Hasnain says:

I spent way too much time on this.

(well, the ~40 or so minutes needed to finish it)

Hasnain says:

Jeff has always been one of the great ones. This whole post is admirable and worth reading. When a few people win, we all lose. We need to uplift everyone around us.

“I think many of the Americans who did vote are telling us they no longer believe our government is effectively keeping America fair for everyone. Our status as the world's leading democracy is in question. We should make it easier for more eligible Americans to vote, such as making election day a national holiday, universal mail in voting, and adopting ranked choice voting so all votes carry more weight. We should also strengthen institutions keeping democracy fair for everyone, such as state and local election boards, as well as the Federal Election Commission.

It was only after I attained the dream that I was able to fully see how many Americans have so very little. This much wealth starts to unintentionally distance my family from other Americans. I no longer bother to look at how much items cost, because I don't have to. We don't have to think about all these things that are challenging or unreachable for so many others. The more wealth you attain, the more unmistakably clear it becomes how unequal life is for so many of us.

Even with the wealth I have, I can't imagine what it would feel like to be a billionaire. It is, for lack of a better word, unamerican.”

Hasnain says:

“Even more important, the work demonstrates that the Gowers norm can act as a powerful tool in a new domain. “Because it’s so new, at least in this part of number theory, there is potential to do a bunch of other things with it,” Friedlander said. Mathematicians now hope to broaden the scope of the Gowers norm even further — to try using it to solve other problems in number theory beyond counting primes.

“It’s a lot of fun for me to see things I thought about some time ago have unexpected new applications,” Ziegler said. “It’s like as a parent, when you set your kid free and they grow up and do mysterious, unexpected things.””

Hasnain says:

I've never seen a name put to this, though in hindsight I've seen it a lot. Worth pondering.

"In general, I think well-designed tools (and systems) should aim to minimize this effect. This can be hard to do in a fully general manner, but some things I think about when designing a new tool:

* Does it need to be configurable?
* Does it need syntax of its own?
* As a corollary: can it reuse familiar syntax or idioms from other tools/CLIs?
* Do I end up copy-pasting my use of it around? If so, are others likely to do the same?"

Hasnain says:

“The formatting function used by std.debug.print in the examples is a powerful generic function. Lots of languages parse their format strings at runtime, and possibly add some special validators to the string format to catch errors early. In Zig, the format string is parsed at comptime, creating efficient output code while also performing all validation at compile time.”

Hasnain says:

Lots to ponder in this one.

“What's taboo is to say that the source is the system we inhabit, not our personal inability to manifest god-like powers. The system works fine for the winners who twirl the dials on the narrative control machinery, and they're appalled when they suffer some mild inconvenience when the peasantry doing all the work for them break down and quit.

A tsunami of burnout and quitting, both quiet and loud, is on the horizon, but it's taboo to recognize it or mention it. That the system is broken because it breaks us is the taboo that is frantically enforced at all levels of narrative control.”

Hasnain says:

So much truth in here. I wish I could hammer home the point about consistency, it makes a world of a difference in large codebases.

Speaking here as a guy who often has to go and clean these up for various reasons,

“Why is consistency so important in large codebases? Because it protects you from nasty surprises, it slows down the codebase’s progression into a mess, and it allows you to take advantage of future improvements.”

Hasnain says:

Having verified this myself, uh, bro, what

“Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot like... Google.”

Hasnain says:

"While Yemeni coffee shops fill a need for the Muslim community, they attract a wide range of cultures, welcoming anyone looking for family-friendly outings or alcohol-free evenings.

“There’s been a huge transformation across the U.S. People are trying to transition from the nightlife bar environment,” Almatrahi says. “We provide not only the coffee experience but also the ambience.”

During the last lease negotiation for a new location, the landlord was “shocked” by Arwa’s proposed hours, according to Almatrahi. “We wanted to be open until one a.m. on the weekends. And they’re not used to that concept,” he says. “But that’s the power of cardamom.”"

Hasnain says:

This is a rough day. On one hand, I understand some of the criticisms. The fact checkers got things wrong. Facebook jail was real and appeals sucked.

But you don’t fix that by throwing the baby out with the bath water. Or making it acceptable to call women household objects. Or allowing transphobia. Or so many other things.

“The former employee I spoke with feared that whatever consequences Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues might have in the United States, its effect in the rest of the world could be even more dire.

"I really think this is a precursor for genocide," they said. "We've seen it happen. Real people's lives are actually going to be endangered. I'm just devastated”