Hasnain says:

This starts off with a bang and continues from there. Some hard hitting journalism.

“On the contrary, exploring LAPD’s use of the neighborhood as a backdrop allows for questions to be raised about how the eagerness to make this event a spectacle opened the door to such spectacular negligence.

Because if, as Chief Michel Moore stated during the July 19 briefing, LAPD was convinced the explosive materials found posed imminent danger, “not just to those bomb techs but to the citizenry and community,” then very little of what transpired over the course of that day makes any sense.”

Hasnain says:

This was a pretty solid read. Sage advice.

“I will admit, I am still a big fan of being right all the time, and of having people agree with me. What’s changed over the years though is first, an enhanced understanding that I in fact am not right all the time. But also that even when I am right, it isn’t always a guarantee that others will follow my advice, and if they do not, that it’s still OK.”

Hasnain says:

This is pretty exciting. I don’t know why this is getting so much hate on the orange site.

I’ll admit I was also a Luddite here and stuck to single, specific customized machines for quite a while - but with FB’s internal version of this I am now a believer. Being able to quickly spin up a working environment in a minute to debug something without context switching from what I was otherwise doing has let me put up a lot of small changes here and there or help people when I normally would have just dropped it and moved on.

“Engineers can spin off new codespaces for parallel workstreams with no overhead. When an environment falls apart—maybe it’s too far behind, or the test data broke something—our engineers can quickly create a new environment and move on with their day.”

Hasnain says:

“New facts surfaced about just how close America came to a coup in 2020.

And, meanwhile, a growing chorus of on-the-ground reporters and writers and scholars began sounding the alarm about 2024.

Their message? If present trends continue, and if nothing is done, the next presidential election could be stolen. Legally stolen.

These are not the cries of extremely online provocateurs. They are fact-based warnings about what is actually happening right now in states across this country.”

Hasnain says:

One of the most moving, eloquent and well written pieces I have read in a long time. A deeply personal look into one family’s experience with trauma, how they all coped with it, both in time and afterwards. And a reconstruction of one person’s life through their writings and family

This really has it all, from love, to trauma, to rage, hatred, and conspiracy theories. Engaging, and - at the same time - makes you think and ponder about life and your own situation. Highly recommend reading.

“He says he almost wishes sometimes that he could trade his current well-being for the suffering he felt 20 years ago, because Bobby was so much easier to conjure back then, the sense-memories of him still within reach. “No matter how painful September 11 was,” he explains, “I had just seen him on September 6.”

It’s the damnedest thing: The dead abandon you; then, with the passage of time, you abandon the dead.”

Hasnain says:

“Scarlett says Apple’s response to the surveys has only made employees more suspicious: “I don’t think anyone is going into this saying there for sure is a wage gap, whether that’s gender or race or disability. But it is concerning to everyone that every single time someone tries to create more transparency, Apple shuts it down. It makes it feel like maybe there is a problem, and they’re already aware of it.””

Hasnain says:

It was a good run while it lasted, folks.

“Prof Carolina Vera, vice-chair of the working group that produced the document, said: "The report clearly shows that we are already living the consequences of climate change everywhere. But we will experience further and concurrent changes that increase with every additional beat of warming."”

Hasnain says:

This data is really scary - especially when combined with multiple reports of schools having to close down / quarantine because of tens to hundreds of COVID cases within their first week of reopening.

“The odds of transmitting the Delta variant are more than 1.6 times higher than for the Alpha variant, which fueled the prior wave. A study by Imperial College London found that Covid-19 test positivity among UK children five to 12 years was two- to six-fold higher than for persons 45 and older. As of Wednesday, one in 10 Covid-19 test results for US children five to 11 years are positive, and the week-over-week rise in test positivity is climbing fastest for this age group. Covid-19 test positivity among US children 12-17 (12.3%) is higher than for any other age group.

A published report of Scottish data noted that the Delta variant doubles the risk of Covid-19 hospitalization, regardless of age. The number of US children in the hospital due to Covid-19 doubled between 30 June and 31 July. On Thursday, US hospitals reported 249 pediatric admissions due to Covid-19, which is four admissions shy of the all-time single-day record (253). On a population-adjusted basis, the weekly average of US children admitted to hospitals with Covid-19 is rising faster than any other age group (as of Wednesday).”

Hasnain says:

Great analysis of various remote work strategies.

“Instead of directing a rah-rah return to the office, leaders would be wise to focus on deeper listening and meeting their workforces where they are today. It will be important for leaders to acknowledge, for instance, that they don't have all the answers—as their companies transition to hybrid working models, they will still be trying to discover what the right longer-term working model (the one that works for most employees) will be. It will also be important for leaders to signal that they hope to make their employees partners in designing the future of how their companies work.”

Hasnain says:

Some more insight on perceptual hashes in light of the recent Apple announcement.

“It shouldn’t come as a surprise that these algorithms will fail sometimes. But in the context of 100 million photos, they do fail quite often. And they don’t fail in acceptable ways: It’s easy to see that the general composition of these two images is similar (beige background with dark accents in the top right center). But their content is completely different. The collisions encountered with other hashing algorithms look different, often in unexpected ways, but collisions exist for all of them.”