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by lossyalgo | 2025-10-16 17:25:55+00:00
True, it does cover that specific case.

But it doesn't cover the your RAID controller dying, your house burning down, burglary, tornado, tsunami, earthquake and other "acts of god", etc.

"A backup is a copy of the information that is not attached to the system where the original information is."

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/storage/comments/hflzkm/raid_is_not...
by jchw | 2025-10-16 17:25:55+00:00
What I personally dislike about this is that it hides the cost of Doordash. It's not intuitive that the prices of items is silently higher on Doordash: it's not like online retailers having different prices for the same SKU, it's the same restaurant. I'd prefer the overhead to show up as its own line item, rather than obscuring the actual cost of the service. I have a feeling less people would choose to Doordash as often if they realized just how much more things cost through it. (Not everyone, but, there are a lot people who really do just do it for convenience, and they could just drive and go pick up their own takeout.)
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-16 17:26:22+00:00
> but you still have two and three story apartment buildings that require customers to go downstairs for their food.

Everyone keeps ignoring you on this part, but they aren't thinking about people with disabilities or mobility issues that rely on delivery services to get their groceries because alternative or public welfare programs don't exist for this.

What happens when DoorDash, UberEats, Instacart, etc. all go autonomous? People with disabilities get screwed in the name of profit. They are already getting screwed with higher prices as is.

These customers can't simply "go downstairs and meet the car" the point of delivery specifically in this case is to have it brought right to your door. Automated cars miss this usecase entirely.
by xpe | 2025-10-16 17:26:22+00:00
If I were to say "Claude Skills can be seen as a particular productization of a system prompt" would I be wrong?

From a technical perspective, it seems like unnecessary complexity in a way. Of course I recognize there are lot of product decisions that seem to layer on 'unnecessary' abstractions but still have utility.

In terms of connecting with customers, it seems sensible, under the assumption that Anthropic is triaging customer feedback well and leading to where they want to go (even if they don't know it yet).

Update: a sibling comment just wrote something quite similar: "All these things are designed to create lock in for companies. They don’t really fundamentally add to the functionality of LLMs." I think I agree.
by aeldidi | 2025-10-16 17:26:38+00:00
There's another idea too, that docker is essentially a userspace service manager. It makes things like sandboxing, logging, restarting, etc the same everywhere, which makes having that multi-line build script more valuable.

In a sense it's just the "worse is better" solution[0], where instead of applying the good practices (sandboxing, isolation, good packaging conventions, etc) which leads to those benefits, you just wrap everything in a VM/service manager/packaging format which gives it to you anyway. I don't think it's inherently good or bad, although I understand why it leaves a bad taste in people's mouths.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
by andersmurphy | 2025-10-16 17:27:14+00:00
Hypermedia can do all of that fine. You don't need to stick it all in the url. Using simple session and cookie/tab id state can be shared and or isolated between tabs. Then just do a lookup in your backend database.

Hypermedia is also way better for realtime and multiplayer.

If anything where HTMX falls short is it doesn't put enough state on the backend, if anything it's not radical enough.
by amenhotep | 2025-10-16 17:27:28+00:00
This is a really important thing to keep in mind with these studies, we don't actually know that we're curing Alzheimer's in these mice. We don't even know if mice really get Alzheimer's in the way we do. What we're curing is mice who've been genetically modified to overproduce a protein that's associated with Alzheimer's, and we think that's a good model because the overproduction seems to cause symptoms that look like what Alzheimer's would look like in mice, but it's still just a model.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-16 17:27:29+00:00
My family is from those regions, and I visit there fairly often. There is an ecological hit, but the connectivity is also a net benefit for most of our villages.

In a lot of these villages, before these winterized roads and dams were deployed, power was nonexistent, and if someone had a medical emergency that required surgery, they needed to be airlifted by the IAF or ITBP via helicopter, which added significant lag time as they are also facing a hot border with China.

The ecological hit is significant, but someone who can afford to live in a rich cantt town like Landsdowne is to be brutally honest out of touch with the reality of most Paharis face.

A bigger problem that I feel hasn't been touched on as much because it isn't as sexy is the fact that zoning laws are eschewed in urban areas and outside investors are create large buildings right on the edge of hills, leaving them open to erosion-induced landslide risks because that would require cutting down trees and thus reducing the natural erosion protection that root systems provide.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-16 17:27:29+00:00
It's admittedly a bit difficult because we vote for so many things. President and VP, 2 senate, 2 representatives, then any number of state congressmen(mmost states have their own "senators" but operating within that state only), several district attorneys, mayor, comptroller, and state judges. Even your school board in your district is on the ballot. And lastly, any number of propositions to vote.

It's a big reason I vote from home. Properly researching every candidate on a ballot can legitimately be a full day's work. Spreading that out to a week of iteration helps a lot.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-16 17:27:36+00:00
> How do you determine that people are knowledgeable and are going to help you grow? How do you verify they’re “knowledgeable”?

How do we do this with tech topics? We rely on our expert knowledge to evaluate the claims of others. If someone is seriously asking this question about political discussion on HN that means they're not at the point where they're ready to have political discussions that are anything more than just saying "hey did you read that mainstream news article?" "yeah".

If you know even a modicum of politics or political theory it's almost trivial to prove, disprove, or add color to what's being said in these threads. If you want a really simple way to do this hop onto one of the big prediction markets like Polymarket or Kalshi. You can probably disprove a solid 15% of top-ranked commenters just by doing that.

If you want to use more brainpower, hop over to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and read one of their long articles. In particular they have a great set of articles on US policy thinking around China right now. It's pretty saddening to read HN commentary on China and compare it to CEIP's readings.

The conclusion I've come to on this site is that the incentives around participating on a public internet site, like HN, Reddit, Facebook, etc are such that they attract a crowd of people who are more interested in talking than listening or understanding. There's a subset of them who really enjoy debating but without being grounded in fact or consequence from misprediction it turns largely into verbal sparring games. There's also little difference between these sites because from what I can tell it's the same set of people attracted to all of the same sites.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-16 17:27:53+00:00
I’m pretty sure DoorDash is the one who increases the price on their end, not the business. And what’s more, they don’t separate the addition out. It’s rolled in to the cost of the item.

I’d be very curious what the conversation is between them. I highly doubt DoorDash negotiates with every restaurant on their platform and wouldn’t be surprised to discover they just tack it on independently. I could see that raising some interesting questions.

All of this is predicated on “ifs” and assumptions, so feel free to throw it out. Just kind of musing here lol
by spelk | 2025-10-16 17:28:09+00:00
Not mentioned is the ability to setup custom prompts. [1]

I enjoy reading technical blogs from the global south and the slavic world. I've found that LLMs do a far better job at translation than Google Translate/DeepL, etc. in these niche domains, so I added a translate prompt to my context menu and that converted me over to using it.

[1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/advanced-configur...
by tstrimple | 2025-10-16 17:28:14+00:00
I guess it depends on what the common failure mode is. During the 2020 derecho our neighborhood with buried lines was without power for roughly four hours and it's the only time our power has gone out for any significant time in the 10 years I've been here. It wasn't even our buried lines that had the problem, but the lines serving them. Places in the city with poled power delivery were down for up to two weeks. There have been multiple times where houses surrounding us are out of power but ours just keeps chugging along.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-16 17:28:27+00:00
Why would it be illegal? If you think of it as Doordash buying the pizza and then reselling it to you, there'd be no reason not to expect a mark up. You're allowed to price discriminate between different market segments, so even if we pitch Doordash as merely a third party delivery offering, restaurants could still charge Doordash customers more than those that come into their storefront.
by pklausler | 2025-10-16 17:28:38+00:00
That's a reasonable assumption, but it turns out to rarely be the case with WG5/SC22/J3. There are exceptions (like SIND, SINPI, &c.), but most new features in Fortran standards are committee inventions without prototypes, reference implementations, or official conformance test suites. This leads to incompatible implementations, and then lack of use in codes that need to be portable. It's a mess, really. I have a test suite of examples of this kind of thing that accumulated during the implementation of flang-new, in which it was a difficult task to figure out what portable Fortran really means in a way that's meaningful to users.
by wredcoll | 2025-10-16 17:28:44+00:00
I mean, it depends if the amount is $10billion or $10, but generally they start by sending you a letter at wherever they think you live saying "hello, please write us a check for $x, thanks".

Then they do that... again. At some point they probably put your name on some kind of list of Bad Taxpayers but unless we're talking millions here they probably aren't sending agents after you in specific.
by naasking | 2025-10-16 17:28:45+00:00
My point is that secure boot isn't the only way forward, and depending on your circumstances, a foundation built on something like seL4 could suffice for particular applications. And it doesn't even require a whole new OS or foundation like seL4, even Windows has the right core primitives if they're used in the right way [1]. And that work was from 2005, not 40 years ago, but still long before any of this really became an issue.

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/research/polaris-2/
by toast0 | 2025-10-16 17:28:52+00:00
> So I'm wondering why can't we have a project that starts from scratch and build the electronics and the OS?

That was kind of what OpenMoko was ... the end result was pretty lackluster IMHO. Starting from a finished, proven hardware design is probably worthwhile to avoid shipping a phone that can't actually connect to real networks, and can't actually make phone calls if it does connect.
by 5555624 | 2025-10-16 17:28:54+00:00
Are you sure about that? I thought the restaurant does. On DoorDash's Help page (https://help.doordash.com/merchants/s/article/How-to-Maximiz...) There's a quote: "To provide a high-quality experience for all of our customers, we set prices on DoorDash the same as our in-store prices. DoorDash even enables operators to set different pricing for delivery and pickup, but a core part of us providing high-quality customer service is accomplished through our consistent menu pricing." - Manuel Bucio, Owner, Razpachos" That seems to indicate the restaurant sets the prices.
by glenstein | 2025-10-16 17:29:01+00:00
Welp, here we go again. The CEO pay is slightly more than 1% of their revenue, which sure, I don't love, but they're not like secretly poisoning kittens or something which is how you're making it sound.

Those salaries actually seem pretty normal, and I don't think anything other than ordinary information literacy is necessary to understand they have a non-profit foundation side by side with the corporation, it's not a hidden conspiracy.

Also, on HN I think people are largely familiar with these data, so sharing numbers with an air of dramatic revelation seems tonally inappropriate. Though I love that, of the random accusations thrown at Mozilla, one of them is constantly pingponging back and forth between claiming they're running out of money or that they are awash in profits.

I do think there are real issues: killing Servo was a tragedy, "privacy protecting ads" I think is conceptually fallacious, it seems like with Android forcing developer certification that the world could have used a FirefoxOS right about now which they unfortunately abandoned many years ago. But the community phenomenon of reeling off ordinary pay figures like they're a conspiracy feels more like an inadvertent confession of functional illiteracy when interpreting financial data.

I wish we talked about the real stuff (pushing back on their dabbling in ads) instead of breathlessly sharing misunderstood graphs of browser market share to try and imply that side bets made from 2020-2025 retroactively caused the market share losses of 2010-2015.
by Delk | 2025-10-16 17:29:24+00:00
I suspect failing to report significant income to the tax authorities would be considered tax fraud in just about any legislation. If there weren't any kind of a potential penalty for failing to report or for significantly under-reporting, doing so would be potentially beneficial with no drawbacks.

Failing to report income or reporting false information for financial gain can lead to extra tax or prosecution for tax fraud where I live. I'd definitely be careful to report all income if I had income from sources that don't automatically withhold taxes, especially if it were significant.

I don't think they'll drag you to criminal court if you make a small mistake, though. But if you fail to report thousands of euros of income and the authorities get wind of it, sure, especially if it seems intentional.

I don't know if the risk of prosecution or other legal consequences is somehow greater in the US.
by jmkni | 2025-10-16 17:29:41+00:00
I might be in the minority here but I've consistently found Gemini to be better than ChatGPT, Claude and Deepseek (I get access to all of the pro models through work)

Maybe it's just the kind of work I'm doing, a lot of web development with html/scss, and Google has crawled the internet so they have more data to work with.

I reckon different models are better at different kinds of work, but Gemini is pretty excellent at UI/UX web development, in my experience

Very excited to see what 3.0 is like
by nightski | 2025-10-16 17:29:59+00:00
I lived in rural areas a large portion of my life. What you are describing is limited to areas with extremely small populations. Meaning even my hometown of a few thousand has a Walmart (put up when I was a kid in the 90s) an Aldi, and two local grocery stores with tons of healthy options.

So yeah, there are a lot of towns that fit that criteria (less than 1000 residents). But as a portion of U.S. population it is not substantial in any way.
by SR2Z | 2025-10-16 17:30:08+00:00
ICE is operating beyond the strict bounds of the law, and also violating important normative statements like "the government does not send masked agents to haul people away in public without warrants."

The Supreme Court has ruled a lot of it constitutional. The Supreme Court is wrong and captured by the GOP through procedural fuckery.

If you are a true American, then the sight of one of these ICE raids should send a cold bolt of fear up your spine because they are superficially indistinguishable from the Gestapo.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-10-16 17:30:08+00:00
Frameworks in langauges that don't use macros have this problem too that's what I was getting at with the DSL vs API thing. I don't want to litigate the worthiness of macros for a given purpose here. But if you don't use them for this you have to use something for this the problem doesn't go away.

Wherever rails or phoenix has macro-defined syntax to handle a specific task, laravel or whatever will have a collection of related functions that need to be used in very specific ways to accomplish the same thing. Whether this collection is a "class" with an "api" or whether it is a "language" defined around this "domain" you will have the abstraction and the complexity.

Having a preference for one approach of managing this abstraction & complexity seems fine but "a collection of DSLs" is pretty much what a web framework is so that can't be the problem here.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-16 17:30:24+00:00
While I don't live in a food desert where these kind of stores are the only option, I have, in fact, regularly found plain yogurt in gas-station convenience stores, the even smaller refrigerated-food sections in urban drug stores, etc.

Now, fresh produce, except—if you are very lucky—extremely expensive (for the quantity), relatively small packs of cut carrots and other things people might reasonably purchase as snacks, anything usable as a cooking fat excepted salted butter, and lots of other things, sure, you are going to be SOL, but plain yogurt (both the usually watery American kind and strained "Greek” yogurt) seems pretty common.
by noirscape | 2025-10-16 17:31:27+00:00
I might actually do that; like I said, I mostly just moved on to nginx eventually because it happened to fit how I wanted to configure a server. It was mostly me comparing nginx to caddy.

One thing I did like about Apache back in the day was that it made it really easy to give per served web folder configuration. Nowadays I just toss stuff on a subdomain (cuz there's little reason not to), but if you only have one hostname to put things on (ie. a homelab thatt you can only access by local IP address), that's obviously not an option. .htaccess files were pretty neat for doing that.

Nginx can't really do that as easily, you have to start futzing with different location blocks and it kinda gets messy quickly.

On a not-so-relevant note, I do think Apache has probably the nicest "dirlist" out of all of them. Nginx's is really ugly and Caddy's feels too overdesigned.
by lz400 | 2025-10-16 17:32:10+00:00
I think there are actually more school shootings than mass shootings because mass requires ~4 victims and school doesn't. There were ~330 shootings in 2024. 70 people died. 200 wounded.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/us-school-shootings-2...
by pembrook | 2025-10-16 17:32:14+00:00
I see "Get a demo" as the only call-to-action and a bunch of other venture-backed Saas startups as your customers...so I'm guessing pricing will be...high.

This might sound vaguely pessimistic, but I'm getting the nagging feeling lately that we might be inflating a ponzi scheme of B2B saas selling exclusively to other B2B saas companies for niche B2B saas use cases.

In earlier generations of Saas the assumption was you land and expand from there to wider markets. But this seems so specifically tailored to the needs of other VC-funded B2B Saas companies...

As the things that fall under [vibe code-able in 1 hour] expands, at what point does building platforms like this for semi-technical B2B Saas employees not make sense any more?

Like, if you're smart enough to figure out an agent that connects the OpenAI API to the Zendesk API can automate something...at what point do you just set it up yourself instead of dealing with the sales vultures at [insert YC startup] and also fighting your own internal procurement process...just so you might be able to have that agent running in 1-6 months?

In enterprise I can totally see value in having help during setup and an external throat to choke when things go wrong, but at that point, isn't that a consulting agency masquerading as a Saas platform?
by secabeen | 2025-10-16 17:32:21+00:00
FWIW, Greek Yogurt is not the same as Yogurt, it's a different product. Those two items are not "essentially the same thing". Also, low/zero-fat yogurts dominate the market in the US. Plain Whole-Milk traditional yogurt is more available now than it was a decade or two ago, but it's still nowhere as common as the high-sugar flavored ones.
by flykespice | 2025-10-16 17:32:59+00:00
I remember Graf Zahl threatening to leave the project because Zdoom lead dev Randiheit pitched to add Lua scripting to ZDoom which he vehemently opposed due to his high bias with C/C++ syntax which he found Lua very unlike, which led to him creating Zscript that had has a more familiar C/C++ syntax.

The thing is Graf Zahl has long treated GZDoom as its personal pet peeve project without regard to the community wishes and constantly disrespecting his contributors peers and bugreports.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-10-16 17:33:14+00:00
Doordash itself appears to add at least $1 to all menu items. Which is horrible for certain restaurants that do à la carte. Eg. My local indian place ends up with doubled/tripled prices on Doordash.

Eg. Papad = $0.49 each directly from my local Indian restaurants site (they sell by the single), Doordash gives a price of $1.50 per papad.

Likewise with Naans, dips, etc. All have $1 added. Which can make a $10 lunch ~ $25.

I believe it's Doordash doing this. What gets really weird is Uber Eats and Grubhub seem to match prices and charge exactly the same as Doordash.

For anyone to repeat this. Look up your local indian places actual menu. You'll likely need to use Google images for the name of the restaurant to find an actual picture of a physical menu. Now look up any of the online services, they all seem to price match each other and they'll all have doubled prices for things like naan or roti.
by singularity2001 | 2025-10-16 17:33:34+00:00
Also the post does not contain a single word how it relates to the very similar agents in claude code. Capabilities, connectors, tasks, apps, custom-gpts, ... the space needs some serious consolidation and standardization!

I noticed the general tendency for overlap also when trying to update claude since 3+ methods conflicted with each other (brew, curl, npm, bun, vscode).

Might this be the handwriting of AI? ;)
by tempusalaria | 2025-10-16 17:33:58+00:00
Lots of situations, here are 2 I’ve faced recently (cannot give too much detail for privacy reasons, but should be clear enough)

1) low latency desired, long user prompt 2) function runs many parallel requests, but is not fired with common prefix very often. OpenAI was very inconsistent about properly caching the prefix for use across all requests, but with Anthropic it’s very easy to pre-fire
by gnabgib | 2025-10-16 17:33:59+00:00
Discussion (180 points, 2 months ago, 207 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008434

Recent/related: NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference (113 points, 3 days ago, 93 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45575127

Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem (178 points, 2 days ago, 106 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586776