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mliker··on ChatGPT is Down
how did you get access to the API for 4?
mliker··on Mark Zuckerberg: “Please Resign” (2010)
Sure, but also could be a human nature desire to spread news. Knowledge is power after all. Furthermore, upper management trusting important news to employees isn't a failure of upper management, but rather, placing trust in employees.
mliker··on GPT-4
if you enter an entire patient history, it could easily be an identifier of the person whereas Google queries have a smaller max limit number of tokens
mliker··on Why didn't DeepMind build GPT3?
Very interesting read. The author’s point about traditional academic conferences not accepting papers for GPT3 seems plausible given that Meta AI Chief Scientist Yann LeCun tweeted about why ChatGPT wasn’t impressive
mliker··on Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says
Yes, but the point is the headline is clickbaity, and for the uninformed masses, it sounds like it's highly likely it's from the lab, when that judgment was made with "low confidence"
mliker··on The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
Went through the syllabus. The content is really useful since I spent most of my post-graduate years reading man pages for various debugging tools.
mliker··on 30 years ago; Marc Andreessen proposed the <img> HTML tag
It's interesting to note Marc talks about the future sizes of hypermedia in this other 1993 thread on the HTTP2 spec: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0002.ht...
mliker··on Gut microbes could drive brain disorders
Dr. Sara Gottfried talks about a slate of tests in her recent podcast episode with Andrew Huberman: https://hubermanlab.com/dr-sara-gottfried-how-to-optimize-fe...

While the podcast is focused on female health, the advice applies to men as well.

mliker··on LLaMA: A foundational, 65B-parameter large language model
this is a pretty biased and uninformed opinion. Pretty condescending to call it a "bunch of dorks...running around unsupervised."
mliker··on LLaMA: A foundational, 65B-parameter large language model
> doesn't democratize LLMs

open source always leads to more democratization in the long run

mliker··on Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
People’s contempt rose because the media painted these platforms to be “evil”.
mliker··on The more metrics you track, the less you know
there is such a thing as measuring too much, but looking at just "revenue" and watching it go up without understanding why and without looking at peripheral metrics isn't true understanding and leads to suboptimal results. Also, a product manager isn't going to be as data savvy as a data scientist
mliker··on CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people
how in the world do you draw such a conclusion from an otherwise interesting and advancing piece of technology. every tech has drawbacks, we can't hold back as a species just because there are drawbacks. we need to build around them.
mliker··on Brex layoffs
it was the most successful marketing campaign targeting developers. And now you're writing about it. I would say that's anecdotal evidence of success.
mliker··on TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants
We have geniuses like the inventor of CRISPR, penicillin, deep learning, etc.
mliker··on FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
You should inform yourself of basic knowledge.
mliker··on Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
In absolute terms, there's no rubbish, but yes, it hasn't peaked. In relative terms, the rubbish is about the same. There are simply way more videos than ever before.
mliker··on Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?
2012 is around when they rolled out personalization of your feed, which drastically increased hours spent on YouTube. So the data shows it was on an upward trajectory since then.
mliker··on What Meta Does to Retain Me
Keep in mind Meta isn't developing just 1 product. The metaverse needs advanced tech for it to be realized. Once one or two companies develop the tech, of course new competitors will come in and possibly do it better. But you still need a pioneering company with vast resources to lead the way. For example, Microsoft developed XMLHttpRequest, which led to Google Maps and many other wonderful modern products/services.
mliker··on Unilever Says It Will Resume Advertising on Facebook
> I am (very slightly) more surprised that they still think Facebook advertising is a good (in the sense of "effective") use of their money, given all that has come out in the last few months about how poorly targeted FB's supposedly targeted advertising is

Would love to learn more about how "poor" this targeted advertising is, considering most SMBs use digital advertising by Google/Facebook to reach the customers they want.

mliker··on CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google prepare their antitrust defense
These companies did "release open data". It's called Cambridge Analytica. Look it up.
mliker··on Ask HN: Moving from a startup to a big co, what should I be aware of?
No, that's not the way it works at big companies like AWS, Google, Microsoft (source: me, I've worked at all 3). A large company attracts various types of people. It's not homogeneous like what you describe. Also, there are plenty of opportunities to practice "intrapreneurship" within a large company with lots of resources to impact the world in a positive way.
mliker··on Introduction to Apache Airflow
Airflow can be used to process data that only adds up to 10s or 100s of MBs. In aggregate, a big tech company processes petabytes or exabytes, but remember, technology like Airflow isn't processing all of that simultaneously within one task. So no, I would not characterize Airflow as a solution to just "massive company problems".
mliker··on Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client
It doesn’t “sound like” that, it’s literally what they’re admitting to. Let’s not spin the narrative here on HN that Zoom didn’t admit to their faults.
mliker··on LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app
This "chat app" is used by more than a billion people in the world.
mliker··on Facebook fired an employee who was paid bribes to reactivate banned ad accounts
That law would need to be applicable to all companies - Walmart, Target, Visa, etc.
mliker··on Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?
It's very much context-based. The cofounder doesn't have to give up shares of the company if it's a new company.
mliker··on TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities
No, that's not the parent poster's point.

From parent post: > If they had just let disabled individuals get cyber bullied they could have avoided this negative press altogether.

mliker··on TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities
Yes, but then the disabled individuals would have been mentally traumatized. Companies shouldn't avoid doing things just to avoid negative press. They're providing a service for the people.
mliker··on Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
> that is a power they don't want to lose What makes you think they want that power in the first place?
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