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> Smoking costs 45,400 lives, $16.2B in a year, study finds [1]

It is the largest single expense to employers and to the [Canadian] healthcare system. It is not dystopian to want to track smokers on their journey away from smoking - it's the only way we know if we're getting better at helping them quit.

28 days is a good measure of smoke free. By that time, you are through the nicotine withdrawal of about 72 hours, which I think is the biggest cause of relapse. After that, you need to resist the social and habitual pressures, and that is wholly up to the individual. Some people can go 20 years resisting these pressures, others collapse in a few days. So 3 weeks is a fair balance, I think.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/smoking-economic-cost-1.4357...
Very cool, this was actually my first real-world use case for Postgres CTE's. (BOM part of homemade ERP software I built for my last company). Worked great!
Mainstream models disagree by less than 2 K (±0.3%) over the next 100 years. That's pretty darn accurate! 2 K makes a difference to us, because we built so many cities within 100 m of sea level (1% of an ocean depth)

Predicting whether life might exist on a planet can probably tolerate ±10% temperature accuracy. There's no reason to believe that smart geophysicists can't achieve that level of accuracy.
I don't need an IDE. A debugger would be nice, and I have my techniques for debugging PostgreSQL (which has PL PG SQL). Distributed is something being worked, I think. PG serves my needs and is a solid platform.
Paywall, can't read.
Is it right to track the all online dealings of people that may be connected to terrorist organizations? Pretty reasonable people seem to think yes (Patriot Act).

Is it right for the government to track all the online dealings of an average citizen? Most people think no.

You may see a discrepancy here. That is why there is the saying "First they came for the fascists...". It is why when we talk about breaking encryption and backdoors discussion is centered around terrorists and pedos. Because those are universally hated groups. The problem comes with the fact that there is spill over. (See cases like San Bernardino shooting or the cop that is sitting in jail without sentencing because they know he has child porn on an encrypted drive. Btw, they use this same tactic to frame less controversial legal cases too)

I think if backdoors/searches/whatever could only be applied to universally hated groups and not include a single random citizen than there would be almost unanimous agreement that we should do that (you are not violating a "non-criminal's" rights). The problem is that technology doesn't allow us to exclusively target those kinds of groups. As tech oriented people we understand that this spill over HAS to happen, but the average citizen (outside SV) does not understand the how it works, the scale, nor ramifications. I'd like to remind everyone that 1984 wasn't about the government watching everyone at all times, but having the ability to. I'm not sure why we call that a dystopian society but many people readily accept the use of this technology by the government. Sure, the police have the technological ability do facial recognition without Amazon, but technological capability is not the question. It is SHOULD THEY?
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I'm fascinated by these seemingly useless yet remarkably mind grasping problems.

I remember reading that Feynman had a profound insight while calculating the wobbling of plates being thrown on a ship.

You never know where a fertile mind can be taken by those aimless thoughts.
Some modern armor is made out of UHMWPE plastic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-molecular-weight_po...

Armor tested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsjOV7tcGRI
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I find it useful for labelling things, then its simple to remember the last time you did the same in a particular environment, assess wether or not the pattern is useful for solving the problem and either reject or use it.
Parts of this article seem like a rather circular analysis.

In the world’s largest cities, where populations are densely concentrated and growing, economies are generally thriving and cosmopolitanism is embraced. Where populations are sparse or shrinking, usually in rural places and small cities, economies are often stagnant, and populism sells.

What does "thriving" mean here? GDP? Do any countries track GDP by city? I haven't heard of that if so. This paragraph is vague but if by "thriving" they mean lots of economic activity, that's a circular definition - "thriving economies are where lots of people are". By this logic cities have always had more "thriving" economies than rural areas and always will, by the very definition of what a city is.

Also, whilst they define populism, they do not define "cosmopolitanism". If populism is the feeling that a small group of elites do not represent the needs of ordinary people, then what is cosmopolitanism? The idea that elites don't exist at all? Or that they do and that it's a good thing if they rule?

As youth have continued to migrate from rural areas to cities, their movement has widened not only the median age gap between rural places and cities, but also gaps in attitude, since the young, regardless of where they live, tend to associate more with urban outlooks.

More circularity. Cities are dominated by the young, therefore the young associate more with urban outlooks. This is restating the premise in different words.

One movement extols the values that are a practical necessity in dense, interconnected cities: interdependence, internationalism and the embrace of “diversity” (defined along multiple dimensions)

This is stated as if it's obvious fact, but I don't understand why. Why is internationalism a practical necessity in cities? Are there no cities in the world with quite ethnically homogenous populations? Have the authors visited eastern European or Russian cities? Or African cities?

Overall I find this analysis weak. It's basically a big correlation/causation fallacy, written by academics in the NY Times (elitist intellectuals writing in what is practically the official newspaper of such people), who are non too subtly arguing that smart young energetic people and places are people who agree with academics, and old decaying declining people and places are people who don't.

But there are many other ways to explain contemporary political shifts. I see no reason to link it to demographics.
So glad to see that the concept of individual responsibility is not dead yet...
Ah yeah my bad, its per week, page 16 in pdf pages.
Article has 300kb+ of javascript on mobile, loads pretty fast on 3G. I don't know what you're talking about.
Things have always worked like that. Why do you think Google or FB are escaping antitrust despite a behaviour much more egregious than Microsoft ever was ?

Don't fool yourself ; the normal state of affair would have been for them to be torn appart, and the current state is corrupt.
I agree that people tend to over-extend themselves financially, but is that a symptom or a cause?

My take is this:

There's no clear path to home ownership, so you put off having a family. Because you put off having a family you don't get married and you continue in a prolonged adolescence through your twenties. Because you're not bothering with a family you're also not worried about saving for the future, so you focus material pleasures and the present. You eat out, you get a nice car, you use the charge card for stuff that you happen to want. You're comfortable and you're not concerned about what happens to you financially because the consequences don't extend beyond your own sort of vapid existence, that isn't really that fulfilling anyway except for the creature comforts that you're spending your paycheck on. You date but it's all casual because love and marriage is for suckers.

Additionally any attempt to save money is inherently risky. You would give up the few comforts you do have, that are keeping you from having a life (that you believe to be) devoid of pleasure. You're genuinely trapped on the hedonic treadmill.

Any emergency would wipe out your savings anyway, or if you die you wouldn't have been able to spend it, which is now the point of your life.

So i agree with you, the lifestyle is a problem. But I also disagree with you that it is the cause. The cause is an inherent despair that are lot of us are going through.

If anything we're the "Why Bother?" generation. We know the things that our parents had are impractical for us the afford, so we ignore lofty goals that involve saving and budgeting, and most of all planning, and you find ourselvs stuck in an instant-gratification lifestyle.
It's negotiation. If you only ask for what companies are happy to give you you'll get paid less than you're worth, and you'll never get additional benefits (like part-time) that are possible.

Hiring is hard. If you're a good candidate some companies (not all) will consider it.

Personal experience: I've worked less than full time for years now. None of my coworkers have been pissed off about it. Some companies have hired me.

And if my coworkers ask for part-time work, good for them. In practice this usually results in people being more productive.
EthLend and SALT are both lending applications. While we have created a lightweight lending app in Dharma Plex, our core offering is Dharma Protocol.

Dharma Protocol is a suite of developer tools that enables entrepreneurs to create apps like Ethlend or SALT easily and securely. It's open source and entirely free to use.
I agree. Using the class approach usually leads to complex class hierarchies and a lot of made up concepts for simple things which would be better solved if you could pass functions around easily (lambdas) and had generic data types (like javascript objects). But java does not have these easily available.

I think the OPs problems are mainly coming from the culture/design of Java.
Currently? No. In the future, sure why not. Just don't ask when.
I listen to books during commutes and errands, and give them a letter grade when I'm done. I read a lot of different genres as I believe there's value in all genres (and mediums too).

These are some of the books I've given an "A" over the last few years, roughly grouped by genre:

Nonfiction:

- A Short History of Nearly Everything

- Fabric of the Cosmos

- Dataclysm

- The Righteous Mind

- Merchants of Doubt

- Dead Wake

- Man's Search for Meaning

- Evicted

- The New Jim Crow

- Night

Sci-fi:

- We

- The Sirens of Titan

- Hyperion

- Stories of Your Life

- Frankenstein

- The Day of the Triffids

- Childhood's End

Fantasy:

- The Stormlight Archives

- The First Law Trilogy

- The Lord of the Rings

Literature:

- The Stranger

- Dubliners

- Things I've Learned from Dying

- The Things They Carried

- Cloud Atlas

- Stoner

- Pillars of the Earth
Fully agree, let's not go back to instinctively applying all of the patterns from GoF. I'd also like to quibble with just this:

> When reading software design advice, always imagine the examples given are 10x longer.

How about: if you're peddling software design advice, take some time to make (or find) a realistic example so I don't have to imagine so hard. Even if it's in a toy-problem type of scenario the code can be realistic. Working Effectively With Legacy Code has spoiled me by setting such a higher standard than most peddlers, since it actually presents real code (sometimes 3 pages of it at once) in real languages (Java and C++) using styles and highlighting problems I actually see in legacy codebases with those languages, and how to address them.
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My company[0] will be using Dharma later this year to put personal loans on the blockchain. Dharma is the best of the bunch in our opinion, and we are very pleased with the support the Dharma team has provided.

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And the sad thing is, it's the opposite of what they teach you in school.

And only by practice, and making the mistake enough, did I reached the same conclusion as you.

Although there is a balance, as sometime you know your future requirements, and making an abstraction right away may save you some time. It's hard to teach experience and the ability to evaluate something vaguely.
Thank you for your very honest and fast feedback/tips. We are keeping track of searched cities that do not exist.

I especially appreciate your advice on the disclaimer. That definitely should be a consideration.
I am a Perl hater, but mostly from having to dig into 10 year old legacy code for apps that nobody has touched for 5 years that still run.

So like on the one hand, old perl is basically unmaintainable punctuation vomit, but on the other hand, there’s a lot of 10 year old perl code out there just chugging a long, which is nothing to sneeze at.
Especially when there are parenthesis. And when you are in the kitchen, well... it is loud. Accents mess the voice recognition + the sound of the kitchen.
Go's omission of user-defined generics was a conscious decision by Go authors led by the belief that the benefit is not worth the complexity added and that devs would misuse it; yet this did not hold them back from special casing generic support for things they implemented themselves. This is what I'm comparing it to.

What it would take to add generics to Go now is a separate matter. Feel free to link my Go commentary to my point on lack of type classes on Elm if you want to see it from the perspective of changing an existing language.
It isn't analogous because someone walking freely on the street has not been convicted of a crime.
And some very good cheese like the Beaufort or Comté (smellier than the cheddar but not that much) and many more varieties than you can eat as a starter, before dessert or as a main course like the cheese fondue or raclette. And wine, etc. the list goes on.

Sadly, nowadays, many of the restaurants in the 10 to 30 Euros a meal price range just serve dishes coming from big industrial food suppliers like Metro. There are fewer home-made dishes being served in restaurants in France, especially in touristic areas. Also many of the "boulangeries" just bake industrial bread and sell patisseries, viennoiseries coming from industrial suppliers.
Escaping it where - apparently not in the EU, although it's unclear what monopolies they actually have.

In America they've escaped anti-trust attention because it's hard to prove any consumers have been harmed by their activities.
That won't work - there are really, really good reasons why clusters of industries emerge, and why they almost always emerge in dense areas.

A better move might be to pay people to leave dying counties. I've heard it discussed for Coal Country in West Virginia, and in parts of Kansas that have been shrinking for the last century.

As farms and rural industries mechanize, and as cities become the primary focus, why swim against the current?
This resonates. I was recently in Seville, Spain, and felt myself on the verge of a claustrophobic panic attack while touring the cathedral because of the thundering herds of tourists pressing in from every side. Big organized tour groups where 20, 30, or more people are led around by a single guide speaking to them through mic and bluetooth headsets are the worst because they distort and concentrate the tourist density. One minute it might be fine to go up in the giralda and a few minutes later an hour+ wait if a couple of these giant groups decide to queue up at one time.
> Or is someone seriously arguing that genetic mutation is not universal knowledge?

Well, no. But there are a lot of people who vehemently deny that humans are in any way analogous to ants.
> Is this really "BSD license", if the name is off-limits? This looks like an extra clause to me.

There's actually a few licenses that are called the BSD license. In modern terms, BSD refers to the 3-clause BSD.

However, the 3-clause BSD was not the original form. It was introduced because the 4th clause was generally viewed as problematic. That 4th clause is:

> 4. Neither the name of the <organization> nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

This "weird" clause is actually the 4th clause of the 4-clause BSD. It's weird because it's extremely uncommon, but it is part of a major BSD license.
A fun fact that may appear surprising at first: In contrast to Prolog, C is actually not Turing-complete!

Here is more information:

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/60965/is-c-actually-t...

In C, you can only represent an unbounded tape if you assume the existence of an unbounded stream, i.e., in a so-called hosted implementation of C where unbounded streams are available. But unbounded streams cannot be implemented in freestanding C, even if unlimited memory were available!
ALL, or nearly all, of that money needs to go to the public. What we see here doesn't even count.

It nauseates me that even in forced charity (forced, as in, you're donating to avoid taxes) these fucks won't support their local communities. These individuals and their businesses should be destroyed for their greed.
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Seems pretty hard to produce a tremolo effect with human voice. Did you perhaps mean vibrato (which can be produced with a (mislabeled) tremolo bar on a guitar)?
> awareness campaigns

These aren't campaigns to build awareness, but to change laws, training, etc.

> Someone has to connect the dots on the statistics and then advocate to get people to care

People need to know about something in order to care about it. I'm not sure what that means.

> Nobody needs to advocate for more coverage of spacefaring fatalities.

Right; those are sensational and get lots of coverage.
Getting a lot of these WSJ paywall articles in here. Seems like people who have a subscription would probably read these on their own, and we can just leave them off HN so they stop annoying the hell out of everyone else.
Who says that we can't just drop the cost of maxing large 14nm Finfet dies and get some sort of stacking, possibly with low-tech, i.e. single-patterning, silicon interposers? The cooling/power density is not a fundamental problem, and as long as we stay under about 20-50W/cm^2 == 200-500mW/mm^2. At that heat flux we'd need 1-5mm spacing between the hot side and the other side (I do not know about experiments that cover two closely spaced hot surfaces, as you would have in slightly-spaced vertically stacked dies), and would just pump coolant with a boiling point 20K under the die's surface temperature through this. On the other side we'd get a mixture of vapor and liquid coolant, and the vapor could, at least at temperatures that a human can endure, be condensed with a small radiator and a fan, or even a larger, fanless radiator.

The primary reason for such exotic packaging/stacking would be that chips need way less power to transmit over such short distances, compared to longer reach systems, as for a comparison between DDR4 and HMC [0], HMC uses about a third the power for DDR4, and that at much higher clocks. Also compare the AMD Zen IFOP intra-package links, which uses 2pJ/bit for the transceiver [1]. This should be possible to extend to an edge-mounted package (where the processor dies have contacts on one or two edges, and are soldered at a right angle to a suitable interconnection/mounting plate), though apparently no one really tried it. The downside would be that one does not have as many pins on the processor dies as currently normal, but I doubt that would be a significant problem, considering the integration benefits. A possible alternative in case of significantly improved yield would be wafer-scale integration, using the space outside of the normal reticle limit for routing larger feature-size mesh interconnects and handling the necessary routing around this later, but that would result in non-trivial software, as it would have to adapt to a given processor's routing layout. TSMC is apparently able to manufacture with reasonable yield individual 'cells' of slightly over 800mm^2, on 300mm wavers. This comes out at about 90 dies, of which some will be dead. With the power density of 50W/cm^2, that would be 3600W, but the upper limit, with significant efforts (ways to increase the flow velocity on the surface) to increase the maximum cooling capacity, would be around 100-300W/cm^2, which would put this at the TDP of an average 42U rack. The weird part would probably be some kind of reverse flip-chip packaging, where contact modules would be bonded to the functioning dies on the wafer, which would then later be fitted with some sort of cable or so, or they could be a miniature optical module. This would also need to provide the power. Cooling would be done on the back side, but the front would likely need some structural support to hold the static/dynamic pressure of the coolant without flexing/breaking.

[0]: https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/attachments/content/attachmen... from https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/2731-did-you-miss-cad...
[1]: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/infinity_fabric#IFOP
> they already do - presumably they aren't dodging taxes, and is in a progressive tax system.

You mean the same progressive tax system inhabited by those property owners?

> This is about housing, and property owners might not reach an income level where the progressive system taxed them enough to produce a surplus to cater for the poor and if so, making property specific taxes is one such way to force the burden on to them.

...seriously? My point is that it's arbitrary and unfair, and you respond by saying, well, it might be that by chance some of these people escaped paying their fair share? How is that a response?
A bunch of programmers talking crap on astronomers because "Math and CS are our fields"... Oh geez.

Somewhere in an alternative universe, there must be an astronomers' forum talking crap on developers because Heartbleed and Spectre show they all misunderstood Goedel's theorem, and believe me, I totally know what I'm talking about, I use computer every day.
> The fourth amendment went out the window with the Patriot act and the Freedom act.

Or in other words

> We had that right taken away and there's nothing we can do to change that. Laws can't be changed, so accept your fate.

We are literally talking about that we don't want to accept that and change it.
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The Greek historian Polybius (ca. 200 BCE) observed characteristic weaknesses of democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy. He theorized that the Roman mixed constitution in which powers were separated was a key factor in the success and stability of Rome. His thought influenced the American founders both directly and indirectly.

It's interesting to observe how the institutional and technological changes since the American founding, and the systemic problems we easily note, align with his discussion. He theorized that each of the unmixed systems had weaknesses that led them to eventually be supplanted by another form, initially well-administered, which too would in time succumb to its inherent weaknesses. The mixed form resisted this cycle. So to the extent that the polity "un-mixes" the arrangement of powers, e.g. making the Senate directly elected instead of chosen by state legislatures without making a corresponding anti-democratic change, the system becomes more exposed to the cyclic risks associated with the unmixed state that was favored.