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Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

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Post by ToJans »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #81

Software is becoming less and less of a tech industry and more and more commoditized. Very little innovation in the past 5-10 years. Very few successful companies during that time have come about by having incredibly innovative and novel technology - almost all are simply using run of the mill, commoditized technology to solve business problems that they have large domain knowledge of. Given this, it makes total sens…

^^ This comment is spot on; my personal path has evolved from low-level "let's build everything ourselves" to "which components/services/apps can I leverage to serve my clients and get a new feature out in a few days instead of months".

We're moving up on the abstraction ladder, and as hacker news has always had an early adopter audience, focus is shifting here first.

Assuming these trends are highly correlated with the Kondratieff cycle, I expect a new trend to emerge about a decade from now. My best bet is focus will shift deep into the implementation again, but now in another context (Maybe on edge devices, data/code floating in the void, more decentralized, ...).

I've put my money where my mouth is, and my personal bet is on interactive 3D, as 3D capable devices are becoming more of a commodity and the current generation of youth (future buyers) will be a very technically literate audience that has grown up playing games and being connected 24/7.

Maybe I should send myself a reminder about this post in 10 years from now; curious to see what will have emerged by then on this site...

Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

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Post by kkoncevicius »

The biggest drift I noticed is mainstream news articles reaching the front page more frequently. I use and abuse the "hide" functionality, but sometimes I wish there was a setting to hide bbc, reuters, new york times, npr, and the gang - like a "hide" feature for domain names.

Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

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Post by mandmandam »

bscphil wrote: post #192
mandmandam wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm open to new info, but, has the Wim Hof method not been confirmed in dozens of ways; from scientific studies to visceral demonstrations? N of 1, WHM helped me with a number of issues that I had thought were just going to be part of life. I don't think it deserves to be lumped in with "various UFO threads", or implied to be "unaligned with reality". As for "contentious COVID discussion"; do you not remember when th…

A cursory glance at the Wikipedia article seems to suggest that it does what it says on the tin: makes you more resistant to inflammation caused by certain stressful external conditions (e.g. extreme cold). So it "works" in that sense. However: > Critics of Hof say he overstates the benefits of his method. On his website he says that it has reduced symptoms of several diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple…

That's a very gracious interpretation of OP's criticism, where he compares WHM to UFOs and "unaligned reality".

I had a look at your link, and didn't see much to interest tbh. It looked to me like smug skeptics, who haven't tried the method, joking about how much they dislike the cold. N of 1, I don't mind the cold any more, after despising it for my previous life. All I had to do was try it to verify.

The link's author, Ms. Hall, has a history of retracted articles on the site, for "too many issues with the treatment of the relevant science".

The worst part of her article, to me, was the denigration of WHM's confirmed attenuation of the inflammatory response - as if that's a "circus act", and "might not be useful". Inflammation is implicated in countless medical conditions. Managing it is a big deal, well worth exploring, and that's really fucking obvious.

The second most insane part was where they claimed his methods have resulted in deaths, without the context that this was from people trying the method alone where they could injure themselves from passing out (like in water). There are constant warnings not to do this from Wim and his trainers. That's very deceptive for a site that claims to be science based in their title.

Wim Hof's blood kills E.coli on it's own, and he has trained people to be able to do the same under laboratory conditions. Isn't that fucking fascinating? Not to the skeptics, apparently. He has trained 70+ year olds to climb mountains in their jocks - not worth a mention, it seems.

The top comment discusses the brown fat hypothesis, without doing the basic research to find that this is an explored subject - it is confirmed WHM doesn't generate heat from brown fat, rather it's the intercostal muscles.

TBH I'd consider that whole page and comment section a bad smear job. Not great, for a site that has "science based" in the url.

Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

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Post by urthor »

ToJans wrote: post #211
pyrrhotech wrote: post #81

Software is becoming less and less of a tech industry and more and more commoditized. Very little innovation in the past 5-10 years. Very few successful companies during that time have come about by having incredibly innovative and novel technology - almost all are simply using run of the mill, commoditized technology to solve business problems that they have large domain knowledge of. Given this, it makes total sens…

^^ This comment is spot on; my personal path has evolved from low-level "let's build everything ourselves" to "which components/services/apps can I leverage to serve my clients and get a new feature out in a few days instead of months". We're moving up on the abstraction ladder, and as hacker news has always had an early adopter audience, focus is shifting here first. Assuming these trends are highly correlated with…

I think it's also that we've solved many of the tech problems that can be solved by a single, genius savant. These days it's more "cross functional teams."

When problems are solved by three or more people working together in a Zoom meeting, "making technology" becomes a lot less like being a hacker.

And a lot more boring regular business suit stuff becomes part of the conversation.

Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

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Post by jacquesm »

dotancohen wrote: post #189
0134340 wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And ironically the author became the abusive politician.

I wouldn't say that. He pulled his country out of the very abusive Versaille treaty, had he stopped there he would today be regarded a hero by all sides. I'll leave it at that!

He didn't stop there.

Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

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Post by formerly_proven »

dotancohen wrote: post #189
0134340 wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And ironically the author became the abusive politician.

I wouldn't say that. He pulled his country out of the very abusive Versaille treaty, had he stopped there he would today be regarded a hero by all sides. I'll leave it at that!

Is it Casual Hitler Sunday again?

Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

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Post by kkoncevicius »

no_time wrote: post #179
errantmind wrote: post #78

It is obvious to anyone who has been here for a while that this community is in decline, in the sense that it has less depth, less quirkiness, and less 'real' diversity of opinion (although dang does a good job of stemming the tide). The 'hivemind' has emerged here to squash contrasting positions. The funny thing is, no one thinks they are a part of this emergent 'hivemind' but the end result is the same.

Saying community is in constant decline is such an internet thing. A certain other website with a blue background and trumpets has been full of messages like this for the last 20 years, yet it's still a fun place to lurk. HN is one of the few places on the internet where you can play devil's advocate and still live to see the top of the comments page because the number of people who read half sentences and instantly…

> Saying community is in constant decline is such an internet thing. A certain other website with a blue background and trumpets has been full of messages like this for the last 20 years, yet it's still a fun place to lurk.

But repeatedly saying that something is in decline doesn't mean that there is no decline. Also something can be in decline and still remain a fun place for a long time. Both can be true at the same time.

Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

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Post by mnd999 »

jiggawatts wrote: post #46

Something I noticed about Slashdot was that it started out talking about the latest processors, software, and Linux kernel patches. Then the conversation ever-so-slowly started drifting towards CEOs, the sharemarket, politics, and the like. It's a side-effect of an aging user base. Young people get excited about New Things! With big numbers! Older people get bored of the latest technological advancements and instead…

So where do the 18 year old hackers chat these days?

Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

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Post by cnorthwood »

mnd999 wrote: post #219
jiggawatts wrote: post #46

Something I noticed about Slashdot was that it started out talking about the latest processors, software, and Linux kernel patches. Then the conversation ever-so-slowly started drifting towards CEOs, the sharemarket, politics, and the like. It's a side-effect of an aging user base. Young people get excited about New Things! With big numbers! Older people get bored of the latest technological advancements and instead…

So where do the 18 year old hackers chat these days?

Discord ime
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