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

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Post by moonchild »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #151

Robinhood. r/wallstreetbets and other mainstream amateur investors investing or betting on crazy risky assets from crypto to options. Indie hackers - the last 5 or so years is the first time I’ve seen a lot of info laid out for this group to thrive. The traditional business and startup advice doesn’t apply directly. Expect to see a lot more people doing this as they get dissatisfied from work or just need a bit of ex…

> Robinhood

Well, you know the saying about fools and their money...

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

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Post by 11235813213455 »

Minimalism, by opposition of capitalism, consumerism-driven economy. It has been said in other comments, things like lockdowns opened up people's mind. Living more simply, is not only beneficial to oneself, but also for environment, which in return also bring benefits to us

We should rethink various jobs and activities, in the angle of "usefulness" or "toxicity". Consider advertisement, entertainment, luxury, tourism, skiing, golf, air-travel, .. even space industry as well since it's mentioned in comments here for example on one side, and permacultures, remote-work, environment-friendly transports, environmental-friendly leisure and sports,.. on the other side

I'm not saying we should live like thousands years ago, no, we should just try to stop wasting and harming our limited environment and ourselves as well, with this consumerism frenzy of products and services

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

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Post by newsbinator »

pdog wrote: post #21
lykr0n wrote: post #9

Earlier 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.

I'd say the golden age of web app development is now. Most people who want a web app can have one. And it can do most of what they want it to do. And it doesn't take months or years to get it there.

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

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Post by 11235813213455 »

jacknews wrote: post #100

Synthetic food. It's already happening with meat made from plants, but going further, you shouldn't need a cow to make milk, or a fruit tree for orange juice, or even a whole wheat grass for flour.

I'd have rather said Organic food. Generally, the least processed food are the most beneficial to our digestive systems, which have evolved a long way to assimilate them optimally

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

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Post by jasonvorhe »

ianai wrote: post #81
ignoranceprior wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 v…

Maybe you shouldn't get to say everything out loud without backlash? Maybe being more considerate to others is something we should all strive for? I was like you, I hated this culture. I felt like someone was taking my liberties away. Then I decided to actually talk to be people with less privilege and I noticed that me talking shit on the internet isn't something that's necessary for me. I'd rather have everyone be respected and taken care of.

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

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Post by DeonPenny »

francis44 wrote: post #132
adventured wrote: post #102

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> Why would the euro be in real trouble. How about zero net economic growth for 20-25 years and no prospect of that trend changing? Countries in the Eurzone who have seen negative real economic growth since 2007 or 2008: Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain The only growth economies over the past decade are smaller: Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia,…

Where is your data for GDP per capita from? I tried to look up the same on below links but the values and trends are very different from yours. Maybe it is measuring something different but I can't tell the difference. https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp-per-capita https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

Worldbank

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

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Post by vestrigi »

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 think self-hosting should be even more "plug and play" to be appealing to more users. During the lockdown I was looking for simple board-like games that could be played over the internet. There were a few promising ones that were only playable on a single hosted domain that hat a capacity of 100 parties. I thought that it couldn't be too asking for the most basic cloud server hardware to serve this game for a few people. I think it should be way more easy and straight-forward for the average user to try out some server application on your own server, be it for playing, collaborative work or organization.

I think Owncloud with its market place is a good example of an engagement into this direction but it looks like it's more like a garden of apps fitted for the platform. What we need is maybe an web-browser accessible hub where we can place or point to an app and quickly configure it to run on the server. SSH optional.

It's a bummer that that there's little demand and awareness for this, especially since we're using our devices in a world of internet services that are either paid or a privacy concern.

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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

Qub3d wrote: post #157
quickthrower2 wrote: post #151

Robinhood. r/wallstreetbets and other mainstream amateur investors investing or betting on crazy risky assets from crypto to options. Indie hackers - the last 5 or so years is the first time I’ve seen a lot of info laid out for this group to thrive. The traditional business and startup advice doesn’t apply directly. Expect to see a lot more people doing this as they get dissatisfied from work or just need a bit of ex…

I'd be wary of Robinhood. Not only has its primary attractor (zero-fee trading) been replicated by all the big brokerages, it has also shown itself time and again to be really fast and loose in areas of finance that both hurt people and attract strong government oversight: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523246 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18699995 Between stepping on toes and having the market for…

Absolutely I’m just using RH as the lead example like MySpace or FriendsReunited was for social networks. I can see a lot of sports punters moving to become financial market gamblers, using platforms like this.

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

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Post by ybbond »

[IndieWeb][1] and how to own all your content online, linking your posts and their responses(likes, replies) on your own website that is called [WebMention][2].

Maybe some trend on how to [annotate and bookmark][3] content online you find interesting in your own collected notes.

Speaking of some note taking, there's method called [Zettelkasten][4] and a trend software is called [Roam Research][5]. It is currently trending invite only software besides new mail provider ["Hey"][6].

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[1]: https://indieweb.org/

[2]: https://indieweb.org/webmention

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23227186

[4]: https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box/

[5]: https://roamresearch.com/

[6]: https://hey.com/

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

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Post by teleforce »

DreamScatter wrote: post #101

Geometric 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

Actually I want to suggest this topic as well.

Modern breakthroughs for example Maxwell's Equation and Einstein's Relativity are both heavily relied on quaternion for their discovery. For Maxwell's Equation you only need one equation with quarternion instead of four separate equations as proposed by Heaviside!

The problem is that the majority of academics and scholars are still stucked with complex number, and they are the same people who are wondering why complex number concept was originally rejected by the academics and scholars when it was first introduced.

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