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I don't know how people use ChatGPT at all. It confidently hallucinated answers to 4 out of 5 my latest "real" questions, with code examples and everything. Fortunately with code I could easily verify the provided solutions are worthless. Granted I was asking questions about my niche that were hard enough I couldn't easily Google them or find a solution myself, but I think that's the bar for being useful. The only thing it got right was finding a marketing slogan.

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>You call a number and a cab turns up and you pay by the meter or an agreed upon price. How did it work then?

Badly. I was scammed multiple times in different countries (I travel a lot), including my own. And there's a lot of uncertainty and stress involved (no guarantee you share a language with your driver, in case they need to ask any questions). And I hate talking over the phone.

As long as that's an option I'm staying with Uber.

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On PC you can just mute the music and play anything you want in the background. So there's no need for a special support.

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Yes, let's give corporations more power. Image bubble colour indicate the protocol you're using, and nothing more. It don't - and can't - guarantee security (many people learned this lesson with https).

But sure, let's let corporations super-copyright the colour green.

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>corporate interest is automatically a cartoon supervillain

Not a cartoon villain. A paperclip maximizer.

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I would call most intelligent space aliens from movies "deeply human". Which makes sense, they were created by humans to tell stories to other humans. So I guess being human is not a prerequisite to being "deeply human". I wonder if real space aliens, if they exist, are in fact like this. The closest earthly thing we have to intelligent aliens - octopi - are not.

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I wanted to say that this "obviously" means "5 hours median" i.e. 50%, but I just realised my managers and clients would almost always understand this as "I swear on everything I hold dear this will take 5 hours and not a single minute more" (which is why I avoid sharing my estimates publicly). Funny how it works. Great observation, thanks.

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I want you to be right. But why do you think you're more qualified to say how to make AI safe than the board of a world-leading AI nonprofit?

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So all the programmers who work there should live on thin air? I agree that ideally the management should not be there for profit, but come on, the salaries are not even that crazy. I suspect FAANG key employees in that area easily earn multiples of that.

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>I think I personally know quite a few people that could do at least as good a job as Signal has at building a messenger app + platform. No offense, but this isn't exactly rocket science.

They are building a secure communicator that a normal person can reasonably use - and succeeding. Something nobody else before them managed to pull off. If this isn't rocket science I don't know what is. Not to mention that they pioneer cryptographic protocols in this area, which other messengers later use.

>This only makes sense if you ignore the world outside the Bay area and assume it's a talentless wasteland.

I'm also from Europe (and love it, despite its flaws) but this comes off like whining. If it's really so easy, maybe the smart people here should create their own Signal and reap that overinflated salaries, what do you think?

Or maybe smart people are not enough and you also need VCs, reasonable taxes, laws... Oh btw, did you hear about those plans of EU to get rid of E2E encryption?

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1. Piracy is theft.

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I have issue with headlines like this. Given inflation it's actually expected that every year is "record", in non-inflation-adjusted dollars. Same goes e.g. for number of millionaires, house prices, etc.

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Answering your question directly: RE is 60% of my daily work, and I don't use and don't know anyone who uses LLMs for RE. One reason is that you lose interactivity if you process code using something other than your decompiler of choice, and it's a huge problem - you want to stick to your RE "IDE". The other is that, at least in my line of work, I don't need perfect code, just to understand what's going on and maybe a few critical functions.

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Lucky you. In my previous job I had to work many hours a day over SSH or even RDP on servers an ocean away (servers in the SF region, I worked remotely from europe).

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Only when typing english, I assume?

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I disagree. For me it's useful mostly for position independent shellcode prologue, which has no sections to speak of, and may get embedded in a "normal" executable or something that is not an executable at all (useful in a bootloader, or for injecting code to another process, or self-relocating code, etc). I use this "trick" all the time and I never felt the need to mess with a linker for this.

But it's a good hint, I hope I didn't sound overly negative.

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Is this some obscure feature of Windows? In my experience, while code sections are almost never writable, they're always readable.

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The article is about call+pop "trick" in assembly, linker is not relevant here.

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>Astronomers demonstrated that galaxy clusters like Perseus can only have formed if dark matter is present in the Universe.

Any MOND people here to comment what they think about Euclid? I always enjoy reading MOND speculation here on HN (even though I don't know enough to have an informed opinion myself).

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>It's always funny when some rag tries to say "X declined to comment". No one is going to comment on some random crap you publish on what's a glorified blog

Strong disagree. I like when people writing articles at least give the other side a chance to comment. It makes me feel the piece is less obviously biased. Of course it can be abused by giving the other side just a dew hours to comment (so basically no real chance), but it's still better than nothing.