im 3 days into a multi-state road trip entirely on @Tesla FSD.
could not recommend this more.
for long stretches, it pulls into supercharger spots to charge right around when i need a break to stretch or get a snack, and i arrive at destinations way more relaxed than otherwise bc im basically just a passenger.
most of my hotels (average hotels near national parks) have had EV charging stations to top up for the next day.
think i touched the steering wheel for a confusing parking spot once and that's it.
oh and it saved me from a semi truck veering into my lane that i didn't notice until the car had already reacted
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signs of PMF w/ Tesla FSD: i booked Turo instead of a 30% cheaper Hertz car so i can have a self driving rental car
@russell_boyer_ the crux of DEI was propping up preferred groups over optimizing for merit.
it's true. one of the most enjoyable things I've been doing the last 6 months is getting scaling YC companies shit tons of compute
YC invented the SAFE a decade ago, simplifying the process of raising seed money for founders across the world.
Today, we’re releasing a SAFE tool to make it even easier to raise your seed round on SAFEs. And it’s free!
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Moderna is a great example of what happens when people are bold enough to ignore the haters and invest in technology platforms.
In 2019 this company was widely assumed to die. But in COVID they likely saved several tens of millions of lives, bought themselves a financial lifeline to go after cancer, and now they’re going to save many million more.
Incredible (Cambridge based!) company
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neat thing about this is all the protein design tools claude used are open source.
this checks out with what id expect: as OSS protein design tools get really good (eg ESMFold2 which this used), we're going to have the intelligence to design binders increasingly democratized bc tools like claude are smart enough to use them (and probably better than humans can use them / to more depth).
now that this now kind of just works, will be very interesting to see whether claude eventually has bio skills beyond domains where there are modality-specific models it can call in the open source
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Completely nuts that PBM revenue is comparable to pharma revenue in the status quo.
Pharma companies take on enormous scientific and execution risk to discover and advance medicines. PBMs are unnecessary middlemen that do neither of those things.
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common misperception. west coast liberals and east coast liberals are extremely different, especially on taxes.
In Massachusetts I pay about 1/2 the state tax rate and about 1/3 the property tax rate I would in CA.
Cambridge just upzoned the entire city, so more homes can be built legally in Cambridge than the rest of MA and tbh i would bet all of California. It has the same zoning as Paris now. also there are very few homeless people and many homeless shelters, though could ofc be even better.
The public schools are the best in the country.
it's night and day because the government actually does their job and takes taxation seriously.
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ah yes surely the 100s of YC founders past Series A every year will prepare to just take a several hundred million dollar loan from the government they have to pay off in 10 years instead of just moving outside CA?
fwiw this would be awesome for the tech scene in Cambridge, MA where i live. id just open a YC office there overnight and import founders
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At Startup School this year, we interviewed 8 awesome ML student researchers at their posters during "YCML", our inaugural research symposium.
@ycombinator is funding more research-focused companies than ever before, and we were thrilled to see a huge overlap between students interested in research and startups.
Check out their awesome work below in thread.
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very excited about this line of work. it's exactly the type of work that AI tools are really good at, and matches a burning problem in the market
in china, there are ~10 frontier AI labs, about half of them the offshoot of a money printer (Tencent, Bytedence, Alibaba, etc) and the other half of them new startups.
America has the startups, but has very few money-printer-attached labs. It's really just Meta, Google, and sort of nvidia.
why is an IBM or Cisco or Netflix or amazon frontier AI lab not a thing (w/ actually shipped products not just a research team).
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Dude, just try it for like 5 minutes. You live 20 mins from my house you can try mine
Tesla wants Americans to believe its so-called Full Self-Driving technology is safer than human drivers. Then it should prove it.
@SenBlumenthal and I are calling on NHTSA to demand the data, test Tesla’s claims, and strengthen AV safety data reporting.
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This is ridiculously bad advice.
You should change your idea if users don’t want it. Investors are a lagging indicator.
