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This is not how VAT usually works.

As a company you collect VAT from your customers and pay VAT to your suppliers.

Depending on the resulting balance, you will either give back the amount of surplus collected VAT to your country/state/whatever or you will be provided with VAT credit.

VAT collection is different from a profit tax or other taxes.

Pass the word!

I hired about 50 software interns and junior in the past 5 years. None had ever heard of it before I told them.

In France it is quite common. Cannot say about other countries though.

I've been using Nomad for years without Consul. Maybe if you complex networking requirements it is worth it, else don't really need it.

As CTO of a small startup and cutting costs, setting up hashicorp nomad + bare metal is a joy to work with.

Some self-reloading HAProxy in nomad to automatically assign URLs to services when needed. Could have used Consul but meh.

Tailscale for private networking.

That is quite a libertarian point of view, and Europeans tend to disagree with it.

The most extreme example could be the legislation on weapons. A less extreme example could be legislation on food additives or PFAS.

I get pretty good results by writing specs and prototype with a LLM, through more or less managed conversations.

But once the prototype is done, I spend too much time refining the details, fixing everything going wrong (bas design details, wrong implementation, half done testing ...)

A full agentic setting would be too expensive for me (I wonder how much Garry tan spends...)

So I'd like to take a more balanced approach with: 1. usual LLM specs and prototyping to get the bases of the feature and boilerplate done 2. Write myself the code, with the help of an ai auto complete (this is Where I look for recommendations) 3. Use a setup as OP mentioned to review code

Does anyone have good recommendation for ai auto completion?

My goal is to draft the solution with ai, write it myself but faster with auto complete, then throw ai review.

Nice product! I'm looking for a tool to iterate fast on UI/UX design.

> Old images get dropped > A screenshot attached four turns ago can be 50,000 tokens. It is not helping the agent decide what to do now. Once an image falls behind your last two user turns, Brilliant strips it and leaves a short [Image cleared] stub in its place. The recent ones stay, because those are the ones that matter for the next move. Zero user effort, zero config.

Ok the context gets smaller but doesn't it invalidate the LLM cache?

Cilantro really tastes different from one person to another (relative to the aldéhyde content of cilantro and genetic variations). I don't know about sugar and aspartame but saying that it is purely a "preference" looks a little bit presomptuous to me.

To the previous poster: do other intense sweeteners (stevia, saccharin, sucralose) taste sweet to you?

I feel like it's a good way to build the best PoC in any vertical. Either they create a product, or the big players will but Anthropic can provide them with the infra.

Can someone ELI5 what Earandil purpose is?

In some cases this is what I ask from my juniors. Not for every commit, but during some specific reviews. The goal is to coach them on why and how they got a specific result.

Agreed. That said, Anthropic's original pitch was about embedding safety at the foundational level of the 'model' (acknowledging that a model is more than just its weights).

If the safeguard against mass surveillance is strictly tied to geolocation (US vs. non-US), it can't be an intrinsic property of the model. It has to be enforced at the API or contractual level. This means international users are left out of those core, embedded protections. Unless Anthropic is planning to deploy multiple, differently-aligned foundation models based on customer geography or industry, the safety harness isn't really in the model anymore.

Yes most comments makes no sense to me. The statement basically both allows surveillance of non-american people and prevents imaginary LLM weapons (I highly doubt we'll see a LLM fully automating a weapon...)

Something feels off about this announcement. Anyone else?

Credit where it's due, going on record like this isn't easy, particularly when facing pressure from a major government client. Still, the two limits Anthropic is defending deserve a closer look.

On surveillance: the carve-out only protects people inside the US. Speaking as someone based in Europe, that's a detail that doesn't go unnoticed. On autonomous weapons: realistically, current AI systems aren't anywhere near capable enough to run one independently. So that particular line in the sand isn't really costing them much.

What I find more candid is actually the revised RSP. It draws a clearer picture of where Anthropic's oversight genuinely holds and where it starts to break down as they race to stay at the cutting edge. The core tension, trying to be simultaneously the most powerful and the most principled player in the room, doesn't have a neat resolution.

This statement doesn't offer one either. But engaging with the question openly, even without all the answers, beats silence and gives the rest of us something real to push back on.

Would you mind explaining your point a view? Or point me to ressources making you think so?

How stopping using hyperscalers models on their infra would "get as much of this capability into the open as possible"?

Either "we" create models better than commercial state of the art (by using whatever means).

Or we use open models AND fund organisations building such models (could be by purchasing service from these orgs or donations - in which case would these orgs be different than hyperscalers?).

But i dont see how just hosting the models on some private servers would give us an edge?

Amazing! What was your budget? For how long?

Some companies accept films by postal mail! ... Of course it increases the price which is already expensive, as sibling poster wrote.

I use a film camera, which removes the possibility of infinite shots. It works for me! And since I must print the pictures, I make duplicates and share with friends and family.

You can give it a try: there are very easy cameras!

This goes well beyond historical precedent. The legal system is complex, but even when Parliament approves a law, it can still be struck down if it violates fundamental principles.

For matters concerning IT and privacy, the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) could spearhead such cancellation proceedings.

And companies doing business in France should watch out—CNIL sanctions are no joke!

Are there specific events making you feel it has been neutered?

Just to bring some context around what fentanyl weights.

- Fentanyl is ~100 times more potent than morphine

- 2mg can kill

- Medical use is around 100ug/hour for patches

At university, we used this extension to teach our classmates about good security practices, such as locking their computers when left unattended. It was fun, especially when professors didn't lock their computers. And my former classmates did learn to lock their computers :)

This article is extremely well written and energizes me... Having a framework that allows separating the graphical work from the logic would be great. But I have trouble imagining this idea passing the brutal test of production -- except for showcase websites and blogs. I'm specifically thinking about apps (linear?) But I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next and hope to get more information when the templates arrive :)

LLMs contexts are fast to overload, as the article states. That's why he writes smaller, specific packages, one at a time, and uses a web UI instead of something like cursor.

I had the same issue as you a few days ago. By separating the problem in smaller parts and addressing each parts one by one it got easier.

In your specific case I would try to fully complete the business logic one side. Reset the context. Then provide the logic to a new context and ask for an interface. Difficulty will arise when discovering that the logic is wrong or not suited to the UI, but i would keep using the same process to edit the code. Maybe two different contexts, one for logic, one for UI?

How did you do?

I'm french. Live in Paris. I do not understand the excitement the world has for Notre Dame. Question for you, reader: what does the fire and/or the rebuild means to you? Why do you care?

Idk about this one but my daily driver is a Mini M1, 16gb, 1to.

The regular backend stack on docker is smooth. Vs code / jetbrain is smooth. Nothing to complain about.

I could use more ports however. That is easily fixed with an USB hub.

There are servers needed for the app to work, right? So I guess subscription makes sense?

Of course then there is the price of the subscription... But I'm talking about the model, not the cost.

Question for people writing highly complex SQL queries.

Why not write simple SQL queries and use another language to do the transformations?

Are SQL engines really more efficient at filtering/matching/aggregating data when doing complex queries? Doesn't working without reusable blocks / tests / logs make development harder?

Syntax is one thing, but actual performance (and safety/maintenance) is another deal?