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Seeking Freelancer – Remote/Hybrid (Canada) – Data Engineering
I run a small data engineering consultancy and am looking to connect with data engineers interested in fractional and contract opportunities.

There is an immediate 3-month contract opportunity for a data lead that I'm sourcing for but I'm open to connecting with anyone who has a data engineering background that lives in North America (or can overlap Eastern timezone).

Email: teren@ensemblehq.ca
> It does have great promise in an open-source self-hosted incarnation not controlled by external actors, however.

I'm not even sure about that, entirely. My very limited understanding of this is that a core requirement is the initial data - the large language models(?). Which of these you can use, or how it's initially developed/populated, will have an influence on the answers you get and how it may evolve/"learn".

Instead of trusting the external corp to run the service, you need to trust whatever actors are building the base data sets, and be concerned what sort of bias may be inherent.

Or do I have this totally wrong?
Austrian DSB: Meta Tracking Tools Illegal
I'll gladly do a take home vs live coding leet code. No thanks.
Ask for help.

Instead of spinning your wheels and wasting your time on your own.

That's what I'd want an employee to do.

I care less that you are having issues than I do about a complete shut down or lack of communication.

Update: Already getting downvoted for this response and not even a comment to explain why... classic.
I know people that feel that way about going outside on earth.
Two branches:

1. It is near trivial for an experienced programmer in that language to do the task: You don't belong applying for this job. Example: Python. If you can't setup a python virtual env in about 30s... don't apply for a python job.

2. It is near impossible without their IDE settings. Java projects can be like this, at times. Though usually not to the tune of 3 hours, but I could see it getting there with a complex J2EE + database setup.

Know which case you are in, judge accordingly.

Personally: I never do take homes, unless I have a good feel for the company. If the take home is given by HR. Welcome to my circular file. This is a hard and fast rule at this point. If the hiring manager wants me to do it... That's different. But I want to talk to them and decide if this is worth my time first.
Canada has not seen a rise in cannabis related DUIs since it legalized the drug.
The Dacia Spring looks nice. If only there was option to have a larger battery.
That's more of a CUV than a hatchback, no? It certainly looks bigger and taller.
Yeah, I fiddle with it locally and img2img/inpaint is very helpful with these kinds of touchups. Currently playing with LoRA training to put my friends into pictures, but I haven't figured it out well enough to get it working with inpainting - Still easier to Photoshop their face in and use inpaint to merge everything together.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it.
I think Matrix has a few, such as:

https://arewep2pyet.com/
If this has the same software as my ID.4, that is not a hatchback you'd want to drive. Or, more precisely, you might want to drive it, as the narrowly defined driving experience is great, but you'll be endlessly frustrated by terrible software quality, ubiquitous bugs, obvious functionality not being there, and terrible interior design with touch-sensitive controls that make no sense.

If you think I'm exaggerating: the car is unable to deal with two drivers having different settings (doesn't recognize keys, settings get mixed up), the rear camera view does not come up about 30% of the time, and if you try closing two windows simultaneously, sometimes one will go up and the other down.

Their app is totally useless for anyone but the "main" driver (bizarre concept), for whom it is just buggy and shows wrong information and doesn't always do what you ask it to.

VW really dropped the ball on software quality.
The Tesla UI used to be amazing and had convinced me that touch UIs could compete with buttons in a car. So much was accessible with one tap.

But with each update, they UI gets objectively worse. They keep putting more and more things behind menus requiring multiple taps, making them incredibly annoying and dangerous to use while driving.

My biggest gripes:

- rear seat warmers require two nested menus to access. They aren't controllable from the main HVAC slide up, even though the seat diagram is still right there.

- mute/unmute turn-by-turn directions used to be a one click operation. Now it's hidden behind a hard-to-tap menu.
OP didn't say swear, they said slur - as another example one thing a commercial AI will never be allowed to do is deny the holocaust. welcome to the new "prove you're a human" captchas.
A founder trying to sell a product by telling you the product is magic? Yeah, very trustworthy source there.
I have tried their Bing android app. It asked me to log in into Microsoft account and it was trying to add me into the waitlist. Unsuccessfuly with an error code. This is funny. I uninstalled it immediately and gave 1*. They are advertising something which is not available yet. But it's Microsoft so nothing new ...

TIP: Use chatgpt API. It is very cheap and configurable. It is easy to use it over Python or REST.
I've added an instructions page now, thanks!
C# is classic object-oriented, while Rust skips polymorphism. It takes a while to grasp how to properly design using traits with no polymorphism. The transition is far from simple. I happen to like Rust's choice, a lot, but it is a very different approach.
Ask HN: What is your view on MBA product managers?
I have found by-and-large they have relatively little interest in tech & design, and treat product-building more as a game to be played, particularly within the boundaries of BigTech. This makes it difficult to really deliver the “user value” they hammer on about as conflicts of interest tend to compromise the quality of decisions and, subsequently, the product.

And yet, both early- and late-stage tech companies are hiring them in droves.
In some sense, there's no answer to your question because everyone's tool workflow is their own.

That said, the most recent invocation for me was `mlr --icsv --ojson cat < a515b308-9a0e-4e4e-99a2-eafaa6159762.csv` to fix up CloudTrail csv and after that I happen to be more muscle-memory with jq but conceptually next I could have `filter '$eventname == "CreateNodegroup"'`
> This kind of DoS only works if the system fails to distinguish good listings from bad.

...if they could do that, why would you need to be able to report listings? They'd just block the bad ones automatically.
>> 3. this could be addressed with regular police work

The phrase "could be" is doing a lot of work there. Yes, all of these crimes could be — and I would argue SHOULD be — addressed by regular (presuming local or state) police work. Sadly, it is not.

Similar to rampant bicycle theft. It definitely could and should be addressed by local cops, but is largely ignored, and ignored even when people bring them real-time tracking of the bicycle. And you're not supposed to go vigilante and get it yourself (partly due to risk to you).

For #2, $50 million, that seems like a lot of crime. But let's take the mailing a brick for an iPhone example. Each one is roughly $1000. So we need 50,000 bricks per year. That's 137 per day. Way too much for one criminal. But with 250 criminals, they only need to send a brick every couple of days. And our cop team needs to average only a single capture per day to stop $50million of crime in a year.

Jurisdiction, yeah, they'd probably need national jurisdiction, since there are probably few crimes where the criminal and crime are in the same town (other than the FB market/Craigslist criminals). So, deputized by the FBI is probably best.

So, not unreasonable to search for a solution that actually works.
Most people safely enjoy alcohol. No one is pushing a narrative that alcohol is universally healthy and safe, and pushing accounts of alcoholism and other forms of maladaptive use under the rug. Nor do we blame alcoholics for the genes that make them susceptible.

I strongly believe that cannabis should be legal, but also find it quite problematic that many users and advocates will quickly bristle the moment the downsides that many experience are described.

I think the horrific levels of injustice prior to legalization has had a pendulum effect on conversations about safety and downsides.

If someone describing their own negative experiences and belief that those experiences warrant more controls is so bizarre, it might be worth exploring why that is.

That doesn’t mean one has to agree that controls are needed, but this notion that “well that’s just your problem, leave me alone” is an unhelpful attitude that does very little to illuminate the reality of the situation.

The reality is that some people form a habitual/addictive relationship with cannabis. The reality is that cannabis severely disrupts REM sleep. The importance of REM sleep is a growing concern as we learn more about the process of sleep and how a lack of it predicts serious mental deterioration later in life.

To be clear, I use cannabis regularly and find that it helps me deal with some aspects of C-PTSD. At the same time, I also find that it reduces the quality of my sleep.

This is a tradeoff I accept because the alternative is less sleep overall, which is worse than the degraded sleep I’m getting now. But if I could otherwise sleep normally, adding cannabis to the mix is something I’d be more cautious about.

The point behind that anecdote is simply that using cannabis involves tradeoffs.

I don’t think access should be further controlled, but I do think education needs to be prioritized.
That's not really fair, a lot of good devs just don't work with vms, downloading all the bits could take up half of that time.
You might have a better shot if you write a blog post that includes video elements.
> Proves too much: the idea of coming up with a genetic basis for "fishness" is also now completely useless.

I mean, that’s a good analogy, the term “fish” is even worse than “race”. Fish is paraphyletic, just like “tree”. There’s also the colloquial sense of “fish”, which is even less clear.
Twice as well as someone with five? I guess you could do some sort of hybrid British/American gesture with two middle fingers.
Photoprism is absolutely amazing. It was the quickest donation I’ve ever made to an OSS project.

I have a Photoprism instance running on my home server backed by a raidz1 ZFS pool (1st backup). Photos are periodically synced to a Backblaze bucket with versioning enabled (2nd backup). The source of most photos is an iOS device with iCloud enabled (main copy). I rely on PhotoSync to periodically sync from the iOS device to Photoprism.
This American is sick of how big everything has become. Give me a smaller phone and a smaller car.
"They ghosted me"

This is unfortunately modern culture, and most seem unconcerned how rude they are to strangers. Very foolish policy unless you already have over a Billion market cap, and can attract a steady stream of junior staff more willing to take flippant abuse.

Rule #23: Don't compete to be at the bottom, as you just might actually win.

This also means respecting the content medium, and knowing when to bail. =)
Looks good but follows same routine as other announcements that didn’t pan out as expected:

As a concept, the ID. 2all isn't available for sale, but the company plans for a production version to be on sale in Europe by 2025. There's no word as to whether it's coming to the US, but with VW already dropping similar ICE models like the Golf, it's perhaps unlikely.
compared to Israel, yeah UK tech scene seems to be underperforming.
there's massive technical talent in the uk, favorable laws and common language with the us.
I think what let's the uk down, is a lot of places lose focus, talent is lost to consulting shops, bureaucracy slows a lot of things down.
a counter point is look at game studios - uk seems to be delivering there.
it's just other products where uk is underperforming.
uk i.e london should be ahead of places like austin in terms of # of startups
7065DN here, had for years. It’s fine.

The models with D in them have a duplexer which means printing on both sides of the paper, W is for WiFi, N is for networking.
Updated now thanks!
Get with the times. We have tasked one AI with generating the prompts for the second AI. The two machines now sit in the corner generating and grading papers at each other over a USB cord. The kids love it. The parents are a little upset that their kids no longer have to attend the classroom, but such complaints disappear when they see how much everyone's grades have improved. SATs come in a few months and, given the class GPA, we are confident everyone will do well.
Silica's melting point is lowered when mixed with water, so oceanic faults can have actual molten magma lubricating and weakening the fault line. Otherwise, you'd have the stronger malleable solid mantle at the joint, and lose much more energy whenever the fault tried to move.

Having at least some faults that slippery is necessary to keep the system from locking up.
I liked that the X-Files reboot kept the old credits. Mulder and Scully look like babies. Then the credits end and reality intrudes. Of course, I'd aged at the same rate (maybe faster) but it was still a shock.
>Netflix also infamously used AI to generate background images for an anime, which is work that previously would have put food on the table for illustrators.[0]

Sooner or later studios will use it to leverage the work of their artist. If the same quality of animation requires half the staff to make it, some will use it as a cost reduction, others will use it to make better and more complex art. Maybe we'll finally get 60fps Anime instead of the 10 - 24 that is typical now. Your favorite series that was cancelled after a single because they didn't have budget, now they can make 5 season of it with the same budget.
Apart from Rust's Mozilla heritage, there's no link between most of the rust based are we X yet sites and Mozilla. Mozilla doesn't operate the sites, neither do the Rust team, nor is the Rust team part of Mozilla for several years now.
> i disagree however that suing for maximum damage is helpful to GPL software. it only instills fear in companies wanting to use it because it increases the risk.

And for some reason, a company with questionable EULAs, illegal in many jurisdiction's terms, and hundreds of pages of dense legalese doesn't seem to scare any of these companies away.

And many FLOSS licenses are written in plain language to easily understand what you can and cant do. These companies aren't doing an accident - its intentional, ongoing, and continual malfeasance BECAUSE there is no real punishment. At best, they'll have to "comply". (And you know, FLOSS is always bemoaning no money.... well, here's a way to fund it)

> i believe a good will approach to help companies with compliance is better, only suing when companies refuse to comply.

You can disagree with me all you want. All I ask is "how does it look when the tables are turned"?

And we have a rather nice answer - https://www.bsa.org/ and https://www.siia.net/

The business software alliance and Software & Information Industry Association are utterly dictatorial about intentional copyright violations, and also very harsh about accidental violations.

You can do further research on case studies of places that were called out for pirated software, and how many millions of dollars they had to pay in fines and "fixing proper licenses".

Until FLOSS starts doing tit-for-tat (the best game theory decision in these kinds of things), we're going to keep seeeing companies treating FLOSS as their own personal loot-crate with little to no punishment for intentionally doing wrong.
It's a weird social phenomenon, but many 0.x crates are actually quite stable, some of them are pillars of the ecosystem at this point. I don't know the exact threshold where people are deciding to make the leap to 1.0, but it's different from what you might expect

Functionally, a lot of 0.x bumps end up just being x.0 bumps
> Sure, but most (if not all?) of us have language in our customer agreements that Microsoft doesn't have rights to just start browsing our OneDrive libraries and Exchange inboxes without a support contract explicitly authorizing access for support purposes.

You don't have language in your agreement that Microsoft cannot use your data to provide or improve service. You have language that says _support personnel_ cannot access your data without approval.

Microsoft already indexes your mailbox, OneDrive, etc.

Viva Topics has been around for ~2 years which mines content across various services.
You can bet people will ask LLMs to generate the rail files ^_^
Why would you want a high say/do ratio? Did he mean "low"? I don't understand why you'd want to say a lot of things and do only a few.
You can already get banned from social networks by AI.
There are Americans who like small cars but dealers don’t want to sell them.

The Honda Fit is the ideal getaway car in Tompkins County (see ‘em everywhere) but after mine got totaled twice in six months I went looking for a new one and the dealer didn’t have any, had the excuse that the factory washed out in a flood, but there were 50 CR-Vs made in the same factory lined up.

Before the pandemic, when sales incentives were widespread, I’d see $8000 discounts on huge vehicles, none on small vehicles. Is that really a sign people want to buy large vehicles or that dealers want to sell them? How many people walk out with a larger vehicle than they need because dealers didn’t have the vehicle they wanted?
I'm currently tinkering with Bevy, and while the experience is mostly positive, I sometimes miss the at-a-glance insight only an UI can bring. There's a few plugins that can be added to add a UI-ish inspection functionality to Bevy apps, but it's miles away from a proper UI.

However the Bevy team said they'll be focusing on UI editor soon, so that's something to look forward to.

But even outside of that, I guess UE is interesting due to decades of accumulated industry wisdom (eg nanite, lumen, etc).

There's also kajiya by Embark that can be integrated with Bevy (I think there was a crate) that brings some of the virtualized geometry stuff to Rust games. Haven't used it myself though
Hatches aren't as popular here as they are in the EU for various reasons. Very common for US to not get them

https://jalopnik.com/a-simple-explanation-why-america-doesnt...

https://www.hotcars.com/these-are-the-best-hot-hatches-ameri...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/cxmwk4/why_are_all_th...
they can pay you for your time to compile a feedback document.
If the culture is that rotten that this behavior is accepted (as it requires multiple people in the hiring process to be complicit) I doubt anyone would want to stay for very long if they were hired.
While there exist companies that overdo it and expect weird things like that, I believe the majority of companies expect something simple — if you’re applying to be a <rolls dice> Rails backend developer, you would probably be asked to build some simple API with a couple endpoints. And if you are applying for that position, you should know how to set up Ruby (and you should probably have it installed on your laptop, even if you aren’t doing much coding outside of work/for fun/in open-source projects), install Rails, create an app, and write the simple endpoints. The OOP seems to be struggling with something like that (and “virtual environment” smells very Pythony to me — even though Python packaging is a trainwreck, someone applying for a Python job shouldn’t need 3+ hours to set things up for a simple project.)
I meant the system including human reviewers.
I'm curious to see which will vanish first from the US market - the compact hatchback/CUV (compact meaning < ~15 feet long) or the sub-$25k vehicle.

My _guess_ is that a few 'premium' hatchbacks may stick around, but the sub-$25k vehicle will be a thing of the past within the next couple of years...

Sadly this vehicle has both of those marks against it. A shame as it really does look quite nice. Just means I'll have to stick with my homely, slow-charging Chevy Bolt EV for a few more years...
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> They surely do something like Red Hat that says in a contract you lose access to the GRSecurity patch as a user if you publicly redistribute the source.

GPL 2.0

> 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.

You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.

Red Hat prohibits you from redistributing their binary packages, and that's well within the rights of the GPL as it attached to the source with the only requirement on binaries being that the GPL'd source code be made available upon request. Before the CentOS rebase, they went a step further and you could just download SRPMs right off their FTP server without even being a paying customer.

In the case of GRSecurity, in their FAQ [https://grsecurity.net/faq] they even acknowledge that their customers have a right to share the patches.

Q: Does grsecurity have a free version for evaluation only?

A: Grsecurity fully complies with the license of the Linux kernel, the GPLv2. Since grsecurity is delivered as a source code patch, it is not possible under the terms of the GPL to offer a free version under an actual restriction that it be used only for evaluation purposes. Any customer receiving a grsecurity patch receives all the GPL-granted rights and responsibilities, including the right to redistribute patches in their possession or even to sell them to others.
TomTom joins OpenStreetMap Foundation as first platinum member
i would leave off the last sentence. no reason to end with a lie.
That’s problem: there is impact, but it is not recognized well. For promos higher than L4 you need bigger projects. Stringing together a bunch of medium impact bug fixes won’t get it done even if the net effect is very high impact. You only get credit for something you measure and if the quantity is big enough.
They aren't today believe me!
While I agree that code and science should be separated from politics, isn't this the point of the sanction?

AFAIK the Linux Foundation is a US non-profit, and many core kernel developers, such as Linus Torvalds and Greg KH reside in the United States.
I won't hire someone unless they do the task. If they don't want to do it, or don't have time, we can just talk about it. It's not that hard.
Your 3G phone may not have been broken, but using it was like driving a tractor or horse-drawn buggy on a freeway. RF spectrum with propagation characteristics amenable to cellular networks is a precious finite resource, and older, slower radio protocols are downright wasteful to keep operating when LTE and 5G can accommodate more customers and more voice/data throughput with the same bandwidth.
The purpose of the question is to avoid triggering "they will just move on and hire someone else". As you well know.

(and evidenced by "I will also state that they can check out some of the previous code I have written on my GitHub." where the candidate still wants the company to keep considering them after declining the test.)