skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is there a site for quality short-term contract programming work?
I have been in retirement but with the downturn selling assets makes my heart hurt more than it should, so I'd be willing to do short-term contract work. I definitely do not want to join any company as an employee.

Job board that caters to software engineering, full-stack, product-adjacent concerns.

Thanks.
The "gaze" is essentially about a male "checking out" a woman, and a woman desiring this gaze from the male. My argument is clear, that women DO gaze at men, and men DO appreciate the gaze and many are seeking the gaze from women.
What kind of automations have you found necessary? Any time I think about getting into it, I can only think of automations that sound silly or extra but nothing truly time-saving.
Most developed countries do similar things; it’s just that their human rights laws were written more recently for historic reasons. For instance, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was written in 1982 because that’s when Canada rewrote their constitution to more completely break away from British rule, and the European Convention on Human Rights was drafted in 1950, in the immediate post-war era.
Would be even cheaper because there’d be so few Twitter blue users, so you’d only need to account for the delta amongst that small subset of the current user base
I don't mean to come across as patronising or holier-than-thou, but regardless of what you think about someone, reductive name calling is antithetical to civil discourse.
What happens when the URL inevitably starts 404ing would be my first question.
True about some things, but there is a segment of tools where the first or second time you use it ever will be "this tool is garbage" and then you have to buy another one.

It depends on the tool. Personally, I have a ton of Rigid tools. They all work really well. I replace them with Rigid if they break, actually, because my batteries work with Rigid.

But, my table saw is a good table saw, because I want it to be safe, I want it to cut straight, and I want to enjoy using it.

My bandsaw is a good bandsaw b/c I need something that can cut thicker wood sometimes and don't want to deal with blades breaking and popping off a cheap saw.
I wish I could have this level of optimism. If US voters actually wanted all of these things, there is absolutely no way that the margins in congress would be as razor thin as they are, gerrymandering or not.
Next time, remember the /s flag.
I think it would be roughly like this:

↑ nget "file.txt"

Anyway I wouldn't want to munge strings in it, but that is not really its niche. Right-to-left can be nicer in different contexts, one is not really better or worse than the other.
I was searching for something like this a few months ago, when i saw an srtist creating endless zoomable-art by using "infinte canvas".

But this polished solution tops any of my expectations.

You've put so much effort in it - just wow! And perfectly presented.

We owe you something for this!
FLiM would have been much better, and kind of funny
I guess... what you're saying is not bad advice.

Maybe instead, aim to buy tools as cheaply as you can the first time.

I think it's best to just get your tools as gifts, or from garage sales.

But there are a lot of tools that are cheap, feel cheap, and will break on you.

Avoid using cheaply made tools -- this is also good advice.

A neighbor bought a table saw with really flimsy legs... and the whole things just shook when you put boards through it. Look, you don't want to use a table saw like that. For... all the common sense reasons.

Plus, with gifts at least, it's nice knowing my grandfather used the same socket set I have now. Emotionally-nice, and quality-nice... I know they aren't going to break on me since they didn't break on him.
It's very simple. My body doesn't match my brain. I've been interested in nulloplasty/glamorplasty for forever. It doesn't make me physically or sexually any less capable. There are surgeons willing to do it now, which there weren't in 2006 when I found out about it. The only thing that stops me from flying out to San Francisco yesterday is the cost.

It looks like madness to you because you have the correct body.
Copying the database file is fairly safe, especially for an application that's likely to be read-mostly like WordPress. It could fail if the database was large enough that copying it took a nontrivial amount of time, and the database was modified during the copy operation -- but even then, there's a fair chance it'd be recoverable. SQLite is pretty resilient.

The "safe" way of doing the backup would be:

sqlite3 wordpress.db ".backup wordpress-backup.db"

which writes out a new copy of the database file. Restoring the database would be as simple as renaming the backup to the main file -- the backup is a "real" database file; there's no import operation required.
Is it though? You're probably running on something with plenty of spare clock cycles and extra RAM. It's not like end users are suddenly paying a real cost for extra ram usage when the next electron app comes along.

A couple hundred megabytes on a terabyte or larger harddrive? Who cares.
FSFE is hiring an office coordinator
Finally some good news.

The world needs to draw up lines for wild life reserves in the vicinity of domestic areas.

We must as humans become closer to nature accepting that its biodiversity and life is a major part of out own well being.

It should be mandatory that each country puts up at least X% of land dedicated solely to being nature without any human interference.

Amen
this is great summary of what you're asking for! https://golinks.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-go-links/
Downturn is still very young. Many unprofitable companies can continue to execute on their previous funding rounds which, raised in the macro environment of zero-cost money, can provide for a year or more of runway. Should this downturn become a fairly severe recession, many more jobs may be hit affecting hiring in skilled tech as well.

Not claiming that this will happen, but many economists agree that it is fairly likely. So even if you are in a very enviable position in a skilled tech role and are inundated with recruiter calls I would prep: take stock of your finances, determine your personal runway (how long can you maintain current quality of life should your paychecks stop tomorrow) and plan accordingly. My 2c.
Open Source Magical Thinking
Are you saying that this product allows us to analyse works of the past in new light?

Because, We can't create new works of the past and we can't remix them to make something originally genuine with accurate intent.

So... what is it you're saying exactly? I don't have a time machine.
Still Karabiner and it's probably 1000 hours yearly at this point.

https://wiki.nikiv.dev/macOS/apps/karabiner

On order of 100 hours, this year I'd say it's Sublime Merge, VSCode, Height (to manage projects) and Telegram.
> Literally no one is offended that people in the United States of America are referred to as American

Actually, no - my Mexican wife is genuinely offended when I refer to US citizens as Americans, or when I refer to the United States as America.

So I do it as often as I can.
make + pandoc + a build script in my own programming language + latex allow me to auto-generate the reference manual for my toy Lisp interpreter.[1] That was definitely a huge time-saver, since I already had the help entries for an online help system.

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rasteric/z3s5-lisp/main/do...
The (Computationally) Post-Scarcity World
I don't think I said it was the main issue. I agree that it had other problems too, including the ones you name.

But I think you're missing my point. The anonymous, one-shot nature of things made it most appealing to only one set of merchants and one set of customers: people doing crime, and who were therefore most tolerant of the risks.

The onboarding problem is also partly a consequence of this. Because a bitcoin transaction is irreversible, and exchange can't just take a credit card payment and give you bitcoin.
While PC floppy drives are mechanically the same as Amiga floppy drives, the controller that is attached to the drive is different. The controller used in PCs can't handle the stream coming from Amiga disks. The first thing I would do is preserve those disks by creating an image with a custom controller. I am positive that the music and art can be converted, but that can be done later. First, save (image) those disks!

Here are some tips to read Amiga floppy disks: https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-118
Of all the software I can think of quickly, the one I think may have saved the most time in my life is Google Maps.
Not exactly a program but Postgraphile saved me a ton of time to write an API. All things considered probably way more than 100 hours.
You could still have human operators. Competitive drone racing is pretty neat.
So, if the governor vetoes it at the last minute, there won’t be time for an override?
I consider myself a very visual person, and yet I never find any of these very overtly visual organization-type tools even remotely appealing. It seems to me there's... too much friction and fiddliness for something I can visualize myself after looking at a text list or folder structure?

I guess maybe it would help as a presentation tool to show others how you visualize a project. I just hope it's worth the effort. Maybe the others you show it to will be impressed?
I know this is the modulair way with piping. How would ` jc command args` be as opposed to `command args | jc —-command`?
Improvements upon math education, ultrasound technology, and construction technology all sound like very reasonable, practical goals. Perhaps the most radical goal is gene therapy, but also the most exciting and sci-fi.
Look, as one of the rare people that actually likes doing QA, let me paint you a picture of how things'll go.

If you don't do it, you'll have no enforcement arm to make devs care about maintainable infrastructure or Quality of User Experience. Your tech stack will be driven by whatever whizbang your devs that actually matter want to do will-o-the-wisp style, and over time, as complexity ramps up you'll be left with a bunch of teams that know their microcosm, but not how everything fits together, and next to no one willing to actually dig into the shittier parts of the codebase.

If you hire some QA, but only enough to keep every one of them tasked 100%, no downtime, no training/learning time, no redundancy, you've got QA for maybe 1 and a half to 2 years tops. Your entire QA group will see through any lip service that management pays to Quality Assurance, no long term investments in knowledgebase, preservation of tribal knowledge, or keeping the Quality bar raised up higher than it's original set point as people start attritioning out.

This will start to be reflected in an increase in prod issues, slower defect resolution, poorer user experience, decreased morale, more miscommunications over time, and loss of cohesion.

My point is this. Quality is either something you commit to, or you don't. You can pay it lip service, but your customers will know you didn't.

I've seen it played out time and time again. Don't take my word for it though. Spend a couple years to paying attention to rediscover it if you want; just remember whose responsibility it was for making the decision to not make nice things. Your QA people are the only ones charged with being an organizational conscience on the behalf of your users. Proceed without it at your own risk.
Is Latinx any better from this point of view?
That isn’t guaranteed to work if the relay is used as a crossroads on multiple routes.

And I think you mean a coronagraph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronagraph: “a telescopic attachment designed to block out the direct light from a star so that nearby objects – which otherwise would be hidden in the star's bright glare – can be resolved.“).

I’m not sure using these to block out the sun is common with very sensitive instruments. Some parts of Hubble can’t look at the sun as doing so would damage them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_guidance_sensor#Hubble_Sp...: “Due to the sensitivity of the FGS they can not be used whilst the HST is pointed within 50 degrees of the Sun.”)

Also, of course, blocking out the sun’s light won’t make you see the stars behind the sun.
It's not inherently corrupt for a representative to vote in a way that's not a perfect representation of their constituents' opinion polling.

There's no allegation that the Governor has been bribed, the bill becomes law soon even if she doesn't sign it, and it's only been on her desk for two business days.
I’ve gone to several comedy shows (5 or so?) that use the Yondr bags, and honestly I think they’re a pretty good solution. I think it’s fair for artists and comedians to want to prevent filming, and the phone jail thing is quite clever, actually. The bags are not indestructible, it seems like a sharp pair of scissors or a knife would get you in. And I think the magnet lock is actually bypassable otherwise. It’s just inconvenient enough that everyone pretty much just complies, while retaining physical possession of their phone. I kinda like the experience as an audience member, I think the phone thing does keep the audience more engaged with the show. I’m open to arguments against, but as it stands I find the phone jail charming
> The "gaze" is essentially about a male "checking out" a woman, and a woman desiring this gaze from the male.

No, that is completely incorrect. Watch the intro video again.
And as a German I get really infuriated about von der Leyen torpedoing these efforts over a personal vendetta, like the conservative she is:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/wolf-...

> The German region of Hannover has issued an official shooting permit for a wolf that killed one of the ponies of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, who said earlier that the EU executive will reevaluate wolves’ protected status.

A wolf is doing wolf things but the president of the European Commission cant have that and wants to change the wolves' protected status. I hate this woman so much and I am sorry we inflicted her upon Europe.
There’s a number of shady “services” like AdFly that are just that.
> please save yourself the pain and go for HVAC - it's a solid option with far less demands or risk.

The physical demands of the trades are very real. Many people retire with disintegrated knees, backs and life-long chronic pain. The risk of learning some AI/ML is basically zero compared to it -- a couple years of an income hit and ego damage.
The "RIP-off" is a terrible pun that someone would utter and say "Get it, do you get it, because it involves death, and it's a copy, a rip-off!".

Don't try to be too cute, OP (submitter's username is the same as the github username linked at the bottom of the webpage, and the RIP-off (har har har) pun is also at the bottom)...
As far as anti-lock brakes and collision avoidance goes, most racing leagues tend to avoid tech that automates driver actions. The argument is that it makes it less sporting if the computers are doing the driving. Of course, those policies can be at odds with driver safety at times.
The only thing I am missing from Obsidian is PDF annotating as Logseq has it. Basically, you open a pdf and whatever you highlight you can copy as a link and put on any page. Then, clicking the link opens the pdf back up at that spot.
<< Get people in rich countries to give up cheap disposable stuff and give up energy consuming entertainment (international travel, etc) and get them to live frugally, obviously including the superwealthy.

You may be onto something. It is fine to pay lip service to this ideal in an abstract, but as Covid pandemic has shown, politicians will drop the facade of masks at the drop of a hat if they are personally inconvenienced ( CA comes to mind, but it is not an isolated incident ).

At the end of the day, I want the rules to be applied equally, but they are not ( and likely never will be ).

Come to think of it, and it is going to sound truly awful, why do we devote so much energy to other countries instead of focusing on what is happening in US? Wouldn't it be a time better spent to make US ( the land I and Gates live in ) a better place?

<< Don’t celebrate consumerism.

I am not sure you appreciate how much US economy relies on this.

<< Put down tiktok, put down instagram.

No argument from me.

<< Practice secular (or religious) asceticism and be comfortable with that.

Eh. I think the question that comes to mind is why. I am not trying to be combative, but why do you think it is reasonable to impose your vision upon others.
Unsupervised real-world knowledge extraction via disentangled vario autoencoders
Probably, inevitable based on what sample size?
companies printing money i.e profitable not funded by cheap vc money are not affected by the current downturn. unless it is industry wide e.g covid which affected the cash flow of travel tech companies. likewise for financial companies e.g HFT.
of course certain skills get saturated and get replaced. normal course of market adjustment.
On Snake Island, the rocky Black Sea outcrop that became a Ukraine war legend
Rails is really a gift. It's so productive and works so great on teams because of the heavy conventions I think. And the ruby library ecosystem is insanely good. Libraries generally do what they say they're going to do and there are libraries for everything. I've wondered a lot about why this is. Heavy air time? Is there something about ruby?

Every now and then I try some new web app framework that catches my eye in some new language and it always seems like its just getting started compared to rails -- and, it is. Worth noting -- rails works great API only as well. I bet Django is pretty good by now too of course, but Rails is really a fantastic tool well suited to task.
This conversation reminds me of "The Elflord and the Mayfly":

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/353
We're talking about football games, not a show in this subthread.
The wrench in the article reminds me of that class of products engineered to maximize sales, not utility.

I teach my children that dollar store products are all junk. But I still let them shop there because it's an inexpensive way for them to learn the lesson that there are businesses that have no scruples about selling junk products.

I wonder how disheartening it is to be an engineer who designs these products. To be honest, they're probably just happy to be making a paycheck just like many of us. I've worked plenty of jobs that I didn't believe in.
Google is toast. It has been in continuous regression for the last 10 years. On the other hand, language models are progressing by leaps and bounds.

It is likely that within the next year, a new open chatGPT model will emerge that is comparable to "ClosedAI", to be used as the next stage after search. This model, along with others in its family such as Stable Diffusion and Wisper may become integral components of browsers and operating systems and could potentially be used as the main interface for accessing the internet.

As people become tired of ads and spam, they may turn to language models as a way to shield themselves from these distractions. These local models may also serve as personal creative spaces, allowing individuals to work and explore ideas without outside interference.
This is great. Just testing it out with a goal to switch from OneNote to canvas.

It can borrow a few things from OneNote e.g.

- cards resize automatically with text.

- OneNote starts with a cursor, clicking anywhere on canvas and writing is a single click operation.

- There are no hard borders around cards in OneNote.

- OneNote is WYSIWYG which this canvas isn't currently.

This is not a definitive list and I know its too early to ask for new features and stuff. Good things to consider IMO.
It’s open source, so it will likely exist in some form.

GWT still exists and had a release last year. It’s been 9 years since it fully transitioned to an open source project. I’m not sure at what point Google stopped contributing since I see old team members in the commit history.
Junior talent isn't getting squeezed either; there are just too many unqualified people trying to break into the industry. The time when you could get a high paying tech job with a bootcamp certificate or a couple of trivial projects on your Github is over. People with CS degrees, internships or a year or two of professional experience are fine.
That’s a solved problem at this point.

Payment processing is not the hard part there.
This is an old topic in the political philosophy of representative democracies: is a representative supposed to just do whatever the most popular sentiment is? Or are they supposed to use their best judgement—given they, presumably, spend more time looking into and thinking about various issues, and have access to better experts and advisors than most members of the general public—even when that's sharply counter to public sentiment? Somewhere in between? Where does the line fall?
Do you definitely need Apache? I thought PHP worked fine without that these days - or does Wordpress only work with something that supports .htaccess too?
Well, you don't have to fiddle with drop statements and tag.gz formats and things like that and restoring is just a matter of putting the file back instead of importing huge numbers SQL instructions. You don't depend on php/phpmyadmin or a sql command to get a backup or to run it (no cpu are harmed during the process). Just copy the file.

I can see old gotchas disappear like that (can't wait for the new ones !).
Hmm no, i see the popup all the time, including today. Sometimes its full screen, sometimes just a window, and about 1/4 of the time it cannot be closed without redirecting to sign up
I made a (provably) true statement, namely that grid-scale renewables largely do not exist.

You tried to change the subject to something else. Sorry, you don't get to do that. I don't owe you any of my time to discuss a different topic of your choosing, especially not when (based on our previous encounter) you:

1) don't understand the difference between power and energy

2) don't understand the difference between energy storage and energy production

and

3) are rude and abusive.
Even for an AI, you'd need storage media that are stable for thousands of years, and hardware that will still turn on after thousands of years, and solar panels that are still functional after thousands of years. Oh, yeah, and a fair amount of those thousands of years will be exposed to radiation, including relativistic iron nuclei (fun stuff).

Your AI may not quite be itself when it arrives.
Eh.

I am going to bite. Why should we do that?
‘Porch pirates’ stole an estimated 260M packages in 2021
It's another level of organization and visualization of Obsidian content, and is extensible just like Obsidian's other core features.

But the spatial dimension really opens up other opportunities. For instance, I've been using the webviews to create workspaces for the various tasks I do - code review, writing/drafting documents.

Being able to drag and drop content from various places (including webviews) into the canvas feels magic.

With a few minor usability enhancements I'd probably be ready to call this my new favorite web browser!

But generally, it's an interface for expressing relationships between pieces of Obsidian content. Absent additional plugins, these relationships are user-defined, but they could easily be generated since they're pure JSON. Sky's the limit if you ask me. I'm excited to start writing a plugin that enhances the webviews a bit.
But still no note taking e.g. with an Apple Pen. Would be amazing if Obsidian Mobile added that.
That would be great, but it assumes that there wouldn't (continue to) be massive voter suppression by the right wing, guaranteeing that their pet issues win in most of the south and midwest.