skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CAP doesn't omit latency. Availability essentially is latency.

PACELC only says that even during normal operation you still need to make tradeoff between availability and latency whereas CAP only deals with a tradeoff during a partition event.
The problem with the example is it never actually visualises a partition, because the client can always reach both servers.

an actual partition is when clients and servers are partitioned and cant talk to each other.

solving for the situation presented is fairly trivial, and is pretty much exactly what blockchain systems solve.
I haven't verified but I'd be very surprised if this isn't preemtively covered already when an uploader agrees to Play Store terms. I don't believe Google gives any guarantees that apps will be exclusively only accessible via the Play Store app frontend and never redistributed via other channels.
Amazon Completes Deal for Indian Streamer MX Player
They aren't direct competitors.

You have two walled gardens and two monopoly-esque distribution platforms within those walls.

Nobody with an iPhone can use Google Play, and nobody with an Android can use the app store.

Which is why disallowing, or hindering, competing app stores within one walled garden is clearly anti-competitive.

It's not reasonable to expect consumers in one ecosystem to completely leave the ecosystem for one specific app, just like it's not reasonable to expect a homeowner to sell their house and move somewhere just so they can pay a lower utility bill.

Is the utility company serving your house a competitor with the utility company across the street if I have to move houses to switch between them?

Yes, if you look at the market as a whole. Clearly not if you use a reasonable interpretation and consider costs of switching.

If Apple and Google are truly providing unique value to developers and consumers, then they have nothing to fear from alternative app stores. Their profits won't be affected.
You say that but companies routinely pay projects like Circle CI similar orders of magnitudes for chunkier CI builds (one place I know having builds take 30 minutes.... with 64 shards. Basically paying like 5-10 bucks per commit)

You still gotta do hardware management yourself in other words but CI is good business!
I work near a major road and its amazing how much wifi stuff drives by. A lot of vehicle wifi, but also a lot of stuff like random chinese dashcams.
Good. Google is actively trying to force everyone to have an account via Play Store monopoly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41517159

Now do Apple.
Look around and you can find tons of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers skeet shooting drones with various levels of success.

There are issues though. Skeet guns are 28-34" barrels which is super-long. These guns are also heavy. Once you have ammo loaded up, you're talking 11+ pounds. These guns size and weight make them almost unusable for anything outside of drones. Carrying around an extra gun and heavy ammo is a big commitment both physically and logistically.
Ask HN: Have you built something that users have become addicted to or overused?
Have you (or your company) created a product, such as a toy or software, that led to unintended user consequences? How do you feel about its impact, and have you taken steps, like focus groups or educational initiatives, to address the issue?
It depends purely on the application you're writing. Many applications prefer availability over consistency, but the application is built to cope with inconsistent data.
That is not true with PACELC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACELC_theorem
Saving money is the same thing as earning it. Are you better off spending an hour to save $100 or an hour to save $10?

I once spent 2 hours negotiating the purchase of a car. It saved $5000. That works out to $2500 an hour. Was it worth it? Hell ya!

I've also worked hourly jobs in the past. There were often opportunities to work more hours or overtime. People often have side hustles, too.
The problem is that you need to remember every single place in your app that needs to be updated when you change state instead of your framework doing it for you. You said it yourself-- the "out of band capabilities". Instead of your UI automatically updating in reaction to a state change, you have to manually write out every single component's markup while being extra careful to make sure that each ID matches. [1]

This is why HTMX is ultimately an imperative framework. You have to wire everything up manually yourself instead of simply building a declarative representation of your UI and letting your framework handle the synchronization.

Did you ever use jQuery? The negative aspects are remarkably similar to the point that it is mildly amusing.

1 - https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-swap-oob/
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/10/07/update-from-the-boar...
HN seems to be a really funny place for this question. You do not see many “Can anybody recommend a JS developer?” style questions here and monthly “Who is hiring” thread seems more appropriate for this.

Disclaimer: am professionally a PCB designer/EE for last 22 years.
Supreme Court Boots Musk's Fight with Jack Smith over Trump's Twitter Records
I would say that's a pretty incredible intercept ratio.

We don't know if they were let through because their predicted targets or because there weren't enough interceptors or some other reason.

Air bases are pretty hardened targets. Most important stuff is kept in bunkers. They're also huge. The design assumption of an air base is that it's the prime target for rocket/missile/air raid attacks (and Israel airbases have been attacked by rockets in past wars, e.g. in the Yom Kippur war).

I've seen someone review satellite photos from Nevatim that seemed to indicate one or two hits to some structure. As far as we know nothing of value was hit and no one was hurt.

All that said, I wouldn't want to be around when these volleys of ICBMs are fired at you. Definitely not fun. But not a war winner either as long as they're conventional warheads.
An individual can't do the job of government.
This is actually my quickest rule of thumb for any internet article. If it's got links and some actually leave the site, I'll be immediately more invested and read through it. Otherwise I'll barely glance at it and go back to whatever got me to the article in the first place.
I think this is more than just AI. When your main tool is duct tape then you use duct tape to fix the problems the duct tape made. Duct tape isn't even a good tape, not even for a one size fits all tape.

I swear, 80% of enshitification is because you can only patch things so much. A patch is a quick fix and a patch on a patch is an emergency.

We've created a world where we can move fast and break things, but no one ever cleans up the mess. We've created a world where we've convinced everyone you can learn anything fast and don't need any depth. We've created a world where you can get funding to upend an industry without hiring a single person working in that industry or having any domain expertise. We're just creating solutions looking for problems to solve, mindlessly optimizing arbitrary metrics, instead of trying to solve problems. We can still make large sums of money AND solve real problems at the same time. These need but be mutually exclusive.
Thanks for the clarification.

On banking apps, I wonder how isolated they are. My bank offers insurance services, and they can be paid through other means than my bank account. But I can't contract them in my app, it's only available by phone or through the web site.

I wonder if they just took the safest route and removed any "buying" operation from their app instead of having to fight Apple or Google later (used both apps, had same limitations)
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>I don't have a name for this odd "because of evolution" argument but I hear it a lot when discussing sociology

sociology without evolution/natural selection is like physics without Newton's laws - a religion.

> "Kids smoke cigarettes because cavemen wanted to explore the horizon" isn't a coherent causal explanation at all.

both have the same major component - they are different manifestations of the drive to disobey authority and the established order of things. There are 2 ways of dealing with such things - 1. to convince against and to explain harm, etc vs. 2. to suppress, to force into submission.

>Ok so what I'm getting is that you have a pet theory that kids not smoking these days is a symptom of an overall rejection of some form of naturalism that you believe is overall harming our society somehow.

You picked an easy example (borderline strawman) - smoking (well, it is easy today, after 300+ years it took to establish the harm of tobacco smoking) where the 1. is easy. In many situations the 1. isn't that easy and it requires approach specific to the issue at hands, and the society more and more it seems drives toward applying the 2. as a general solution for all the issues, be it cigarettes or horizon exploration. That general drive of widespread application of the 2. is, i think, very harmful for our civilization.
I’m not sure if that’s true. I’ve never been around things like airplane flight systems. I have been trained on other military hardware with instructions on how to reset it and under which circumstances. I wouldn’t be utterly shocked if an F-16 pilot learns that which such and such happens, you flip this switch back and forth 3 times and then turn this other knob to reboot the computer. You would never, ever get that to be an acceptable procedure for a car’s anti-lock brakes.
This question has been endlessly asked and answered, https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/22/22396449/apple-ipad-pro-m...

The answer is obvious to Apple iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard customers:

MOBILE MICROTASKING

No, dear Apple, it will not compete with your precious Macbook revenue, because an iPad is not a laptop. Your customers who are pleading for un-crippled iPads will keep buying desktops and laptops. But it will be life-changing for on-demand portable anytime anywhere access to OSS code and professional apps, for last-minute edits, quick checks during video calls, testing-while-learning and countless other scenarios. iPad enables flexible computing, i.e. unlimited use cases -- and revenue! Still the only mobile device with 4:3 HiDPI screen.

Apple continues to pour billions into science experiments like Vision Pro (iPad-on-Skull) and anemic cloud services, while refusing to improve the workflows of millions of customers who are willing to pay for repackaging of existing technology already sold by Apple. Fortunately, the industry has not been standing still while Apple squandered a decade of feature-frozen tablet supremacy. Google is now shipping VMs on both phones and tablets.

> At a privately held event, Google recently demonstrated a special build of Chromium OS — code-named “ferrochrome” — running in a virtual machine on a Pixel 8. However, Chromium OS wasn’t shown running on the phone’s screen itself. Rather, it was projected to an external display, which is possible because Google recently enabled display output on its Pixel 8 series... Hopefully, Google will offer the ability to run Chrome OS alongside Android in a future device
I always think of capital asset pricing theorem first.
Availability's definition:

> every request received by a non-failing node in the system must result in a response

I don't believe that encodes latency

Instead, here's consistency:

> any read operation that begins after a write operation completes must return that value, or the result of a later write operation

"after a write operation completes" feels like where latency kicks in? Because within that space you can play around with completing a write operation to get what you want.
I wasn't aware it was already posted, but from WSJ, makes sense. Thanks.
Can’t tell if you’re sarcastic or you’re truly excited for what you’re saying
> But just because one part of a browser is important doesn't mean that other parts of a browser aren't also important.

Sure, but both halves are still there. WebKit is just filling in for Blink.

> but it's not "Google's wildly popular web browser".

You want to know the screwed up part? It actually is. There’s no gun to Google’s head to list any web browser at all for iPhones in the App Store, but they do, and they themselves chose to brand it exactly the same as their desktop and Android browser; and that’s exactly how people perceive it: Google Chrome. It’s also wildly popular. I ask people about it sometimes when I see them using it and all that geeky crap that you and I know about how it’s not the same as Google’s “real” browser is beyond them. They don’t care and it’s just Google Chrome to them.

> It may be a functional web browser (honestly arguable given how old and buggy the iOS rendering engine is)

WebKit is still a top class rendering engine and only about as buggy as any other rendering engine. Blink is of the same lineage given it is a fork of WebKit and Gecko is even older.
Only four of the twenty counts were dismissed (motion to dismiss granted), and only half of one claim was dismissed with prejudice. The remaining three dismissed claims can be amended and resubmitted to the court. All the federal claims stand. This is definitely not a win for Amazon.
In terms of the math: the table legs are assumed to be equal length, and the wobble is caused by variations of the surface. Specifically the feet of the table are in the same plane. So you could rotate your mathematical table until all feet are secure on the plane, then cut the legs to make the top flat again (legs will not be same length, but top and bottom remain planes).

As for @Cerium's real-life usage, you have possibility of uneven legs and uneven floor (and discontinuities, like a raised floorboard) so it's obviously not guaranteed, but if the floor is warped and smooth enough, you can try.

[EDIT]: Changed wording
How do you do combined arms into a minefield? It's a WW1-style mess where combined arms simply don't work.

Ukraine tried NATO tactics summer of last year and suffered a catastrophic defeat. Going across minefields requires convoys. Russian helicopters outside of MANPADS range (and too low to be visible to SAM site radar) take out the minesweeper and rear vehicles. Now you've got a bunch of sitting ducks. If it looks like escape is possible, artillery remote-mines the path the minesweeper cleared.

Try your luck in the minefield and you get destroyed. Get out to fight and the anti-personnel mines take everyone out. Stay in place and the regular artillery takes out all the troops. At night, you get grenade and RPG-dropping drones with IR cameras so you can't even hide.

I ask again, what is your combined arms solution to this mess?
But that's kinda the point: name one government in the world where politicians don't play political games, sometimes in ways that put their citizens in danger. I'm sure you can't, because no such government exists.

"Everything would have been fine if it weren't for the politicians" is not a path forward. These sorts of disasters will continue to happen.
I like the probably you put in there. Yeah he probably did.
aren't a lot of the FTX creditors cash creditors? they're definitely making money.

Dunno what the breakdown between bitcoin and cash creditors are, but the only way to make bitcoin creditors more whole would be to stiff the cash creditors.

And the FTX token creditors are making [DIVIDE BY ZERO]
It is possible but difficult at scale.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/112600.112601

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...
On its own, "it has been argued that the earth is flat" is simply a factually correct statement. There is nothing weaselly about it. What would make it weaselly would be the context that it is used in, and the deceptive intent of the person saying it.

Similarly, in this article the author simply mentions - almost as an aside - that "a black African discovery of America, it has been argued, took place around 3,000 years ago, and influenced the development of Mayan, Aztec, and Inca civilizations". It is a factually correct statement (in that it has indeed been argued) [1].
There are no other mentions of this theory in the article, no attempts made to substantiate or repudiate it, or build on it, and it's only tangentially related to the main point of the article.

Furthermore, in his closing the paragraph, the author says something that makes me believe he's skeptical about many of the alternative claims that he brings up:

> No definitive conclusions can be reached. Too many claims are, for lack of hard evidence, based on speculation. Theories about the true origin of the name are ultimately historical fictions, whose authors are inclined to impose their own political, cultural, or national agendas on the name and its origin.

Why do you say that the author is being "weaselly" here? What is his ulterior motive? And what other contextual evidence do you have that the author intends for us to take the statement at anything more than face value - that it's an alternative version of history that some people believe to be true?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_transoceanic_con...
Note that it doesn’t remove support for 32 bit apps. It only removes the ability to boot 32 bit operating systems.
To note, the above restriction's impact is not only affecting paid apps, but also all the apps that could have offered paid services.

Amazon Kindle is the poster child of that, but there's a myriad of other services that won't make an app to protect their feelings structure.
I would hope that this results in websites hosting malicious ads which harm users, which then results in a big lawsuit against these websites with a huge payout for the harmed users. After all, if the malware ad is being effectively hosted by the site, then the site should be legally responsible.
In this case, the app is running in a sandbox with a user-space that simulates the iOS user-space [0].

> Your apps use the same frameworks and infrastructure that Mac Catalyst apps use to run, but without the need to recompile for the Mac platform.

> Although you can run your iOS apps unmodified on a Mac with Apple silicon, Mac Catalyst lets you build your app specifically for macOS and customize your app’s behavior on that platform.

Mac Catalyst was a multi-year effort by Apple. Doing the same to run macOS apps on iOS would probably be even harder due to how complicated macOS is compared to iOS.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/runn...
The H100 was a terrible example to support that point because it has a much better (rent vs buy) value proposition.
> while capitalism is kept at version 0.1beta?)

The process of developing capitalism has taken millennia and in the last few centuries has had far more intellectual horsepower put into it than developing phones. Lots of iterations have been tried, it can't be compared to a beta product at all. The major problem we have on that front is people keep trying to regress backwards to models of organisation that have already been tried and are well understood not to work effectively - because almost nobody votes based on historical learnings.

Once we have >100 years experience in building phones there probably won't be annual upgrades any more either, it'll be like-for-like replacements.
I would love to hear your experience around building agents

And how did you even got started with building agents
the worse case scenario is if the eye makes landfall north of Tampa, as the counter clockwise rotation pushes more water in front of the front right quadrant.
Tampa could be spared if it turns more south, but there are other communities that will more be impacted instead. There is no good outcome here…
Prey tell, how will I do that when, as has been extensively explained in this thread, every app will be in its own store?
Ya. Instead of blind retries, I have server respond with “try after timestamp” header. This way it can tell everybody to back off. If no response then welp
Sensors and Systems Keep Mississippi River Traffic Flowing (2018)
Just stream it one frame at a time to the model and eat the latency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHbJcOex6dk if you need more hand holding.

There's a reason why there's a whole family of models from tiny to huge.
Seems like the smaller virtual address space available to each x32 userspace application would negatively impact ASLR too.
Well if you observe me just for the moment I have on hand 1B, my net worth is 1B and JP Morgan will be willing to lend me 10B.

Worst comes to worst tax payer bails again the banks out.
There is high variance in the ECCM capability of US weapons supplied thus far. JDAM and GLSDB have fallen flat while ATACMS and GMLRS have done well for themselves.
That is, coincidentally, how we still have FedEx.

Fred Smith taking the company's last $5K to Vegas and luckily winning $27,000.

Mind you at that point, pilots were putting fuel on their personal credit cards, payroll had been bouncing for weeks.

(Funnily, some people here think he did the right thing.)
FTX invested $500M in Anthropic for 8% (at the time) and the bankruptcy estate sold 2/3rds of that for $884M, while it is tidy sum, it doesn't move the needle much in the overall money owed to creditors of $11.2B .

The estate has recovered around $16B of the money, or basically close to half of the assets at the time, the bulk of the money is coming from bitcoin tripling in value, to put it another way if Bitcoin was same prices as 2022, then they would have only recovered ~ $5B or FTX continued operating without being frozen by the courts, they would need come with $33B to make their depositors whole in Bitcoin.
>>> Is a web browser still a web browser if you remove the rendering engine?

>> Is a rendering engine still a web browser if you remove all the chrome and extra features built around the rendering engine?

> Is that supposed to be a counterargument?

Only as much as what I was responding to was an argument.

> If you can't replace the rendering engine, then you're not able to install your own web browser.

Except that is literally not true if a rendering engine is available to you to use.

> Which is replacing the one that was removed.

“Removed” would imply there was ever another rendering engine in use on Chrome for iPhones. The Chrome that is in the App Store now is one that Google chose to ship and call Chrome. People like and use it too.

I think we can agree that WebKit is being subbed in over Google’s preferred choice of rendering engines though.