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patd commented on Untrusted chatbot AI between you & the internet is a disaster waiting to happen macwright.com/2025/05/29/... · Posted by u/panic

throwaway81523 · 3 months ago

MCP sounds like a plain horrible idea because of this ;).

patd · 3 months ago

Except that you choose the MCP servers you use and you get to see the answers they give.

To me, it mitigates the problem slightly by making it less hidden.

patd commented on Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/saltysalt

samtho · 2 years ago

Driving an EV in the EU is way more enjoyable than the US because you’ll know that you’ll find a CCS2 connector, at least.

patd · 2 years ago

Assuming it works and has enough stalls. My experience with Ionity has been pretty bad so I’m just sticking with the Tesla Superchargers when I’m driving in a foreign country.

patd commented on SpaceX poised for 'mid-November' launch of second Starship test flight spaceflightnow.com/2023/1... · Posted by u/kristianp

guilamu · 2 years ago

I mostly agree with your comment but "he shutdown Starlink in Ukraine" is misinfo? Musk literally say he did it. How is that misinfo? https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/07/elon-musk...

patd · 2 years ago

Your own link says that Walter Isaacson retracted the claim.

patd commented on 30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 8% for the first time since 2000 cnbc.com/2023/10/18/30-ye... · Posted by u/throwoutway

afandian · 2 years ago

A family member recently got a long term fixed low rate mortgage in Belgium and I’m curious about how different things are compared to the UK. UK mortgages are higher, shorter term.

Is the Belgian bank losing money compared to the UK one? Is there state intervention?

patd · 2 years ago

There is no state intervention. Depending on market conditions, a 30 years fixed can have a higher rate than 25 years.

It’s basically hedged with long term bonds (Belgian or European) + a profit margin for the bank + risk based on your profile (age, health, employment history, …)

I guess UK banks are just hedging with shorter term bonds compared to Belgian ones.

patd commented on 30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 8% for the first time since 2000 cnbc.com/2023/10/18/30-ye... · Posted by u/throwoutway

thinkerswell · 2 years ago

What is the cause of it being do different from the rest of the world?

patd · 2 years ago

We also have 20 to 30 years fixed rates in Belgium. It seems to be possible in France, Germany, The Netherlands, …

So I’m not sure that the US is actually an exception.

patd commented on Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints reuters.com/investigates/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

cowsandmilk · 2 years ago

No reason it has to show the EPA range. My family’s Subaru has “learned” that it lives in the mountains and the range estimates reflect that. And I’m pretty sure it’s a simply looking at what kind of gas mileage it got recently. When we have kayaks on top of the car, it readjusts the mileage estimates down pretty quickly.

All these comments about ICE vehicles being the same ignore that when ICE vehicles have estimates to empty, they take basic steps to try to get the estimate correct.

patd · 2 years ago

With your system, if I live somewhere flat and I go to the mountains, I will be out of juice during the climb. Tesla has a battery indicator in percentage and the navigation which is pretty accurate. Your ICE car has a gauge for the tank and an estimation of range.

Tesla should probably not allow you to show the battery as range as it will always be inaccurate and people will complain. But if they only show percentages, people complain as well.

patd commented on VanMoof encryption key exporter github.com/grossartig/van... · Posted by u/doener

yabatopia · 2 years ago

Going from Vanmoof to Cowboy Bikes is like switching from the plague to cholera.

Same modus operandi: excessively VC funded, lots of hype, proprietary parts, mounting losses, loosing money with every sale, ... and it's getting worse every year. Cowboy Bikes is just another bankruptcy waiting to happen.

patd · 2 years ago

The team behind Cowboy also has a history of going bankrupt and not doing the right thing. Their previous venture was a Uber Eats competitor and they took the end user’s money until the end but never paid the restaurants nor the deliverers. That’s the main reason why I can’t get myself to buy one their bike. But it seems Van Moof wasn’t any better.

patd commented on Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? practical.engineering/blo... · Posted by u/fomine3

reso · 2 years ago

I am a fan of SpaceX, but I doubt we'll see another test in 2023, and at their pace they are ~5-10 "tests" from having a usable rocket. Starship is still 5+ years away.

patd · 2 years ago

I think it will mostly depend on the FAA. It seems SpaceX is still hoping another launch in the coming months.

patd commented on Client-side encryption for Gmail in Google Workspace is now generally available workspaceupdates.googlebl... · Posted by u/bertman

influx · 3 years ago

What about Google Purchases reading my Amazon receipts?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase...

Now my Amazon emails are neutered.

Thanks.

patd · 3 years ago

He specifically said Google Workspace which is the non-free version of the Google suite.

patd commented on Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for? · Posted by u/mrprogrammerguy

mrweasel · 3 years ago

So here is an API we would have paid for, and I assume many still will: A product catalog. They do exist, but they are expensive and aren't not that great.

What we where after and gave up on was an API that would accept an EAN-13 barcode and return product details, images, good descriptions, in multiple language (specifically NOT machine translated) and possible alternative EAN-13 barcodes for the same product.

As a side project to this: An API that will take a list of EAN-13 barcode, a price and a quantity (in stock) and transform it into a number of feeds for various price comparison sites. Again, it exists, but it's expensive, not all that good and it certainly doesn't automatically add product name, descriptions, categories and product attributes.

I think that issue here is, and it's almost bound be the same for most other APIs, it's the data that's interesting. So what data do you have access to that most others don't? My guess is that there aren't any large and interesting dataset that a random person on HN can easily sell, that isn't already readily available.

patd · 3 years ago

Not exactly what you need but I think it may be close.

I’m running a SaaS turning affiliate platform content into an API which can be looked up by EAN13 : https://datafeedapi.com

Current users are publishers wanting to display affiliate links on their website but I could probably repurpose it for a more generic product search API without the affiliate links and different pricing. If anyone is interested, you can reach me at patrick_[at]_datafeedapi.com

Doc is here : https://datafeedapi.com/api/v1/redoc/