Whoever made automatic AI dubs a default and impossible to disable also needs to be fired
In the meantime "YouTube No Translation" addon fixes the issue. https://youtube-no-translation.vercel.app/
Readit Newsjacekm commented on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne
Being able to search browser history with natural language is the feature I am most excited for. I can't count the number of times I've spent >10 minutes looking for a link from 5 months ago that I can describe the content of but can't remember the title.
I think that such feature is already available in Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/15305774?hl=en
jacekm commented on Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files chezsoi.org/lucas/blog/sp... · Posted by u/Lucas-C
Be serious. If someone in 2025 has a pocket multitool, there's about a 1% chance it is red with a white cross on it.
Lots of cheap (and good) Chinese alternatives entered the market recently but I'd say Victorinox is still going strong. In Poland it's sold everywhere and the brand is very recognizable.
jacekm commented on Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026 riksbank.se/en-gb/press-a... · Posted by u/sebiw
> That’s because credit card benefits suck in Europe and there’s no point to using them.
Theres still a very good reason to use them - buyer protection.
I use a Virgin Atlantic reward card and have it set to pay off automatically, never running up debt. It both protects me as a buyer, and has the benefit of taking ~£500 off annual family holidays, and gives me a free companion seat in the process, effectively halving the price for one of the passengers.
I am not sure what you mean by "buyer protection" but if it's chargeback then it's doable on debit cards too.
jacekm commented on Ask HN: How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently? · Posted by u/AbstractH24
At the beginning of my career I was shitting my pants when I had to respond with "I don't know". But the more experience you have the easier it gets. Eventually you will observe that such response does not bring any bad outcomes.
FWIW I usually respond with "let me consult this with my team".
I have never seen an AI meeting summary that was useful or sufficient in explaining what happened in the meeting. I have no idea what people use them for other than as a status signal
In my company we sometimes cherry-pick parts of the AI summaries and send them to the clients just to confirm the stuff that we agreed on during a meeting. The customers know that the summary is AI-generated and they don't mind. Sometimes people come to me and ask whether what they read in the summary was really discussed in the meeting or is it just AI hallucinating but I can usually assure them that we really did discuss that. So these can be useful to a degree.
jacekm commented on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML mistral.ai/news/mistral-a... · Posted by u/TechTechTech
ASML gross revenue was 28B€ in 2024, and their net income was 7.5B€. While 1.3B€ (the amount ASML invested in this 1.7B€ fund raise) is not pocket change, it is also an amount that ASML can not afford to lose.
While they might have seen some synergy with Mistral, it might also be a complete strategic and/or political investment. Mistral is the only serious "AI" company in the EU right now (if you exclude company working on the hardware side). It will very likely get a lot of support from the EU to be able to stay in the race with the U.S and China, and in a case of a IA market crash, the EU would also probably like for Mistral to have enough finance to be able to be one of the company that will survive.
By funding Mistral, ASML might be able to buy a lot of political favor, while having stakes in a company that is unlikely to completely fail in the near future due to the EU administration support.
I just want to remind our overseas friends that the EU is not a country and Mistral is French company. The EU rarely bets on a single firm in a single country, there are always 26 unhappy countries when something like that is about to happen ;)
I am European and I do agree that we should support the European companies but such decision are always results of lengthy deliberations.
Does anyone know if there is any company that is proactively supported by the EU?
Whatever the economic merits and demerits of this deal, politically it's a disaster, as this article indicates. There wasn't even an attempt to sell this to the public. But as there are no elections until 2028, I expect major changes in strategy in a year or so, otherwise the center-right parties in charge now will be wiped out in favor of the anti-American factions of the far right and far left.
My suspicion is that there's a quid-pro-quo regarding Ukraine. Economically, the EU is in a strong position, but militarily, a mercurial US has the EU over the barrel due to the Ukraine war.
I predict that Europe's notoriously hard-nosed negotiators (Brexit) will ramp up the pressure as the midterms get closer and if the situation in Ukraine improves.
I wouldn't mind "security in exchange for better economic treatment" deal, but I don't understand how anybody still trusts US in terms of security. They clearly showed that they fear Russia, plus Trump made several allegations that they may not provide military help even to NATO allies. I am from Poland, theoretically we have US troops stationed here but over 70% of population (including myself) don't believe they will stay here long once we're attacked.
US got concrete economic concessions in writing in exchange for words about security.
Yes, I have a lot of bookmarks. When I bookmark a page, I add some keywords to the bookmark's title so I can easily find it in the future. It's not strictly tagging, I just try thinking of words the future me could use when searching for a particular bookmark.
However, I've never used any bookmarking service. It makes sense if you want to share your bookmarks, but I prefer to keep them private.
But I am aware that in e.g. some parts of Asia the maid service is dirt cheap.