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raincole commented on Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class   nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us... · Posted by u/signa11
tyleo · 15 hours ago
Comments here are very strange, “Reading books should go the way of cursive! Education is more like childcare anyways.”

It’s bizarre stuff to say. What would you have the education system do? Put iPads in front of kids all day?

raincole · 2 hours ago
... Prepare shorter or lighter materials for them to read, as this article suggests? Why has reading whole books become the holy grail of education system?

The said education system expected this:

> As a high school student less than a decade ago, he was assigned many whole books and plays to read, among them, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” “The Crucible” and “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”

Yeah, sounds like a very great way to filter out perhaps 20% of good readers and make sure the rest 80% will hate reading for the rest of their lives.

raincole commented on Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/rbanffy
ChadNauseam · 14 hours ago
I wish that were true but it's not. If billionaires ran the country we wouldn't be starting trade wars and restricting immigration.
raincole · 13 hours ago
During trading war the US stock skyrocketed.

We live in an era where the wealthiest are made by devaluing fiat and moving the purchase power from average citizens to the richest ones. Creating value, if people are still doing that, is mere a byproduct now.

raincole commented on Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/rbanffy
pixl97 · 14 hours ago
Russia is an interesting case as it has a president for life (China has gone this way too) and if your billions aren't available to said president you fall out a windows. The US is diving towards an oligarchy but I'm not seeing our billionaires fall out a window or disappearing when they say the wrong thing.
raincole · 14 hours ago
Yeah because in the US the billionaires actually run the country.
raincole commented on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI   simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
derac · 2 days ago
Call me naive, but my read is the opposite. It's impressive to me that we have systems which can interpret plain english instructions with a progressively higher degree of reliability. Also, that such a simple mechanism for extending memory (if you believe it's an apt analogy) is possible. That seems closer to AGI to me, though maybe it is a stopgap to better generality/"intelligence" in the model.

I'm not sure English is a bad way to outline what the system should do. It has tradeoffs. I'm not sure library functions are a 1:1 analogy either. Or if they are, you might grant me that it's possible to write a few english sentences that would expand into a massive amount of code.

It's very difficult to measure progress on these models in a way that anyone can trust, moreso when you involve "agent" code around the model.

raincole · a day ago
I 100% agree. I don't know what the GP is on. Being able to write instructions in a .md file is "further away from AGI"? Like... what? It's just a little quality of life feature. How and why is it related to AGI?

Top HN comments sometime read like a random generator:

return random_criticism_of_ai_companies() + " " + unrelated_trivia_fact()

Why are people treating everything OpenAI does as an evidence of anti- AGI? It's like saying if you don't mortgage your house to all-in AAPL, you "don't really believe Apple has a future." Even OpenAI does believe there is X% chance AGI will be achieved, it doesn't mean they should stop literally everything else they're doing.

raincole commented on America's betting craze has spread to its news networks   newyorker.com/news/the-le... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien
raincole · 2 days ago
I didn't realize how bad it is until the Emmanuel Clase case. People are betting on niche stuff like "first pitch is ball or strike" and the volume is enough to make bribery profitable?
raincole commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora   openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
raincole · 3 days ago
While it's not explicitly stated, I'm sure what is actually happening here is:

Disney buys OpenAI equity.

OpenAI uses the cash to pay Disney licensing fees, and buying hardware for Disney's use.

Whether it's bubble is up to the reader's interpretation.

raincole commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora   openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
elif · 3 days ago
How is buying equity "giving money"?

Is it charity to buy AAPL as well?

I really don't understand your perspective

raincole · 3 days ago
They think OpenAI equity will be worthless so it's "giving money." Obviously Disney disagrees.
raincole commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora   openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
afavour · 3 days ago
All the more reason it's insane for Disney to be the one giving money!
raincole · 3 days ago
Disney is buying equity from OpenAI. You frame it as "giving OpenAI money" because you hold a (quite insane) assumption that OpenAI's equity is worth nothing.
raincole commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
endgame · 4 days ago
Of course they aren't. If they were actually helping kids, they would be going after algorithmic feeds in general and the most predatory platforms like Roblox (especially given its recent scandals), doing something about kids being exposed to gambling advertising, etc.

The bill was put up for public comment for less than one business day before being rammed through Parliament. Australia is just sending out one of the horsemen of the infocalypse so that other countries have an excuse to follow suit. Like how our "Assistance And Access" Act was a test run of the UK's "snooper's charter".

This law will just lead to:

1. kids pretending to be adults so they sneak through these filters

2. platforms winding back their (meagre) child safety efforts since "children are banned anyway"

3. everyone being forced to prove their age via e.g. uploading ID (which will inevitably get leaked)

raincole · 4 days ago
> algorithmic feeds in general

Do you only use /new of HN...?

raincole commented on The web runs on tolerance   shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/... · Posted by u/speckx
tadfisher · 5 days ago
The tolerance is now precisely specified in the HTML5 parsing algorithm, far from "try their best". This is good, because browsers fail in mostly the same ways as each other, humans do not need a CS degree to handwrite Web content, and your tools can still write perfectly valid HTML5.
raincole · 5 days ago
Obviously now things are better than IE5/6 era, but I can't help but think people without CS degree have to hand tweaking HTML because people who with ones failed to design proper tools and abstraction for them.

u/raincole

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