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I have recently gotten access to lightscale.ai, which is still in private beta, and I'm impressed.

They have a different approach to lovable, replit, etc... They don't let the gpt models translate directly into program code, but into an intermediate language which is then compiled by a compiler. Generation speed is blazingly fast, and so far results look great.

I really like that I can work on an app without having to wait between my prompts and can see the results nearly instantly.

Apparently it's safer too, as code generation is deterministic. But I did not check that yet, as I only recently got access.

Either you want to be a customer or you won't.

Using a friend's paypal will get you banned for sure.

Why not just provide the passport if you want to use their service, jf that's their requirement.

Yes, it is exactly that.

It says here that fraud happened on german side. The chinese company reported that documents have been modified on the german controlling side without their approval, and that potential fraud is happening and they should investigate. However nothing was done.

"Dabei waren die Gefahren Geld nach China zu zahlen für solche Projekte dem Bundesumweltministerium eigentlich bekannt. Zuletzt im April meldete sich ein chinesischer Öl- und Gaskonzern von selbst bei dem von Steffi Lemke (Grüne) geführten Umweltministerium und erklärte deutlich, dass von Betrugsfällen auszugehen ist. „Wir vermuten, dass es eine hohe Wahrscheinlichkeit gibt, dass Dokumente gefälscht wurden und wir bitten dringend, dass Ihre Behörde dazu ermittelt“, teilte der chinesische Konzern dem Ministerium mit. Dieses wimmelte wohl ab, wie die Welt berichtet. Deutsche Prüfstellen haben anscheinend einige Daten der Anlagen des chinesischen Unternehmens geändert und ohne dessen Zustimmung verwendet. "

Hi,

It's marked in the thread you referenced that Marcus only excepts US based customers.

I assume it is best to close your account with them and let them transfer the remaining balance to your European bank.

Not sure how you can achieve that now, since you probably lied/faked to them before that you were still living in the USA, and your account is flagged now.

I also don't believe filing will complaints will help, since you seem to be at fault here, and they have to lock your account for compliance and security reasons.

When you unlock your account, I strongly also suggest that you use your local bank to exchange the currency (or Marcus and make a € transfer). IB currency exchange is meant for trading purposes, not for exchanging currencies:

See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivebrokers/comments/ywj5hw/...

What do you think will happen when a transfer in $ comes into a newly opened account, you convert it to €, and then cash out to a European € account. All alarm flags will probably go off, as this is classic money laundering. I would definitely ask their ok in advance and provide them documentation on where the money comes from, before trying to exchange money through their platform.

Depending on how large your transfer is, any european bank will flag the transfer and you have to provide proof of the source of wealth. It's best to provide that documentation beforehand, because otherwise your funds will be blocked for a few days too before you can access them.

Also, in case you have signed a "compromis de vente" without a suspension clause (e.g. that the contract is void if the bank doesn't finance the acquisition, or something similar), then yes you are on the hook for the 10% in case you don't go to the notary in time to buy the house/appartment.

Good luck!

They explicitly added an exception later on for newspapers (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114111)

I had a similar bug more than 10 years ago, also while building a search index through Lucene. It would crash after hours of running with an impossible nullpointer exception. It always appeared after running for hours, and running that specific iteration would not trigger the exception, so hard to reproduce.

Turned out it was a java jvm bug which was triggered when the jvm decided to recompile that code part since it was used more frequently.

Try running your code with the -server flag and see if that makes a difference.

Common sense

There is no fair use for copyright in Europe. That's the reason why we don't have any google here, and won't have any AI company here.

I called for homelander to help and he incinerated the puppies with his laser vision while sporting an evil grin

I survived too, even though it was a desperate attempt :)

Newspapers in europe are allowed to do so too, why shouldn't facebook?

Pay or to be tracked is only allowed for newspapers...

I don't understand why this only applies for Facebook then.

2 1/2 years, ago they opened up a loop hole for newspapers that they are explicitly allowed to do it (Either you pay, or when you use their free version, you must accept to be tracked for behavioural advertising).

Are they any better than facebook?

Some example news sites: www.zeit.de, www.spiegel.de

More information on this:

https://www.heise.de/news/E-Privacy-Verordnung-EU-Rat-fuer-V... (german)

And https://www.consilium.europa.eu/de/press/press-releases/2021...

Look here (referenced pdf in the above url): https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-6087-2021-I...

(21aa) In some cases the use of processing and storage capabilities of terminal equipment and the collection of information from end-users' terminal equipment may also be necessary for providing a service, requested by the enduser, such as services provided in accordance with the freedom of expression and information including for journalistic purposes, e.g. online newspaper or other press publications as defined in Article 2 (4) of Directive (EU) 2019/790, that is wholly or mainly financed by advertising provided that, in addition, the end-user has been provided with clear, precise and user-friendly information about the purposes of cookies or similar techniques and has accepted such use.

I'm no expert, but I think this was accepted 2 1/2 years ago and is already implemented?

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021...

Look here (referenced pdf in the above url): https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-6087-2021-I...

(21aa) In some cases the use of processing and storage capabilities of terminal equipment and the collection of information from end-users' terminal equipment may also be necessary for providing a service, requested by the enduser, such as services provided in accordance with the freedom of expression and information including for journalistic purposes, e.g. online newspaper or other press publications as defined in Article 2 (4) of Directive (EU) 2019/790, that is wholly or mainly financed by advertising provided that, in addition, the end-user has been provided with clear, precise and user-friendly information about the purposes of cookies or similar techniques and has accepted such use.

Newspapers weaseled out already an exeption out 2 years ago, see https://www.heise.de/news/E-Privacy-Verordnung-EU-Rat-fuer-V...

There is a german artcile about this here:

https://www.heise.de/news/E-Privacy-Verordnung-EU-Rat-fuer-V...

Read the part about cookie walls for newspapers:

Cookie-Wall soll bleiben

Wer auf seiner Webseite unentgeltlich Nachrichteninhalte verfügbar macht und das durch Werbung finanziert, soll dabei Cookies ohne Zustimmung der Nutzer setzen können. Eine "Cookie-Wall" als Alternative zu einer Bezahlschranke soll also zulässig bleiben. User, die nicht für Werbezwecke analysiert werden möchten, müssen gegebenenfalls ein kostenpflichtiges Abo abschließen. Diese Klausel wird an die Voraussetzung geknüpft, dass der User prinzipiell zwischen verschiedenen Varianten wählen können. Dazu kommen weite Spielräume für Direktmarketing auch via Bots.

It's a double standart again.

Newspapers lobbied the EU that it s allowed for them (not sure if it was changed at the end). But if you go to a large european newspaper site (eg spiegel.de) then it explicitely asks you tha you pay to access it or you must agree to behavioral advertising. But facebook should not be allowed to do this.

That's a classic move.

We also had once an office admin stealing stuff. When we revoked his access cards and fire him, he came back the night with a different acces scard and stole more stuff and would pretend then that since his badge was revoked, it couldnt have been him in the first place

You are completely mistaken

That fee only covers general piracy. It does not give you the right to copy copyrighted works. In fact, european copyright is much stricter than US copyright. There is no fair use and european copyright (based on the napoleon code) forbids making a copy of copyrighted works except for a few exceptions specifically mentioned in the law (eg a browser displaying a webpage, etc...).

Your wikipedia reference doea not mention Luxembourg. The median salary is more than 20 percent higher than danmark https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/2007306.html and taxes are much lower here too.

Housing is expensive, but that seems to be a global trend.

For dedicated servers:

- deploy from source repo? Terraform?

* local build server, which rsyncs to application servers (e.g. files), or through docker registry * scripts to start/stop/restart services * centralised database on which services run on which servers, which serves as base where specific applications run

- keep software up to date? ex: Postgres, OS

ansible for automated installs (through hetzner API) ansible scripts to execute commands on servers (e.g. update software, or adapt firewall when new hosts are being added)

- do load balancing? built-in load balancer? * proxy to route requests to multiple backend servers (e.g nginx) * flexi ip (needs to manually mapped to new server in case of failure over API, so you need to check yourself that the IP is reachable)

- handle scaling? Terraform?

* more servers

- automate backups? ex: databases, storage. Do you use provided backups and snapshots?

* Seperate hdfs cluster, which allows production nodes to write once and read data, but not delete/overwrite any data. * For less data, you could also use their backup servers. * The "backups and snapshots" feature you mention is only available for vservers, not for dedicated servers.

- maintain security? built-in firewall and DDoS protection?

* Hetzner router Firewall * Software firewall (managed through ansible) * Don't use their VLAN feature, as there seems to be often some problems with connectivity (see their forum). * Never had DDos issues

- monitoring of failures: * internal tool to monitor hardware and software issues (e.g. wrongly deployed software, etc...).

I can only recommend hetzner. At my former company, we started with 8 servers with them nearly 15 years ago and now have more than 6000 servers with them.

https://www.hetzner.com/customers/talkwalker

And meanwhile, all the big newspapers in germany ask you to consent to individual tracking (and sharing to third parties) whenever you access their websites. Since they are not Meta, it seems to be completely acceptable.

(Example: https://www.spiegel.de/)

I graduated 2007 at the ETHZ.

When I started studying, some student pcs were even running Oberon (no login was required). Only some IT students used them as it was too complicated for students from other departments. They were then later replaced with linux/windows machines.

If my memory serves me right, when you bought a laptop through the university neptun program, you had oberon preinstalled too (or at least a dvd to install it) was provided.

As for Bertrand Meyer, I also visited his programming class. I still remember that he really focused on invariants, and you had to write each code line basically twice.

Since you are posting on hacker news, most of the people here will tell you that it's a bad deal.

I think it's a good deal. It's not great, but good. You still keep half of your salary, got funding right from the start, can develop/build the company, learn a lot, and have someone to ask for advise which you shouldn't underestimate, and probably will have no trouble raising a second round with their help.

With that, you will build value much faster than a "normal" start-up founder, which doesn't have the connections to raise money, doesn't have the money to hire employees, etc... I think it's safe to assume that you win at least 1 year. This will increase your company value and thus make your 10% now worth much more than someone having 100% and is right at the start.

If all fails, you only lost half of your salary (no debts creating the company), but gained all the experience and are much more fundable for a new startup.

The guy had 5 years to get the numbers right, but didn't. (if that's the cause)

Well, the user only wanted to be half tax compliant (in his home country only), and not collect any taxes in the other countries where he is legally obliged to collect them to.

Not sure how you can even start a business, sell stuff and not collect VAT right from the start. Here in Europe this is unthinkable.

Could someone with more knowledge explain to me why a vaccine against HIV would not also be a cure?

If the body has antibodies against HIV so you can't get infected, it should also be possible to kill HIV as well when you are infected? Especially since the vaccine targets a structure which the normal immune protection normally doesn't target?

Indeed, the same I guess is true for their DNS servers. I bet they use this as well for a metric to rank search results domains based on user popularity, including how long visitors stay at one site, before moving to a new website.