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Re:School has given straight-A grades to the student, who can't do mas... on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:17AM (#50337953)
Achieving greater education for those that are disadvantaged is difficult, it is much easier to inflate grades and imagine you are making progress. Just another form of Goodhart's law playing out.

Edit: In all fairness, teaching in general is hard especially for a teacher in a public school, so I do also hold sympathy for them. And not all of them agree with the practices.

Re:School has given straight-A grades to the student, who can't do mas... on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:11AM (#50337856)
There is a famous image they show educators with the title "equity" and it shows the shorter person standing on more boxes than the larger so they are all standing at the same height. This is the current philosophy modern education is built on. They want everyone to reap the same rewards and it is seen as a failure, sometimes even "discrimination" if they don't as it can highlight the differences between certain demographics if they don't receive the same grades. If you speak against this you will likely be treated with hostility and swiftly pushed out (a few are more open minded). They reinforce their beliefs to themselves by coming up with award ceremonies that award anything that promotes "equity" without actually achieving greater education. Very cult-like behaviour.
Re:Pray for Chaos on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:30AM (#50337313)
Hi, flagger here. This is incoherent rambling and top comment pretty much highlights the problem. Posts should hold some substance.
Re:Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering vide... on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:56PM (#50320642)
>copyright lawsuits

Absolutely the thing they care about. https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/27/professors-books-pirate...

Re:Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies follow... on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:11PM (#50311841)
Mind share is the true moat. It doesn't matter if your product is not special if when someone thinks "frontier" and "agentic development" they still think of Claude. They don't think Antigravity or Gemini while Google has also decided to safety max themselves into failing to gain more mind share.
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Sunday October 25, 2026 @05:12AM (#50229634)
It is like saying there is no impact on math because solving a millennium prize problem didn’t net them a profit. It is just a naive way of looking at things.
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:46PM (#50225065)
If a lot of jobs were still manufacturing jobs I would agree, but we are in a service economy that uses computers as the main tool. So I don't see how it won't come into effect fairly soon into other areas of work. You can't measure impact by profit alone so I don't find the article particularly interesting anyway.
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:33PM (#50224952)
"slowly change things in 20 years"

Yeah, it is not going to be slow. Progress compounds, everything is being built on top of fast computers and fast widespread internet connection. You are not at the beginning of the curve like you were in the 20th century when people didn't even know how to use a keyboard and we are already seeing widespread disruption in security.

Re:Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you b... on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:23AM (#50206779)
>Why did you have to phrase it like this, instead of just bringing up your own counterpoint?

>What does this have to do with this? I'm not sure you understand the point being made..

Chris, buddy. We probably should not talk on this platform again. Have a great day!

Re:Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:15AM (#50206323)
It is not a rare take, this is from a 2007 video game: "Humans fail to see things as they truly are. They choose to see only what they wish. I acted only in support for this. A world filled with desires... viewed through a window, from which one sees what one wishes to see... Humans departed from reality at their own volition, craving more false images."
Re:Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:45PM (#50197843)
So AI holds the same beliefs as the final boss of a typical JRPG.
Re:Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you b... on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:41AM (#50196087)
They certainly made a loss on this guy but it is far from "stupid" from a consumer perspective.
Re:Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you b... on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:41AM (#50196078)
Treating anti-consumer practices as the "logical conclusion" while failing to give one is annoying. What you stated doesn't solve the fact that many people want to play games with others online, it is not just about assets.
Re:Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you b... on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:30AM (#50194420)
Yeah like the Google Stadia. I think there was news of someone who spent >100s of hours on Red Dead Redemption 2 only to have all his save data wiped when Stadia shut down.

Edit: Looks like Rockstar did the guy a favour and it was 6000 hours (https://www.nme.com/news/red-dead-redemption-2-stadia-player...)

Re:Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you b... on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:24AM (#50194355)
Your "logical conclusion" ignores that many popular games rely on online content anyway. You still need their servers without needing it to be streamed.
Re: on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:07PM (#50185948)
The headline is completely misleading. There is no ban.
Re:Anthropic disclosed an $80.7B net loss for the first half of 2026 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:58AM (#50178294)
A lot of the costs are going to compute aka GPUs aka Nvidia. Guess who is funding AI startups so they can buy more GPUs.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 finished Baldur's Gate 3 on its own in 39 hours on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:45AM (#50177747)
Most training is post-training in modern AI (~90%). They are not memorising lets play videos, that is absurd.

Try and get an LLM to recite the entire first book of Harry Potter and it goes off track usually during chapter 2.

Re:Ask HN: Will AI = extreme concentration of power? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:28PM (#50172200)
Yes, this is the plan. The top 10% already hold most of the wealth and they are gaining an increasing share, with the top 0.1% gaining the largest share in recent history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...

Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:22PM (#50172126)
Just give them The 48 Laws of Power.
Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:25PM (#50170531)
>good person >good citizen >make the world better

Could essentially be saying, obey and work. A lot of people won't agree that is the ideal life. If that's not how you interpreted it then you have my point.

Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:08PM (#50170292)
The sort of slop they tell children. Adult world is far more complicated than that.
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:25PM (#50168805)
There is nothing special about the engineering behind React. Success simply compounds, if big company X does something everyone else must do it, which leads to more contributors, which leads to more visibility.
Re:AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:23AM (#50163925)
The mistake in your analysis is that it is not just the far right but populism in general is on the rise, Mamdani, Green party in the UK etc.
Re:AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:21AM (#50163899)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv98ze40jz18o

Correct, everyone is paying more except the top 1% under Trump.

Re:AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:12AM (#50163807)
The Nazis became popular during The Great Depression (which affected Germany) and we are seeing history repeat itself. Someone is now going to tell me we aren't in a recession because "number go up!" while everything around us tells us a different story.

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