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It's definitely possible (I'm part of a new tech worker cooperative). Cooperatives can be many legal structures, though you need your bylaws to reflect cooperative principles (one member one vote, etc). Here's a list of tech coops if you'd like to know some others: https://github.com/hng/tech-coops
I'm happy to share more - I'll send you an email.
Congrats on the launch! Looks like you can only play one game as a guest before getting stuck in a loop when hitting "play now" between "forgot to buy items?" and "you must be logged in to buy". I also wasn't sure which one was the base to defend once I'd wandered off.
I recommend:
- Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer
- Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
The cool thing is that you can, with the BEAM, connect your shell[0] to a running server and use something like recon_trace[1] to watch functions as they’re getting called. The same principle is used for libraries like this distributed profiler so you can watch the aggregate performance of your application[2].
[0] https://hexdocs.pm/iex/1.12/IEx.html#module-remote-shells (the remsh flag)
I've been finding Livebook (https://livebook.dev/) really useful for iterating on a script or manipulating some data in a reproducible way. I'll often try out one solution and if that doesn't work, create a new section and collapse the old one to be able to go in a different direction.
There's also defining a module and then `import`ing it.
I tried averaging embeddings at first but a GPT-3 prompt gave more interesting results!
Must have come from the Möbius strip dimension.
Go for it! Really enjoying it :)
Minor hiccup, sorry! Should be back up.
This uses GPT-3 to find a word "halfway" between two others and it's built with Elixir, Phoenix, and Ash (https://ash-hq.org/) and is deployed on Fly.io.
Some fun ones:
- imagination and vacation -> fantasize
- enthusiasm and zeal -> fervor
- angry and hungry -> famished
- spoon and fork -> spork
The point of the control room in CyberSyn wasn't to make second-by-second or minute-by-minute decisions but rather on longer timescales like days or weeks. In Brain of the Firm, Beer argues specifically against overloading it with numbers and that it should be a "thinking room".
Alternatively: “For what reason did you not choose...”
Didn’t Alan Kay coin the term “object oriented”?
Make sure you have vesting (and check the footnotes): https://blog.ycombinator.com/splitting-equity-among-founders...
For those who've switched over to Firefox recently and find Youtube inexplicably slow, it's "because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome." [0]
The YouTube Classic extension will speed things up: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-class...
I think the implication is that it's captured via salaries paying high rent.
- However the worst thing so far to me has been i have watched as UI developers go from writing simple rest queries, and doing a bit of work on the front-end to writing extremely inefficient and convoluted queries. Even worse is when a third party is doing it and i have no say over what they do with it.
To your last point, there are a few ways you can provide feedback on or limit the cost of your queries. I'd recommend checking out Github's article on resource limitation [0] and the section on query cost analysis in an article by the Apollo team [1].
[0] https://developer.github.com/v4/guides/resource-limitations/ [1] https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/securing-your-graphql-api-fr...
There was an uproar about the legality of Trump's travel bans, but followed by a 7-0 supreme court victory on the subject.
Weren't there multiple versions that went through the courts?
It's the same Bigelow creating inflatable space habitats: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/17/16488646/bigelow-aerospa...
The data set could be really useful.
Hi Alex! I don't have the answer, but I just sent this over to Seth. Looking forward to seeing you all again in December!
Alternatively, the question is a proxy for: Are there people that look like me? Will my opinions be heard by others?
Out of curiosity, what's the demographic makeup of your interviewees? I can see how someone might value diversity while feeling uncomfortable raising the point.
Reminds me of this: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650...
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Interviewer: First of all, we're working in a subdivision building a lot of brown houses. Have you built a lot of brown houses before?
Carpenter: Well, I'm a carpenter, so I build houses, and people pretty much paint them the way they want.
Interviewer: Yes, I understand that, but can you give me an idea of how much experience you have with brown? Roughly.
Carpenter: Gosh, I really don't know. Once they're built I don't care what color they get painted. Maybe six months?
Any hints about the architectures used?
With a potential reduction in the Department of Energy's budget, this might not hold. There may not be enough funding to properly dispose of the waste. Not to mention that some of the effects of past storage aren't well-catalogued [0]:
Three years ago the D.O.E. sent the local tribes a letter to say they shouldn’t eat the fish they caught in the river more than once a week.
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Hanford turns out to be a good example of an American impulse: to avoid knowledge that conflicts with whatever your narrow, short-term interests might be. What we know about Hanford we know mainly from whistle-blowers who worked inside the nuclear facility—and who have been ostracized by their community for threatening the industry in a one-industry town. (“Resistance to understanding a threat grows with proximity,” writes Brown.) One hundred and forty-nine of the tanks in the Hanford farms are made of a single shell of a steel ill-designed to contain highly acidic nuclear waste. Sixty-seven of them have failed in some way and allowed waste or vapors to seep out. Each tank contains its own particular stew of chemicals, so no two tanks can be managed in the same way. At the top of many tanks accumulates a hydrogen gas, which, if not vented, might cause the tank to explode. “There are Fukushima-level events that could happen at any moment,” says Carpenter. “You’d be releasing millions of curies of strontium 90 and cesium. And once it’s out there it doesn’t go away—not for hundreds and hundreds of years.”
The people who created the plutonium for the first bombs, in the 1940s and early 1950s, were understandably in too much of a rush to worry about what might happen afterward. They simply dumped 120 million gallons of high-level waste, and another 444 billion gallons of contaminated liquid, into the ground. They piled uranium (half-life: 4.5 billion years) into unlined pits near the Columbia River. They dug 42 miles of trenches to dispose of solid radioactive waste—and left no good records of what’s in the trenches. In early May of this year a tunnel at Hanford, built in the 1950s to bury low-level waste, collapsed. In response, the workers dumped truckloads of dirt into the hole. That dirt is now classified as low-level radioactive waste and needs to be disposed of. “The reason the Hanford cleanup sucks—in a word—is shortcuts,” said Carpenter. “Too many goddamn shortcuts.”
[0] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-...
Racism is more than just calling out race in a specific dynamic:
..."racism" is defined not only in terms of individual prejudice, but also in terms of a power structure which protects the interests of the dominant culture and actively discriminates against ethnic minorities.[0]
The other relevant parts:
What are three things that turn you off when entrepreneurs pitch to you.
The first is founders who don’t know their numbers. I am talking about the post early stage company that has launched a product and has users but the founders either don’t know their metrics or are trying to hide something.
The second, also related, would be the founders not having empathy for and understanding their users. As a founder you need to understand the key reasons that are driving adoption of your product, in great depth.
Lastly, I want to invest in people who are learning animals. This is a tough one to assess in the thirty minutes to an hour I have with a founder but it is absolutely critical. I don’t care if you are expert now but I do expect that you will be one in three years.
The tangled part is actually mostly 2mm thickness on the surface[0]. That's why the folds matter so much:
[0] https://28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
Check out this article for a pretty cool overview of the brain: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html