skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term "full-stack developer" was definitely around before React and Angular.

Sep 2010, a few job ads are looking for "full-stack developers": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659409

Comment from @peteforde on Dec 2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2053957

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The key skill that you're looking to pick up is actually what professionals think of as "full stack web development". That is, you should aim to understand lots of things:

- MVC web frameworks like Rails and micro-frameworks like Sinatra

- MySQL and non-relational datastores like MongoDB

- web and proxy servers like thin and nginx

- Redis! it's like a Swiss Army knife... but also Memcached

- jQuery and Haml/Sass

- Backbone and websockets

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Basically, in 2010, if you knew how to work with jQuery, Haml/Sass and maybe Backbone (in addition to backend tech), you could be called "full stack".

And that Sep 2010 Who's Hiring post had many ads looking for front-end (or UI) and back-end engineers, meaning that it was common to be specialised at the time.

Looking back, wow, the experience/knowledge requirements back then were pretty low compared to today...
From my personal experience, most of the issues I encountered happened with new neovim releases and not with plugin interopability.

My config never broken because of a plugin.
You're absolutely right. It's entirely possible for SVB to sell their assets and cover the entirety of the deposits above FDIC limits.

Get real. The issue has never been that SVB's assets were completely worthless, it's that they're not going to cover all of the deposits over the FDIC limits. Ten year bonds were a bad idea and nobody wants them given the current interest rate trajectory. If SVB's assets could've been sold for their full cost they would've been. An assessment will happen, it's just a question of how large it will be.
If it ever got that bad a can of beans would be worth more than almost anything.
It’s the fed protecting a bank with a large financial interest. This isn’t the last bank this year…but one of few that will be protected.
Do they still have the code? What would it take?
So, this person was working basically non-stop for 3 months to make 65k. Working 12 hours a day for 90 days would yield an hourly rate of roughly 60 USD. Not sure this is sustainable or worth it in the long run.
What's the basis for that insolvent since September claim? Looking at the end of 2022 financial data shows a bank that's been hurt by interest rates rising, but definitely not insolvent. Is the an alternative definition of insolvent you're using for that statement (beyond liabilities > assets)?
And like the above posters former coworker, even he got lucky once. Though Id be more inclined to believe that the boys were far more invested in winning then a team that was experimenting with new players and formations/tactics etc —- as they do in the down year after the olympics when they have no major tournaments for 2 years.

This is really not the same as is being discussed and reads as some weird insecurity from reading about an ex pro female dominating a local neighborhood men’s recreation soccer league.

Honesty, it’s probably the only league she can get any competition these days as it would just be unfair for her to play in the womens divisions. I saw it once when she subbed into a top level womens game after one of my co-ed games she destroyed us in — it was not pretty. Second half she resigned herself to defense only in the back 3rd
Most people get so little interest from their accounts that it is basically immaterial
https://rentry.org/llama-tard-v2
https://twitter.com/jonwu_/status/1634250770555219970
They made a very risky decision putting all their eggs in one basket. Sure, 10 year bonds are "safe" for the average investor. They are not an average investor.
In the EU it's the east European countries. Without Bulgarian and Romanian workers the Austrian elderly care system might already have collapsed.
There were even highly pucliciced exceptions during strict lockdowns
Silicon Valley Bank Depositor Bailout Makes Mockery of ‘Too Big to Fail’
They most likely would. There are about half a dozen DB vendors that have announced support, including Microsoft's own SQL Server 2022: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2023/03/09/sql-se...

The other DBs with support are all "cloud era" technologies that are infrequently deployed on-prem.
No True Scotsman fallacy
The run started earlier in the week, msg's to moving money out were going on long before Thursday. Who originally triggered it, no clue... but in a bank run, those who run first make it out the door. You're not exactly taking your fiduciary responsibility seriously by thinking "oh it's probably fine! I'm sure everyone else will stay level headed and keep their money in this bank that seems to be falling over" - The FDIC in theory should to step in prior to the run, take over the bank and prevent it, they did a good job of that in many instances in 2008, not sure what happened here. It's been mentioned quite a few times in these threads, but this 60 minutes clip about 2008 is really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAE8i40A5uI
They only need to cover 20 billion or so for SVB? In the grand scheme of all banks, that's not a ton. SVB wasn't some FTX oops it's all gone level fraud.

Assuming it's a one time charge and not a contagion, it sounds like why we have government and FDIC.
Nothing. It's made many articles and comments here more obviously skippable, and I've seen some generically ugly pictures that are generated. Otherwise, I've ignored it and nothing has changed.
When am I going to be able to do self-paced for credit courses from good schools online without the crazy price tag?
This is a fine technical solution to a different problem. The issue is not that people don't trust the ambulances, or want to keep track of them to feel more in control. The issue is that there aren't enough ambulances in the first place, not enough beds to put people in when they arrive at hospitals, nor enough people to treat them when they've got a bed.

I don't necessarily think it's a bad idea in general, but adding tracking to ambulances is not going to magically make them turn up faster.
> Proper multiline editing with full mouse support

ctrl+x cltr+e

Works on every terminal. Vim and EMACS do support the mouse, you can set your editor to a graphical one.
Apple’s New Challenge: A Wave of Key Executives Leaving the Company
I went through part of this while working on some liveness analysis. The lecturer and the notes do a good job of conveying ideas.

Well worth using as a resource.
They’re both drawn and used differently. Just because you can error-correct (and may not even know the difference—though I’d honestly expect almost all native English readers to at least recognise some difference between a hyphen and a dash) doesn’t make it right. It’d be similar to unifying 0 and O (which is likewise something that has been done before in some situations for technical reasons).
You can't get insurance on something that's certain to happen. Can you really hedge this without paying 100% of the cost of just not owning it?
If people stop trusting banks because of good reasons they have a right to withdraw funds.
in 1995, I thought that it would be good if advertisements could be served from hubs to large numbers of web sites. That would mean that advertisers wouldn't have to hire ad space salespeople, which was far too expensive for most sites. But then there was the problem of how to decide which ads to show to which visitors to those sites. To do that, it seemed like it would be a good idea to base that decision on the sites people tend to visit, which seemed like it would maximize the probability that they'd actually be interested in the ads.

I looked for a way to do that. Browser cookies seemed like a possibility, until I learned that one site couldn't read another site's cookies. When I asked people if there was any workaround I was told that there wasn't. But then I figured out how to use them to track people anyway. That hack is my answer to the OP.

I filed a patent in 1995 that showed how to do it. The patent tied that technique to my specific mathematical technique for selecting the ads the user would most likely be interested in, so it could not be used to restrict other people from using cookies that way as long as they didn't also use my specific math. The patent also contained a lot of features about how to give users complete control over their information and that protected their privacy. (That part didn't get implemented much!)

I eventually sold the patent to DoubleClick, and DoubleClick was eventually sold to Google for an amount I recall to be in excess of $1 billion. By then I'd seen a marketing site recommend that Google buy DoubleClick, with my patent listed as one of the reasons they should. DoubleClick had their own patent describing the tracking cookie, but their priority date was a couple months later than mine. And it didn't have the privacy features mine did, or the same degree of tech about how to actually select ads.

In defending against a patent troll in 2021, Google and Twitter together filed a joint brief calling the tracking cookie "Robinson's Cookie". My name is Gary Robinson. (In case anyone is curious there's more info at https://www.garyrobinson.net/2021/07/did-i-invent-browser-co....)
I wouldn't call what Samsung does with the moon a photo anymore. A picture? Sure. For being a photograph of the moon so, it way to close to what an AI generator would come up with when asked to create a picture of the moon. Samsung is somewhat using sensor data as prompt it seems.

As far as accurate representation goes, digital photos are court admissable as proof. And forensic ones goes through a deliberate processing pipeline, the original as taken in camera is never discarded while doing so. Which is close enough for me to be a representation of reality.

Personally, my opinion about those over-processed pictures you see on social media is the same as it is about Ssung faking the moon. I don't like neither, regardless if they are smartphone or "real" camera photos.
This a great point. Why did the VCs force startups to use SVB and not others for commodity banking ? Anyone know what SVB did and others couldn’t?
I stand by what I wrote.

Science started when the scientific method started. The scientific method is a process for distinguishing facts from bullshit. The explosion in technology and science sprung from that. Endless age-old ideas crumbled away when the scientific method was applied to them.

Collecting and describing and organizing data is not science, although it enables science.

Further observations, of course, can be used to test and thereby support or disprove a hypothesis. The history of astronomy is a delightful exercise in hypotheses followed by more observations that separated truth from bullshit.
Maybe in the UK you can tie a lot of wealth to the Norman aristocracy but the United States is far too new for anything like that.
Have you tried using the original repo?
That depends on the plugins selection I guess.
When I tried SpaceVim its start-up time was higher than VSCode so I uninstalled it..
Imagine dropping your phone and instead of the screen cracking, the chassis blasts apart. Pressurising materials using other solids doesn’t disappear the energy needed to maintain the pressure.
OpenBSD: Game of Trees 0.86 Released
> nearly everybody expects content to be free to the end user on the internet.

I think this is a trope. It's a classic explanation, which may not be true at all.

I think if advertising on the internet was outlawed, we would have found a different approach from the beginning, one that worked just as well, if not better.
I was teaching online, and it involved a significant amount of grading on the LMS (Learning Management System.) It was a pain to click on the grade entry field for each student, then click "Next". I wrote a browser extension to autoselect the proper input field, and then on Enter it would both submit the grade and load the next assignment. Saved me hours and hours while grading.
Quite a negative comment thread. Isn't the spirit of the site to find what's interesting in a new project rather than say it's already been done and assume the worst motivations of the developer? I for one am glad that people build tools such as terminal apps as free and open source.
> The Hisense A9 runs Google Android 11, a very modern OS

Yeah, no.
There is nothing safe about mortgage backed securities.
> Some people are commuting eight to ten miles, some only one or two miles, but they jump on their bike and go. With a traditional bike, that would never have been considered.

Why not? I used to commute 13 km (almost exactly 8 miles) each way on a traditional bike. When the weather was nice, I often took one of the more scenic and much longer routes back home.
Not technically difficult, but I remember that it made me feel very proud: Back in high school (2004-ish) I made a small PHP script to generate a .m3u of my whole MP3 collection and I exposed this from my home PC. Since I could install Winamp on the school PCs this allowed me to stream my music collection.

Another one was a password rotation script for my university. There was an idiotic password policy that required you to change your password every 6 months via a web form, and if you tried to change it to a password you had used before you would get an error saying that the new password couldn't match the last 24 passwords you had used. This information was very useful as it allowed me to write a script that simply changed my password 24 times and then changed it back to the one I wanted.
Cryptos?
Nice, why not add it to the wiki?
It had an information dense UI and was super fast and snappy to load. It was basically like Gmail--always there, dependable, easy to scan and quickly digest information.

All of the competition at the time of its demise was complete and utter garbage (sorry Feedly, I loved ya but you were slow and super unstable in the early days). Nowadays there are some worthy alternatives but the damage is done and RSS is just getting more and more obscure and blogging outside closed platforms like Twitter is basically dead.
The FDIC has not identified any loss assistance required for the “unlimited” guarantee. That is: the equity buffer covered it.
Maglev applications strongly depend on a sufficiently high critical field. Unfortunately, high temperature superconductors have serious issues with it.
Hahaha it really was.

I’m still pissed off about it.
There’s a bit of ideological passion towards efficient computing and maybe that resulted in some hurty egos but I thought it was substantive.
Looking forward to the Econtalk podcast on this.

Russ Roberts usually has some pretty knowledgeable people on who know behind the scenes stuff.

Should be fascinating what comes out over the next few months.
Why not apply for download at Meta?
Anyone able to verify if this story from Michael Greene is true? It seems to contradict Jim Reekes' story. Sounds like Greene believes Patrick Buckland created it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hsyka8/the_classic_a...
Ask HN: A product that you built just out of a market gap and is now successful?
Do you know of (or yourself built) a product that solved a niche problem and was not made to earn profits? Later it scaled up and is doing okay to awesome in terms of revenue?
Fire is dangerous by default too.
I run a clipboard logger + Window Title Logger in the background. I am able to find stuff from 10 years back. Works across all apps. Want to remember something just copy it. It might not be secure practice. I regularly encrypt the rolled over logs using 7z.
OpenBSD: Theo de Raadt to be presenting at CanSecWest
Explainer: The Death of Silicon Valley Bank
Make asphalt sandwiches?
If the site is really simple and just runs system() on a VPS, chances are that there is no protection against command injection, server takeovers, and worse. So what comes from good intentions might end up causing a lot of harm.

The problem of shadow IT is very real and should best be countered with a healthy amount of education. And whitelisting instead of black listing as the default approach.
But they were by, for smaller but over 250k depositors, not spreading their deposits between multiple banks. Which can be done manually or through a sweeping account very very easily. Or, for larger depositors, having other safety mechanisms in place. Really depositors over 250k do need to take some moral responsibility, even though I think it is better that they be made whole to stave off a 2008 style financial crisis.
If this is so prudent, how come nobody was suggesting it before it happened?

I agree though that it sounds like a reasonable solution, at least superficially.

Wiping out the shareholders at least is something I agree with. They need to eat risk.

I also think that deposits have carved out a space of its own in the mind of the public. You can't think of it as a risk investment like any other debt because people just don't treat it that way, they think of it as a safe place to store their money for convenient access for things like payroll. If you haircut them, everyone will have to re-evaluate where to keep their deposits and chaos ensues.

The big question then is how this levy on the rest of the banking system will work. That may turn out to be a clever solution or a carpet to brush future problems under. We'll see when there's more details.

But the question still remains, why didn't someone think of this earlier?
Because SVB is not actually bailed out. The company is dead, this just means the depositors don't lose their holdings and we don't watch a whole economic sector melt down while we debate the definition of words.
Do you want women about or not?
But that's not ChatGPT?
Here's a close to minimal example:

const anyToNeverHelper = <T,>(t: any): number & T => t
const absurd: never = anyToNeverHelper<never>(0)
> tools that are actually meant to build rich GUIs (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS).

These were never meant to build rich UIs. They were meant to build a text page with a few images. That's it.

There's a reason why every single UI framework for these tools re-invents the same primitive controls like avatars and tabs.
Reading that post you can really see how little Google cares about the end users. They are closing products and removing features without providing a replacement and providing ridiculously short timelines for changing.
Material stress doesn't work like a soda can. Epitaxial thin films are stressed by an underlying lattice, for example, not by being squeezed in some container. These stresses can be very high (although i don't know the order of magnitude off the top of my head)
You are confusing "the day Google died" with "the day the old Google died".

For a long time there Google was a cool company that was more than just something to make money. It was doing all this other stuff that didn't make money but made the world better.

These days it does about the same amount of "good" as any other company in the Fortune 100.
How would you run banks (or anything else for that matter) that wouldn't be an investment? A public service?
I came here to say this.

If you feel shocked by the lack of empathy at "You knew all along that only $250K was insured, riiiggtt??", please consider empathy when you are about to type in " You knew that H-1B isn't an immigrant visa, right?".
> open has a number of meanings that are useful, but have been overwhelmed by the concept of open source.

How is Open Source not open? You have the source, and it is open (you can modify, hack, and distribute it). Hence, “Open Source”. What’s wrong with it?

> but open standards used to be the meaning. "ethernet is this, here's how you talk to it, but we're not going to write the code for you" (i'm not claiming that ethernet was originally an open standard, just using that as an example of what an open standard means)

Open standards are not better than Open Source, if you go that way. Most of them are not free, for a start.

> and hardware manufacturers used to include blueprints/schematics (for repair, or for interconnection, for example) and commercial software vendors would show you the source code, snip

That is a fantasised past. Some companies did; most companies did not. Just as nowadays.
A Camera Containing Radioactive Material Is Missing in the Houston Area
They don't have a good reason, they have a bank run. Which they have the right to do, but now there isn't a usable startup bank anymore.
You could pay 300€ for 128GB on a PC. And add one or two GPUs later.
Computing Limits: Even in the Age of AI, Some Problems Are Just Too Difficult
It's unfortunate, and I only see it getting worse, though I'm hoping there's enough of us to influence the velocity. The sentiment seems to be growing, so I'm trying to be optimistic, but it's going to be difficult when up against the resources of "big tech" (for lack of a better term).

For me it ultimately boils down to my personal morals . I am not comfortable supporting these types of companies, even if my contribution makes minimal difference (on either side). I refuse to contribute because I wouldn't be comfortable with _myself_. I hope this decision will be beneficial to more than just myself, but if it isn't I'll at least be happy knowing I did what I could to support what I believe in.

(side note, I didn't mean this to be so subjectively idealistic, but even if you completely disagree with my opinion on tech, I think the introspection and focus of attention would benefit all)
What do people here think of Helix?

https://helix-editor.com
I use the following tiny script to make PDFs look like they have been scanned. There are still entities that require you to physically sign a document and scan it. So far, everyone accepted PDFs like these:

#!/bin/sh
ROTATION=$(shuf -n 1 -e '-' '')$(shuf -n 1 -e $(seq 0.05 .5))
convert -density 150 $1 \
-linear-stretch '1.5%x2%' \
-rotate ${ROTATION} \
-attenuate '0.01' \
+noise Multiplicative \
-colorspace 'gray' $2
One can easily find things like textbooks from the past. This [1] is the first one I was able to find. This is not a cherry picked example. I searched for '1950s math textbook pdf' on Yandex, which led directly to this [2]. That's simply their most "recent" textbook. It's from 1946, and seemingly a later edition of a book first published in 1931. In the historical introduction one will find mention of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Hindus, Arabs, and more.

There's no doubt one will find similarly going to back centuries. The Greeks/Romans play such an outsized role in our knowledge because they discovered an immense amount, wrote down an immense amount and, up until extremely recently, a passable degree of fluency in both Latin and Greek would not only have been a basic requirement for higher education, but was also a sort of way to signal one's culture/class/learning. So the average educated individual would have had ready access to the depths of all of this knowledge.

[1] - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509299/page/n3...

[2] - https://www.resourceaholic.com/p/digitised-antique-maths-tex...
In this case, IMO it was more than a potential problem. On a mark-to-market basis SVB was certainly undercapitalized and possibly insolvent last week. Had there been no run, over the next year, SVB would have had three choices over the next year or so:

1. Keep deposit rates near zero, in which case depositors would progressively realize that they could be making 4.5% on their money elsewhere and withdraw their funds. This ends up being exactly the same as the bank run that happened, just in slower motion.

2. Raise deposit rates, in which case, they would start losing money until they were forced to sell assets to pay depositors their interest. Those HTM assets would then be marked to market and the bank would be officially undercapitalized and taken over by the FDIC.

3. Raise capital or sell the bank. They tried raising capital unsuccessfully. Given this, it's questionable whether they would have been successful at selling the bank because it's unclear whether the bank had a positive value.