Hasnain says:

Worth reading the transcript in full.

“And that’s really the the central aspect, because what is happening now in Gaza, it has to stop. This kind of bombings, it just has to stop. That’s the most essential aspect to save human lives. But that’s not sufficient. The people responsible need to be held accountable, because, otherwise, it’s just going to be allowed to continue the same way that this has been allowed to continue, which has brought us to this assault on the Gaza Strip. But also, it’s essential that we do not go back to the status quo. The status quo is a false term. It’s never static. And the status quo is not justice. The status quo is apartheid. So, yes, the bloodshed that is happening now has to stop. But the bloodshed is related to the underlying reality, to the overarching reality, to the condition of apartheid that has to end.”

Hasnain says:

“The residents’ response surprised the cleaners. “This is the perfect time to fix this distortion and start to employ only Jews! Or Arabs who are loyal to the State of Israel and declare so openly,” one resident wrote to City Hall. Another added, “Fire them, it’s identifying with terror,” and another raged, “Now employ only Jews and they can go to hell.” Only one resident countered these comments, writing, “People are losing their homes and lives these days, but Modi’in’s garbage hasn’t been collected. Too bad that the garbage that comes out of people’s mouths is harder to collect.””

Hasnain says:

“And despite the culture’s best effort to slickly reimagine this moment as one born of women’s ‘choices’, the truth is far simpler: American women are being gaslit. Being pushed out of our careers is not a good thing, and it is absolutely possible to be a happy working parent, even now. How do I know that parents can ‘have it all’? That it’s actually completely feasible to work and take care of children without giving up your career goals or life ambitions?”

Hasnain says:

“I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because one time everyone else in my department quit or was fired in the space of six months, leaving me and a Harvard guy. I asked Harvard if he was worried and he said no. He was thinking about taking a year off anyway, then maybe starting his own business. On my way home, I noticed Starbucks was hiring. “

Hasnain says:

“Now, members of the new organization are calling on Google to support freedom of expression internally — particularly around anti-Zionist viewpoints. “Google is the world’s largest search engine and any repression of freedom of expression occurring within the company is a danger not only to Googlers internally but to all people around the world,” they wrote in an FAQ.”

Hasnain says:

“Giapis agonized over how to explain that discrepancy. Because of delays due to COVID-19 shutdowns, he was not able to run the rope conductivity test until just a few days before the shoot. "We were about to start filming and my theory had a gaping hole in it. I had to think hard and fast." And then, just two days before the shoot, the answer came to him: After the ship was grounded, it became more electrically charged.”

Hasnain says:

TIL a lot more about chess than I knew before.

“There are many more fascinating positions that baffle even the most advanced chess A.I. To demonstrate this, I've selected ten types of positions that your brain may be better able to understand than a silicon imitation. While some modern engines may be able to solve these positions with considerable time to think and a lot of powerful hardware, many of these positions will fully defy the understanding of even the best modern engines.”

Hasnain says:

Really interesting debugging story and technical read. I just learnt a bunch more about networking!

“This was an eye-opening experience for us. We saw how far behind Linux is on the tracing tooling side. Even with all advances on the eBPF front, there’s still no unified format in Linux for collecting traces across all kernel subsystems. tcpdump is an awesome tool, but it only provides insight into what’s happening on the wire—it can’t connect that to other kernel events.

netsh trace, on the other hand, correlates events on the wire with events that happen on the TCP layer, timers, buffer management, socket layer, and even the Windows asyncio subsystem (IOCP).”

Hasnain says:

“The problem is compounded by how little government funding is going toward studying the effects of these platforms, relative to how much of each day many Americans spend engaged with the technology.

Funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is mostly focused on curing diseases, but because there is no specific disease officially associated with screen time, experts say it's difficult to get studies funded by the federal government.”

Hasnain says:

“The report said working long hours was estimated to be responsible for about a third of all work-related disease, making it the largest occupational disease burden.”