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I was curious and it seems like smaller businesses do get DDoSed, ~5% of them in Canada:

https://www.bdc.ca/en/articles-tools/blog/cyberattacks-small...

Given that we're on HN I probably should've said startup, though depending on the business itself it's not unrealistic for some of those 200-400 employee companies to sit on a free Cloudflare plan if their entire website is static + a back-office CRUD app.

If you're building a tiktok competitor, that's definitely going to require an enterprise plan, even if you have only 4 employees.

I was explaining why I believe it's a super popular service. I have no affiliation or stock, just a regular user.

What you're paying for is business continuity, not for them to host your site. I know you can host the site itself on much cheaper infrastructure.

> The front door is not the whole stack

Hey Claude, can you move the ciphercue blog to Cloudflare so it can deal with traffic from HN?

On a more serious note, Cloudflare comes packed with features even on its free plan which makes it useful for any size website. For a real business it's one of the cheapest options for DDoS protection on the market. Some years ago you would have paid a fortune for Akamai or Level3 to help keep you online and now you can get by on a $200 a month plan for a small business.

Blocking EU from those services would crash the valuation of US AI companies, so I'm not expecting it to happen.

Fines like this always come with a legal obligation to adhere to the requirements, it's never just a cost of doing business.

My ublock origin blocked ~20 elements on page load so I'm pretty sure that's intentional.

The "trials" you're referring to is probably this study on 1000-word short stories

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decisio...

We've gone the "crowdsorting" route but if we didn't go this way the fees for garbage collection would be higher and the city's garbage collection company would still make profits, that's a constant.

I'm guessing you're being facetious? The options aren't to either develop anxiety or not care at all.

The figures aren't based on real measurements of what every person actually emits, they're based on a model that allocates consumption-based CO2 emissions across income groups.

Regardless of that, I agree that making useful policy changes is important, replacing some plastic straws won't make a huge change, but getting rid of coal will.

How exactly would that make a dent? CO2 sources:

- Electricity + heat production ~40–42%

- Industry + manufacturing ~20–22%

- Road transport ~12–13%

- Deforestation & land-use change ~10%

- Direct fuel use in buildings ~5–6%

- Aviation ~2–3%

- Shipping ~2–3%

- Rail, pipelines & other transport ~1%

- Flaring / other energy & industrial sources ~2–4%

I'm guessing the private jets is what you're hinting at? Aviation above includes all flights, not just private jets.

Sure, and you can replace US with almost any country in that sentence. The problem right now is there's a feeling that even decades-old alliances are no longer something you can count on when you're talking about the US.

Three EU countries versus some random on the Internet calling them "foolish", I'm pretty sure your take is bad.

Sol frequently over-engineers code.

Aren't all the insiders restricted from dumping their shares for a set number of months?

So was AMD for a while and then consumers kept getting the same repackaged CPU from Intel for years. Competition is great and you should always root for the underdog.

But is the score really reflective of the quality or are both models benchmaxxing?

Even if you do love your job, you should diversify your sense of personal worth as much as possible so you get fulfillment from more than one thing in your life, because that one thing could be gone tomorrow.

He can just quit then, no need to burn bridges.

Making all of your coworkers look bad so you can be "Prometheus"? Sounds like a great way to become unemployed.

> Same as with GDPR - absolutely no positive impact on actual privacy, but a lot of burden on everyone.

Confidently wrong on this one; it has been very helpful for me to both extract data as well as exercise my right to be forgotten from various providers that would otherwise have no obligation to delete my data.

Writing good arguments will prevent you from looking like a conspiracy nut.

The reason why people steal from stores is because there are rarely consequences unless you get caught in the act. Most stores won't file a report over a can of tuna, it'll get chalked up to losses and prices will go up on tuna cans to cover the loss, as it's low friction.

Someone's private property getting trespassed/burgled will have a much higher chance of resulting in legal consequences.

Do you think it took him a few years to install the cameras?

> Similar arguments were made to defend Harvey Weinstein.

We're now comparing a SaaS product versus people you work with? I don't think ChatGPT will ever physically assault you.

> People shouldn’t have to switch jobs because they don’t want to provide Bill Gates with their phone number.

This is why the EU has very strong employee protection laws; in most countries here there are government agencies that will help you, you're not at the mercy of the HR department.

> If China gets to superintelligence first, the EU is cooked.

If it's as dangerous as you say, the first country that will get to this will be in big trouble, regardless of who they are.

> Do you think taxing the US companies at 3% of global turnover and twiddling thumbs over copyright helps or hurts the West in the race to superintelligence?

Global turnover taxation was meant to prevent companies using creative accounting to not pay taxes, not to hurt "the West".

> they will soon solve incredibly difficult problems that may give one country a real edge over the other

What is this based on aside from AI hype?

But how is it relevant to the EU right now? It seems like sitting it out and spending that money on weapons is a better option for EU money as it solves an immediate danger.

Why would we need to worry about China getting far ahead of US models given the spending trajectory of US companies? If China does get ahead, US companies will just keep pumping more money into the problem to keep the race going. But to what end? LLMs are not going to morph into AGI, that will be a new paradigm.

For most people, the best LLM is the one that is cheapest to them, as models are incredibly good. I'd wager ~90% of people using AI today wouldn't be able to differentiate GPT Sol from GLM 5.3 Flash in their day-to-day usage. The models are already good enough today for most workloads, next year's model won't change that.