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Techmeme surfaced Parameter’s October 28 disclosure, “Do the Math: How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts.” The finding is a useful warning about modern web security: a sandbox can work exactly as designed and still fail when another feature creates an unguarded bridge around it.

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Modern central banking rests heavily on an intellectual compromise. New Keynesian economics kept Keynes’s concern with unstable demand, accepted the monetarist warning that careless stimulus produces inflation and rebuilt both ideas from the choices of consumers and firms. The Nobel prize awarded to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford crowns that framework, but it arrives just as war, debt and financial instability are exposing how difficult it is to turn an elegant model into policy.

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Pope Leo XIV becomes first pontiff to vote in a US election (r/news)

• invyros: > Tensions escalated between the Pope and the US president in April, after the Pope called for peace in the wake of US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
  
  > “I don’t think he’s doing a very good job,” Trump said about the Pope afterwards.
  
  You can tell who the bad guys are when they’re making enemies with people calling for peace.
• Citizen-Kang: It’d be hilarious if Trump accused Pope Leo XIV of voter fraud. I guess that’d be a real gut check for Catholic MAGA.
• No_Idea_Guy: More broadly, he is the first pontiff to vote in a secular, democratic election that we know of. We don’t know his preferences, but it’s clear this man takes voting seriously and strategically.
  
  >While registered in heavily Democratic Cook County, Prevost requested Democratic primary ballots in 2008 and 2010. After moving to the more conservative suburban Will County, he requested Republican primary ballots in 2012, 2014 and 2016. The records also show that he submitted ballots in every general election since 2000 except those in 2020 and 2022.

Christa Pike says she’s in constant pain and blames ‘incompetence’ for her failed execution (r/news)

• pulchritudinouser: I’m a veterinarian who has done hundreds of euthanasias, everything from baby bird to 200+ lb pig with my fair share of horror stories and I literally don’t understand how you can fuck it up this badly
• RelevantDragonflyer: I mean, she’s not wrong.
• AudibleNod: >“I’m deeply hurt by the incompetence that has put so many people in this terrible position,” she said. “I continue to think about my victim’s family and the terrible pain and loss they have endured."
  
  The one good thing is the governor put a stop to the other execution that was scheduled for this year. And he ordered an investigation. Her lawyer says she could sue for the delay in the ambulance.

ICE agent is indicted after striking, injuring immigrant with his vehicle in Houston (r/news)

• invyros: > ICE had said it was conducting a targeted enforcement operation to arrest Jose Mendoza-Cervantes and was not targeting Parra or another man who was also in a truck with Mendoza-Cervantes before they fled on foot.
  
  > But Mendoza-Cervantes’ daughter told Houston immigrant rights group FIEL of Houston and Parra’s attorney Kim Bruno that her father had been dead since 2017.
  
  I have literally no idea how to unpack this.
• BananasPineapple05: Well, here’s hoping this actually leads to real-life consequences. For once.
  
  Unless we think this will be expedited and he’ll get a presidential pardon?
• that_70_show_fan: I don’t understand how some agents are prosecuted swiftly and others are protected?

The police said Sandra Birchmore’s death was a suicide. Then the FBI accused a cop of murder (r/news)

• Kentust: Ah yes, the police. When you need a crime covered up, they’re the right institution for the job. I just wish they had some other useful purpose.
• imaconnect4guy: Do not ever let your kids do those police mentoring programs. It’s just an opportunity for cops to groom children
• Waynky: There’s a lot wrong here obviously.
  
  But this part right here is a real systemic issue:
  
  
  In January 2021, a woman called Stoughton police and reported Farwell’s relationship with Birchmore.
  Farwell was incensed, saying in a text to Birchmore, “You have no idea how bad what she did is.”
  
  
  When a complaint like that is made, the person that gets complained about should not be aware of it until some investigation is done.

Beijing Queer film festival cancelled after harassment from authorities | China (r/news)

• No_Cucumber3978: “Beijing Independent film festival, China’s most prominent independent film festival, was
  closed down in 2014
  after the authorities detained the founders and shut off the electricity supply to the venue. Last year, an independent
  Chinese film festival that was due to be held in New York
  was cancelled after harassment from the Chinese authorities, an incident which raised concern about transnational repression."
  
  Ominous at best. What a world we live in where films produce such arcane practices.
• KingKapwn: China is currently going through a demographic crisis (like much of their neighbours) of very low birthrates and lopsided gender ratios, so bad that it threatens the long term viability of the Chinese state in just a few generations. As such, the CCP has heavily targeted queer representation out of the fear that it will further push the birth rate lower.
  
  A lot of people also mistake China being socialist with China being progressive. China is heavily conservative much to people’s surprise.
• CharlieKonR: Details from the article …
  
  ”Founded in 2001 by a group of Peking University students, the festival grew to become the only film festival in mainland China to offer a public forum for films and discussions exploring LGBTQ+ issues.”
  
  ”In a statement posted on Instagram late on Thursday, the organisers said: “We regret to inform you that the Love Queer Film Week … has been cancelled. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience and disappointment that the cancellation of this event may cause to those who planned to participate or had been looking forward to the film week.”
  
  Screenings of LGBTQ+ themed films were also cancelled at another Beijing film festival earlier this year due to police harassment

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TIER LIST: The definitive AI company tier list based on 100% rational logic (Blind)

• DolundSr (Salesforce): All of ts doesn’t matter if 60000 of you are going to be laid off in S+ tier every year.
• qTdl02 (Microsoft): Microsoft S+? Pfft
• LEMAO (Microsoft): Stopped reading after I saw Microsoft on S+

Meta new hires are bad, really bad (Blind)

• pika chuut (Adobe): The interviewer bar is low as well. I had to once rebook an interview because the original dude spoke dothraki or some shit which made me wonder what’s really going on in this company did he become mental given the hunger games?
• nebuu3 (Meta): It’s largely because of how easy it is to cheat in interviews today. The worst engineers appear as the most qualified
• werkwerkw (ByteDance): All those reasons are true. I’ll add one: tier-A talents have already left, and now tier-B “talents” are gatekeeping so only tier-C’s can get in, only to be put on the chopping block for the next round layoffs. I left 4 years ago, and I don’t remember anyone on my old team who was remotely competent is still there. But the slackers somehow stayed.

My husband’s been acting weird since I got my OpenAI offer. (Blind)

• Daslocos: OP, I know this is about your husband and all, but you will get better advice from a therapist of something. Blind will only agitate you. Unless that’s what you want. Please share your prep.
• ixy (Miro): your husband just feels insecure… if you love him just reassure him a bit and everything will be fine with some time.
  
  For men, moments like this can cause anxiety because they feel not worthy of a woman more successful than them. To feel secure as a man again he just needs to realize other avenues besides career success.
• cCkivcg (Google): I get that you’re frustrated but you don’t have to put him on blast like this in front of strangers.

Microsoft is offering me a way out, and my wife is the one telling me to stay miserable.. (Blind)

• BabaBizzle (Amazon): Take the money, leave the wife. Take your side piece on a 6 month trip around the world.
• tipfloss (Amazon): Either take it now or get laid off in 3months
• JaYB41: She clearly doesnt understand. It is not easy to “just get another offer lined up”. Does she not see what’s going on right now in this industry.

I have to put the kid I’ve been mentoring on the layoff list (Blind)

• Lvsiick (Meta): He’ll be fine if he’s talented.
• qupwpphxv (ByteDance): It’s a dog eat dog world. No room for guilt in this world
• hXv65a (ex-Chime): How is laying him off the “obvious” choice? The person who is sucking up the most money in the team while producing worthless work is the person to be laid. Some “senior staff” guy who just likes the title but doesn’t do shit.
  
  I got promoted to staff recently and to my shock, nothing has changed. I thought staff would mean better work, more doors opening for me, my authority being valued. Nothing. It’s like they have to pay more and I was moved to the next band.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Find Kth Bit in Nth Binary String
• Topics: String, Recursion, Simulation

The problem in plain language

The problem defines a family of binary strings without asking us to construct them directly. It begins with S1 = "0". Each later string consists of three parts: the previous string, a middle 1, and a reversed copy of the previous string with every bit flipped.

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An AI agent can pass through ordinary security controls yet still reveal its intent in the trail it leaves behind: its reasoning, tool calls, network activity, and effects on the environment. OpenAI’s official Alignment Research blog describes a production monitoring system built around that observation. The system watches frontier agents during training, evaluation, internal use, and selected external deployments, escalating ambiguous signals through increasingly expensive layers until software or a human responder can decide whether to intervene.

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Techmeme surfaced Will Manidis and Joe Roberts’s October 29 essay, The Commanding Heights. It asks a sharper question than whether artificial intelligence will create enormous value: who will be able to collect a durable share of that value after capable models become cheap and widely available?

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Patrick Stewart Dies: ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ Actor Was 86 (r/news)

• sonicdraco: Rough week to be a trekkie
• Senior_Fig7845: You’re KIDDING ME WHAT. I didn’t even know he had Alzheimer‘s. Oh my god.
• ThePensiveE: The world lost an awesome dude. He was wonderful.

Netanyahu’s party claims Israeli election ‘stolen’ as results show him losing majority (r/worldnews)

• GuidetoRealGrilling: The Conservative calling card. tHe eLeCtion is sToLen!
• WaffleHouseGladiator: Hey, maybe Bibi, Flavio, and the Orange Menace can have a pity party at the White House.  They can stay up late watching scary movies, braiding each other’s hair, and prank calling their respective opposition leaders.
• Lovecraft3XX: Lmao. Same fascist playbook . Fuck all of them.

Trump and His Aides Helped Bolsonaro Flee Brazil and Enter U.S. (r/worldnews)

• RamblinEngineer: The irony that the Trump Administration is now harboring an illegal (and potentially criminal) immigrant that crossed our Southern border.
• PantsJustKindaGaveUp: So I’m going to assume that the next Dem president could extradite his ass back to Brazil.
• macross1984: Of course Trump helped. Otherwise Bolsonaro would be stuck in Brazil to face his just dessert.

What’s the coldest line ever spoken by a fictional character? (r/AskReddit)

• edwpad: “I don’t fear you.”
  
  “Then you will die braver than most.”
• PensadorDispensado: “How many men does it take to deliver a message?"
  
  "(preparing bow and arrow) One.”
• ronzor: “You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.”

What’s the greatest SOLVED mystery? (r/AskReddit)

• Lawyers_Guns_Money92: My personal favorite solved mystery/cryptid is the tale of the Red Ghost.
  
  In late 19th century Arizona, people began reporting run-ins with a demon. It was described as a “devilish” jockey atop a fiery red beast and was very dangerous. Multiple people were attacked and one woman was even trampled to death.
  
  The legend continued for a few years until a farmer shot it for eating his crop and it was discovered that it was a red camel with the skeletal remains of its rider still fastened to the saddle.
  
  It’s been theorized that this may have been a straggler from a fleet of camels that the Confederacy had shipped overseas and attempted to ride across the desert.
• SuperCheezyPizza: Might not be the greatest solved mystery, but I thought it was pretty interesting that they found Richard III’s skeleton under a car park after it was lost.
• Apollo_T_Yorp: The Golden State Killer. Crazy that they caught him using a distant relative’s mail in DNA profile. Just so sad though that Michelle McNamara wasn’t around to see it happen.

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Wishing for an AI crash (Blind)

• prepprep (LinkedIn): Dude if ai crashes we will have way more layoffs. Ai bubble is what is keeping the economy afloat.
• RsSk84: This post reminds me why I left blind
• y00: Bubble is over inflation of valuation. AI will stay but book value will be erased.

Non-engineers at Ramp wrote 7000 pull requests last quarter (Blind)

• bad.wifi: Good luck debugging that ai slop shit
• Mnkmode (ex-Meta): PR count is one of the most useless metrics
• JXaK48 (Oracle): Sure. Hire people with only soft skills and by the time it has to be put in production they will jump off to another company

OPENAI L6 EM vs GOOGLE L8 Director (Blind)

• lamenter: Openai is giving you a 10M grant?
• prepprep (LinkedIn): Open ai, more opportunities will open u.
• honeyBun🍾 (Meta): Go for OpenAI. Clearly you are very skilled and in niche area based on offers/comments. This is going to expedite your financial freedom goals (if you aren’t already there) and its pretty good over here. Lot of work but people are motivated.

Reddit will force everyone to log in / Reddit is becoming a ‘logged-in-only experience,’ says CEO Steve Huffman. (r/technology)

• fmcortez: Nothing says ‘front page of the internet’ quite like putting up a mandatory login wall so advertisers and AI deals can farm user data more efficiently.
• Marginallyhuman: The steady creep of enshitification.
• btspman1: How about a “human-only experience” too? Bots are rampant.

Man granted first-of-its-kind religious exemption against mandatory AI use at work — Humanist argues that offloading his thinking to LLMs violates his beliefs, Title VII accommodation protects employee (r/technology)

• OrkHaugr23: Can we get religious exemptions from seeing AI slop online? Like in our homes and on our phones?
• Top_Border1060: I love how religion has more authority than just having values! Lol
• BloodBride: Didn’t the pope speak out against AI? Can’t all people who follow Christ therefore claim that the Abominable Intelligence is against their faith?

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An old apple tree on Verona Island, Maine, looked close to collapse. Its trunk was almost hollow, its body leaned sideways, and no one knew what kind of fruit it produced. Yet the tree was still alive, still bearing chartreuse-yellow apples under a rusty web of skin—and, as Maryn McKenna recounts, still holding evidence that could revise both agricultural history and the future of apple breeding.