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soheil

2,134 karma · joined October 18, 2011

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.

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soheil··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
It'd be odd if people batted eyes before the 1st nuclear weapon came to be, but not batting now.
soheil··on GPT-4.1 in the API
Yes on both Cursor and Windsurf.

https://twitter.com/cursor_ai/status/1911835651810738406

soheil··on GPT-4.1 in the API
Main takeaways:

- Coding accuracy improved dramatically

- Handles 1M-token context reliably

- Much stronger instruction following

soheil··on But what if I want a faster horse?
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 on what's presented to them albeit just to chase that next carrot of dopamine.
soheil··on How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack
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 "private equities" in the world own large portions of each other is absolutely correct. It's nitpicking to resort to technicalities of what arm of Blackrock owns what arm of Vanguard, not at all the point and it only distracts from the main point about conflicts of interest when it comes to the control of publicly traded media, NBC, CNN, newscorp (almost all media that matters) and thus suppression of free speech.

You're wrong.

soheil··on RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
bobby drop table, still a thing
soheil··on RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
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 be for example for something like

  chat.ask "What's being said?", with: { audio: "meeting.wav" }
definitely don't want users to get a valid response only 75% of the times, maybe?
soheil··on Grok3 Launch [video]
Never seen HN turned against someone so vehemently, it's as if a group of bots was set lose to criticize a certain individual.
soheil··on Grok3 Launch [video]
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
soheil··on Grok3 Launch [video]
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soheil··on Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus
The idea that air traffic control radio can be chill when multiple CRJs crashed within weeks is questionable.
soheil··on Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
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.
soheil··on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
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.
soheil··on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
Presumably the ad will be a reminder to perhaps buy another Jeep.
soheil··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
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.

soheil··on California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
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.

soheil··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
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 irrelevant.
soheil··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
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 FBI in New Zealand! So no I don't buy your reductionist argument, there are forces at play that allow companies with founders with the likes of Google to get away with it but not others.

soheil··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
So be a company? Last I checked it costs a couple of hundred dollars to form an LLC, what am I missing?
soheil··on California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
No but still good to know in this case specially as the website is broken and I had to refresh a few times.
soheil··on California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
As bots get smarter we need to give them more access not less, people have been used as useful idiots and puppets for far too long I don't see why we should make an exception for bots.
soheil··on California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
Had to hard refresh 3 or 4 times to get it to load.
soheil··on California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
I get this eerie feeling she has no idea what a bot even is in a technical sense and most likely is being puppeteered by weasels like State Senator Scott Wiener having introduced gems like the AI Models Act [1][2][3]. If the bill passes wouldn't then she have to be the first to disclose she's a bot?

[1] https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-04-29-sb1047.html (SB-1047 will stifle open-source AI and decrease safety)

[2] https://safesecureai.org/responseletter (Response to inaccurate, inflammatory statements by Y Combinator & a16z regarding Senate Bill 1047)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690302 (Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047)

soheil··on R1 Computer Use
And who is "we"? Is he using the royal we?

"We aim to replace hard-coded.."

soheil··on R1 Computer Use
Check out AutoGPT you don't have to wait, it's already built.

https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT

soheil··on I still like Sublime Text
I avoid VS Code like the plague, been resisting it for years now, I still have the scars of ie6 to know no MS product can be trusted. Not to mention how bloated it already is, uses Electron to function, I can already imagine its core engineers sitting somewhere similar to an XP background sipping on ice tea and saying to themselves "who needs to optimize code editors, devs have millions of cores anyway" the phrase "compile to native" was never uttered in their blue and green background life. So no I'm not going to use a freaking browser to write code in no matter how much the hn hivemind really wants me to.

Sublime has been sublime for over a decade that I've been using it, I prefer version 3 and still have all the old packages/themes compatible with it. I have my favorite theme Afterglow. I've made so many changes to it, there is a command on save in every project folder I have for things like quick deploying apps be it a quick npm build + rsync or more complex capistrano prod deploy command, or sending a ctrl signal to a sock file to have chatgpt's response appear after asking it anything and pressing cmd+s in any open .md file. It's glorious seeing its response stream right there and then.

Screw people making bloated IDEs and feel sorry for people who use them because they don't know any better.

Sublime is pure, extremely quick to search or load massive files, I often have over 20 folders/windows open each with hundreds of dual column tabs. Never have to close it because it's running out of memory or bogging down my system, never. It's written well, the person who made it cares for writing good code and making good software. That's all you really need to know.

Sublime is the way to go and will most likely will be for the next 10 years at least for me.

soheil··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
its demise
soheil··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
llama2-uncensored to the rescue
soheil··on Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
Needs a better minimap that moves as the map is zoomed in.
soheil··on Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar
Should be built-in to the OS, bandwidth meter is way more important than battery % specially with modern MacBooks lasting over 10 hours.
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