In my UX jobs where we did actual UX research with participants in the office the UX research team would go around before each session and find any available developers to come with and sit behind the one way mirror to watch.
You could always tell when it was someone’s first time watching a real user attempt to use our website.
I’m building The Thousand, an experiment to bring together 1,000 founders and brands to answer the same question:
“What will look completely different in 2030?”
Each founder can claim one of 1,000 pages under their brand name. The page includes their logo, website, and prediction.
The unique part is the live auction format: pages can be claimed and founders can compete for positions through bids, turning the process of building the book into a public experiment.
When all 1,000 pages are filled, the predictions will be compiled into a book. The eBook will be free, with a printed edition available as well.
The goal is to create a time capsule of what 1,000 people building technology today think the future will look like.
I’m currently at the very beginning and would love feedback from the HN community on the concept, auction mechanics, and whether this could produce an interesting book.
You could flip that argument. The bar set to remain was too low.
As for 16 years old voting, I'd argue the age to vote should be raised to 21.
> Some particularly pernicious lies on the leave side too convincing
Both sides lied, both sides exaggerated.
The referendum to simply leave or remain would never have happened if UK Parliament went to the public more often with referendums about various treaties such as Maastricht, Amsterdam and Rome. Giving people the illusion of choice would have been enough.
The UK seems to be an outlier for an arrogant Parliament that thinks it knows best, in spite of public sentiment.
I was initially creeped out by this but studying up it seems METR is heavily involved in AI2027. I’ll remind you:
“AI has started to take jobs, but has also created new ones. The stock market has gone up 30% in 2026, led by OpenBrain, Nvidia, and whichever companies have most successfully integrated AI assistants.”
It’s almost Q3 and xAI has seen one of the biggest wipeouts in trading history. Likewise, Antrophic and OpenAI have again delayed their IPOs under internal concerns of busting their stocks. So no, we’re not seeing any economic leadership here.
If anything people are increasingly trying to cut AI budgets and I wouldn’t know of anyone outside of OpenAI who has the audacity to run millions and millions worth of token compute for an eval run with no ROI (and probably no demand, because cheap/flash models).
As much as I like the cautionary tale and I’m sure we need to take it seriously, AI is not progressing as fast as projected by these experts.
SSDs often interface with their storage in different (larger) granularities than the OS meaning that even though the data is effectively more random at large scale due to wear leveling there are still benefits to keeping blocks that are sequential in your file sequential in the filesystem also. As well as a potential read boost, the larger blocks introduce a read-before-write issue that can allow multiple close updates.
The difference is very small when compared to the differences between solid state and spinning rust based solutions, but definitely measurable, particularly on drives with DRAM cache, and in some cases human-noticable.
Actually read the article and you'll see the author specifically talks about this begin part of why this side project started (though I suspect nostalgia is the true driving force as there are more efficient ways of addressing that matter!).
Forget about global trends, forget "unprecedented events", this isn’t rocket science, I’ve seen the climate shift myself, in my lifetime, and I’m not even that old. It’s difficult to imagine how people elsewhere aren’t seeing the same, like we aren’t inhabiting the same reality somehow?
In Continental Europe we used to have winters with regular snow even in large cities. I know, I really liked playing in the snow as a kid. It was cold. For the past dozen or so years, there is less and less snowfall, with milder and milder winters. Snow in the cities amounts to maybe a week or three of weak drizzle. Forget about what my grandpa remembered about how the Danube used to freeze over so you could walk across the river. What we do seem to get more of is wild, torrential rainfall in sudden bursts amid long dry spells. Bad for infrastructure, even worse for agriculture.
The climate is changing here, and it’s getting hotter, not colder or more balanced. Wildfires are increasing in frequency, and God knows what’s going on with the country’s underground aquifers, we never seem to care about those, because we’ve always just had plenty, so why worry. Of course all this is easily dismissed as anecdata. But when I read about the research labelling Europe the fastest warming continent, I don’t have trouble believing it. Sure, someone living in the northernmost reaches of Europe might not see anything, yet, this doesn’t mean the research is wrong.
Worse yet, the infrastructure for dealing with this simply isn’t there in most countries, and I’m not talking about stuff that will "reverse global warming" or whatever, I’m talking steps that will keep cities livable in the short to medium time-span. Most societies are unwilling to mentally deal with or consider what might happen two, three decades down the line. They aren’t willing to contend with a future where their children will have to endure water rationing, curfews, economic and other hardship, mass migration or any number of scenarios that will affect their wellbeing.
We have to greenify the streets, reduce the number of heat-producing vehicles, upgrade the pipelines, irrigation, water collection, and other systems across European cities... I have a sneaking suspicion it will take some massive, un-ignorable crisis, like a record number of elderly people dying from heat exposure to actually start investing in any of this. And by then it might be too late.
Yes it is not perfect, but a company saying where democracy is functioning or not is not a solution and if a company suggests it, that is arrogant and dumb.
It is pretty much the same. You are legally required to have the card with you at all times. The practical issues you refer to are non-trivial. Inability to travel is a non-starter for many. Think ICE will be friendly? They repeatedly show they do not care about legal technicalities.
Now that's not fair. Matrix gives you plenty of options to be flooded with CSAM or have all your chats become inexplicably unable to ever be decrypted again
Yes, definitely dont take medical advice from LLM. Only thing, I suggest is taking food, which foods to take or skip. And also random questions to keep you on track with fasting. like "what happens if I take tiny fruit juice - does it break the fast etc"
Fun story, but I really wish OpenAI got its act together and started making actual AI breakthroughs instead of funneling compute into LLMs. I'd really like some new algorithms to get me excited about the field again. Kuddos to them for making LLMs really useful, but this is not the ride I wanted to get on.
The UK government usually publishes explanatory notes together with the text of the bill itself. It's quite feasible to read these if you're interested in the details of a particular piece of legislation. E.g. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/pdfs/ukpgaen_20...
it’s been common in political process to draw up a number of proposals like this. The end result will be more acceptable.
The telegraph is a broadsheet that likes to stoke political fear to promote its preferred party. The headline sounds like it’s the outcome for the British government. But it’s really the opening position of the Americans.
Doing a bit of everything is what’s good? Why? Because that sounds like aimless distraction. If you had a goal in mind, doing a bit of everything isn’t even an option
I do that in psql and it works really well. But your post got me thinking since I need to find a solution to store content of multiple documents, have a way to do FTS as well as vector similarity. I dont need that for all of the documents at once - I need to do it either for one document or at most couple of documents.
Now I'm thinking I could have a separate database file per "batch", store it in object storage and then download on demand and query it as I want. This way I'll not bloat my primary storage size as well as I dont need a special vector DB since sqlite vector search will be enough for up to 50k vectors.
Carbon taxes can be implemented such that average folks benefit from them, e.g. by paying everyone back the average tax amount. Wealth generally correlates with carbon emissions, so wealthy people would pay more than they get back. This would greatly incentivize less emissions-intensive products and services.
Unfortunately there's no way the rich would ever let this go through.
Of course you can, but it doesn't change the fact that's there's a general preference.
Also, I'm pretty sure that even in your case, the changes you want to make are material dependent and neutrality would be more to your taste if you don't want to turn knobs with each album switch.
Now enough seriousness, if you're amongst the people who still do so, I'll look at you the same way I look at American tourists putting ketchup over all their dishes or people going to an art gallery with tinted glasses =)
It's kind of weird though. Is VxWorks (a proprietary embedded OS used on some of the Martian rovers) going to require it in case some underage Martians try to use Facebook?
You replied to: "The most cost efficient new-build grid is 90-98% solar/wind/battery depending on your locales insolation & wind coverage. (Source Ember Energy)"
There's a big difference between "letting the facts guide the path" and tilting at strawmen built out of straw nobody else even brought into the discussion.
If you'd like to make the point that "cost of panels" can be misleading when supporting components and interconnects begin to take up the lion's share of costs then that sounds like a noble thing to remind folk of, but ideally not as a segway into shilling more fracking which includes untold environmental costs as externalities.
Yes, I know its silly to ask same question, what happens in your body every week to AI. Answers are mostly Same but Just to re-enforce idea, of what you body currently undergoing every few hrs helped me. For example, I watched "What happens with 36hr water fasting youtube video" every time I go on fast - It somehow keep right kind of mindset during fasting. similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URSwRHb4Uv0
I'm sorry, but that's utter bullshit.
The EU project was and is a significant growth motor for the member states. That's why even Canada is contemplating to become part of the union.
But yes, bureaucracy and bad implementation of useful regulation a real issue.
I've seen an SD card icon used for a save icon before. I think conveniently the shape is similar enough to a floppy that you find it while scanning for it as well
Szilard is an underrated genius. Also was an early formulator of the nuclear chain reaction concept, to tap into nuclear energy, but did not zero in uranium right at the outset as the element to make it feasible.
You could always tell when it was someone’s first time watching a real user attempt to use our website.