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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Does trump also support needle exchanges and safe consumption sites?

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

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

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.

"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.

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.

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".

How can you get the definition of fairness so backwards? The King provides literally everything you take for granted and he should be punished because you are envious? I don't get it.

There's a reason why every vassal with a sizeable estate wants to be in the King's court rather than starting their own country.

I think OP is coming from the "temporarily embarassed billionaire" perspective where if only we had a libertarian hellscape without pesky laws they would be a funeral baron who runs Bartertown.

The idea that abolishing IP protections and letting AI companies run rampant is an offramp for wealth inequality is such a wild take to me?

Realistically billionaires are using racist and homophobic populism as a way to direct working class energy away from wealth inequality. Making people think "woke" is the reason why the earth is on fire and they can't have health insurance.

There's a good Money Stuff episode about this btw. They talked to someone whose job is to assess commercial properties on behalf of investment funds. There's a lot of obvious tricks that places use to make their occupancy seem better, but the guest's take was that only S-tier malls and office buildings are worth the asking price.

My local B-tier regional mall for instance has about 50% occupancy, and a lot of that is pop-up stores that seem to be entirely transient. They have an anchor Wal Mart, a bank and a mobile phone store, but no other noteworthy tenants. Around the holiday season it felt pretty empty. It's amazing they can afford to operate such a large building under the circumstances.

There's 2-3 other similar malls within a 30 minute drive. All of these malls are still being held by REITs or retirement funds at inflated valuations waiting for a recovery that isn't coming.

Unlike famously chill billionaires of the past like William Randolph Hearst or Howard Hughes

I'm not saying they're single-handedly propping up real estate, but they benefit from "number goes up" in the economy. If WFH becomes a durable trend and a bunch of commercial properties get written down it's going to have a big impact on a lot of investors. Many large companies either have real estate investments, or their owners are diversified into real estate. It makes sense for companies collectively to push in this direction not out of nostalgia but to avoid a massive correction.

Have you followed this at all? The man has been in HN threads arguing about posts about himself for months. He's on some kind of scorched earth ego trip.

His profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=photomatt

People have theorized that RTO mandates are shadow layoffs, but I think they might actually be commercial real estate investors trying to prop up the office market. If large companies are able to force RTO those working conditions will trickle down to smaller employers, which will stop the bleeding of tenants for small and midsized buildings. Those commercial office buildings are owned by REITs and investment banks.

It's like if the landlords that own malls were allowed to ban online shopping.

It's not just thought, but also effort. If you have downtime you have time to organize and advocate for yourself. If you have savings you can withhold labour. The ideal conditions for capitalists are that every worker has the bare minimum to be alive and if they miss work they don't receive that minimum.

What kind of radicalization do you mean? The kind that tries to violently overthrow the government after an election they don't like?

This is a proven trend that's happened in multiple fields. It's not about the gender of your individual coworkers, it's about the relative prestige of a field. When women become more prevalent the credential or field becomes less valued and men flee.