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> Recently, there are more and more studies that smartphones harm learning and not a single study with the opposite results.

1) It's much more nuanced than you're making it out to be. There are a lot of studies that show overuse of phones ("phone addiction") is bad for academic performance. Going beyond that runs into some serious correlation/causation problems. For example, children in lower income families spend significantly more time in front of a screen than middle-class families.

2) Is "learning" the sole issue you're concerned about? There are studies that show cell phone bans are harmful in other ways: reducing social interaction, student happiness, and feelings of safety.

If you look at the above two points together I think you can draw a conclusion that smartphones, like most other things, are fine in moderation and potentially problematic at the extremes.

Here are the AAP recommendations about screen time: https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/media-and-children/cente... AAP has a reputation for being conservative and evidence-based in what they recommend.

EDIT: I found a high-quality study from just last year that should no association between the age a child acquires a phone and depression, grades, or sleep quality. https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.13851
Wow, I had no idea this existed 10 minutes ago, and I'm already thinking about deleting my AllTrails account. I'm driving about 6 hours tonight and I think I'm going to give this thing a try.

The UI is tremendous. Takes a while for it to make longer routes, but that could be my old phone's fault. One thing I don't like - it doesn't seem to be possible to save a route. You can save places, but not routes. Especially for hiking trips that have very particular manually-selected paths and/or lots of destinations, it would be nice to be able to save a route to a list, tap it, and have that route show up immediately instead of waiting for it to calculate.
Unless we're talking about very very young children, I have an extremely hard time with this. I had none of that as a child, and I assume neither did most adults here. Because I had none of that, I'm a software engineer making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. In no world would I be where I am today with those limitations.

- What am I going to do with my child's browsing history except snoop? Are we still worried about porn in 2023?

- What applications are they going to install that I'd want to override that couldn't be solved by not giving them a credit card number?

- What are they going to watch on Youtube that can't be solved by simply limiting device time?

- Shock sites? Surely every one of us experienced that at some point in our childhood, and I haven't thought about them in years. And are they even in vogue these days?

- Stories like strangers trying to meet up with children seem on par with poisoned halloween candy. It happens incredibly infrequently, often ends up being a known family member anyway, and people forever fear it as if it's actually something to fear in their daily lives.

I think communication, education, and limiting screen time at certain ages is the only healthy thing to do. Giving children (yes, even young children) some privacy is important. Your suggestions I believe fall into the "helicopter parent" territory.
OsmAnd does more, but I recommend Organic Maps to my family and friends. Unless one of my friends is an avid hiker/biker or map nerd
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a way to make structs completely noncopyable except via Pin. The compiler is reference tracking, and if it's sure that there aren't references it'll copy the value around. So for instance full RVO isn't guaranteed, and you can catch the bit pattern of &self changing out from under you even in a struct that doesn't implement Copy.

I'd kill for a proper copy constructor to cover the edge cases.
Upvoting because of the WebGL header text thing you did. Very nice!
Having forgotten the old world, how would we know?
If we are to develop understandable AGI, I think that some kind of (mathematically correct) probabilistic reasoning based on a symbolic knowledge base is the way to go. You would probably need to have some version of a Neural Net on the front end to make it useful though.

So you'd use the NN to recognize that the thing in front of the camera is a cat, and that would be fed into the symbolic knowledge base for further reasoning.

The knowledge base will contain facts like the cat is likely to "meow" at some point, especially if it wants attention. Based on the relevant context, the knowledge base would also know that the cat is unlikely to be able to talk, unless it is a cat in a work of fiction, for example.
You can not. Billionaires - can.
To provide an alternative take / a couple thought fragments on the idea of a "link tax"... the problem is that the Internet has turned anything involving news into a ruthless race to the bottom. Good journalism, surprise, costs serious money - you need to pay journalists, and if you're actually willing to step on people's toes, you need to have serious budgets allocated for lawyers and damage claims, should the courts not interpret the facts as liberal as you did. And on top of that, the Internet has won the fight against stuff printed on dead trees for convenience reasons.

Unfortunately, the business model of the Internet is at its core rabid capitalism: the one with the lowest cost for the end user usually wins the most eyeballs, which means free, ad supported tabloid/outrage bait. And as we've seen with COVID or with the conspiracy peddlers that ended up pushing the 45th to office, that can have serious side effects on society as a whole.

So, assuming that high quality journalism is essential to the survival of democracy (alone because journalism is vital in holding politicians and companies accountable), there are only a few options left:

1. the government pays for journalism and distributes it for free, either in the form of outright tax funding or via mandatory fees. This is the old "public broadcast" model, and it requires a lot of effort to keep it accepted as neutral by the general public, and it needs constant oversight to not become a government mouthpiece (an allegation that continues to rise in popularity in the case of the BBC, and something that has already happened in Hungary with disastrous effects). Also, independent media don't like it very much because obviously, they can't compete with "free and high quality".

2. the government bans or introduces strict licensing requirements to get foreign influence (such as propaganda content farms like in the Balkans [1]) under control. That raises serious constitutional issues in most Western democracies and legitimizes Putin doing the same in Russia.

3. governments go to those who actually make the money on the back of legitimate content creators and force them to hand over a part of the profit. Aka, a "link tax".

It's hard for me to sympathize with Google, one of the richest companies on the planet, and Facebook which has played a key role in tearing our societies apart by letting fake news and propaganda run rampant on their platform. Pay your goddamn bills.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-balkan-troll-farms-are-spr...
Could you share the reasoning that you provide your kid? This is a concern of mine as a future parent and would love to know what effective reasoning looks like.
> You should have the ability to selectively block/allow/modify content however you want before it's displayed in your browser.

Conceivably, this could mostly be accomplished without the extension being able to see all content. Such as manipulation by regexp.
That's a good bug to report to OsmAnd. It used to be they announced a turn every time the road hit a slight angle too which was absolute insanity lol
It's fun reading through the paper he links just because I've always been enamored by taking a lot of those principles that they believe should be internal to a computer, and instead making them external to a community.

In other words, I think it would be so highly useful to have a browseable corpus of arguments and conclusions, where people could collaborate on them and perhaps disagree with portions of the argument graph, adding to it and enriching it over time, so other people could read and perhaps adopt the same reasoning.

I play around with ideas with this site I occasionally work on, http://concludia.org/ - really more an excuse at this point to mess around with the concept and also get better at Akka (Pekko) programming. At some point I'll add user accounts and editable arguments and make it a real website.
In addition to the inaccuracies others have mentioned, the iPhone secure enclave is not a TPM. Saying it is isn't a simplification, it's muddying the waters.
Presumably safety could be addressed with a dumbphone; I don't think that's an argument for smartphones.
I am not the product of a free extension, whatever that means. I am a NextDNS subscriber. That makes me just as much their customer as my ISP's.

Besides, I don't know what a paying-customer relationship has to do with trust. I could just as easily be betrayed by someone I'm paying. For example, GrubHub drivers have a chronic problem of "losing" my drinks, despite being promised a tip and wages. I have to go chase refunds every day for these "mistakes". I'm a paying customer, yet I can't trust them to get my order right.
On HN jokes are possible, but they've got to be quite good, and are typically best included as seasoning to a comment rather than as freestanding comments of their own. I've done this myself, notably in my Pompeii comment of a few years ago, which was well-received (better than most of my efforts):

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133112>

Dang's written on this many times, typical:

Personally, when I read Reddit, I'm in awe of how good the best jokes are. The problem is that you can't have everything; with a culture of humor comes a flood of lame humor. HN's tradeoff is to optimize for signal-noise ratio, so that stuff gets hammered particularly hard.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7696013>

People complain about HN's humorlessness, and they're right to a point. The trouble is that with a culture of humor comes a flood of lame humor, and HN wants to optimize for signal/noise ratio. It's not that we're killjoys—we like jokes and laughing—it's that the signal/noise problem is hard.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7503356>

He's specifically pointed to a take of scott_s from 2009 several times:

people usually over-estimate how funny their own comments are

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289>
Which, as it turns out, is exactly what the government and large business syndicates that fund it (Rogers & Bell & co in this scenario) want. An open internet is a very dangerous thing to people in power worldwide.
available to citizens "&& residents".

Not every resident is citizen.
Most of these exist on android.
A lot of democratic votes in the west recently, end up on the wire, where you have to vote for the known crook just so the fascist doesn't win. So not an ideal situation that results in a competent, efficient and incorruptible government.
1. I concur. But it's no big deal.
2. Nothing prevents this, but it would be specified as a sister protocol. I haven't seen it specified, but I know that relays are doing it.
3. Websockets allows pub-sub. Clients stay connected to relays and instantly get the next message when it arrives. Polling means either lots of polling or having delays.
4. I can't even comment on this one.
5. Optional chaining is possible and has been proposed.

I also started a nostr-like protocol back in November 2022 based on my gripes with it. Then I came to my senses... nobody is going to use my variant. Perfection is the enemy of the good.
I think Komoot uses openstreetmap and is a little more hiking oriented, that might be useful to you.
Again, we recognize that corruption took place but is unfortunately legal and endemic (certainly not limited to one specific party). This corruption should be ended, but there's one little problem. You. And all the others making a stink about this.

You don't care about corruption, only in smiting your political enemies. Neither does any of the members of the senate committee or anyone else obsessed with this.

The only thing that matters is "the story" and the taint of its implications.

This is frustrating beyond belief, because most of us non-believers in this nonsense would love to right these wrongs but it will only happen if addressed in a bipartisan manner.

That would require an interest in good government rather than power, and day by day it's clearer and clearer that power itself is the only goal.

Meanwhile, the cult continues its worship of a man who is literally corrupt to the core whose only interest is in self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement.

I take no pleasure in these observations (quite the opposite, in fact). As with any other cult, there is no possibility for reason or reflection and the only reaction to that engagement is to double down on their beliefs.

Political discussion is usually avoided in polite society because it devolves into tribal warfare. That's most unfortunate because the actions of the political class have literally life and death repercussions and strongly shape the health of the country.

So while I did point out flaws in your tribe, I didn't do it to claim my tribe is better. First and foremost, I am not a member of any political party, and equally important, I believe we should have a nation that operates under the rule of law in a manner that serves us all the best it can (regardless of affiliation).

The committee reports: https://oversight.house.gov/report/

edit: the committee's been at it for some time and the only thing they've come up with is the appearance of impropriety. That's it.

One would think that with all their resources and zeal to stamp out this corruption that they'd have a smoking gun by now and would use that to try and convict Biden Sr. But they won't (because it's quite likely nothing exists) and they don't want their game to end as it works so well to keep you and others up in arms and ready to "vote the bad guys out".
You can’t imagine why the tax man would need a police force?

You may also be surprised to hear that the DoE has paramilitary capabilities as well.
Would you be willing to hire candidates with less than 3 years of experience?
Each generation thinks they are so much smarter than the previous.
Case-based reasoning is VERY old. It shows up prominently in the Catholic tradition of practical ethics, drawing on Aristotelian thought. Of course in a more informal sense, people have been reasoning on a case-by-case basis since time immemorial.
Interesting how much data is being collected/stored nowadays, yet how fragile storage to store that data is.
good info here: https://www.waituntil8th.org/
The Caveat being that we use first past the post, so the majority of the (already poor % of) votes get tossed, and we end up in a situation like we're in now where the party with the most seats actually lost the election. They also all lie through their teeth, so you have no idea what you're voting for, and can't kick them out for 4 years. That's all without mentioning that a vote in Quebec or PEI is worth way more than a vote in Alberta or BC.
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if security is an onion, why do you advocate for throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
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Is it that surprising? One of the Constitution's major objectives is to restrict the powers of the government and its various entities. Being an originalist gets you there. So does not being an originalist.
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I think "why bother testing?" is more about desktop safari users are such a small demographics that most developers (especially small ones) won't bother.
Its Engl-ish. Emphasis on the -ish.

They’re all fine.
> There are no good music on yt because of at least lack of organization of tracks/albums/discography, lack of lossless and of course lack of a decent search.

I don't think children care too much about any of those problems, though. I used to listen to music on a cheap radio player with an usb stick and I thought it was the greatest thing ever.
Could you switch to just using passkeys instead of Google, Apple, or Facebook federated identity? This eliminates the risk of storing passwords, and also doesn't create a dependency on one of the companies mentioned. You'll still need to store username, email, or both, depending on your use case. You can also create a code path that will transition accounts from federated identity to self hosted with passkeys as well.

https://passkeys.dev/docs/tools-libraries/libraries/

https://passkeys.directory/

https://www.corbado.com/blog/user-transition-passkeys-expert...
Like anything reasonably complex, it means little to you if its not your field - that said, I have no clue either.
I was thinking about that. A site like that wouldn't meet all the tests of eligibility in the bill, but it would probably not meet the eligibility to be copyright exempt for one reason or another. That's as much as I've thought of that.

The thing at issue is not URLs, it is these sites' ability to pull and serve above the fold content. I think that's something the term "link tax" is obfuscating.
TPMs typically won't give out a secret unless all of the software which has been loaded and executed was "measured" and found to be unmodified from when the secret was stored. So you couldn't simply stick your own hard disk or USB disk into the computer and then ask the TPM for the secret: the running software wouldn't match, and the TPM would refuse.

This is a problem because the "approved" software has this strange vulnerability to get into the rescue shell, right at the point where the TPM would be happy to give you the secret because the software is unmodified.
> It’s not Google’s fault that Canadian media oligopolists have no interest in paying for good journalism.

Crap journalism is not a uniquely Canadian problem. I would argue that like in most things we lag a bit behind the states (US journalism leads the pack in volume of crap per unit of time).

The internet and specifically advertising (and classifieds) is absolutely a big part of what caused a massive reduction of quality journalism. Google is also definitely part of this problem as most people's gateway to the internet and basically the largest advertising company in the world. Inevitable though for sure (if not Google, then someone else). I don't know about the rest of your post, but this statement at least is a bit distracting.

I should add that I think the Canadian link tax idea is doomed before it even begins. It's also kind of funny that our (Canadian) answer to everything is to just tax it... sigh.
I know that people like to hate on social media, and for good reason. But remember when it was encouraged that people look to multiple sources in order to find the truth somewhere in the middle? Yes you can still do that without social media but ...

Social media is a multi-source aggregator and then some.

I know there have been charges of social media creating echo chambers. But consider who made those charges to begin with. Typically traditional media.

And people who don't take conscious active measures to expose themselves to a broad point of view are just going to stick to their comfortable world-affirming sources anyway like they did before social media.

Something to consider is that when virtually every single person now carries around a video camera with them 24/7, with the ability to instantly upload footage to a potentially unlimited audience ... what use is there for traditional journalists in the majority of cases?

We still desperately need investigative journalism that uncovers events not widely exposed. But when there's a car accident, a fire, a weather alert? Why rely on your local NBC or Fox news outlet? What's the benefit to getting information plus spin when you can just get the raw first-hand footage from the people who were there? And not only do you get it without bias, you get it faster.
My child is 11 and starting middle school next year (US). They walk to and from school. They have an iPad and a PC at home, with a lot of freedom, but I also have pretty solid DNS filtering for ads, malware, and some other junk. Social media isn’t allowed, and their email account is forwarded to us. iMessage is allowed contacts only but it’s just a matter of asking us. We want some oversight. But no phone - the iPad stays home, and they have an Apple Watch that lets us keep in contact, know where they are, but has no real distraction apps and no camera. We don’t really know when we’ll allow a smartphone but not soon.
Another option in the same vein is a watch with cellular. One advantage is that it's harder to lose.
One way I did this randomly the other day was choosing Bicycle or Walking mode which prioritize slow streets and pedestrian pathways. Maybe a different definition of thrilling than most people in cars, but I appreciate being taken into other areas of town I might not normally go since they're not major roads.

OsmAnd also has many different navigation profile options, you might try customizing that to get what you want. Organic Maps focuses on what the bulk of people need to navigate decently, so that the end result is simple and usable for everyone even if it's not the most feature-packed.
So you want to use those bad QR codes to hurt poor people?
I strongly suggest anyone getting into Linear Algebra to have a project to work on. It makes everything so much easier when you get to play with the stuff.

My hint for something to play with is that basic linear algebra applies very directly to graphics, rotation matrices and so on. If you know how to multiply a matrix with a vector, you basically know what you need to render basic line-art 3D graphics. May want to look into dot and cross products as well as vector projection, but it's fairly basic all of this.
Alarmist claims aside, there are a lot of verifiable stories in the right-wing media bubble that are completely unknown to people in the left-wing bubble, and vice-versa. I really dig https://ground.news/blindspot just for giving some perspective on who's (not) getting exposed to what.