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Show HN: Metron – Rust Tool for Server Metrics via Discord Webhooks
Hey HN!

I built Metron, a simple tool written in Rust that monitors your server metrics and sends updates to a Discord channel using webhooks. It tracks CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage, network traffic, and more. The metrics are formatted as embed messages for easy readability.

I created this tool because I wanted a lightweight and efficient way to keep an eye on my server's performance without constantly logging in. Rust's performance and safety features made it an ideal choice for this project.

Features:
- Tracks key server metrics
- Sends updates to Discord every 30 minutes
- Easy to set up and use
- Customizable to fit your needs

You can check out the GitHub repo https://github.com/thisuxhq/metron for more details and setup instructions.

I'd love to hear your feedback and any suggestions for improvements!
The secret, as it turns out but we all really knew, is that the world is and will be powered by caffeine.
Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks
Related: Nixon, NASA, And How The Federal Government Got Design

https://web.archive.org/web/20181005033340/https://www.fastc...

Archive link because the actual page is missing a few images :(
This is why I set a limit on the tabs in my IDE.
Stock vests over time. By providing stock instead of cash the company incentivizes the employee to do their best, because that will ostensibly help the stock to be worth more than the cash by the time it vests. Hence, incentive.

Does that make more sense?
How Mihoyo's monetization works
>it's simply not relevant to the current situation

Just like your comments to this thread.
I'd replace XGBoost with either LightGBM or CatBoost. Though all three are capable of producing excellent results, and XGBoost has the advantage of not being maintained by an organization you might disagree with.
Switzerland had security scandals before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

And Proton does not inspire confidence.

https://expatcircle.com/cms/the-not-so-private-privacy-email...
Reverse Engineering of UEFI Firmwares via HII
Security Firm Discovers Remote Worker Is a North Korean Hacker
I thought the Russians were barred from the Olympics because of persistent doping scandals?
Hm… humans (all mammals, really) react with great distress to high CO2 concentrations in the air. Now, the concentrations at which that reaction can be measured are MUCH higher than the current ones. But it does make me wonder whether we are reacting to them subconsciously anyway. That might help explain the increased incidence of anxiety and depression, among many other things.
This makes sense along with piva, probably because there is enough inconsistency in the familiar system as it has developed, that it's less possible all the time to make black & white judgments.

>Unscrupulous

>-- they will find ways to benefit at the expense of others no mater what system you cook up.

A more sophisticated chef with a dish completely unfamiliar but irresistible can still be disruptive. Whether or not it's a brand new concoction or a rehash of something so out-of-style that it's simply long forgotten.
That's an interesting proposition, and honestly I can't tell if you're right or not.

If it's worker owned, what happens to the shares when a worker leaves? Do they have to sell? In which case, is the company buying back, or the remaining workers (or is that the same thing?). If that's so, the share behaves less like a regular share, and more like a vested interest that doubles as a layoff package.

Also, is the value of a share that's owned by someone expecting a salary going up when there's a layoff? Since the only people who can buy are internal to the company (which is a very small pool), do you apply the same rules when it comes to valuation? I wouldn't presume its value behaves in the same way as an externally owned shareholder.

The incentive to keep the number of workers low is certainly there, though ; I'm wondering if that's more of an incentive against hiring (which you can see as a healthy thing).
Tell HN: Google Assistant now talks back
Google Assistant now responds to "Fuck you, Google" with:

- "I am a virtual assistant, but your words are real. Please keep them respectful".-

Y'all probably noticed, but, there's that.-

We being babysat by our tools, now.-
Do you mean https://google.github.io/tour-of-wgsl/ ?
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/gasoline.php

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bumpy-road-ahead-us-...

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/weak-us-gasoline-dem...

https://wolfstreet.com/2024/03/07/gasoline-demand-has-a-long...

https://electrek.co/2024/03/02/1-in-5-new-car-sales-globally...

https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q2-2024-ev-sales/

https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2024-05/zero-emission-vehicle...
I don't think this is a matter of good or evil, simply a matter of business strategy.

If LLMs end up being the platform of the future, Zuck doesn't want OpenAI/Microsoft to be able to monopolize it.
It is. There's no way this is 'private' vs. a kinda motivated amateur who can be bothered downloading a copy of the phone book, let alone vs. any parties who actually stand to benefit materially from knowing this stuff.

I've often thought that cynically, the real motivation for having non-technical people in these public-facing roles (sales, marketing, media etc.) is so that they can honestly, earnestly, present their understanding of the product. An understanding, that is, which lacks the nuance to properly convey the implications of pretty much any aspect of the situation.
Self healing is dangerous because it can potentially corrupt good data on disk, if RAM or other system component is flaky.

Repro: supposedly only good copy is copied to ram, ram corrupts bit, crc is recalculated using corrupted but, corrupted copy is written back to disk(s).
Ha, I have a good engineer friend who often plays devil's advocate and he sometimes seems to reflexively respond with a disagreeing statement even if he is agreeing with the majority of what is being discussed.
Perhaps the root cause here is due to conventional current being opposite the actual, literal flow. GP likely wanted to deny the implied sarcasm of parent comment, and I could see how it might be read either way. Tone in text is hard.
All of Berlin‘s district heating plants provide heat AND electricity. So the government owns a huge share of all electricity producers in this city now, too (about 60 % of the total production capacity).

Whether this constitutes a monopoly is beside the point. Berlin paid 1.4 billions is does not really have (after it sold it 20 years ago when it had even less money and could not sustain a profitable business operation) and which does not solve a problem we really have. And now it will need to invest even more money to future-proof this acquisition.
LLMs will not automate work
And I think your irrational russophobia has no relevance to the current conflict.
Probably fly less and possibly fly business class
I don't even think "Rent" is appropriate... I would prefer an actual "Lease" with some definitive terms of "at least N months" with a full refund if less than N months. Which could exceed N, but not less than. At least then it would be more clear with a debt path and holding requirement for the Lessor.
I’ve been coding for 25 years and I’ve never had an interview with a big coding exercise. I did do the triplebyte hour or two hour coding interview. I’m sort of a manager and consider myself close to a senior or so and can program a decent amount.

I’ve had many interviews where they ask me to write out a fizzbuzz or something but that takes a few minutes. And I’ve never minded doing that.

If someone gave be a big take home, and I wanted the job, I’d probably just do it.

I currently give a small take home assignment to applicants that I designed to take 15 minutes. Few refuse. If someone proposed an alternative, I’d listen as I’m really just looking to filter out people who can’t code at all (a surprisingly large number of people).
The other technique that comes in handy in that kind of situation, if you have multiple power/voltage/current domains that require spacing or other isolation from each other, or multiple ground references, is an isolation or insulation diagram. I don't have a great example; if you search you'll find a style that will meet medical device requirements and can be adapted for other use.
The statement still applies even if you found one thing that isn't literally the same. The point wasn't "you can do takebacks in chess so this is exactly the same!!!" but that the advantage for moving first in chess is much smaller than is already accepted in other sports.
Oh wow didn't know that existed. You should try cmd-p too! If you hold down Cmd and press P repeatedly, it acts like ctrl-tab, but you also have the option to search files at the top. I suppose you could remap it to ctrl-tab and then you'd get it for free.
China has promised to take Taiwan by whatever means necessary. What will be the effect on the global economy?
You don't have to condone the person's actions. I don't see how any of this makes my original statement that the community is basically classical liberals untrue. You are pointing out one person's behaviour that is consistent with classical liberalism while also being consistent with being a dick and using it to paint a whole community. None of it invalidates the original claim individually for vaxry or for the community as a whole.
One part of shifting from fossil fuels to, well, anything else is that the energy math looks worse because we’ve gotta account for all the stuff that we got for free before by burying the raw materials for a million years.

Realistically, though, transportation fuels have two sets of criteria for viability - the net energy produced, yes, but also then everything that makes a transportation fuel useable: density, transportability, safety, ease of loading, ease of getting the energy out, etc. They’re really closer to a battery than an energy source: how much energy did we put into this system, and how much can we get back out. You want that ratio to be as close to 100% as possible, but the fact that it takes more energy to produce than what you get back doesn’t automatically make it a bad transportation energy source if it has a variety of other useful factors.

Granted that Corn generally is particularly bad for this (I once heard a joke that the only thing corn was especially good for producing was lobbyists), but biofuels generally can still be viable even if the energy net is negative if they meet our other needs.
Lagniappe: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/23/tech/nasa-apparel-popular...
IEnumerable<T>.Max and .Min are the same as they were just significantly faster through the use of SIMD: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/ebbebaca1184940f06df6...

You could implement a similar (and simpler) fast path for types with contiguous memory by performing min and max per iteration instead.
Poland also cooperated with Nazis before 1941. So did much of the rest of Europe and Britain. And no, it wouldn't have slowed Germans down, just like it did not slow them down in 1939. In general, European countries did not put up much of a fight, and some (Romania and Finland, for example) explicitly and willingly fought on Hitler's side. As to the crimes, name me an Axis or Allied country that did not commit horrific war crimes in that war. I'll wait.
Microsoft starts campaign to make Windows security akin to Mac post-CrowdStrike
How is it relevant to open source? Today, users already suffer with whatever substandard product was chosen and enforced. Except it's also probably proprietary.
This opinion piece paints a pretty limited perspective as the defacto state, which I don't think is really true. From my perspective programming (in the vast majority of situations) is neither engineering nor computer science. The creations are not particularly complex, at least not in their initial manifestations where something like formal verification would help. Even the assembly patterns are not unique; the differences can only be determined by actually some form of build-test cycle.
There are a lot more non-traditional developers in the world, by which I mean not comp sci or engineering (or uni) grads, which is maybe what the author interprets as "YOLO". I think that on the whole this is a really good thing, and even as a formally trained student in the area don't agree we're in some sort engineering desert because of the academics that came before us.
Daily drive NixOS (Hyprland) with totally seamless biometric (face/fingerprint) lock/suspend and Bluetooth.

If one takes the time to learn the Nix language (and set up a working LSP), it's a totally painless experience, and if you are a fan of systems that just work, it's life affirming. It's stability is unparalleled.

I would never go back to any other distro.
(1) Maybe nitrate it and sell it to the arms industry?
Not in any actual engineering field. There it's being killed the traditional way, by 'do what you did last time' and 'meh it'll be fine'.
It's not that. Many of these thing have no native predators on the north American continent,and easily out compete local organisms.

When it comes to things like soil bacteria and root fungus, it is even more pronounced. You can loose thousands of acres of monoculture tree to pathogens that they have evolutionary exposure to and we're not previously present in the area.
Nobody pays $100k for any UltraScale+ chip regardless of what you may see on DigiKey, btw - that's the "fuck you" price, every US+ chip today is obtainable new for under $10k.
2014 is also the era when you have links to Vine instead of TikTok.

I miss Vine.
It seems like C++ would be simpler if were either just all immutable (like Haskell) or embraced using the full, mutable language for metaprogramming (Jonathan Blow's Jai). Of course that's a horse that left the barn before most of the current barn was even built.
Computers are good at arithmetic, not math...

There's definitely an aspect of this that is 'airplanes, not birds.' Just because the wings don't flap doesn't mean it can't fly, though.
> There is nothing magic about the temperature change from the bacterial perspective

I'm not sure about that, when there are insects carrying these bugs. e.g.

Malaria: https://apnews.com/article/malariaclimate-changemosquitos-48...

Zika: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33037740/

And many, many other such articles.
I agree with all this and use it similarly. I hate when updating the OS breaks my own apps, or does something annoying like updating a dependency (like Postgres)... Docker is perfect for this.
If they hadn’t been ham-fisted about it they’d have gotten away with it. They used clearly fake names, several levels of idiocy. I shudder to think what similar campaigns are conducted by people who are less idiotic about it.
You should add some screenshots!
I have a feeling that a lot of vaccine-hesitant folks in the Southeast might line up for this one. Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is no joke. One unlucky tick bite and you're looking at being forced to avoid barbecue ribs, burgers, and pepperoni pizza for the rest of your life. It's a horrible affliction I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
Is there ever a reason to call setenv? execve and posix_spawn both let you pass an environment.

Edit: hmm I guess variables like LD_PRELOAD and PATH that get used by the standard lib you might want to set. Or if any other libraries modify their runtime behavior based on env vars.
> losing a file to a tired ...

If the file isn't in source control, a backup, or auto-synced cloud storage, it can't be _that_ important. If it was in either, it could be recovered easily without replacing one's filesystem with one which needs hand-holding to keep it running. Shrug.
It still does. It lives in and between Palm Beach county through south of Lake Okeechobee.
Wildfire Status – Jasper National Park
> I honestly don't understand those who say Florida has great weather.

Because a lot of those people are coming from areas where they get the 6-8 months of hell without good weather the rest of the year. Living in Miami after California, I had the same reaction to the weather but compared to Wisconsin or Kansas, Florida wins hands down.

Being cold down to your bones for six months of the year is a special kind of hell that we in the south are a bit ignorant of. After spending two winters in Washington I would have moved to a desert island in the middle of the Pacific to get away from it.
0. Most of the UEFI is already open source. See TianoCore.

1. There are some things that may need to be updated from time to time that need to be applied before the OS is loaded - microcode updates being one of these. I would still like a physical write-enable switch.

2. Making a keyboard that is not a real keyboard is easier than ever with things like Arduino and Raspberry Pi, and it doesn't matter the interface. There is probably not a way to verify physical presence that can't be duplicated remotely. At some point humanity has to get beyond the primitive mentality of "this stuff on a computer monitor/from a speaker looks/sounds just like real stuff so it is the real stuff" and we have to accept that computers are machines and not in and of themselves a proxy for reality unless specifically considered so.

3. Funny, the original 1981 PC booted to ROM BASIC if it couldn't boot off of anything, so it was useful without an OS. I really wish UEFI firmware was on a replaceable SD card and the system would literally have no firmware if it was not present. I would pay the 2 cents more it would cost OEMs. With all the capability in modern chipsets I feel like this would be trivial to do.

4. Good idea. I wish computers had a separate display that is attached through some legacy interface like RS-232 and that doesn't go through VGA at all for this purpose, like a cheap LCD screen.

5. The old punched cards were very low density, but had one really nice property: you could physically see the data with nothing more than your eyes. It's funny that a stack of punched cards could potentially be more secure than millions of instructions of code hidden in a NAND or ROM that you cannot see or verify except with another device that you also have to trust and run on a platform you trust. Even then you can't really see the bits on a NAND or ROM without special expensive equipment. It'd be cool if there could be a high-density storage device where the binary contents are somehow physically viewable and discernable without a CPU needed. Something like QR codes but much, much more high density.
"polarity wrong?"

Depends on the meaning of "civil defense" in the top-level comment. If that means "protecting civilians & civilian infrastructure from military or paramilitary attack", then "No" is correct.

If "civil defense" is so broadly defined that it includes "protecting from normal aging, weathering, and neglected maintenance", then "Yes".

(Admission: My sense of such usages may be kinda old. Dad was a Civil Defense Officer in WWII, specializing in poison gas attacks.)
That is really unfortunate that they landed on a logo suspiciously similar to the logo for the game Starfield when there were so many good submissions. Half of the 22 submissions that were rejected look cleaner and more professional than the final version. The controversy seems justified.
Tesla warns against wet towel trick to speed up Supercharging
It will take a judge/major politicians car traced to a mistress house to solve this issue.

Its the continuation of https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/01/california-privacy-agency-...

https://gbhackers.com/toyota-data-breach/

"The in-vehicle GPS navigation terminal ID number / The chassis number / Vehicle location information with time data."

Toyota = Lexus = a lot of politicians and their families.
lol ok genocide of hundreds of children who are actually still alive. I wish genocide was always like this.

> ... refutes nothing I said.

In the same way as nothing you said refutes nothing I said.
VirtualBox isn't any less native than UTM on macOS, both are third party apps using native GUI frameworks which use hypervisor.framework provided by the OS to do the virtualization. Similarly on Windows it's using the Hyper-V backend these days so it can coexist with virtualization based security and WSL2 which also require Hyper-V manage the virtualization on the host. In that case though Hyper-V on Windows does actually have a 1st party and native user app too but it can kind of be a pain if you want to do more than a basic install (though you can do a lot more if you drop into Powershell). Hyper-V has also been deprecating and removing the easy GPU paravirtualization whereas VirtualBox still has GPU acceleration options for all types of guests (UTM/QEMU really only have usable acceleration on Linux guests).

I don't actually use VirtualBox much these days, e.g. on my Mac I use Parallels for the better Windows integration and GPU acceleration + the Oracleness of VirtualBox you mention, but there still aren't necessarily great "native" options that universally beat out plugging something extra in instead. I'm not sure what's best on Windows these days but it probably also depends on how/what you're wanting to virtualize (headless Linux servers on a fixed box vs various GUI operating systems on a laptop are probably going to get different sets of recommendations from people).
I'd actually recommend instead going a bit further since it'll be more reliable and easier to setup on the client side. Use the iSCSI gateway and an RBD image instead. This'll get you the availability of Ceph and is much better supported than using FUSE or s3 for booting. You can even install windows on an iSCSI target and PXE boot it (disclaimer: i've only read about this being done, not actually done it) so that you don't need any local storage at all on the remote machine.

You'll still want a fast network (I'd recommend 10gbe on the server at least, 2.5gbe on clients though 1gbe will work you will notice it bottleneck in bursts) but that won't be any different than any other network booting/rooting process

https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rbd/iscsi-overview/
Excellent to be concerned about heavy metal exposure. Cacao typically contains lead and cadmium; the reference dose (usually defined as: The amount of a chemical a person, including sensitive groups, can be exposed to on a daily basis over an extended period of time (usually a lifetime) without suffering deleterious effects.) of lead according to EPA is 3.5 ug/kg/day and cadmium is 1 ug/kg/day. The cadmium content of cacao nibs/paste is usually 0.5-1 mg/kg and 0.025 mg/kg lead. So cadmium is the one to be concerned about here; for a 100 kg person, the RfD would be 100 ug or 0.1 mg of cadmium per day. The FDA defines the toxicological reference value for cadmium as 0.2-0.3 ug/kg, or 20-30% of the EPA's RfD. 100 grams of cacao at the high side, 1mg/kg would contain 0.1 mg of cadmium. So a daily dose of 1-2 gram of cacao per kg of body weight should be within the RfD, and 0.2-0.6 grams cacao per kg body weight would be within the TRV. It should be noted that root vegetables such as potatoes and beets also tend to contain cadmium at a rate of about 1/10 per weight compared to cacao, but I would find myself just as likely to eat 500 grams of potato or beet vs 50 grams of cacao, which would net the same amount of dietary cadmium.

So definitely don't overdo it on the cacao and eat hundreds of grams per day, but IMO no reason to avoid it completely, relative to other vegetables that can accumulate cadmium. This is not medical or dietary advice.
> ads online are much more energy-intensive than billboards.

Is this quote from the article remotely true or even verifiable?