MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aiiotnoodle | 2025-12-30 11:32:54+00:00
This was not my lived experience. I wanted to use the most common banks and most would not let me use it.

Chip contacted me at one point via their live assistant randomly without my doing and told me to stop using the app because they would soon be enforcing that rooted devices would no longer work. I continued to use the app rooted and nothing came of it.

Barclaycard, Nationwide and others don't let you use the app or require some circumvention of their detection to allow access.

Sure there are plenty of other apps, but those apps and banks have a worse product I found.
by dingdingdang | 2025-12-30 11:33:25+00:00
Talking about Python "somewhere in the middle" - I had a demo of a simple webview gtk app I wanted to run on vanilla Debian setup last night.. so I did the canonical-thing-of-the-month and used uv to instantiate a venv and pull the dependencies. Then attempted to run the code.. mayhem. Errors indicating that the right things were in place but that the code still couldn't run (?) and finally Python Core Dumped.. OK. This is (in some shape or form) what happens every single time I give Python a fresh go for an idea. Eventually Golang is more verbose (and I don't particularly like the mod.go system either) but once things compile.. they run. They don't attempt running or require xyz OS specific hack.
by tuetuopay | 2025-12-30 11:33:39+00:00
I understand it perfectly well, yes. It is an audio mixing made for theaters with sound isolation so that it's absolutely possible to hear the dialogue. I have no trouble understanding the dialogue with the volume tuned up to what I would have in a theater.

Yet I do live in a flat, in Paris, with neighbors on the same floor, on the floor above, and on the floor below. Thus I tune the volume to something that is acceptable in this context.

Or I should say, I spend the whole movie with the remote in my hand, tuning the volume up and down between voices and explosions.

Theatre mix is a bad home mix. It is valid for home cinema. Not for everyday living room.

Yes I could buy a receiver and manually EQ all channels and yadda yadda yadda. I live in an apartment. My 65" LG C2 TV is already ginormous by parisian flat standards. Ain't nobody got space for a dedicated receiver and speakers and whatnot. I tuned the audio, and some properly mixed movies actually sound great!

As an added bonus, I had troubles with "House of Guinness" recently both on my TV and with good headphones, where I also did the volume dance.

IMHO there's no care spent on the stereo mixes of current movies and TV shows. And to keep your example, Nolan shows are some of the most understandable and legible on my current setup :)

Another fact is, I have no trouble with YouTube videos in many languages and style, or with video games. You know, stuff that care about legibility in the home.
by flumpcakes | 2025-12-30 11:33:49+00:00
I've posted this on another comment verbatim that was similar to yours, so apologies for the copy and paste:

Can you share what exactly this was (that got you the 10-100x speedup)? Perhaps I don't do anything exciting or challenging, but personally this hasn't happened to me so I find it hard to imagine what this could be.

Instead of AI companies talking about their products, I think the thing to really sell it for me would be an 8 hour long video of an extremely proficient programmer using AI to build something that would have taken them a very long time if they were unassisted.
by andrepd | 2025-12-30 11:34:04+00:00
Are you fucking joking? "They came for people who terrorised a music festival", really?? Did Francesca Albanese participate in the attacks of 7/Oct? Did she even, at any point, describe those attacks as anything less than an act of terrorism? It is simply not possible that you are this dense; you simply MUST be aware of the utter hogwash you are saying, and be fully aware that you're saying it with the intent of discrediting people who denounce a reprisal genocide that has killed 100,000 people in two years.

Fucking repugnant. How do certain people sleep at night.
by phforms | 2025-12-30 11:34:15+00:00
Don’t know if it was added after your comment, but there actually is one separate page for each character, just click the arrow in the top-right corner of each box. For more "giant" character previews I can recommend https://decodeunicode.org/en (which is more focussed on writing systems though).

There is also a "Copied x" toast (is this the correct term? idk) at the bottom of the viewport when you click a character box, maybe it was also added later on.
by throwaway290 | 2025-12-30 11:34:33+00:00
> have ties

This is doing a lot of work. at what point person starts or stops having ties with russia?

if you have any siblings or parents or grandparents or cousins or classmates or ex girlfriends who are living in Russia?

I know a bunch of foreigners with stronger ties to Russia than some of my Russian friends by this logic my friend;) especially Ukrainians and Israelis but really anywhere in the world. debank them all you say?

What it sounds like is the old USSR way "make sure most people are guilty of something so that if you want to press them you always have some excuse"
by jabwd | 2025-12-30 11:35:25+00:00
Keep in mind this is also often caused by arbitrary "security" consultants that crap out a list of stuff you need to implement. Like jailbreak detection and the like.

One I repeatedly got back in the day was hilarious: "After uninstalling the app credentials stay present in the keychain". Yes thanks genius, I don't get to run code on uninstall.
by YmiYugy | 2025-12-30 11:35:28+00:00
I’m not turning off motion smoothing.
I don’t like the ghosting it can introduce but I hate the stutter artifacts from fast motion at 24fps with a passion.
I get that people who grew up on 24fps movies and 60fps soap operas have a negative association with HFR, but I didn’t and I dread the flickery edges you make me see. (yes, even with frame rate matching)
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-30 11:35:31+00:00
What you are saying is especially true for fiction, less so for nonfiction. Many nonfiction topics are important and require a large volume of materials to remain as reference. For example, you never know when it might be important to know how something was manufactured 50 years ago, or what happened in Congress 20 years ago, or what a newspaper reported a hundred years ago. This makes it really hard to judge which items could be culled. I'm inclined to agree that borrow rates are relevant but they are not the only thing that matters. The possibilities of digitization and interlibrary loan make culling less risky, but someone still has to decide to keep unpopular reference materials for them to remain available.
by AnonymousPlanet | 2025-12-30 11:37:43+00:00
Concerning an apparent coordinated effort it might be more complicated than that. The EU and Australia have always been on the verge of sweeping censorship. Look up "Zensursula" [1][2] and the censorship list that was about to be introduced in 2008 and that, for legal reasons, was illegal to even be looked at by journalists. Back then there was significant public backlash and also indirect cristicism by the US government [3].

Today there is no such criticism from the US because censorship is something that is also of an interest to the christian backers of the current government.

When the cat is out of the house, the mice dance on your dinner table.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...

3: https://web.archive.org/web/20100123181634/http://www.abc.ne...
by kassner | 2025-12-30 11:38:35+00:00
I had troubles with Apple blocking a bunch of range IPs from OVH, because they don’t handle abuse claims. It didn’t show up in blocklists at the time, but was in practice unusable.

IME anything that can be purchased by an average developer is in some list nowadays and deliverability is always crap (with luck it lands on spam folder).
I was tired of FFmpeg, so I made FFmpeg for humans
by alpbak | 2025-12-30 11:38:40+00:00
FFmpeg is an amazing tool, but I kept re-Googling the same commands and copy-pasting things I didn’t want to remember again.
I built a small, opinionated Rust CLI that lets me say what I want to do instead of how to say it to FFmpeg.
This is the tool that worked for me. It may or may not work for everyone, and that’s okay.

Repo: https://github.com/alpbak/ffhuman
by easyThrowaway | 2025-12-30 11:39:42+00:00
DRM is not, and it has never been, about piracy.

It is about publishers putting an expiry date to a digital product, in order to not having to compete with their own products in the future.

It is about making sure that by the time your hypothetical FIFA 2026 release comes out, all the available existing copies of FIFA 2019-2023, which mostly differ for the squad roster, are unusable.

This is exactly the same reason for single player games requiring constant online support nowadays. The authorization servers for "The Crew", a mainly single player game by Ubisoft, went offline coinciding with the close release of "The Crew Motorfest". This didn't go unnoticed, and nearly ended up with the EU passing some specific legislation on the matter[1].

[1]https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/20...
by Foorack | 2025-12-30 11:40:17+00:00
Am I the only one who doesn't care about E2E encryption, and just want an EU alternative?

I DON'T WANT my chats to be "full E2E encrypted" with a 6-digit pin, only for me to loose them when I get a new phone. I DON'T WANT having to use a special gateway instead of normal IMAP to access my Proton mail. It really feels like server-side encryption is being forced down my throat and I don't consent. FB Messenger, X Chat, WhatsApp, Signal, etc... NO. Just LET ME CHAT. This is why me and my friend groups are staying on Discord. Becuase it "just works".

I would like to see more EU companies which aggressively focus on being a just-as-good alternative to US tech companies, but HQ'd in EU for european strategic security, and without throwing usability under the bus.
by typeofhuman | 2025-12-30 11:40:32+00:00
No disrespect but I would not call this "clean". The design is overwhelmingly cluttered and distracting. Especially given that each symbol is obscured by a black square with an arrow covering it. The symbols are themselves very small.

Maybe get rid of all the noise and just display the symbols in a nice grid without all the fluff or layers.
by rounce | 2025-12-30 11:41:21+00:00
You mean adding a few lines to a config file once and never think about it again? Some people don’t want to have to deal with why they see as a load of bloated ‘features’, preferring instead to just focus on the task at hand, and that’s okay.

The article is as misguided as the snarky pushback. Let people work however they’re most comfortable and productive, why does it have to be a purity contest?
by mekoka | 2025-12-30 11:41:59+00:00
I think it's worth framing things back to what we're reacting to. The top poster said:

> I really really want this to be true. I want to be relevant. I don’t know what to do if all those predictions are true and there is no need (or very little need) for programmers anymore.

The rest of the post is basically their human declaration of obsolescence to the programming field. To which someone reacted by saying that this sounds like shilling. And indeed it does for many professional developers, including those that supplement their craft with LLMs. Declaring that you feel inadequate because of LLMs only reveals something about you. Defending this position is a tell that puts anyone sharing that perspective in the same boat: you didn't know what you were doing in the first place. It's like when someone who couldn't solve the "invert a binary tree" problem gets offended because they believed they were tricked into an impossible task. No, you may be a smart person that understands enough of the rudiment of programming to hack some interesting scripts, but that's actually a pretty easy problem and failing to solve it indeed signals that you lack some fundamentals.

> Considering those views are shared by a number of high profile, skilled engineers, this is obviously no basis for doubting someone's expertise.

I've read Antirez, Simon Willison, Bryan Cantrill, and Armin Ronacher on how they work or want to work with AI. From none I've got this attitude that they're no longer needed as part of the process.
by illiac786 | 2025-12-30 11:42:33+00:00
I agree with everything, just want to add a downside of proton which is often forgotten: there is no search. You cannot search your emails’ body (headers work, but keywords like “from:” still do not work for search), you cannot search the content of your files, etc.

It’s the price of end-to-end encryption.

The only workaround is synchronising everything locally and searching locally.
by wtcactus | 2025-12-30 11:43:11+00:00
> You're linking a US media website, one famous for having its head way up the american exceptionalism hole.

Oh, I didn’t notice we are already in the censorship phase and we can’t even link Fox News. It’s a factual news (but you are free to contest it) and if Fox is the only one willing to publish it, it says more about European descent into madness than you think.

> Also, didn't you vote to not call yourself European or something-something?

What are you even talking about? You people are insane. You need to be stopped before you destroy us all.
by alpbak | 2025-12-30 11:43:20+00:00
FFmpeg is fantastic, and this doesn’t try to replace it.
I built this after realizing I kept re-Googling the same commands even though I "already knew" FFmpeg. This just lets me express intent and get on with my work.

It’s intentionally opinionated and scoped to my own workflow, if you want full control, FFmpeg is still the right tool.
by Zak | 2025-12-30 11:44:09+00:00
It's fair to assign the blame for actions of the executive branch of the US government to Trump while he holds the office of president. The policy of sanctioning people for being too critical of Israel required his assent whether or not he made the call to apply it in this case or delegated that to a subordinate.

Especially problematic is that her actions would be unambiguously protected speech under US law if she did them in the USA.
by bwb | 2025-12-30 11:44:09+00:00
So Anne Leckie's books have only been picked once by someone for their 3 favorite reads (a small number of votes). You can try that here:
https://shepherd.com/bboy/2025

We don't know the authors' genders or anything like that. Maybe you searched the entire website and then ended up on a book recommendation list? What is the URL you are at?

We have about 12,000 author-created book recommendation lists; they are deeply personal and may include gender.

For example, Ryan Southwick did a list on the best sci-fi books that broke the mold:
https://shepherd.com/best-books/science-fiction-that-broke-t...
by andersa | 2025-12-30 11:44:45+00:00
> You're railing against other people's preferences, but presenting your personal preferences as fact.

It is a fact that motion is smoother at 120 fps than 24, and therefore easier to follow on screen. There are no preferences involved.

> Also, there are technical limitations in cameras that aren't present in video games.

Cameras capable of recording high quality footage at this refresh rate already exist and their cost is not meaningful compared to the full budget of a movie (and you can use it more than one time of course).
by LightBug1 | 2025-12-30 11:45:19+00:00
Yes, I've started to think about this more seriously now in the UK. I have moderate political opinions, but I now ask myself will they be acceptable now or in the near future by the UK government or where my data is hosted (i.e. the US). Will I suddenly have an email account blocked or closed down for supporting a non-violent cause I believe in?

Horrible times when this has started to become a part of my thought process.
by jcattle | 2025-12-30 11:45:23+00:00
I was curious about this recently. I was wondering about open files of well known artists.

Unlike netflix/YouTube its not immediately clear to me which Organisation would spearhead something like this out of their own interesting. Closest I know of is the MuseGroup, which are doing this "growing of the pie" with open source music creation Software.

Anyone know of something else?
by fluoridation | 2025-12-30 11:45:45+00:00
Your problem is that you're treating words such as "function" and "call" as if they had meaning outside of the language itself (or, more specifically, outside of the C abstract machine), when the point of the compiler is precisely to melt away the language parts of the specified program and be left with a concrete program that matches its behavior. If you view a binary in a disassembler, you will not find any "functions" or "calls". Maybe that particular architecture happens to have a "call" instruction to jump to "functions", but these words are merely homophones with what C refers to as "functions" and "calls".

When you "call" a "function" in the source you're not specifying to the compiler that you want a specific opcode in the generated executable, you're merely specifying a particular observable behavior. This is why optimizations such as inlining and TCO are valid. If the compiler can prove that a heap allocation can be turned into a stack allocation, or even removed altogether (e.g. free(malloc(1ULL << 50))), the fact that these are exposed to the programmer as "functions" he can "call" poses no obstacle.
by bawolff | 2025-12-30 11:46:17+00:00
The more wild US gets with its sanction powers the more it draws other countries to move usa away from the center of the financial system.

Nobody cares when usa was sanctioning random Iranians or Russians comitting human rights abuses, but the ICC is relatively popular in europe and the optics of this makes america look like gangsters. Obviously nothing is going to happen in the short term, but i wonder how it will errode american soft power in the long term if they keep this sort of thing up.
by worble | 2025-12-30 11:47:00+00:00
They've all started cracking down, in the past year the Barclays and Lloyds app have broken on my phone.

TSB still works for now, but even for a bank they're technologically incompetent so I'm going to just assume they're behind the curve rather than willingly not using SafetyNet.

The only one I would bank on still working in the future is Monzo, since, like you say, they detect it and just give you scary warning and let you continue.
by MarkusWandel | 2025-12-30 11:47:02+00:00
My main computer monitor, ancient now (a Dell U2711), was a calibrated SRGB display when new and still gives very good colour rendition.

Are movies produced in this colour space? No idea. But they all look great in SRGB.

A work colleague got himself a 40" HD TV as a big computer monitor. This is a few years ago. I was shocked at the overamped colour and contrast. Went through all the settings and with everything turned to minimum - every colour saturation slider, everything that could be found - it was almost realistic but still garish compared to SRGB.

But that's what people want, right? Overamped everything is how those demo loops at Costco are set up, that's what sells, that's what people want in their living rooms, right?
by constantcrying | 2025-12-30 11:47:10+00:00
Totally delusional. The article does not even try to figure out why any of this happened.

In all of the cases the main prediction that was made came true. The cost, especially the human cost, of developing some piece of software dramatically decreased. The only reason why the amount of programmers needed still rose was because the amount of software needed rose faster.

Clearly that trend will not hold forever.

>The hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking – with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions – into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a programming language.

And there is exactly one single technology which has ever been able to do this task, which is LLMs. Not addressing the elephant in the room, which is that an LLM can actually take such instructions and produce something meaningful with it, just makes the whole article worthless.

Everything in this article is just inverse special pleading. Since the last N times, the most enthusiastic predictions did not come true, this time only minor changes can happen. If LLMs are only a revolution on the scale of fast interpreted languages (which have significantly impacted what a small team is capable of delivering in terms of complexity), then they will drastically impact most of the software industry.

If these changes happen, and simultaneously the rate at which software is demanded does not also increase (why would it?), then the implications will be extremely serious. Especially if you are not a developer in an established position.
by bnastic | 2025-12-30 11:47:53+00:00
I dont/didn't use Jack at all, straight into pipewire, which makes for a super unintuitive way to select 'audio device' in Reaper (iirc, something like select ALSA and 'default's for input/output and somehow that's all routed via pipewire). I'm not unhappy about pipewire, I finally have a low-ish latency audio system (enough for mixing, if not recording) that I don't have to spend hours on to get it to work. A la MacOS.

But generally that's my point, 'it works if you go and edit this obscure line in this obscure config file'. Mac has had a stable CoreAudio backend for quarter of a century now (counterpoint - Windows is also a mess). I wish Linux would stabilise their userland a bit more and stop rewriting stuff every few years.

Sometimes I wish there was a commercial company behind 'linux for audio' that will give me a finely tuned Linux distro on a finely tuned desktop machine, based on whatever distro, I don't really care. But have it all released/patched at their own pace, as long as everything 'just works'. I'd be happy to pay for that. The whole 'OS due upgrade, is anything going to work tomorrow, I have a session' is still an unsolved problem on _every_ OS/platform. Most busy studio heads go years without installing/upgrading _anything_ for fear of having a lemon after said upgrade, with clients waiting at the door.
by beloch | 2025-12-30 11:48:09+00:00
"Without commenting on ongoing cases, he called on European authorities to activate a mechanism that could limit the impact of US restrictions."

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ICC member states should take steps to ensure the sanctioned judges and prosecutors do not suffer as a result of U.S. sanctions. The goal should be to ensure that they feel no repercussions that might bias them one way or the other in future cases and thus maintain impartiality. If this is not done, it could create an apparent feedback loop, if only in the public's imagination. i.e. After some future ICC ruling goes against them (or Israel/Russia), the U.S. may claim that ICC judges and prosecutors are prejudiced against them and are seeking revenge. Protecting ICC personnel now could blunt such claims. Sadly, I fear that the U.S. may have need of defence from ICC rulings relatively soon.
by rounce | 2025-12-30 11:48:18+00:00
That name rings a bell, I recall trying it but I’ll give it another go next time I find myself opening vsc, cheers!. Most of the time I just use VSCode as a visual debugger but it’d be nice to make minor changes without making typos due to vim-brain muscle memory.

Edit: just looked up LazyVim and it seems to just be a prebuilt neovim config atop the VSCode-Neovim extension which was one of the aforementioned janky experiences (IIRC undo stack wasn’t shared with VSCode and would get out of sync). I think I tried it as a last ditch effort because someone else said that it’ll fix VSCode-Neovim plugin deficiencies but I ended up just going back to my simple but effective neovim config and using VSCode as a visual debugger. I’ll give it another go if you reckon it’s much better though.