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How to do distributed locking (2016)

kleppmann.com

Published by Martin Kleppmann on 08 Feb 2016. As part of the research for my book,...
Published by Martin Kleppmann on 08 Feb 2016. As part of the research for my book, I came across an algorithm called Redlock on the Redis website. The algorithm claims to implement fault-tolerant distributed locks (or rather, leases [1]) on top of Redis, and the page asks for feedback from people who are into distri...
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Using Euro coins as weights (2004)

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Machine conquest: Jules Verne's technocratic worldmaking

cambridge.org

In January 1929, the president of the eminent French Société de Géographie and renowned cave explorer...
In January 1929, the president of the eminent French Société de Géographie and renowned cave explorer Édouard-Alfred Martel hosted a session in honour of Jules Verne (1828–1905). The late writer had been a member of the Société for over three decades of his life. Twenty-four years after his passing, he still occupie...
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Show HN: I created a web app to encrypt/decrypt messages using Web Crypto API

webcrypto-private-messages.vercel.app
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A New Artificial Intelligence Tool for Cancer

harvard.edu
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Scratches in 2001: A Space Osyssey (2018)

aphelis.net
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atcute: lightweight TypeScript packages for AT Protocol

github.com
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A recent surge in global warming is not detectable yet

nature.com
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Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

dadgum.com
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The IPv6 Transition

potaroo.net

The ISP Column A column on things Internet Other Formats: The IPv6 Transition October 2024 I...
The ISP Column A column on things Internet Other Formats: The IPv6 Transition October 2024 I wrote an article in May 2022, asking “Are we there yet?” about the transition to IPv6. At the time I concluded the article on an optimistic note, observing that we may not be ending the transition just yet, but we are closin...
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Securing Hardware and Firmware Supply Chains

microsoft.com

In the modern cloud data center, ensuring the authenticity, integrity, and security of hardware and firmware...
In the modern cloud data center, ensuring the authenticity, integrity, and security of hardware and firmware is paramount. Firmware is the lowest level software that runs on every chip in a server, e.g., CPU, GPU, storage controller. Since firmware provides programming interfaces that higher-level software builds up...
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Ask HN: Can a 5 year old i7 laptop compete with one made today?

ycombinator.com
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Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing

takeourword.com
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AI Medical Imagery Model Offers Fast, Cost-Efficient Expert Analysis

nvidia.com

Researchers at UCLA have developed a new AI model that can expertly analyze 3D medical images...
Researchers at UCLA have developed a new AI model that can expertly analyze 3D medical images of diseases in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take a human clinical specialist. The deep-learning framework, named SLIViT (SLice Integration by Vision Transformer), analyzes images from different imagery modaliti...
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Microsoft is basically discontinuing Windows. What will happen, then?

azhdarchid.com
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Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Change (2016)

plos.org

Open Access Peer-reviewed Persuasion is at the core of norm creation, emergence of collective action, and...
Open Access Peer-reviewed Persuasion is at the core of norm creation, emergence of collective action, and solutions to ‘tragedy of the commons’ problems. In this paper, we show that the directionality of friendship ties affect the extent to which individuals can influence the behavior of each other. Moreover, we fin...

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US Interest Burden Hits 28-Year High

bloomberg.com

debt economic policy george dessing interest rates tax cuts
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X is the latest social media site letting 3rd parties use your data to train AI

cbc.ca

Elon Musk's X was already using your data to train its own artificial intelligence. Soon, it'll...
Elon Musk's X was already using your data to train its own artificial intelligence. Soon, it'll let other companies do the same.Starting Nov. 15, the social media site formerly known as Twitter will share user data — including posts, likes, bookmarks and reposts — with third-party platforms that may use the informat...
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Large French Alpine ski resort to close in face of shrinking snow season

theguardian.com
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Nonfree software found in GNU Boot releases again, many distros affected

gnu.org
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Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

1e100.net
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Time: Yes, it's a dimension, but not like space

bigthink.com

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel...
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all When it comes to dimensions, most of us intuitively understand the notion that space possesses those properties. You can move forward or backward by any amount you desire in any of the t...
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Show HN: I made a site to quick identify any plant and learn how to care for it

frondly.app

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Accountability Sinks

aworkinglibrary.com

2024-10-16 In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb...
2024-10-16 In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held directly accountable for it. Here’s an example: a higher up at a hospitality company decides to reduce the size o...
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