Yehor Shyriaiev

Husband of @wildtaniaa
Software Engineer @Zendesk

All I am is what I'm going after

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

COYG! 🔴

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

@neetcode1 @karpathy Cooking 🧑‍🍳

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@beffjezos The empire’s falling but the wi-fi is doing fine

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@AtlasXThugged Americana is a pretty fun read and I enjoyed it a lot. But I will pick Dominion as my favorite. It takes some effort to finish it but it makes you rethink the role of Christianity in modern world and its impact on things people consider good/bad regardless of their religiosity.

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

Four books I enjoyed this year

[Atlas Thugged @AtlasXThugged]

Four books I enjoyed this year.

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@MichaelAArouet Equating protection of the state with the protection of your family is pure state propaganda. I would not want to be forced to protect the state and it has nothing to do with my family.

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

@MichaelAArouet You always need to have the right to exit. Forced conscription removes that right and allows the state to send you to war either to "protect your family" as you put it or to conquer other countries. Forced conscription is going to be applicable during both moral and immoral wars.

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

@MichaelAArouet Russia also has forced conscription under the premise of "protecting your family" (this is the same premise for forced conscription in any country basically) right now and I do not think it's working out very well for Russians that are no willing to participate in invading UA.

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

@GergelyOrosz We will likely end up with some form of authentication for users (eg. you are not allowed to post at all if not verified) to avoid this problem, otherwise it will only get worse from here.

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

Given current political climate around US border, this film seems to be making a statement that if you want the border closed - you are a nazi.

But maybe I just should not take the script too seriously.

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

Watched One Battle After Another and enjoyed it. DiCaprio continues being a sign of a good movie, whatever movie he is in - it is always worth watching. Also enjoyed Sean Penn, the chase scenes and overall tempo of the movie - 2h40 passed quickly and I was never bored.

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

That said, the "bad guys" of the movie were a strange caricature. Portraying border guards or people wanting to control the border as literal nazis was a little odd. This kind of places the film into the category of good comedies rather than anything more serious for me.

[Dr. Jon Slotkin @slotkinjr]

As a neurosurgeon I care a lot about road safety.

By now you’ve probably seen @Waymo’s stunning safety results (like 91% fewer serious crashes). But they didn’t just publish data headlines. They released the raw CSV files and data dictionaries.
I did a much deeper analysis. A fascinating story emerges when you analyze how they’re achieving this.

This isn’t incremental improvement - it’s categorical. We’re looking at the potential elimination of traffic deaths as a leading cause of mortality.

The intersection breakthrough: Waymo has essentially solved intersection crashes, with 95% fewer injury incidents than human drivers in the same locations. That’s transforming the deadliest driving scenario.

The national math: If every US vehicle performed like Waymo, we’d prevent 33,000-39,000 deaths annually and save $0.9-1.25 trillion in societal costs. Even partial adoption at 27% would save ~10,000 lives per year. In terms of magnitude, this would be the equivalent of eliminating every pedestrian death nationally in a year.

The physics signature: Here’s what fascinates me: 47% of Waymo’s contacts involve less than 1 mph delta-V. They’re not just avoiding crashes; they’re converting unavoidable incidents into gentle bumps. It’s like having physics itself on your side.

We’re not talking about marginal safety gains. The data represents a fundamental shift from harm reduction to harm prevention.

The methodology matters: I used their dynamic geographic benchmarks (comparing like-for-like road conditions) and verified the findings hold across San Francisco, Phoenix, LA, and Austin. The safety advantage actually increases in more complex urban environments.

Link to raw data below….

Notes on my approach:

Analysis based on 96 million miles of Waymo Rider-Only (RO) data through June 2025, utilizing Waymo's dynamic geographic benchmarks to compare Waymo Driver performance against human drivers under similar road conditions and operational design domains.

The projections for national impact (deaths prevented, societal costs) involve several assumptions. Given Waymo's zero reported fatalities, the direct serious injury reductions were mapped to national fatality statistics using established NHTSA-derived ratios that correlate serious injury crash rates with fatality rates. This extrapolation assumes that Waymo's observed serious injury prevention capability would translate proportionally to fatality prevention. Societal cost savings are estimated by applying average per-fatality and per-injury economic costs (e.g., medical, lost productivity, quality of life) as published by NHTSA, scaling these national averages to the projected number of avoided fatalities and injuries based on Waymo's safety performance. These figures represent the potential annual impact if the Waymo Driver's safety profile were widely integrated into the national fleet.

@ethanteicher

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

Beautiful to see

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

"While the world fixates on Donald Trump’s populist cocktail of reciprocal tariffs and big, beautiful deficits, @JMilei is delivering a man-made miracle that should gladden the heart of every classical economist and quicken the pulse of all political libertarians." 1/5

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

AC is a human right

[Financial Times @FT]

Opinion: Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning https://t.co/3v97cZPVhp

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@SamRoggeveen @Noahpinion He is not Polish president

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@paulg They would not accept the premise of this question and rightly so. They would just say "Go and try occupying any region of the US first, and then ask away". And of course nobody would be asking for any regions.

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

And both have absolutely amazing opening scenes btw

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

I wanted to make a list of top 5 favorite movies in 2024, but I only have two:
1. Dune 2
2. Anora
Had high hopes for The Brutalist but it kind of fell flat for me. The rest were mediocre. I hope next year will be more fruitful.

[Yehor Shyriaiev @yehor96]

@KanekoaTheGreat More horrendous instances of such kidnappings you can see in this thread: https://t.co/89TJkWxGUU

[CAPTAIN Serebrianskyi @Luganskiy_Twi]

The real situation in Ukraine looks like this – people are afraid to express their opinions and dissatisfaction. People fear persecution from the authorities and cannot speak the truth even on social networks – they can be arrested for a like or a repost.

The borders are closed for ordinary people. They cannot leave the territory of Ukraine and escape to safety. All media are corrupt and controlled by Zelensky’s Office. On the streets, representatives of military commissariats create real terror, kidnapping people right from the sidewalks to forcibly send them to the front.

Dozens of Ukrainians have died at the border trying to escape to freedom – the situation is truly worse than in Germany during the Berlin Wall era. People drown in rivers by the dozens, freeze to death in the mountains, and are shot in the back by Zelensky’s border guards.

This must stop!

Human rights are the most important thing on this Planet. The most valuable. Ukrainians should not become slaves in the very center of Europe. All the facts in my message can be easily verified in the social media of bloggers who are able to publish the truth because they managed to escape from Zelensky abroad.