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New comment by not_math in "I replaced a $1K/month radar API with a self-hosted $7/mo EC2"

not_math — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:42:39 +0000

I was waiting on the update [1], thanks for publishing the code, I'll take a look.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586878

New comment by not_math in "Speed up responses with fast mode"

not_math — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:21:30 +0000

Given that providers of open source models can offer Kimi K2.5 at input $0.60 and output $2.50 per million tokens, I think the cost of inference must be around that. We would still need to compare the tokens per second.

New comment by not_math in "The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain"

not_math — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:53:24 +0000

There's a program called Hilo [1] in Québec where it's using the Hydro-Québec Rate Flex D [2] to automatically stop the heating during peak demand.

> With Rate Flex D, you can save quite a bit of money, since most of the time in winter, you’ll be charged less than the base rate, except during occasional peak demand events, when you’ll be charged more than the base rate.

[1] https://www.hiloenergie.com/en-ca/ [2] https://www.hydroquebec.com/residential/customer-space/rates...

New comment by not_math in "Cloudflare Workers Platform"

not_math — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:33:13 +0000

The website performance on mobile is terrible. Seems to contradict their message of performance.

New comment by not_math in "Church being moved 5 km in Kiruna, Sweden (live stream)"

not_math — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:50:14 +0000

Kiruna Church is moved as the mine cracks from the ore mining in Kiirunavaara are getting closer to the church.

New comment by not_math in "Google reveals sky-high Gemini usage numbers in antitrust case"

not_math — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:57:34 +0000

"User" here is most likely people being forced to see the Gemini output on Google Search.

New comment by not_math in "ADHD Planner by Lately"

not_math — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:46:54 +0000

Nice idea! It would be great if we could see how the app works on the landing page.

New comment by not_math in "Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host"

not_math — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:18:18 +0000

Do you happen to have a blog? This type of investigative journalism is really interesting and would love to read more.

New comment by not_math in "Have Swiss scientists made a chocolate breakthrough?"

not_math — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:57:31 +0000

There's a John Oliver episode about the chocolate industry, you can check it out on YouTube.

Of course there's no logo saying the chocolate is made with child slavery, I hope you didn't mean to be snarky here.

There are initiatives to try to alleviate the problem, the only example I have in mind right now is Tony's Chocolonely (which explains the problem and their solution on their website) but I'm sure others could come up with other initiatives.

The trends from top companies of chocolate is that they try to do as little as possible to alleviate the problem of child slavery in chocolate production.

New comment by not_math in "Has Generative AI Already Peaked? [video]"

not_math — Fri, 10 May 2024 16:26:00 +0000

But this hasn't applied for self-driving cars, there has been huge amounts of money poured into it and very smart people working on the problem and yet the results have not really been up to the level.

New comment by not_math in "Germany tests 4-day workweek amid labor shortage"

not_math — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 12:30:49 +0000

It's not listed anywhere, but they've done the same in South Africa and list the companies here: https://www.4dayweek.com/sa-2023-participants

New comment by not_math in "Infinite Craft"

not_math — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:04:22 +0000

It seems to be a limit on the input length of the elements, if they have a larger name then it does not work

New comment by not_math in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)"

not_math — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 05:20:37 +0000

You can read around [1], but getting a visa in Germany right now takes multiple months, which is probably too much for most companies. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37566992

New comment by not_math in "Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada"

not_math — Tue, 02 May 2023 00:56:07 +0000

There is good content that is being produced in Quebec, you just have to look out for it and not expect Hollywood quality production. Xavier Dolan, Denis Villeneuve and Jean-Marc Vallée (rip), Monia Chokri and more, all started their career in Quebec thanks to legislation around creating French content.

The "90% bad TV" also happens everywhere, especially in the US. The number of CSI spinoffs must be really high.

One of the dangers from YouTube/streaming platforms in regard to French Canadian content is that the economics is just not the same. For example, Linus Tech Tips have a global reach since it's English content. M. Net (now defunct tech show in Quebec) or something similar would not even be closed to compete monetarily.

New comment by not_math in "Ask HN: Why aren't we seeing ChatGPT/GPT4 spam attacks"

not_math — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 02:58:04 +0000

We've seen GPT-3 comments being banned from Stack Overflow. I also saw some people just copying the answer from ChatGPT to answer comments on Reddit. The good thing is that they all follow a certain structure that internet comments mostly don't follow, so they are easy to spot.

New comment by not_math in "Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contractor pays $1.5M fine"

not_math — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:41:24 +0000

In the article:

> Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the department assessed PSSI $15,138 for each minor-aged employee who was employed in violation of the law. The amount is the maximum civil money penalty allowed by federal law.

New comment by not_math in "Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI"

not_math — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 04:48:32 +0000

Actors are much more than just talents, by which I mean being able to carry emotions, being charismatic and delivering lines in the way a director wants it.

There is an undeniable human aspect to it that AI won't ever be able to replace. Sure, it'll probably be an important part of the industry, but saying all future media is going to be 24/7 AI generated content like that Seinfeld twitch stream is a pretty bleak view of the future.

We watch movies because we try to connect with people and share our feelings with humans. I can't relate to an AI.

New comment by not_math in "Stock market charts you never saw (2021)"

not_math — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:36:22 +0000

The Titanic cost $7.5 million to build, which is $200 million in today's money (as of 2020) [1]. I'm pretty confident this is not the cost of the average flat in London.

[1] https://www.history.com/news/titanic-facts-construction-pass...

New comment by not_math in "DaVinci Resolve for iPad"

not_math — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:23:37 +0000

Even if it's just 10%, you don't abandon 10% of your market. That's 8 billions for Apple just last quarter.

New comment by not_math in "TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging"

not_math — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:07:35 +0000

I don't get these kind of comment. What are you trying to say? That the reason this person see this content is their fault? They secretly want to see these type of videos?

There are a lot of articles and videos showing that sometimes watching just one video will suggest a ton of videos related to it, no matter if you are not interested. Machine learning and deep learning is not perfect, and sometimes the goal of the companies is not clear and may not align with your goals.

Sure, your experience will vary on Reddit, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok based on the people you follow, that's the goal of hyper-personalized feed. But you still get a trend, a social effect of the network.

For example, on Youtube, you need "clickbait" thumbnails. So even Tom Scott, who 's content is educative and entertaining, needs to follow the "trend" of Youtube to get views.

But I see these comments every time someone is blaming the weird content they are seeing on their feed: "Oh me I only see nice stuff, stop watching weird stuff". I think we can have a deeper conversation than that.