skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banks were one of the first businesses to digitize. Big banks in the 1950s. Small banks in the 1980s. Many remain stuck on the technology of their specific era of digitization.

nCino is one of a relatively small number of players turning the complex process of operating a certain kind of bank- of which there are thousands in the US- into turning the crank on a SAAS-delivered machine.

With a new platform come capabilities for new products and services around money- not payments, as has been the hotness for quite some time, but deposits and lines of credit, for individuals and small to mid sized businesses.

And for nCino, having thousands of customers each of which has thousands to hundreds of thousands of customers, each of which has deposit and line of credit accounts, each of which has lots of transactions, and through which their survival as a business is managed- that's a really nice data set to do some really interesting analytics on.

So, yeah, important.
Your prediction isn't a prediction. It's fact. Just watch the videos posted from the previous Oculus Connect [1]. They demo some early prototypes to show their vision.

Several times I needed to pick my jaw off the floor from what they've accomplished with mapping the real world and virtualizing it. The fidelity is breathtaking.

If they keep up the pace of miniaturization we'll have Rainbow's End before we know it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL2xVXGs1SP78z-KC3S1Z...
A single silicon atom is 0.2nm... Where are these extra orders of magnitude coming from?
I ended up doing a bunch of research into and asking around about the T2 chip (which seems to be the closest thing to an IME Apple advertises) today and got a variety of responses.

The general picture I've gotten is that the T2 is probably significantly less capable of surveillance than, say, the IME. This talk [1] for example suggests (but doesn't rule out explicitly as far as I can tell) that the T2 is not connected to the PCIe interfaces for network cards, which significantly reduces the extent to which the T2 could autonomously phone home what it could learn through its direct storage access and connection to the CPU.

And yikes! No unsigned kernels would be pretty bad. I certainly wouldn't be buying if that's the case :(

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRnyasv1qbU
Donald Trump extends and expands US immigration restrictions
> ... the developer experience on MacOS has been pretty bad lately ...

Has it, though? I've never understood how people had a bad time on macOS when it came to development.

I'm developing Python, Go, Terraform, Ansible, and more, on macOS just fine. I've used Vim, gVim, VSCode, GoLand, and more without any issues. iTerm2 helps too.

What issues are you facing?
Why would they design it to require two ASICs AND an FPGA? Couldn't they just have built the FPGA program into the ASICs?
I never got celebrity stuff either. I mean I guess I think Elon Musk is really cool, but I still realize he's a person and wouldn't want him to record a birthday greeting for me.

So somebody I think is a good actor, like Keanu Reeves says "Happy Birthday, Narrator!" in a video. All I can think of is "How much did he get paid or that?" A normal person sees Keanu and they recall how cool he was in The Matrix, the emotions of admiration overwhelm them and "Happy Birthday, Normal Person!" overwhelms them with joy. Is this what happens, Normal People?

I guess we just have a different psychological makeup than most people. It's probably that emotions don't easily transfer from other people, especially in recorded media. It's probably evolutionary to prevent a few mutants from going along with the crowd.
I can't wait for it to back to normal because my employer has done an absolutely terrible job of making our infrastructure work well for remote development.

No source code allowed on laptops, but my work is on hardware devices I have to sit next to. So I have to shell to my workstation to produce binaries, port forwarding to my hardware devices to push them over, slow slow awkwad...

Part of the code base I work on is open source, so for my own sanity I'm mostly just doing that portion of work... but on my own personal (underpowered) computer. But not allowed to expense a new machine... Doing work for the corporation using my own assets...

And forced to use a chromebook as my laptop, with its awful ssh support...

Sorry, this can't end soon enough. But it won't for us until January or so. They need to fix this, or I need to find an employer who is competent at WFH.
Apple go down the Samsung route and license RDNA tech for their ARM GPUs - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-rdna-exynos-samsung-so...
When journalists try to take down startups
I don't have the link on hand but I saw a project recently where someone did this. Themes have been around but this guy did keyboard shortcuts and a few other tweaks all packaged up.
Finding My Mu Waves: Brain Computer Interface (BCI) with Mu Wave Measurement
US Govt to enforce HTTPS on new .gov sites starting September 1
That form of "accountability" sounds like a euphemism "not doing exactly what I want". The vagueness is downright concerning.

Not to mention the logic doesn't follow. Today nearly everyonr would agree that it would be a terrible idea to openly sell representation in congress or the ability levy and collect arbitrary taxes to the highest bidder because the incentived essentially only make sense for those who can make a large enough profit in short term to justify the expense. The best thing you could say about the policy is that if it is cheaper than an invasion adversaries might decide to buy you out instead of declaring war.
As a former resident of Wilmington, this is incredibly pleasing to hear. The community has been striving hard for the past decades to move away from the concept of "just another beach town". I used to use the phrase "You get to live at the beach, now earn it" to motivate my students.

While not as prominent, Wilmington, NC is also home to Castle Branch [1], which initially started as small background checking company; GigSalad [2], which allows you to book various performers; and Lapetus Solutions [3], which uses facial recognition for health insurance purposes.

Also, hi Sam, don't internet stalk me.

[1] https://discover.castlebranch.com/

[2] https://www.gigsalad.com/

[3] https://www.lapetussolutions.com/
While not the above commenter, I found the reply enjoyable. Thank you.

GitLab had been great for us, though we've had issues around their educational institutions license.. so we can't use a lot of the fancy features... But I've enjoyed ops work more on GitLab than GitHub or Jenkins.
1. I stated quarterly numbers off the top of my head instead of yearly numbers. This mistake doesn't change my point at all at Apple scale - it's a negligible amount of savings relative to the risk. Companies of this scale don't make ecosystem level shifts without a reason far far better than "we can _maybe_ increase yearly profits by 1% (1/100 * 100) sometime in the future". It's just not relevant to bring that up as a primary motivation given what we're talking about.

2. I think you actually missed the point of the conversation. OP said "that's still an insane amount of additional profit per unit to be extracted" and followed that up with "amazing for Apple and its shareholers."

It is not insane at all. And not amazing. It just comes off as naive to anyone who's worked in these kinds of organizations and been involved in similar decisions.

I think it's hard for some people to comprehend that trying to save $1b a year for its own sake at the scale of an org like Apple can in many cases be a terrible decision.
Intel’s CEO, Brian Krzanich, was forced to resign in the middle of a major chip and manufacturing transition. [1]

That had to be a heavy blow because the politics in this company are ugly.

I feel like sometimes people look past the most obvious signs of why a company is struggling.

For example, Apple’s move to the mothership had a major impact on the company. It was one of the company’s biggest “product” releases. No one mentions this as a reason for anything.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-intel-ceo-idUSKBN1JH1VW
Is the trend towards better? I used to think so but the stories I heard in my time in Google was really, really depressing. The problem is that getting worse can be a self-reinforcing thing. Once a few women get badly treated and leaves the gender imbalance gets worse and the bad behavior gets normalized.
I’m curious if you have any professional experience with this? How well does it accommodate bicyclist and pedestrian traffic flow? In Seattle they’re trying to accommodate these kinds of traffic instead of cars because it’s really expensive to build more streets. And we’ve learned over the past 20 years that optimizing for car traffic means making it less safe and harder to walk or bicycle.
Yes, I stopped reading when I got to this:

> Typically, a person expects the signal to show walk, then flashing don’t walk, then solid don’t walk. Signals follow a familiar pattern and people embed that pattern in their muscle memory. Adaptive signals, however, can flip from walk to don’t walk to walk again

That simply doesn't happen, adaptive or not.
Part of maintaining the lie of "white supremacy" is never being very concrete, just ejecting dissenters with this weird homework assignment, or if pressed, handwave everything away with vague allusions to the unfalsifiable "systemic racism."

If the rare skeptic persists at this point you can now label them a "white supremacist," having conveniently shifted the goalposts on that term so that they are now an irredeemable racist, and proceed to burn their existence to the ground and salt the earth.
No. Recent A-series chips are fabbed by TSMC.
Canadian system is not happening in USA. Democrats don't want it. Democrats cater to different audience.
Reading the comments I've noticed a lot of people talking about addiction... I have for years had the habit of starting the day with 3 to 4 cups of strong coffee, either plain or with cream. I was pretty sure I was "addicted". Until the time, after about 2 weeks, when I noticed that the new brand I had quickly grabbed and happily consumed every day for 2 weeks was decaf. What you tell yourself is far more important and stronger than "addiction".
I would think most people here on HN subscribe to Paul Graham's definition, which is exponential growth.
> pawpaw fruit that taste like custard

Do you mean pawpaw, or custard apple (aka sugar apple in the US)?
This is body cam footage from when the police tried to respond when two people were shot in CHAZ, one person later died at the hospital and another remains in serious condition;

https://youtu.be/cefDp_rsfgo

EMT was not able to get to them. Both victims were transported to the hospital in private vehicles. There is no description of the shooter, who is still at large.
My view is that the system should be beneficial to American citizens. If that means that US companies are unable to hire US citizens because of a lack of capable applicants, then bring in people from outside the US to perform that work. But, notice that the premise is that the skills aren’t available in the US. That means that there should be more funding for US scholarships in whatever field is demanding these immigrants. I think there should be a tax on the immigrants, which is used to fund education for US citizens to perform this work. Once the US citizen graduates, their salary demands will be less than the immigrants salary + tax. In an efficient system, the company would replace the immigrant with the US citizen. It will result in free college for US citizens who want to pursue job fields in high demand, which is what we really want to happen.

The problem is that they’re not “American”, and my politicians shouldn’t be making laws to put its citizens at a disadvantage when they could be making laws that help pull up lower socioeconomic Americans to participate in these higher paying jobs.

Once these immigrants become citizens, they’re as “American” as me.
More fair would be to allow people to choose to remain remote, but at a salary deduction, and give that salary to the people who are required to be on-site.
I agree recognition is important. We have an internal #thanks channel that got 20+ posts today of people being thanked. Also more than 10% of the company gets a $1000 discretionary bonus every month. We're doing an experiment of making videos for some of these bonuses that optionally can be made public.
I do believe that article should be about lab rats.
Adblock doesn't work on Twitch though
Yup, normal people just don’t care about it showing up as a virtual drive.
SICP is my quarantine project, going through the whole thing taking my own notes in org-mode, doing the exercises, and checking with https://github.com/zv/SICP-guile as I go along. It's been fun!

I'm on chapter 2 now; if you want to form a study group, HMU at <username> at gmail!
They have been engaged in that sort of marketing and tracking at least back when computers were big iron only - although to a lesser degree by watching customers and tweaking stores accordingly. Milk is in the back of the grocery store? Not because of insulation or anything like that but because people often pop into the grocery store for it and "running the gauntlet" results in them picking up more items than their initial goal. Not entirely comparable in capabilities of course.
Haha, no. I was thinking you should make a post on there and link it here. Better for conversation, IMHO.
As I said in my other comment, disputes are meant for unauthorized charges. If you actually purchased and received a product and you wanted a refund just because you didn't like it, you might not actually win a dispute under those circumstances.

> Apple’s terms don’t really allow for disputing; “ALL SALES ARE FINAL”.

Disputing would be unnecessary under the scenario Apple suggested because there would be a free trial.
Ironically they’re using CCPA as an excuse to push this.

CCPA is supposed to help keep my data more safe. How exactly will my data be more safe upon giving Facebook some of my banking info and government id so I can officially receive payment for my data?
It looks like they have a managed package on the AppExchange.
> You can see from your godbolt example that `add2` is the same machine code in both code examples, because it does not yield.

Right, but ain't that the point: that Zig functions themselves are neither sync nor async (they're "colorblind"), but rather it's just how they're called? I mean, I guess one way to "color" the function would be to have it suspend or do something with @frame() (more on that below...), but that (from what I'm seeing) only forces functions to be async, and doesn't seem to imply a function without that to not (potentially) be async.

That is: the fact that the calling code is what's different is exactly my point. Nothing the function itself is doing is (I'd argue) what dictates whether or not it's "sync" or "async"; it's purely whether or not the caller is invoking it synchronously or asynchronously. Hence: a function can still be "async" even if it never yields.

I think we just have different ideas of what "async" means (i.e. whether it's a property of the caller or callee); I'm arguing the former, for the same reason that I'd argue a function (or more precisely its invocation) to be "comptime" if it's executed within a comptime {...} block, regardless of whether or not the function itself is aware of this.

Even excluding this particular angle, though (i.e. going with the convention of asyncness being callee-dependent), the docs have a couple¹ examples² of situations where an "async" function in Zig seemingly won't yield (due to a suspend that immediately resumes itself or due to simply invoking @frame without doing anything with it, respectively), and indeed both cases do appear to produce code¹ consistent with said cases not yielding (I certainly ain't resuming/awaiting anything in add(), and yet the return value is 3 as expected in either case, as opposed to 0⁴ if there's an actual yield before the arithmetic happens).

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¹: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Resuming-from-Susp...

²: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#frame

³: https://godbolt.org/z/kby4vB

⁴: Tangent: I'd expect returning or otherwise trying to read an undefined value would produce a panic, yeah? Yet, in both debug and release-safe returning "result" from main() while it's set to "undefined" results in a 0 return value. Ain't sure if this is a bug or expected behavior.
Mixer was an acquisition 4 years ago. And back then, streaming wasn't this much of a rage like it is today
Context: I am in the PERM process right now.

Both you and the parent are correct. It sucks for me. It is just a political play: his approval ratings have been slumping, this will help for a point or two.
That’s one thing about Erlang that took me too long to grok: “let it crash” applies to bugs, not expected errors.
I would have thought that this was an attempt to balance out males being more likely to ask for such promotions (and thus be granted them).
I agree we need to empower our next generation, but I don't agree with how you got there. First of all, I don't really see anything in her post that suggests she blamed others for her anger.

Secondly, I find it odd that you are so quick to disavow her experiences as being.. "because I'm a woman" considering that she is literally discussing an experience (pregnancy, birth, infertility, miscarriage) that only biological women experience. Almost by definition this experience she describes is because she is female.

I don't agree that it necessarily follows that acknowledging your gender (or other minority features) is disempowering. Unfortunately, the HN crowd tends to take an extraordinarily extreme view on this -- that it is only the case that women's experiences are purely interpretive, and that the only way to combat it is to pretend it doesn't exist. How odd is it that Lyft and Uber both exist, but its hard for us to imagine that the path to combatting oppression and finding self love within it can have different solutions?

Consider this: Tracy, in the beginning of this article, has actually done exactly what you've suggested: she has tried to empower herself by disassociating herself from her female identity. By her own conclusion, it did not ultimately bring her happiness. And it would be absurd of us to argue that we know her happiness better than herself.

Consider also this: men live a life deeply connected to their male identities, its just not as regularly analyzed as for the most part, a male identity is given standard.

I think, actually, most of us have grown up believing in our own power and that the world is fair. Then we experience the ways that its not and struggle with that powerlessness. Some of us grow resentful to the prior generations for not adequately bettering the world or preparing us for the ways the world is unjust. It is clear to me that this model doesn't work.

What if we empowered our kids by teaching them to love themselves and embrace their identities, rather than pretend they don't exist? What if we told them early on that the world is unjust and taught them to protect themselves?
Regardless of who owns Oculus, most streamers are on Twitch.

I don't see how Farmville is relevant. Mobile games and Twitch streams don't see to be anything alike.
Rad! It's a bummer that Amazon employees will have a hard time contributing to this (as Amazon prevents collaborating with anyone on any side projects that are 'games'.) Their offices surround some of the worst traffic in the city, and it'd be interesting to have some of their engineers contributing.
The Co-founder/CEO holds only 1.6% of the common shares!?
I definitely appreciate your sentiment, and that wasn't my intention with the initial comment, and, of course, nobody is ever forcing an artist to join Cameo.

I have no problem with an artist wanting to make a fan feel good. I do have a problem with a society that promotes celebrity for celebrity sake, and I believe as an extension of that, the true craft/gift of the artist/performer/etc is not what is being appreciated.

I suspect that we will arrive at a point where the value drops to near $0 when anyone can just go and guy a greeting/message from a celebrity.
Oof... why am I not surprised that IBM and Yahoo were the companies evaluating their workers by "time spent on VPN."

Measuring the productivity of software engineers is not easy. But it is as important to maintaining a high performing engineering team as measuring CPU consumption is to running a cloud platform.
> Whom is Amazon going to sell low-bin Gravitons to?

To the same customers as higher-bin Gravitons. It'll just be sold in the form of services, where you don't get to see the CPU directly.
Answers.

1. The relativistic mass is the rest mass / sqrt(1 - (v/c)^2) which in this case is 223.607356769625 kg. The kinetic energy is the change in mass, so 222.607356769625 kg which through the conversion E = mc^2 is about 2 * 10^19 Joules. The momentum is mass times velocity which is about 6.7 * 10^10.

2. No. You'd be jettisoning a very nasty rock. That will immediately explode on impact.

3. There is no limit to the mass it could have.

4. The first thing it hit, would convert into highly energized particles still moving in the same direction, which would hit new particles and so on. The result of the cascade will be to generate a shower of high energy particles with the same energy and momentum as the original. Or in short, BOOM!

5. Because of conservation of energy/mass, no. Even with 100% efficiency, the reactor would have to lose the same amount of mass that shows up as kinetic energy in the ejected particle.
It's not over. We are way too coupled to have one side or the other quit. I consider this a negotiation ploy. We'll here this for a bit and before the election there will be a magical breakthrough that will hike the republican chances for election wins.

It's over; until they get a better deal before the election.
> But that's off-topic to some extent; I scanned through this page looking for some good news for developers. Topping my list is support for SVG assets. NOPE. WTF? Android has had this how long? Apple's "@2x", "@3X" bitmaps were amateur-hour to begin with, but a decade later? No vector support?

Not that I don't think they should support it (they should), but this is almost certainly due to perfectionism and bias, not amateurishness. Apple has an institutional focus on good iconography, and good iconography almost always has different representations for different sizes. The icons scale within a certain size range, then switch to a representation more appropriate for the size. I would be shocked if this is ever completely eliminated from Apple's DNA.
Sorry if this is a dumb question but why is nCino built on top of Salesforce? Would they not be better off as a standalone system?
Compare your best manager and your best engineer, and the manager _does_ contribute multiples more than the engineer does. You take this to the extreme, and the best CEOs in history have added additional billions in value to the companies that they've helmed.