skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, you're right - for some weird reason, their expiration was really short. And there was no way around as the hardware blocked - I had a bunch of tests I needed, and realized they expired the day before - I couldn't override and still use them!
Google AI Overviews Is Fucked
I could see myself getting 4-5 of these one day so I could spread them around my desk to work and then stack them up in priority order when I was done.
Well... I don't know that they ever officially released a protocol spec, but libpurple implements ICQ so at least enough of the protocol was reverse engineered or understood somehow to allow for OSS clients. So I suppose somebody could start from there and build a compatible server. Of course it might wind up only being compatible with Pidgin and other libpurple based clients, and the market for this is probably approximately 16 people worldwide. But still, it would be kinda fun.
Lessons from the Trenches on Reproducible Evaluation of Language Models
If you’re using AWS there’s ImageBuilder, it’s by no means a drop-in replacement for packer and a closer look hints at just being ansible behind the scenes. You could probably achieve the same results with pure ansible and some cloud provider modules if needed. Ansible was bought by Redhat though, so still IBM, the licence is unchanged though
Now I can finally parse (X)HTML with Excel ;)
Not only is this sad, it makes me feel old. Its just another reminder that the Internet of the late 90s/early 2000s is dead and not coming back. Instead its been replaced with corporate blandness and faux outrage.
Use Libre Office if you value your freedom.
why should ICQ be a social network?
A piece of software that was way ahead of its time. Respect to Mirabilis
Likely the same reason I remember my grandparents (now passed) phone number. A handful of digits I saw or referenced a lot.
Is google just handing the existing summary to an LLM?
> Was that actually the identifier we shared with people to connect?

Yes. It was like giving out your telephone number.
English verbs are pretty tame compared to Slavic verbs that can be modified with all kinds of perfective prefixes.

On the other hand, Chinese verbs are even easier. They don't even have a tense!
I wonder how this approach compares to Unreal Engine 5 nanites, or maybe Unreal Engine is actually doing something similar?

I remember one motivation for using voxels in older games (like Comanche[1]) is that you can get seemly more complex terrains that, when modelled using triangle meshes, would have been more expensive on similar hardware. The author mentions 110FPS on a RX 5700 XT, I am not sure how that compares to other approaches.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_(video_game_series)
Enough/yes please/anywhere!

Ok, that's gringy. :-)
The didn't make the oxygen, they unlocked it from various molecules and minerals etc. It had to be here first.
Goodbye from 145993830.
How do I even remember this after so many years?
The Heffalump Threat [pdf]
I freaked my girlfriend out once because I had my (desktop, a large tower!) computer connected to my stereo. I had left for some reason and there was no music playing, but ICQ would play a little knocking sound when someone logged in. She had heard it three times from the living room, scanned every door and window to find out who was knocking :-)
It is from a time when we were used to remember phone numbers, and where we shared our phone numbers to keep in touch (calls, sms). ICQ directly picked on that and it was just another „phone number“.

Unfortunately I only remember the first half of mine after so many years. In the age of smartphones, at least my brain degenerated to not be able to recall more than a handful of important phone numbers.
Nice to hear a different take than criticisms of SuperSize Me and his alcoholism. While SSM was definitely sensationalism, it did bring about a cultural awareness and changes in fast food menu.
Unlike ICQ, mIRC is just an IRC client and even if it dies, the IRC networks would remain accessible using other IRC clients. That said it'd be a pity if mIRC dies.
Only 15 people enrolled in the cited study
Drinking too much is bad for you. Maybe someone should make a 30-day heavy drinking trial documentary to demonstrate it.
I was interested in Hare until I found this immensely self-defeating FAQ item: https://harelang.org/documentation/faq.html#will-hare-suppor...

As a baseline, I support developers using whatever license they would like, and targeting whatever operating systems, indeed, writing whatever code they would like in the process.

That doesn't make this specific policy a good idea. Even FSF, generally considered the most extreme (or, if you prefer, principled) exponents of the Free Software philosophy, support Windows and POSIX. They may grumble and call it Woe32, but Stallman has said some cogent things about how the fight for a world free of proprietary software is more readily advanced by making sure that Free Software projects run on proprietary systems.

They do at least license the library code under MPL, so merely using Hare doesn't lock you into a license. But I wonder about the longevity of a language where the attitude toward 95+% of the desktop is "unsupported, don't ask questions on our forums, we don't want you here".

Ironically, a Google search for "harelang repo" has as the first hit an unofficial macOs port, and the actual SourceHut repo doesn't show up in the first page of results.

Languages either snowball or fizzle out. I'm typing this on a Mac, but I could pick up a Linux machine right now if I were of a mind to. But why would I invest in learning a language which imposes a purity test on developers, when even the FSF doesn't? A great deal of open source and free software gets written on Macs, and in fact, more than you might think on Windows as well.

From where I sit, what differentiates Hare from Odin and Zig, is just this attitude of purity and exclusion. I wish you all happy hacking, of course, and success. But I'm pessimistic about the latter.
Show HN: I Made the First AI CSS Animation Generator
Over the past two weeks I've built a free AI-driven CSS animation generator with a freemium editor. I built it with Sveltekit, Postgres, Tailwind, and Claude Opus 3.

As a developer, I was frustrated with the tedious process of writing keyframe animations and the lack of good tools available. So, I decided to build my own solution.

After two weeks of intense development, the UI and core features are ready. Now, I'm reaching out to the startup community for feedback and beta testers to help refine things further :)

If you're interested in making some slick animations for your site, I'd love for you to try it out and share your thoughts!
Isn't mIRC just a client for IRC (a standard), but ICQ is centralized? Or are there some "mIRC"-branded servers out there that run popular IRC channels?
> consuming value to force your people to create less value

That's the "spherical cow on a frictionless plane in a vacuum" of economics.

Protectionism is probably a good idea when the competitor is temporarily subsidizing various industries to build a permanent comparative advantage that can then be abused, either by being an effective monopoly, or by shaping your enemies to be logistically unprepared for war.
Update: A news endpoint, took a few builds to generate a valid build, but it now shows a set of 3 made-up news items: https://nie.avoguard.com/news
Wow, didn't realize it was still out there! Lots of fun chatting with random people from around the world on there.

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Maybe repetition works surprisingly well.
> But I did remember thinking it was weird he puked so early in the film. I brushed it off as "everyone is different", and forgot about it.

That's one of the few things I still remember from it, and the takeaway I had was "well, he's eating past the point of nausea, of course he's going to puke." And the fact that he accepted any time they offered to "supersize", just pointing out how hard fast food pushes excess calories. Kind of the point of the documentary, really, that fast food is out of control in this country and needs to be regulated.
At least with sex work, you know if your customer is happy.
I think it showed it in the client along with your name handle.

Maybe was the easiest way to add people you knew in real life, esp if you didn't make your real name searchable. (Remember at the time people were more paranoid about staying anonymous on the Internet; this was before most social networks.)
Seems inefficient. Pyka has a fixed-wing design to address the same market.

https://www.flypyka.com/pelican-spray
Yup, it's extract, fork process, cleanup. It's also fairly easy to extend the project to create installers and let the user choose a path to extract in, and I plan on doing that.

I also believe that sending a signal to the parent will be propagated down, but I haven't tested it.
I would say he had a conman's ethos. He didn't hack his diet, he concocted a narrative and conceived of a guise he could sell it under. And all the problems he reported having due to his diet neglected a very large part of that diet, namely the vast quantities of alcohol he consumed.

So yeah, he died. That's sad for him and his people. And I'm sure he had some decent qualities as most people do. However, I won't remember him as a particularly honest or ethical man.
In fact, cancer is always happening in practically everyone. Sometimes the body doesn't successfully kill off those cells, however.
I'd hope Khaled would open source it if he decides to give it up
Golden Rule for Founders: Need It? Never Ask Directly
I've been an entrepreneur for 7 years. Something keeps buzzing me.

You often get what you need by not asking for it directly.

Think about it:

• Raising Funds: Say, “Exploring synergies,” not “We’re raising.”

• Making Sales: Request feedback instead of pushing a sale.

• Hiring: Mention ongoing talks, rather than urgent hiring needs.

• ...

I mean - I get that people fear losing leverage, which means power.

But really tired of these in-direct convos.

A world with direct convos would be more loveable. Why?

Because we all need things. Now. Even if the answer is "No".

Conclusion:

I've built Evercopy, an AI plug-and-play marketing team for founders.

"WELCOME30" code gives 30% off. Enjoy!

https://www.evercopy.ai/

If you have direct asks, I'm more than eager to connect: deniz@evercopy.ai

Love you xx
Discord's main "ease of use" features: Centralized user management, centralized server discovery, server hosting

What it does technically could be replicated by current technologies.

Emojis, video streaming, screen streaming.

Discoverability by the masses is a tough problem to solve because there is really no way to monetize it. Does Discord just rely on Nitro subscriptions?
Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram Security Clash and OpenAI
Funny how we remember some numbers our entire lives, despite never using them. I can still rattle off my ICQ number, last used nearly 25 years ago, my compuserve ID which I left in 1998, my phone number as a kid, last used about 1994.

I also remember various license plates my family had in the mid 90s, but I struggle to remember my own license plate number now. The only two phone numbers I know are mine and my wife's. I can still remember my high school's phone number though - for some really odd reason as I can't have phoned it much.
When you joined ICQ you received a UIN and that was the only publicly searchable method to connect to other people. You could update your profile with email or username, and manually make that public, but it wasn't searchable by default. If you wanted to connect to a stranger (and the stranger didn't want their email public at the time), you would usually just use their UIN.
With Windows 11 Microsoft is trying to copy Apple's homework. The Windows 11 standard controls are still subtly better than Apple's, as Microsoft still has a lot of dedicated accessibility teams that have strong voices, but some of Microsoft's designers in the Windows 11 era are giving the impression that they want to be as bad as Apple, if not worse, if they were given the choice and didn't have accessibility teams to be accountable to.
Jason just wasn't into it and invented a random reason to say no... and brag about it—after all, his day-to-day job is constantly tweeting, bragging, and pretending about giving advice to become visible for startups and get the deal flow at the same time showing those SaaStr conference goers to keep participating and paying. If numbers in the deck were impressive for the economics work for him personally, he would be begging founder to take his money despite any date or any other imperfections in the deck. But the numbers weren't. And Jason used it as a reason to remind about himself one more time to the public.
My number was 163766, funny how I'll never forget it. Also I've only seen a handful of people with lower numbers than me. I remember when there used to be an ebay market for selling your 6 digit numbers. IIRC they started at 100000? And those were all employees.

I was in elementary back then. Prior to ICQ my online friends and I used PowWow chat if you remember that. It had the funniest robotic voice chat.

edit: Wow PowWow was 1998, I thought it was way earlier than that. http://powwow.jazy.net/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program) https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bpjm/that-time-john-mcafee...

edit2: Wtf John McAffee made it
Is there any code to see, anything we can test to see what you mean? Or this hasn't been implemented at all?
Microservices can also be a great fit for certain team/org structures. Its not ideal to pick the tech based on the team structure, but that's life.

I've also found it micro services helpful for heavy data processing projects. A micro service architecture driven by events as data is processed and moved through different steps can be a surprisingly simple setup to reason about and debug.
the involvement of quantum computing devices?

which is something else I must admit I cannot really fit together with what I imagine I understand about "classical" computing

but in information theoretic terms does it matter whether you use quantum or typical computers??? I would think that it does not matter but I may be wrong and I couldn't really explain why
All I want is a dSLR that, when I take a picture on the camera with its button, moments later, the image is in Apple Photos.
The reason is MS is gradually deprecating VBScript. Today it's the VBScript.RegExp reference that is being used in VBA.
The 99% Invisible podcast is doing a book club on The Power Broker that is absolutely delightful, even (and maybe especially?) if you haven't read the book.
https://99percentinvisible.org/club/
Correct, mIRC is just one of many clients for an IRC protocol.
Doesn't matter. IRC serves a niche that there's always a community for that no matter how small it'd become. I'd place a bet that it won't die as long as there's computer and internet. Long live IRC.
1327344!
regen agriculture is a fun little academic/artistic pursuit completely unrelated to the business of feeding 8 billion people.
The one caveat here is that the Patriot missile system was originally made in the 80s. Like most of the US arsenal, it has seen significant improvement since then. Ukraine got fairly modern and capable Patriot systems and missiles.

The M777 also included fairly modern fire control hardware and counter battery radar.

Everything else has been purposely downgraded to ancient specs, like removing armor from the Abrams, and sending ancient F-16s. The stingers we sent Ukraine have been out of production for decades, and the US has not fielded them in mentionable capacity since the early 90s.

The table scraps of the US desert storm military is providing Russia a stalemate in Ukraine vs an army barely trained to use their new equipment, that had several high level traitors in it during the invasion.

Meanwhile, ignore that Russia cannot keep tiny kit-built aircraft out of it's airspace, which has always been a problem for Russia despite supposedly being the Premier anti-air missile system maker since the 50s. One of these kit built cruise missiles killed several important people in a Naval Command post in Crimea, despite immense investment in S400s to protect it.

The Russian Navy has been shown to be not just non-threatening, but jaw droppingly incompetent. I'm sure they blame whoever runs Russian air defense systems, but the flagship of the black sea fleet was sunk by the same intensity of threat as the damn Houthis taking pot shots at tankers. This wasn't a "occasionally the missile gets through" situation either. The Moskva had multiple redundant and cooperating missile defense systems that on paper, and even in foreign military knowledge, would have defeated a couple incoming missiles. Either they weren't turned on, in which case why not, or worse, they are inoperable or ineffective, in which case WHY

There are notable unfortunate outcomes however. The small diameter bomb, as I understand, did not perform well. Russia's GPS jamming is powerful and effective, though this isn't as dire as it seems. In a GPS denied warfighting environment, the US still builds significantly better ordinance guidance systems than Russia. The Krasnopol laser guided artillery shell is pretty good, and gets you the outcome of an Excalibur shell for significantly less money, and is harder to defeat electronically. The Lancet is way more cost-effective and useful than anything the Switchblade company has shat out, and we should be copying it as hard as possible cough Anduril cough. Russia now has a production quantity JDAM style system, which is effective.
The minisforum v3 is a windows tablet that can also act like a monitor - https://www.minisforum.com/page/v3/index.html?lang=en

And, I think the lenovo yoga tab 13 is an Android tablet with a similar feature: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/tablets/android-tablets/lenov...
Ask HN: Is there a React test framework that actually works?
For very simple cases, such as a Component that takes props but doesn't use any hooks, I am happy with the react-test-renderer package that comes with React but is now deprecated, although outputting JSON instead of HTML is a definite case of "test framework introduced another abstraction I don't need that makes me feel less in control".

Enzyme and react-test-library on the other hand have the potential to write a test like:

1. Mount component
2. Do something to the component (say click on a button)
3. Wait for React to settle down
4. Check that the component looks OK

Both Enzyme and RTL have many minor problems in 1, 2 and 4. For instance some CSS selectors that should work in Enzyme don't seem to. The html() method crashes sometimes in Enzyme. RTL's dependence on the accessibility tree answers some of the problems of "test automation" but it also is a statement that "three.js developers don't deserve to have a test framework". Also I have enough things to worry about with my code and getting it to actually work inside the test framework (like discovering whatever shibboleth it takes to get my useEffect callbacks actually called) that I don't have any mental capacity to fight with the accessibility tree and the Rube Goldberg machine that extracts it from HTML. Thus instead of seeing the HTML which the end user "sees" I have a bunch of abstractions that introduce more uncertainty in a situation where I'm already uncertain of just about everything.

And it is (3) that is the elephant in the room because what you have to do for (3) is dependent on your application and it can get pretty complicated. The root problem is that your code might set some value by calling setSomeValue but even in a rerender, value doesn't change until React does some work that is scheduled in a promise. And that promise could cause another promise to get queued and so forth so all you can do is set a long timeout and keep polling to check that your component has really settled down which is dependent on your component, the implementation of your component, etc. (Hint: if your "unit test" has a 1000ms timeout it's not really a unit test... For that matter, RTL is always warning you how slow it is to look up items by role)

Given that React is so prominent in the industry and that people seem to think testing is so important you'd think somebody would patch React or the node.js runtime if necessary to keep track to see if there are still promises so (3) can be as simple as

await done()

Looking at discussions in the ticket systems for the frameworks the developers seem to be as confused as everyone else.

As it was, if an evil billionaire had paid these framework developers to convince developers that testing is a total waste of time he'd be tickled pink by the results. Is anyone trying a different path? Is there a React testing framework developed by someone who actually tried writing tests for React?
All I can say is: "Uh oh!"

https://youtu.be/RhGHerssyk4
Show HN: Chat and compare with multiple AI models
Woah, that's a low number.
> An estimated 6% of cancer cases can be attributed to alcohol consumption which increases the risk for cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver,
colorectum, and female breast. Approximately three or more drinks per day may also increase the risk of stomach and pancreatic cancer.

https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cance...
> I don’t know why OP brought in MTU and packet sizes since that doesn’t really apply here.

It does apply. TCP exposes streams as the API, but the underlying data is still sliced into packets of size up to the MTU.
3383011 – I still remember my ICQ number 20+ years later :)
Implementation is terrible though. The only explanation I have for the terrible tests given at my kids' schools is that they are to test the teachers not the students.

For example, the curriculum indicates a teacher must teach 4 strategies for multiplication. Totally reasonable. But then the test will have questions like "Perform this multiplication using strategy foo" which seems like putting the cart before the horse. Isn't the whole point of teaching multiple strategies is so that at least one sticks?

[edit]

And no, they aren't doing times (nor even addition) memorization in school. We did them at home and the benefits were absurd.
I remember the music/sound when ICQ used to load up. The logo was brilliant. Nostalgia. Circa 1999-2001 when I used it heavily. Best part though: finding strangers and becoming online friends with many of them (without worrying about scams etc).
The League of Nations existed, but was an abject failure for a number of reasons and failed to prevent WWII.

The UN is probably the most successful international union because of its pragmatic approach, but it seems like most international political alliances fall apart within 100 years.

Other non-political international bodies seem to have more luck: the ITU -- the International Telecommunication Union -- has been around for 150 years. The International Labour Organization outlasted the League of Nations and became part of the UN.
This should be required reading for anyone who works in an organization with other humans.
After Learning Her TA Would Be Paid More Than She Was, This Lecturer Quit
>but that they are repulsed by the idea of even accidentally engaging with the OpenAI corporation

and this is not a reasonable complaint, or a justifiable reason to demand the removal of features. if you have an emotional reaction to the existence of openAI, that's an issue for you to address yourself, not a reason to demand that other people make changes to free apps you've decided use.
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