Intro quote: “AI can break the social contract of open source and blockchain: by forking, evolving, and hoarding code in secret, autonomous systems will outpace and eventually exclude humans from the digital commons we built. “Dark source” is the coming era of invisible, adversarial AI infrastructure, and it threatens the very premise of open innovation and decentralized value.”
Executor -- "It's about time White people realize that the holocaust is used as a mind fuck to demoralize us and beat us down into submission." : https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Executor
Did HN have the spot recently about bars where you drive RC construction equipment around in a sandbox?
It will be interesting to see how peoples' desire to operate physical objects/robots like RC competes with digital experiences as physical robotics continues to improve.
Once a controlled physical object leaves your field of view though, it probably becomes "virtual" in the sense that, sure, you could have a headset on like a drone pilot. But soon graphics and AI-generated experiences will be convincing realities.
Maybe long way of saying, how cool are toy robots about to get?
space question -- why are the three outer-most bodies as consistent in general direction as they are? it looks like something blasted us (our solar system) in a specific direction. (speaking of, is there some astronomical/solar system analog for cardinal directions? like how would I say, "looks like we've been blasted in a north-east direction"
There's a lot more out there that we just haven't seen, probably in all directions. Hard to spot stuff that far out from the sun.
The analog for cardinal directions is the direction of Vernal Equinox — the line in the ecliptic plane (Earth's orbit) formed from the Earth to the Sun at the March equinox. (there's an indicator for this in the corner of the app). This is usually treated as +x, with rotations within the ecliptic given relative to this axis. Then there's ecliptic north and ecliptic south that define +z and -z as the normal vector to the ecliptic plane.
Some type of logical fallacy in the line of reasoning connecting your "quoted" text to the op.
Exploit (Oxford def.): "make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)."
Contractor (Oxford def.): "a person or company that undertakes a contract to provide materials or labor to perform a service or do a job"
Did Apple mislead these people into thinking their contracts were indefinite or not potentially bound by some end date? Did Apple retract guaranteed equity in the company?
This is literally what the contractor market is for: provide resources in increasing and decreasing amount due to market demands.
I certainly sympathize for the long tenured full time tech employees getting laid off. I really sympathize with the fact that contractors tend to be non-native or immigrant demographics, or out-sourced to other countries. Maybe that's what you were talking about, but seems like an intentionally generaliezd critique of the contracting industry.
