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cbHXBY1D··on Rust Threads on the GPU
I've been using Rust's Burn library recently and have avoided writing kernels in CubeCL because it's lack of documentation and my lack of experience. I would love to see some working together here.
cbHXBY1D··on Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept
How does this interact with RealPage and other algorithmic price fixing software?
cbHXBY1D··on Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
Sure. Or the Bank of England stealing $5B of Venezuela's gold since 2019 - which they still won't give back: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/bank-of-eng...

This is almost exactly echoes how European leaders were completely fine with the US illegally blockading and invading Venezuela and then a week later Trump wants Greenland and suddenly they care about "territorial integrity" and what not.

cbHXBY1D··on Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
What Israel and the USA is doing in the ME is uniquely evil. There are likely hundreds of thousands dead in Gaza. Children intentionally killed by snipers, famine as a tool of war, the displacement of millions of people.
cbHXBY1D··on Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
We need a Nuremberg trial for the genocide in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, and the illegal attacks on 7 countries in the Middle East.

We need to prosecute both the Biden and Trump administration, the Israeli leadership, and the leadership of most European countries. Never again is never again.

cbHXBY1D··on Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
We'll never know but it's quite likely that is the case: https://updates.techforpalestine.org/wiz-and-google-the-deal...
cbHXBY1D··on Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
FYI, Wiz investor and current Wiz board member Gili Raanan, head of Israeli VC Cyberstarts, has been (credibly) accused of paying bribes to major CISOs for buying software from their portfolio companies like Wiz.

Calcalist did a deep investigation into it: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1a1jn00hc

cbHXBY1D··on Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE
That was about 10 of the 50 fired. I know multiple people who were fired in a completely different office simply for standing near a sign.
cbHXBY1D··on 14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal
I think it is a fair question: why is this allowed to stay on the front page while the deaths of people in Gaza is not? Israel just killed a bunch of journalists for organizations like the Associated Press in a double tap strike on a hospital and we're not allowed to discuss it?
cbHXBY1D··on The average college student today
I graduated 10 years ago from a public university in the US (albeit one of the best ones - so everyone was your typical high achieving student) and all of this tracks except for the functional illiteracy part.

Chronic absenteeism was normal. Disappearing students was normal. Pretending to take notes was normal. Indifference was normal. I'm sure all of the above has __always__ been happening.

cbHXBY1D··on 1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day
https://newrepublic.com/post/186423/elon-musk-x-suspends-jou...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-temporary-ban-jo...

cbHXBY1D··on Marc Andreessen Is a Maniac
I only realized how far down the rabbit hole Marc was when he was one of the first interviewees for a guy who came out of the neo-Nazi Salo forum, which means he was almost certainly reading Salo forum.

Discussed at the time here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27343914

cbHXBY1D··on I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
What do you think the Ministry of Defense does?

Are you aware of the recent revelations that it is using AI to indiscriminately kill people at their home? https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

Do you have an evidence that they aren't using Project Nimbus for this? Spoiler: you do not - none of us do.

cbHXBY1D··on I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
Not doubting but do you have a link?
cbHXBY1D··on I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
Google employees didn't join to build weapons. Google lied to them about the nature of Project Nimbus, saying it was just for civilian use. This was proven to be a lie: https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-mini...

Google has a set of AI principles: https://ai.google/responsibility/principles/

These include:

> AI applications we will not pursue

> In addition to the above objectives, we will not design or deploy AI in the following application areas:

> 1. Technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm. Where there is a material risk of harm, we will proceed only where we believe that the benefits substantially outweigh the risks, and will incorporate appropriate safety constraints.

> 2. Weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people.

> 3. Technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms.

> 4. Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.

The contract goes against those principles. Employees rightfully speak out about this and stonewalled.

cbHXBY1D··on I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
Maybe because the article is an interview with someone at the NYC sit-in?
cbHXBY1D··on Driving is more expensive than you think (2020)
Creating a robust bus network with dedicated bus lanes vs an extensive rail system.

I've also lived in both cities and Seattle's buses are timely and clean. MTA buses are much, much worse.

cbHXBY1D··on The Mao-Kissinger Meeting of 1973
I will dispute that. Double genocide theory is a debunked right wing nationalist myth, sorry. [1]

I'm not saying they were saints but they were on the same moral plane of the Allies, wishing to set up buffer states instead of absorbing them fully into the USSR. Political repression was a real issue in the eastern bloc countries but it's no where near as bad as what the US, France, or UK did in the post war period with their colonies, segregation, bombings, or coups.

[1] https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

cbHXBY1D··on CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022)
Most of these documents came from FOIA. See the author's Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Ajeff_kaye%20foia&src=typ...
cbHXBY1D··on Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
For those unaware: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/19/pentagon-...

I don't know if I've seen it with US politics but it was blindingly obvious the US or someone else were using bots during the coup in Bolivia and the attempted one in Venezuela.

cbHXBY1D··on Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
True. People should read Richard Sakwa on this matter. According to his well-researched 2015 book, Frontline Ukraine, armed insurgents marched around the debating chamber, instructed MPs to not follow the formal investigatory procedure needed for impeachment, and just to "sack" Yanukovych.
cbHXBY1D··on Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert
The maximum fine a rail company can face is $225k, even when loss of life occurs. Unfortunately, the regulatory regime you describe has been captured for roughly the past 80 years.

The reality is that the legal system makes it so difficult and expensive for claimants to recoup the harms they suffer. Causality is hard to prove and the claimants are up against corporations which have teams of lawyers and a court system which has made tort cases have a high burden of proof. This can make it difficult for claimants to win, even if they have a strong case. Plus, tort law is a complex area of law, and it can be difficult for claimants to understand their rights and to navigate the legal system.

cbHXBY1D··on FTX held less than $1B in liquid assets against $9B in liabilities
I told my dad over a year ago that FTX buying stadium naming rights for a bunch of sports leagues (including one of our hometown teams) was like if there had been an Enron Stadium in 2000.
cbHXBY1D··on Intel plans to rival TSMC and Samsung as a chip supplier
SMIC?
cbHXBY1D··on Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think
You also should mention the use of CitC. With CitC, I can build/write code from my work machine at the office and then go home and gmosh into a cloudtop that uses the same network mounted filesystem.
cbHXBY1D··on 60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine
Search "Nazi patch Ukraine" or some variation on Twitter. I'm not exaggerating when I say that there's hundreds of examples - many of them posted by the BBC, Reuters, or Zelensky himself.
cbHXBY1D··on 60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine
According to several polls and even the Prime Minister, vast majority of Serbians (80+%) support Russia and blame NATO/Ukraine for the conflict.
cbHXBY1D··on 60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine
Off the top of my head: Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island martyrs, Zelensky "I don't need a ride" line, Azovstal "heroes" evacuating, Mariupol hospital, Kramatorsk bomb, Putin having cancer, Ukraine bombing their own POWs, Ukraine shelling Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, old man shooting down an SU-25 with a rifle, etc.

Essentially the western media just repeats everything they hear from the Ukrainian MOD. According to an American reporter, Seth Harper, who was over their reporting on the volunteer battalion, western reporters are basically given no access so they just have to repeat everything the ministry of defense tells them. This is why we've ended up with so many ridiculously false claims printed.

cbHXBY1D··on McDonald's CEO sounds the alarm over crime in Chicago
Makes me want to move to Chicago tbh. I'm tired of not being able to afford a home and paying out my ass for rent in Bay Area/Seattle/NYC.
cbHXBY1D··on When to use Bazel?
I use bazel at work and it does make cross language work very easy. I mostly write C++ so it's one of the few good options out there. But I've also used CMAKE with vcpkg for personal projects and found that to be a really good option. Vcpkg is really the best package manager for C++ right now and seems to work seamlessly on Windows, too. Hopefully bazel's bzlmod can take off and get as many libraries as vcpkg.
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