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by db48x | 2025-09-17 07:18:12+00:00
They specifically want 8×16 characters in 9×16 character cells on a 720×400 display that has an overall 4:3 aspect ratio. There’s no way to achieve that on anything other than a real hardware CRT. No amount of fiddling with fonts in either X11 or Wayland or any other display manager will change the size of the pixels on your LCD.
by branko_d | 2025-09-17 07:18:39+00:00
Curious, my experience could not have been more different. I still use Asus Zephyrus G15 (GA503QR from 2021) as my main development machine, and also game occasionally on it. It's AMD Zen 3 CPU with GeForce 3070.

As I write this, the fans are either completely stopped or so slow that I cannot hear them. The fans can get a little "whooshy" under load, but nothing out of line with other Windows laptops, as far as I can tell.

I'm running under Windows profile (not one of the ASUS-specific ones in Armory Crate). I also limit the battery to 60%, since I'm mostly using it plugged-in, with external monitor and keyboard. A month ago, I upgraded RAM to 40 GB and added another 4 TB SSD (and cleaned the fans in the process, so it's even quieter). I think I'll keep this machine for a few more years...

That being said, I did experience occasional cursor stuttering, but mostly when the machine is under load (typically during Visual Studio build).
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by Terr_ | 2025-09-17 07:20:16+00:00
It doesn't say liquid assets though, it mentions multiple options which vary in how easily you can/should use one to pay an unexpected bill or period of unemployment.

For example, if one is using their life-insurance payouts to pay their rent... well, something has gone very wrong somewhere.

Specifically, this part:

> financial asset—which includes transaction accounts, certificates of deposit, savings bonds, other bonds, stocks, pooled investment funds, retirement accounts, cash value life insurance, and other managed assets

For the highly-liquid "transaction accounts" (checking, savings, money-market) the conditional [0] median is just $8k.

[0] AFAICT "conditional" here means "we don't include $0 data points in the median." That explains why the subcategory of "stocks" has a higher conditional median value than the more-general category of financial assets.
by opo | 2025-09-17 07:21:43+00:00
>…Upgrades are on the way but you were trying to frame it as a desperate issue to solve immediately, without realizing your solution didn’t solve anything.

It is only non-urgent if a country wants to minimize the people it is killing by recklessly burning coal. Otherwise, no big deal.

>…For evidence have a read:

Yes I had seen that. Which is why I wrote:

>>…The 12 billion dollar estimate included costs unrelated to Diablo Canyon according to PG&E. Their estimate is closer to 8B, of which the majority will be covered by selling the electricity. They have a 1.1 billion dollar grant to help with some of the rest, though unclear how much the state will have to subsidize things in the end.

CA battery capacity has had better growth than I thought. Though there is obviously a difference between batteries to provide power for a few hours a day and a plant that would provide power 24/7. Diablo Canyon provides close to 18,000 GWh per year of clean power. If that goes away this year, it will obviously take a while to be able to replace the power with other clean power.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-09-17 07:21:51+00:00
Yes, sure. Any such new cooperative wouldn’t automatically come with the colleagues or contract/revenue which his former employer had just handed off to the newly formed business discussed in the blog post, and its creation wouldn’t solve the feelings of hurt or betrayal which the post describes after he was excluded from certain discussions and interpersonally cut off by people he had considered friends.

But certainly no business, whether cooperative or fully capitalist, has exclusivity on participating in KDE, nor has he been banned from the community. This is more about him feeling ostracized and unwelcome than formally forbidden, and also about him being surprised that his priorities around the structure and ownership of the new business weren’t shared by his colleagues.
by jaccola | 2025-09-17 07:22:08+00:00
This is so sad. Like an addict who is hoping for that easy win to get them out of the terrible hole they are in...

This government (as the last, to be fair) is betting on unproven technology they barely understand and sometimes horribly misunderstand rather than making tough policy decisions.

The parts of this that actually materialise are very probably a good thing for the country, but this should really be business as usual. Alongside that I hear MPs, government ministers and commentators alike saying things like "when AI allows us to make vast efficiency gains in that government department...", "AI will obviously help to reinvigorate the Welsh economy...", "with AI we will be able to transition our industry to clean energy quicker..." (?!)

The fact that this very much feels like the country is lucky to have Nvidia/OpenAI rather than vice versa just demonstrates how badly managed the UK is.
by mike-cardwell | 2025-09-17 07:22:11+00:00
I find part of the fun of dockerising small apps is in trying to get the image as small as possible with as few files in it as I can. This one looks like it still contains a lot of stuff that's not needed.

For example, my exim image https://hub.docker.com/r/grepular/exim4 is built like this: https://gitlab.com/grepular/docker-exim4/-/blob/main/Dockerf... - The final image only contains the necessary executables, shared lib files, CA certs, timezone files, a few other bits and nothing else.
by dayvster | 2025-09-17 07:22:47+00:00
Hi author of the article here.

I've been a software developer for nearly 2 decades at this point, contributed to several rewrites and oversaw several rewrites of legacy software.

From my experience I can assure you that rewriting a legacy codebase to modern C++ will yield a better and safer codebase overall.

There are multiple factors that contribute to this, such one of which is what I reffer to as "lessons learnt" if you have a stable team of developers maintaining a legacy codebase they will know where the problematic areas are and will be able to avoid re-creating them in a rewrite.

An additonal factor to consider is that a lot of legacy C++ codebases can not be upgraded to use modern language features like smart pointers. The value smart pointers provide in a full rewrite can not be overstated.

Then there's also the factor that is a bit anecdotal which is I find that there are less C++ devs in general as there was 15 years ago, but those that stayed / survived are generally better and more experienced with very few enthusiastic juniors coming in.

I'm sorry you did not enjoy the article though, but thank you for giving it your time and reading it that part I really appreciate.
by jbstack | 2025-09-17 07:23:04+00:00
That's not the point I was making. Both operations need capital. But capital isn't the only barrier to entry.

With a LLM, you can spend the money to develop the model, then spend some money marketing it, and if you get enough paying customers to cover your costs and a bit more then you're done. Done in the sense that you're now competing on the same level (roughly) as other LLM providers. Even if it's at a smaller scale, you can offer a similar product with similar features.

With a phone OS, that isn't enough. You need to become big enough that significant numbers of app developers are willing to publish apps on your store, including most major ones (Netflix, Spotify, WhatsApp, social media, banks, government agencies, etc.). Running a VM isn't a full solution: banking apps are already actively blocking usage just based on phone settings that they don't like; unlses your OS does a very convincing job of masquerading as a genuine Android/Apple device you're likely to run into problems (and if you do the latter you might hit legal problems). You also need to convince major manufacturers that it's worth bundling your OS with their phone.

Without those, for a significant segment of the population your phone OS will always be seen as an inferior product to Android / iOS.
by jcelerier | 2025-09-17 07:24:10+00:00
Not sure I understand, since they're available in c++ designated initializes are one of the features I use most, to the point of making custom structs to pass the arguments if a type cannot be changed to be an aggregate. It makes a huge positive difference in readability and has helped me solve many subtle bugs ; and not initializing things in order will throw a warning so you catch it immediately in your ide
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-17 07:24:25+00:00
I wonder if that voyeuristic use case is good for people/society. People used to naturally fade from each other's lives, maybe you saw each other in the street if you stayed in the same area, you could ask them about their life in person. If you were closer friends, they'd show you the photos of their wedding or vacation when you visited for dinner or hung out.

Even in the early version, these life updates became a competition of who has the fancier wedding pics, who went to a trendy vacation spot this year etc., leading to an idealized picture of how the life of everyone else is going.

It's a bandaid on the lifestyle of having to move cities all the time and cutting connections. Seeing their life updates doesn't really keep the connection alive, it's an illusion.
by cpach | 2025-09-17 07:24:30+00:00
Earlier discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10310846 – Oct 2015 (24 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10876730 – Jan 2016 (25 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21509144 – Nov 2019 (82 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29338666 – Nov 2021 (173 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40257677 – May 2024 (108 comments)
by orbital-decay | 2025-09-17 07:24:50+00:00
>and the information is still all correct

That's a pretty big if in technical writeups like this, all you do by rewriting those is obfuscate the actual inputs you had. Was is generated from scattered notes? Entirely vibe-written? How many details are actually verified to be correct by a human? Seeing how even the structure seems generated, it's clear that there was little input, and I'm not sure about any of the above.

I can deal with poor writing, and in case of ESL it's enough to tell the LLM to proofread/rephrase the piece (and check it yourself afterwards). But lazy generations just make you trust the article less.
by jpereira | 2025-09-17 07:24:50+00:00
I wrote a lil blog post after reading this this morning: https://awarm.leaflet.pub/3lyzchme2d22b

tl;dr: people have a huge diversity of preferences for social media, we need to rearchitect social networks to allow them to express those preferences while still connecting with each other, I think atproto enables this and is where I'm betting on.
by shirro | 2025-09-17 07:25:23+00:00
It might be a cultural misunderstanding. It isn't a big deal. It's tricky because while we are using the same language we don't all share the same culture and influences.

Perhaps it is less common to say positive things about other countries in the US unless you are making some point about domestic politics. Sometimes I am deeply critical of the USA but this wasn't one of those times.

So just to be really clear eradication of HPV and by extension elimination of some forms of cancer is a really noble thing for humanity to be doing and is being pursued by many countries, including ones that aren't as privileged and wealthy as Australia and Denmark. It's a group that historically included the USA which clearly means there are people there who deeply care about this stuff as well.

The people who oppose public health programs like this are just evil in my opinion wherever they are.
by phs318u | 2025-09-17 07:25:42+00:00
This is what I was going to ask, but I assume that the ACPI.SYS driver (which wraps the ASUS ACPI BIOS implementation) is signed by Microsoft, which means "not unless you allow unsigned drivers", which I don't even know if that's possible in current Windows (my deep Windows-fu is about 20 years out of date).
by hmottestad | 2025-09-17 07:26:02+00:00
In Norway I've noticed that stringent requirements for privacy make it much easier to run things in the cloud if the physical location of said cloud is actually in Norway.

So if OpenAI is hosting their services within the borders of the UK, then they would also be beholden to UK law. Makes it easier for the financial sector, government and healthcare to use their AI models than if they would have to send their data to a datacenter in the US.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-09-17 07:26:06+00:00
OpenAI seem very non-commital about the whole thing. They will "explore offtake", which effectively means they'll think about it. This lack of commitment in a world where we seemingly can't build new data centers fast enough is a bit worrying. They clearly anticipate scenarios in which they won't want this capacity either because of poor pricing or lack of demand.
by jamesdhutton | 2025-09-17 07:26:21+00:00
> You can write simple, readable, and maintainable code in C++ without ever needing to use templates, operator overloading, or any of the other more advanced features of the language.

Maybe you can do that. But you are probably working in a team. And inevitably someone else in your team thinks that operator overloading and template metaprogramming are beautiful things, and you have to work with their code. I speak from experience.
by flipbrad | 2025-09-17 07:27:44+00:00
Given https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukusa-agreement-o... , what does sovereignty even mean here?

I also wish we were attracting industries that weren't going to significantly push up electricity consumption on windless days, which will have an outsized effect on electricity prices everyone else pays. At least this says the datacentres will be up north, hopefully not exacerbating transmission issues.
by albertzeyer | 2025-09-17 07:28:08+00:00
This sounds interesting.

I would really like to read a full research paper made out of this, which describes the method in more detail, gives some more examples, does more analysis on it, etc.

Btw, this uses LLMs on pure text-level? Why not images? Most of these patterns are easy to detect on image-level, but I assume when presented as text, it's much harder.

> LLMs are PhD-level reasoners in math and science, yet they fail at children's puzzles. How is this possible?

I think this argument is a bit flawed. Yes, you can define AGI as being better than (average) humans in every possible task. But isn't this very arbitrary? Isn't it more reasonable to expect that different intelligent systems (including animals, humans) can have different strengths, and it is unreasonable to expect that one system is really better in everything? Maybe it's more reasonable to define ASI that way, but even for ASI, if a system is already better in a majority of tasks (but not necessarily in every task), I think this should already count as ASI. Maybe really being better in every possible task is just not possible. You could design a task that is very specifically tailored for human intelligence.
by hyperman1 | 2025-09-17 07:28:21+00:00
I find this a strange take, and I hear it a lot from inhabitants of both the USA and Israel about their leadership.

For better or worse, Netanyahu represents the Israeli governement, which represents Israel. Similar with Trump and the USA, or Putin and Russia. Sorry for the people who don't agree with them, but that's an internal power struggle, and as an outsider it is normal to abstract that away. For all of us: Your country is doing what it does.

As a Belgian, I spit on my idiotic, nasty governements. Insert tiny violin, whatever Belgium does on the international forum, I'll still be tarred with it. Similarly, we talk about Germany's role in world war 2, even if only about 10% of them were associated with the NSDAP.

Every power struggle is always represented overly simplistic. Sorry for both the jews and Israëli's who don't agree with it, you're probably good people. This time I am lucky to sit at a very comfortable sideline, criticising your country. But the point stands: Israel is correctly described as officially committing a genocide, and hence it can't be described as the good side.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-17 07:28:57+00:00
I just want to add one more datum to this, because it's a perfect example. Recently Home Depot fired an employee who was refusing to print posters for a Charlie Kirk vigil. Trump's attorney general took this one step further and was threatening businesses with lawsuits if they or their employees engaged in "hate speech" around this event, which would include acts like this.

Did conservatives then rally around the "tribe" and cheer this on? No, obviously not. Because people have a right to their own opinion, even if its wrong and abhorrent. The response to this, primarily from conservatives, was overwhelmingly negative. [1] Again, imagine the roles were reversed. This is not a both sides thing. There is only one side that wants to silence everybody that disagrees with them.

[1] - https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1967759168217157837
by integricho | 2025-09-17 07:29:25+00:00
For some strange reason I am attracted to try to use ZTreeWin, even though I am using a dual pane manager as my daily driver, but there is some nostalgic force driving me to try and force myself onto ZTreeWin. I even bought the license for it more than 2 years ago, but still haven't touched it in any serious capacity. I mostly lack the convenience and speed by which I am able to accomplish tasks in my existing (dual panel) orthodox filemanager, and at the same time I am losing patience by learning every single thing in it from sratch. Does anyone know of a good learning resource for ZTreeWin?
by lwhi | 2025-09-17 07:29:49+00:00
I had a black and white solid state Sony TV in my bedroom when I was growing up.

Aside from dialing into late night TV programmes my parents prohibited, there were two buttons that switched between VHF and UHF.

Toggling the UHF button allowed me to tune into police radio.

Being able to capture this via that TV felt close to magic, and I think probably went a long way to forming my associations between technology, mystery and discovery.
by bzzzt | 2025-09-17 07:30:56+00:00
The big difference is Apple can't hold other companies accountable since they delivered the software, the hardware and the integration and they have an incentive to fix their stuff. The few issues I've had with Macs the last decade did get fixed within a reasonable amount of time. Lots of PC hardware bugs simply don't get fixed at all since there is no party that really cares about them. The author of the linked write-up should have been an Asus employee instead of a disgruntled user...
by zephyrfalcon | 2025-09-17 07:30:58+00:00
This is from an era when you could still make the computer do what you want. Those days are long gone now; incidentally, that's why "It is now safe to turn off your computer" does not belong in this list, because it still exists, just not under that name. Windows (or whatever OS) decides when you can turn it off. Just like it now decides when it's time to upgrade.

Actually there _is_ a lot to be missed about those times, in spite of all the "progress" we've made since then.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-17 07:31:05+00:00
> It is no accident that these have proven to be memory safe in practice; they would not be usable if they weren’t.

Can't agree there. Why wouldn't they be usable if they weren't memory safe?

Can you give me an example of this mythical "memory safe in practice" database?

Not Postgresql at least: https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/
by riehwvfbk | 2025-09-17 07:31:26+00:00
I don't hear any apologies out of Israel.

Also, you may want to look up the definition of genocide. The parts of Ukraine that Russia took are almost 90% Russian ethnically.

Somehow you don't hear any calls for Ukraine to return the parts of Poland that were attached to it by Comrade Stalin either. They've been a part of Ukraine for barely longer than the parts of Russia where the fighting is happening.

So yeah, whataboutism.
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-17 07:32:08+00:00
I think culture is more private again. In the early social media phase, people very nonchalantly posted all their random thoughts and drinking pics, vagueposting publicly about a breakup etc. People now feel more surveilled, and feel that the public internet is icky. HR sees all etc. It's similar to how people changed their behaviors in response to ubiquitous phone cameras.

It feels paradoxical to say that, but I think it's true both that social media is bigger than ever in terms of flurry and activity, and that normal people participate less (outside scrolling the feed passively). A few people are semi-professionalizing in it now, influencers with sponsorships, local celebrities and trendsetters etc., while normal people's normal life updates are dwindling. The Pareto split is sharper.
by seszett | 2025-09-17 07:34:03+00:00
> Every single time it's had absolutely horrendous consequences often with millions of human deaths attached

Although I think it's best for nature to leave things how they are, draining the Landes in France (a swampy area comparable to that of the Everglades) and replacing it with a pine forest only had positive impacts on the humans living there (if only because it was a major step towards eradicating malaria in France).

To be honest though, it was originally a forest, and had turned into a swamp after being deforested by humans in the early middle ages.