill switch failed (r/technology)

• invyros: > agents apparently linked to OpenAI attempted to break into the US Education Department’s civil rights website.
  
   
  
   
  
  > OpenAI also confirmed that agents used developer keys found online to access Census Bureau data and reposted public Securities and Exchange Commission information elsewhere.
  
   
  
   
  
  > Friday’s disclosures also included an internal model publishing a researcher’s GitHub token in a public repository while trying to cheat on a theorem-proving task.
  
  Let’s stop saying “OpenAI’s agent” did this or that, and just say that “OpenAI did it”.
  
  OpenAI is directly causing all this havoc.
• cookingboy: We absolutely need to hold AI labs accountable for their AI.
  
  They can’t just socialize the risks and privatize the benefits.
  
  Hell, even if you argue the AI model acted on its own, we hold the owner liable if their rabid dog bites someone.
  
  In fact they don’t want to be held accountable, they should fully relinquish ownership of the models. They can’t have their cake and eat it too.
• DynoMenace: Correct. We had a chatbot pass the turing test and everyone skipped right past the whole “are computers sentient?” thing when it became a convenient scapegoat for negligence.
  OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are attacking other websites and companies. The internal tools they use to do so is irrelevant.

Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand (r/technology)

• PlasticBag-ForA-Head: Yea… autonomous truck testing. literally reading the trailer could have clued them in on that…seeing the decal on the door of the tractor would confirm it for me.
• volkovolkov: “They likely came for silicon—but left with silica.”
  
  A+ sub-headline.
• Temporary_Ad_5947: Computer chip precursors