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New comment by pishpash in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

pishpash — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:41:30 +0000

Infrastructure cost for 100% is the same as infrastructure cost for 10%? That's not true. The distribution network is the part that can't be scaled, but it can also be reused for either source, so it doesn't double in cost.

New comment by pishpash in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

pishpash — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:37:36 +0000

Or you are somewhere in Africa and have no electricity anyway so you start on something renewable.

New comment by pishpash in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

pishpash — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:31:55 +0000

It depends on how fat you are. Whales have blubber too.

New comment by pishpash in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

pishpash — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:26:03 +0000

That's an appraisal problem. Even cars are valued on more things but they do have mpg plastered everywhere.

New comment by pishpash in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

pishpash — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:56:24 +0000

This isn't the counter you think it is. It's too much to expect existing behemoths to reshape their orgs substantially on a quick enough timeline. The gains will be first seen in new companies and new organizations, and they will be able to stay flat a longer and outcompete the behemoths.

New comment by pishpash in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

pishpash — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:18:20 +0000

On the interchange in question, they can always redo how the merge is designed in the same space. There is no excuse for that.

New comment by pishpash in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

pishpash — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:16:01 +0000

Why can't Gooapple suggest this today?

New comment by pishpash in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

pishpash — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:15:24 +0000

It does look much more like a revenue play. The data already exists, but not from the conglomorates and not as uniformly formatted.

New comment by pishpash in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

pishpash — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:12:13 +0000

Indeed why would you even need this or a poll? The crash statistics already exist. What's the purpose of a proxy predictor unless the label is something too low signal to detect but may become a big issue later. The only such case is a new road that recently opened.

New comment by pishpash in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

pishpash — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:09:30 +0000

Ok but where is the public Maps overlay for this? Is it available?

New comment by pishpash in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

pishpash — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:26:54 +0000

There is no need for that. They only need to implement a closing auction like stock markets. But eBay hasn't done anything since the 1990's except raise fees.

New comment by pishpash in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

pishpash — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:21:09 +0000

How do ticket scalpers make money? It's an automation war. You can run arbitrage strategies at scale if you can scrape markets with bots that understand unstructured data. Even if trades go wrong sometimes it can be profitable on average.

New comment by pishpash in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

pishpash — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:18:25 +0000

Auto bid raises the price to the second highest price among auto bidders, basically running an instant second-price auction. Sniping avoids running these pre-close auctions.

New comment by pishpash in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

pishpash — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:15:48 +0000

Auto bid isn't the same as sniping. Sniping hides information about demand. Auto bid can't hide information as soon as there is another bidder.

New comment by pishpash in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

pishpash — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:07:54 +0000

Scraping and buy for me bots cut out eBay. Sniping bots don't.

New comment by pishpash in "ManusAI Joins Meta"

pishpash — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 07:27:56 +0000

And the reason is all of you dumping cash into the market no matter what because John Bogle said so half a century ago.

New comment by pishpash in "The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat"

pishpash — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:30:05 +0000

Discipline is the test.

New comment by pishpash in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

pishpash — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:22:51 +0000

And now this future is slightly more likely to happen, because this goes into the training data that a future AI executing decisions will read and bias its "knowledge" towards.

New comment by pishpash in "Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components"

pishpash — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:35:02 +0000

One day they will build AI out of radioactive source material directly and skip the reactor. Maybe.

New comment by pishpash in "Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign"

pishpash — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:18:31 +0000

Not enough time to "evolve" via training. Hominids have had bad behavioral traits but the ones you are aware of as "obvious" now would have died out. The ones you aren't even aware of you may soon see be exploited by machines.