"UpWork is primarily low-end, well-understood work like WordPress" - This is what I was alluding to. Most of the Upwork devs only operate in "well-understood" work. Anything custom seems to be beyond them.
Also, Upwork devs never seem to ask questions. I'm flabbergasted tbh. Even the most detailed designs, stories and wireframes require questions to be asked. In my experience, the devs from upwork just plow ahead into the work without asking really any clarifying questions. weird.
I think your option of soliciting from one of the developers themselves is the best option, in hind-sight. Both of them have the skills and direct domain knowledge of their own code.
If that fails, contacting another developer who has forked he code and is also supporting the libraries also might work.
I've tried working with UpWork, but their developers seem more geared towards "known"-type of projects, involving specific tech, or specific type of jobs, or fix it jobs.
I presented a project of some advanced JS, nothing too serious, and almost every developer declined or couldn't understand the requirements, likely because they didn't read any of my material about the project.
The job is pretty simple: add support for https://play.Presenta.cc .json files to https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html#playerhtml. I want to be able to have a Presenta File player, so I can play the Presenta slideshow files and video files from my local folder using the html page. That's generally it. Upwork couldn't deliver.
This job was step one, in a very few number towards an MVP.
Nobody on Upwork seems to be able to do this.
I'm pretty disappointed with UpWork.
I have a call with TopTal next week
I have a call with Iron Forge next week, as well
If anyone here has reviewed this, is able to do this, and want to get paid doing it, leave me a message.
The excess mortality in the United States doesn't make any sense at all. I followed the link to the article that contained the data regarding the United States, however it was an article that only dealt with the Eurozone and made no mention of "us" "united" "the united states" "America" or "usa" anywhere in the article, so I'm not really sure what evidence supports their claims about the USA?
The action to take down Youtube-dl seemed to be a directed time based action meant to coincide with the election. Most on-line youtube downloading sites were also deplatformed a day or two before the election.
I think that Youtube didn't want users to have the ability to locally save videos that they have seen during the week of the election.
It seems to be a greater attempt to suppress information sharing than anything specific to the copyright.
Youtube just wanted immediate action to prevent people from using the code to get around the online download sites that were also taken down.
Hacker News pays close attention to the content on the main page. They purge anything that doesn't trend left leaning or counters the standard left's corporate interests.
For example, I posted a link to Michael Moore's film in which he eviscerates bio-fuels. This post was mysteriously removed. It was also removed the second time I posted it. This was despite the link the "A year wearing shorts to work" as another HN article link at the time continued to exist.