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Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?
Hello HN

In a short form question: If you do, where do you look for a short time projects?

I'd like to put my skill set to use and work on a project, I'm available for 6-9 months. The problem seems to be for me, that I cannot find any way of finding such project.

I'm quite skilled, I have 15 years of experience, first 3 as a system administrator, then I went full on developer - have been full stack for 2 of those years, then switched my focus fully on the backend - and ended up as platform data engineer - optimizing the heck out of systems to be able to process data fast and reliably at larger scale.

I already went through UpWork, Toptal and such and to my disappointment, there was no success to be found.

Do you know of any project boards, or feature bounty platforms, that I could use to find a short time project?

Thank you for your wisdom :)
Ask HN: How often you are trying to validate or refine business idea?
Your company logo should stand for itself and not be cluttered with other logos. Over time, you fill it with meaning (your offerings, the quality of service, personality and so on). As a result, people start associating your logo with you and you are building a brand.

Once you start adding other logos, they will bring associations that you cannot control. This will dilute your brand.

Think about when you want to signal inclusiveness (eg, in employer branding) and highlight it there. Then it will become part of your general brand without the need to give up your distinct logo.
https://archive.is/Pcyph
so older, married guys were more likely to be fat, while the single guys who are trying to date (even at that age) are not. this just in: sky is blue, news at 11.

it's looking like 2/3s of the US, married or not, young or not, will qualify as obese, so I'm not surprised that numbers like this line up, even after factoring in Poland, age, etc.
Would not the Observatory be Stratum 0, as it was the 'atomic clock' of its day?

> These are high-precision timekeeping devices such as atomic clocks, GNSS (including GPS) or other radio clocks, or a PTP-synchronized clock.[30] They generate a very accurate pulse per second signal that triggers an interrupt and timestamp on a connected computer. Stratum 0 devices are also known as reference clocks. NTP servers cannot advertise themselves as stratum 0. A stratum field set to 0 in NTP packet indicates an unspecified stratum.[5]:21

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol#Clock_st...
Nine C64 sprite demo explained
Have you heard of the South China Sea?
From the Scathing Reviews Department: Feminism, Interrupted
Hasn't changed much since 1986, either. Speaking of Sega games set in Japan, the Yakuza games do a good job at this as well, at least for Kabukicho and Dotonbori. I even knew to get crabs at Kani Doraku because of the games! It's like virtual tourism in some ways...
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349473
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Would be interesting if they could jam starlink by tracking/blocking the laser coming off the spacecraft (satellite) probably far fetched
https://youtu.be/HQY93oaaN6k
> We do have road signs that proclaim: "New signage" or "New road system" etc. The locals know what has changed already ...

Not really. New changes like adding stop signs or converting a one way stop to all way must be conveyed to locals who's muscle memory will send them sailing through.

Happened to me recently, city added an all way stop to a 4-way free for all intersection and converted two intersections from one way to all way stop. I sailed right through the new all way stop the first day - no cop but I caught it as I went through. Missed the big yellow NEW STOP AHEAD too. Almost ran it again the next few times. Now at least 6 moths later I still see that sign and have to think "oh yeah, thats there."
If that's you're take, I hope you have a good one too, you seem to need it.

I also hope you learn that in ATC, hiring (and firing) practices can have a long, very long, lasting effect.

Opinions are my own and not necessarily that of the FAA. (I'm an Air Traffic Contoller and I'm required to say something to that effect. I also was not directly affected by that quiz, but the quiz had effects which impacted the NAS (National Airspace System) which indirectly impacts me.)
Teamwork. Can't get anything done without it. Learn how to work with others, and do so effectively. Know when and how to delegate responsibility and determine what is yours vs someone else's.
TIL that steam distribution was invented in the USA around 1880, and is still used in NYC. Never occurred to me that “Steam Plants” literally produce steam for distribution. I thought that was a glib reference to the white smoke they produce!
That’s not literally the same thing, it was a protest over them for not “connect wells of their property to the public service supply network.”

Which isn’t something I’d want random companies to be doing, and a figurative drop in the bucket.
This is the first time i've seen it, so you got one! thanks!
This is really cool. I use Datagrip almost religiously and ended up adding it as a source there and found it really nice to use.

*EDIT*

One useful thing I thought of with this. If you do a lot of development work on iPad Pro and/or in devcontainers, this could be useful as a UI. I have a bookmarks repository that is just a couple of python scripts and collection of json files. This would be useful to spin up a codespace on GitHub and query the files.
If I were an accountant, I would be afraid of a lot of technology. In particular, if somebody offered me a Python code, and I didn’t know Python, I’d be quite worried about the handling of rounding and that sort of stuff, by some random programmer.

Excel was also written by some random programmer. But the code that does anything complicated was at least used by everybody in my field, so if there’s a hidden bug in there, at least the responsibility is diffuse. And the code written by me or by someone at my office… well, you can at least see what every cell does.
Fantastic book, great recommendation.
Indeed. Thats how it works. Of course when your website is pure html you can simply return the html content. No need to go through a headless browser.
I wasn't intending to advocating for the elimination of the human race so much as to say some of the policies were not that great and could maybe benefit from assistance. LLMs so far in my experience have been quite common sense like and not prone to things like group of humans A are superior and deserve to conquer group B. Which has been a frequent issue in human policies.
A brain-eating amoeba preyed on a 6-year-old. That was just the beginning
Thing is, you can't assume that the 36.3% of eligible voters who didn't cast votes are opposed to this. Some surely are, and couldn't cast a vote because circumstances prevented them. But an awful lot of them seem to have said, "Eh, it makes no difference either way."

If you ask them why, many seem to cite American support for Israel in its war against Gaza. Others cite inflation.

It's hard to restrict democracy to those who are "reliably informed". I wish we could. The whole idea of democracy is that you shouldn't have to, because informed people will be able to have influence enough to win most of the time. That fundamental proposition seems to be in doubt.
I always thought watching films that steam in the dark streets was some cool 80s aesthetics. As in 'You are in this dark corner of the city where nobody can hear you' scary or edgy.
'Cross-cloud chatter', 'Multicloud isn’t a (security) model citizen', all the networking primitives part (load balancers, firewalls, and delivery networks (aka DDoS protection)) of 'Time to frag your conf', as well as some parts of 'No intuitive observability' can all also be solved by NetFoundry, which is built on open source OpenZiti - https://openziti.io/.
I mentioned this on reddit, but AFAIK, the uutils project doesn't yet support locales: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/3997

I'm not any more a fan of POSIX locales than the next person[1], but AIUI, that seems a likely requirement for uutils to be used in a distro like Ubuntu.

I'd be curious how they plan to address this. At least from my perspective, unless uutils has already been designed to account for locales from the start (I don't know if it has), it seems likely that a significant investment of time will be required to add support for it.

[1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
Improving Posting's startup time by over 60%
Vancouver as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Energy
I noticed this when i was actually looking for something exactly like this tool earlier in the week. I didn't realize it was a recent thing.
... Bazaar.
I'd never noticed that ctrl-shift-p was a thing. In gvim ctrl-p moves up a line but ctrl-shift-p seems to do page up. Do you know if this is documented anywhere?
Agreed for consumer products. We are generally much better at noise in product engineering than before, solutions are lower cost, the know-how more widespread. Electric motors with electronic control can be very quiet. Engineering plastics with complex geometry accommodates advanced acoustical designs at very low cost. And many consumer products are in rather late stages of refinement, where manufacturers are looking for added qualities to try to keep prices up.
Hmm robot bird(s) time perhaps

edit: (to lead the migration)
That sounds about in line with a microlithography vendor (UK) I ordered zoneplates from. 7-10µm features were accessible and going to 0.7µm was an order of magnitude higher (and went from film to chrome on glass IIRC). File size was also a factor for more complex patterns.

Do not hesitate to post results on cloudynights or your club's website, I'll refresh it from time to time ! I do not think I have enough diffraction experience to help though.

Best of luck for your endaevor.
It was read to me as a child, and I read it to both of my sons. It's one of the few things I have from my childhood.
You also need to re-inspect it at every toolchain change/upgrade. In my experience, most programmers don't, and then we end up spending two day chasing some impossible-to-happen bug which has happened nonetheless because new Clang version had a regression in some obscure and rarely exercised part of its codegen.
Wow, I try to come up with an exaggerated hypothetical and it turns out to be a real example. We live in a ridiculous world.
>it doesn't stop them.

Yeah? Where are the pirate ISPs of North Korea then?

Mate, you're fighting with ghosts here. There are legit ISPs in EU, you don't need pirate ones. And there are legit VPNs to bypass whatever soft government restrictions are in place. There's no point arguing about endless made up hypotheticals.
I saw this post today: https://bsky.app/profile/martin.kleppmann.com/post/3lkax2h5v...

Real amateurs modify their whole house to fit in the telescope, apparently.
There are countries where starlink isn’t available. But if you get one from a nearby country and keep quiet it works.

Spain isn’t large enough, I suspect. But they can lean on starlink as long as they’re sold there.
In most countries, "curfews" are viewed as a justified legal construct. In most cases, internet shutdowns are clubbed with general curfews as well.

You see this especially in most of the former British colonies listed that continue to use British Colonial Era legislation for Law and Order. You see this is South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh), Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar), and much of Africa (eg. Nigeria, Kenya) as well

It's the classic "collectivist" versus "individualist" split, and it's something only individual countries can decide.
And I was wondering if it was in reference to the Night's Watch of Westeros, who fittingly take a vow of celibacy and dedicate their lives to dealing with problems the Southern quiche-eaters don't understand or even believe exist.

[0]: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Night%27s_Watch
Marsh Island, Maine as well:

https://umaine.edu/umec
Indianapolis, too [0, 1]:

> the second largest district steam system in the United States. The plant provides steam for heat and hot water to more than 200 commercial buildings and industries across downtown. Perry K's steam also helps power chilled water facilities which cool more than 60 large facilities around downtown. [1]

I grew up going to downtown Indianapolis as a kid and was always freaked out by the steam emanating from the manholes and grates on the street. It turned out not to be an unfounded fear--they have occasionally exploded [2].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_K._Generating_Station

1: https://info.citizensenergygroup.com/thermal/history

2: https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/locking-covers-installed-...
The temperature of this is such that industrial heat pumps are available to produce the steam. I don't imagine these are used in NY City, but they could be.
I've long been a fan of HP Voyager series calculators. I used an HP-11c daily at work years ago. I still have it, an HP-15c, and and HP-12c. The 11c and 15c are both probably still on their 2nd set of batteries, after 40+ years.
re: noarch, emscripten-32, and/or emscripten-wasm32 WASM packages of rust on emscripten-forge a couple days ago. [1][2]

emscripten-forge is a package repo of conda packages for `linux-64 emscripten-32 emscripten-wasm32 osx-arm64 noarch` built with rattler-build and hosted with quetz:
https://repo.mamba.pm/emscripten-forge

Evcxr is a rust kernel for jupyter; but jupyter-xeus is the new (cpp) way to write jupyterlite kernels like xeus-, xeus-sqlite, xeus-lua, xeus-javascript, xeus-javascript

[1]: evcxr_jupyter > "jupyter lite and conda-forge feedstock(s)"
https://github.com/evcxr/evcxr/issues/399

[2]: emscripten-forge > "recipes_emscripten/rust and evxcr_jupyter kernel"
https://github.com/emscripten-forge/recipes/issues/1983
# for floating windows

default_floating_border none

# make sure pavucontrol is floated; use xprop (cli) to get window title/class/etc

for_window [class="Pavucontrol"] floating enable, resize set height 512, opacity 0.3

# https://faq.i3wm.org/question/61/forcing-windows-as-always-f...
Show HN: Web Graph Browser
I tool I made to help me see "The Web". Originally the links were explored automatically for you but I found making it interactive helped me better get my head around the number of types of connections better than just dumping a graph and trying to explore it after it was loaded. I'd love feedback about how it could be better and what (if anything) playing with it helped you understand.
> I wonder how many of this angry crowd donate. Mozilla do accept donations.

This is what Mozilla have to say about it:

> How will my donation be used?

> Our grassroots donations, from supporters like you, are our most flexible source of funding. These funds directly support advocacy campaigns (i.e. asking big tech companies to protect your privacy), research and publications like the *Privacy Not Included buyer's guide and Internet Health Report, and covers a portion of our annual MozFest gathering.

— https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/help/#frequently-as...

This quite conspicuously does not include Firefox, nor does it include any kind of revenue stream diversification.
Individuals looking for belts and nation-states looking for networking equipment are not really the same thing… also belts don’t usually include service/maintenance contracts etc, or the ability to be revoked from the public at large (imagine the embarrassment)
How is mildew and mold avoided in the pipeline and interior spaces being heated by steam?
You fail to grasp the value of bloomberg terminal.

The UI has in fact, evolved, but it has never changed. For example, higher DPI screen sizes, the UI is now instrumented in a web browser, no longer the the old TUI. It is fast, it is familiar, it's the same, but it evolves, if that makes sense.

If you know how to use it in company A in decade 1980, you know how to use it in company B today. That doesn't mean it hasn't improved or improved ergonomics.

It's a beautiful piece of engineering that got the basics right. Power users add whatever they need to it, modular, but it's not like Vim or VSCode where you are basically useless without a large effort when moving into a blank new updated version, let alone things like the ribbon design vs the old design in office.
US arms flow to Ukraine again as the Kremlin mulls a ceasefire proposal
But somebody gave the API Connection permissions to read the KV secrets from, Exchange Mailbox, SharePoint folder etc… And anybody who has access to the API Connection now has access to the KV, SharePoint folder, etc… I do not think this is a problem with Azure, this is just how permissions work…
Show HN: OneUptime – Open-Source Datadog Alternative
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Dashboards (just like Datadog): Collect any metrics you like and build dashboard and share them with your team!

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Microsoft Teams integration, terraform / infra as code support, fix your ops issues automatically in code with LLM of your choice and more.

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Its still not the right height, if there are better options.

If you could elevate the screen - put it on top of a big can of oatmeal, use a cheap tablet mount clamp or stand - you'd have better results.

Coupling the keyboard to the laptop is an anti-feature. A folio keyboard cover will work better for most people. For those who actually need to do this for any amount of time, a ThinkPad TrackPoint Bluetooth keyboard & a tablet arm will make a very acceptable workstation anywhere.
The review is hard to read since, rather than approaching the book as a whole, makes random shots at specific points in the book. To understand the review I'd have to read it side-by-side with the book.
The problem here is the fact that the expected cost of software has become zero. 25 years ago most productivity apps would charge money. There might be a free trial but you need to pay for it. These days most expect software to be free of charge. A lot of the regression in software quality and usability can be traced back to this.
I dunno. Seems to me the organic and natural way is for these things to evolve and then become standardized de facto like TypeScript did. I guess this is kind of just that, but formalizing it? Still seems excessive.
Excellent - Thanks!

I always wondered if we could convert an old andoid phone or tablet into a USB/wireless graphics-tablet for drawing input -- or as a live annotator for screen presentations where I can mirror the PC slideshow on the tablet and use the tablet to make annotations during a lecture say.

If there are any such projects already -- I would e very keen to take a look.
> Most user experience work today are done by people who ironically have little experience as a user

So many upvotes for this. While the provided thing might technically work, if it is clunky for the users, the users will not like it. I understand those making the thing will probably never use the thing. The problem comes when those making do not listen to those using. There have been many times where I've made the thing, but then when I went to use the thing I wanted nasty things to happen to the person that made it. I've been in some very contentious UAT rounds where I was the user and the devs refused to listen to valid complaints.
Pretty sure the steam is ran through radiators and not just dumped directly into the air.
Canonical has had this requirement for some time.
I think I once bought an iPhone charging cable from you guys on Amazon.
The modern descendant of this stuff (intersecting group of people and ideas) is at https://www.xmos.com/

The target is the embedded space now, though.
"I never thought the party that's been saying for 20 years that they want to reduce government to the size where they can drown it in the bathtub would ever do anything drastic..."
Spelunker, M.U.L.E, Seven Cities of Gold, Up N Down, Moon Patrol, Raid on Bungeling Bay, Blue Max

I could go on and on...
> Some things were good, but there were lots of problems too like features hidden behind right-clicks, not knowing if you had to double or single click, being required to read help/manuals to find features, too much jargon and technical language, and overuse of modals.

I dunno… all of these issues are still very prevalent. The one that probably disappeared the most is the right click context menu, which I would argue was actually great for discoverability. Personally, I lament its demise. Of course context menus still exist, but it used to be a pretty reliable universal convention.
Today's ConEd seems to lag environmentally on the generation side: still runs on fossil fuels, and only half of the steam is by cogeneration of heat and power. (Going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system)
While changing the core packages as a rewrite looks easy (,,just reimplement ls''), compatibility/stability may mean reproducing all the tiny but not safety critical bugs as well.

There's enough data from the Android ecosystem that it's much better to focus oxidisation on new software instead of old.
Well, it kind of does. AppId points to an app registration.
Object id points to an object. This can be an Enterprise App registration, but also a user object.

ClientId again is the id of the client, which does not have to be an app registration specifically.

I do agree it can be very confusing
Same, rarely maybe quarters too.

Perhaps the biggest usage difference I'll make switching between a floating and tiling window manager is how I swap windows in those positions. In the tiling case I'll create tabbed containers and position the container tiles accordingly. Then any time I want to switch it's selecting a tab in the container. In the floating use case I just switch and position individually. Most of the time the tabbed container is the easier workflow, rarely the floating one can be a better fit - just depends on what exactly I'm doing at the time.

Overall the difference is relatively tiny and what I really end up wanting to get close to regardless of the tools I'm using is something like that Windows 10 beta period where you could put different applications as tabs in the same window, have the workspace/zone based tiling gestures + shortcuts, but have new things just default to floating windows until I assign them.

In the end... so long as I can position the window somewhere within 2 seconds it really doesn't matter much.
C-with-sanitizers is miles ahead of what C used to be, but just a couple weeks ago I ran into a dangling pointer bug that ASan doesn't catch. (Sidenote 5 here: https://jacko.io/smart_pointers.html) It seems like one of the big downsides of sanitizers is that they can't instrument other people's code, in this case the C standard library.
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