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by nmhancoc 9mo ago
Merry Christmas HN!
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by nmhancoc 9mo ago
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 significantly trickier to do.
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by nmhancoc 1y ago
Are self driving cars stagnant? Waymo seems to continue to chug along.
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by nmhancoc 1y ago
> 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 are single family homes, so there's one
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by nmhancoc 1y ago
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 with some rough numbers to see where the logic leads. You assu
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by nmhancoc 1y ago
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 argument from “100% of this tax will be charged to renters”
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by nmhancoc 1y ago
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 politically unassailable. The real reason these sorts of reforms wil
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by nmhancoc 1y ago
> 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 maintain a given occupancy rate, which is to say, they’re s
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by nmhancoc 2y ago
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 player (trained in Python) in a JavaScript version of snake fo
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
Cloudflare open sourced workerd, there's also Apache Airflow which covers some similar use cases albeit not strictly with functions.
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
WASM also tries to solve this, essentially borrowing the isolation features from browsers for cheap startup latency. Cloudflare workers is the classic example.
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
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 as a single binary and load it up with your functions. It’s
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Show HN: Q Learning Snake AI in Browser via WASM(cardamom.ai)
3 points by nmhancoc 3y ago|0 comments
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
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 category of labor historically done by men to provide for a
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
> 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 abuse is not clear cut. 1. With respect to people working
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
> 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 in retirement. I think this is slightly oversta
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
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 installed base of old engines being serviced. I do think som
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
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 startup, just like dlopen but with a small ~10% performance o
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
> 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 with rate declines, the financed cost doesn’t ne
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
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 predictive ability so far, and it’s predicting a recession. If
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
Super excited about WASM / WASI as a standardized way of running microservices. Like cloudflare workers.
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
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 “FreeBSD version of openbsd_hammer2”. They’re all under the same pr
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
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.
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Show HN: Cardamom – Deploy ML to AWS Lambda with a Function Call(cardamom.ai)
4 points by nmhancoc 3y ago|0 comments
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by nmhancoc 3y ago
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 other, but AFAIK typical road car and truck V8s do not have s
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by nmhancoc 4y ago
> I think at least one person did: Buffett. During the pandemic, he put much of the free cash flow earned by Berkshire Hathaway on safe short-term assets like treasury bills, and otherwise used it buy back shares at a stagnant price. In
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by nmhancoc 4y ago
No one expected interest rate rises like we’ve experienced. FOMC meeting minutes November, 2021: The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run. With inflation having run per
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by nmhancoc 4y ago
This is a Khan Academy video discussing full reserve banking in contrast with the fractional reserve banking system we have today. Historically it came into existence before fractional reserve, and while it has some disadvantages, one promi
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by nmhancoc 4y ago
How are you getting to an at best break-even? Looking at the most recent 10-K (12/21), if you have more recent figures I’d be happy to use those: Total deposits: 173.109B Total assets: 211.793B Of the assets, those that the go
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by nmhancoc 4y ago
> Is $250k a fixed limit for insured deposits? If your company needs more than $250k to meet a month of payroll, is it advised that you have accounts in multiple banks so that you have the necessary liquidity guaranteed as insured deposi

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