skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Enterprise Manager Cloud Control’s Overview of Incidents and Problems section identified ‘Metrics Global Cache Blocks Lost at XXX’ for a relatively new database, suggesting a potential network issue likely related to the private network interfaces.Troubleshooting was guided by My Oracle Support documents, which outline common causes and initial diagnostic steps.

Further actions included making adjustments across nearly all OSI Model Layers—such as enabling jumbo frames, tuning NIC buffers, adjusting IP fragmentation parameters, optimizing socket buffers, and refining the database layer. These measures collectively reduced ‘gc block lost’ events to nearly zero.
https://x.com/Israel/status/1781951509070012435

Are you still laughing?
If my cousin (in US too) was equally skeptical, I'd contact either the US embassy or Ecuador embassy and arrange a wellness check with local LE. But while that offer and others stand, that's not my jurisdiction presently. Regarding travel resources, I live well enough but have to look steeply upward to see the poverty line, negating such options. For now, I'm satisfied being a fool.
This is concerning - what if Israel wants to take out one bad guy on a plane or something and views the bystanders as "collateral damage"? They blew these up in multiple countries, there is no rule of law here. This op has US state department/intelligence agencies written all over it (like the Nord stream pipeline). I suspect folks at the TSA, FAA, FTC, all over concerns over this behavior.
> Who is your enemy and why do they want to hurt you

It seems like the perfect occasion to quote Mickens' immortal words:

> Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is
not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@
virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to
use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos
of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
As someone who has developed commercially in at least a dozen languages I couldn't disagree more.

There is no one language that is faster at prototyping than others. It's purely based on whatever you experience is and what aligns most with your way of thinking.

Some people like me need strong typing and functional constructs to be productive. Others are the complete opposite.

Some people would instantly gravitate towards SPA for anything web based others would go for SSR.

etc etc.
I started this with the focus being on speed set it up run thencommand and see the output. Harlequin seems to have a bit more hassle. We d also like to add a gui at some point if the user wants to open it on browser
I think it can be optimized quite a lot by not using a stock PNG decoder library, because all images are quite simple and can be generated from non-pixelated smaller sprites (many images are pre-scaled by 2x, which can be done during the postprocessing) or from a simple algorithmic code.
"Hygienic" Let Statements in Rust
Hi. We definitely don’t want anyone to have a bad experience on Discord and are working on a project to improve it.

Please let me know what you think we should improve (either here or email me vmarin@cloudflare.com)
Check the list, performance matters a great deal for many of these utilities, and the GNU project version is often pretty well optimized (often best in class of POSIX compliant impls that ship with an OS/distribution).

I do not want a "performance will be looked at later" version of m4, awk, grep, cp, find, diff, sort, uniq, etc., right now in my personal or dev environments. I can understand using a not-yet-optimized memory safe language version to compete with OpenBSD though, but not for me right now.
> why would the title mention uniqueness if we were talking about emails?

Why wouldn’t it? Doesn’t the concept of uniqueness apply to emails just like it does to email addresses? I don’t understand your point.
I was simply explaining my personal fears regarding AI given that lynch mobs exist in my country; the lesson you should have taken from that was not about lynch mobs, but to analyse how AI might affect YOU in your particular environment.

Remember the post is about cloning a youtuber's voice using AI; most people were thinking of the copywrite aspect of it, but I wanted to share with people what my fear was.

My fears are, things are already bad w.r.t lynch mobs before AI, after AI things will only get worse with fake but realistic sounding voice notes etc. That's my fear, doesn't have to be yours.

You don't have lynch mobs (hopefully) but surely you can think of other problems that a fake AI image/audio/video can cause, and just low the barrier is, and just how good the tools are.
This is more or less the point of Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto. Technology is essentially evil as it replaces the things that truly connect man to his nature. That technology has had a destabilizing effect on society, has made life unfulfilling, and has caused widespread psychological suffering. Most everything we do now is a “surrogate” activity” to try and get control/power over ourselves and find meaning, which has been vaporized by technological progress.

In particular the Industrial Revolution but he himself sees an ideal world basically void of technology. That the revolution should strive to destabilize industrial society enough to force its collapse.

I think he has many interesting observations that are really worth exploring. He also predicted a lot of things more or less. But end of the day life is what you make of it. You don’t really have to participate in modern society. And people have always had existential problems and a desire to find meaning, even if they had less time to ponder it (and possibly be antagonized by it) because they were tending a field, etc. They probably had a long time to think about it as an infection slowly ate its way through their body causing immeasurable pain over days or weeks.
I do actually wonder if it's more efficient to use something like MessagePack instead of using JSON. It's a lot of strings so it may not matter too much I guess.
Coming from java spring and knowing some python looking around - I decided I would django for side projects and leave java and spring for my day job. I think it's more suitable for side projects.
Who really cares? e-mail like SMS and phonecalls is 99% e-generated garbage.

With my phone, if you're not in the directory you have to leave voicemail. If you leave voicemail then based on what the voicemail is, I might or might not respond or I might just block the number.

With email, everything is automatically reported as spam unless it's in the whitelist. No exceptions.

SMS is harder to deal with but I can and do report SMS spam.
That’s what courts are for, and sounds like you’d have a defensible case.
It turns out that humans aren't perfectly rational actors. Actors get hatemail and death threats because of roles they've played, "evidence" that isn't just potentially suspect but actually known to be entirely fictional.
McD's is just so slow these days. I was at an airport recently and wanted to get some breakfast there. But it just takes too long, like 20 minutes for an egg mcmuffin? I realized I could have gotten an egg on bagel at the cafe just down the hall for a dollar more and had it in 2min. Next time I'll skip McD's altogether.
https://github.com/nanochess/fbird
Manual build with an explicit `--disable-dict` perhaps? Because it's not Debian, Fedora, Homebrew, Nix, Alpine, Arch, or Gentoo, judging by their package definitions.
this looks great!!! I think yours is very close in capabilities and features to django admin. What things do you think are missing?
This looks very good. The Fetch API is a nice one, so leveraging it sounds perfect. Thanks for the link.
You're right wrt. those new Excel functions, but I consider this to be an unusual exception - these all happened recently, so even if you want to upgrade for them now, you'd still be fine not upgrading for over a decade before :).
I wouldn't compare the two directly, as they serve different preferences. I would say that using Postgres functions is more powerful, but that may not matter for your app, depending on its complexity and needs. Ultimately, I'm not concerned with persuading Prisma users to switch over just yet.

As far as migrations go, pg-nano is taking the same “schema diffing” approach that I assume Prisma does, where the active schema of your Postgres instance is compared to the desired schema (defined via SQL files in pg-nano's case) and a migration plan is generated from there. In the context of migrating a non-local Postgres instance, pg-nano still has some R&D to do.
>what if Israel wants to take out one bad guy on a plane or something and views the bystanders as "collateral damage"?

They'll do it and they won't be held accountable for it.
dict isn't other software, it's a client for the protocol being discussed
I know that Thailand allegedly stopped buying western plastic waste but I’m too stingy to drop a GPS tracking device in my plastic container to see where it’s headed to.
The fact they do doesn't give any legitimacy to their actions.

South America is not the NATO's (or anyone's) political experiment playground.
If you take the time and actually read the blog post I linked to, you will see that mostly it is about indoor CO2.

However, to understand the performance of these different sensor technologies it is important to point out that they fail under certain environmental conditions, e.g. outdoors.
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Very interesting. I tried to solve this problem too, and my code parses incomplete JSON allowing partial values and fully complete values to be accessed.

Why do you wait for the entire stream to be complete? Some objects in the JSON structure can be shown to be complete before the stream ends.
This is why I sell my products with a one-time payment (lifetime access/usage), but with an optional support/updates payments.

It seems to work quite well for both my customers and my products.
>If you were in the US and someone were to make a deepfake of you saying a racial slur, do you think you'd fair better than if you were a blasphemer in a Sharia country?

Of course.
> Let the eng get a little bored and they'll find stuff to fix.

That is the opposite of all engineers I worked with. Engineers easily learn that they should click in the specific part of the element and will forget it is an issue and use it like that for 5 years if nobody point that the issue is making the UX terrible for most users.
I'm not sure I can take seriously arguments of "killing democracy", that undermines whatever point you're making in the same way people that worry about crime and shout "think of the children" or immediately go to "stopping terrorism". Just make your point without hyperbole.
I love dict/dictd but I had an issue using it in hostile networks that block the port/protocol.

I've been tempted to revamp dict/dictd to shovel the dict protocol over websokets so I can use it over the web. Just one of those ideas in the pipeline that I haven't revisited because I'm no longer dealing with that hostile network.
People due by the thousands every year to try and reach a Western country they can resettle in mainly because of the wealth of material comforts available.

People want to first get fat and happy and for many that’s good enough. All the self actualization stuff comes far later.
Show HN: LyricFluent – Learn Languages with Music (Mainly Spanish)
My motivation for this product was to 'scratch my own itch'.

I speak a few languages, have been learning a few more, and have always enjoyed listening to music in my target language. After failing to find my ideal solution, I built my own.

I also wanted to give myself this challenge so that I could become a better full-stack software developer. I built the website with React & Next JS, mobile apps with React Native, and the backend with Node JS. Hosted on DigitalOcean.

I worked on this for 4 years (it has been a while), but most of this time was part-time while working another job for income.

The URL linked here has free lessons with no account required.

Main landing page: https://lyricfluent.com

Feedback welcome!
This couldn't be farther from the truth.

Not only will a Rust rewrite take 5-20x longer, you'll also be supporting 2 versions (C++ and Rust) for a long time, while doing the rewrite and migration, and that will eat up a lot of dev hours.

I've done incremental C++ migrations and they are not nearly as complex or stressful, especially when you leverage libtooling or Python bindings to write AST-rewriting scripts for those large refactorings.
Hey I'm just replying because I currently have a BSc with Honors in math and a double major with econ but I'm having trouble in the current market. I also am interested in pursuing a master's in combinatorics or optimization. Is there anything you recommend besides not getting the PhD?
Excellent documentary. While it has been criticized for factual errors and omissions, it is by a wide margin the best documentary conveying the feeling of living through that time: the emptiness of not knowing where you are and what you should do to reach any kind of normal, stable, predictible life.

Many people in the west nowadays believe that they are living in end times because they are overwhelmed by the many things changing around them. That documentary shows the opposite. The silence that arrives when the music stops. You are hungry, stores are empty, no one knows when and if ever they'll be restocked. Society just grinds to a halt and stops functioning. Completely unimaginable situation for modern people who are used to abundance.
Israel’s pager attacks did not change the world. They merely alerted the world to the possibility of everyday devices being compromised. What is true today was still true yesterday, it just wasn’t top of mind: we have to be very careful with what we allow our adversaries to sell to us.
I found the reference. It was an interview with Freeman Dyson where he said "quarks were invented", and I don't think it's a slip of the tongue.

It's at 3:17 in this video of an interview with him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV41QEKiMlM

It's representative of a view that there's a thing (a particle) that explains another thing (a force) that was consistent with both theory and experiment. Thus, a quark could be a particle, and it was whatever the experimentalists and theorists said it was, however it was measured or contemplated.

For a deeper meaning it becomes an exercise in hermeneutics i.e what does it mean when we say "particle"? That was the point of the original piece - there is no uncontested view of a particle's form, should one even exist. Each field, in order to advance, finds it useful to interpret it, or think about it, in different ways.
For UXWizz (also mentioned on this site), it makes a lot of sense to have a one-time payment, because it's self-hosted.

For many products and services that require active services/cost from the developer to run, it's harder to be sustainable with one-time payments, but for a self-hosted product it makes a lot of sense. Think of how software licenses used to work, or how games still work and do very well.
The entangled particles don’t have any sort of an effect on the other. Changing one doesn’t change the other. You can think of it like the two particles were always a pair and you just didn’t know which particle was the left one and which was the right. By measuring one, you know what the other one “has always” been.

The “has always” is in quotes because it’s a useful lie. You kind of need to really understand the double slit experiment to get quantum fields, superpositions, and how that related to entanglement. Took me years and years of occasional YouTube physics videos before it finally clicked. But if entanglement still doesn’t make sense, I’d start by trying to understand the double slit experiment. It sounds way less awesome than entanglement, but it isn’t really. Double slit is in fact awesome and just as weird. Entanglement is way less cool than it sounds, and no, not actually a way of cheating the speed of light limit for information transmission.
Weirdly, I think the challenge would be more difficult going to Android than adding graphics while keeping the size down.

It would not at all surprise me to see a near perfect Flappy Bird under 4k (graphics and all) as a PC .com

I'd be curious to see what the minimum size of a simple C program would be.
Say something that displayed a pixel that bounced up and down as you tapped.
War causes a huge variety of behaviors by which humans try to cope with the stress and fear. Religiosity, superstitions, alcohol/tobacco/drug use, non-military violent behavior, illicit sex, gambling - you name it.
We must live in a different world because for me, Bing's results have always been completely unusable. As a consequence, DuckDuckGo's results as well, although I understand that it must work for certain types of users located in certain countries; otherwise I can't understand how anyone would use it.

I just logged into Kagi, and searched for “restaurants”. Kagi can see my country because their UI says so, yet it gave me “top 10 restaurants in Groningen Province” (Netherlands), as the first result and the second result was “top 10 restaurants in Barcelona”. And I don't live in the Netherlands or Spain.

I also searched for a programming question, an issue I recently had, with the query “slick breaks binary compatibility”. Google gave me fresh discussions describing the issue, whereas Kagi gave me a GitHub issue from 2021 that described issues with the previous major version.

I did not cherry-pick these searches.

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Speaking of, Kagi doesn't have their own index, they just use Bing's API, enhanced with results from other sources, much like what DuckDuckGo does; and like DDG they tend to be disingenuous about it.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

What in the world are people paying for is a complete mystery to me, but YMMV.

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So, again, I'm asking for that one competitor that's 30% better than Google.
works for me too. but it takes about 6 seconds so curl dict://localhost/d:Internet is vastly preferable
Of course it’s still useful even if you can’t control them. It still tells you about reality.
Here in Norway there's been a campaign to get organizations and companies to invest in automated external defibrillators[1], along with training for members and employees.

The locations are registered centrally[2], so emergency apps or websites can show where the nearest one is.

Has saved quite a few lives.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_external_defibrillat...

[2]: https://hjertestarterregister.113.no/
I got a replacement for an Akai S1100 for $90 but that might have been cheaper than 3000

There’s videos on YouTube with guides on using old iPhone screens to illuminate the old screens.
The thing is that Android is open source (at least nominally). So having Google refuse carries the ability to customize it would be like having the Linux project say that companies can’t ship their own distros.

Google could have applied pressure on carries via some sort of “Certified Android” label but realistically this is very different from iOS/Apple where the hardware and software are closed and made by the same company.
Animal Well is 33 MB and is absolutely great
My stance on this rather is: the advertiser should like it if viewers consider the product advertised to be better than the tweets around it. :-D

(I hope I didn't give Elon Musk a bad idea concerning how to pitch his agenda to advertisers ;-) ).
He is not speaking for me but all enterprise projects I worked was like that. When devs (me included) run out of high priority tasks we ask or are directed to more high priority tasks, not fix the minor label/input issue, or the border of the disabled button in resolutions smaller than 400px, or whatever the PM/Scrum master didn't prioritize. Tired of bad management, developers just do what master Jira tell us to do.

I do my best to fix all open bugs in my own software, tho.
> The only ground Japanese company learned to properly fight has been video games so far.

Nintendo yes; Sony PS division is more or less run out of SIE in San Mateo.
A few billion here, a few billion there, pretty soon we're talking real money.

>> The idea that there's a fixed-sized pie for science and every project takes away from something else is, frankly, defeatist.

What fraction of the workforce should be diverted to "forward-looking" (ie, no idea if or when it will result in anything useful) research?

Or how about what fraction of the much smaller part of the workforce who are capable of getting an advanced STEM degree? If we pay those people to switch to speculative research, what happens to whatever they're doing now that has enough proven value that private industry knows it's worth paying them to do?
Money thrown down the drain. The company has a serious management and culture problem. I think it's way too late to fix it. Same as Volkswagen.

Funding should go to new companies with lessons learned.

Before your blood starts to raise temperature, I'm thinking more like Hadrian than Tesla.
FM is one of the most "naturally digital" synthesis method to implement, it's trivial once you have an accumulator and sin table working. The simplest form (and arguably the easiest to sound musical), can be expressed with a one-liner formula:

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/fjp9psrcqb
Email contents and email addresses are both text. Yes, the concept still applies. The point is that email contents are almost never the same to begin with. If we're including the timestamp, then every email is almost unique by default. Mentioning that the email addresses are unique is making the point that we've identified just as many people [1], which is interesting. The statement "these 3.3 billion emails are unique" is much less interesting, because we've identified messages and not people. Also, people are usually more concerned with the information in the email rather than the count. Most/a lot of the value of an email comes from the information in it.

If I were to release 3.3 billion emails between random low-profile office workers (let's say) which contain nothing interesting, I'm not so sure that would make a headline.

[1] just as many or THEREABOUT*
Not all software has to be SaaS.

Self-hosting is easier than ever nowadays, devices a lot more capable.

Soon, smartphones will be able to run powerful LLMs locally, so no need to use a paid GPT app subscription.

Take Photoshop for example, it's a product that runs locally on your computer. Why would you pay a yearly subscrption for it instead of a pay-once, use forever? I understand (optionally) paying for updates, but not just to keep using a product that is already on your computer
He does repeatedly. And continues to explain why there is no satisfying answer, because we normally stop asking "why" once we reach a level of familiarity. That level of familiarity to the layperson is different between electromagnetism and slippery ice.
That’s neither here nor there. I was saying it’s insane to me to pay several thousand dollars for a phone that’ll be replaced after 2–3 years (typically)
Absolutely. But this not a causal effect, but it collapses the probabilities of what has occurred.