@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-21 22:21:48
Findem, an AI-powered talent acquisition startup, raised $51M in equity and debt, including a $36M Series C led by SLW, taking its total funding to $105M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/findem-funding-ai-powered-hiring-re…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-12-21 14:51:43
Now this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com2025-10-23 03:00:13
When It Hits the Fan - The Prince Andrew Crisis
Possibly more discord and disagreement than I have ever heard before between the hosts Yelland and Lewis on this one.
I think I have to agree with Yelland here that royal PR is in a total mess and the upcoming generation (George, Charlotte and Louis) are going to have to force their parents to shake things up.
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-12-19 13:37:20
Good Morning #Canada
The month of December will typical put a dent in your paycheck, or January if you're using your credit cards, so it's tough to save any money. Canadians rank 21st worldwide with regards to how much of our salary we put into a savings account. According to World Population Review, we put away approximately 7% of our paycheck for a #RainyDay, far behind South Korea at 35%. I'm retired and therefore not a saver at this point, but even during my most successful earnings period I can't imagine I would have been able to put away a third of my salary.
I suspect the savings percentage is driven by a small group of high wage earners as individual Canadian debt has increased. According to Equifax, total consumer debt in Canada reached $2.56 trillion at the end of 2024, a 4.6 per cent increase over 2023.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.equifax.ca/business/blog/all-news/-/story/stable-versus-struggling-canada-s-financial-divide-widens/
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-12-22 10:33:20
Can You Hear Me Now? A Benchmark for Long-Range Graph Propagation
Luca Miglior, Matteo Tolloso, Alessio Gravina, Davide Bacciu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17762 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17762 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17762
arXiv:2512.17762v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Effectively capturing long-range interactions remains a fundamental yet unresolved challenge in graph neural network (GNN) research, critical for applications across diverse fields of science. To systematically address this, we introduce ECHO (Evaluating Communication over long HOps), a novel benchmark specifically designed to rigorously assess the capabilities of GNNs in handling very long-range graph propagation. ECHO includes three synthetic graph tasks, namely single-source shortest paths, node eccentricity, and graph diameter, each constructed over diverse and structurally challenging topologies intentionally designed to introduce significant information bottlenecks. ECHO also includes two real-world datasets, ECHO-Charge and ECHO-Energy, which define chemically grounded benchmarks for predicting atomic partial charges and molecular total energies, respectively, with reference computations obtained at the density functional theory (DFT) level. Both tasks inherently depend on capturing complex long-range molecular interactions. Our extensive benchmarking of popular GNN architectures reveals clear performance gaps, emphasizing the difficulty of true long-range propagation and highlighting design choices capable of overcoming inherent limitations. ECHO thereby sets a new standard for evaluating long-range information propagation, also providing a compelling example for its need in AI for science.
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@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-19 16:45:05
Israeli politicians cast doubt on government’s commitment to ceasefire
Israel reportedly halts supply of aid into Gaza as it launches ‘massive wave of attacks’ – Middle East crisis live
Following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza earlier today, more senior ministers have made remarks casting doubt on the government’s commitment to the ceasefire deal
Amichai Chikli, Israel’s diaspora affairs minister and a vocal hardliner, said:
“As long as Hamas exists, there will be war.”
@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-23 09:13:00
The Hidden Life of Stars: Embedded Beginnings to AGB Endings in the PHANGS-JWST Sample. I. Catalog of Mid-IR Sources
Hamid Hassani, Erik Rosolowsky, Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom, M\'ed\'eric Boquien, David A. Thilker, Bradley C. Whitmore, Gagandeep S. Anand, Ashley T. Barnes, Yixian Cao, Ryan Chown, Enrico Congiu, Daniel A. Dale, Oleg V. Egorov, Ivan Gerasimov, Kathryn Grasha, Remy Indebetouw, Janice C. Lee, Fu-Heng Liang, Daniel Maschmann, Sharon E. Meidt, Elias K. Oakes, Is…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-19 17:56:59
Frustrated with your phone doing stupid shit which you don't want it to? Me too. I've switched mine to only answer commands in some Chinese dialect. Which Chinese dialect? I don't know. I don't speak, write or read any Chinese.
I don't know that this will totally defeat it, but it's worth a try.
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-20 09:38:34
#DearLazyWeb: Hey #Nederlanders ik heb en expat vrag over mijn #VvE. Our management company is absolute garbage. Our VVE management company recently scheduled repainting, during winter, with the most incompetent company possible, who did a horrible job, some of which didn't need to be done. Our windows had just been repainted since they were painted before we moved in, so 1/3 of the work they did was unnecessary, and now they look much worse than they did before. I could go on, but generally lots and lots of complaints along with absolutely terrible service.
Our upstairs neighbor (also an owner) also hates them and wants to switch, but a rental company owns the top half of the building and seems to be trying to force us in to staying. Basically, this management company is super cheap and the rental company are absolutely trash absentee leaches. (They *may* also have not been paying their part of the VvE fees for a while, but I'm not totally sure I understood everything.)
Unfortunately, I am way out of my depth and can't seem to get much help from google. Can anyone give me some advice about what to read or who to talk to, or are we actually stuck?
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-11-17 08:37:27
I am working on my next article, and so far its title is, “The Case for Local Law Enforcement to Arrest Feds.”
You can read it first by subscribing (for free) to my ghost at: https://stuff.davidaugust.com/
Thank you in advance!
