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> Java replaced this implementation in 1997

If that date's correct, they replaced it with another flawed implementation. The 'good' one came much later: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=310

> What are the forces at work here?

I feel like I'm always simultaneously engaged in about 5 HN threads at a time, advocating for some combination of immutability, type-safety, and/or no-nulls. It's basically all I do.

By and large, people simply aren't into it. "Because the world is shared and mutable" is a pretty common rebuttal:

4 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876487

2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42850569
How is this any different than prompting for code? So there's enough embedded information replicate the infrastructure. However, I don't see this as a means of demonstrating an internal representation of self-preservation. This article is pretty light on the details of what was actually demonstrated.
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That's how Temporal works:

>> zdt = Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from("2024-03-09T17:00-05[US/Eastern]")
>> zdt.add("P1d").toString()
"2024-03-10T17:00:00-04:00[US/Eastern]"
>> zdt.add("PT24h").toString()
"2024-03-10T18:00:00-04:00[US/Eastern]"

If you don't have the time zone and instead just an offset, then Temporal can't do this:

>> zdt = Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from("2024-03-09T17:00-05[-05]")
>> zdt.add("P1d").toString()
"2024-03-10T17:00:00-05:00[-05:00]"
>> zdt.add("PT24h").toString()
"2024-03-10T17:00:00-05:00[-05:00]"

Adding 1 day still works the same with respect to civil time but the offset is wrong since it doesn't account for the DST change. And adding 24 hours leads to a different result as well. This is one of the reasons why RFC 9557 is so important for serializing zoned datetimes when you want your arithmetic to be DST safe. Previously, to get this right, you had to include a time zone out of band somehow along with your RFC 3339 timestamp.
> FAA-employed ATCs are like any other non-appointed federal employees - politics should have no impact on their employment and this arrangement is protected by federal civil service laws.

"Trump reclassifies thousands of federal employees, making them easier to fire":

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/trump-execut...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy/Career_appointment

> The federal civil service system exists to ensure that hiring and firing decisions are based on merit, not political favoritism. Legal and procedural standards, enforced by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, require managers to provide a reason for taking disciplinary action, give employees the right to respond and mandate that decision-makers consider both sides before taking action against a federal employee. This system is crucial for maintaining fairness; it prevents arbitrary and unjust terminations.

> Before this system was established, many new administrations fired their predecessors’ civil servants and replaced them with donors and cronies. This practice led to instability and inefficiency within the federal government. To address this issue, Congress established merit-based hiring and firing procedures that apply to civil servants who are not political appointees, ensuring that government agencies are staffed with qualified individuals who can effectively serve the public.

* https://thehill.com/opinion/5107846-federal-employees-civil-...

Trump et al seem to want to go back to the system where folks can be hired and fired at will:

* https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/ex...

Do a search for "Schedule F" for more on the topic.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/x-cisgender-slur-cis-elon...
As much as I am aware of the perils of states rights, I’m almost in favor of a smaller federal government that lets each state fend for itself and let the Blue richer states have higher state taxes and lower federal taxes.

Then for instance like minded states could form alliances. A true Federalist country.

And yes I am well aware of my own hypocrisy only living in GA and FL my entire life and I know that the south would even be worse for people of my skin color if it weren’t for the civil rights legislation of the 60s, the official abolishing of segregation, etc
> +1 insightful

As an aside, I miss the slashdot ability to optionally assign a property to a vote. It would be neat to have some sort of indicator in addition to the greying out of downvoted or flagged comments to show specific types of upvotes. This has obviously proven to be the better system overall, but it has its pluses. Too bad it also had a bunch of swastikas and 4-Chan-esque trolls.
> What socialist laptop do you recommend?

You have options other than Macbooks. The communist kid with a Macbook is a meme for a reason, they're out of touch. It's absurd to call oneself a communist or socialist while buying one of the most expensive options from one of the biggest companies.

What a different example? It's easier to take a communist/socialist who drives a basic Corolla seriously than one who drives a BMW.
Just want to chime in as someone who from time-to-time (heh) has to deal with datetime-related things and say, I hope for nuclear annihilation upon all clocks and other miscellaneous time-telling instruments, and most of all to whomever it is the world over that decides that, no, we're special and don't need to follow any kind of logic for our timezones (looking at you, China but also basically everyone else in the world).

With that out of the way, very excited for Temporal and am very thankful to the people doing this hard work!
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"ComputerX harnesses proprietary AI models" can't wait to install a random software that sends screenshots of my desktop to a random website/LLM model.
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Would you say the same thing about heroin users? That they have “revealed” a preference for heroin by continually using an addictive product?

And if so, how morally bankrupt are we as a country that we throw kids to the wolves that is AI-induced addiction rather than, I don’t know, regulating the industry? I got into tech because I like programming and making cool things, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree with cold blooded abuse of kids to make a dollar.
Watch Youtube videos of handyman folks helping other handyman folks and realize most of humanity should only care about that.

Random one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxLv6HooGPA
> A Macbook (or any Apple product) isn't a essential item without alternatives.

Tell that to an employer who requires you to use a macbook, and only a macbook.

...or a Windows laptop and only such.

Or actually, requires you to use any specific device instead of any generic device.
> We only have complile to JS languages now. Those that still writes in vanilla JS are like those who still build apps in assembly langauge.

I strongly disagree, it's never been easier and more pleasant to write modern JS without transpilers. I've only rarely had to reach for a framework or transpiler in the last few years.
Sorry, what do you mean? I didn't say that
Maybe if the orders weren't so ineptly or maliciously ambiguous and overly broad, then people would have more confidence that safety critical jobs aren't being cut.
It seems to me that a belief in god(s) makes you less prepared for a world with AI. In Buddhism the attitude is more sane: gods are just being that can be wrong too and ultimately suffer and cause suffering, the same as the rest of us. They might just be more strongly self-deluded (wink wink the pope wink wink)
chatgpt:
"With 4 cores and an OS that’s older than some startups' lifespans, you're basically running a vintage computing museum—do you charge admission, or is the suffering free? And coming from Hacker News, I assume you're just one upvote away from convincing yourself that running outdated hardware is actually a philosophical stance on digital minimalism."

deepseek
"rocking Mac OS 10.15 like it’s 2019—did the update scare you, or are you just nostalgic for the pre-pandemic era?"
I spent a day fighting with date-fns trying to get some date calculations working and was to the point I was questioning if my entire approach was flawed because there was no reason I should be spending that much time figuring our some simple date calculations. Eventually I decided to try swapping to Luxon. 30 minutes later and it was all working.

I'm still guessing I misunderstood something fundamental about date-fns, but for now I'm advocating for Luxon.
"Detailed in the Nature Astronomy paper, among the most compelling detections were amino acids – 14 of the 20 that life on Earth uses to make proteins – and all five nucleobases that life on Earth uses to store and transmit genetic instructions in more complex terrestrial biomolecules, such as DNA and RNA, including how to arrange amino acids into proteins."

WTF. IMHO this is big, if there really was no contamination.
> Try getting government services without a computer.

That computer only needs a browser. Surely as an HN commenter you know the solution for having a computer that you don’t want to run software by BigTech on it.

I know older people who will still walk into the various government offices and utility offices when needed
I didn't realize it was Matthias Wendell! Of course it has his fingerprints all over it, he has this way of balancing an attention to detail with knowing where to leave well enough alone that's deeply admirable
it's as "sexy" as reading a book for an hour or more every day. oh wait... I didn't know that using a phone or reading a book was meant to be sexy for others when a person uses a phone or reads a book. woopsie
this is what i doits worth the 11 dollars a year for the vps to control my own
I spent 24 hours with the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
Your airport sounds a lot better than the ones near me!

In my area they all want you to arrive 2-3 hours before your flight, without any water, then to shuffle through security without your belt and shoes.
I must be misunderstanding what you’re saying. How does Temporal know to reject something serialized from before a rule was changed when the creation time of the serialized representation isn’t encoded? You’re saying in 1760 [Europe/Dublin] would be a different string vs today? A more concrete example is normal time-zone rule changes - `2025-06-20T17:00:00+02[Europe/Dublin]` would represent different instants if Dubling passed a new DST rule adjusting the clock back by 15 minutes at 2025-06-20T16:50:00+02[Europe/Dublin] - then the meaning of the instant is different because now there’s 2 different `2025-06-20T17:00:00+02[Europe/Dublin]` and which one you get will depend on when you deserialize.
temporal

> 1. of or relating to time as opposed to eternity

> 2. of or relating to grammatical tense or a distinction of time

> 3. of or relating to time as distinguished from space

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/temporal

Sounds like a good name to me.
That would actually be ActiveSupport, which does many things and the pain of its absence is quickly felt in any non-Rails codebase :)

https://rubygems.org/gems/activesupport
Why would you even bother reading the summary if you don't care enough about the contents to actually engage with it meaningfully? It's 13,000 words. It's 52 pages of a Harry Potter novel, and you used to be able to devour those. If you believe that AI is as transformative as a lot of people here seem to think it is, maybe it is worth mulling over and digesting the public statement put out by the single largest organized religious body in the world for real, instead of getting a potentially hallucinated reply by an AI who might have prompting to misrepresent the contents of such a statement.
It's 24B parameters
I wonder how long it will take for users to stop trusting anything from G..
Note that this seems to be about the weights themselves, AFAIK, the actual training code and datasets (for example) aren't actually publicly available.

It's a bit like developing a binary application and slapping a FOSS license on the binary while keeping the code proprietary. Not saying that's wrong or anything, but people reading these announcements tend to misunderstand what actually got FOSS licensed when the companies write stuff like this.
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER is such an awesome guy, and a shining star of how PUNK DIY electronics can get
What a beautiful instrument! When I saw the title I assumed this would be another instrument cobbled together from various decommissioned instruments. This is a much more interesting project!
The first link has two different color insoles present, they might be different productions runs from different factories.

The second link has labels stuck to the insole but they look like off a hand held label printer, not the mandated COO label so I am a little skeptical.
West African, but not East African? That seems like an enormous problem in itself.
I am skeptical about any claims about noise. I built two computers circa 2001 and read guides on Tom's Hardware and similar sites about how to build a quiet PC and to my schizotypal brain [1] the machines still screamed like banshees and I had to replace HDDs, fans, power supplies and such multiple times until I found parts that really were quiet. My take is there is a high variance in the noise of 'identical' parts, it just takes a bad bearing to produce an annoying squeak 15db or more above spec.

I'm also skeptical about claims about power. Performance loss is real, power savings might not be. I had a $3000 desktop which I couldn't stand to use when I set the minimum CPU low because the machine would go to a lower power state between keystrokes or when I was only moving the mouse around, so it would seem to take forever for characters to appear when I'd type. Granted, my schizotypal nervous system is bad at latency compensation, even when my condition is remission, but I've found trying to save power makes a $3000 desktop feel worse to use than a $300 Chromebook.

[1] particularly inflamed at that time
Do you agree that it's a silly question to base things on?
I’m sure you know that you can get a computer with a web browser that doesn’t run either Windows or MacOS and you can use Firefox? You can also get email from non BigTech providers.

And there are plenty of non smart phones that can receive text messages.
what does the term "nightly" mean in this context?
> All RAM access is deterministic in the sense that the value will not change until written.

No, this is directly addressed in the article.

RAM access to uninitialized memory is not deterministic and can change. See MADV_FREE.
You know, I'm verbose but I generally try to speak holistically and have some clear point(s) ideally with falsifiable arguments. We all want to ramble stream of consciousness style unloading all of of our own biases (which are, obviously, the right ones), but have some respect of the fact that you're expecting somebody else to read what you're writing, and clean things up.

The only sort of falsifiable content I can find in your post is a claim to justify the alleged exceptional impact of slavery in North America, in spite of the relatively small number of slaves, is that it was used to extract natural resources on a massive scale, yet that is again inaccurate. Its primary usage was in localized agriculture. Things like industrial mining were still relatively limited.
How long before we hear HERESY from the Ecclesiarchy, I wonder. I presume it would be if an AI becomes convincing enough to successfully argue theology and debating doctrine.

Edited for clarity: This is mostly a reference to the 40k universe, specifically the Men of Iron (artificially created thinking machines) and how AI is banned because of it, and it is quite literally 'heresy' to create anything resembling artificial general intelligence. I stand behind my assertion that the Vatican would not support any form of intelligence that could argue theology better than it.
Adding garbage collection to our Rust-based interpreters with MMTk
Dukas should get a mention alongside Disney. Paul Dukes wrote the symphonic poem L’Apprenti Sorcier (1897) based on Goethe’s poem, which was later animated by Disney for the film Fantasia.
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In looking at the radar recording, the plane appears to be approaching from the south going north (very slightly east), than diverts northwest to land on the runway, as you describe.
> My experience of using their product has been broadly unchanged for years.

Compared to how fast/slow they were moving 2012-2018, they're moving at blazing speed now. It feels like every time I open GitHub now, there are new features/changes and "Beta" available stuff. The platform is almost completely different today than it was in 2018, for better or worse.
this is pretty ridiculous

A. below is a list of OpenAI initial hires from Google. It's implausible to me that there wasn't quite significant transfer of Google IP

B. google published extensively, including the famous 'attention is all you need' paper, but open-ai despite its name, has not explained the breakthroughs that enabled O1. It has also switched from a charity to a for-profit company.

C. Now this company, with a group of smart, unknown machine learning engineers, presumably paid fractions of what OpenAI are published, has created a model far cheaper, and openly published the weights, many methodological insights, which will be used by OpenAI.

1. Ilya Sutskever – One of OpenAI’s co-founders and its former Chief Scientist. He previously worked at Google Brain, where he contributed to the development of deep learning models, including TensorFlow.
2. Jakub Pachocki – Formerly OpenAI’s Director of Research, he played a major role in the development of GPT-4. He had a background in AI research that overlapped with Google’s fields of interest.
3. John Schulman – Co-founder of OpenAI, he worked on reinforcement learning and helped develop Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), a method used in training AI models. While not a direct Google hire, his work aligned with DeepMind’s research areas.
4. Jeffrey Wu – One of the key researchers involved in fine-tuning OpenAI’s models. He worked on reinforcement learning techniques similar to those developed at DeepMind.
5. Girish Sastry – Previously involved in OpenAI’s safety and alignment work, he had research experience that overlapped with Google’s AI safety initiatives.
I was referring to the 6th of January 2021 event where a large gathering of Trump followers stormed the capitol.

From my understanding that would be by Trump and his followers, against the rest of the United States population/democracy/whatever you prefer.
Interesting read. Maybe a replica, high-quality poster or glass print would be a cool ornament in the kitchen or dining room :)
It's worse than that, if we're being entirely realistic most (all?) companies would kill you if they could profit from it.

Proof? Cigarette companies, Dupont, and others were happy to do that.
Well, back when drug use only affected “the inner city” the country use to say it’s because of lack of morals, not putting God first and “absentee fathers”.
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In some sense that's exactly what a `&mut MaybeUninit<T>` is?
My mistake, my understanding was that an event of this magnitude could cause seismic/volcanic activity. Didn't realize it was so localized
I wasn't suggesting using the anecdotes of others to make a decision.

I'm talking about individuals and organizations making a decision on whether or not to use a model based on their own testing. That's what ultimately matters here.
Since it is a single page application, its harder to trawl through its history, however: https://web.archive.org/web/20250130094532jm_/https://popthe...

Searching through the prior index file for "Credits" or the such, yields no results

React et al is credited somewhat however.
I also REALLY want records and tuples.
Your argument there is specious - tempting to see an implied point but on closer inspection doesn’t hold up. Only your first link about phones reveals any preference in the economic sense, and it’s irrelevant to this article. Your link about social media does not demonstrate the economic concept of revealed preference at all, since the subjects aren’t making an exclusive choice, they can and do use multiple sites, since social media doesn’t cost money, and since these are sites with very different social functions. It doesn’t make sense to ask whether kids prefer YouTube to WhatsApp, it’s like asking whether you prefer eating broccoli to playing piano to people who do both.
> You can't plug the flue rank into the diapason for frequency modulation, or change the envelope, etc.

"String" sounds are implemented by having two ranks tuned slightly different from each other. They're not plugged "into" each other, but they're definitely working together to produce a certain sound.

Anna Lapwood is a very exciting organist. She has the social media skills to build a huge following, enjoys exploring all facets of the instrument in both traditional and non-traditional contexts, and is an exceptional musician.
Already tried it. It’s called gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21. Looks better than DeepSeek.
Zig has a couple features to help with that. I assume Rust should too (probably not directly applicable to BorrowedBuf, but for the case of a reusable pool of objects)?

It comes down to a piece of syntactic sugar, plus "result location semantics" guaranteeing that you won't have a copy. E.g.:

my_ptr.* = .{
.x = 42,
.y = 53
};

No matter how you choose to construct the intermediate fields (x and y in this example) with continues or other control flow, the very last step should be something that sets every field at once. If you miss one, the compiler will yell at you. If it compiles, the assembly is as if you filled in each field by hand.
I don't know. Apple does place significant barriers to open source software. And this isn't just an innocuous thing, it means you're likely to have more trouble locating a free and safe application to do some simple task and likely to be steered toward adware. And Apple keeps their hands clean on paper but they make a lot of money off of adware on iOS.
Well you realize that kids aren’t on Facebook right?

And if kids hated social media so much as a group, they could just use group text messages - especially with RCS and 80% of US teens owning iPhones anyway.
From my experience with meditation and weed I'd claim that sitting, "zoning out" and doing nothing requires significant effort.

Weed works in opposition to that. It more likely makes the mind wander more, not less. That's not always a negative thing, but I think it's almost the opposite of meditation.
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> It's about whether they can continually create reasonable substitutes for orders of magnitude less investment

That just means that the edge you’re able to retain if you invest $1B is nonexistent. It also means there’s a huge disincentive to invest $1B if your reward instantly evaporates. That would normally be fine if the competitor is otherwise able to get to that new level without the $1B. But if it relies on your $1B to then be able to put in $100M in the first place to replicate your investment, it essentially means the market for improvements disappears OR there’s legislation written to ensure competitors aren’t allowed to do that.

This is a tragedy of the commons and we already have historical example for how humans tried to deal with it and all the problems that come with it. The cost of producing a book requires substantial capital but the cost of copying it requires a lot less. Copyright law, however flawed and imperfect, tries to protect the incentive to create in the face of that.
All of these replies say don’t worry about it and just blog but I say detect the IPs and user agents and return a scrambled post. If you’re small enough they probably won’t care to go the extra effort to scrape you.