It's pretty cool. But if it's such a small model and small corpus, isn't it almost just as good just to have a static wikipedia-style copy of those key sources (WikiMed, MedlinePlus, Ready.gov, CDC etc.)? Maybe if they (and that could be static too), gave you a "what's going on?" question and then told you what you might not know - i.e. "power is out" -> "make sure you open your fridge as little as possible", "if you have backup battery ensure you turn power hungry devices off" etc.?
I bet it's configurable and just a matter of how much resource you want to allocate. If it's truly a world model then it seems to me that it's precise benefit is that it can keep track and order in things and they just choose to accept some noise/chaos/randomness/? for the demos when things move out frame? Does that sound sensible? I'm just guessing but don't feel it's a hard limit.
I’m always wondering what kind of constant noise might damage someone’s hearing (maybe develop tinnitus or long term hearing loss etc)? Is it only the volume or also duration and frequencies etc? Is there a risk having a noisy air purifier on all night?
Wonder no more. There is mountains of research on this for occupational health concerns. As long as your fan is <70dB there is virtually no risk to your hearing.
There might be some to your dog, on the other hand. Anecdotal, but my dog went deaf pretty early and he sleeps in a room where I run an air purifier all night. Not sure if there is correlation or causation there but that's my little anecdata.
I love cloudflare, seriously. Not sure what it is about the brand, but their products feel delightful, they feel like an honest business, they have great free tiers, their tech is “cool” and they seem to innovate a lot (I.e the recent AI blocking program etc). Just moved all my domains over from Whois.com (who on the other hand seem sneaky, don’t have auto renewals and slam you with an 80$ restoration fine for domains you forget to renew, and charge extra for basic security that should be free). Couldn’t be happier and wish cloudflare all the best!!
I find it incredible that people are willing to outsource the decision on who can access their sites to a corporation. Especially one that is increasingly dominant and tends toward worrying control (they also started selling paid search services for bots to use, presumably those provider will get access).
It's a trade off. I use CFs load balancers to simplify steering to instances, but also appreciate that you get traffic filtering (even if not perfect). I think it ultimately depends on context and goals of what you're building. I wouldn't use that setup for everything, but I've found it's a healthy default for getting stuff stood up. Long-term, I think it makes a ton of sense to build up your own solutions.
If it's a big org doing the outsourcing, maybe there are people in the org who would rather not let others within the org have an accurate idea when the blocking efforts reach the point where the vast majority of desirable visitors are turned away.
Everyone else just goes along for the ride if they want to enjoy the same convenience, as long as they can stomach it.
I checked just for fun, also blocked. Could be because I'm in India, but even with CF warp, still blocked..
I do enjoy some of the free cloudflare services for personal projects, but to act like they provide some great infallible business structure or services is ridiculous.
Are any sites you'd expect to be on paid-for Cloudflare also blocked?
I put https://www.gbif.org/ behind Cloudflare on the business plan, and so far (it's been roughly a year) we've only had a couple of reports of blocking, and both seemed likely to be caused by other users on the same IP scraping the site.
I’m blocked too. Wasn’t sure what you are talking about, but found the blog in the profile. I’m from my iPhone. I wonder which country they do not block.
Same here, Firefox with ublock Origin and NoScript.
On the topic of caching I run my own edge nodes, no regrets. Privacy maintained, finer grained controls, no large scale ddos protection but I have never needed it.
At the moment two large VM's using NGinx on the front-end and HAProxy on the back-end to do the load balancing and health checks. NGinx and HAProxy communicate with each other over a socket thus taking the network out of the picture. NGinx caches files to a tmpfs ram disk. The back-end HAProxy communicates over VPNs to the origin servers. I've automated scaling up edges but I still have work to do calculating the dynamic/static back-end limits per edge but for my tiny hobby sites I do not foresee needing to automate this any time soon. The edges force level 1 zstd which nullifies many of the bots that slip past my anti-bot methods as they just get gibberish. This also breaks old browsers which I do on purpose as nobody should be visiting a chan site (which I use as a replacement for my old blog) without a fully patched system. I keep additional VM's configured as spares or as "side doors" for friends to use in /etc/hosts in the event some day I attract h8 and vitriol. I use NGinx Geo in combination with FireHOL and a few other git repos to determine who should be allowed to post real time vs. be held in a moderator review queue which has saved me multiple times.
I'm not doing Anycast or GSLB as it is just for a hobby site. If it ever grew in popularity (unlikely) then I would probably just do DNS GSLB in PowerDNS with PowerGSLB.
For me it was not a lot of work because it is a hobby. I'm sure others here could automate this in Anisble, Docker, Podman and probably have. My setup is probably childs-play compared to what others here do professionally.
Just tested it myself and got "This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks." from Firefox on Mac (with or without ad-blocker). What kind of online attack is expected on a blog?
Unfortunately almost any kind of blog. My spouse's blog, which she hasn't updated in several years, came under attack about a month ago. Her blog is just posts of some of our travels mixed in with her arts and crafts. It went from a few hundred hits a day to 20M hits a day coming from 2M unique "users" a day. It wasn't a full scrape, but it was hitting a broad range of pages. The traffic originated from 170 countries, so it would seem to be a botnet. It went on for 2-3 weeks before dropping below 1M hits per day. It still hasn't dropped back down to normal levels.
Are most people’s blogs getting so much traffic that they need this? I have a relatively heavy blog (it runs on Mediawiki) and I allow LLM agents to access it and everything. So far it seems all right. Perhaps I’m not writing anything interesting but the bots do tend of requests a second. Maybe others seeing more traffic than that?
> There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.
If my blog got DoS'd from HN was remotely close to any of these, would be perfectly normal but as it stands this is exactly why gatekeepers are perhaps inevitable, but should never be reveled.
I don’t think you understand what’s going on here. They misconfigured their CF and made it impossible for actual users to access their website. That boilerplate text means nothing. I submitted no words, no SQL, and no malformed data, merely a simple access request across multiple browsers.
If this amount of traffic across a small handful of users was enough to trigger a DoS, we should be getting proof-of-work captchas, not “you have been blocked” pages.
I love them as well, but i’ve had to be careful with the default managed rules - 800+ rules that sometimes overblock need to be easier to curate / select from.
A lot of people are replying saying they can’t get to your blog. I just tried using stock Safari on iOS with UBO Lite and AdGuard and it worked fine. FWIW I’m in Australia and not tunneling through a VPN.
Whoever owns cloudflare is in the comfortable position to track most of the web traffic back to its source address without any effort. Highly pipelined and centralized infrastructure built by volunteers who love the product. Please correct me, if I miss the point.
Between November 2024 and January 2025, I visited liver surgeons at 4 different hospitals in 4 different states and got 3 different opinions on what was the correct next step for my cancer treatment.
I broke my leg at the edge of the Fibula bone. 4 Orthopedic specialists gave me 3.5 different opinions with different and conflicting recommendations for treatment.
So, unless the first two opinions are completely identical - yeah, definitely get the third. Better to go for people with slightly different specializations if relevant.
I've had a couple of second opinions for far less serious stuff in recent years. In both cases the original doctors suggested major surgery pre-emptively, even though they were very different types of thing.
In the first case, I decided to talk to an expert in the particular area who then ordered different tests. These indicated the issue had actually gone away completely, and I avoided surgery as a result of those.
In the other, a grade 2 ACL tear, it was less clear-cut, but I felt like the explanations given by the second doctor as to why he'd recommend against surgery were clearer and made more sense to me.
I'm glad I got both second opinions and the first case in particular, made me much more likely to get second opinions in future as well as more confident about doing so.
With crypto.. that it makes on Polymarket-like ways, or creates its own content? Or blackmail humans? :-) I'm not entirely serious with my comment and do agree with you that there are lots of more immediate safety topics we should address before worrying about the AI becoming self-aware. That said, finding ways of accumulating valuable resources could be intermediate activities the AIs will attempt to do to complete it's 'goals' even when they're human-set!
The ABC in Australia feels so opinionated and tilted to the “left” side of politics whenever I’ve watched it on the TV. And it may just have been that news show or the specific host but it makes it not enjoyable to watch when it seems there’s always an “angle” and negative undertones and people constantly having an axe to grind. I’d personally like a bit more neutral news that also leans a little more on the positive and inspiring side.
>The ABC in Australia feels so opinionated and tilted to the “left” side of politics whenever I’ve watched it on the TV. And it may just have been that news show or the specific host but it makes it not enjoyable to watch when it seems there’s always an “angle” and negative undertones and people constantly having an axe to grind. I’d personally like a bit more neutral news that also leans a little more on the positive and inspiring side.
I dont see any bias in their journalism, but they have a tendency to just accept everything at face value. They will also shop around for experts that support their opinions. One person will write an article about housing referring to housing experts, and get one view, and then a few years later another will instead quote a public housing expert getting another view. Theres never any "Lets test the quality of each expert and try and figure out whats true"
4 corners and foreign correspondant however are still absolute top tier journalism. Its a shame they dont apply those standards everywhere.
A recent, prominent example is [1] where they edited footage to make it look like a soldier was shooting at an innocent civilian. They then appointed a 40 year abc/sbs veteran to investigate the incident who unsurprisingly found no wrong doing.
All of this on a topic that isn't even super political...
Granted they are still probably the best journalists in the country, but when you can't trust them to not alter primary evidence, or admit real fault when something has gone wrong, you cant really trust them for much.
For day to day stuff I still find them an ok source, it just needs to be taken with a very heavy dose of salt.
Their biggest fault was giving back the filing cabinet.
>where they edited footage to make it look like a soldier was shooting at an innocent civilian.
In your link the ABC is claiming the footage wasnt edited by them. I mean its still a bit of weak journalism to publish it. Did that ever get resolved either way?
> In your link the ABC is claiming the footage wasnt edited by them.
I'll admit I don't fully understand what they were claiming/how it changed over time but they later issued an apology for the incident [1].
From what I can work out the thrust of the abc claim is "don't blame our journalists, the editors on multiple occasions accidentally did this for no reason at all and we then failed to catch it".
Then midway through the apology they pivot to blaming twitter, or at least that is the flow of the guardian article.
I'm from Asana so I'm probably biased too :) and I agree single-player agents are easier, but multi-player agents that understand end to end workflows etc. are very powerful. That's what we've built and yes it took a lot of thought and time to built it in a way that it would be privacy conscious and not leak the wrong thing to the wrong people etc. I haven't player with Buzz yet but signed up and admire them for thinking differently and trying to build something interesting.
But isn't there the raw intelligence of a smart model and then the practical intelligence fuelled by how many parameters it has? You probably will barely be able to fit a 70 billion parameter model on a phone in 3-4 years let alone a 2+ trillion parameter model... so it depends on what you call intelligence
I'm not willing to believe in phone-based frontier models anytime soon. Though, Gemma 4 12B is a beast that runs comfortably on the current top of the line phones (or would run fine if allowed to run, I think there's some kind of 6GB limit on iOS, and 12B is ~7GB). I'll believe in three years we'll be able to run ~30B models on the best phones. That's 16GB in a 4-bit quantization, and I believe ~30B models will be competitive with 120B models of today, based on the curve we've been on. Qwen 27B and Gemma 4 31B are competitive with much larger models of a couple years ago.
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