skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best of luck, I recently perused this path and abandoned it pretty quickly. I found a couple of companies looking for contractors that seemed to be a good fit, however, they kept delaying their projects and telling me they'd get in touch in a month or two (presumably over economic uncertainty).

I get the sense that yes, contracting platforms are a race to the bottom, but also this is a pretty bad time to be launching a freelance career.
I was neither complaining (previous reply) nor being critical. I was just saying that at best extending the exercise window was pretty neutral, not some nice benefit funded by the company like extra severance pay or extended health insurance. Most of the comments seemed to be vastly over-valuing this particular aspect of the layoffs.

And if Patreon is acquired some day rather than going public, the employee shares are probably going to be last in line after all the VC money (preferred share classes), and maybe not worth anything. I went through this when I worked for a dot-com startup in the early aughts. Even if they do go public, there will probably be lock-up periods to restrict the immediate selling of shares, and then you are at the mercy of the stock market, where the value of the company (which you long ago stopped having any input to) could well put your shares into loss territory.
Also, on OpenRailwayMap some abandoned lines only show up at very close zoom levels. I see a lot of that in Illinois.
You jest, but the original iPod went from conceptualization to ship in an absurdly fast 10 months [0].

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/13/first-ipod-went-f...
W3 school's previous focus on SEO over accuracy is pretty well known. If you break your users' or audience's trust, it turns out that can have lasting impact.
Why did they pick the side with a stick figure pooping in the woods for the giant close up pic?
The mathematicians referenced in this article are indeed fans of the band:

> The name of the challenge was the Liquid Tensor Experiment (LTE), and yes it was a homage to the Liquid Tension Experiment, a band which Scholze is fond of.
It already has turned against us. In the 1800s with the USPS, we had ultimate privacy - nobody could open physical mail without a warrant, under strict legal penalties. In modern times we have the third-party doctrine[1], where the moment bytes leave your network you have "no reasonable expectation of privacy". If you want privacy now, you can never give anyone any data or do business with any third party, including relying on a third party to route your network packets.

Or you can take matters into your own hands, with encryption.

If someone calls me a fool for using HTTPS and encrypted messaging, I'm fine with that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
When does a company actually become subject to EU jurisdiction? If they had closed all their offices, relocated all their employees, closed all their bank accounts in Europe before this case would a US court even be allowed to enforce this judgement?
I would argue that Youtube, while being a video streaming service, is fundamentally different than Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, etc.

Biggest difference is YT does not incur production and distribution costs (ie distribution rights). Creators on YT upload their videos and YT only pays out when they also make money off the ads.

So if a creator made a video and published it on YT and the thing got 10 views and no ad-revenue, the only cost for YT is the infra costs. Contrast that with a company like Netflix where they purchase rights to a film or TV series that flops.
Well I mean people won't order from a 100% automated fast food shop. The customers expect human hands to touch and labour over the food, even if it's financially unviable.
What armored cars have an automatic fire gun located on them?
That seems strongly bad-faith as an assumption. I'd assume they hired people for what seemed like good reasons at the time, but things have changed and now they need to have less payroll.

Any hiring or new initiative looks "careless" if it didn't work out, but it could have just been a calculated risk that didn't pay off, especially given how chaotic the last few years have been.
Are you thinking that the 2014 flu vaccines were released with the understanding that they would have negative efficacy for those who'd had the prior years vaccines? Why would they have done that?
I attended Josh's talk earlier this week at LPC. As I told Josh yesterday in the hallway track, I've been attending Linux conferences for 20+ years and often times some topics keep coming back and you can see the specialization. But in this case, I was completely blown away. This is a totally new approach to an old problem. I mean, fork() was invented in the '70's and aside from threads and clone(), in Linux, there really hasn't been any innovation in this space over the years. I look forward to seeing what else gets io_uring'ed following this model.
Never worked with them but I have with a contractor who had good things to say:
https://www.a.team/

Another route is to apply for full time jobs and ask early in the process if they’ll consider hiring you as a contractor. Give your honest reasons why you want to go this route. If they continue with the interview process, knock their socks off so they can’t afford not to use you at whatever terms you want.
Clickable link: https://www.a.team/
On better browsers: arbitrary media queries and browser UIs
Yes, but the 1.8” drive in the iPod was a true differentiator. It was the difference between “in the palm of my hand” and “it is possible to hold it, but not easy.”
I'm wondering if/how my coding experience could be enhanced with this in my code editor.
I have been contracting for the last 20 years, never used any platform (Toptal, etc.).

I'm based in Europe and I have mostly worked in EU countries, except for a couple of very lucrative contracts in the Middle East. I can see you are based in London: London has tons of contract gigs, especially in the financial sector (mostly using JVM languages I'm afraid). If you can move around, Switzerland has also lots of contract work at the moment - and low taxes.

Take a look at jobserve.com for UK contracts.

What has worked for me so far:

- Find some good recruiters from reputable hiring agencies. Once you establish a relationship with them, they can provide a stream of constant contract opportunities. You can accept or refuse, based on location, rate, tech stack etc.

Unfortunately, this is easier said than done, because the bar for entering an hiring agency is quite low these days and you get all sort of cowboys. Personally, I prefer to work with older dudes with at least 10 years of experience in the fields (reverse ageism!).

- Never, ever leave a company slamming the door. If you do a good job, they will call you back

- Linkedin lists contract gigs sometime, I have never really got anything out of it, but it's good to keep an eye

- At some point, I wrote a book that landed me a couple of good gigs. I'm not suggesting to write a book, but you can try to establish yourself as an authority is some field (Elixir, Rust, etc). Again, easier said than done

Ultimately, the hiring agencies are the gateways to the majority of contract gigs, so you really want to talk to them.

Good luck!
The home page is almost identical since 2020 and it was slightly worse in 2018. Very impressive.
YunoJuno
I'm a fan of https://everynoise.com/

> Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 5,957 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2022-09-12. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.

I tend to visit this site after discovering a new artist I really like to find other adjacent artists and genres.
I've never written a kernel driver, but wouldn't it be easier to start with the 32-bit driver, update the kernel APIs, and move (most?) integer types to fixed-width?
The topic is, specifically, use-after-free bugs.
Do you have an inroom AC unit? You could run a dryer hose from the back of your computer to the same window vent.
You can convert your money to a USD pegged stablecoin instead of your local currency which is losing value at a faster rate. Plus easier to store and move large amounts IMO
> What's the toolchain for sniffing USB data

You can use Wireshark for that part.

https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB
I did this for my kids, only I took the pedals off the bike so they could get full use of their legs. A balance bike without having to buy a separate bike.
No forced sterilization of women based on race/class/other background, for example? No exclusion from education, medical care etc? Surely?

Anyways, something like 40% of the EU citizens lived through communism, so it's not exactly unusual.
Explanations help somewhat, but there needs to be some intuition for these principles to be applied effectively. I highly recommend going to a few auto cross events truly get it. Learning what it's like when "steering gets light" and how "turning into the skid" recovers it is really something you need to learn by feel.
> non-programmers trying to run software companies

You mean everybody who runs software companies then?
I would say their main problem is the amount of bathrooms available per person.
So from looking at this, I wonder if it's possible to do a (very) rough circumnavigation of the USA by train?
Neither of those really work well, unless you have rapport with that CEO.

Same with that HN who wants to work thread, you are just racing to the bottom and making it easier for others to emulate your own posting in terms of skills.

I don't really have a good answer, I really think its down to mostly luck or you have a skill market fit
Doesn't the US have an active contractor market like the UK? In the UK there are lots of job boards with a contract filter and many recruitment agents deal exclusively in contracts rather than perm roles. Is this different in the US?
> With the ability to add variable axes too, the possibilities for customizing a COLRv1 font are literally infinite!

Is it literally infinite, or is it a very large number? As far as I understand it, variable fonts are defined by ranges of finite length, and all CSS color spaces I know of are finite too. I'm being roughly a little pedantic, but mostly just wondering why they wrote it this way, and if I'm missing something. Big fans of Rob Lowe maybe?
Karen Karapetyan is an ex-prime minister of Armenia for instance. I am not implying you should've known him, it's just to illustrate:)
I will add my contextual industry experience. When I started out roughly 20yrs ago a "Senior" engineer started at 10yrs experience. Junior was < 5yrs. Intermediate between.

One of the first steps to title inflation was people started to include internships and their time in college as "years of experience" . So this meant new grads could have 5 years experience in their minds. Part of this is fair because if the industry is going to start a 12 week boot camp person at 0, there should be _something_ for the 4 year bachelor.
Is it? I only had time to go through the start of the list, but...

Accurate:

Berkey, Magritte

Inaccurate:

Arkley, Botticelli, Elvgren, Eng, Kahlo, and ironically Dali

Mediocre:

Bouguereau, Degas, Hopper, Kandinsky, Leighton

Oh! I guess this is a great reference for "what this prompt will do to a Dall-E picture, since it usually won't resemble the original artist that much."
Not opposed to anything. Statements are not always argumentative.
Printer drivers are user space.
What is a red dot sticker?
Yeah, i half expected a bunch of "smaller" companies - like in the email space but not only email - to add their support as well. Would be really cool, if tons of smaller firms rally like mad around this, and make PR headlines to bring tons of attention to the lawmakers. Fingers crossed!
Thank you! You're right with the critique. The number is wrong and an exaggeration. To be fair, Brown did focus on emergency breaking and the paragraph lists situations for the rear break.

The video is good and states that the front brakes matters most for emergency breaking. Breaking well planed before a turn, because breaking in turn can lead to loose of traction and result in skidding. Brown mentions this also as situation for gently breaking with front- and back break together to avoid skidding. I think most important is the rule to break gently in regular situations.

As you I'm breaking often with the rear break only, on bumpy roads or when I need little deceleration. And often with both! Sometimes also in change during step descents (allow cool down of front break). I once didn't notice the bumpy surface (asphalt looked well) before a turn on a step decent and used only the front break, it was horrible because lack of deceleration and every bump was a hit into the handlebar.
Because the appeals are not exhausted yet. I think they still have to option of a final appeal to the ECJ.
They put the quotes incorrectly. Normally all the titles should be about incest or pedophilia like on the real websites.
In the time of Forté For Java there were no SSDs.
1-10W will run the entire braking system, from foot pedal through computer systems to activating the breaking resistance?
Another term for Sales I believe.
Canon devices usually support PCL and Postscript.

The proprietary drivers are just faster/fancier.
That's exactly it

(not sure if the kernel USB API is the same, that might be a tricky part)
I shared what has worked for me. :)
I was really excited to see something like this. I really dislike my company's current logging solution (I mostly take issue with how slow querying logs is most of the time). Unfortunately the live demo didn't work. Maybe it was hugged to death? In any case it might be nice to get the demo more stable!
A normal stable turn requires a lean in the same direction. If you turn the bars to the left but don't lean to the left, you will topple over to the right.

Countersteering is purposefully turning to the left and NOT leaning to the left, causing you to begin to topple over to the right...but then you quickly save it by turning the bars to the right. Now you are turning and leaning to the right.
KCRW FM Los Angeles. YouTube DJ sets at Laundry Room, HÖR BERLIN, Seoul Community Radio and other virtual venues.

There's a whole genre of YouTube videos of disembodied hands playing electronic music, titled with the names of the instruments featured in the videos. If you have, say, an Elektron Octatrack, a Roland SH01A, and a Korg Volca Modular, drop those terms in a YouTube search. The quality is very uneven: most of the videos are just people screwing around, but you occasionally come across somebody with an album on Bandcamp, and the recommendations lead to interesting discoveries.
IIRC the giant flats of Costco eggs went up to 3-4x their former price over the last year or so. Still a great deal, they're just not "holy shit that's practically free!" like before.
The performance of this might be useful for a few things. The correctness seems more generally useful. The first two things I looked at that currently use vfork both go on to do things that are unsafe (according to the information in this talk anyway). I'll bet a substantial number of programs that use fork don't limit themselves to signal-safety(7) functions either.
Here's what I see happening.

Some back and forth, increasing desperate Neocons with no reverse gear pushing the thing. Western society is over indebted and teetering. Eventually the world explodes in fire, billions die, and some version of MAGA presides over a much reduced United States when it ends. (I'd rather believe your prediction but do not).

There might be a way to avoid the scenario (unlikely at this juncture but possible). It isn't with wishful (Russia has lost half it's armed forces) and hostile thinking though.

Just my opinion.
Toptal is trash if you're in the US or in EU. They have shit hourly rates and you compete against developers from anywhere in the world, so you can't ever match the rates they are throwing in.

If you are in the EU, check out Freelancermap, Austin Fraser, Hays, Malt, Darwin Recruitment, Upper.co (for less pay, but startup work).

I think one thing which is restricting your search is your tech stack. I'd honestly concentrate on finding something for Go, as I think you'll have the easiest time with that. You can try https://www.golangprojects.com/ and https://golang.cafe/ for that.
So is the thinking you run them alongside a traditional RDBMS as sort of a cache or view optimized for bitwise operations?
> Where does one check hiring metrics for company before accepting contract?

LinkedIn company pages have those stats for Premium members.

Twilio is showing -- what do you know -- 13% headcount growth over the last 6 months and a median tenure of 1.3 years.
It took me a bit to realize that people would think 105 taxed at 10% on the first 100 and 15% on the last 5 until I realized the idea is that people think that someone making 105 has the full 105 taxed at 15%.
Dodged a bit of a bullet, I think; they were one of my top 2 choices in my last job hunt a few months ago, and ultimately I got a better feeling about the other choice. I've been loving the job I _did_ take, and don't regret my decision (especially now).
Should have waited to post this until it was actually ready to be open sourced. Otherwise this is just kinda like "huh, neat" without anything else to do with it.
I'm no Google, but three weeks of my total income would be a very big fine for me.
I actually really struggled with this when taking a class learning to ride a motorcycle. The instructor kept trying to instill this over complicated explanation and mnemonics like "go left look left push left lean left" and IMHO it required way too much mental processing to just say "turn like a bicycle" Eventually after a few go rounds I realized he was just trying to explain that process and I just discarded all of the explanations and just did what came naturally (aside from the look part- that's actually immensely powerful and useful- just look where you want to go and avoid "target fixation").

Some things, just doing them and getting a natural feel is 100x if not more, useful than tons of theory and explanations.
I'm both excited and scared by this development for the web.
Turbine blades, not fan blades. The single crystal metallurgy is to avoid high-temperature creep (i.e. slow deformation over time under an applied load), which is a life-limiting factor in turbine blades. Especially the first row or two which see the highest temperatures.
> Nowadays, it looks like they have been replaced by "race to the bottom" sites, like Upwork, or these contract companies, that hire you at a fairly low rate, and shop you out for very high rates.

I can't help but feel like these platforms are like Uber for programmers: devoid of all meaningful professional contact and ultimately the commodification of programming as a job. The power dynamic has shifted to give most of the power to the buyer. Sad times indeed.
If you're in the EU, Malt is great
Child Porn Allegations at Patreon After Security Team Fired
We are not talking about bugs in general, but about a specific sort of bug common in C and Google code.
FWIW, I think it is ok to post here if a service so central to the software community is having issues repeatedly, and does not properly explain why. This is where you can expect a balanced discussion.

The other services you mention is so bloated with toxic and/or "humeros" material that I hardly ever use them. And besides, why not let the algorithm here decide what to put on the front page? Shaming people for posting (in your viéw) irrelevant material seem to go against the spirit of HN IMO.
‘We’re in a Worse Place Than I Expected’
> Nullifies what claims exactly?

Bitcoin seems to be intended as a decentralised payment system that bypasses any third party institutions. My gut feeling is that: in order for a state to provide legal recourse, bitcoin addresses need to be linked to a centralised personal/business identity that can be tracked down and sued or prosecuted if necessary. For Bitcoin to feel safe for the normal person, it would have to introduce centralisation and third parties. My gut may be wrong, of course.
> Are we ok with working for free?

No, which is why I decided to pursue a career where I'm paid based on a salary, protected by employee rights (even if limited in the US), and not beholden to a single corporation's platofrm to perform my job.

Most of the youtubers I watch aren't making a living off of it, and the few that do are able to do so because they've monetized outside of the YouTube platform.

Nothing you say will make me feel a single twinge of guilt over using ad blockers.
was only a matter of time
That's the thing. No-one wondered why they might want Crypto, the question was always "Why Bitcoin"?

There are many deep subtle questions about Economics, even with stablecoins but the choice of Bitcoin was way off base, the only possible reason to use it was because it was the only one most people had heard of.

Bitcoin is totally nonsensical for low-value high volume transactions and by the time the money gets paid to the seller for already bought goods, they could be making a loss. At least inflation in normal currency is only (usually) a few percent per year.
Crypto in the form of CBDCs will very likely be a loss. One head honcho at the Bank of International Settlements was quite clear that they want to fully control how people spend money. And at that point it’s not really your money anymore anyways …
Reminds me of one of the best technical interviews I had.

This was for a C# position, and my future boss did this top-down approach with questions about Entity Framework.

How do you write a query? What happens when you run that code (lazily vs. eagerly)? Why is the return type Like That? What are the advantages and disadvantages of that approach?

Until we got into quite obscure questions about how the framework would interact with different database runtimes.

(That interview was the most fun I had in that position)
We know roughly what "dumb aliens" look like. We have idea of the biosignatures we should be looking for. But technosignatures? How will our technology look like in ten or a hundred thousand years? No one knows.
Yattee [1] and AdGuard [2] are two solutions I’ve found that can help.

[1] https://github.com/yattee/yattee
[2] https://adguard.com/en/blog/how-to-add-a-shortcut-to-block-y...
Not only that, but their interview process is pretty insane. They wanted me to grind leetcode and do a week-long project and didn't give a lot of specifics about how much I could expect to make on the platform. Felt like a major time-suck without a lot of upside.
Why Quality Instead of Quantity – DbSchemaLibrary