I've been using CSS since it first [barely] appeared in IE3, but I've been behind on fully getting to know flex and grid. Didn't know about aspect-ratio at all.
Maybe that says more about the amount of attention I've been paying, but I learned a lot from these examples.
> virtually every other person is radioactive to you.
While you're not wrong, this behaviour is already present - just randomly distributed. Some/many people withdraw, interact with fear, maybe eventually get fed up and take risks, based on guessing-games.
If this research proves fruitful, it will reduce the guesswork a lot, and people can try to find more practical and constructive approaches.
I'm not aware of HN doing any predicting at large. If you mean 'will the average person later act like a given segment of HN people do now?' - then it depends on how good you are at selecting your segment, which makes it no better or worse than using any other sample of people for prediction.
Less abstractly, productisation is what takes things from obscurity (e.g. HN) to mainstream audiences, so future trends might grow out of stuff that you see here, but the people who can figure out whether certain tech can become a product (would-be predictors) -hopefully- also have the means to turn it into a product themselves.
This is an excellent article with great simple tips, like highlighting most Calculator apps' hex mode and the mile-counter analogy. Great work by the author.
Reading this, I would actually tune into Eurosport knowing I can watch with minimal commentary - I know commentary brings some people a lot of structure but I find the events impossible to take in with somebody talking over it.
It bothers me that the article makes no reference to Wally Funk, the pilot - she's now the oldest person to have gone to space. Maybe it's cheesy of me to get a kick out of 'records' like that, but I enjoy that a lot more than caring about who commissioned the flight.