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Not an expert but I’m pretty sure no exceptions means you can’t use significant parts of std algorithm or the std containers. And if you’re using pooling I think RAII gets signific…

Are self driving cars stagnant? Waymo seems to continue to chug along.

> That implies an added tax burden of $500/month per unit. It's only $500/month per lot if the lot is only expected to have one unit. In the starting scenario the housing supply ar…

This actually gets at one of the main criticisms land value tax (LVT) proponents have of traditional property taxes, which tax both land and buildings. Let’s unpack your example wi…

This was a long reply and I’d like to honor it by addressing what you bring up, but there’s a lot so forgive me for jumping around. Let’s start by noting that we’ve now shifted the…

I don’t think so, actually. Real estate is a pretty small sector of the economy (maybe 13 or 14% of GDP according to Google. That’s about as much as manufacturing, but not politica…

> Taxing land will be passed through 100% to the renter Replies like this genuinely confuse me. How do you think rent prices are set now? I’ll tell you, they’re generally set to ma…

Working on Cardamom, a compiler that transforms trained ML models into C libraries for easy, simple embedding in applications. I have an example use case of embedding a snake AI pl…

Cloudflare open sourced workerd, there's also Apache Airflow which covers some similar use cases albeit not strictly with functions.

WASM also tries to solve this, essentially borrowing the isolation features from browsers for cheap startup latency. Cloudflare workers is the classic example.

Regarding number of services, I’m optimistic this will get better shortly if you follow the FaaS paradigm. In particular if you deploy in Cloudflare’s style you can deploy workerd …

Hey all, I transformed a Q learning model that was built in Python such that it now runs in browser and works with a JavaScript snake implementation, thought you all would enjoy. T…

Taking a slightly different angle than most of the comments here, what if there really is a worker shortage? Trucking seems, like trades or certain manufacturing jobs, to be in the…

> You know how I know that WFH side isn’t saying using the whole truth? They never look bad. I think this is a fair criticism but has an understandable explanation. What counts as …

> Pension/retirement arrangements where the contributions are defined but the benefits are not are a risk to the individual ... and if you get it wrong you don't have enough money …

General aviation is a pretty small market. I doubt the development costs can be justified. For reference Lycoming only switched away from carburetors around 2009, plus there’s the …

I start out with a trained ML model, transform it into equivalent C code, then compile that C code targeting WASM. Then I have a HTTP server in Go, which loads the wasm module on s…

> Why is it good for rates to come down: financing mortgages/cars/etc. comes down Not necessarily, it depends on the principal cost as well. If principal costs increase in tandem w…

Every prediction has error bars, some error bars are smaller than others. I wouldn’t be so quick to throw my hands up. For example, the yield curve inversion has had quite good pre…

Super excited about WASM / WASI as a standardized way of running microservices. Like cloudflare workers.

I’m not sure what to make of it, but amusingly your link says “OpenBSD version of netbsd_hammer2”, which itself says “NetBSD version of freebsd_hammer2”, which in turn says “FreeBS…

I used this to run ML models I compiled down to WASM from Go. Really useful to put generic, high performance HTTP / JSON handling in front of some common interchangeable code.

Hi HN! I wanted to share my machine learning compiler, hosting ML models on AWS Lambda. If you go to the linked page, there are instructions to run a script which generates a model…

Not the one you were responding to, just a car nerd. > You say that flat-plane engines do not require the complex header primaries that have to cross over from one bank to the othe…