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The actual EU regulation on labeling AI content:

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/code-pract...

I can’t stand all this hype anymore. They’re pushing it so hard that I’m starting to develop an AI phobia. If it were really that good, they’d already be making big money off it. But it’s not — it just needs your data (codebase?), supposedly to make it better. The fact is, at least they’ve gotten halfway there, which from their perspective, is sweet. All the AI labs are actually losing a ton of $$$ to this AI race, but the data, ohh yeah! Let's go, baby!

I am strictly talking about the coding capabilities of the LLM, and not their core LLM capabilities, which they genuinely excel at.

Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08033-4

I think this is not true in most of the cases. The (security) technology behind the debit/credit cards using the SmartCard chip (IC) is pretty ubiquitous. It is the same as the security technology guarding the SIM cards in your phone and even your eSIM. Basically the protocols and the interface specifications are the same. In the end, they are just smart cards. Imagine this technology not being strong enough, because I remember the days when the security of the pre-paid public phone cards was quite rabish and any kid with some skills and knowledge could forge a card with unlimited credit.

It very happens that the father of the smart card technology to be a french guy [1] and the current biggest provider of this technology is the french aero-space/defense/security company Thales Group[2] followed by another frech company called IDEMIA.

There is a very nice biography of the technology [3].

[1] https://artsandculture.google.com/story/roland-moreno-s-ubiq...

[2] https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-...

[3] https://computer.rip/2023-09-03-plastic-money.html

Here is a summarization of the experiment: https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/universe-25-1968-1...

Probably this paper [1] is very well known among the classic HN audience, but I dare to leave this link here for the ones who missed it. It is an easy read and it just explains with plain words the backbone of the UNIX system as it was envisioned 50 years ago.

[1] https://dsf.berkeley.edu/cs262/unix.pdf

very basic and limited.

I use ProtonVPN and I guess they aren't that stupid to mess up the future of their company by abusing the customers of the service that started the company in the first place. I guess other VPN services offered by prestigious companies, like BitDefender are quite safe from this standpoint. Yes, the free VPN services have always a large risk associated with.

I see this is the first and only post you have on HN. Since you shared with us the problem you have with Stripe, would you be so kind to share the address of your webstore so that we can make an idea about the stuff you are selling.

It is becoming hilariously unpolite to see all these complains revealing only half of the story.

Submitted a bug report regarding poor performance like 2 years ago and they are still "looking" into it. I guess the shiny look has priority over performance for them.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-270042/High-CPU-us...

This is rather a simplistic view with the wrong conclusion of what the education means to our society and culture. The scientific progress has always been carried out by a small percent of population, and not a mass process. Its only recent when the education was made available to the masses.

I also suspect the author mistakes the term education for kwoledge. And yes, some knowledge is lost, but that is due the technological progress. It's always been that way.

The core of the law is to have the same standard across the entire consumer products. Which basically it is already, only Apple having the power to ask you more money for unnecessary accessories whilst contributing to more e-waste, even if they talk against it - hypocricy detected.

Say no more. You're hired.

I guess it will be in the detrimental of the users to have Apple publicly disclose all the security risks they are exposed to. Although the current state is not perfect, it is the optimal choice. There is no way of making these risks publicly available only to "power users". How would you disciminate the good actors from the bad actors in this category?

While there is a point in representing the state of the infrastructure as SQL to enforce type safety and other constraints, I still don’t understand what are the _real_ advantages over the current tooling. All the key advantages listed there, including type safety and cloud providers defined constraints, are already well covered by the actual battle-tested tools and frameworks.

Here are some areas where I identified some red flags regarding the present approach. These are key aspects of the everyday life of an infrastructure engineer.

Usability. The SQL abstractions simply don't scale to make the human<->machine mapping work. You would need another layer of abstraction to map that infrastructure into a state that is easily readable and understandable for our brain. On the other hand, the more consecrated tools use building blocks that both map well to be translated in infrastructure state _and_ are easily understood by our brain. Add some stored procedures to the party and you’re lost in the weeds.

Versioning. What would be the easiest way to extract from the SQL storage the difference between two versions of the infrastructure? With the traditional tools, that is an easy diff which reveals changes in a matter of several keystrokes with no extra layering.

Reusability. How easy is to port infrastructure code to other cloud providers? How easy is to define resource templates?