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New comment by bdndndndbve in "Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts after Super Bowl ad"

bdndndndbve — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:43:06 +0000

He's totally fine with Nazis, although he will use his identity to deflect criticism.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts after Super Bowl ad"

bdndndndbve — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:39:39 +0000

Shopify is absolutely fine with selling hate products as long as you give them their cut. If you're using them for free web hosting they draw the line. They probably also didn't splash out for the premium plan where you get a dedicated concierge.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM"

bdndndndbve — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:19:34 +0000

It's wild to me that despite tremendous resources and 100+ years of time capitalism still kills millions of people a year with starvation and preventable diseases. But every right winger has a pet wikipedia page about a failed communist state with no critical examination of why they failed beyond "communism bad".

To clarify my stance I'm an anarchist and that page has a lot of good examples of successful worker owned collectives.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

bdndndndbve — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:22:40 +0000

I don't really see how doing collusion through a Python backend is separate from my point? They're doing an obviously illegal and immoral thing but wrapping it in a layer of technology which obfuscates and apparently legitimizes it. The consumer view is one aspect but the companies and regulators have the same perspective.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "Macrodata Refinement"

bdndndndbve — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:46:02 +0000

Scavengers Reign is an amazing, 10/10 show and it's so depressing we'll never get a second season. I miss my telepathic dead wife salamander addiction metaphor.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]"

bdndndndbve — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:39:11 +0000

Pretty sure the answer is ads. "Long-form" content has more opportunities to insert ads or sponsored content. There's not a lot of money to be made being quick and to the point.

People's viewing habits have also changed in response, rather than having the algorithm bounce them around they'd rather half-pay-attention to a 3 hour video. But I think the trend of ever-growing video lengths was spawned by a desire for more revenue.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update"

bdndndndbve — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:05:23 +0000

Given the sudden urgency and pulling the old software, I'm assuming they're trying to avoid aging batteries exploding.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

bdndndndbve — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:54:11 +0000

I think the key insight that the article misses is that when consumers interact with an app they have an excess of trust in "the app".

I run an ecommerce site. It's hard as a small retail operation to keep inventory in sync and model the complex network of supplier relationships for special-orders: we can get some products in a day, some things in a week, some in 6 months. Nonetheless customers assume that the computer is the word of God, and that if the website lets them order a product that product must be available immediately.

When you make an app to do something that is illegal, people for some reason assume it is legal (or at least less bad) to do in the app. The presence of a computer intermediary somehow cleanses the action of moral ambiguity. I think this is because most people don't understand how computers work, and they assume that "the computer is always right".

This goes as far back as Babbage:

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question

New comment by bdndndndbve in "Apache Iceberg"

bdndndndbve — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:38:44 +0000

I would argue that stuff like Iceberg is really aimed at Data Platform Engineers, not BI analysts. Companies I've worked with in the past have 10-15 people on a Platform team that work directly with stuff like this, to offer analysts and data scientists a view into the company's data.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "Apache Iceberg"

bdndndndbve — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:31:54 +0000

Yeah working in the data space I see a ton of customers using Iceberg and some using Delta Lake if they're already a Databricks shop. Virtually no Hudi.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "Wall Street banks prepare to sell up to $3B in X loans next week"

bdndndndbve — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:09:59 +0000

The problem in The Big Short was that lenders bundled many loans with correlated risk and advertised the resulting bundle as less risky. Because of the demand for these bundles they issued and bundled increasingly risky loans as time went on. Eventually when the market corrected all of these loans defaulted at the same time.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "Liberux: Linux phone"

bdndndndbve — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:00:21 +0000

I'm gonna say the people are real but they're green screened onto AI backgrounds. Although the man leaning on the pillar one is just uncanny for multiple reasons.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

bdndndndbve — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:30:22 +0000

Does trump also support needle exchanges and safe consumption sites?

Ask HN: Is HN Censoring Posts?

bdndndndbve — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:01:53 +0000

I saw a post about employees of Musk's companies and their reactions to his Nazi salute at the inauguration. The rise of fascism in America is definitely an interesting and pertinent question, but the post was insta-flagged into oblivion.

Is HN suppressing negative posts about Elon Musk?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42781604

Points: 41

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New comment by bdndndndbve in "Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment"

bdndndndbve — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:26:59 +0000

Ah yes high tech, an industry where there's famously no weird distorting influence from VCs subsidizing unprofitable business models to grab market share.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

bdndndndbve — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:18:47 +0000

Unlike in America where... they say it's a national security threat and vote to remove it?

New comment by bdndndndbve in "Apache DataFusion"

bdndndndbve — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:24:01 +0000

Spark is "in-memory" in the sense that it isn't forced to spill results to disk between operations, which used to be a point of comparison to MapReduce specifically. Not ground-breaking nowadays but when I was doing this stuff 10+ years ago we didn't have all the open-source horizontally scalable SQL databases you get now - Oracle could do it and RedShift was new hotness.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "JPMorgan reportedly ending remote work for more than 300k employees"

bdndndndbve — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:17:31 +0000

"don't have much in common with warehouse workers" is so demonstrative of the American lack of class consciousness.

The people making 200k a year are still workers. They may have savings and insurance that make them feel more secure, but they still need to clock in every day to afford to be alive. Their activities in their day to day life are constrained by "will Amazon fire me for this". If they ever suffer some kind of injury that prevents them from doing their day job they would quickly discover that their position is just as precarious as the delivery driver who brings them their cheap plastic shit from China.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "JPMorgan reportedly ending remote work for more than 300k employees"

bdndndndbve — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:29:03 +0000

It is definitely tough to get tech workers to unionize. There's a lot of possible lines of organizing like not destroying the Earth, or not contributing to genocide, or solidarity with staff who don't make 200k a year. But historically labour organizing has been about the immediate material circumstances of the workers, because people are pretty selfish and short sighted in aggregate.

New comment by bdndndndbve in "JPMorgan reportedly ending remote work for more than 300k employees"

bdndndndbve — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:24:48 +0000

This sounds conspiratorial but where I live this is literally the case. Owners of buildings and large businesses in the downtown core (which has been vacant due to WFH) are collectively lobbying large employers to force RTO. It's not a secret, it's a public project to "save our downtown".