This was *so* much fun. Catching up with Carolynn and Jessica is always a blast and we covered nearly 15 years of my time in the Bay Area.

Whether you apply to YC or not, don’t let people like this convince you that you should be less ambitious.

If I was a university admin claiming a focus on entrepreneurship, this would be a KPI I tracked closely.

Stripe is a European success story in the same way that Europe's AI policy is a European success story.

LanceDB we’re all about having your cake and eating it too. Fast scan, random access, large blobs - other systems support at most 2 but often just 1. I call this the CAP theorem of AI data. Lance format is the only one that can do all 3 - critical for multimodal AI data

Mach 1 and beyond, here we come! The FAA ✈️ has issued Boom Supersonic the first-ever Special Flight Authorization to exceed Mach 1. XB-1 supersonic flights are on track for later this year. boomsupersonic.com/flyby/xb1-prep…

Congrats to Paul Copplestone — e/postgres, Ant Wilson — e/postgres, and the whole Supabase team!

With over 1M databases hosted and 2.5K+ new ones launched every day, Supabase was kind of pushing the definition of 'beta', so this is long overdue😀.

Announcements #2 and 3 are (IMO) even more exciting!👇

Waymo should offer city tours as a “demo” option.

Another thought: Is usage of 'delve' going up *everywhere* GPT is used or just in scientific papers?

These papers already had a trend of the usage of delve going up and GPT would presumably lean on that training data when generating new papers.

The crazy thing about this graph is that we're only a quarter of the way through 2024. If this wasn't pointed out it's quite likely we would hit around ~2% of all papers using 'delve'.

An ~800x (eyeball) increase over 2022 based on this graph.

Since GPT is a good probabilistic 'next word' generator (and I suspect there's weighing towards recency), looking at this graph it is not surprising that large scale use of GPT amplifies delve.

But is there a good way to see what other words it is amplifying?

Did a solo parent flight with my 9 month old.

PostgreSQL is becoming not just the database of choice, but the data warehouse of choice.

That means that efficient ingress/egress of data for Postgres is incredibly important, and the PeerDB (YC S23) team have built an incredible product.

Super excited to partner with them!