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When a Weekday Gets under the Skin

The “Monday blues” sound like a passing complaint: the weekend ends, obligations return, and mood dips for a few hours. “Mondays Really Are More Stressful,” by medical sociologist Tarani Chandola and psychologist Benjamin Becker, argues that the pattern can be more durable. For some people, anxiety associated with Monday appears to register not only as a conscious feeling but also as a prolonged change in the body’s stress system.

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Techmeme surfaced Victoria Turk’s August 6 WIRED report, “DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else,” about an AI weather model that could turn one of forecasting’s slowest improvements into a sudden step forward. Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext Cyclones predicts a tropical cyclone’s path, intensity, and wind extent together, and its three-day guidance was, on average, as accurate as leading operational models were at two days. For emergency managers deciding when to evacuate communities, stage supplies, or move crews, an extra day is not an abstract benchmark gain; it is usable preparation time.

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Donald Trump’s attempt to make peace with Iran has led into a strategic dead end. Washington offered unusually generous terms: Iran could regain hundreds of billions of dollars in trade and investment if it reopened the Strait of Hormuz and abandoned any ambition to build a nuclear bomb. Yet renewed fighting suggests that Iran’s hardliners value power, revenge and regional leverage more than economic relief.

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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.