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www.cnbc.com 4h ago

Amazon cuts some jobs in its artificial general intelligence unit

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www.wsj.com 5h ago

The Startup Insiders Who Stash Sums in Tax-Subsidized Retirement Accounts

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www.bloomberg.com 5h ago

OpenAI Names BNY, Nubank CEOs to Board Ahead of IPO

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www.americanbanker.com 5h ago

JPMorgan Owns AI Answers. Here's how rivals can compete..

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www.semafor.com 6h ago

Banks pay backhanded compliments to private credit

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www.reuters.com 13h ago

A year in a foxhole: How one Ukrainian soldier survived beneath the front lines

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www.newyorker.com 14h ago

Florentina Holzinger's Naked Ambition

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apnews.com 14h ago

White House used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

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www.ft.com 17h ago

Samsung in talks to invest in Mistral at €20B valuation

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archive.org 19h ago

Human, All Too Human: Martin Heidegger (1999) [video]

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archive.org 19h ago

Galloping Galaxies (1985-1986)

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www.reuters.com 22h ago

Boeing asks US to intervene over record EU loan to Airbus

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www.reuters.com 22h ago

Brazil and US clash over future of payments as Pix system stirs global interest

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apnews.com 1d ago

US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years

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www.history.com 1d ago

May 2, 1960: Dick Clark survives the Payola scandal

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www.bloomberg.com 1d ago

Treasury Flags Concern over 'Potentially Abusive' Tax Trades

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www.msn.com 1d ago

Claude Opus 4.5 defied CEO, helped employee blow whistle about safety concerns

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thealtview.substack.com 1d ago

Hamilton Lane's *Office Space* Problem

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www.liquid.ai 1d ago

Tokenizer Expansion: Upgrading a Model's Tokenizer in Place

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www.thebanker.com 1d ago

US banks insulated from AI data centre downturn

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www.bloomberg.com 1d ago

AI's Next Big Breakthrough Is Looking Pretty Scary

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www.bloomberg.com 1d ago

Expect More Data Center Moratoriums – and Slower Growth

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www.nationalreview.com 1d ago

MAGA Media Lap Up Trump's Election-Interference Exaggerations

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www.businessinsider.com 1d ago

What I got wrong about FIRE

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www.bloomberg.com 2d ago

DOJ Probes Harvard Financial Aid, Alleging China Donor Influence

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www.9fin.com 2d ago

'More stable than real estate': How software's reliable revenue started to crack

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www.bloomberg.com 2d ago

Mark Walter's Insurers, Guggenheim Probed by Prosecutors

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www.accreditedinsight.com 2d ago

The Agricultural Revolution in Private Markets

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www.lighthousereports.com 2d ago

Cut to the Bone: Farmers at the Mercy of the Meat Monopolists

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www.ft.com 2d ago

Trump to fund MAGA-aligned projects in Europe as he reorders US aid

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This reminded me of Hans Keller's wordless functional musical analysis. I came across it listening to his documentary on Schoenberg, available here: https://archive.org/download/miscellaneous_plays_1983-02-07_...

"Keller would construct an analysis in the form of an analytic score written for the same forces as the work under consideration and structured as a succession of 'analytic interludes' designed to be played between its movements."[1]

[1] https://www.artandpopularculture.com/Wordless_functional_ana...

For some URLs given one of their old Wayback Machine entries it would be nice to be able to render those in their contemporaneous browser environments (e.g., going way back maybe Mosaic 3.0 or IE 10) to maybe then have a chance of working with some close facsimile of the original interface and functionality.

Years ago a real estate agent driving me around to look at property relayed a somewhat pessimistic aphorism he'd picked up from his father: Life's a shit sandwich, the more bread you have the less it tastes like shit.

C2FO | Research Engineer | Seattle | ONSITE, Full time, Visa considered | https://c2fo.com

The C2FO lab is charged with developing tools for small businesses to help them win the fight against their own unpredictable cash flow using networks instead of traditional financial intermediaries, e.g., banks.

Today we work mainly in Go and JavaScript and put roughly equal emphasis on writing papers and writing software. Team members need to be able to define their own areas of interest, write their own supporting documents, and lead their own coding projects while welcoming help and input from others. Simultaneous with the largely independent effort is a need to demonstrate to stakeholders outside the team why your work is valuable.

Our interview process consists of an initial conference call to assess mutual interest, then one or more onsite interviews in Pioneer Square.

C2FO as an organization is headquartered in Kansas City and has some great investors on board including Mithril Capital Management, Temasek, and Union Square Ventures. We have a separate, larger engineering team that we collaborate with and that publishes open source at https://github.com/c2fo.

The position includes an excellent compensation package (commensurate with experience), equity ownership, Health Benefits, 401K and more.

If interested, please email pete@c2fo.com.

EDIT: added benefits blurb

Salespeople are most effective in situations where convincing one person or one committee within a large prospective company to buy your product will unleash tens or better yet hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to you, the seller. Most other situations should probably be handled with a great web page that shows reasonable pricing.

Seattle (Pioneer Square)

C2FO - https://c2fo.com - hiring a software engineer for a small labs team.

We maintain a web platform dynamically pricing working capital so companies can connect on the web to meet each others' cash flow needs without involving traditional financial intermediaries, e.g., banks.

The platform runs as a marketplace similar to a stock exchange where the assets considered are approved invoices. We work mainly in Go and Node.js on the backend. Our open source projects are available at https://github.com/C2FO. We also have some great investors on board including Mithril Capital Management, Temasek,and Union Square Ventures.

If interested, please email pete@c2fo.com.

Press release regarding C2FO's most recent venture raise is here: https://www.pehub.com/2015/08/c2fo-snaps-up-40-mln-in-temase...

Watching the GSN video on YouTube I was struck by the generic presentation of non-cash prizes. Press Your Luck was apparently content to just mention the contestant won a "Sailboat" without tethering it to a brand which seems like overlooked opportunity even for the simpler time since contemporaries like The Price Is Right were integrating brands into their show.

Kansas City, MO

C2FO - https://c2fo.com - hiring software engineers.

Our name stands for "Collaborative Cash Flow Optimization" and we maintain a web platform that dynamically prices working capital so companies of any size can connect with each other to meet cash flow needs without involving traditional financial intermediaries like banks or financial factors.

The platform runs as a marketplace similar to a stock exchange where the assets considered are approved invoices. We work mainly in JavaScript and particularly node.js; our open source projects are available at https://github.com/C2FO. We also have some great investors on board including Mithril Capital Management, Summerhill Venture Partners, and Union Square Ventures.

More about the openings at https://github.com/C2FO/jobs

One question perhaps worth asking: Why do this piece and the many similarly tiresome pieces preceding it mostly fail to mention how higher salaries offered would motivate graduates and other unemployed people to acquire these missing skills?

Put a different way, fifteen or so years ago: "Economists who have studied occupational shortages generally hold the view that in an unconstrained market, supply will equal demand at the 'true' market price. If demand exceeds supply, salaries will be bid up until the market clears." [1]

Also of interest but perhaps unrelated, "At Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase average pay slipped by about 5% in the first nine months of last year, a figure that is probably representative of the wider industry." [2]

[1] http://www.bls.gov/mlr/1999/03/art2full.pdf

[2] http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21592642...