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The moon feels permanent because its changes are almost invisible on a human timescale. Phil Plait’s Scientific American column looks much farther ahead and finds that the moon’s future is not a simple matter of drifting steadily away. Its fate depends first on the tidal exchange between Earth and the moon, then on the loss of Earth’s oceans, and finally on the aging Sun.

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Techmeme surfaced CrowdStrike’s October 7 report, “Unknown Threat Actor Uses AI-Driven ARTEX to Target South Korean Finance”. The report is a rare look inside a real intrusion campaign that used an AI penetration-testing agent, not merely a demonstration of what such tools might someday do.

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Economic stagnation is no longer confined to a few obvious laggards. Around 3.3bn people now live in countries where GDP per person grew at no more than half its pace in the previous decade. That is more than two people in five, up from roughly one in six a decade earlier. For more than 730m people, the measure is actually falling.

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An Ebola treatment center was burned down as the death toll in Congo passes 4,000 (r/worldnews)

• tilleytalley: Burnt down by soldiers.
• Getoff-my_8allz: Sounds like treatment and prevention isn’t wanted there, maybe pull back and let them handle themselves? These doctors could be elsewhere saving people and instead have to deal with these dangers as well. If they value their traditions over living let them be.
• Mediocre_Tank_5013: I know I seen an article last week that said 8k

US sends 2,000 Marines, carrier strike group to Mideast in Iran buildup (r/worldnews)

• TahDigThief: More than 2,000 US Marines and the Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group are heading to the Middle East as Washington expands its military presence around Iran, Al Jazeera Arabic reported Thursday, citing an unnamed US official.
  
  The official said the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and its accompanying warships had departed San Diego for the region, while a Marine expeditionary force left the base earlier this week.
  
  By the end of November, the United States is expected to have three aircraft carriers and two amphibious groups deployed around Iran, according to the official.
  
  The official said concentrating that level of US military power in the region would give Washington “many options” in dealing with Tehran.
• SlumdogSkillionaire: How many aircraft carriers do you need for a war you’ve already won? Three seems excessive.
• Numerous-Bowler-8677: 2000 is too small for ground invasion right? Or is Trump going after Iran islands?

What cartoon was a 10/10 masterpiece, but somehow got completely erased from collective pop culture memory? (r/AskReddit)

• heyyoudvd2: Freakazoid!
  
  It was Deadpool before Deadpool.
• ptdisc: Woody the woodpecker
• Dracorex13: Swat Kats.

What was a brand you used to be loyal to, but would no longer recommend to anyone now? (r/AskReddit)

• ftran998: Ralph Lauren. Sorry, their polo shirts are not worth nearly $120.
• kidkarma: Marlboro. Smoked ‘em for years. Turns out, they’re bad for you? Anyway, 0/10. Would not recommend.
• CosmicChaos: Victoria’s Secret bras. They fall apart so fast now

What’s something people in their 20s won’t truly understand until they hit their 40s? (r/AskReddit)

• waitingforgf: Health is Wealth
• Interesting_Net1297: You look much nicer now than you think you do.
• ItchyK: How much life really sucks.

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People excited on LinkedIn after getting laid off (Blind)

• _anony🐭 (GoDaddy): LinkedIn is a cringefest
• yippeekai (Verily): Blind is negativity. LinkedIn is positivity.
• 111!! (Amazon): I genuinely wish people had the courage to openly discuss atrocities and the job market on LinkedIn. The industry has been ruined by sugarcoating and fake, performative positivity.

This market is wild (Blind)

• Not-a-SWE (Google): Companies with more resources can afford to interview more candidates. I was accepted by Harvard and rejected by my state flagship. My mom was a similar situation; Harvard was one of the few schools during her time that accepted women.
• zLei37 (SoFi): I’ve talked to 17 companies this year and only one of them was from an application. The rest reached out to me. One of them even rejected my application a month earlier and then a recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn.
  
  Applying is an absolute crapshoot luck of the draw situation. You have to make it past the AI filters with the keywords they are looking for, and then be lucky enough to be in the most recent 20 resumes that the HM looks at, before they get tired of it and go back to their regular job.
• hvnisabed (Wikimedia): My experience as well. Getting interviews at top tier AI startups and getting ghosted from no names. Never been in such a weird market.

Entire savings sitting in cash (Blind)

• NoAzCrody (Amazon): Bruh. you had 1.5M since 2019? Should be at least 25M by now if you played in right. 10 at least if you went with the safest ETFs
• keEM87 (Meta): Say it after me: Time in the market beats timing the market
• pqs888 (Broadcom): Don’t overthink. Many people give you unnecessary wisdom on this garbage app when they have lost 100s of thousands of making big through speculative stocks like ark invest. Voo looks no brainer but no one really likes it. Very very few people make big out of stocks. Simply speaking, you may have lost some money to inflation but you are lucky not losing 1.5m in gambling stocks. If you have long term horizon, keep slowly DCAing on Voo.
  
  Keep in mind, Voo on average gives 7-8% returns. From past 2 years it gave 20% .. so good thing may or may not continue and assess your strategy beased on whether you want to keep it very long term 15+ years

AMZN layoffs meeting invite Scheduled (Blind)

• turbodunce (Intuit): It’s a surprise promotion!
• gtph4312 (Amazon): That’s the standard getting fired meeting.
  
  Mass layoffs just get an email, no manager/HR 1:1 cause the manager isn’t aware of the layoff till it happens.
• coffee777 (Synopsys): It’s clearly a layoff meeting. The standard layoff procedure in India. Be prepared. Take any important personal data from your laptop.

Hubspot lays off 7% (Blind)

• hryi (DocuSign): Writing is on the wall for their product. Expect another 40% cuts
• njhdxh (Google): Wow. The most underperforming person in that company is the CEO. The stock performance is for everyone to see. Sure they weren’t gutted. The rot runs deep
• Sjfvk00 (DoubleVerify): Their recruiters were spamming me hard just a few months ago. This market sucks, every job lead looks like a mouse trap

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling
• Topics: Array, Binary Search, Dynamic Programming, Sorting

The problem in plain language

Each job has a start time, an end time, and a profit. The goal is to choose a set of jobs that do not overlap and earn as much total profit as possible. A job ending at time x is compatible with one starting at time x.

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An agent is not just a language model. Its behavior also depends on the harness that manages context, tools, retries, subagents, and execution environments. That creates an awkward gap for reinforcement learning: many training systems own the interaction loop themselves, so engineers must reproduce the production harness inside the trainer. In “Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses,” published by the official Microsoft Research Blog, Microsoft Research Asia proposes a cleaner boundary. The deployed harness stays intact and participates directly in training.

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Techmeme surfaced OpenAI’s October 6 release, “Sharing AI progress in mathematics.” The headline number is extraordinary: an unreleased internal model produced 722 manuscripts organized into 372 families of related results, after being given roughly 4,000 open research problems.

The most consequential part is not any one claimed theorem. It is the possibility that frontier mathematical research has crossed from occasional machine-assisted breakthroughs into high-throughput production. If a meaningful share of the catalog survives expert scrutiny, the scarce resource is no longer only the ability to generate a proof. It is the human capacity to check, understand, connect, teach, and decide what to do with hundreds of proofs arriving at once.

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Mike Tyson once said “social media made people too comfortable disrespecting others and not getting punched in the face for it” What’s a real-life example of someone learning that lesson? (r/AskReddit)

• yearsofpractice: Actual literal Mike Tyson giving some wanker a slap on an aeroplane because he kept getting in Tyson’s face.
• TraditionalBackspace: The only thing some people respond to are serious consequences for their actions.
• Seraph782: When a coworker violated HIPAA to look up another coworker’s brother’s motorcycle accident and proceeded to post about it IN DETAIL on her FB page. He just happened to be brought to our hospital as the accident was serious enough to need a level 1 trauma facility for care–and my old job was the only one for three states.
  
  She was fired within the week, sued by the family in court for damages eventually and fined after an investigation revealed she’d asked someone how to thoroughly read his charts as doctors documented under her own login in our electronic health record system and the person told them how even though they knew “she told me how to do it” wouldn’t show up in the information log–nosy coworker’s login would accessing places she had no reason to be.
  
  The coworker whose brother it was understandably didn’t want to talk about her brother possibly dying so Nosy took it upon herself to find out–and run her mouth.
  
  When another coworker asked the sister how did the surgery she had told no one went for his leg, she knew something was up and people who were Nosy’s friend screenshot her detailed Facebook posts about her brother and how she “had a right to know” so “she could pray at her church for her brother’s soul should he die” because it was bad enough and he actually could.
  
  Her brother lived, by the way. And Nosy was blackballed from the healthcare industry for life for this–she can’t even get a job mopping floors in a clinic because of this. Violating HIPAA is a federal charge and it’s on her record for life.

People over 35: What is a bad habit you had in your 20s that you didn’t realize would catch up to you so brutally in your 30s? (r/AskReddit)

• tickletaylor: Avoiding social obligations, now there are none to avoid
• apfelblondchen: procrastination
• ItemOk8415: Lack of movement. This is the answer for every version of this question. If you don’t move it, you lose it. I’m not telling you lift heavy, or run ultramarathons. Just move your body everyday.
  
  We as a society have moved away from movement. We sit all day at work, we come home and sit and watch tv, scroll our phones or play video games for the evenings.

Gov. Newsom signs bill to end child marriage in California (r/news)

• still_Here_8647: not sure why we’re just getting around to this now, but ok
• StevieOfPhoenix: It’s wild that this only makes 18 states with this law
• SteveJobsBlakSweater: > her parents allowed her to marry actor Doug Hutchison when she was 16 and he was 51.
  
  Excuse me wtf? What kind of reptile looks to marry a person who wasn’t even alive before they hit midlife? Go by a motorcycle or whatever old guys do. Don’t go banging kids.

Larry Nassar one of more than 20,000 people removed from Michigan Sex Offender Registry (r/news)

• Least_Baseball_7985: …because we’re giving them all the death penalty” is how the headline should read
• DamD1rtyApe: John Oliver better talk about this
• Jogger_Dodger: He’s in prison for life, who cares if he’s on a registration list?

Renee Good’s family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis (r/news)

• mdistrukt: I’m predicting a motion to dismiss based on sovereign immunity as I fail to believe this administration (not that prior admins would have either tbh, but this one especially) will allow itself to be sued.
• Harry_Mud: It was murder and ICE, and many others, knows it………….
• redditforprez1: And I bet her mom will load that ballot with Rs next month. I just can’t with this fucking country.

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Why is my Anthropic offer barely above my Google L5? (Blind)

• coinbased. (Coinbase): Which company do you think will increase in value more? Anthropic. The answer is Anthropic.
• Acmonfc (Pinterest): How did you prep OP? What resources did you use? Also Anthropic is the better choice.
• pTvV57 (Google): Sounds about right for a senior role at Anthropic. I got 315k base and 900k/4, so 540k/yr. They don’t negotiate so that was it. Recruiters tell you equity will be worth a lot more at IPO but who knows.
  
  Staff offer was 325k base and 1.6m/4 but they were not hiring for that level

I started to hand write code again (Blind)

• nzwswing79: It’s weird and stupid interviewers who are dumb as fk.
• cfdyu (Meta): Why are you looking for change? Nice TC and google
• 🆒♾️❕ (Meta): sounds like a waste of time, but good luck!

OpenAI firing safety researchers is a bad look imo (Blind)

• nzwswing79: 70+ hours /week is ridiculous WLB, i would reject such jobs even if it goes beyond 300k
• HaoZhang (Meta): Complaining nagging woketards who hide under the garb of safety should be fired IMHO. Respectfully.
• wayter (Wayfair): These safety researchers are mostly clowns. Good riddance

US Senate kills bill that could potentially shield Americans from skyrocketing power bills due to AI data centers — opponents say bill is ’toothless’ and doesn’t do enough to protect citizens (r/technology)

• Kamel-Red: It was a messaging bill with zero enforceable standards so that the Republicans can try to say they’ve done something other than making life harder and more expensive for the working class while cutting taxes for the rich over the past two years. Typical partisan hackary.
• OpSecBestSex: “It sought to institute a federal standard for states and Public Utility Commissions, directing regulators to consider whether entities that consume large amounts of electricity, such as data centers, should cover the incremental costs of energy infrastructure needed to serve them."
  
  So this bill does literally nothing of substance because nothing is stopping regulators from considering this right now as we speak. This bill was only designed to make Republicans look good right before the midterms, so that they can win and continue screwing us for the next two years.
• Jendalar: the companies who build these datacenters could easily build their own power stations.

Chick-fil-A takes a stand against fast-food drive-thru AI trend (r/technology)

• Deranged40: Chik-fil-a and In-n-out have both got it figured out. It baffles me every time I go to either one. They both always have a line around the building, 15 people clocked in at once, almost never get your order wrong, and their biggest struggle seems to be finding more places to stuff all the cash they’re bringing in.
  
  Meanwhile, Burger King begrudgingly staffs two people at the same time, gets overwhelmed when someone orders more than two burgers, and gets the order wrong most of the time.
• BowlEducational6722: It really is funny how Chick-fil-A has laid out a model for fast food success and so many other franchises just…choose to go the opposite direction and double down on enshittification.
• Number1BestYogurtBoi: I won’t go to any restaurant with an AI drive thru. I may be left with only Chick-fil-A soon by the looks of things.