Hasnain says:

Did they just assassinate the whistleblower? (If this was a novel and a dystopia..)

“Boeing denied his assertions. However, a 2017 review by the US regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), did uphold some of Mr Barnett's concerns.”

Hasnain says:

“A quick experiment with Claude suggests this approach could be promising (with some prompting, Claude was able to generate a program to generate an input to trigger the Heartbleed-style vulnerability mentioned above). But of course further work is needed to validate this approach and work out what challenges need to be overcome to make it practical (if indeed it can be made practical).

That’s certainly more work than can be squeezed into the odd free moment on a heatwave weekend.”

Hasnain says:

“In August of 2023, a month before Jager and Esch reached their plea agreements with prosecutors, this unidentified male co-conspirator escaped from prison. This triggered a nationwide manhunt and caused Esch and his family "to go into hiding," as stated in a court document. Two weeks after the escape, the co-conspirator was found dead.”

Hasnain says:

“Research Medical Center didn’t provide exact numbers but said in a statement that it treated dozens of people who had experienced frostbite during an 11-day cold snap in January. Twelve of those people — including some who were at the Jan. 13 game — had to undergo amputations involving mostly fingers and toes. And the hospital said more surgeries are expected over the next two to four weeks as “injuries evolve.””

Hasnain says:

“Currently, the hospital’s wards have 44 babies under 10 days old with weights as low as 2 kilograms (4 pounds), some on life support. Every incubator has at least three premature babies in it, raising the risk of infection. Al-Shair said he fears some will meet the same fate when returned home.

“We treat them now but God knows what the future will be,” he said.”

Hasnain says:

Excited to try this out. Some of the new fuzzing results people posted today are mind blowing.

“Claude 3 Opus, March 4th. This is just a few days old and wow: the vibes on this one are really strong. People I know who evaluate LLMs closely are rating it as the first clear GPT-4 beater. I’ve switched to it as my default model for a bunch of things, most conclusively for code—I’ve had several experiences recently where a complex GPT-4 prompt that produced broken JavaScript gave me a perfect working answer when run through Opus instead (recent example). I also enjoyed Anthropic research engineer Amanda Askell’s detailed breakdown of their system prompt”

Hasnain says:

“From accounts of people on the ground, videos and photographs of deadly episode after episode, plus the resultant mortalities from blocking or smashing the crucial necessities of life, a more likely estimate, in my appraisal, is that at least 200,000 Palestinians must have perished by now and the toll is accelerating by the hour.

Imagine Americans, if this powerful U.S.-made weaponry was fired on the besieged, homeless, trapped people of Philadelphia, do you think that only 30,000 of that city’s 1.5 million people would have been killed?”

Hasnain says:

“DeWitt, writing in his solo book Chile Peppers: A Global History, says TAM became widespread in Texas after its introduction. “It was much milder and larger than the traditional jalapeños, and genes of this mild pepper entered the general jalapeño pool. Cross-breeding caused the gene pool to become overall larger and milder.”

Since I know you’re wondering who the inventors are: the clue is in the name TAM II. The hot (but also not hot) new jalapeño is an invention of Texas A&M University. Yes, Aggies took the spice out of life.”

Hasnain says:

“EU regulators found that Apple’s actions had resulted in users paying “significantly higher prices” for music streaming services.

The iPhone maker charges a 30 per cent fee for all sales through the App Store, a cost the commission said had been passed on to consumers in the form of higher subscription charges.

As part of Monday’s ruling, the commission also banned Apple from blocking apps from offering their services outside the iPhone maker’s iOS software.”

Hasnain says:

“The graph confirms that mutex contention is highest (and therefore RWMutex is most useful!) when the arrival rate is high or the critical section has a long duration.

The graph shows something else interesting. The transition from “no contention” to “high contention” follows a straight line. If some values at the transition are taken and their product calculated, it’s clear that the product is always a constant.”