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gtech1on A coder considers the waning days of the craft

This is why Asimov was a genius. I read what you said, and compared it to what he wrote 50-60 years ago:

"Early in the history of Multivac, it had becorne apparent that the bottleneck was the questioning procedure. Multivac could answer the problem of humanity, ALL the problems, if it were asked meaningful questions. But as knowledge accumulated at an ever-faster rate, it became ever more difficult to locate those meaningful questions."

http://blog.ac-versailles.fr/villaroylit/public/Jokester.pdf

gtech1on Globalisation is a far, far bigger deal than you think

I know fuck all, but maybe what you know is to do things a certain way.

I'm guessing you could have worked at any car manufacturer 15 years ago and would have said electrical cars are a fantasy. Yet someone came along and disrupted your entire world.

gtech1on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps

Of course not. Alpha males command the most attention

gtech1on Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted

And someone would have noticed illicit activity using a stolen key for 2 years...oh wait

gtech1on The rise of the open kitchen

https://youtu.be/mOb8qxay748?feature=shared

gtech1on The rise of the open kitchen

https://cocinahermanostorres.com/en/

In Barcelona is a perfect example of this. Amazing food and amazing location

gtech1on Reverse-engineering the 8086 processor's address and data pin circuits

I read 2 years ago this post: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...

Where they go and mention that the attackers went ahead and built their own simulator of a CPU as part of their attack vector. Do you know what they emulated and would you have more details on that specific hack ?

I think the authors promised to come back with a part 2 eventually but so far they haven't

gtech1on Car thieves using tech disguised inside old Nokia phones and Bluetooth speakers

I think the documentary was Les Caids des Cites (?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gajW7PNOJKw

gtech1on The beginner's guide to overcomplicating coffee

We have a Delonghi Eletta which automates everything, but the real secret are the high quality beans. I discovered Cafe Richard , Florio mix, it's fantastic.

Amazing cup after cup of excellent coffee

gtech1on AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack

Well, the way I saw it:

Getting vaccinated was not just for yourself, but for those around you that couldn't. So in a sense, kind of like law 0

And then the third one ( sorry, I had said first ) was to protect its own existence.

I saw it as putting aside personal interest vs the common good.

gtech1on Dark energy from supermassive black holes? Physicists spar over radical idea

around the turn of the century many ideas were floating around in order to explain unexplainable phenomena. It took Einstein and Quantum physics to radically change the worldview and make sense, while make-shift ideas were discarded.

I suspect the same will happen with Dark Matter

gtech1on Dark energy from supermassive black holes? Physicists spar over radical idea

So how would that explain the fact that spacetime is curved in a very predictable manner in a clear relation to the mass of an object in spacetime ?

gtech1on AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack

Yet those laws ( 4 actually, not 3 ) have deep social and psychological implications.

We actually lived laws 0 and 1 through the recent Covid pandemic.

law 0: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

law 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm

How many people are able to place the _perceived_ good of the entire human race vs their own personal wants and beliefs ?

I've read all of Asimov and he's nothing short of a genius in predicting pretty much all the issues we are facing today.

gtech1on Gödel's solution to Einstein's field equations (2021)

Does this assume a single universe ?

In other words, can causality be broken if we assume we live in a multi-verse and achieving FTL from Time-PointA in Universe 1 to Time-PointB in Universe 2 ?

gtech1on Ask HN: Airbnb requires my credit-card transaction history?

Maybe it's me getting old, but most of the hotels I've been to, slightly higher end ones, had really weird bathrooms. From no doors, to imperfectly closing doors on purpose ( think rough barn door ) , to saloon doors (???). Who designs these and where are they going with it ? Can't one enjoy some privacy in the bathroom anymore ?

gtech1on Why Is That Funny?

One of the lesser known stories from Asimov, but entertaining nevertheless.

https://archive.org/details/isaac-asimov-jokester

gtech1on The Star – Arthur C. Clarke (1967) [pdf]

So the edge of the observable universe was 6000 ly away ? Something doesn’t add up