I think theyre referencing the previous Google employee protests of the company working with the Us Military

I think theyre referencing the Google AI already being used to make killing people more efficient

It's not even "Our product can write COBOL", it's "Our product can analyze your COBOL codebase and generate a plan for migrating to a new tech stack".

It's not so original an idea that we need to be worrying about who came up with it, I think.

I think so, was it wrong ?

Pretty sure they are implying that the actions of the current president/administration are causing people to re-evaluate US dependencies. I don't really understand the first half

I think in the first part they are implying that there are very few independent companies to turn to.

(I also prefer comments that are clear without insinuations).

Precisely like code

  Clarity > Cleverness

What about all of the long-tail providers that are often listed on lowendbox.com and similar sites?

Ahh, the sales rep is Trump, that makes sense, thank you. I thought Jacques meant they had lobbyists somehow.

1. There's no meaningful European competition.

2. Trump is making everyone scared to use US hosting.

So they're leveraging for extra profits.

That is indeed what the comment seems to be implying.

"No meaningful European competition" might be a bit too strong. There are many great EU hosters. OVH, Netcup, Scaleway, Strato, Ionos, Exoscale, to name a few. But Hetzner is probably the biggest and has the best name recognition. Doesn't hurt that their prices are among the best in the industry

These are all really quite small though.

Revenue (EUR): Ionos 1.5bn, OVH 1bn, Hetzner 0.5bn, Strato <0.2bn, Netcup (incl. parent) <0.1bn, Scaleway <0.1bn, Exoscale <0.01bn

The ridiculous prices of memory surely does not help.

Eh, if this demand is really sustainable they will eventually start producing in adequate volume

I don't want my tools to make jokes, I want them to work.

>The wording here is fascinating, mainly because they're effectively acting as arbiters of "vibes"

This is not such an unusual thing in law, as much as us stem-brained people want legal systems to work like code. The most famous example is determining art vs pornography - "I know it when I see it" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it)

This exactly. The post you reply to implies they have discovered something very novel, which they did not. I don't remember which ancient king it was, but they already tried thousands of years ago to make codes of law with every situation described in it. They failed. Just leave the final interpretation to the judge, and let the politicians make broad laws (in good faith, I hope).

> as much as us stem-brained people want legal systems to work like code

I see this a lot on HN, and it makes sense to think like this if you're a programmer. It's also a sign these programmers should open up their world view a bit more.

Which is of course the only way it makes sense to write laws, since code can't model infinite reality.

Not, at least, until our machine overlords arrive.

Not just reality. Adversaries trying to find loopholes. Luckily the git history of law goes back millenia so its had some time to adapt to humans.

Pt 1 of the Miller test is just "I know it when I see it" where "I" is a hypothetical random person

Not really. It has slightly more well-defined criteria than that. Material must satisfy all three prongs to be considered obscene.

I wonder why they felt the need to do that, but have no qualms leaving Open in the name

Money. Paying a ‘creative agency’ to rebrand is expensive.

The lawyers probably brought it up.

Ha, some of the dota voicelines are so long that claude might be able to finish the task before they finish playing