Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–80 of 162 posts

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#71

Post by one33seven »

rho138 wrote: post #25
one33seven wrote: post #18

The infinite growth of capitalism is bringing us to the edge of climate collapse, a real existential danger and nobody seems to care

Money talks on this one. The consumer has to make the choice to go without or push for regulation of exploitative corporate practices.

The companies exploiting the earth will have more money and can buy out the others so... I don't see a way out of this while they have to compete against each other

Even if that was true, how to convince enough people, given that the enemies own the newspapers and so on?

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#72

Post by Schiendelman »

iberator wrote: post #69
Schiendelman wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you write code? How's your product sense? Got a resume?

I designed and wrote some custom cpu(stack based RISC cpu with fixed operation/operand size) architecture simulator, with assembler and almost with forth compiler on my phone when I was homeless... Nowadays out of tech - too tired after 11h shift to do stuff. No weekends. Got kicked out from McDonald's for being too slow (competing with 20yr olds is HARD), gonna be kicked out from temu in 2 weeks due the AI (80% staf…

I understand you're out of tech right now. I understand it's tough right now. Have you worked professionally in tech before?

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#73

Post by TonyStr »

adlpz wrote: post #6

Wealth concentration beyond a point which would have resulted in widespread revolution 150 years ago, but that is now being tolerated because we've grown accustomed to a level of comfort we don't want to risk losing.

I'm not so familiar with the revolutions of 1848, but it seems like most revolutions happen when a society is suffering from severe economic crisis as well as food shortage. It seems that the 1840s was referred to as "the Hungry Forties" due to severe food shortages. I don't think many people are willing to upend their lives to change a political system that isn't failing to deliver their personal basic needs. I'm also not sure if the revolutions of 1848 were primarily about wealth concentration - weren't they rather about concentration of power?

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#74

Post by someone_old »

sound. my neighbour has some kind of AC or the like that is constantly humming around 30db in my room. there is no way I can sleep with this, even with earplugs. talked to him but he does not care, so I'm reporting him... and that takes time, with no guarantee that that will fix it.

maybe this sound much smaller than economic policies in France but for me this sucks big time

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#76

Post by josefritzishere »

The consolidation of wealth and power to an inflection point whereafter it seems the rest of us, the majority of humans, will be left to live in some kind of post-apocalyptic feudalism. The declining standard of living, the authoritarianism, even the naked stupidity are all endurable... but that lack of hope burns like Merbromin.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#77

Post by gauku »

cyclonereef wrote: post #57

Got a referral to work as a Solution Architect at a company from the Senior Sales Person who I will literally be paired up with to talk to customers. Outgoing architect also said I would be perfect for the role. Got on a call with their internal recruiter who cut me off partway through most of my answers about my background and then received and automailer rejection. That someone who would be bearing the impact of a…

Not as a way to get you back in but I believe such behavior should still be reported. To both, the person who referred you and someone who manages said internal recruiter (ideally C levels if it's a small company). It is costing the company a solid candidate and they'd prefer to know as well.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#78

Post by mezod »

Schiendelman wrote: post #13
mezod wrote: post #12

- General lack of integrity at higher spheres (and where this can lead the world to) - The current situation where distribution matters way more than product quality - Lack of clear personal goals

Do you have any dreams? Things you always wanted to accomplish as a child, perhaps?

oh thanks for asking! I have never been very goal oriented, and despite how this may sound, I am quite satisfied with what I have accomplished. That's sort of the problem, I am in a too comfortable position at the moment. So for me to pull the trigger in any direction I'll need some real motivation. Most of what I am exposed to at the moment seems irrelevant or not worth my effort. I need to keep trying things and find a way to break out of my comfort zone as cliche as it sounds ;d

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

#79

Post by sam_lowry_ »

The death of HTTP/1.1.

I posted a link to an article on an HTTP-only website a few days ago, and it was flagged within half an hour because browsers want HTTPS.

I know all about JS injection into unencrypted HTTP trafic, but this is beyond the point.

The point is, I can not just spawn a website and make it available to the world from anywhere having only a network connection.

Post reply on HN