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soheil

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About soheil

Early Twitter Performance Engineer circa 2011

Ex-Cruise self-driving car Ground Truth Engineer circa 2017

McKinsey Alumn

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Speak English since 2000 and Persian since shortly after birth.

Recent public activity

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    It'd be odd if people batted eyes before the 1st nuclear weapon came to be, but not batting now.

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    Comment #43714052

    "from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Apparently less so in the case of his offspring.

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    Comment #43711535

    I wonder if people are wrongly just going to start calling random, completely-unrelated-to-LLM bugs in software "hallucination". Very similar to the meaning of AI changing in recen…

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    Comment #43685676

    Yes on both Cursor and Windsurf. https://twitter.com/cursor_ai/status/1911835651810738406

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    Comment #43683876

    Main takeaways: - Coding accuracy improved dramatically - Handles 1M-token context reliably - Much stronger instruction following

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    Comment #43660648

    You are the horse. Platforms realized they don't have to keep making faster horses or cars or whatnot if they just turn their users into zombie-like creatures who mindlessly click …

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    Comment #43562238

    Pretty sure he's following the rules and besides what business do you have imposing on this thread when you have nothing to contribute in terms of the conversation? To say biggest …

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    Comment #43375178

    bobby drop table, still a thing

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    Comment #43375143

    Feels more useful for something like cli where you want to run one-off commands to test something instead of running it in production given how non-deterministic the behavior can b…

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    Comment #43091841

    Never seen HN turned against someone so vehemently, it's as if a group of bots was set lose to criticize a certain individual.

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    Comment #43091817

    You do realize you and your OP are currently top comments in your respective threads both criticizing Elon and even preemptively criticize your imaginary criticizers

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    Comment #43091699

    [flagged]

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    Comment #43087929

    The idea that air traffic control radio can be chill when multiple CRJs crashed within weeks is questionable.

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    Comment #43074217

    massive flex by having an angled perspective view of the animated terminal when they could've much more easy stuck a flat gif in its place.

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    Comment #43053089

    [flagged]

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    Comment #43010226

    They've probably done the analysis and found the demographic most likely to respond to/tolerate an ad to be Jeep owners or in the vicinity of it.

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    Comment #43010171

    Presumably the ad will be a reminder to perhaps buy another Jeep.

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    Comment #42979480

    That's kinda the point. That type of reasoning is vacuous. There are millions of great arguments why antibiotics made the world a better place, I'm yet to hear one of YT.

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    Comment #42974599

    I'd say if you control what information 1.411 billion people have access to you have scale on your side. So it's not scale.

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    Comment #42974511

    You don't know a world without them so you actually have no idea if they have made your life compared to that world much better or much worse. How your life was at the time is irre…

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    Comment #42974396

    Aaron committed suicide and FBI going after him was meant more as a lesson to the other kids at MIT than anything. MegaUpload did the same, kim dotcom got raided in his sleep by FB…

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    Comment #42974323

    So be a company? Last I checked it costs a couple of hundred dollars to form an LLC, what am I missing?