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password54321on School has given straight-A grades to the student, who can't do masic math

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.

password54321on School has given straight-A grades to the student, who can't do masic math

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.

password54321on Pray for Chaos

Hi, flagger here. This is incoherent rambling and top comment pretty much highlights the problem. Posts should hold some substance.

password54321on Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games

>copyright lawsuits

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

password54321on Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO

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.

password54321on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector

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.

password54321on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector

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.

password54321on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector

"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.

password54321on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

>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!

password54321on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

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."

password54321on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

So AI holds the same beliefs as the final boss of a typical JRPG.

password54321on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

They certainly made a loss on this guy but it is far from "stupid" from a consumer perspective.

password54321on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

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.

password54321on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

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...)

password54321on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

Your "logical conclusion" ignores that many popular games rely on online content anyway. You still need their servers without needing it to be streamed.

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The headline is completely misleading. There is no ban.

password54321on Anthropic disclosed an $80.7B net loss for the first half of 2026

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.

password54321on Claude Opus 5.5 finished Baldur's Gate 3 on its own in 39 hours

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.

password54321on Ask HN: Will AI = extreme concentration of power?

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...

password54321on What shall I teach my son?

Just give them The 48 Laws of Power.

password54321on What shall I teach my son?

>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.

password54321on What shall I teach my son?

The sort of slop they tell children. Adult world is far more complicated than that.

password54321on Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month

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.

password54321on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

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.

password54321on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv98ze40jz18o

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

password54321on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

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.

password54321on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary

Games were getting cracked anyway, it doesn't make much difference financially. A lot of games have online content as well which you can't access through this.

password54321on ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam

Even AGI might just be a 'meh' moment. It will take a while before you get through social, political and physical barriers before we start seeing it make a meaningful impact.

I imagine the first thing that would happen is that some people will declare AGI is here and some people will be in denial and call it a "stochastic parrot" because they either feel threatened by it, cynical or just ignorant. Then we just continue business as usual for a while because most people wouldn't know what to do with it and definitely don't want to be replaced even if they aren't against the idea of using AI. A lot of research is also useless without collecting data, experimentation in the real world and hardware, all of which take time.

password54321on Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school

I only consider it a lot because that's usually the final point of escalation after it goes through safeguarding or a formal investigation conducted by the school before it reaches the government. But it doesn't have to reach that point to hurt your career. I just know enough from teachers that I wouldn't try and practice what OP suggested.

password54321on Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school

>1000 referrals annually is a lot and can be damaging to ones wellbeing and lead to a dismissal even if it doesn't lead to a suspension. Most teachers are not men (only 14% in primary, 35% in secondary) and are almost certainly not doing what the above suggested is allowed.