Hasnain says:

As one Twitter commented so eloquently put it:

“Judges are scoring her new move at a lower difficulty out of “fear that Biles is so good that she might run away with any competition she enters simply by doing a handful of moves that her rivals cannot.””

Michael Phelps gets lauded for having genetic advantages no one has - but she does things so we it’s suddenly unfair to everyone else?

I wonder what the difference here is /s

Hasnain says:

““Traditional statistical disclosure limitation methods, like those used in the 2010 census, cannot defend against modern challenges posed by enormous cloud computing capacity and sophisticated software libraries,” John Abowd, the bureau’s chief scientist, wrote in a declaration to the court. And expanding upon practices like swapping to the degree necessary to ensure privacy would “render the resulting data unusable for most data users.””

Hasnain says:

This is still breaking news so the facts are fuzzy, but this is absolutely crazy. A flight carrying an anti-govt journalist happened to cross over their airspace so the local KGB call in a bomb threat (some sources say they also fought staff on the plane); make it land in their jurisdiction (with a military jet escort!), detain the journalist, and then let the flight be on its way.

“The Belta news agency reported that the plane had been rerouted to Minsk International Airport for an emergency landing due to a bomb scare.

An airport spokesperson told the agency that although authorities did not find any explosive devices on the plane, it was unclear when it would be allowed to take off again.

The opposition Telegram channel Nexta also reported that the plane was searched. The outlet said its former editor, Roman Protasevich had been detained.”

Hasnain says:

This was pretty engaging.

“TL;DR You can move-constructors the Rust! It requires a few macros but isn’t much more outlandish than the async pinning state of the art. A prototype of this idea is implemented in my moveit crate.”

Hasnain says:

What the heck, Salesforce?

“The sound of rumbling rubber could be heard today as Salesforce threw an engineer responsible for a change that knocked it offline under a passing bus.

"We're not blaming one employee," said Chief Availability Officer Darryn Dieken after spending the first half hour of a Wednesday briefing on the outage doing pretty much that very thing.”

Hasnain says:

Cancel culture for thee, but not for me. Also great timing since more revelations came out about Cuomo but it’s fine for him to continue influencing reporting on his brother, while Palestinian people can’t report on their country because they’ll be too biased, nor can minorities report on their issues because of that, or as I learnt recently - sexual assault survivors can’t report on that because they would be too biased. None of this makes sense.

“"There's no question I was just canceled," Wilder told SFGATE by phone Thursday afternoon. "This is exactly the issue with the rhetoric around 'cancel culture.' To Republicans, cancel culture is usually seen as teens or young people online advocating that people be held accountable over accusations of racism or whatever it may be, but when it comes down to who actually has to deal with the lifelong ramifications of the selective enforcement of cancel culture — specifically over the issue of Israel and Palestine — it's always the same side."”

Hasnain says:

This was really interesting.

“SolarWinds demonstrated how precarious this structure remains, he argues. As Leetham sees it, the security world blindly put its trust in something that existed outside its threat model, never imagining that an adversary might attack it. And once again, the adversary pulled out a supporting card underpinning the house’s foundation—one that had been confused for solid ground.”

Hasnain says:

This is an amazing (not) defense: claiming that the ground truth they had is racist so there’s nothing wrong with this app being biased either.

“A Google spokesperson told Motherboard that that the entire field of dermatology suffers from a lack of data and images of non-white patients and that accounting for that problem was at the forefront of researchers minds as they designed the app, which they plan to further refine before its public release.

“Our AI-powered dermatology assist tool is the culmination of more than three years of research,” “

Hasnain says:

“Numerous outlets reported over the weekend that Palestinian protesters in Toronto had assaulted an older Jewish man. What they did not note, Domise pointed out, was that the older man had been armed and had joined a group of people who had already instigated the fight. The group appeared to be attending a counterprotest by the Jewish Defense League, which the Southern Poverty Law Center designates as a hate group for promoting “a violent form of anti-Arab, Jewish nationalism.” The man told the Toronto Sun that he was not a JDL member.

“When we use the wrong language, it really minimizes and reduces the pain of people felt here.”
In response to the video, Toronto Mayor John Tory made a statement condemning antisemitism, as did Ontario Premier Doug Ford. CBC later reported on the full video, which showed that the man had been armed and instigated a fight. “

Hasnain says:

This is just terrible. As someone bluntly put it, if racism can prevent such a renowned scholar and journalist (a Pulitzer Prize winner!) from getting a well deserved tenured appointment - which was approved by faculty already - then what hope does the average person have when everything is rigged against them?

“The Board of Governors has decided not to reappoint certain trustees they felt were not on the right ideological page, the trustee said, and have even engineered the ouster of chancellors with whom they disagreed. They have defunded academic centers and discontinued programs with which they were at political odds. Trustees across the system know that track record when they’re making these kinds of decisions, the trustee said.”