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> I think what you describe could either be Euler's three-body problem (two fixed point masses and a particle) [0], or the restricted three-body problem (two point masses and a particle) in a rotating/pulsating reference frame.

Even simpler, though, because only one of the masses needs to have a location. The other one is effectively at a fixed direction and distance, far enough away that you can ignore relative motion.

> I'm not sure I understand why being farther away from something would result in less chaotic trajectories? If anything, I'd expect more interesting orbits due to the lack of one dominating influence.

I'll rephrase. The gravitational vector on the craft won't be shifting very fast, so you can get away with a quite big timestep.
You are being downvoted because the "it's ok they did bad things for a good cause" argument is not a moral high ground.
don't even need to go to bad environmental setting. Let's talk about other countries. I haven't seen a lot of self-driving cars in Rome or Mumbai yet, there's a lot of places where traffic rules are treated more like suggestions than actual rules. American style neat wide highways and grid-like streets are not how the places look where most cars are being driven right now already.
> why did you have to write (3) instead of 3?

This question does not get asked if print is presented as a function from the get-go.

I can see where you're coming from about letting students/children experience the problem themselves before being fed a solution, but in this case the problem only arises due to your having been taught something some way. It is not inherent.
This sounds "right" but then how would you feel applying this things like native American tribal beliefs, e.g. regarding genetics and migration. Those may be scientific facts but many reject them due to fearing further dispossession of their land, etc.
The analogy isn't really 1:1 in the first place. I see plenty of people wearing cross necklaces every day, which is more equivalent to wearing a shirt with an upside down pentagram on it. If the Satanist started wearing shirts with hateful stuff about other people, fire that person too.
Self driving cars would have to kill over 1.35 million people each year to be as bad as human drivers[1].

But there is no reason we should be happy if a self driving technology "only" kills 1.2 million people in a year. That number is absurd and should not be considered acceptable. I think in the semi-distant future we are going to look at manual operation of a motor vehicle as a dangerous party trick, something only to be attempted by professionals or in limited circumstances like pulling into a field to park or some other low speed maneuvering.

[1] https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/
Nah, people escape from the USA all the time. No one moves here. Our border walls are to keep people in, not out. I mean, why else would 2018 and 2019 have record immigration?

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-finding...

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested...

Look, people should live where they want, be happy and be proud where they're at. Nothing wrong with that. But single platform ideals to make wide sweeping judgements are a good reason to keep a two party political system. Focusing on one issue and bringing a hammer down to shatter everything is rather unproductive. Yea, the USA has it's problems. Duh. Just like everywhere else has problems too. But more people run to the USA. If someone is privileged enough to find somewhere better, good, go for it. No one wants to stop you.
I relate to that, as a student who always had a book to retreat to after completing whatever busywork, and am fortunate to have made and kept a few close friends since middle school, bonding over shared interests and resonant mental frequency. I want this for everyone, at least to the degree that they want it for themselves, regardless of intelligence. Perhaps if early childhood education is done well (where parents are guided to help teach the children emotionally and intellectually, to minimize trauma and promote a sense of being part of the whole world), we can all be in school together, interrelating on more levels than simply IQ.
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> The problem is, where does one draw the line?

The article goes into one of the possible problems: cyberbullying.

Especially with young women, cyberbullying is a bit of a problem. Though the people involved in this case are not involved with cyberbullying, it's not difficult to jump to that issue with the people involved.

Though it depends on local laws, schools often have the mandate to stop bullying and other such behaviors. Courts have been mixed thus far on how cyberbullying is legalistically different than regular bullying and where the mandates/responsibilities (if they exist) start and end for the school administration, especially with mixed minor-adult populations. It is, admittedly, a very difficult line to draw.

As the article states, SCOTUS rarely gets into school-student speech issues, so this decision is expected to set the stage for the next 25-50 years of US policy in the now digital era

EDIT: It's not just young women, cyberbullying is more of an universal problem.
Please read more carefully

I am absolutely not arguing for censorship, especially since censorship creates it's own blowback, which is often even more helpful to the disinformation.

I am merely arguing that disinformation needs to be fought, especially actively weaponized disinformation.

It looks like this contextualization could be a very good method.
Heat-ray welding Tripods.
As Covid Outbreak Rages, India Orders Critical Social Media Posts Be Taken Down
This is quite literally how Go works and has been working for years.

Automatic yield points and a proxy to syscalls are used for that.

It's also still plenty fast (as opposed to Erlang, which was mentioned in other comments).
Tesla a vendu des bitcoins au premier trimestre pour un montant de 272$ millions
The fertility issue is not a unique American problem. It has been happening for decades in nearly every developed country, and it is consistently observed when populations become more highly educated. The reason it has hit most developed nations harder than the US is because the US historically has much higher immigration rates than other nations, and immigrants tend to skew younger.
> Conflating these things is a favorite straw man of people who simply feel scared and angry that they don't always get to be jerks with zero social or career implications (try going around saying you are a satanist and see how that affects your career, this isn't a new thing, just people are whining about it more loudly lately). They are very much not the same.

Can you direct me to any incidents where someone expressed support for Satanism, even as a joke, and was then summarily fired after a mob harassed his employer with angry phone calls/tweets expressing (almost entirely empty) threats to boycott or worse?
My code never lies to me. I'm simply just lying to myself, and expecting a different answer.
Your argument would be stronger if you proposed an alternate definition rather than just saying “you’re wrong, that’s not what it means anymore!”
Are you me? One thing that led me to not turn on my desktop workstation is to complete a personal project. For at least half a week, I did not bother to reach out for instant gratification via reading HN, proggit, podcasts etc.

If I can only find the energy and appropriate time to do this, I figure I can save my work and work ethic.
7% of women naturally grow facial hair. It's not really a "small percentage."

https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/why-women-grow-facia...
"Hey Siri, navigate to ___ using google maps" is how I do it. :)
A short fictional tale about what unscalable crypto could do to the world
>Hence purchase prices are rocketing up and rental prices are drifting down.

Shouldn't the decrease in homes to purchase increase the demand for rentals?
And, I should note, "violent gangs" are by definition going to be the gangs committing violence, so that's a circularity in your logic. And I would also wager that there is a very strong correlation between gang membership and skin color, so that's a problem too.
I've seen this point made elsewhere too, but I'm not sure I understand it.

The ISAs are, as far as I know, capped at 30k, and only apply if you're making 50k/yr. I can't imagine a situation where someone's decision of whether or not to declare bankrupcy comes down to the 30k-max ISA; either it's the majority of your debt, and you're making >50k/yr, or it's a small amount relative to your other debt, in which case you should proceed anyways.
> semi-distant future we are going to look at manual operation of a motor vehicle as a dangerous party trick

totally agree but I'm skeptical of current tech to get there in the near time frame being talked about. It's all in how you define semi-distant
I don't really get it. How does this prevent people from holding onto foreign currency or gold?
> If we're being charitable

Or, in the spirit of taking it as parody, that it's at least a 'solved' problem[0] in the sense of the mathematician who sees a fire, sees a fire extinguisher, says "Ah, a solution exists!", and moves on.

0: where a solved (note lack of scare quotes) problem isn't really a problem.
> No of course it doesn’t prove anything about Aditya’s state of mind. That’s not something we can really expect to prove per se

But you make plenty of statements claiming it's been proven.

> but it’s supporting evidence. As I said it appears he was acting in good faith.

To one (1) person in the group of Linux core contributors. There are multiple others that do not agree with him, from among the same group of people, and just as qualified, as your person.

> I listed a bunch of reasons why I also believe that to be so.
> Do you disagree? What evidence do you see that Aditya’s commits were malicious?

I do disagree. The evidence that I see (and find myself agreeing with):

1. The work itself. It is so badly broken that I have to suspect foul play. And Greg's right when claiming that, if Pakki did not know the code he was submitting was broken, he had to have been horribly negligent or incompetent.

2. When presenting the patches, he tried to pass them off as his own. When the flaws were pointed out, then he reveals that the work wasn't his but that of a poorly written automated program. This sounds awfully like an excuse, and a poor one at that.

3. His first response to being called out was to play the "innocent victim" card, with barely an attempt to explain why he submitted code so badly broken. I also disagree with his passive-aggressive, subtly-hidden, claim that it was because he was just "a newbie and a non-expert".

4. I do agree that GKH was quite aggressive in labelling Pakki's work, and that he had no direct evidence for it, but he also explained his reasoning and supplied supporting evidence (I have quoted both in my GP comment), and I find it reasonable for a person in his position (i.e., an unwitting subject of an unethical human experiment) to feel that way.

For these reasons, and for the close association of Pakki and Prof. Lu (who I believe still does not see or accept any wrongdoing on his part), I cannot yet rule out the possibility, nor do I think it is low, that Pakki was also participating in a new, similar experiment.

I am not excusing GKH's rush to conclusion either, though I understand what led him to it. But the matter is still ongoing, though sadly not in public anymore, so I am waiting to see how everyone acts moving forward.

> Do you agree with the evidence I listed above?

I agree partially with some of them. Not enough to reach a conclusion like you.

Some of the rest of it, I think, actually points the other way. For example, the claim that "Aditya’s other commits have generally survived this bulk review" begs the question: If Pakki has demonstrated competence enough for some of his commits to survive subsequent close inspections by experts, then how could he have allowed patches as poor as the ones that sparked this whole brouhaha?

As for the rest of the "evidence" you listed: I simply cannot accept them as evidence, rather as just unsubstantiated claims and expert opinions. The latter has value, though not enough yet to settle the question.
"has there been a case in which speaking one's mind has caused their death"

The case that immediately sprang to mind for me was that of Alan Berg[1], a radio host who was assassinated (and about whom Oliver Stone made a movie called Talk Radio[2]).

But this has happened many times throughout history, where people were assassinated (or imprisoned/executed) for their beliefs.

More modern instances are things like journalists being assassinated in South America, for instance, for reporting on organized crime (similar things happening in Italy), or in Russia for criticizing Putin, or in the Islamic World for incurring the wrath of religious fanatics.. or the Charlie Hedbo attacks in Paris, or various beheadings of journalist and teachers.

Some older, but still relatively recent and famous cases have been the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and Gandhi... etc.

Of course, speaking one's mind against the rulers or their system in a totalitarian state like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union has always been a quick path to the gallows or a concentration/labor/death camp.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Berg

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Radio_(film)
I agree, but I also imagine all those fighting the Nazis also thought they were fighting evil. Should they have "beware fighting evil"?
There's a gigantic difference, a hard distinction, so big it hurts, between prohibiting disruptive, norm-violating speech on campus within a school function (a central focus of the _Fraser_ decision), and prohibiting speech outside of school on social media. At school, the school administration is acting in loco parentis in regulating the behavior and speech of students. There are limits to how much it can regulate garden variety free speech, particularly non-disruptive speech or political opinions, but it can regulate it.

The nature of the speech is different. In _Fraser_, the language was specifically crafted sexual innuendo. In this cheerleader case, the language in question on snapchat was a garden variety swearword (f-) expressing frustration, not specifically sexual in context. Every high schooler, every middle schooler knows that word. A substantial part of the decision in _Fraser_ revolved around the audience being minors and how the sexual language was potentially damaging to them.

I think even that _Fraser_ decision was wrong... I agree with Stevens's dissent that it's not the school's or a federal court's business to decide what rhetorical sexual innuendo is or isn't damaging to minors unless it's clearly interfering with the "educational process" (a phrase mentioned in the relevant disciplinary rules, not some artificial scope-restriction Stevens made up), or unusually disruptive. The cited record mentions school staff opining that the assembly was not substantially more disruptive than other assemblies, despite some embarrassment and obscene mimicry of the innuendo. A student assembly isn't sufficiently connected with the educational process to merit the extra censorship you'd expect to be enforced in a classroom, which is what the cited school's disciplinary code contemplates.

As pointed out elsewhere, the cheerleader's signed "agreement" not to disparage the team or classmates as a requirement for being on a team is not likely to be valid for a public school. The fact that the school can more strictly regulate speech when a student is actively representing the school at an event, or in a classroom, is not relevant here (or in _Fraser_, for that matter). If school staff believe special behavioral criteria for attendance or membership at the school or on a school team is necessary, they should quit and join a private school where that kind of thing flies.
Thanks - pretty sure there is no ADHD test in my country
This is really smart, I'm going to start doing this.
Are you saying that I can't make any sort of negative decision about you no matter what you say, or I'm violating the principle of free speech?

> Alienation and banishment from society?

I literally have to still be friends with you, or I'm oppressing you? What are we using language for anyway, if we have to ignore it?
This is ad hominem and doesn't remotely reflect the substance of the article. I personally don't like Greenwald either, but he makes a decent point here about the ACLU's actions. And it's especially germane because that organization has a history of defending free speech in the face of great controversy and their willingness to do so was a tremendous public service.
As a student that went through the program, I question if their incentives were aligned.

During the middle of my enrollment at the program (Sept 2020), the school suddenly dropped all notion of grading, code review, and attendance, let alone the length of the program. It remained this way for 3 months, 50% of the length of the program.

This is a broad description of the changes, but I want to emphasize that the changes were terrible, _many_ students complained, and the school essentially whistled with fingers in their ears.
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A subset of CP/M calls is a pretty simple "rest of the system" to implement on top of an 8080/Z80 CPU emulation. (It's a bit of a cheat - like qemu's "Linux user mode emulation" or early version of DOSBox, because you restrict software to interacting with a high-level software interface, there are no lower-level details to aim for fidelity with)
Social tensions preceded disruptions in ancient Pueblo societies
Password from Hell
draw.io - it's the best and it stores locally
Certainly not illegal to think that, but nothing stops people from thinking that your privilege, ignorance, and biases are showing.
We're talking about a single section in a probably lengthy contract in an area of law (ISAs) that barely existed until a few years ago. I feel like half of HN is picturing a cigar smoking villain, the reality of it is probably far more boring.
Cheers for the clarification :)
How many people on Hacker News think self-driving cars will be a better driver than themselves in the near future?
Tesla built sold and shipped more vehicles in this last quarter than ever before
Does that mean lack of interest because of politics, or the same problem the Oscars have had since perhaps back when Jaws/Star Wars invented blockbuster movies: the Academy Awards aren't going to award the big budget crowd-pleasers (like superhero films), so most audiences are uninterested. That's a high art vs. low art issue, not a political one.
Quoth dril, the scholar of our times:

> the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312
Most Europeans from Western Europe speak English and have at least some cultural knowledge of the U.S. due to our cultural hegemonic status. It’s easier for Greeks to come to the U.S. and integrate than vice versa. Also the U.S. has a long history of taking in immigrants. I suggest that looking solely at respective numbers of immigrants doesn’t tell the whole story.
Surely when you say "This will be a gradual migration over 50-100 years" you are imagining a process by which this will happen.

You didn't ask me any questions, you asked nerdponx, and I chose to join the conversation. What I posted above was my answer to "Is it wishful thinking though? How exactly?"

But given the way are responding, I'm not sure you're interested in having an honest conversation.
Is Night Shift/dark mode helping you sleep better?
What are examples of tech that are not being used due to lack of political willpower?

Also note that if you have a working idea now that you can't realize because number of your supporters is low, as the number of well off people grows, number of your supporters will grow too, and something that was not possible to do with x people will become possible for 2x.
Is it better to buy a home for investment than it is to buy stocks?
• Compliment people behind their back. It’ll come back to you.

Such a hard thing to quantify – and attempting to quantify it misses the point – but I think this is such an under appreciated point.

I know that I am quick to gossip or talk about other people's failings behind their back. Partly, I think it is easy for people to relate to each other based on a shared view of someone else. And, unfortunately, I think it is easier to come up with negative examples to talk about.

Imagine if more of us found opportunities to say something good about someone just because.
Sure, but somebody's got to fund it.
They can definitely regulate the use of the word fuck in the school or in class, I am fine with that, but I know others that would disagree.

You could definitely change the facts just slightly, where a student posts something on social media during school hours while on campus...then is it fair game for the school to regulate/punish? I have to admit myself I’d want to know the context, but it really shouldn’t matter, either yes they can regulate the speech or no they can’t.

I think SCOTUS cherry picked this case, so they wouldn’t have to take a case with more compelling facts like a social media post while at school by a student bullying another student. Then again the justices are older, and disconnected from a generation that grew up connected to social media.
Wait... is the answer 1 or 4?
Now I'm dreaming about a program that would simply play a high-res photograph (scan) of a vinyl disk...

This also reminds me of the idea to use paper for archival. This is based on two factors: that modern office paper is extremely durable (and is likely to outlast most of the other physical media out there), and that scanners are (and have been for years now) extremely high-resolution; so, you can simply print the bits (say, of a zip file) as dots, and then you could use a scanner to read the file back!
> making an iPad-native environment for programming

Why be US-centric?

> Things like using a cursor in a multi-line text input are not natural for kids in early grades

Sure it is. In past decades, many children start working their family computer at ages 6-10. Maybe they started with games like Space Invaders or Digger or Xonix, but soon enough they were editing text files.

> it is just really boring to struggle with syntax and typing

Yeah, so let's not teach children to express themselves in writing... that stuff is boring.
Related, something I wrote years ago:

https://pypi.org/project/quickpiggy/

From its README:

A makeshift PostgresSQL instance can be obtained quite easily:
pig = quickpiggy.Piggy(volatile=True, create_db='somedb')
conn = psycopg2.connect(pig.dsnstring())
This should be the top comment. The images suggest a level of detail and accuracy that can’t be correct.
> Advice like these are not laws. They are like hats. If one doesn’t fit, try another.

Lists like these are full of survivor bias. In fact, it's baked into it.
Read the whole post. They will counsel specific personals, no need for everyone to get involved.
I'm going through the same thing right now, I'm hoping this gets more responses; my ad account was brand new, but inactive for five months and suddenly I get a suspension for "Circumventing Systems", with no explanation of specifics.

Alas, every submission to the "appeals" form comes back with identical, seemingly-automated responses, and my Adwords onboarding specialist has yet to receive a response internally after a month of followups
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Their profile says "Now: Investing/Consulting" which implies salesmanship for income.