the existence of AI summaries have made me realize I don't really want to know all this stuff anyway, at least before there was some pride and sense of achievement in the process of understanding something.
Readit Newsnoemit commented on You don't need AI summaries, tldr or to be on top of things unsungnovelty.org/posts/0... · Posted by u/speckx
noemit commented on Silence Isn't Consent (2023) shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Trying to understand your comment ...
Are you saying that when you make something, literally anything, available for the public to read, then you are ipso facto giving permission for people to copy it and do with it what they will?
the crawler isnt copying it, its using it to inform a model. yes, if you publish things publicly, people will consume it. you dont get to dictate how they do.
also using "enthusiastic consent" to make this argument is super cringe. drawing a connection to someone taking advantage of you because you are asleep is super bizarre.
noemit commented on Tarpit ideas: What they are and how to avoid them (2023) [video] ycombinator.com/library/I... · Posted by u/dgs_sgd
It's only a tarpit idea when you don't know it's a tarpit idea.
I'm building a bookmarking service. I have no illusions that this will become anything more than a hobby project. Still, I love solving specific problems for myself (specifically, making consumption easier to deal with content overload).
this is neat. i think digg should come back.
noemit commented on FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities apnews.com/article/immigr... · Posted by u/eterps
There's another argument that you touched on in your last paragraph that I think deserves to be underlined, which is about proper accountability.
Imagine an undocumented immigrant who commits a serious crime, like murder. Do you want the local prosecutors to go after them, and send them to jail for a long time? Or do you want ICE to go after them, in which case they ... get deported and wind up living free in another country (putting aside the current debacle with El Salvador and CECOT). Where is the justice in that? If someone commits some sort of crime in the US, I want justice to be served before we talk about deporting them.
Funny enough, CECOT only exists because of this. MS-13 started in the United States, and only spread to El Salvador because of deportations, making El Salvador completely unlivable.
noemit commented on Silence Isn't Consent (2023) shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/... · Posted by u/ColinWright
You consented to making your content public explicitly.
> Research shows low-stakes assessment is when the moment of learning often happens
Okay, but psychology research like this needs to be taken with context on long term behavior. Is this advice practical? No, not in this case. The problem is that very few people can actively learn that way for multiple hours in one day, let alone be motivated for studying in that intense way for subjects they do not like. Any barrier will stop them. That research applies to cramming for exams, when stressed, which most EdTech isn't really useful for (at that point, people are learning intensely anyway). This human nature has not changed.
And your suggestions (not to be rude) are to excite kids about the subjects they find least motivating. But the problem is already motivation.
Youtube is motivating because it is fun. It might not work, but it fits the motivation level you have.
Why not forget about the strong moats/tendencies of EdTech projects to fail to revolutionise, forget them targetting parents, and either pick a subgroup of learners who actively do want to change how they learn, or work on the motivation problem? Why are some kids so much less motivated to learn Math than others? Should we change that and how can we?##
Here's an example I find interesting: The western world accomplished bringing Biology from dominantly male to an equally balanced subject. How did that change happen? We benefit from all these women researching in Biology. Could it happen to other sciences? Or the reverse? These kind of questions interest me.
Actually, people learn for hours this way. It just needs to be tempered with support. This is literally what a teacher does when they give you an assignment, give you feedback on it, then give you another activity. You're thinking of hard testing - where you get a lot of things wrong. I did research on how to keep learners engaged, and as long as they were getting over 50-60 precent of the problems/activities "right" they kept going - so we actually built an adaptive system that optimized for this type of growth, which means throwing them an easier question every now and then so that they have some confidence to go with the knowledge.
The reason some kids are not motivated to do math is because they believe they are bad at it, and nobody likes to do something that makes them feel dumb or not good. The kids that love math (like myself - I remember I was SO excited about math as a kid) are good at it, and teachers are constantly complimenting them.
You can hack the brain to feeling good while learning. I just need like 200M but I might be able to do it without.
noemit commented on Ask HN: Magic links are bad UX and make people's lives worse. Change my mind · Posted by u/figassis
I absolutely love magic links. But I also love email, as a technology. I find it so reliable and robust, I genuinely think more things should be built on email.
As with all things, you need to know your audience. If you are making a product for people over 60, probably a simple username/password would work best.