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Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026 (www.riksbank.se)
11 hours ago
An agreement has been reached to enable offline card payments for essential goods by July 1, 2026. This initiative aims to enhance Sweden's payment system resilience against digital disruptions, particularly important given the country's high relianc...
Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits (www.cnbc.com)
15 hours ago
Artificial intelligence is currently experiencing an "industrial bubble," characterized by inflated valuations and indiscriminate funding of ideas, both good and bad. This excitement disconnects stock prices from fundamental business realities, a com...
The collapse of the econ PhD job market (www.chrisbrunet.com)
14 hours ago
The economics PhD job market is experiencing a significant collapse, with job postings down approximately 30-35% in three years. This decline is particularly acute for tenure-track academic positions, which are the primary goal for most PhD graduates...
OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup (www.wheresyoured.at)
15 hours ago
The organization is presented as a diverse entity, allegedly exploring ventures in social media with generative video, workplace productivity tools, and an AI-powered hiring platform. It's also suggested to be moving into advertising for its services...
I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone (forums.macrumors.com)
1 day ago
The core issue is the complexity of modern smartphones for elderly users. Setting up and unlocking devices with passcodes and biometric authentication proved difficult due to forgetfulness and technical errors. The user interface presents too many op...
PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports (pep-previews--4622.org.readthedocs.build)
13 hours ago
This proposal introduces an explicit "lazy" keyword for imports in Python. This feature allows modules to be loaded only when their names are first used, rather than immediately when the import statement is encountered. This can significantly reduce ...
California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness (www.governance.fyi)
18 hours ago
Cities in Texas have achieved significant reductions in street homelessness by implementing structured systems, contrasting with California's struggles despite extensive spending. Key to their success is a centralized "backbone" organization with aut...
Social anxiety isn't about being liked (chrislakin.blog)
16 hours ago
Social anxiety is not primarily driven by a desire to be liked, but rather by an intense fear of being disliked. The behaviors associated with social anxiety, such as shrinking one's presence, appearing less assertive, and reducing social interaction...
Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ (www.foxbusiness.com)
1 day ago
Apple removed the ICEBlock app from its App Store due to concerns raised by the Department of Justice about potential safety risks to law enforcement officers. Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed the department's request to Apple, stating the app en...
The Crete Fleet – Concrete Tugs and Barges from WWI (thecretefleet.com)
2 days ago
This website serves as an online encyclopedia for concrete ships built during World War I and World War II, as well as Mulberry Harbours. It provides detailed information on British and U.S. concrete vessels from both wars, including historical conte...
LoRA Without Regret (thinkingmachines.ai)
4 days ago
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, particularly low-rank adaptation (LoRA), offer significant advantages over full fine-tuning by updating a much smaller set of parameters. LoRA replaces large weight matrices with smaller low-rank approx...
Isotopic analysis determines that water once flowed on asteroid Ryugu (phys.org)
3 days ago
This page presents a security verification challenge designed to ensure a user is not a bot. The primary mechanism is a "Press and Hold" button that requires sustained interaction until it turns green. This interactive step is presented as a measure ...
Effective context engineering for AI agents (www.anthropic.com)
4 days ago
The field is moving from prompt engineering to context engineering, which focuses on optimizing the configuration of tokens provided to a language model to achieve desired behavior. This involves managing the entire context state, including system in...
Discrete Fourier Transform (nima101.github.io)
4 days ago
The document explains how to multiply polynomials efficiently using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Traditional polynomial multiplication has a time complexity of \(O(N^2)\). FFT offers an \(O(N \log N)\) solution by converting polynomials from the...
TrueVault (YC W14) Is Hiring a BDR (Ex-ECommerce Manager) (www.ycombinator.com)
10 hours ago
This page is a job posting for a Business Development Representative (BDR) at TrueVault, a privacy software company. The role specifically seeks individuals with prior DTC eCommerce Manager experience to transition into SaaS sales. Key responsibiliti...
The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is full of var statements (vincentrolfs.dev)
2 days ago
Modern JavaScript provides `const` and `let` for variable declarations, offering block scoping and a Temporal Dead Zone (TDZ). The TDZ prevents access to a variable before its initialization, acting as a safeguard against referencing uninitialized va...
Hamas accepts Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza, but with conditions (www.washingtonpost.com)
37 minutes ago
We know how the Venus fly trap turns touch into traps (newatlas.com)
1 hour ago
Scientists have uncovered the mechanism behind how the Venus fly trap, a plant lacking a nervous system or brain, initiates its trap closure. The process involves trigger hairs on the trap's modified leaves that require two distinct touches within a ...
From O(n) to O(1): Expiring 10M TTL Keys in Go (github.com)
1 hour ago
This library provides a high-performance, generic hierarchical timing wheel for efficient timer management at scale in Go. It addresses limitations of the standard `time.Timer` when dealing with millions of timers, offering O(1) expiration per tick c...