Because they're often acting as a bulwark against powerful MNCs.
Readit Newsgeorgebcrawford commented on Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model starflow-v.github.io... · Posted by u/vessenes
> The metaphor of assigning a literal monetary value to one's opinion reinforces the idea that contributions are transactional and that their "worth" is measured through an economic lens. That framing can be exclusionary, especially for people who have been historically marginalized by economic systems. It subtly normalizes a worldview where only those with enough "currency" - social, financial, or otherwise - deserve to be heard.
No. It’s acknowledging that that perhaps one’s opinion may not be as useful as somebody else’s in that moment. Which is often true!
Your first and third paragraphs are true, but they don’t apply to every bloody phrase.
georgebcrawford commented on Implications of AI to schools twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bilsbie
Assign homework that, if one actually does the work themselves, will help them hone the skills they'll need for the in-class assessment.
Then allow students who want their homework evaluated for feedback to turn it in, but no homework will be graded.
This relegates the use of AI to personal choice of learning style and any misuse of AI is only hurting the student.
> This relegates the use of AI to personal choice of learning style and any misuse of AI is only hurting the student.
I'm a teacher. Kids don't have the capacity to make this choice without guidance. There are so so many that don't (can't?) make the link between what we teach and how they grow as learners. And this is at a rich school with well-off parents who largely value education.
But it is so damn HOT there. And Australia has the most vicious animals and plants too. It is like an alien continent.
I’ve lived here 15 years and seen two snakes, zero deadly spiders, zero crocs.
Yes, I’m on the city fringe. Like millions of others here.
georgebcrawford commented on It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it stratechery.com/2025/its-... · Posted by u/feross
Whats more, every single child here in Australia is learning on a school issued Chrome Book. To my kids, a spread sheet is google sheets and a power point is google slides.
(We were joking about it just last week because my partner asked my eldest what was the Power Point he was working on and he said, "Whats Power Point?")
> every single child here in Australia is learning on a school issued Chrome Book
Many? Most? Possibly, but absolutely not every single one.
georgebcrawford commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
> * I don't want to have to have an account and be logged in to it.
The whole point of YouTube is watching your subscriptions or recommendations based on your previous history. What is your use case if you don't even want to be logged into it?
That's only partially true for me. Recommendations? Not at all.
Subscriptions less and less. I can think of two that I regularly watch, and even those I'll just binge their most recent 2-3 every couple of months.
For me it's Ctrl/CMD+L "y [thing I'm searching for]" Enter.
I've dabbled with tools like PinchFlat to archive/stream via Jellyfin but there's niggles I haven't tackled.
georgebcrawford commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Autistic people tend to have very different sensory sensitivities than neurotypical people. Most are very highly sensitive and tend have trouble picking out a signal when there’s too much noise around it.
To me, being socially awkward is kind of a secondary, less important trait, but that’s the one everyone seems to notice. We’re weird on the outside because inside, we’re dealing with overwhelming sensory input.
Whoops, I didn't see parent comment and thought the reply was to the submission. It seemed massively out of context but absolutely wasn't :-)
Curse HackerNews' narrow indents!
georgebcrawford commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Check the parent comment.
Oh! I've long struggled with the narrow indents on Hacker News comments. I thought this was a reply to OP.
Thank you.
georgebcrawford commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Not autistic, but this is just so weird.
Why would you design readability and visibility to depend on chaotic, highly varied and probably sometimes bad underlying backgrounds?
I fail to see any systematic approach/ consistent design language at play here.
Let's hope this does not survive for long.
What does autism have to do with it?
I wired the desktop PCs in the house, so the only Wi-Fi users are mobiles, a smart TV, and a laptop. Everything else is already hanging off 2.5G wired switches. Pretty light duty, and I just wanted something that would provide robust routing and placeholder Wi-Fi. This does exactly that, and since it's OpenWRT based, it's probably marginally less terrible than whatever TP-Link was offering in the same price range.
It does run annoyingly hot, but I should just buy a little USB desk fan and point it at the router :P