Hacker News with Generative AI: Systems

Complex Systems Won't Survive the Competence Crisis (palladiummag.com)
At a casual glance, the recent cascades of American disasters might seem unrelated. In a span of fewer than six months in 2017, three U.S. Naval warships experienced three separate collisions resulting in 17 deaths. A year later, powerlines owned by PG&E started a wildfire that killed 85 people. The pipeline carrying almost half of the East Coast’s gasoline shut down due to a ransomware attack.
Complex Systems and Quantitative Mereology (abeljansma.nl)
Have a look at these three rings:
Three Packets Walk into a Tunnel (systemsapproach.org)
A few weeks ago I stumbled onto an article about Traceroute entitled “Traceroute Isn’t Real” which was reasonably entertaining while also managing to be incorrect or misleading in many places.
W, X, and Z: The Layers of a System (betterprogramming.pub)
MIT researchers use large language models to flag problems in complex systems (news.mit.edu)
Betting on DSPy for Systems of LLMs (isaacmiller.dev)
Complex systems emerge from simple rules (tecnica.substack.com)
Incompetence at Scale (greyenlightenment.com)
A tale of using chaos engineering at scale to keep our systems resilient (tines.com)
Schaffer–Vega Diversity System (wikipedia.org)
Goals vs. Systems (archive.org)
We must seek a widely-applicable science of systems (hiranmay.xyz)
Hypermedia Systems (hypermedia.systems)
What happens to latency if service time is cut in half (2022) (pveentjer.github.io)
The one system to keep running (aha.io)
Pulley system composition – a systematic approach (2020) (kiipeilytuomas.fi)