Hasnain says:

“Lessons learned

There’s hidden stress in low-latency responsibility

Switching TinyPilot’s order fulfillment to a 3PL reduced stress and increased flexibility for TinyPilot’s local team, but I was most surprised at how drastically it relieved stress for me.

I’d been carrying around so much “what if?” anxiety for years without even realizing it.”

Hasnain says:

“When the microwave was brand new to the market, and this new space-age technology allowed what used to take 10–20 minutes or more to get done in mere seconds, the manufacturers did’t get to make ovens that stayed on when you opened the door just because the tech was new and revolutionary. They couldn’t claim the user should’ve known better, while allowing their kitchen to fry and their pets to die of internal burns (even though, presumably, most of the people using the new microwaves were previously experienced cooks). They had to build safety features in.

Products of all kinds are required to ensure misuse is discouraged, at a minimum, if not difficult or impossible. I don’t see why LLMs should be any different.”

Hasnain says:

“Enough with words. Enough with the futile rounds of talks held by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the barbed words uttered by President Joe Biden. They lead nowhere. The last Zionist president, perhaps the last one to care about what is happening in the world, must take action. One could, as a prelude, learn something from the amazingly simple and true words of European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who said: "Well, if you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms [to Israel]."”

Hasnain says:

“If you’re reading this and shrugging it off with “so what, 4ms is an eternity for computers” then yes, you’re right, 4ms is an eternity for computers, yes, I agree, but based on that reaction I bet that you didn’t grew up like I did as a programmer. See, I grew up building websites, web applications, backends, that kind of stuff and in that world basically nothing takes 4ms. If it takes me 10ms to ping the closest data center in Frankfurt, how can I deliver something to you over the wire in less than that?

So there I was, staring at the 4ms and wondering: is this what the Rust enthusiasts mean when they say zero-cost abstractions? Yes, we’ve all heard that claim before (and yes: maybe too many times) and I’ve also written Rust for years now, so the idea that Rust is fast wasn’t new to me.

But seeing high-level code like this find 2351 occurrences of

I don’t know, man. I think it might have changed me.”

Hasnain says:

“Industry insiders over the past several decades have variously referred to plastic recycling as “uneconomical”, said it “cannot be considered a permanent solid waste solution”, and said it “cannot go on indefinitely”, the revelations show.

The authors say the evidence demonstrates that oil and petrochemical companies, as well as their trade associations, may have broken laws designed to protect the public from misleading marketing and pollution.”

Hasnain says:

Amazing.

“According to Air Canada, Moffatt never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbot's misleading information because Air Canada essentially argued that "the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions," a court order said.”

Hasnain says:

““But it is overridden or hidden no matter how overpoweringly cruel, no matter how inhuman and barbaric, no matter how loudly Israel proclaims what it is doing. To bomb a hospital; to use napalm against civilians; to require Palestinian men and boys to crawl, or bark, or scream ‘Arafat is a whore’s son’; to break the arms and legs of children; to confine people in desert detention camps without adequate space, sanitation, water or legal charge; to use teargas in schools: All these are horrific acts, whether they are part of a war against ‘terrorism’ or the requirements of security. Not to note them, not to remember them, not to say, ‘Wait a moment: Can such acts be necessary for the sake of the Jewish people?’ is inexplicable, but it is also to be complicit in these acts. The self-imposed silence of intellectuals who possess, in other cases and for other countries, supremely fine critical faculties is stunning.”

Reading these lines, you might believe Said is a prophet. How else could his decades-old words sound like they’ve been ripped from this morning’s headlines? In truth, it’s not that Said was prescient – it’s that Palestinian dispossession continues, that the Israeli occupation remains, that justice for Palestinians is as elusive as ever. If anything has changed, it’s the scale of the violence, but not the violence itself.”

Hasnain says:

“This week, Israeli forces raided another large hospital in Gaza, and they’re planning a ground offensive in Rafah. I feel incredibly guilty that I was able to leave while millions are forced to endure the nightmare in Gaza. As an American, I think of our tax dollars paying for the weapons that likely injured my patients there. Already driven from their homes, these people have nowhere else to turn.”

Hasnain says:

If only politicians were willing to say this in public.

“He also offered his own viewpoint on the merits of the case against Israel.

"Do I believe there's genocidal activity on the part of Israel?" he said on the call. "Probably yes, from what I have seen."”

Hasnain says:

“To our great satisfaction, the jury answered that call. The jury’s decision did not take long. Less than two hours after leaving the courtroom to deliberate, the jury returned with a verdict that sends a message far beyond the courthouse. No infringement by Cloudflare, and Sable’s patent is invalid.”