Hacker News: Donald

New comment by Donald in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

Donald — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:51:40 +0000

Isn't this expected if OpenAI models are going to be listed on AWS GovCloud as a part of the Anthropic / Hegseth fall-out?

New comment by Donald in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

Donald — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:01:27 +0000

I was curious what the commenter's business was, and found this post about HTTP protocol latency: https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-several-million-dollar-bug/

New comment by Donald in "GPT-5.2"

Donald — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:57:21 +0000

Gemini 3 Pro Preview gets 96.8% on the same benchmark? That's impressive

New comment by Donald in "Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving"

Donald — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 02:48:46 +0000

My account is just a week apart from yours. Neocities is an excellent project btw, glad to see your passion for the web shine through it.

New comment by Donald in "Doge Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting with Lobbyists"

Donald — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:07:12 +0000

Talk to federal contractors about their experience with DOGE. They’re literally cancelling contracts and helping to their friends recapture the money as new federal contracts since the money needs to be spent anyway.

The congressional hearings over this are going to be excellent CSPAN viewing.

New comment by Donald in "When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history"

Donald — Fri, 02 May 2025 03:43:05 +0000

As someone in NLP who lived through this experience: there's something uniquely ironic and cruel about building the wave that washes yourself away.

New comment by Donald in "Happy New Year 2025"

Donald — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 04:39:33 +0000

45^2 = 2025

Happy perfect square year, everyone. The previous one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116.

New comment by Donald in "Finite Curve"

Donald — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 22:33:11 +0000

The algorithm behind this has to be super fun

New comment by Donald in "Apple Closes in on Deal with OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone"

Donald — Sat, 11 May 2024 16:40:26 +0000

My guess is that they host a version of the model locally on the iPhone.

New comment by Donald in "Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark"

Donald — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:46:31 +0000

Do you have any examples of your prompts? I've found Opus to be vastly superior to ChatGPT for intricate tasks.

New comment by Donald in "Prophet: Automatic Forecasting Procedure"

Donald — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 22:32:31 +0000

Do you have an example implementation of reimplementing the core of these?

New comment by Donald in "High-Dimensional Probability and Applications in Data Science"

Donald — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:14:18 +0000

Do you have any examples?

New comment by Donald in "Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout"

Donald — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 12:23:50 +0000

A lot of their messaging to advertisers revolves around discussing the value proposition of subs like /r/buyitforlife which has 1.5 million users who are likely actively considering a purchase at the moment of viewership, are willing to be convinced to spend more money, and are relatively affluent. Klaje (Reddit’s rev executive) loves talking about trust and positivity of the user base. I’m not sure how that messaging survives if the site moves away from quality content.

New comment by Donald in "Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout"

Donald — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 02:18:32 +0000

Reddit is very bizarre right now.

Most of the active users are non-power users who are flummoxed at why mods have shut down their favorite subreddits. They are complaining in droves. Lots of long-winded Facebook boomer-style rants about how they read the subreddit with their kids and they need it back up to entertain them.

Some subs are protesting the spez moderator removal threat by changing the topic of the sub entirely.

Meanwhile, most of the content producers seem to have fled the site and latest high quality serious content is a week old at this point.

I don’t see how Reddit recovers from this without losing a great deal of value for their shareholders. I’m expecting Huffman to resign based on how much he has damaged their monetization potential with advertisers.

New comment by Donald in "Amazon walkout to go ahead after 1,700 employees sign on, organizers say"

Donald — Wed, 31 May 2023 02:14:46 +0000

Shows solidarity without threatening anyone’s livelihoods. You can’t get fired for simply taking a lunch break.

New comment by Donald in "Ask HN: What is your proudest little invention or discovery?"

Donald — Wed, 24 May 2023 16:11:33 +0000

Could you explain more? Sounds like a fun problem.

New comment by Donald in "U.S. bank lending slumps by most on record in final weeks of March"

Donald — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:58:58 +0000

American baby boomers are worth, on average, something like $1.2M depending on your source. That's a lot of retirement capital that will be leaving various markets and chasing goods and services over the next few decades.

New comment by Donald in "HuggingGPT: Solving AI tasks with ChatGPT and its friends in HuggingFace"

Donald — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 21:15:07 +0000

It's a language completion model, so it's not surprising at all that it struggles with logical inference. That's probably one of the reasons that instruction fine-tuning has such a dramatic effect in the performance of these models: they're finally given some of the underlying causal priors of the task domain.

New comment by Donald in "Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4"

Donald — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:47:19 +0000

What careers are you thinking of?

New comment by Donald in "GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview"

Donald — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:31:57 +0000

Cool. I’d be interested in the algorithm that you’re giving it to write and what problem it is having with the output.