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> Americans must use every legal and constitutional tool in their arsenal to fight abuse and protect their children.

They could start by regulating guns. That would prevent the death, injury, and traumatisation of many children[1]. As a bonus, it would do the same for adults[2].

Or they could deal with the “urgent and preventable crisis” of having 1 in 6 children living in poverty[3].

People in these discussions aren’t against protecting children. Rather, they’re questioning the ulterior motives behind specific policies. If governments and companies could be trusted to keep their promises and not overreach, no one would be batting an eye at the recent Apple announcement. But historically, the inverse has been true: they’re pretty much guaranteed to try to abuse the system.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...

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

[3]: https://www.childrensdefense.org/policy/resources/soac-2020-...
Interesting solution for tracking open tabs.

Every so often I like to dump all my open tabs into pocket just to make absolutely sure I will never see them again.
You're likely thinking of "We Still Don't Get Things Done", posted 11 days ago:

https://www.wired.com/story/to-do-apps-failed-productivity-t...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28010716

And yes, there's a lot there that resonated strongly with me.

The cars-under-tarps anecdote is an excellent one. As life goes on, one accumulates an ever-growing list of gates which have closed irrevocably behind one. The German word Torschlusspanik is a brilliant invocation of this. The English equivalent is roughly "mid-life crisis", though the German captures far more of the essence and slowly-building grief.

https://blogs.transparent.com/german/torschlusspanik/

There's saying (memory says Chinese though I'm unsure and can't locate it): a wise man is prepared to part with his possessions several times in his lifetime. That might extend to dreams and expectations as well as physical cargo.
If "high incarceration rate in large part due to micromanagement of what people do to their bodies" doesn't support the point of the person you're replying to I don't know what does.
K-1 means Kindergarten and 1st grade, so 5 year olds and 6 year olds. In the US earlier grades than that are called PK-3 (pre-Kindergarten and 3 year old) and PK-4. I don't think RSM has classes for these levels.
Am surprise by the census data for Lake Tahoe and the 25% drop in salary that goes with it. Isn’t this a super wealthy area? This is going to hurt the Googlers who where going to trade their primary home for their secondary one.
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This is true. But there is the shortest term, say the 2030 goals (go full on wind and solar, there's still plenty of fossil base load that can be shaved off), and the 2050 plus subsequent goals. If we want to go full carbon negative (and we should), then nuclear is necessary.
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I assumed there is, but also could not find one right now. Would be a shame, if there isn't.
No, “collecting” photons transfers momentum so at best if you have 100% conversion rate you won’t slow down, so you need a separate source for acceleration.

Whilst photons hit your ship from all direction the photons incoming from the direction of travel would be shifted towards higher frequencies so their momentum would be higher than the photons hitting the ship from the opposite direction so unless there is a sufficient difference in the number of photons hitting you from the back to compensate for it you would still not be able to extract energy to move.

This means that even say a solar sail has a limit on acceleration at a certain speed the photons hitting the front of the sail would be blue shifted enough to counteract the acceleration of photons hitting you from the back, even if you convert them to useful energy it wouldn’t matter since you’ll reach equilibrium.
You should read up on modern farming techniques. That would mitigate a lot of your concerns.
Of course its different for everybody, but for a recent study of "IT professionals", productivity goes down but the amount of work goes up:

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/2021-56/

This was early on in the COVID lockdown, presumably better remote centered management/tools would increase productivity.
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I see your point and I agree that there is often room for intuition for most real-world problems, but I'm not sure that you have a valid argument there: not everyone clicking does them mindlessly, and some people see a beautiful world through pixels.

At the end of the day, I guess the two are not mutually exclusive in the current context.
"I'll leave to do a startup, and you'll have to hire some new grad and train them for years till they're as good as me" is a common threat.
A math professor of mine said that the first step to solve a math problem was to know the answer.

I remember during my first year buying a book called something like 1000 limit problems. I "just" did about 300. It was definitely pattern matching and nothing Mathematica wouldn't do better than me.
Do you audit every repository you clone and build?
how and when do you activate it or change the name though?

you don't want it to broadcast STOLEN_BICYCLE while you ride it?

setting up such a system properly probably costs way more (in valuable time) than the Apple solution
Or photos of your own children.

We have a Tumblr set up for family to view pics of the kids. Several photos and videos of our kids when they were under 2 were taken down either temporarily or permanently by their CP algo.

These were a pic or video of kids in the bath or without a shirt. In none of them could you see bum or bits. Just a semi naked baby.

Algorithms like this get things wrong all the time
50,000 seconds would be 13.89 hours, though I’ll grant you “with existing technology” would preclude getting enough electrical power into an ion drive for that to do one whole gee.
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Tens of thousands of automated detections per day? Unlikely. More likely tens per year. Remember, this isn't a porn detector combined with a child detector. It is hashing images in your cloud-enabled photo library and comparing those to hashes of images already known to child abuse authorities.

In addition, consider how monumentally unlikely it is for any CSAM enthusiast to copy these illicit photos into their phone's general camera roll alongside pictures of their family and dog. This is only going to catch the stupidest and sloppiest CSAM enthusiast.
Unless you need that 10% of your salary.
There is space for intuition, but the argument the author makes is that intuition is making a mistake here (as it often does). Namely that we think increased phone use is correlated with (or even causal for) negative mental health, but the data does not support this yet. The author thinks we don't have the data to support or debunk this because of poor measurements, and I agree with this. Maybe better, more nuanced measurement will prove a link. But it probably won't be as simple as more phone time == more mental health problems.

My intuition is often wrong, but it is undoubtably useful for me as an individual. But the intuition of crowds is bad. It is no substitute for randomised controlled trials, mendelian randomisation, or even cohort and observational studies. For public health policy I prefer to use evidence over intuition.
Cloud music libraries aren't yours to begin with, even when working right.

Torrent the actual files.
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Right, but human conversation doesn't work like that. A real usage would be more like "The man saw a boy with his telescope. The boy was running down the beach, apparently screaming out at the sea."

Using "a" in place of "his" in speech would be unnatural and would raise eyebrows. "His" is still ambiguous though, and any human speaker would know that and provide more context. The second sentence disambiguates the sentence sufficiently. Eleuther's online demo still fails badly given the above prompt:

> The boy saw the man, stopped, turned around, and looked at the man angrily, pointing at the horizon. The man saw a break in the waves, and he walked towards the boy. The boy ran into the sea, and the waves tried to take the man, but the man was able to escape from the waves. The boy was angry. He called the man a “nasty pirate.” The man went home and told his mother about the boy and the pirate. The man’s mother said, “He’s just a kid, he probably has no idea what he’s saying.”
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What, exactly, is the other part of the story that you imagine would make his behaviour not awful?
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They will still sue you if you plant their patented seeds without paying though.
> It's China or the USSR killing US soldiers in Vietnam. And so on.

In that case, there was very clear troop presence on the ground by both of them.
>I'm convinced that the solution to crime is not to increase punishments, but to make the speed and likelihood of being punished fast and almost certain.

You apply that to every Karen's favorite pet laws and suddenly we're all living in 1984.

Look at the opinions of HN for example. You've got a subset of people who think speeding should be a shoot on sight offense. And you've got a subset of people who think littering should be a shoot on sight offense. You've got a subset of people who think that anyone who uses power equipment before 10AM is Literally Hitler(TM). I'm being only slightly hyperbolic here. It all adds up. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
> This will happen with or without iCloud;

You don't know that.

> The only reason to do this clientside when the data is already readable on the server is to do it to images that aren't hitting the cloud.

Or to eventually e2e encrypt all of iCloud. Or because Apple doesn't want to decrypt images server-side if they don't have to. Etc.

But the point is that currently, only photos that will be uploaded to iCloud Photo Library will be scanned. Making definitive points about possible future scenarios isn't particularly insightful, especially because the current system isn't much of a precondition of those scenarios.
Google and FB both scan storage for several different types of contraband, and also have triggers and thresholds for things that use too much bandwidth (eg pirated software download links that are shared widely et c).
Because people hate the smoke they cause, particularly in parks during peak vacation season.
Can they even, legally, review anything at all? I mean, it's highly likely there will be actual CP among the matches, viewing of which is - AFAIK - a crime in the US.
1984 is a nice book, but it's too late to read it. We are already living in a 1984 world.

I find it more useful to read another dystopian novel, Atlas Shrugged, which, written in 1957, surprisingly well predicts the collectivist changes happening right now.
Disclaimer: it's been a few decades since I read that. I may be completely wrong.

It's not like you can simply say something universe-altering just because you know the right words. You still need the magical ability and if you're not powerful enough in that ability for what you want to say, you simply can't say it.

But otherwise, if the mage is THAT powerful, then, yes, the rest of the universe has to deal with it.
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anecdotally my 150-person office consumed about $40k in coffee each year. not a huge amount compared to salary and benefits, but not peanuts either.
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There's no point in clientside scanning, then. The photos in iCloud are already not e2e and are completely readable by Apple (and are regularly turned over to the USG without probable cause or a search warrant).
I'm just annoyed the narrator pronounced it "Gawss".
> Edit: this might make the kids think you need some 'magical' insights to do math and if they don't see it they are not apt for it, while the opposite might be true.

That's a valid point. However, what's the opposite to having insights? Is that following routines and/or exhaustively exploring the entire problem space (which the first problem in the GP comment seems to teach)?

Teaching those might have higher pedagogical value than conditioning children to find insights (as - at least at first sight - the increase in skill in those is more directly linked to the effort the child invests in learning) However, the von Neumann story in your sibling comment suggests that some people (and so, some children in the class) will perform routines faster than the other children no matter what. Seeing a "shortcut" solution gives a chance to those who are slower at routines to arrive at a solution fast, too.

Moreover, a lot of real-world problems (in academia as well as in business - from my limited experience in both) are exercises in pattern matching and finding shortcuts rather than in an exhaustive exploration of the problem space - and helping children to collect an arsenal of tricks (and more importantly, teaching them to look for insights and patterns by giving them multiple trick-based problems over the years) prepares them to handle those real-world problems.
This is not the kind of algorithm that Apple is be using. That one only scans for already known CSAM in NCMEC's database.
I haven't used WhatsApp, but I'm tempted to call bullshit on that. I've never used any messaging app on iOS which saves photos to your photo library. Doing so would make no sense and would surely be infuriating. It's also worth noting that apps on iOS can't save to your photo library unless you give them explicit permission.
Another one: The World at the End of Time, Frederik Pohl. A star being ("Wan-To") accelerates another star indefinitely, dragging its (inhabited) system with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_the_End_of_Time
For comparison to your "likely tens per year" number, Facebook is running the same kind of detectors and reports ~20 million instances a year: https://twitter.com/durumcrustulum/status/142377627884745113...
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So... Any predictions for how long till this is used to target opposition?
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Exactly. When I left California I fully expected my pay to get reduced, I’m not going to blind myself and think that it wouldn’t happen because of my move to a lower cost of living area. I’m lucky that that wasn’t the case but it was a pleasant surprise more than something I expected and demanded.
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None of this is happening "currently"; both of these claims are speculation about future changes based on Apple's statements.

Apple has made 3 announcements and released one research paper and held a press conference. Now we have to reconstruct what is likely going to be the truth from their carefully crafted statements.
Why would it be more productive to work in the office and have the children at day care than working from home and have the children at day care?
Before that it was Singapore math.

Basically any country that doesn't view your kid's math class as a lab to experiment with new unproven teaching techniques is fair game. Which unfortunately excludes American math.
I can see why you'd think that, but again having worked with many people who do, I don't see a difference.

Of course personal experience is far from hard data, but with a lack of decent data to go off on the subject (partially to do with the fact that productivity is a very vague term, with many disagreeing on how it should be measured, especially with the constant number of external factors affecting it), I can only go by what I experience. I also notice those with children think they're being less productive, whereas the rest of the team doesn't actually notice, so that could be a factor.

Thats not saying that WFH is beneficial to all, of course not. I think theres a massive range of factors, children of course being one of them, but I think it comes down to the individual, rather than any broad strokes we can attempt to make.
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I am totally making an npm package that secretly generates a CP image during the postinstall script.

Developers created this and developers must suffer from this.
Do you have a source for a single person being required to register as a sex offender for peeing in public?
I find a marked difference on HN about the attitude towards end-to-end encryption, and anonymous transactions in cryptocurrencies.

The former can enable the latter. And so much more. Organizing sex trafficking, terrorism and so forth. Nevermind the copyright protection stuff.

The latter can enable tax evasion, money laundering and financing unsavory activities. States don’t want people to be able to do that.

Yet many on HN applaud attempts to doxx everyone and every transaction in crypto, calling it a scam/for criminals, while at the same time decry any attempts to lessen encryption, however subtle or careful, of personal files and communication.

What is a consistent position on both these topics, given that there are dangers on both sides of the argument? I tried to present the core issue here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28117289
The critical follow-up question is what do NCMEC do with their backlog? Unless they're dumping this backlog directly at the feet of law enforcement, I don't see how this changes the equation.
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Max 8 tabs per window. If you need more, open another browser window.

If you 'lose' a tab you can always find it the way you found it in the first place. You should remember how you found things instead of remembering which tab they were in - this way you can reproduce the process and "find" the content on any other device.
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This is arguably false.

Anecdotally, I have small children at home and worked from home even before the pandemic when my company had an office. I have climbed the corporate leader every evaluation period because of my performance, while coworkers who were exclusively in the office weren't so fortunate.

It just goes to show that people are very different and it's impossible to generalize statements based on a single variable (has_children=True)
In the end they still have to find tenants, so the properties can't be empty forever or we'll have a lot of bankruptcies on our hands.
Does this mean employee agreements are up for renegotiating? Salary / compensation for work is the key element to an employee agreement. If employers can change compensation at will without employee consent then the employee agreement is truly meaningless and simply a tool for the employer to wield against the employee. I'd imagine a few employee lawsuits on breach of contract that will test that.
> Hash collisions would fail human review

You mean like the absolutely perfect human review of appstore content that's known for both false positives and false negatives?

Neither automatic nor manual (human) review works 100% reliably. And believing otherwise will only ruin lives.
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No matter how fast you accelerate, you'll chew up distances at a local(!) rate of less than c, so it's enough to consider the limiting case of light and skip the complications introduced by acceleration. The analogous classical problem is the "ant on a rubber rope". If the endpoint of the rope moves at a constant speed, the ant will be able to reach it, no matter the rope's length. If the endpoint accelerates, the ant might not, and only be able to asymptotically approach some point somewhere on the rope.
Is it really that significantly higher? I can’t imagine you’ve increased usage of those to the tune of thousands of dollars a year.