Decentrailzed, encrypted data store. This will be the base on which next generation of applications will be written on - users want privacy and the ability to own their data.
Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
you don't have to be a digital nomad. We've been living in a rural'ish city (Cedar city, UT), that isn't a tech hub for awhile now. I'm a freelance dev (underpaid probably $40/hr). But, I like living wherever I want, and not having to move. Plus wife's family is nearby which comes in handy. I think one big thing though about the have-nots divide increasing is this is going to speed up automation unlike anything we've…
Check out Robin Hanson's Twitter. His hobby horse recently has been finding _any_ evidence that total employment is affected by recent automation and he's not really finding any.
How about stagnant and declining real wages and decreasing income security for most people?
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#113Space 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 wa…
There is plenty of space in "space" or more like in the earth orbit. Trash is a problem because it may be hard to track or even have unknown trajectory, space isn't. It need global coordination ofc but its not like with planes where everything can changes within minutes due to whether or some kind of emergency. and there is no need for high vehicle density like around an airport.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#114Serverside Rendering * https://laravel-livewire.com * https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view * https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor edit: added blazor
I use Blazor day to day. It’s really awesome. You are trading off ease of development for a potentially laggy UI connection, since each UI action re renders across the wire.
I see it being used heavily for enterprises that know C#, don’t care to learn the latest JS framework, and just want to make a SPA quickly and cheaply.
WASM or client side blazor is definitely interesting, though the client must download the whole .net core runtime when they visit your site.
Open to any questions about Blazor! Big fan of Elixir, but haven’t used LiveView yet.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm having flashbacks to 2013 where JS was used to enhance the experience, not build it.
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.
Golden age? ES6 changed everything in JS land, and killed jQuery effectively. I can't call anything before ES6 a golden age.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#116Life 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.
I think we need proof cause thats has pretty much been proven to be untrue by a few sources I've seen.
Lower birth rates, marriage rates, wage growth (negative even), home ownership comes later in life, education is more expensive, fewer areas with job markets with good wages, so housing is more expensive, etc.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/national-marriage-divorce-...
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#117Earlier 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.
The reason it didn’t last is because of blog-driven development. How does Udemy make money if everyone is using Rails with CoffeeScript and JQuery? How does Medium drive new articles and new authors? They can’t. So new authors have to drive new trends, which their audience grabs onto and forces into the mainstream. Recently I had a discussion on here about React vs PHP. The conclusion seemed to be that PHP died for n…
Do you really believe there's some conspiracy between Udemy, Medium and the like to drive JS development such that they could get more engagement? It seems that's a reversal of cause and effect, people like to make new stuff which Udemy and Medium were then able to capitalize on, nothing more.
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On top of this. Understanding the difference between acceptance, and being 'non-racist' vs being 'anti-racist' - which is what the movement needs more than anything. True allies are embracing the 'anti-racist' term and shutting down every symbol of racism. Look at the rebranding of Mrs. Butterworths, Aunt Jemima, Cream of Wheat, Uncle Ben. Look at cities willing to remove Christopher Columbus statues, etc.. there's b…
I vehemently disagree. This hysterical scramble to label everything as racist regardless of merit, and suffocate any rational discussion of issues, is tearing the fabric of society apart, and only serves to dilute the message against police brutality.
> only serves to dilute the message against police brutality.
As much as I agree with the sentiments of BLM, this cannot be overstated.
Media conglomerates are amplifying the BLM "white/black divide" to distract from the fact that law enforcement bullies and assaults EVERY ONE OF US if the circumstances are right.
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#119Geometric algebra It's an algebra which unifies linear algebra with quaternions and tensors. My implementation in Julia is at https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl We have a chat community of geometric algebra enthusiasts at https://bivector.net
Okay, time to have another shot at understanding Clifford Algebra!
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#120The Department of Education is the largest financial institution in the world.
People aren't just not paying their rent and mortgages in the US - they're not paying their student loans at an alarming rate.
You can repossess homes - you cannot repossess knowledge.