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but doesn't this ignore that a lot of the light now absorbed is become electricity instead of heat?

Hey HN! My brothers and I have worked on this for the last 2 weeks. We use OpenAI's `text-embedding-ada-002` model to embed queries and a vector database to search for similar vers…

yes, they implemented the resulting algorithms and have charts showing real world performance on GPUs and TPUs

Houston did/does have laws that are in effective zoning laws. Parking space requirements, setbacks, etc. Also transit systems may be required. I imagine a place with truly no zonin…

I used to be Mormon, I think Mormon culture is the main reason. This article seems to describe the reasons well: https://religionnews.com/2017/06/20/10-reasons-mormons-domin...

> Not to mention the financial sustainability of the past 50 years of construction ? you think we are overbuilding?

Many ways to deal with this. 1) fake wallets (give them a key to some coins but not all) 2) multisig - someone else has to provide the other half of the key or what you can give th…

The total value of all currency right now is far higher than the value of all the gold - if there was some sort of rush back to gold the price increase would be tremendous

why are they not updating the value?

you don't have to move that far to escape all that. Plenty of areas an hour away from San Jose that are nice and a lot cheaper (still more expensive than Texas or Florida, sure).

Sure but I was responding to a comment regarding Coinbase.

I feel like a $1000 fee would be something most people would remember and complain about to friends and family...

Yeah that's a pretty well known case, specific to Litecoin. Also crypto has come a long way since 2016

Even if we're at the same home price / income ratio as 2008, a big difference is mortgage rates. In 2008 a 30 year was 5.5%-6.5%. Now it's 3%. So we aren't yet near 2008 levels of …

> There is nothing actually better about crypto for this application > The most obvious would be to sell shares in a corporation or LLC Well certainly you can do it faster with cry…

> crypto brings absolutely nothing to the table that I can discern except an increased risk of getting scammed So you think it'd have the same chances of success if it didn't invol…

I keep several tarantulas and a few other spiders, and they are absolutely fascinating! Your description of the spider waving its arms and running from side to side makes me think …

If they had "no problem" cannibalizing their offspring, they'd quickly go extinct! In reality, cannibalizing of offspring only occurs in particular circumstances - if conditions ar…

> By that definition, gold too is a ponzi. No, gold clearly fails to satisfy that definition on two counts. > First, few if any gold investors have expectations of profits. They ge…

The main use case I've always seen is to use bloom filters on the client side to reduce traffic to the server looking things up. As you said, you could cache 250 million integers i…

Isn't that more than 10 years ago?

Same here, we bought a new Subaru Crosstrek the end last year. Looking at the depreciation curve we found that the car didn't really depreciate more the first couple years than it …

San and French lines have been separated by 50-100k years at least, right? So if Denisovans are more different from Neanderthals than that, why do you think the Denisovan bone was …

We have plenty of Neanderthal genetic sequences. So seeing even just one Denisovan sequence showing a large divergence from all the other Neanderthal sequences is enough to demonst…

I don't see the contradiction here?