Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by ianai » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 1:47 AM UTC

ignoranceprior wrote: post #41

leashless wrote: post #15

Life being worse, year on year average, rather than better for most people in most of the richer countries. It's been mostly going sideways since 2008, now it's trending down . This changes everything. It's like a bear market for culture.

Do you have a source that backs this claim up, or is it just anecdotal?

“Cancel culture” is making it worse for everyone. Say or do the wrong thing on social media at any point in time in history and you can lose everything.

Social media has become a groupthink bent toward disorder. I just pick up on a lot more hostility than I remember from even 10 years ago.

All the polls showing people expecting to wind up worse off than their parents and the consistent results for older generations views.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by DeonPenny » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 1:47 AM UTC

SandroG wrote: post #64

Demise of the US dollar as the reserve currency.

That pretty much going the opposite. The Euro is in real trouble, the pound can't because the UK economy is too small, and no one trust china with any power.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by hckr_news » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 1:49 AM UTC

panarky wrote: post #74

Doing nothing. We've been indoctrinated from an early age to be productive, to schedule every moment, to sacrifice sleep, to always be learning, building, networking, searching and improving. The covid19 lockdown is showing many people the benefits of disconnecting, de-scheduling, refusing or ignoring invitations, and being still with our thoughts for hours or days at a time, producing nothing of tangible economic va…

This is great advice but I’m a procrastinator. I have a full time job already in software but it’s incredibly hard for me to get any will power to work on side projects such as getting a business going or just working on open source. I might need to hear the opposite of this.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by michaelgiba » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 1:53 AM UTC

nikivi wrote: post #65

SandroG wrote: post #64

Demise of the US dollar as the reserve currency.

Don't think so https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/hatqdd/seriou...

FYI post was removed by mods

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by NicoJuicy » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 1:56 AM UTC

DeonPenny wrote: post #82

SandroG wrote: post #64

Demise of the US dollar as the reserve currency.

That pretty much going the opposite. The Euro is in real trouble, the pound can't because the UK economy is too small, and no one trust china with any power.

Why would the euro be in real trouble.

The only thing I see is Hungary and interference of China, but those things will usually resolve themselves.

Nobody trusts China = I agree.

I don't think anyone considers even the pound.

But, Trump made sure that a lot of people are starting to back away from the US. So I can't agree with the "going the opposite part".

If Trump would see another term i foresee huge troubles ahead, the US dollar would be the least of the troubles.

Not only US citizens distrust him. There is not a single ally that Trump hasn't stabbed in the back.

Eg. Trying to force Russia into the G7 is just one example.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by TwoNineFive » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 2:05 AM UTC

paulsutter wrote: post #22

Space manufacturing. SpaceX Starship should get a kilogram to orbit for $250 (actually Elon's goal is to get the costs down to $10 per kilogram[1] which seems insanely crazy but be forewarned). Historic costs[2]: - Space Shuttle: $41,000/kg (24.4 t, ~$1B) - Delta IV Heavy: $14,600/kg (24 t, $350M) - Falcon Heavy 2R: $1,700/kg (57 t, $95M) A good first product to make in zero G is ZBLAN, fiber optics so clear that the…

Which brings us to what I think is a bigger issue: Space is a finite quantity, similar to land and EM spectrum.

It's a land race for space. SpaceX and similar are racing to put their junk up their in orbit as soon as possible so they can squat. So who is going to regulate space? Will China Russia and North Korea respect ownership at 10KM up? What happens when GPS and GLONAS go out because of debris and some stupid war?

Humans have shown no ability to manage resource constraints like this without losing their shit and fucking it up. I have no faith that there won't be space drama in the next few hundred years. Maybe this hundred years.

And, to your point, the fact that it's cheaper, and it will get cheaper yet, is going to exacerbate these space regulatory issues.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by OJFord » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 2:09 AM UTC

srle wrote: post #71

pdog wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The golden age of web app development was 2012-2013. The state of the art in the browser was jQuery and ES5. CoffeeScript was mature and stable. The Express framework and Node.js 0.8 were perfect for server-side JavaScript. It was blazing fast, unopinionated, and minimal. It's too bad it didn't last.

And it was an absolute fucking nightmare to maintain and work on. You either never did serious front end dev at the time or you just have an extreme case of rose tinted glasses.

Compared to now?! Or you mean it was already terrible by then, bring back HTML, CSS, and Flash?

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by x0 » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 2:11 AM UTC

maverick2007 wrote: post #35

erulabs wrote: post #29

- Grime music. A UK hybrid of hip-hop and punk, with a focus on showing poverty as a cold reality rather than a hardened persona - removing the "gang" in favor of the "pang". Honesty and sadness in mainstream music is on its way back. - Self-hosting. A hugely growing movement to host server-side software yourself (on a cloud provider or at home). De-platforming is not possible unless ordinary citizens can host applic…

I love grime but only know the more mainstream artists (stormzy, dizzee rascal, bugzy Malone), do you have any recommendations for any more under the radar artists?

I've been going mental over grime for the past year. It's such a tiny little scene, absolutely did not expect to see it mentioned on HN. I'm generally into the weirder/more patois stuff, I'll try not to link too much.

YGG (PK is my all time favourite), Mez, D Double E, Flirta D., Faultsz, The Square, Crafty 893, Jamakabi, Manga St. Hilaire, Killa P, Flowdan, Riko Dan

I truly believe grime is a live genre. Some good sets off the top of my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44bc9rCInXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaK4kEJYRn8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB1tLmfANR0

And a youtube playlist of video clips I made for a friend: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkli19FNT4VvLAJCHcm6h...

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 2:16 AM UTC

gringoDan wrote: post #26

Remote work. 20 years of progress were consolidated into the last 3 months. Previously, you saw people living in hubs like SF and NYC for the high salary and high prestige jobs. But when those jobs are available from anywhere, all of a sudden the "lifestyle cities" like Boulder, Boise, Chattanooga, etc. start to look a whole lot better. You no longer have to sacrifice the high-prestige career to live in a lower cost-…

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Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by rxsel » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 2:22 AM UTC

Creating ways of sustaining yourself in this volatile, insecure, economic environment we now live in. Gone are the days of decade long job security, and firm trust in firms and institutions.