Yeah given NotebookLM and Gemini are basically on par in every way, they would be wise to just expand their search deal with the Goog and not let a new entrant come and eat their food
YC appears to be spending all it's time marketing itself on Twitter and pretty much all the partners, including the lead have companies that were acquihired i.e. failures
Class size of 7 = quality, class size of 300 or whatever = noise filter
But they again only need that 1 company to be the 1000x and return LP capital at a decent multiple. Any pool of their batch size is likely to produce that and allow them to self platitude after the fact.
Great so I've been giving to Stanford all for nothing? How is this even legal private schools should be able to admit whomever they want and teach whatever they want. If you don't like it, don't apply.
Legacy is a huge incentive for giving these colleges money which they then use to become a better college. This is a moronic law that I really doubt will ever be enforced, but if it is will result in slow degradation of educational quality over time.
I have a hotmail account from the 90s and they've made it impossible to use not-Outlook clients to authenticate with IMAP servers - calling it a "bug" that's being "worked on" (for over a year now apparently)
Basically trying to push you to paid Exchange/Office365 subscriptions.
The more aggro these big tech cos are trying to move you from buying great products to paying for overpriced subscriptions, the closer we get to them trading at their historical PEs (down ~50% from today)
You are absolutely correct about where we are but don't underestimate what 100s of billions of $ can build as well. There are already credible teams working on "math AI" and "truth AI" which will likely end up combing bullshit generating LLMs with traditional but automated relational db retrievals and produce output that is both believable and correct.
IMO it will be done vertical by vertical, with no standard interface coming for a while.
Altman is basically a younger Elon. He failed to build his own company Loopt, already has disturbing allegations against him from a family member who I absolutely believe, and lied under oath.
I expect grand promises, nothing delivered, and a personal enrichment agenda that harnesses a cult of idiots while ruthlessly silencing/bankrupting critics.
I am almost positive Sam Trabucco is in witness protection somewhere waiting to testify when they eventually get Tether off the board and crater this useless scamfest excuse of an industry
For whatever reason, the current US administration seems to have decided it’s better to keep Binance and Tether around than to bring down the full force of the law. The next administration is going to be more crypto-friendly. I don’t think this is going to happen.
I have noticed them go after the entities Tether uses as intermediaries like Silvergate, then Binance, then Tron, then $TON etc so they're fighting the good fight.
My guess is when Coinbase gets "hacked" there will be enough political pressure to clean house and enough Dems in power to do it. Fingers crossed that those hacked funds will still be insufficient to fill redemption requests because that's the only way the stablecoin goes under without seizure of reserves.
For the average user, ensuring that unwanted code does not run is the biggest possible feature for any device.
If you don't want that feature, don't buy the device! Or jailbreak it. Or compile your own code and load it.
It is not the 20%-30% of revenue that makes a better ecosystem, it's the vetting process for the software that makes it better. Every vetting process has errors, just as all software has bugs. The end goals of the process and the error rate of the process, and correction procedures of the process, are what makes a better software ecosystem.
Why should i compile or jailbreak. Its my own device, why not have a toggle to allow sideloading like android.
Your average user won't know or even bother to change since as you mentioned they don't want to run unwanted code. Rest of us can run anything on our devices.
> why not have a toggle to allow sideloading like android
Because then your grandmother will turn on that toggle as instructed by the fraud-center in South Asia, install a keylogger watching her banking activity when she sends you that $5 for your birthday, so they can drain that inheritance you were counting on.
See the article right here on HN about Python devs applying for jobs and being prompted to self-pown.
TL;DR:
There are more people susceptible to fraudulent instructions by bad actors than there are people qualified to evaluate consequences of running unvetted code.
A much more robust and free market approach to this would be a great review system and an actually open app store - this vetting process you describe is not at all "better" it incentivizes platforms to 1) kill competition (or any company who refuses to sell out to them during BD negotiations) and 2) encourage/turn a blind eye to the 1000s of currently available scam apps that try to lock people into subscriptions that cannot get cancelled etc.
Examples of both 1) and 2) are plenty, so I guess I just disagree that this vetting process helps anyone but the incumbent gatekeeper-taxers.
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