skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not a battery in the physical sense because it does not store energy.
What it does is, it allows you to transfer the economic utility of cheap local energy to regions where energy is more in demand.
Although, as the article itself highlights, this could also be done more efficiently with aluminum smelting, and other processes that are energy intensive but don't require much infrastructure.

From a purely financial point of view I suspect maintaining a bitcoin mining operation in remote areas is harder and requires more frequent upgrades than if you were doing a more traditional manufacturing process.
I mean, it’s a part of your compensation package and isn’t a requirement for small companies, so yeah, it should be counted. You are receiving a benefit the company pays for.

Edit: maybe OP was referring to public healthcare? In that case it depends on the methodology. Seems like this methodology subtracts taxes then adds back in what you receive.

This doesn’t seem unreasonable as someone who isn’t making enough to pay taxes may get Medicaid coverage. That’s a direct transfer payment to that person.
Accidental lab escape, or premeditated lab escape?

Edit: Because the former doesn't sound like much of a conspiracy, aside from a cover-up afterwards.
I think I found an error with one of the photos of amulets.

I believe this amulet is upside down and represents a cat curled up.

See if you can spot it.

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/recherche?typology%5B0%5D=5
That cannot continue, pop will drop significantly if we don’t stop producing so much CO2.
Not "a bit". It is just absolute and complete nonsense coming from the sociopathic cryptocurrency fraudsters.
Learning kanji is a skill. The more you practice it, the easier it will get. Also what's a few thousand kanji if you also have to learn 10s of thousands of vocabulary.
Can you cite any instance where a union representing blue collar workers has negotiated stock options or similar stock based compensation as part of their member's pay package?
It's explained later: by gluing together the binary interfaces that've already achieved a decades-long consensus, and ignoring the APIs

For a link with the actual numbers: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/667ab245fe0326972b...
Well, the last SuS/POSIX came out in 2008. It's 2021.

It should come as no surprise that since Linux has become the defacto POSIX standard that no other OS could keep up (or would want to really).
There shouldn't be any workplace surveillance.
Computer vision software has the potential to reinvent the way cities move
We do mostly mobbing. We spend a lot of time explaining to the driver what to type. I see an opportunity to spend more time on ideas and less on specifics of what and where to type.
As we are kind of in Ken Kesey country here, I would add "Sometimes A Great Notion", which I think is his best novel - better than "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest".
That doesn't make sense. Define harm. Carelessness can cause injury and isn't mental illness, etc.
Well considering Government transfers like EITC arent included in many analyses of poverty or income inequality, this is a very different analysis than others.

Seems reasonable? Compare what people end up with after al is said and done versus what their job pays them before taxes?
This is actually what bitcoiners believe. Well, I say "believe", but it's more that bitcoiners do not care about truth or making sense, all that matters is bitcoin and the price going up.
CloudFlare provides free unique visitor stats broken down by country.
And to this day the English language calls those numerals the Arabic numerals. How much more acknowledgment could you expect? There's a lot to say about anglo-centrism, this is not part of it.
People don't ruin the environment with bitcoin mining because they "enjoy" it. They do it because they can get money out of it.

Stop the supply of money, it goes away.
being far fetched seems like an understatement
Thank you for your feedback!

> The country filter works well, but it’s still a bit limited. I see many UK-only jobs in the Europe filter. Maybe the UK can be added to its own filter?

Yeah, we've been thinking about this for a while, and it's definitely doable. We're still trying to understand where we should draw the line on the number of shown locations — but the UK is probably the best candidate for being a country on its own in the filter list given how many job offers are UK-only.

> I would add an option to receive updates via email or RSS

100%, newsletter support is the next item on the roadmap. I personally think that any kind of notification/emailing would do wonders on this type of project... but I wanted to ship "something" instead of continuously scope-creep :). Haven't thought about RSS, thanks for the tip!
Especially when the minimum wage is so low and going in to work to serve people refusing to wear masks could kill you or curse you with a constellation of life-ruining symptoms for the remainder of your life.
1984 is already one of the most terrifying books I've read, I can't imagine what it would have been if Orwell had foreseen the emergence of AI/ML technologies.
Refined aluminum is in quite a high-energy state. Chemically you could extract energy or make electricity from aluminum.
It's used in some types of military explosives. Because the refining takes so much electricity, some well-meaning people suggest running it at times of low demand to balance the grid. But refining is capital intensive so you don't want to turn it off or you miss out on the returns from the investment, and the process runs at high temperatures and can't just be turned on and off (in fact if that happens unintentionally it makes a big mess!)

I agree with what you're saying though.
This seems like a pretty flawed idea and an attempt to justify the incredible amount of electricity required by bitcoin. If bitcoin was changed to require a fraction the amount of electricity all of these ideas would suddenly fall apart.

Building renewable energy sources in the middle of nowhere to power a bitcoin farm is just completely nonsensical and does noting to help with the shift to renewables.
That’s kinda interesting in a WSL sort of way.

Last time I played with System Z machines you’d run z/Linux either direct on an LPAR or under z/VM (IIRC).

Given just how partitionable these machines are, I’m honestly not sure why you’d want to run Linux applications directly on z/OS...
That seems like so much more pointless effort (to find a good comment about a topic, find the right subreddit, and post it) as compared to actually just wasting time on Reddit on some topic that you’re actually interested in.
There are still people that don't realise the absolute corruption of the NSA?
Does it work when sharing windows between windows and Mac?
Not surprised; the "anti-rms" campaign is public harassment to begin with.
Unfortunately all you crazies are obsessed with power.

Focus on wealth, that's far more important and impactful on people's lives.

The world has gotten far wealthier over the last 100 years.
Alleged CEO: https://twitter.com/nadertheory?s=09

Previous venture: https://medium.com/basis-blog/basis-update-ae96e3565b1d
Assumptions are laid out in the article. Are there any in particular you’re concerned about?
> So you're going to be perfectly OK with people monitoring your vehicle 24/7 for how much you actually use the public roads, right? Because that won't be abused either. And that, by the way, is a perennial suggestion that got floated again recently.

Well, I'm not sure that that's got anything to do with this particular issue, but since you asked... I think payment of road tax according to road usage is eminently sensible, and much fairer than a flat tax applied to people irrespective of whether they drive 5k or 50k miles per year. So yes, I'd be fine with GPS monitoring of my road usage, if the end was sensible and it wasn't abused by the governmental apparatus that would (probably) implement it.

> How about setting aside whether this is useful and consider that maybe it's blatantly anti-labor?

Is it, fundamentally? Is it any worse than making people clock in or out of a workplace, or setting performance goals? I don't know - I'd be interested to hear your argument.

> They can already monitor who's wearing a seatbelt or not with vehicle telemetry.

Sure... but not tiredness, or inattention, or other risky behaviours like eating or texting at the wheel.

> Adding this on top of their existing monitoring apparatus is sociopathic.

What are you referring to, here?
I don't buy the argument in the article. The purpose of a battery is to store energy to be used later and potentially elsewhere. There is no way to regain the energy that was turned into heat while mining bitcoins, so bitcoin is not a battery.

The comparison with aluminum production is also quite weak, since aluminum has an intrinsic economic value, whereas cryptocurrencies don't. Most of the arguments given in the article boil down to a variant of the broken window fallacy, where economic value is falsely attributed to a useless waste of resources.
GD... why did anyone bother reading this crap. Excessive energy usage from my made up currency is driving innovation.

Gah. Crypto and the people hyping it need to be quiet or at least be honest about what is going on.

We are draining energy really quickly so we can make sure someone isn't double spending the imaginary money...

What a horrible article.
I'm just going on media commentary and folklore I've heard since as early as I was old enough to pay attention to such topics in the early 90s. But that study rings true. From what I understand about the industry here in Australia, it's not always just a case of "poor working conditions" (unless poor working conditions includes merely being a truck driver); many long-haul truck drivers are self-employed business operators, and are motivated by competitive pressures and incentives to make as much money as possible for themselves, so it's not always just a case of being treated poorly by evil bosses.
Is that you, MeowMeowBeenz?
Accesses - pointers - are automatically nulled when declared. So you won't silently screw up who-knows-what with an uninitialized access, though yeah, it's not perfectly safe.
I like the analogy with Aluminum, but I don't like the title. As far as I know nobody oxidize Aluminum to get electricity back. And nobody undo Bitcoins mining (whatever that means). So Aluminum and Bitcoins are really similar, but not a battery.
It's more like "embodied energy" than battery
Yes, so unions tend to kill countries where they're too strong. They tend to promote short-sighted action that save/retain existing jobs. This makes it harder for the economy to change when it is needed which in the long run leads to failed businesses, an uncompetitive work force and unemployment. Maybe unions is like democracy in that they totally suck, but the alternatives are worse. However, unions should definitely have their power checked.
Depends on the company. Processes vary, but for my former corporate employer, to give you an example, giving someone money in exchange for SaaS software needs 1) Vendor assessment 2) IT Risk Assessment 3) Privacy Assessment 4) Information Security Assessment 5) Proving ROI to budgeting people and getting their approval 6) Purchase order to a cost center.
Prior art:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-truth-about-income-inequali...

(2019, same opinion piece authors)
I'm gonna invoke Hanlon's razor on that one.
It's almost as if the motivation for a claim matters.
How is that? If anything it is an argument against UBI.
From the article:

„ As government transfer payments to low-income households exploded, their labor-force participation collapsed and the percentage of income in the bottom quintile coming from government payments rose above 90%.“

„We are debating the alleged injustice of a supposedly growing social problem when—for all the reasons outlined above—that problem isn’t growing, it’s shrinking. Those who want to transform the greatest economic system in the history of the world ought to get their facts straight first.“
My understanding is that this is a system which is recording the driver for review by human management at a later date. Which is very different from anything that would come pre-installed in a vehicle.
Each of my employees receive about $7800 less per year in their paychecks because a Democrat made me buy them health insurance instead of giving them the money to buy their own healthcare.
Actually we can extract electricity from aluminium. A while ago someone proposed a "battery" that would consume aluminium as it provides electricity. Supposedly this battery was going to have 10x the energy density of today's li-ion batteries.

Edit:as for crypto you're completely correct. If one set out to invent the most inefficient energy use possible in computing the result would be crypto proof of work that grows all the time.
> I realize that I want to copy the command's output after I execute it.

With Zsh, cheating a little, you can achieve it with:

_insert-last-command-output () {
LBUFFER+="$(LS_COLORS= TERM=vt220 eval $history[$((HISTCMD-1))])"
}

There's some junk used for my configuration, the relevant part is the "eval" of the last command on the history, it doesn't paste the output of the previous command but it's execute d again, this time with the output going straight in the edit buffer. I use it to manipulate the output of the previous command on the shell — it works better if the output is a single line — but I think it could be modified to put the output also on the clipboard...
I have used VM in Emacs to read my email for more than a quarter century. I run the Emacs session remotely, and open inline URLs locally on the Macbook I `mosh` out of. The remote machine connects to the local one and passes on the URL with `open`.

Sometimes I need the URL itself, as opposed to actually opening it. I wrote elisp to modify the command that displays the URL the cursor is over within Emacs to also use the above method, but use `pbcopy` to pass the URL onto the Mac clipboard.
Is that why you didn't use a single fact to make these claims? Is that really supposed to go over better?
What’s odd is how infrequent it is for people to point out this distinction can never be known for sure.

From there, the only safe bet is to act as if it were intentional.

This is a controversial concept, but it is the rational choice. Never assume that someone who harms you is doing it accidentally. Even though it is more often than not the case, you still have to protect yourself with the possibility of malice in mind.
> Although "defenestrate" is probably more like "tweet" than "computer"

Not sure I understand your point, but "defenestrate" -> "de-fenestrate" which literally translates (via old French) as "un-window"!
According to this article, income for the poorest has increased more via government programs than income has increased (minus taxation) for the wealthiest.

But this can't be a healthy way for a society to operate: to have the rich get richer and transfer their money to the poor so they don't get poorer.

A primary cause of this change to our society's structure is our monetary policy which ensures we will have massive trade deficits that ship our manufacturing jobs overseas [1].

[1] https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
Shrinkage. They're trying to point the finger at who's losing their packages. If some sorter scans a package and their tracking system says its in a certain tote number they're going to assume its there even when, in point of fact, it's not. So when a driver reports a package missing... they want to know he didn't just shove it in his bag.

Note that this is readily solvable by having DSP and Amazon Logistics drivers do what Amazon Flex drivers already do: scan every single package individually. If a package comes up missing then flag an Amazon rep to inspect the bag its supposed to be in, verify its missing, snap a quick pic of the tracking#, and then they can take it off your route while they try to find it (and ultimately wind up marking it missing later). That, of course, would mean drivers take more time loading... so of course they'll never do that. They'll just install cameras.
Sorry, but this seems like nonsense to me in relation to Spanish. The Spanish construction is pretty similar to the English one in usage. It may be slightly more restricted, but there is no linguistic basis for saying that one is a tense and the other is not. Linguistically speaking, the construction is not a tense unto itself in either language. (It's fine to talk informally about the "present progressive" as a tense, but no serious linguistic analysis of English would recognize the existence of any such tense as distinct from the present tense.)

I actually remember being misled by the myth of the uniqueness of the English present progressive when learning Spanish. I'd keep trying to avoid the use of the present participle unless the relevant event was really in progress right now. But it's really easy to find examples where this is not the case. See e.g. the headline here ("how often are you singing?"): https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/espectaculos-y-tv/tv/201... Or try a Google search for "these days I'm trying to": https://www.google.com/search?q=%22estos+dias+estoy+tratando...
Funding (activist) organizations is a very effective way to get influence with money. This is exactly what the Gates fundation is doing for example. So it’s stupid to compare the funding that can be somewhat tracked and proved made by an individual or organization (some people did it, hence that name became famous) to crackpot theories like lizard people.
If I'm evaluating job offers that have identical salary/bonus and one company offers a copay plan and another has a high deductible plan of $2000, I'm absolutely treating the copay plan as $2000 more valuable. In fact, I'd probably gross it up given that's $2000 in after-tax dollars I would pay for healthcare each year. And that doesn't even count the 10%+ coinsurance on the backend once the deductible is met.
So, if a claim is made, but the person who claims it has bad intentions, it can be dismissed?

I believe there's a logical fallacy for that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
I find this certainty of rejection as disturbing as the certainty of immediate belief, only it's worse since it includes no reasoning.
The author is "Phil Gramm"-- former republican senator who has spent his entire political career pushing for lower taxes and standard Reagan era deregulation. He was involved in passing The Commodity Futures Modernization Act in 2000 which promptly paved the way for the Enron mess. He now works for UBS as a rich-people money shuffler.
Wait, what? Norwegian is richer because of Danish?? (Also, what conquest?) I'd say it's the same language, just with lots of different dialects anyway.

What has enriched the Norwegian (and Danish and Swedish) language beyond the Germanic Scandinavian would be the importation of words from Latin, German, French, and English. All happening through trade and cultural influence, in roughly that order.
You're right.
If we further expand the idea we can extract energy from anything flammable or otherwise reactant. I'll refrain from calling my dog a battery though.

Now excuse me while I go feed little Duracell. Good girl!
Eventually these pandemic unemployment checks are going to end, and reality will set in.
Isn’t that the guy who raised $100M+ for a stablecoin that was fundamentally flawed and then blamed regulators when it didn’t work?

Edit: Just saw your edit, that’s the one.
This is amazing.

This is from the same person that did the really portable executable: https://justine.lol/ape.html
> If you attempt to point any of this out using facts, you will be shouted down because it's against the popular narrative

Anybody can claim anything and it will turn into a shouting match unless reliable sources are cited (Breitbart, Alex Jones, Fox, etc. aren't reliable sources)

Welfare:

- what counts as welfare

- how much of it do people get (percentage of GDP and per capita)

- what percentage of coats does it cover

- which people get it

- how long do people get it

Then there are questions of what poverty is defined as, how many people live in it, and how many live below the poverty line.

The topic of healthcare is naturally important in all this.

Taxes:

- what is the rate (% paid by tax bracket)

- is it actually paid

- which percentage of the population is paying the highest rate

And of course, how does this compare to Europe (since you say "it puts Europe to shame")?

You can focus on one point, cite your source and contrast them.
Yep, added link.
Almost all of latin-based words in English have been imported from French (which itself is almost entirely latin-based), including these 2. There's not much historical reason for English to pull vocabulary directly from Latin I think
> will drop significantly if we don’t stop producing so much CO2

Next Tuesday? Sometime this summer? Next year? A decade from now? 2070?

Everybody knows there are problems with producing too much CO2. However, nearly everyone’s hoping (but not saying) that the bill doesn’t come fully due until they’re dead. And by “fully due” I mean “directly effects their day-to-day life in a truly drastic way.”
If we find roads with flag posts I’m going to start believing we are living in a simulation.
A few years ago I visited an office in Birmingham which is less than 100 miles. Someone was trying to tell me a password and I had to get them to write it down after several failed attempts. The basic sound of some of the letters was just completely different. I also have a strong accent which can be much harder to understand than a none native speaker.
Taken to the extreme, there's a pathology for that line of reasoning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutory_delusion
In case anybody wants a taste of mainframe, here's the manual for the DFSORT utility: https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pag...
We don't know if it's true, there's still no evidence even today.

Motivation affects how we react to a theory with no evidence, when coming from Tom Cotton vs. a former CDC director.

Btw, Tom Cotton's claim was that it was a government biochemical weapon's lab, that's not Redfield's theory.
Bitcoin is more like a black hole than a battery
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The post would have been just as effective without that oddly phrased phrase. It is a strange jab at "whiteness" which, I think, reveals the general attitude of the people running the company. Personally I think they should remove that sentence. It isn't a good look.
Cheap energy into aluminium results in useful material to build things with.
Cheap energy into bitcoin results in some more bitcoins of questionable use?
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The constant shilling for Julia gets old after a while. When it comes to numerical mathematics the implementation language is just a way to express ideas that are more or less independent of whatever language you are using. Last time I checked Julia had close to no professional grade libraries for PDE solving , while there are multiple deal.ii, FenICs, petsc high quality libraries for C++. Don’t get me wrong Julia is great, but what really matters is the quality of the available libraries. The differential equations work in Julia is nice and obviously the resulting code is performant, but a ton of work in numerical mathematic is spent on adapting methods to specific problems and at that point C++ feels like a much nicer choice to me in many cases.
Unless we do this on purpose -- UBI or purposeful unemployment with the target of utopia.
Seems factually accurate, though the editorialized moniker of "rich-people money shuffler" is probably unnecessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Gramm#Career_with_UBS
I think the problem is more to do with wealth inequality than income inequality, though.

http://metrocosm.com/wealth-vs-income-inequality/

https://www.theweek.com/articles/717294/wealth-inequality-ev...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...