Hasnain says:

This is basically a black mirror plot right?

“In live-streamed broadcasts, viewers would egg on the streamers as they conducted acts of violence and physical and moral humiliation on Mr. Graven, according to Le Parisien, a French newspaper. As many as 15,000 people would watch, the newspaper reported. Mr. Graven had more than 500,000 followers on Kick, an Australian streaming platform that launched in 2022.”

Hasnain says:

“Zig applications should consider aborting on OOM. While the design goal of handling OOM errors correctly is laudable, and Zig makes it possible, I’ve seen only one application, xit which passes “matklad spends 30 minutes grepping for errdefer” test. For libraries, prefer leaving allocation to the caller, or use generative testing with an allocator that actually returns errors.

Alternatively, do as TigerBeetle. We take this pattern literally, reserve all resources in main, and never allocate memory afterwards:”

Hasnain says:

This is a marketing piece disguised as a technical blog (wish it had more detail) but it was useful nonetheless.

“The new algorithm issues an initial upquery to one side of the join, then combines the resulting join key with the original predicates on the other side. This composite condition is pushed down to RocksDB, allowing index-based retrieval of only the rows required to satisfy the join. This eliminates unnecessary data reads and avoids full-table scans.”

Hasnain says:

Whither code review?

“But the most damaging to Eaton Corp. was code that Lu named after himself, "IsDLEnabledinAD," which the DOJ translated as an abbreviation for "Is Davis Lu enabled in Active Directory."

That "kill switch" was designed to "lock out all users if his credentials in the company’s active directory were disabled," the DOJ said Thursday. And it worked flawlessly, "automatically activated" when Lu "was placed on leave and asked to surrender his laptop" in 2019. It locked out "thousands of company users globally," and no one had a clue what was going on.”

Hasnain says:

“Never ask the agent for its opinion on your design. True story- at the end of a long session, I asked Claude how my design was. It was effusive in its praise, pointed out all the things we had done for modularity, separation of concerns, etc. Then I exited Claude and restarted, and asked the exact same question, only this time it had no context. It told me that the design needed a lot of work, complained about the stuff it had just praised, etc.”

Hasnain says:

This was a really cool technical read.

“The protocol is evolving, the implementations are maturing, and the community is growing. Whether you're building the next generation of live streaming, exploring real-time collaboration, or pushing the boundaries of interactive media, consider whether MoQ may provide the foundation you need.”

Hasnain says:

“Conclusion
This setup has been working very well for my needs. There's a lot of potential for better tooling around offline-first applications and SQLite in the browser. I look forward to trying out those solutions!”

Hasnain says:

“Ms. Mishra, the Purdue graduate, did not get the burrito-making gig at Chipotle. But her side hustle as a beauty influencer on TikTok, she said, helped her realize that she was more enthusiastic about tech marketing and sales than software engineering.”

Hasnain says:

“But documents suggest that Microsoft engineers understood the data stored in Azure would include raw intelligence, including audio files, while some Israel-based Microsoft staff, including alumni of Unit 8200, appear to have known about what the unit hoped the joint project would achieve.

“You don’t have to be a genius to figure it out,” one source said. “You tell [Microsoft] we don’t have any more space on the servers, that it’s audio files. It’s pretty clear what it is.”

Microsoft’s spokesperson said: “We are not aware of Azure being used for the storage of such data.” They said Unit 8200 was simply a customer of its cloud services and Microsoft “did not build or consult with Unit 8200” on a cloud-based surveillance system.”

Hasnain says:

I got a 5/5 but one of these was a wild guess. I’m getting off my game here.

“5 out of 5

Congratulations, you have ascended to Artificial General Intelligence. Now carry on building that LLM, laying claim to Blackwells and have your A.I. agent get you a membership at Shack15. We know you know what we mean. (Just ask ChatGPT if you don’t.)”