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True, so the bank robber should be tried for bank robbery.

The question here is whether the bank can get back some or all of the stolen money, i.e. can FTX customers get back the money & cryptocurrency they gave to FTX for safe keeping, maybe as shares in Anthropic?

Also not a two-layer hoarfrost.

https://www.britannica.com/science/hoarfrost

Here's a modern take: https://typst.app/

> It's like Latex all over again.

LaTeX, or more generally, the TeX family, never went away. It's still the go-to toolkit for writing journal papers in most of the STEM disciplines.

Moreover, Nota is not a direct competitor to the TeX family because Nota generates something for web browsers to read, whereas xxxTeX generates something for PDF readers to read. (And yes, I know xxxTeX can generate other output formats but most people use it to generate PDF.)

The second sentence of the abstract says, "Rather than executing computations on Bitcoin, they are merely verified..."

I'm not sure "social engineering" is the right terminology here. Maybe "threatening" or "shaming"?

One way to find out: find job listings, apply for some jobs, and see what happens. A GitHub profile with lots of personal projects is a good thing to have. Learn from any feedback you get.

P.S. GitHub's "Available for hire" checkbox is deprecated, but I suppose you could still write something to that effect in your GitHub Profile Bio (a textarea). Also put that in your other online profiles as you see fit.

P.P.S. There are many sites/services that specifically aim to help coders get jobs, including training and help with interview prep. For example, see https://www.codecademy.com/pages/career-services and HackerRank.

It seems they stopped working on it in April 2022, for the most part:

https://gitlab.com/nakst/essence/-/graphs/master?ref_type=he...

Main-belt asteroids don't have a very cohesive lobby group.

You might be right, but there are already many products out there that have been violating that trademark policy for quite some time, e.g. GitLab, GitKraken, SmartGit, ...

My guess is that Software Freedom Conservancy (a nonprofit) has more important things to do than go after those projects for trademark policy violations.

Most (or all?) of iNaturalist's code is open source (typically MIT), see https://github.com/inaturalist

A lot of iNaturalist data is open data, see https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist-open-data

(It's up to each user to decide how they want to license their observations, photos, and sounds. The options are all-rights-reserved [no license], CC0, CC-BY, and various other CC license.)

Bonus: a table of the brightest currently (and recently) observable comets:

https://heavens-above.com/Comets.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspec...

According to the Minor Planet Center, 25 comets have been discovered this year (for a total of 4589 known comets, some of which are "lost").

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/

The "high" barrier to entry does act as a filter today, but I should add that in the 1990s, it was considered relatively easy, not so different from using email; it's only with the existence of modern social networks that the access steps seem relatively difficult.

P.S. For many Usenet groups, you don't need to pay anything to get access.

The Big-8 Board was re-established, or if you like, it rose from the ashes like a Phoenix. (The Phoenix story is about one bird coming back to life; there's nothing about an increase in the size of some group.)

Yes, of course there are specific cases where it's clearly a dumb idea to share the idea with someone else.

The usual saying is that all that really matters, in the end, is the execution of the idea. If that were strictly true, there would be no need for patents.

"...moving twice the speed takes 4X the energy..."

That's not quite right. The power required to maintain a constant velocity v against a constant drag force of F is P = Fv. With air drag on a car moving at highway speeds, the drag force F actually depends on v: it's proportional to the square of v, i.e. F ~ v^2. All together then:

P ~ v^3

So doubling the speed will increase the required power by a factor of eight.

I guess this comes a few iterations after, "Consider a spherical cow..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

Pachyderm has data versioning / data version control built-in. I guess other tools do too.

That's one way to do it, but it's extremely challenging. The sales tax can depend on where the buyer is located, where the buyer is from, where the seller is located, and where the seller is from. There are ~1000 jurisdictions for each of those four choices, so that makes for ~1000^4 different cases to handle. You'd also have to register as a merchant in each juridiction, and know the rules for when you have to start remitting sales tax to that jurisdiction. There are whole businesses built around managing that complexity, e.g. Avalara, Vertex and TaxJar (now part of Stripe). Maybe just offload that burden to one of them and focus on building your core innovation.

The site currently says, "There are currently 168268 bands..."

Even spread over 20 years, that's a lot of bands to vet!

You can check out any time you like

But you can never leave

from https://genius.com/Eagles-hotel-california-lyrics

They have a bunch of "installers":

https://usebottles.com/appstore/

They have an installer for Autodesk Fusion 360:

https://usebottles.com/app/#fusion360

Mojo [1]

Mojo is another approach to solving "the two-language problem," similar to what Julia is trying to do, but the code looks like Python. Mojo is being designed by Chris Lattner [2], who knows a thing or two about language & compiler design.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojo_(programming_language)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lattner

Unlike the author, I'm not very worried about Wikipedia. Yes, they ask for donations, but that's not a sign that they're dying; donations are their main revenue source. That might be unusual among the web's top sites, but it's not in the grander scheme of things, i.e. there are lots of charities and nonprofits.

I didn't know that LLM training sets used Wikipedia. I would have thought that the CC-BY-SA license (on all text) would keep them away. It's not like Chatbot-4000 can cite all the Wikipedia articles used to train it, nor is Chatbot-4000 going to license all its output under a CC-BY-SA license (as required by the license terms).

I was in the local drugstore yesterday, and browsed through the latest National Geographic in the magazine section. It cost $10 Canadian dollars to buy just that one single print issue (including a big map insert). Which is actually quite low; the hobbyist woodworking magazine cost about $15 (for one print issue).

Yes, and this page [1] has a nice big-picture graphic showing where money comes from and where it goes.

Not directly mentioned there is the income they get from selling merch in their store [2]. I guess it's small compared to their other sources of income.

[1] https://www.blender.org/about/

[2] https://store.blender.org/

Yes, one could use troff/groff to generate a PDF invoice. You might want to try it before you suggest that it is somehow a better way.

As Kevin Kelly pointed out in his book What Technology Wants, most technologies never actually go extinct. There remain people who are still interested in making "new" ones and reparing broken ones. And thanks to the internet, it's fairly easy to find them. For tube radios:

http://www.xtalman.com/ --- Borden Radio Company sells kits to make all kinds of old radios, including tube radios.

https://vacuumtubes.net/ --- "Welcome to the Vacuum Tubes division of Radio Electric Supply, home of the largest supply of New Old Stock vacuum tubes in the world."