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Around 2015, I authored my résumé in LibreOffice, and I sprinkled in an assortment of bullet points. Some were indented. I used open squares, filled squares, open and filled circles, right-arrows, stars, etc.

I brought it into an employment center for critique, and my mentor informed me that those shapes all had different meanings and functions. It was a wake-up call for me.

I am not a UX/UI designer, so my experience with the UI elements in applications had been intuitive, and moreover, disconnected from the activity of authoring a non-interactive document.

So I believe that these UI features were imitating paper-based forms. Those ovals or circles on Scantron sheets: you'd better not fill in more than one per line! And being named "radio buttons": yes, if you pressed "AM" then the "FM" button popped out. If you had six presets in a car--wait a minute, those were oblong...
I bought a Macbook in 2015 because I always loved their UI design. Safe to say, whatever's going on with Apple Notes was not what I had in mind.

The best designers in the world, keeping alive the worst UI trend of making everything flat and white without any separation, border or shading whatsoever.
I don't know if the author is looking at this comment section but small issue:

> Array: Implements a dynamic array similar to std::array in C++.

should read "static array". std::array requires you to state the size.

C++ std::arrays are pretty much just uniformly typed tuple structures, not dynamic arrays.

In fact you can use them directly on the stack with no memory allocations whatsoever.
The EU used to be the "European union of coal and gas industry". I would be VERY careful with accusing them of being pro-consumer or anti-business. Hell, I've worked for them a lot as a consultant, and let me tell you, they actively hate the people around them (normal people livingin Brussels, including their employees). They hate "normal" people. They see themselves as the savior, as the only source of sanity in Europe (and have some good points in that regard, borders, euro, ...)

Which is strange, because there's lots of governments in Brussels, and for example the Belgian Federal government doesn't. Belgian Federal employees totally overwhelm local restaurants, and this is Brussels, right, it's perhaps not London, but whatever weird thing you like eating, brussels has 10 choices in the city center. Lebanese, Chinese, 3 generations Italian, Moroccan, Algerian, and of course Belgian fries, whatever you want, square after square full of restaurants ... But at lunch, impossible to get anything around the north or central station. Or NATO people, while they have a very deserved reputation for paranoia don't hate Brussels. (Consultants are driven around on the NATO compound, phones disabled, for minimum 20 minutes, in a bus with no windows, so you never know what is in which building, and that is if you're coming over to help in one of their data centers. If it's actually classified, like a radar system ... it's not fun) EU commissars, even 2nd and 3rd level are constantly protected by large security forces (~10 people constantly surrounding them, even inside EU commission buildings, they regularly clear the entire area around the Berlaymont building to take those "see, we're approachable" interviews outside they love doing, but really they're about as approachable as a US FT100 CEO), despite that even Jens Stoltenberg mostly only has a driver. The EU is totally isolated from everything. It's a huge government, but located on a relatively small area (the "European quarter"), where you won't find many restaurants, or culture, even the metro station is pretty far away from Berlaymont. EU employees eat inside EU buildings, they live outside of Brussels, they never have meetings outside of EU buildings ...
Are philosophers the most qualified to answer the question? To me it sounds like “there’s no consensus amongst botanists on P=NP”. I’d expect biologists/psychologists to have the most experience with the subject matter. And if we’re talking about quantum theory then maybe add some physicists.
depend on your social circle. I can barely get my local pals together for lunch once a week. no chance I can arrange a getaway downtown without planning weeks in advance.
In all countries of the EU, if you are diagnosed as autistic, you get a disabled passport just as any other disability.

40% disability is very common for diagnosed autistic people, meaning they are categorized with the same amount of impact on their wellbeing as crippled, wheelchaired, or mentally impacted people.

So I think the discussion and comparison that calamari4056 started is very well reasoned and makes sense in the context of "what society expects of you" vs "what you can expect of society".
During the Dot-com bubble, I remember a startup in Germany that placed boxes under high-voltage transmission lines to measure the current and sold that data to analysts.

Never heard of them again, so I guess in the long run it was either cheaper to buy that data.
Or my disrespect for tradition will get reinforced when the old chunks of nonsense are replaced with something I can get proficient even when I feel old for the clear reason that it's so intuitive even the old folks can grasp it
Or we could target the whole world population living in wanton profligacy. The goal here is something like maximising median living standards.

Ideally we'd all be living even more decadently than the best US lifestyle. If that means nobody feels like having kids - great.
Maybe it’s just that it is everywhere but I haven’t been able to really get much out of Marvel style writing for a long time.
They are running away from the landowners of the city centre.
I wish we'd steal more. TS type systel and syntax is much better that what we have.

And I hope one day iter[] and callable[] will be made available, cause importing typing sucks.
Inertia from the fluids in your ear being sloshed backwards when you move forward.

Think of it like a plumb bob hung inside your skull. Would it be canted forward or back? I don’t think relative to floor matters for that kind of mechanical detection of movement.
Non sequitur.

Having a strong military may result in fewer deaths.
Psygnosis managed to do that as well, in the C64 version of Shadow of the Beast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_GdJiEjSho

Spelling error is at 5-8 seconds in. As that is kinda the first thing you see, it is quite noticable.
> It's not novel; it's just blatantly false for large swaths of men, young and old alike.

Having kids absolutely gave me purpose in life which I did not have before. It gave me something worth living and dying for, beyond my own pointless momentary whims.

And I now know that happiness is a choice: I can choose to find happiness in the midst of life's challenges, or I can choose to be unhappy instead.

If you'd asked me 20 years ago, I doubt I would have agreed with any of that. But I chose to take a leap into the unknown, before knowing where I would land, and I would never wish to have not taken that leap. Sometimes I wish I'd made better choices in the aftermath, or that fate had dealt us better cards – but the leap itself I could never regret
I'm not an RF expert, but I believe this is a matter of near field vs far field.

In far field (like typical radio broadcasts), there's no "coupling" between the transmitter and receiver so the former just radiates its power and cannot distinguish whether it's being received.

In near field (RFID etc.), there is a coupling and the transmitter can definitely tell whether a receiver is present and absorbing the power.

Thus, and IANAL either, but IMHO harvesting from the near field definitely seems more like stealing, while the far field doesn't; is it stealing to effectively recover "waste energy" that would otherwise just be dissipated uselessly, and wouldn't cause any measurable increase in consumption from the power company?
Can someone explain what is use of this ? Is there something I am missing?

More confined the area ball bounces more
Other ball always occupies 1 spot at time

These two conditions make this game never ending
For me personally SharedPtr is very rarely needed as it encourages building difficult to untangle ownership hierarchies. I did use a lot of Shared Ptr in the past when creating a node.js like library in C++ but breaking the ref cycles everywhere was needed has always been a pain.
That's why I am currently against its use, unless there is a very special case.

Regarding UniquePtr<T> I used to have one but I later on decided to remove it.

https://github.com/Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries/commit/9149e28

However, that being said the library is lean enough so that you can still use it with smart pointers provided by any other library (including the standard one) if that's your preference.
Why would anyone trust their survival instincts?

They must be really dumb.
> It's taboo to say this, but people worldwide have had far too many children

Taboo? It's stupid. But it's not taboo, it's an incredibly conventional thing to say, and has been for many, many decades.
I no longer worry. I'm extremely pessimistic about the impending climate change. I believe Sabine isn't pessimistic enough about what to anticipate. Consider the tundra methane emissions and the explosive release of methane-hydrates from the oceans, along with water vapor, a potent greenhouse gas. The disaster looming over all ecosystems (a mass extinction event) that will happen in decades and the doom-phase could last for 200,000 years. The chances of humanity surviving are incredibly slim, IMO. We can't colonize Greenland or Antarctica due to the lack of fertile soil, and it would take thousands of years to develop it. Without saying so, we don't have this amount of time.
Video adds are much harder to ignore. Compared to banners. Maybe we should develop some sort of unskippable add on articles. Like lot of text and then multi-choice questionnaire, kinda in style of captchas. Those could be real value.
Ask HN: How do you setup a new Mac?
I'm getting a new Mac in a few days, and in an attempt to end with a cleaner install, I'm starting from scratch. What settings / apps do HN users change / install when they first set up their computers?
> The engagement reason is the simplest, so let's look at that first. Just looking at where people spend their time, short-form platforms like Twitter, Instagram, etc., completely dominate longer form platforms

That might be the reason. I'd rather poke my eyes than "hang out" on Twitter or Mastodon. My day worsens by the minute the longer I am on those websites, with the amount of bad takes and terrible idea slogans.

I hate the Twitter style posts because I exist outside that all-consuming bubble of neurosis.

Reddit is dead, HN is alive and kicking, so this is basically my front page of the Internet (:
My impression is that in modern UIs, both checkboxes and option buttons are being phased out: Checkboxes seems to be replaced with apple-style toggle buttons, which I guess are more intuitive for some people?

Option buttons don't have any direct replacement that I can think of, you just see them incredibly rarely. My guess is that they always were one of several possible means to have the user select from a set of choices, the other prominent ones being a plain listbox widget or a combobox/dropdown widget - or of course, just use plain buttons.

For some reason, designers seem to prefer plain buttons or a dropdown for this usecase today.
Sorry, what is it that people in search _have_ known?

I know nothing about search, but a bit about ML, so I'm curious
> Rocket surgery
I'm gonna use this as the superlative of rocket science
If it's a deterministic RNG then it just means the state space is very large.
Recently on twitter an e/acc-aligned person posted some techno-optimist propaganda to the effect of “if primitive societies could see our existing technology, rockets, supercomputers, semiconductor fabs etc, they would see us as gods rather than human beings” (paraphrasing).

Someone else leapt in to provide a number of very interesting accounts in which isolated tribes e.g. Inuit, aborigine, etc had actually been taken to marvel at advanced western technology - cars, skyscrapers etc. These were obviously cherry-picked accounts but it was nonetheless thought-provoking and very funny to me to read about these guys being deeply unimpressed with our shit. “You mean you have to feed this mechanical horse with dinosaur bones and you have to work all day to pay for the dinosaur bones? My horse feeds itself” type of stuff.

I love an enthusiastic MIT student project as much as the next man but I think it’s really nice to sometimes view stuff like this through the lens of an ancient master craftsman. I accept that some open-minded farrier from the Middle ages, when shown this contraption, might be impressed, but I also think a decent fraction might be shaking their heads in dismay :)
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/11/2023-06...

Here's the NOPR, it includes background on where the number comes from.
>You’re trying to scare people into thinking another real estate crisis on the scale of 2008/2009 is looming.

it's not 2008 levels, because as you said residents outpace business. But it is a significant factor and I'd say it is looming.

>actual local businesses in communities are benefiting from WFH workers.

I'm not so sure about that (I feel less inclined to go out when WFH), but I'd love to see data on this.
Exactly!

This is all in an effort to bring down compile times, avoiding including anything from the standard because you can never know if including <atomic> is bringing 10K lines of code in your header.

I will probably provide an optional USE_STANDARD_HEADERS flag someday to allow including a few standard things, including atomics, to avoid doing things wrong on compilerS that are not tested enough (as I clearly can't test every compiler).
Checkboxes can also have an indeterminate state (usually with a "-" in place of the checkmark), like the ones you can see at the below link (and which your link also mentions).

https://storybook.react95.io/?path=/story/controls-checkbox-...

I think the ternary checkbox has two uses: when it's a master checkbox, showing whether all of the binary checkboxes in a group are selected, and it may also be used on its own (the UI may have different actions for the three possible states).
Evangelism Is War (Early MSFT Memo) [pdf] (2000)
Evangelism is War, from James Plamondon, about 1996.
Problem is that residents will be punished for this more than the businesses.
TIL radio buttons were named after the physical buttons used on older radios to select preset stations[0]. IMO they look nothing like the actual buttons on radios.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_button
Modernity sees state as the building block of reality. Quantum dynamics says it is POTENTIAL through constructive and destructive interference resolving into state in the moment of now (a continuously transitive and ephemeral moment.)

Is it so hard to see consciousness as the domain of existential POTENTIAL, and living systems as a feedback loop into this echo chamber of potential?

Does potential not sound more like consciousness than the arrangement of state?
This works both ways though, there is a reason why time and materials is so common.
> when the community is hell bent on making every codebase as unreadable and complicated as possible

I don’t understand what you’re getting at, but clearly you’re expressing some pain here: what are some examples?
He isn't wrong. Zuck was more instrumental than Bannon and Stone in bending reality into a shape useful for today's post-truth mess. And him and his ilk did it on a global scale.

> Last month, Burns was interviewed on MSNBC, where he said that Zuckerberg allowed "misinformation" to spread on Facebook during the “most fraught time” in US history.

> In this same interview, he spoke about “Soviet style disinformation.”
Kind of disappointing that it doesn't have the victory screen. But man, my fingers still remember that combo you have to do for those 4 wide areas.
It's actually true that some blame can be apportioned to fossil fuel companies that have actively pushed "more fuel consumption" since the 1970s, the Koch Group in particular funde a slew of think tanks to poo-poo and crash and burn any grass roots public transport movements in the USofA during the past 50 odd years.

It's less true that a valid comparison should be "if not modern 21st Century life then hunter gather".

There's a middle ground more agrarian, less hunter, lifestyle that supported a large population in the past and can likely support a larger population than Victorian times if farming | mining switched across to renewables (electric | hydrogen) instead of fossil fuels - we've learnt a lot about efficiencies in the past century, it's a matter of application and less consumption now, certainly time for less greenhouse gas being released.
But now even plebs can do it, so lets make it illegal so only rich can do it, like its been till now.
It's clear at this point that the world's ownership class is NOT going to allow any significant mitigation of petroleum use.

The problem is not use, the problem is extraction. If it comes out of the ground, it gets used, and mostly ends up in the atmosphere. The volume of extracted fossil fuels is carefully managed so that prices remain low enough to prevent green alternatives from winning in the market, and high enough to maximize long term revenue. If extraction would decline, fossil fuel prices would rise, and the market would automatically rebalance into a green transition.

Really the only thing politicians need to do is put in place a global and declining cap on fossil fuel extraction. Wells need to be capped even when they’re not empty. There should be zero new drilling. You can tell the honest intentions of a politician on climate change by their policies on fossil fuel extraction.

And this means ultimately it is a political problem, not an individual problem, and can be fixed through the voting booth. But that requires people to consider this the most important problem, and they don’t. So ultimately, the reason things don’t change is not some cabal, but just plain people not prioritizing it in the voting booth.
I'm going to bow out of the conversation at this point. At this point I'm arguing against feelings not facts, and I suspect you're being quite a bit contrarian also. So much of what you say is flat out wrong, and I don't have the energy for an extended is-too/is-not.

I also suspect you're one of those "needs to have the last word types", which is also common in autistic people (despite supposedly being less emotional according to you), and, well, that's not going to be a productive discussion if that's your motivation or even part of it.

Cheers.
To steal someone else’s comment from above, I feel like TypeScript has disproved this, and that you lose almost nothing and gain a huge amount with a high-quality optional typing system
Actual radio buttons in cars were for the most part rectangular

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/radio-buttons-old-car-ra...

There's a good explanation of how they worked here:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-do-old-timey-radio...
> They should institute a voluntary conscripted amnesty/asylum

Conscription by definition is involuntary.
giving the looming candiates for 2024... I think we're stuck between a rock and a hard place for the next 4 years sans a miracle ocurring.
I suppose not. If my neighbour has a water sprinkler, it's not theft if I put a tree where it spills on my property. It's rather debatable if the strong electric fields are a disturbance to the environment and the power company should be obligated to insulate better, potentially leading to higher transmission efficiency.
> Box is not checked yet, otherwise IDF wouldn't have any resistance.

That's a misqualification; Germany offered resistance up to the last day, Berlin didn't fall without a fight.
and making send_reset_password_instructions get the email addresses itself from the "recoverable" object.
> I like broadcast TV and radio (especially radio while driving)

If you suggest to apply the same model to social media (where they don’t get to know about a single thing about the user, strictly one way ads) then I’d be totally for it.

However, I don’t think they’ll find this model profitable enough (advertisers like to target), and because charging users is easier with social media compared to radio broadcasting the barrier to start doing that is lower.

That is, disallowing profiting from PII and only allowing one-way ads in social media, while difficult to enforce will also mean they start charging users anyway. So why not skip that model altogether.

Local broadcast models don’t work on global scale anyway.
It does not have to have a use or a point, it is up to you to decided what it represents. I see at as an interactive yin and yang!
i don't think overpopulation is the problem, but maybe it's a symptom. the problem is we've forced our way up to an unrealistically high standard of living which is completely unsustainable, and now we're trapped in an inescapable death spiral because nobody wants to go back.

people aren't willing to stop paying for conveniences because they're cheaply available, corporations aren't willing to stop selling them because there's a demand for it and money to be made, and governments aren't willing to force anybody's hand because the people and corporations will both force them out of power if they try.

there is absolutely no chance of breaking out of it other than giving up on democracy, but that will only happen when modern society collapses entirely, which will be far too late to prevent unimaginable suffering on a massive scale.
I see it mostly used correctly, though?

But I don't browse Twitter nor Tiktok. So that may be a factor I am spared from.
I hate it when news sites post videos, it just doesn’t work if you’re in a room with multiple people and everyone is looking at a different video with audio.
Most essential resources aren't consumed but part of cycles — food, water, shelter. These cycles are sustained by energy and, if we were to use it well, the sun alone provides more than enough.

A simple example of this is that water isn't used up, it gets dirty. It can be made clean again but that requires energy. This can be done by humans (water filtration) or by nature (evaporation and rain). We don't manage these cycles very well and they sometimes stretch out over too many of our lifetimes to manage (plastics, some nuclear waste) so it becomes easier to talk about resource 'use'.

The equation is pretty simple `humans × resources/human`. We can talk about reducing number of humans or reducing the resources needed per human. If we manage the cycles well, humans could inject more resources into the system instead of taking away from it. Of course this would still be limited by available energy. In that case, increasing the number of humans within energy capacity could benefit ecosystems.

We already have a lot of available energy but there is orders of magnitude more available as our technology improves — fusion, thorium fission, solar, wind, tides.
I disagree but I see where you are coming from.

Some personal blogs are unreadable because of shoddy CSS choices, but I need them to have a little personality for me to spend a second on them. The most memorable ones for me are those that I can distinguish visually (they don't have to be necessarily beautiful)

And Medium is a good idea in a vacuum, in practice with nag screens and article limits the association I make when I land on it is "fuck this place, and whoever write it only cares for engagement, not reader experience." And it's true. If you care about your readers, you won't subject them to Medium or Substack's silliness. I literally don't know a single good blog hosted on those platforms. At least on blogspot we had Steve Yegge.