hellfish

fd takes less time, would recommend

Why are people here saying things like "everyone will use chatgpt"? How do we know that this isn't a fad?

Chatgpt gives us answers, but so do the top linked articles in a search engine. Why bother adjusting to something different if we already have something that solves the problem?

For most people, the marginal amount of time saved by using chatgpt instead of a search engine is borderline meaningless. It might be useful for lawyers to quickly tl;dr dry legal documents, but general use seems far fetched to me

Damn... where else will I find quality nugget pron? Fuck you Louisiana gov

Good idea, it's high time this practice gets banned

> I mean we allowed the alphabet agencies to cooperate with social media companies to fight "ISIS propaganda." -- what did you think would happen?

I remember thinking earlier, it's kind of odd that teenagers "running off to join ISIS" was a widespread problem. In hindsight the shills probably blew that whole thing out of proportion to justify more agency scope creep

> Thinking that you can be a free-from-all libertarian is like being a house cat that does not comprehend the system that keeps him alive.

So because the government does something (THANK GOD), we all need to advocate for more government?

This whole issue revolves around how comfortable people are with DC sticking its nose in social media

These agencies have already seen massive scope creep in the past couple decades. Seeing the FBI doing moderation for social media companies is a step too far and it's high time for the alphabet agencies to get pared down

> It does not take a genius to figure out that expensive end of life care paid with taxpayer funds and the country’s labor resources could instead be going towards things like education or infrastructure

There's enough surplus in any western society that this sort of zero sum thinking is completely out of place. Anyone who would consciously sacrifice another human being for something inanimate like "infrastructure" is sick in the head

I wonder if there's a way to exploit this to get free music out of apple...

> but they seem to have omitted the most important category: class bias.

Likely because the list itself is the product of class bias

"White space" is offensive but "white trash" isn't?

> What worries me is that the US itself will go in the same direction. The surveillance is already there, but it is not acted on for the most part in everyday life. But there may be a clock on how long that will last.

The stage is already set. Just make sure your suitcase is packed. The craziness won't come from the government, it'll come from this culture's own inherently fascist tendencies

> Should I not have the freedom to organize a protest of my local theater for hosting a controversial figure that I think is worthy of cancellation? Isn't that a very basic and fundamental example of free speech?

Perhaps it isn't about freedom of speech but centralization of power. Protest all you want, but if you advocate for the centralization of power in government or corporate hands then you shouldn't complain when you can't protest anymore without getting the same treatment Chinese protestors are receiving

> I think this is hard wired to us. We want to be told what reality is by people or groups with clout, people who are cool and have prestige, and we're hard-wired to just believe it.

I don't buy this. It isn't something that comes from a small group of people "with status" but is a collective tradition. The idea that a small group of people "with status" can just willy nilly describe what's "real" and what isn't is a fundamentally undemocratic way of seeing society

The idea that some people have a right to manufacture "reality" out of thin air comes from the same set of lies that propped up the Catholic church. Compare this the idea that each person has a unique relationship with God and doesn't need a priestly class to "mediate" the relationship

If the "social harmony" can't handle the light of day, then it is the one that will need to adjust

> I think we’ve evolved from that to “being gaslit is the wallpaper for most conversations.

No, not really. Unless you're surrounded by bad people

> which means doing whatever the CCP tells you to do, even if it means compromising your ethics.

It also means pissing off your home constituency by supporting a foreign government that's in direct conflict with their own security

If apple loves China so much, it should move there and discontinue operations in the USA

> Perhaps recognizing the existing power dynamics?

by "power dynamics", do you mean lies propagated by the CCP?

> Perhaps playing the game over a longer time frame?

Apple isn't a government. What do you mean here exactly? Money? That propagating lies for money is a legitimate way of doing business?

I'm sick to death of seeing these corporations pretending to care about human rights, then doing stuff like this

Or pretending to care about the environment, then forcing people to buy new devices (with packaging) instead of repairing the ones they already own

Or pretending to care about privacy, then scanning local files for "undesirable content" (it doesn't matter what the content is, once the infra is there, it's there to stay)

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that whenever a corporation says something that sounds good, it's probably a lie.

The only thing that will ever force Apple's hand with regard to this human rights issue is legislation, they've lost the right to trust long ago

> I assume this is about Foxconn. Does that mean you'll be boycotting other companies that also work with them, like Amazon, Dell, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Vizio, Acer, Lenovo, Nintendo, and Sony?

It would be easier to just ban them with legislation, similar to what's been done with Huawei

> " ... is often called the stack."

What's wrong about the stack part? It seemed a little odd (and unnecessarily abstract) that the author said "automatic storage" instead of just stack

is there a situation where there's automatic storage but no stack?

> Implying that the American lockdown is the same as the Chinese one

Wasn't what was said in my comment. It was about protests of the lockdowns and the govt/media response to said protests

Did you only skim read my comment before posting a one sentence reply?

Not all wars are equal. Iraq was a mistake. Korea and WW2, definitely not

> So, when we see these protests, we feel like they're headed in that direction.

Hopefully they're able to do this peacefully and through democratic means

> you said you won't listen to anything anyone says

wasn't the intended meaning

Kind of rare to see someone respond to something so dismissively and non-constructively on hn

Not denying this because it's obvious, but I wrote the above comment bc the US and western countries (and Australia especially) could have handled this without censorship or the authoritarian tendencies demonstrated

??? No idea how you got that out of my comment

> in constant time

why is it called constant time if it isn't constant with respect to array length? Just seems confusing because the algorithm is linear without a short circuit

> because they believed the conspiracy theories spread online by some idiots, if not criminals with shady agendas.

I wouldn't be surprised if I heard the same rhetoric out of the CCP's mouth with respect to the current protestors

I don't want to disagree with this kind of article because it's talking about a real issue, but it pretty much takes a couple concrete numbers and tries asserting that they are just "facts of life". For example:

> The percentage decline is also similar for the young and old; however, given how much time young people spend with friends, the absolute decline among Americans age 15 to 19 is staggering.

This "given how much time young people spend with friends" just sounds off to me, like it's supposed to be some sort of constant value, and that human nature, social dynamics, etc are fixed to historical quantities.

On the one hand, should young people spend more time with friends? Probably. But on the other hand, this sort of "facts of life" type of assertion comes off as manipulative

Protesting lockdowns in China == pro-democracy

Protesting lockdowns in USA == "fascism"

That's the pattern here. Anything that goes farther than what the US govt is doing is authoritarian. Anything critical of what the US govt is doing is "fascism"

Sorry, no room for double standards here

Inb4 a bunch of people who feel the need to shill for the US govt start "explaining" to me why I'm "mistaken" about this