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Ask HN: Is distributed systems research slowing down?
In the very late 1990s to the early 2010s, it seemed like the volume of distributed systems research was enormous.

If I search for papers during that period, I see everything from theoretical stuff like Chord to industry results like Google BigTable/Spanner and Facebook Cassandra/TAO, and of course people trying to figure out how to implement Paxos properly. Figuring out how to build systems to support web scale and mobile was both necessary and cool.

Now, I don't hear about distributed systems as a 'frontier' to be explored so much as an implementation detail.

It feels like there isn't as much innovation, but maybe that's because I'm not looking in the right places / in the right circles. I imagine distributed systems would be extremely relevant given the focus on AI and distributed consensus (crypto).

Could anyone better read than myself point to the 'hot' distributed systems work that is going on to support AI / distributed consensus today? Perhaps I just need better keywords.
A2DVI: Apple II Digital Video Card
Being immune to consequences breeds complacency.
That seems awfully optimistic, given what Sam Altman is getting away with transforming the governing structure of OpenAI.
there are many people every day they got trapped and lost their money...these scammers basically pretending as they owned the company and steal money and users personal data.
in my opinion the linkdin should increase the security and verification especially for people who are hiring ...

also i've seen people in comments on random posts saying ..DM me there is some job offers and u get these salary blah blah blah ... these are fake and they should be punished,.
From the article

> Motion sensors in wearable devices are usually sensitive to accelerations in the range of [milli-gs]. Bigger, more expensive accelerometers ... on the order of [0.1 mill-gs]

> More accurate than either of these mobile accelerometers are cold-atom interferometers. These currently have sensitivities of [nano-gs], with future potential for [femto-gs], Kodigala says.
Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k
How is this different than other extensions that enable right clicking? There are certainly a few for Firefox (I use "Allow Right-Click").
Meta testing AI-generated content using a person's interests and likeness
There are (probably) several billion works on creativity. Just reading and listing your own sources of inspiration on creativity is quite the endheavor. And that is not going to be exhaustive even in a PhD thesis. I'll give leaway there - on the contrary, mine THEIR list for stuff I missed.
Yeah, i think hobby CNCs should be going in similar direction the 3D printing does with klipper...
About the cowboy comment, that's what version control is for. Just modify in place and then stage hunk by hunk with magit or git add -p.
Dew Computing
when it comes to crypto or trading .. we see lot of scammers out there especially people who invest through bitcoins.
At least some of my work is aversion.

I’m doing this because it will save me from having to do that in the future, and I hate doing that.
Domesday86 Presentation for ABUG
How an 'AquaFence' temporary wall protected Tampa's hospital from Helene
My Wife's Death Led Me into the World of Online Hookups
I wonder how much intent and outcomes colors motivation.

Probably need a similar study but with two different domains.
Maybe there's some context missing?
Was there something about superbabies that made them more likely to contest the TM?
Bummer that it requires java. Would be awesome to have a 'networked' version where you just need to implement the protocol.
I’m sorry my use of “imagine” offended you. I did not intend for that to be a slight, but I apologize that it came off that way nonetheless. I intended it to be an advance acknowledgement of the fact that it may be difficult to prove the government as a whole has intent to use DNA in questionable or “nefarious” ways. I was simply asking your reasons for making such claims.

I know the government does crappy things sometimes, even things that contradict its own laws. I’m still curious, piqued if you will, about how DNA can be used by the government against me, what things I/we should be potentially concerned about.

Personal experience is fair. It’s also the reason I lean towards fear of DNA being used against me by private for-profit companies more that I worry about the government.
Or one person has a monopoly on creativity.
You don't get to pencil in your own policy when the organization must conform to standardized compliance rules (such as HITRUST for health related companies) that mandate certain policies, or risk losing customers who look for compliance to these rules. These guidelines can take years to catch up to modern best practice.
ECGSIM: Open-source interactive ECG simulation tool for research and education
The COVID vaccines have now been around for 4 years now, and there is no evidence they are appreciably more dangerous than those other vaccines that took longer to develop.
Perhaps. Other artists work in the very narrow direction THEY like and can manage technically - so of course they look like they have focus! Of course they look like they are dedicated to their art. But perhaps too it's the only thing they can do and they stumbled on something that has an audience. That does not mean they aren't amazing ... at that. That does not mean their art is not significant. That doesn't mean that their specific creativity is not worthy.

It also doesn't mean that their creativity's mode of operation isn't totally irrelevant to some other person. Might be. Might not.
Dunning Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.

That is to say some of the incompetent are so incompetent they can’t distinguish between their incompetence and an actual expert. This is exhibited very publicly in some contestants of the American Idol genre of shows.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...
This is a nice sentiment and I'm sure some people will get more nights of good sleep thinking about it, but it has its limits. If you're enslaved and treated horrendously or don't have your basic needs met who cares?

To quote George RR Martin: "In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. 'Bread.' They clamputed. 'Bread, bread!' "

Replace Joffrey, Robb and Stannis with whatever lofty philosophical ideas you might have to make people feel better about their disempowerment. They won't care.
There is close to zero escalation room between Chinese missile strikes on the US mainland and nuclear war. If we detect incoming missiles from China there’s a good chance the US assumes nuclear warheads and makes a retaliatory strike.

That’s a real risk, but because neither side of a conflict wants to actually escalate to a nuclear exchange, it is not very likely that China will launch missiles at the mainland US. (Likewise I think the US is unlikely to strike mainland China.)

Conversely, whichever side maintains naval superiority in the western Pacific Ocean can cut off any supply chains to and from Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and mainland China itself, without the risk of nuclear escalation. And as I stated, this is the entire issue. If you control the seas of East Asia, you basically control the world.
I was thinking about implementing some tool management in that simulator... What system would you reccomend? I can't really find example of what cutviewer uses... Can you please send me link to sample definition?
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The right question is, what should the role of federal vs state vs local government be in natural disasters, especially those that occur often in an high-risk area?

Personal insurance must cover 100% of personal property loss, not governments (at any level) which are obliged to serve the population fairly and uniformly. Local government alone is responsible for rebuilding lost local infrastructure -- roads, power, sewer, and schools. Presumably state government would marshal emergency response from outlying communities, and perhaps coordinate financial resources to rebuild.

Federalizing recovery will pass along the cost of disaster recovery to everyone, not just those who build homes in the paths of hurricanes or in low lying areas which flood frequently. That is the role of personal property insurance. The companies who insure against flood, fire, and wind damage are a far better source of indemnifying the risk incurred by each home and neighborhood than is any government. Then the homeowner can choose to insure or not. But no government should pass along the costs of higher risk by some to others who chose a lower risk. That would clearly be unjust.
No if this is the case, they can't service EU citizens at all because US companies can't have any EU data because they can't protect EU citizen data.

The only way to service EU customers is when we assume entering data on an US website is not exporting data from the EU to the US by the US company. Just like when I go into a Walgreen in NYC as an EU citizen.

For the last decade US and EU companies have ignored the fact that it is/was mostly illegal do transfer EU citizen data to the US (it is currently legal but will be illegal again) - also every EU company that exports data to the US (e.g. by using Mailchimp) needs to guarantee the safety of the data by auditing Mailchimp, no one does and there have been no fine for now, but I assume there will in the future.

See the discussions around

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US_Data_Privacy_Fra...

"The EU parliament raised substantial doubts that the new agreement reached by Ursula von der Leyen is actually conform with EU laws, as it still does not sufficiently protect EU citizens from US mass surveillance and severely fails to enforce basic human digital rights in the EU. In May 2023 a resolution on this matter passed the EU parliament with 306 votes in favor and only 27 against, but so far has stayed without consequences."
The frozen continent without ice: New Topography of Antarctica (2013)
That's the same shape as the OBEY clothing line, incidentally.
The guy founded/oversaw the development one of the most revolutionary companies of all time. Enough with this speculation that he is completely incompetent. People need to accept that results matter
the wildfires could be mitigated by controlled burns but knowing the gov in California, it'll never happen.

eventually seismic activity will pick up too.
That is what evil usually looks like. You expected horns and fire?
They're built out of large slabs of concrete with steel beams in between and have flat roofs - that's about it.

Terrible to live in, but neither a car at speed nor a falling tree can punch a hole in them.

Also they weren't built as close to each other as modern buildings are, so debris from one mostly don't reach the other.
Missed that.

It was re-issued in 2005. For 20th anniversary.

So nearly 40 years.
Hurricane Damage to Residential Structures: Risk and Mitigation
Hankufi: Korean Meets Arabic Through Typography
UK only allows bribes (sorry, I meant to write "freebies") for domestic politicians, not foreign ones.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/28/mps-have-de...
To turn trees into lumber you have to cut them down, transport them to a sawmill, cut them to size, kiln dry them, transport them to the build site, build a house out of it, etc.

Underground sequestration has no transport, milling or kiln costs. Just cut down a bunch of trees, dig a trench where the trees used to be, and bury the trunks.
Same here, this has been the central crisis of my working adult life for 25 years. Unfortunately it never gets better. And I've taken 6 months to 1 year off for severe burnout with physical symptoms like adrenal fatigue twice now.

My feeling is that this problem is intractable alone. We need groups working towards liberation, and societal change to support healthy work/life balance.

What that looks like in practice is that wealthy people, especially those who won the internet lottery, should start giving something back. At the most basic level, that's paying one's taxes. Beyond that, they should start setting aside ego-based goals and start accepting requests outside of their attention so that the most pressing problems facing humanity can finally get solved.

Give a billionaire $1 billion and a year later they'll turn it into $2 billion. Give one of us $1 billion and a year later a form of cancer will be cured. That's why they have the money and we don't, and why it takes so long for things to get better, if they ever do.
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Fossil site in Massachusetts reveals 320M-year-old ecosystem
It may happen. I think at present there is too little demand for comparatively expensive tvs that respect privacy. The tech is in a phase of diminishing returns, as televisions from over a decade ago still suit most people fine, and don't break that easily. Tech people were just turning off features they don't like (until, of course, that's no longer possible). But alongside the price-point, manufacturers are also playing a game of chicken expecting everyone to continue purchasing despite invasive features. At least among tech-oriented people it's possible that sales will slow down, but that might not matter enough for their bottom line to offer an alternative. There may be room for a competitor to try selling boutique tvs, but it's risky. "the market provides", but the demand needs to be strong enough.
I second the Pages recommendation. Keynote is fantastic and Pages has much better typographic functionality than Word.

I can immediately tell whether a document was produced using Word, or LibreOffice, because of poor ligatures and spacing.

I think Numbers falls short of Excel, which is probably one of the best products Microsoft ever created.

If you don't mind dealing with slightly antique UIs, both LyX and TeXmacs are WYSIWYG and can produce outstanding documents with little effort.
pretty awesome to see the engineering details involved! -thanks. as a software person I always wonder how they handle bugs and QA when building complex pieces of hardware like this
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Yes! And it would be super useful if the rest of the population could benefit from insights extracted from "them". Currently humanity operates on creativity and other forms of knowledge work. There is a lot of value in "better creativity" or "more exploitable creativity".
I should probably add a few industries that I think I'm set to be particularly helpful in is: Engineering Software, New GPU Architectures/Computer Hardware, Scientific Computing, and 3D Printing, but I'm open to helping with anything, though my existing network is going to be best for the engineering/manufacturing spaces.
I don't think that's true, let alone self-evident.

In any case, a life spent solving crossword puzzles would almost certainly deliver more positive net effects to the "player" (and society at large) than a person spending a lifetime getting good at chess. It really is odd that chess is considered so refined, laudable, etc. We probably shouldn't put it on a pedestal any higher than where we place video games.

(In fact, video games might actually be better—and I'm not saying that as someone staring up from a batch of sour grapes and/or looking for an excuse to play video games; that's not how I spend my time.)
> You'd expect someone who can read/understand proofs to be able to spot a a flow in the logic that it takes longer than 1 week for chicks to turn into chickens.

Rather, I'd assume that someone who is capable of spotting the flow in the logic has a decent knowledge of the English language (in this case referring to the difference in meaning between "chick" and "chicken").

Many people who are good mathematicians (i.e. capable of "reading/understanding proofs" as you expressed it) are not native English speakers or have a great L2 level of English.
I don't know how it relates to anything else happening in the world but it seems like a good idea. People use Google photos, people look for alternatives.
It's basic fairness. Basic fairness is probably the most important component of all political discussions.
> you just don't know when something is going to dynamically dynamic the dynamics on you.

I'm going to use that!
GDPR would be the obvious one, particularly the bits about them not being allowed to refuse service if you don't agree to data processing that isn't strictly necessary to provide the service (e.g. sharing data with insurance companies)
Don’t go talking about “humanity” needing power, all of the power being built is so the developed countries can write books with LLMs and other stupid shit.

Humanity might need more power some places, but it’s uneven and that probably won’t change. Your argument is moral and right, but the capitalists that choose where power go will continue to put power plants next to where their interests lie.

Developed nations need to reduce power usage so that others who are poor may have power. That is my stance, I don’t care how unpopular.
When an educated person misses this question, it's not because the temporal logic is out of their reach. It's because they scanned the problem and answered quickly. They're pattern matching to a type of problem that wouldn't include the "tomorrow/next week" trick, and then giving the correct answer to that.

Imo it's evidence that humans make assumptions and aren't always thorough more than evidence of smart people being unable to perform elementary logic.
What was the point of [ "x$var" = "xval" ]? (2021)
From a quick look, only the client is open source. The server software is still privative. Why did Mozilla fund this? There is no shortage of libre software of self-hosted image servers in need of funding.
I have a friend that works at a cabinetry making shop where they deal with sawdust all day long. Usually, they have a magnetic U.S.B C adapter. and cable for charging. The adapter helps keep the ports clean. Not perfect, but better than stock :)
My biggest takeaway (and perhaps besides-the-point) is this:

> Musl has already switched to that, glibc supports it as an option. A number of other distributions such as Debian have taken the leap and switched. Unfortunately, source-based distributions such as Gentoo don’t have it that easy.

While I applaud their efforts I just think as a user I want to be over and done with this problem by switching to a non source-based distribution such as Debian.
Isn't Mozilla cash strapped?
Wish we can donate to the development of Firefox and not projects like this.

And yes I did but stopped last year when it became clear they are spending money on projects I don't care about https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/
Developing a Regional Paleontology Geodatabase – 350M Years in the Making
please consider it bringing it into debian and/or guix. :)
What about feeling bad for people whose family members submitted their own similar DNA — specifically an identical twin?
It's about as fair as burning own money to sell at loss to undermine competition I'm afraid.
Will they be incentivized to develop features that people don't want now?
Thanks for including ridiculously high res images.

And it amazes me how many analog tricks they used. Modern day would be a couple lines of code.
Ente is fully open source[1][2].

[1]: https://github.com/ente-io/ente

[2]: https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server
RAG is not just text
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Can you tell more about what other interesting modes multiPaxos allows? For an example of what I find uninteresting, it is proposers or acceptors not having a local disk (I know there are some uses for it, but there are relatively straightforward ways of solving that issue without requiring a whole new protocol). In all examples I have seen, multipaxos and raft are fairly alike, except for parts of their leadership election as Howard and Mortier also describe.

Raft's simplicity and the fact that there's exactly one way to do it is what I find most comforting in the most important component of a distributed system. I can look at an implementation of raft and immediately understand what's going on, and what is missing.
https://archive.ph/0HoEJ
> I think that the discussion could use some Postman - not all media affects us in the same way - some media encourages behaviors that are good for society, and some media encourages behaviors that are bad for society.

I think media simply mostly brings out the behaviors already inherent to people. If a shitty person sees their behavior validated in media, they are now more likely to act it out in real life. Likewise for good behaviors.

Some people are definitely more susceptible to such influence than others.
I'm no expert on C, but I was under the impression that type aliases like off_t are introduced to have the possibility to change then later. This clearly doesn't work. Am I wrong?
I could agree that this fine is bureaucratic Big Compliance enforcing its made-up standards. At the same time, it's hard for me to feel bad for Facebook.

If someone's violating internal auditing procedures, those same procedures won't catch them. It's dangerous because it's a violation of the procedure itself. Proving such violations without tools like no-knock warrants or the NSA moving in is nearly impossible.

So you end up with a misappropriated circus of Big Compliance issuing fines over no wrongdoing and internal audits finding no wrongdoing when you rarely hear about this type of internal abuse unless someone is careless enough to brag about it to their Tinder date.
I don't believe people who claim they can always tell the difference.

I believe they believe their claims . I think they are mistaken about the empirical side of things if they were actually put to an objective test.

Take an expert prompter and the best LLM for the job and someone who believes they can always tell if something is written by AI and I'm >50% sure they will fail a blind test most of the time after you repeat the test enough.
So I started playing with TCL for the first time this weekend after seeing this post, and here are my thoughts. I think the language is fun and much different than I’m used to, but my biggest challenge so far is just getting packages installed. There seems to be no current, modern, maintained package manager or central repository, and to do basic stuff like stand up a web server requires compiling from C source. Kinda brutal. TclHttpd failed to compile with TCL 8.6 installed because I guess there was some change in APIs. I didn’t bother spending time figuring out how to patch the C code to make it work because that’s getting in for more than I bargained for.

It’s too bad there’s not a simple way to get up and running with packages because for me so far that had been the biggest barrier to entry / deterrent. Also, I wanted to create a ES256 JWT but there’s no good way to do that apparently, due to the dated ecosystem, whereas in other languages this sort of this is just a package install away. I found a third-party solution in the form of Chilkat software but it costs $300 to license.

So overall while I think TCL is fun, I can see why people don’t choose it when they want to be productive fast and not have to fuss around with deeply manual things that are commonplace and quick in other languages.
I love repl and I hope more languages implement it.