Harald Schäfer
@___Harald___
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Let’s create life. CTO at https://t.co/pEPPzbOef0
Joined November 2022
The world is not zero sum. People can create something out of nothing, and many do. Should be encouraged more.
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openpilot is the smartest robot with only 1w of thinking power.
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I don't understand why anyone still values these dumb partnership announcements. Nuro has been around for 9 years, and never shipped anything. Their entire business model is announcing partnerships and raising money. The world would be nicer without VC pump & dumps.
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People talk about wealth tax in the US as if there isn't already one, but there is. It's capital_gains_tax * inflation. Currently it's around 0.5%, not bad. But the government can arbitrary increase it by ramping up inflation. The system is already in place, no new laws needed.
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I also don't understand how not having a 3rd party app store and charging 30% on all in-app transactions is even remotely legal. If that's not anti-competitive I don't know what is.
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It took me 10min to figure out how to make my macbook allow me to open an .hevc file, wtf?.
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Apple makes the best consumer electronics hardware. But they deserve to fail if they don't start embracing open-source and open ecosystems. Apple's walled garden sucks for consumers.
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RT @RoboPapers: Ep #19 with with @___Harald___ CTO at @comma_ai on Learning to Drive from a World Model . Co-hosted….
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People frequently tell us @comma_ai should do marketing and advertising. But if you do cool stuff for long enough, word eventually gets out without it!. Happy to see LTT appreciate the beauty of open-source.
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The USA has so much talent and competence, but so much of it gets lost playing dumb zero-sum games. Lobbying, crypto, HFT, real-estate,… what a waste!. On this America day I wish for a more positive-sum American future.
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We've had pretty good success at @comma_ai hiring with challenges: Sometimes we hire people who don't come in through challenges and it generally pans out worse.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Absolutely no offense to the people who hired this person, but like, is this really your bar? I would just buzz past this.
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Everybody is saying "he aced this, he aced that", nobody is saying he had red flags they missed and the made a mistake??. Did you recruiting agencies do this to you? Never trust those. .
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That email even contains mistakes. "Strongest suites"? And this isn't a one-off, that's part of the boilerplate he sent to many people!.
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How did this guy get hired so many times??? This email reads like pure LLM slop. The fact that it happened so often means people were actively selecting for this type, so sad. It's just linkedin trash with an engineering flavor.
if your CEO doesn't have a soham parekh email in their inbox it's time to start polishing your resume
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Socialists are always talking about wealth redistribution. How about IP redistribution? If you want to sacrifice corporate profits for the benefit of society, just abolish IP law. Make copyright 6 months. Patents are dumb, so just get rid of them entirely.
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Are we back to companies with no revenue or product going public to dump their losses on retail? I hope not.
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Really cool to see Carmack talking about lag/latency in real world agents and how much harder it makes a problem. Making a good openpilot experience with the laggy steering APIs we have access to on most cars is the hardest problem we deal with at @comma_ai .
The video of my talk at Upper Bound 2025 is up:
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It’s sad how many people see getting acquired as a successful outcome for a startup. A new company is an opportunity at rebellion against the status quo. Getting acquired is surrender.
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