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qwerty2020··on Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
Cost per token is an extremely naive way to index cost, renders this chart essentially meaningless.
qwerty2020··on Monthly mortgage payment based on varying interest rate x home prices
Oof - thanks, appreciate it
qwerty2020··on Monthly mortgage payment based on varying interest rate x home prices
For some reason HN keeps changing my URL when I post this article. Supposed to link to https://therentalwire.com/blog/home_prices_interest_rates_se...

But keeps changing it to https://therentalwire.com/#

If anyone has had a similar experience / knows how to resolve please let me know. It's just a simple static site hosted on Github pages but HN keeps replacing submission with root domain.

qwerty2020··on Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
Good point re: Asia presence and agree they seem confident + have the balance sheet to back it up.

Overall would just be nice to see weekly splits of revenue from all these companies instead of the vague descriptors we're getting. Would be much easier to project worst case/Q2 that way.

qwerty2020··on Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
Effects were also only included in ~2-3 weeks of Q1 earnings.
qwerty2020··on How much free time do you have?
Author here - I find a lot of those mentioned personally enjoyable too, but what I was essentially trying to do was quantify my own 'must do' activities (e.g. if I don't sleep ~8hrs/night things go downhill fast, etc) regardless of whether or not I enjoy them.

From there, I view the remaining time as truly open, not requiring working, or general meat sack maintenance. Categorization can definitely go either way though. Part of the message, aside from just quantifying how limited time is, would be to find enjoyment where you can in your 'mandatory' activities too as they'll represent the bulk of your life.

qwerty2020··on How much free time do you have?
Author here - I would consider my lifestyle intentionally laid back, yes (to the capacity I'm able to at least) :)

However, it's just a 4 day standard weight lifting routine (1 hr/day) but includes total time door to door (changing, commuting, lifting, commuting back). I enjoy this though, so aside from the mood/longevity benefits would do it anyways.

qwerty2020··on Warren Buffett Sees Most Newspapers as ‘Toast’ After Ad Decline
Article doesn't reference anything re: overall ad spend being down, just ad spend for newspapers specifically. Overall spend looks to be growing [1] so would assume people investing in more efficient channels.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272314/advertising-spend...

qwerty2020··on Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes [video]
I like how Boston Dynamics decided to monetize this YT video. Those robots don't pay for themselves
qwerty2020··on Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
Great planet money podcast on this [1] with owner of site [2] that tries to surface fake reviews.

[1] https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

[2] https://reviewmeta.com/

qwerty2020··on U.S. counties with the highest annual savings potential
Yep - almost as scary as the stat that "40% of American adults can't cover a $400 emergency expense"[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/22/fed-survey-40-percent-of-adu...

qwerty2020··on Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout (2004) [pdf]
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
qwerty2020··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2017?
I make ~$200-250/month with Find-me[1]. Essentially a database with statistics and contact information for content creators actively looking for advertisers/sponsorship opportunities.

Had a lot on the road map (creating more of a platform) but have pivoted to other projects since this doesn't seem to be getting the traction I was hoping for.

[1] www.find-me.co

Also make ~$1.5k/year from old Udemy courses on pretty basic topics (beginner-level SQL, Google Sheets, etc).

qwerty2020··on We might be swinging away from the newsfeed
Have been seeing similar overload of information on Reddit as well (HN not quite there yet, but would imagine it's not too far behind). The front page is littered with images/gifs of bite size information/memes. A few years ago, I'd learn something new almost every time I visited the front page.

I created a tool [1] that lets users aggregate top posts from selected subreddits and receive a daily email summary, but I think there can be more done in this space. Would also like a better discovery mechanism for things that I may be interested in that aren't obviously connected to current content (e.g. someone interested in programming may be interested in art as well, if fed nice introduction to that information/scene, but current algos just stick to known interests).

[1] www.storyrake.com

qwerty2020··on The Illusion of a Profitable Amazon Prime Now and Prime Fresh
Have not been to a physical grocery store in over 6 months because of Amazon Prime Fresh. Would be willing to pay much more than I do now after being accustomed to saving so much time.
qwerty2020··on Show HN: Storyrake – A tool to create your own Reddit-powered newsletter
Here’s why I made Storyrake:

-I’m a fan of email newsletters, and use my inbox to curate/manage a good deal of content

-I subscribe to too many subreddits, so some of my favorites rarely make the front page due to lower traffic (and upvote) volumes.

-I wanted a snapshot summary covering top content from my favorite subreddits, without having to visit each individual subreddit or be bombarded with a stream of content through an RSS feed

Long-term, I’m planning to add ability to subscribe to summaries covering ‘topics’ on reddit (agnostic of the subreddit they are posted in), as well as a few additional sites (Hackernews, ProductHunt, etc).

Would love any feedback/suggestions!

qwerty2020··on U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold
Posted something along these lines a few months ago [1], but with a few more stats.

https://erikrood.com/Posts/consumer_expenditures.html

qwerty2020··on Calculating fair value of a stock using DCF
Here's the small calculator I made using the methodology in the writeup: https://erikrood.com/Posts/stock_value_dcf.html
qwerty2020··on Protecting Trivia Apps from Cheaters
Can you share your complete code? Having trouble with the launch.py step.
qwerty2020··on Tobacco industry generates highest net income per employee
Author here -- boxplot distribution is in the article.

Also, any story I could string together would definitely be speculative, so just stuck to the few facts I know for purposes of article. Will speculate here, however :) -- I'm going to guess primary driver is efficient manufacturing coupled with simple product offering. (e.g. this isn't some Tech company employing X% of it's workforce for R&D purposes)

qwerty2020··on Show HN: Find-me – Connecting advertisers with content creators
Thanks for the feedback, super valuable at this stage! I will work on getting something graphical for the top of the landing page. I think the 'how it works' section of my landing page has the copy you mention resonating with you, but will be good to get the graphics to tie out. Thanks again!
qwerty2020··on Show HN: Find-me – Connecting advertisers with content creators
Recently launched [1] this on product hunt, Find-me is my first 'shipped' product.

Basically, it's a database with statistics and direct contact information for content creators actively looking for advertisers and sponsorship opportunities. We cover over 79,000,000 impressions and growing.

Access to full database is $9/month, but also have a free email list where we feature one creator per week.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/find-me-2

qwerty2020··on Show HN: Database of top domains on Reddit
thought people would find it interesting to view subreddit-level detail. swapped it to shown domain grain for now
qwerty2020··on Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
https://www.mescale.co

Simple online weight logging app with pretty charts, first web app I've actually pushed out into the public. It doesn't make a dime, but I love tweaking it and seeing the user number slowly climb.

qwerty2020··on Consumer expenditure survey illustrating the income divide
Does not include dependents, groups into families. May include retirees though I could not verify this either. (you're welcome to dig through the data linked in the article yourself, let me know if you find anything). I think the general point would still stand even excluding retirees, but agree that would be a more telling cut of data.
qwerty2020··on Consumer expenditure survey illustrating the income divide
After tax income. If you dig through the data [1] you'll find that.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cex/tables.htm#annual

qwerty2020··on Consumer expenditure survey illustrating the income divide
This surprised me as well, but given the negative ROI of many college degrees, I suppose it's not all that surprising. [1] Also, assuming that they are counting 2-year colleges in this calculation as well, though I could not find an answer to that.

[1] http://erikrood.com/Posts/college_roi_.html

qwerty2020··on Consumer expenditure survey illustrating the income divide
Updated both, thanks.
qwerty2020··on Consumer expenditure survey illustrating the income divide
ah, yep, good eye! will fix this evening when I get back to computer
qwerty2020··on Research does not say that people produce more when working 40 hours per week
100% agree -- made a small free time calculator along these lines awhile back [1]

[1] - http://www.datadriventhoughts.com/2016/09/27/how-much-free-t...

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