Hasnain says:

“The tetraquark now presents theorists with a solid target against which to test their mathematical machinery for approximating the strong force. Honing their approximations represents physicists’ main hope for understanding how quarks behave inside and outside atoms — and for teasing apart the effects of quarks from subtle signs of new fundamental particles that physicists are pursuing.”

Hasnain says:

I mean… yikes. As the article later goes on to say, this may well be securities fraud, raising investment under a clearly false premise.

“A confused Mr. Piper told the Goldman Sachs banker that he had never spoken with her before. Someone else, it seemed, had been playing the part of Mr. Piper on the call with Ozy.

When YouTube learned that someone had apparently impersonated one of their executives at a business meeting, its security team started an investigation, the company confirmed to me. The inquiry didn’t get far before a name emerged: Within days, Mr. Watson had apologized profusely to Goldman Sachs, saying the voice on the call belonged to Samir Rao, the co-founder and chief operating officer of Ozy, according to the four people.”

Hasnain says:

I’m glad more mainstream media outlets are starting to raise awareness of how bad this can get in 2024.

“In 2020, we saw election officials refuse to bow to pressure campaigns from Trump and his associates after the vote ended. Are you confident they would withstand that pressure again in 2024?

If the same people are in place, I’m confident. But I don’t think the same people are going to be in place — that’s what makes me quite worried. I don’t think the people that showed integrity would lose their integrity, but I’m worried that people who didn’t show integrity might now be in positions of power.”

Hasnain says:

This whole thing is really damning. Worth reading in full.

“In response, the CIA and the White House began preparing for a number of scenarios to foil Assange’s Russian departure plans, according to three former officials. Those included potential gun battles with Kremlin operatives on the streets of London, crashing a car into a Russian diplomatic vehicle transporting Assange and then grabbing him, and shooting out the tires of a Russian plane carrying Assange before it could take off for Moscow. (U.S. officials asked their British counterparts to do the shooting if gunfire was required, and the British agreed, according to a former senior administration official.)”

Hasnain says:

“Even as a natural origin remains the most plausible explanation, these discoveries, taken as a whole, demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that good-faith investigations of these matters have proceeded in the face of a toxic shroud of secrecy. Vaughn Cooper, who studies pathogen evolution at the University of Pittsburgh, told us that he hasn’t changed his view that SARS-CoV-2 is extremely unlikely to have been created in a lab—but the lack of candor is “really concerning.” The DARPA proposal doesn’t “mean that much for our understanding of the origins of the pandemic,” he said, “but it does diminish the trustworthiness of the research groups involved.””

Hasnain says:

“The question remains: Is taking a week of rest actually effective in addressing burnout?

According to Doug Mennin, a clinical psychology professor at Columbia University, this approach is more of a short-term solution, but he said, "If you're not sleeping, and you're working a lot, and you're strung out from it, being able to recharge can be helpful."”

Hasnain says:

Thought provoking. And I’m glad this wasn’t behind the usual paywall.

“Today’s arguments over the filibuster will seem quaint in three years if the American political system enters a crisis for which the Constitution offers no remedy.

Most Americans — and all but a handful of politicians — have refused to take this possibility seriously enough to try to prevent it.”

Hasnain says:

Well worded rant in ABI compatibility concerns in C++. I learnt a lot about the politics in the standardization process and a lot of technical minutiae at the same time.

“You cannot make me pay my blood for a contract with this insidious, ever-pervasive amalgamation, I was not even alive to bear witness to. I will not sit in every meeting and be endlessly bullied by implementations that do not know how to handle a problem they are the sole controller and proprietor for. It’s absolutely inane that even the most mundane of proposals can suddenly be ran through like a train wreck because the pinnacle of C++ and C experts cannot answer the question “how do I version something”. I will have a good standard library. It will meet my performance requirements. It will be correct. I do not care how many ghosts of the past there are. I do not care how many implementations exist where a person programming for longer than I have been alive made a sub-optimal choice one day and now we just have to live with that, for the rest of eternity. I will not be made to suffer someone else’s mistakes in perpetuity, while they also continue to make the same mistakes in egregiously flagrant fashions now and into the future.

I shouldn’t even be held back by my own mistakes from yesterday, what kind of world do we live in where we settle on a process so fundamentally against the human condition of learning and growing as an individual? Why would we prioritize a working process that at its deepest roots is so fundamentally against the living human being, and happier to dwell with the dead?”

Hasnain says:

Yikes. Given all the similar experiences popping up recently this is not a good look.

“I want to share my frustrating experience participating in Apple Security Bounty program. I've reported four 0-day vulnerabilities this year between March 10 and May 4, as of now three of them are still present in the latest iOS version (15.0) and one was fixed in 14.7, but Apple decided to cover it up and not list it on the security content page. When I confronted them, they apologized, assured me it happened due to a processing issue and promised to list it on the security content page of the next update. There were three releases since then and they broke their promise each time.”

Hasnain says:

The more I read about LiveView the more excited I get - it looks like this solves some of the problems I had faced when working on concurrent multiplayer game servers.

My only gripe is that it's not Rust so now I need to go debate between yak shaving or using the right tool for the job in this case. (/s)

"Today, I work in a language called Elixir. I spend my days building Phoenix, which is Elixir's goto web framework. Unlike Rails, Phoenix is more than just an Elixir web framework. In the process of building Phoenix, I believe we've hit on some new ideas that will change the way we think about building applications in much the same way Rails did for CRUD apps.

That's a big claim. To back it up, I want to talk you through the history of Phoenix, what we were trying to do, and some of the problems we solved along the way."