skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here we see another problem, the use of random. At the level of Kolmogorov, Loeve, Breiman, Neveu, Cinlar, Karr, etc., we use random only in random variable. We define random variable carefully but never say what random by itself means.

The MIT quantum mechanics lecture I mentioned keeps using random -- struggles with it, says it over and over as if that would make it more clear. In that lecture, the meaning of random is not clear.

What that prof means is likely

"the values of some random variables that are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)."

Then we can have some random variables that take values only on the positive, even integers. But, sure, they can't be uniformly distributed. So, with the values of such random variables, we can get some even integers selected independently.

In good treatments of probability, e.g., (from my bibliography file, with TeX markup)

Jacques Neveu,
{\it Mathematical Foundations of the Calculus of Probability,\/}
Holden-Day,
San Francisco.

independence is very nicely developed, e.g., to handle even a set of uncountably infinitely many independent random variables.

As I recall, Neveu was a Loeve student.

That book my Neveu is my candidate for the most elegantly written math book of all time.

But the development of independence is not trivial.

I would expect that independence is needed at times in physics, especially in quantum mechanics, but that only a small fraction of physics profs have studied independence much like what is in Neveu. One result is some confusion between independent and uncorrelated. When I'm watching a physics lecture and see such confusion, I stop taking the physics prof seriously and turn to something more serious, say, an old Marilyn Monroe movie!
The same problem frequently bites me in Python too:

functions = []

for i in range(10):
functions.append(lambda: print(f'Hello {i}'))

for fn in functions:
fn()

# Hello 9
# Hello 9
# Hello 9
# Hello 9
# Hello 9
# Hello 9
# Hello 9
# Hello 9
# Hello 9
# Hello 9

I find it one of Python's biggest warts because it's silent, hard to troubleshoot (especially the first time!), and like in Go the most straightforward fix looks like a mistake (i=i):

for i in range(10):
functions.append(lambda i=i: print(f'Hello {i}'))

I guess this is a lesson in designing language semantics that match people's intuitions, and learning from previous languages' mistakes.
I was (am?) an alcoholic though I was probably on the lighter side of the spectrum, similar in amounts to what you describe. It took me a long time to recognize I had a problem, even with many binge drinking events turning into soured weekends and broken promises.

My hack for stopping (after yet another bender) was turning it into an identity for myself: I am now a person who doesn't drink alcohol. I think creating identities for yourself in this way is effective for many habits.

I wrote about why I chose to quit in 2020: https://whatshouldyoueat.com/2020/03/15/quit-alcohol/

and how it felt after a year of no drinking in 2021: https://whatshouldyoueat.com/2021/02/28/a-year-sans-alcohol/

good luck
As someone who suffered from insomnia for most of his adult life, I honestly hate when people include "sleep well" in lifestyle choices. As it's something you can easily, or at all, control. On the plus side, diet specifically low carb diet finally cured it for me.
Running similar configuration Altium on Macbook Air M1 (16GB). Not smooth, but can get things done. Well, except some keys not working properly (Shift; and having to remap Delete)
Biology was not my strong suit in school, so it was a lot of learning on my side. I believe they made it clear it's able to get to basically everything in your body. One of the big deals is that it can make it through the blood-brain barrier, which the vast majority of substances cannot.

https://sites.duke.edu/apep/module-2-the-abcs-of-intoxicatio...
I think the person you're responding to is misremembering the scandal. It was that Facebook, Google and similar (iirc it was mostly Facebook, Google were doing this with WiFi networks they had built an index of through Street View) would use Bluetooth on your phone to scan for nearby devices, and match them against known other devices and their location, thus deducing who you meet and where.

They even have a patent for that exact thing: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-phone-tracking-pate...
Water is just too heavy. Pressurized air would be easier.
Simultaneously True
You can get the SWEBOK Version 3 here: https://ieeecs-media.computer.org/media/education/swebok/swe...
>Didn't the COVID PPP loans get shoveled

Yes as I stated in my option, almost all COVID spending was highly corrupt, mismanages and ill-advised, that include the moronic PPP program where a good % of that money went to buy luxury and sports cars.

It seems from your comment that you have the mistaken belief that because I dont believe people making 6 figures should get loan forgiveness or increased child tax credits, that must mean I support giving business owners no strings attached money.
A common alternative fix is to use IIFE, since the expression must be a call.

`go` evaluates everything but the final function call in the context of the caller. So

go func (x int) { … } (x)

Will do the same, and is easier to extract to a named function.
"Wokeness" is part of a modern "Red Scare" mentality among the right. The "anti-woke" find it everywhere now, believe it undermines every facet of society, and fear "the woke" secretly control everything and conspire against them like dark puppetmasters.
Throw away your TV.
ipx and ncpfs are examples of this. They were removed in 4.18 but have been maintained outside of the kernel. I use the ipx loadable module on a couple of systems running recent kernel versions.
I don't think a GBP or EUR hyperinflation would introduce any genuinely novel limitations of dollarisation.

If the GBP hyperinflates, you won't need to dollarise something of the scale of today's UK. Their economy will be worth a lot less. If it lasts for long enough, Scotland, Northern Ireland and perhaps even Wales will organise different problems for themselves. There would also be a humanitarian crisis and a migration/refugee crisis to help reduce the scale. On the other hand, the dominance of English, traditional respect for UK education, and the capacity of services to be delivered remotely would encourage an early dollarisation: all sorts of law firms and programmers will be asking for salaries in the currency of the source country. So I suspect the UK would dollarise more quickly and more successfully that other similar disasters.

The eurozone is somewhat uniquely placed in the context of a hyperinflation, because there are many separate countries who would, in that context, be enthusiastic to reintroduce national currencies. Whether that staves off the problems in the whole zone or what happens I don't know, but it might break it down into bite-sized chunks.
The paper I linked to had several case studies, I think the Zurich and Portugal model both have a lot to teach the USA.

But step one is to stop pretending that open drugs scenes are caused by homelessness. They're caused by open-air markets for drugs, and the US in fact does a fairly good job of caring for the unhoused except for the open drug scene problem. End those, the rest of the unhoused have enough available solutions, and it's easier to do more when more is needed.

There's no ending them without a health care policy for addiction, either. Treating drug addiction as a criminal matter just leads back to open drug scenes. Keeping them gone requires a different approach.
The higher incarceration rates were caused by the "war on drugs" during the 80s.
Just using C# and the nice generic `Dictionary<int, int>` will fix this. The memory overhead is really Java's fault for sticking with type erasure.
It's at least as annoying as your initial impulse said it was...more so from the people who dictate UI down to a gnat's ass in every app we submit to their store, but somehow exempt themselves from even common courtesy when it comes to designing a page. I'm typing this on a mac, but for god's sake don't make excuses for them.
One drink every couple of months is very different from say one drink every night or even one drink 2-3 times a week which is usually what I picture as the typical "one drink" person.
Boredom Land with NixOS
I didn’t mean MMT capitalised. I meant a modern book on monetary theory by opposition to anything not covering post-Keynesian economics. I’m not a native speaker. I didn’t even know MMT capitalised existed until your comment. I formally studied economics and the theory was never mentioned once so I guess it’s quite fringe.
They are opposites. You want to get bigger or maintain muscle mass and simultaneously you want to fast (get smaller) and lose mass. Fasting will definitely cause you to lose mass - some fat and/or muscle.

While working out or lifting will cause you to increase your need for calories and food intake. They are opposing forces. You cannot have it both ways.

Fasting = less mass less food intake.
Lifting/muscle mass = more food intake more mass
> almost no one ends up fat, if they are not eating badly

sure... as there is not any obesity and diabetes epidemic caused by 50+ years of wrong nutritional guidelines.
Any spending is inflationary, regardless of how you finance it.

If the spending is financed via taxation it can still cause inflation if it doesn't produce any real resources.

Taxation does create room for non-inflationary spending. That being said, if a government used QE to finance spending that was productive in real resource terms then it would not be inflationary.
Not sure where you are located but one thing I’ve found is that people from the Bay Area are much more concerned about drugs amongst the homeless than in other locations. And rightly! It’s shocking as a visitor to encounter San Francisco’s version of homelessness.

As a Chicagoan though I’m much more concerned about mental health and access to short term housing. We’ve eliminated almost all of the short term housing that helps people move off the streets with the obvious side effect of homeless encampments. But you very rarely hear any talk of easing the restrictions on short term housing.
It normally means "something something conspiracy theory", but it's actually the name of a post-covid economic recovery plan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Reset

I struggle to understand what they might have meant by it in that kind of generic use.
Well, they are. Family and friends can visit there.
Just touch (not press) several keys randomly?
I also think about the 80/20 rule. If friends want to go to brunch, I go to brunch. If I'm out of town on business and a client wants to meet for breakfast, I eat a bit of breakfast. I don't make a big deal about it because my steady state is TRF.

I'll add though, after TRF for years, when I eat breakfast I notice my energy levels are off for the whole day. And, I'm also crazy hungry the next morning. Whereas normally I'm rarely ever hungry.
None of that is true, there were always exemptions for Model Planes, Ultra Lights, etc.

Further this assume that I agreed with the "ye olde times" regulations, I dont. I largely disagree with all federal regulations for a multitude of reasons even going to the very basic that no where in the US Constitution is the FAA an authorized role of the federal government, at most it should be a state law not a federal law
Reminds me of needle exchanges, and the harm they brought to neighborhoods that opened them out of the 'goodness' of their hearts, only to end up turning their neighborhood into the newest drug slum.

Or at least that's been my experience so far in any city I have lived in that has one near my current location. One place I even moved to and from again twice, and got to see the before and after through the decade essentially. It's like night and day. Absolutely no one will ever be able to convince me otherwise that these programs are a good idea, especially when the best idea is to just remove these people from urban centers by tossing them into rehab out in the country side where they can't get these drugs easily.

I've seen that work wonders by comparison; and it doesn't ruin neighborhoods which gives NIMBY's a legitimate excuse to do things like round up the homeless and put them in jails. Which I do not agree with, but understand their grief. The very act is a breach of their natural rights as a human being, and let's not get me started on my opinions about how housing should be a natural human right irrevocable by anyone or anything.

The yellow brick road is paved not by the demons among us, but those who think themselves angels.

Edit: I'm going to sleep now folks, so if I don't respond to anyone after this point of 7:15am CST-6, that's why. You all have a nice day, and/or a nice night.
Well, nobody said exactly what they meant by 'science', so there are indeed many ways to interpret that statement. I was referring to education, news reporting on paper, etc. This the main subject of the article, for which there is little difference between mathematics and other sciences.

Even then, I don't think there are many mathematicians in the world who can claim they are paid to do pure mathematics without any connection to other sciences. Probability, modeling of some phenomena, programming are always supposed to be the final purposes. These different approaches are in competition with regards to grants, and thus need to argue how one or the other is better suited to tackle the real-world problems.
For example in logic research, there are arguments between the two big camps of program certification and program verification; those ultimately rely on feasibility in terms of programmer training, financial cost, computational complexity.
The camps have very different views and can use fundamentally different mathematical foundations.
A great illustration is the HoTT project, often discussed on here.
Wasn't only RAM. SCSI made it fly.
At some point you're increasing the conductivity of the crust and mantle.

You have a bunch of bigger problems that come to roost much sooner than this if you're using that much geothermal though,
> [When a bank fails, depositors] end up with money locked up for a period and are unable to make your own payments.

From the FDIC's Deposit Insurance FAQ (<https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/faq/index.h...>):

> Q: What happens when a bank fails?

> ... First, as the insurer of the bank's deposits, the FDIC pays insurance to depositors up to the insurance limit. Historically, the FDIC pays insurance within a few days after a bank closing, usually the next business day, by either 1) providing each depositor with a new account at another insured bank in an amount equal to the insured balance of their account at the failed bank, or 2) issuing a check to each depositor for the insured balance of their account at the failed bank.

Honestly, I'd expect just about any judge in the country to be _very_, _VERY_ angry at a creditor that was unwilling to -free of charge- delay receipt of money owed by (typically) one or (sometimes) a few business days because the Federal Government needed that time to take over a failed bank's obligations.

This reason you've provided is just plain bogus.
I did it a few times since then for other reasons, turned out to be roughly every year or so. I find it to be an amazing tool for introspection and resetting perspectives in which one can get stuck. Differently put, i found that it has more to offer to me.

But the alcohol was a one time thing, something just rewired. I never felt that effect subside. I already didnt like it but felt just stuck, in addition to the urge to drink. I had a sip during the afterglow and the idiocy of it was just blatantly obvious. Funnily enough that wasnt the intent for the trip. It was just a really amazing side effect.

I wish i could give a better explanation but it has been 4 years and my life moved on since then. Its not something i think about unless the topic comes up. But it was such an important fork in the road for me that i found it important to mention. See it as an +1 for anecdotal experience.

I also agree with the obvious potential, "How to change your mind" from Michael Pollan is a great book on the topic.
If you're at a bar, get sodas or seltzers and don't tell anybody they're dry. nobody can tell and nobody asks. if they do, say they're boring drinks like well rum and coke or well vodka tonics. Tip the bartender.

If you're at a BYO party, bring some silly drink you never had before. Never had orangina? bring some to the party. try that CBD seltzer, etc. there's dozens of kitch drinks in every corner store.

At home, stop restocking. work thru your liquor cabinet, even the stuff you don't normally drink.

lastly, find other substitutes. night on the couch, you want a beer? get into herbal teas. make a bag of popcorn. there's so many fun treats out there.

If you are offered a shot or other social situation, don't beat yourself up for saying yes. the goal isn't to be perfect it's to replace most situations with an alternative.
It can work, it's just a cost equation. You need a large amount of mass to get meaningful amounts of energy stored. So pumped hydro is nice because you are basically using natural reservoirs and some cheap pumps and pipes.

A water tower needs to be built first and only stores a limited amount of potential energy. The problem is not the efficiencies but the cost of building a big enough tower. A tower with the same capacity of a pumped hydro reservoir would be insanely expensive. Or alternatively building many thousands of smaller towers that add up to the same capacity would also not be cheap.

There are a few alternative gravity systems being tested out in the form of e.g. big cranes with weights that drive generators, mine shafts with similar systems, etc. Proving they work efficiently is not the issue. It's just scaling their deployment cost effectively.
Ukraine is certainly thankful for the weapons they've been getting from the West, primarily the US. I don't think their offensive would be even half as successful without the precision strikes enabled by HIMAR and the US's stockpiled ammo.
Saying "end" here acts like the current system ends the misery of the homeless people who are subjected to it. But the position they end up inside of a US prison is equally miserable. The only difference is that it is invisible to those in the outside world.
>>And ever since she started photoshopping her face lassie and doing this depraved "juvenile engaged in siliconed self-gratification" bit on camera, she's exploded in popularity.

It almost seems like some men prefer young looking women, even if they are actually in their 30s..

>>Suffice to say, I didn't pay for any of these subscriptions. [..] But everything points to the fact that they can (and do) offer that sort of content with impunity. I've been hearing stories about Patreon blind-eyeing softcore child porn accounts, even having policies to protect "Minor-Attracted Person" content.

So you didn't even actually check, you are just reporting hearsay. Love this journalism!
Well, it seems half the people criticising MMT say it's a vacuous re-statement of how things already work, and the other half say it's wrong and discredited :p.

What does it actually advocate that has been discredited? I get the impression MMTers want to erase the distinction between central banks and the government, and basically run everything with fiscal policy, letting the government decide how big its deficits are instead of effectively the fed deciding. Is that right?

I mean, that would work in principle, right? It would just be a bad idea because the decision is best made by an independent entity rather than the government, which has short-term incentives that may lead it to make bad decisions about spending (usually: too much).

And maybe it would be a bad idea because interest rates are a more reliable lever for controlling the money supply than tax and expenditure rates? I mean, if that's the case, it's not super obvious.

And since these things haven't been tried, I don't suppose it's those things that have been discredited.

From what I see, people are saying MMT has been discredited because large government deficits have led to high inflation recently. But this seems off to me - MMT doesn't say infinite deficits are possible, they're saying the deficits are limited by inflation. Which is true and we're now seeing the consequences of exceeding that limit.
C# to Lua Compiler
The problem with looking at what something delivers is that the time between taking the action and noticing what was delivered. There's often days, weeks, or even months (especially in the case of going to the gym) between doing something and seeing a difference.

When taking a new action (or new inaction), you can even feel worse before feeling better.

It's a good idea but the temporal component skews everything.

Habit formation, even if it's a new habit of not doing something, is something that's worked for me in the past.
Joule for joule, pretty sure I'd rather be standing 10 feet from a failed water tower than a failed pressure vessel. 1/2 m*v^2. That squared gets you every time.
> I know what go.mod does.

You know what it does, but you don't grok it.

Clearly you feel that setting go.mod is for other people and the language should match what you want.
> virtually nobody used the compression method in question and

JBIG2 came out around 2000, when the compression issue went public in 2013 it was in widespread use by many Xerox scanners that could scan to PDF and could not be turned off. Of course as non American I have only heard that xerox is synonymous with copying so I might misinterpret the impact the issue had.

> b)in the few examples they did, it was quickly found to be harmful, modifying digits and letters.

If I understand it correctly the refinement encoding that was exploited in this case would have prevented the replacement issues by storing visible differences along with the glyph replacement. However Xerox did not seem to make use of this feature, resulting in the problematic changes even at the highest quality settings.

> you name it.

I think Obamas birth certificate was among the victims. Some of the artifacts conspiracy theorists found on available images of it may have been caused by the JBIG2 compression algorithm of a Xerox scanner.
I'd say the parent's question is perfectly valid: “He gets by on one meal a day of 1500 calories.” implies, in fact outright states, a calorie restricted diet as well as a temporally restricted one.
Actually for me fasting was quick and easy. I lost most of the weight within weeks and months. Fasting is much more powerful than your comment would indicate.
"One meal per day" probably won't cut it. I think the idea here is that:

1. you have to do resistance training (lifting weights)

2. you need to consume enough protein so that it can be used to build the muscle mass (100-150g per day)

3. you limit calorie intake by skipping carbohydrates and fats - this is what your body fat can easily replace.

You probably cannot limit yourself to just one meal per day, or skipping eating some days - your body being in the "fasting mode" is the opposite of "muscle building mode".

another problem here is: high fat percentage lowers the testosterone levels, which is not great for gaining muscle. Some testosterone-boosting supplements, like zinc might be useful here.
That wasn't the point I was making. I was contrasting it with the (mis)use of e.g. SHA1 or worse, MD5.