Hasnain says:

This was sad and tough to read. I agree with one of the comments on HN where it's called out how folks in industry often put down those in Academia, referring to it as the "cushy" life - when it can often be the opposite, as seen here.

"Sitting at a restaurant on University Avenue, the prospective candidate mentioned that she was in therapy. One by one, the current students at the table said that they were, too, but none of them had ever discussed it with each other. "

"“[Mental health] is something that unites all of us grad students,” she said. “We know what it’s like to struggle with us and our friends, and we want something to be done about it. It’s a rallying point for all of us.”"

Hasnain says:

Senseless violence :(

Hasnain says:

Great read that both explains the cookie warnings and then takes them down, explaining how they're counter productive and harm the very consumers they're meant to protect.

"So in summary, everyone clicks through cookie warnings anyway, if you read them you either can't understand what they're saying or the configuration of privacy settings is a nightmare, depending on where you are in the world you either don't get privacy or you don't get UX hell, if you understand the privacy risks then it's easy to open links incognito or use an ad blocker, you can still be tracked anyway and finally, the whole thing is just conditioning people to make bad security choices. That is all."

Hasnain says:

I'm glad these people were caught.

The article points out that the people in this case were prosecuted because "the wealthy" should not have a backdoor that bypasses the admissions system as it's unfair.

At the same time though there is this quote: "US Attorney re the Huffman/Loughlin (among others) college scam: "We're not talking about donating a building...we're talking about fraud.""

This baffles me as it seems to morally be the same issue just at a different (10-100x lower) price point?

Hasnain says:

This made me a bit sad. This is a nice trip down memory lane of how the internet used to be with free, federated open protocols and closer, tighter knit social networks. I miss that time.

Of course, there are upsides, it was only accessible to a small population, the community was restricted/inaccessible, and I kinda like how far we've come. But sometimes one just wishes for "simpler" times.

"These days, more and more are always grayed out, because they were on some other service that’s no longer connected. It makes me sad, because I can no longer say “Hey, qq?” when I want to. So I thought I’d cut and paste some of those people. The world being what it is, chances are there are lots that I’ll never chat with again."

Hasnain says:

Pretty interesting read on how to get stuff done, title notwithstanding.

Goes into an explanation of a trap we all fall into: imagining the end results but not putting in the work.

“The Big Vision with all the bells & whistles is fun to think about because it gives you all the benefits with none of the work.

You can picture how you’ll look and feel, the money in your bank account, the respect of your friends and peers.”

Hasnain says:

Would love to read more about this story if it ever comes to light.

As it stands we only have one side of the story though and not enough to go on

Hasnain says:

Interesting read that goes into emotions, both human and animal. Hilarious examples too

“One problem, however, is that our rules are of our own making, such as “Don’t jump on that couch!” or “Keep your nails off my leather chair!” It must be as tough for our pets to grasp these prohibitions as it was for me to understand why I couldn’t chew gum in Singapore.”

Hasnain says:

This was an interesting human interest story on dietary habits; with a little bit of psychology and research sprinkled in.

“When I asked Krishnendu Ray, a food-studies scholar at NYU, about dietary variety, he said: “Newness or difference from the norm is a very urban, almost postmodern, quest. It is recent. It is class-based.” So, when accounting for the totality of human experience, it is the variety-seekers—not the same-lunchers—who are the unusual ones.”

Hasnain says:

This was a great read on how to build an interpreter in Rust for a simple Wireshark-like language for writing packet filters.

They go through lexing, parsing, and even have a bonus section on execution engines. Great if you want to learn Rust or just want to scratch an itch.