Hacker News with Generative AI: Cost Analysis

What Elon Musk Didn't Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too (nytimes.com)
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
Elon Musk, Cost Analysis, Government, Federal Workforce, Economy
15 points by ceejayoz 18 hours ago | 1 comments
PackagePhobia – Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project (packagephobia.com)
Find the cost of adding a new dev dependency to your project
Software Development, Software Dependencies, Project Management, Cost Analysis
36 points by pabs3 37 days ago | 44 comments
Are electric cars that much cheaper to operate? (pavlinbg.com)
Recently, I engaged in a conversation about the cost-effectiveness of electric vehicles (EVs) compared to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with a friend. This discussion prompted me to conduct a detailed analysis of the potential cost savings associated with owning an EV, particularly focusing on fuel savings and overall cost return.
Electric Vehicles, Cost Analysis, Fuel Savings
57 points by Pavlinbg 67 days ago | 334 comments
Spotify is not as cheap as it seems (newstatesman.com)
On Sunday 7 January 2024 at 8.06am, I listened to the 1998 Eurodance hit “Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!” by the Vengaboys.
Music Streaming, Spotify, Cost Analysis
6 points by New_Statesman 68 days ago | 0 comments
Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find (techxplore.com)
For most countries around the world, sourcing energy entirely from wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower by 2050 would reduce their energy needs and costs, improve air quality, and help slow climate change, according to a study in Environmental Science & Technology.
Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Research, Cost Analysis
581 points by Brajeshwar 70 days ago | 502 comments
How much does The Cloud really cost? (baremetalsavings.com)
Cloud Computing, Cost Analysis, Business
24 points by thunderbong 125 days ago | 9 comments
Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships (newscenter.lbl.gov)
Retrofitting a portion of the US shipping fleet from internal combustion engines to battery-electric systems could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and be largely cost effective by 2035, according to a new study from Berkeley Lab researchers recently published in Nature Energy.
Environment, Shipping, Energy, Sustainability, Cost Analysis
50 points by gnabgib 157 days ago | 99 comments
A Lunar Space Elevator Could Be Built for $2B [pdf] (hou.usra.edu)
Space Exploration, Engineering, Lunar Exploration, Cost Analysis
20 points by JumpCrisscross 167 days ago | 24 comments
How 15 Top LLMs perform on classification: accuracy vs. cost breakdown (airtrain.ai)
Historically, classification tasks used to be non-trivial endeavors, both in terms of human-power and cost. It would require a specialized model trained on a large labeled dataset; a consequential project involving tasks such as gathering the data, labeling the data, training and evaluating the model, monitoring and retraining, etc.
Generative AI, Machine Learning, Classification, Cost Analysis
13 points by idrisschebak 186 days ago | 0 comments
Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations (spliit.app)
I created Spliit a few years ago, but the version you can use today is only one year old. As a user suggested on GitHub, it’s a great opportunity to release some information about the project as a transparency exercise.
Open Source, Software Development, Cost Analysis, Community Funding
264 points by scastiel 190 days ago | 148 comments
Can solar costs keep shrinking? (tomaspueyo.com)
Solar Energy, Cost Analysis, Renewable Energy
401 points by GoRudy 240 days ago | 618 comments
Boeing's Starliner has cost at least twice as much as SpaceX's Crew Dragon (arstechnica.com)
Space Exploration, Aerospace, Business, Cost Analysis
8 points by mikece 268 days ago | 0 comments
Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper (152334H.github.io)
Artificial Intelligence, Research, Cost Analysis, Google DeepMind
303 points by 152334H 270 days ago | 150 comments
Cost of developing new drugs may be lower than industry claims: trial (theguardian.com)
Pharmaceuticals, Drug Development, Research, Cost Analysis, Healthcare
275 points by swores 366 days ago | 282 comments