Explore different approaches to synchronizing time across nodes in a distributed database and why YugabyteDB uses hybrid logical clocks.

Creative output of any kind depends upon a steady stream of tiny self-delusions. A different font helps me believe in my own words.

Scientific Reports - Reading on a smartphone affects sigh generation, brain activity, and comprehension

While writing a post on practical shell patterns I had a couple of patterns that used grep commands. I had to drop those patterns from the post, though, because as soon as I thought about them I go…

A semi-coherent rant about how tar is not suited for container images, and what properties we'd want in an OCIv2 image format (which will be presented in a follow-up).

The systematic thinking in our industry is that settings are the result of design failure. As designers, our goal is to create product experiences that don’t require any adjustment by the user. So offering customization options is often seen as a failure…

You know how I've been saying since 2016 that Tesla's comparison of raw Autopilot crash data to average human driver crash data is deceptive because it doesn't adjust for the safety of the operating domain (among other factors)? @NoahGoodall proved it! e…

Aubrey Hirsch on harassment and existing as a woman online

For this Hack Week edition we decided to port the classic Wolfenstein 3D game to Rust.

We built a neural theorem prover for Lean that learned to solve a variety of challenging high-school olympiad problems, including problems from the AMC12 and AIME competitions, as well as two problems adapted from the IMO.

Pilots at Qatar Airways say the state-owned airline is under-counting their work hours and ignoring complaints of fatigue - a safety breach that hurts staff health and risks passenger lives.

A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they had engineered a new rubber-like solid substance ...

The replication crisis is a major problem in medicine and social science; we know that a huge fraction of the published literature is outright wrong. But in math we don't seem to have a similar crisis, despite reasonably frequent minor errors in published…

Back when Final Fantasy VI (Final Fantasy III US) was released the game was heavily toned down, cens

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Facebook became Meta late last year and is now reporting results for the first time under the new name, which is a nod to its push into the metaverse.

Let's marinate in some hard truths. Dissect what is in front of our eyes.