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Corey O’Neal retweeted
Many reporters rushed to ask questions about AI and blame AI for both Microsoft and FAA (even Amtrak) outages when really what they got were more reasons why we need AI and it will be helpful to the development of software systems.
AI is better at complex systems than people.
Corey O’Neal retweeted
San Francisco currently has no *effective* intervention for when you find a drug user in front of your home, business, or school. That must be corrected - for the sake of the general public and the drug user.
Corey O’Neal retweeted
Awesome post from Brian.
If you were an everyday fan of Apple in the 80’s or 90’s… you could have just bought the stock on the open market
And if you held: that position would be up about 1,000X
Nowadays if you’re a fan of an exciting high-growth startup:
You have to be “accredited” and have connections to invest privately. And you probably pay a middleman 20% carry on an SPV
Startups today simply don’t go public until they’re long into their journey. And this pattern has become unfair to the general investing public
We have to start chipping away at access barriers for everyday investors. Reforming accredited investor rules is a good place to start (but isn’t the endgame)
Americans deserve to enjoy the upside of our most promising startups, long before IPO day 🇺🇸
I think it’s time to revisit the accredited investor laws in the US.
Companies are staying private longer, where only accredited investors (aka rich people!) can invest. Retail investors can only come in after IPO, when much of the upside has already been captured.
These rules were created with the best of intentions, to protect regular people from scams - a noble idea. Unfortunately, in practice they've often made it illegal to get richer, unless you're already rich. A regressive tax!
We have to judge policies based on their outcomes, not on their intentions.
These are two possible routes I see:
1) Replace the rule with something merit-based, like a financial literacy test. Pass it and you're accredited. Having a qualification based on competency rather than your bank balance or income seems far more fair.
2) Remove the rule entirely. Let consenting adults assess their own risk. Disclosure requirements stay and fraud enforcement stays to punish bad actors.
Corey O’Neal retweeted
We call 911 when someone is standing on a ledge.
But when someone is deteriorating on our sidewalks, state law often leaves us waiting until it’s too late. (1/2)
latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
Corey O’Neal retweeted
The risk with hiring a domain expert for a zero-to-one product is that new products that breakout are always outliers and break the rules.
Foolish people who start from a clean slate and operate from first principles don't have that scar tissue that can cloud decisionmaking. For example, Airbnb had no hoteliers on the founding team.
However, the best scenario seems to be composing the team with both types of people, as it will create the chemistry to avoid obvious mistakes while also questioning "expert" assumptions.
Corey O’Neal retweeted
shipped a microframework for building World of Warcraft: Forever addons: SomethingNeedDoing
brought some modern JS framework learnings to addon dev: a reactive state API, opinionated options, font, theming + profile APIs, and strong agent-first guidance.
github.com/elithrar/Somethin…
Corey O’Neal retweeted
Toyota is relaunching the Scion brand, and its first product is the KEI-01, a tiny truck with a 660-cc engine. The KEI-01 is basically a rebadged Daihatsu Hijet Jumbo, but will be assembled in Princeton, Indiana. Initial sales will be via a fleet-focused trial program, but limited retail sales could come if there is strong enough demand.
Corey O’Neal retweeted
"Aquaterra may be mostly water today, but for the greater part of human history—indeed, for the greater part of the past million years—it was mostly land. And that land is where we came from."
theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
Corey O’Neal retweeted
Terrific @TheAtlantic piece on archaeologists' and anthropologists' slowly dawning realization that now-submerged areas on the coastal shelf--swathes of land drowned when the glaciers melted--may be where much of our species' early history took place. (Link in reply)
Corey O’Neal retweeted
Apple is working on a new app called Harbor
Harbor turns your Mac into a private AI inference server. Run open-weight models locally on Apple silicon—your data never leaves your hardware, and nothing reaches the cloud. Connect multiple Mac computers over Thunderbolt 5 to pool unified memory, enabling large models and higher concurrency that a single computer can handle alone.
Set up in minutes, not hours Harbor automatically detects your devices over Thunderbolt 5 to form a cluster. Plug in, start, and you’re running—no manual configuration, no command line, no infrastructure expertise required.
Download and run models directly Browse, download, and load open-weight models from within the app. Harbor handles model management so you can focus on the work, not the setup.
Cluster for scale Connect two or more Thunderbolt 5-capable Mac computers and Harbor pools their unified memory into a single inference resource. Run models that exceed any single computer’s capacity, or serve more concurrent requests across your cluster.
Harbor is currently in a private preview under the Claris brand.
Corey O’Neal retweeted
The Method E1: Inside Zipline with Keller Cliffton
It was illegal to fly autonomously in US airspace when Keller Cliffton started Zipline, and most investors "weren't willing to invest in illegal things." Zipline launched in Rwanda instead, flying blood to 21 hospitals. It's now valued at $21.5 billion.
@Keller, co-founder and CEO of Zipline, sat down with @sophiadew at Zipline's South San Francisco factory to break down why they started in Rwanda, why each 10x jump in scale breaks everything, and the case for 50 billion US instant deliveries:
00:00 the closest thing to teleportation
01:38 why Zipline launched in Rwanda first
03:14 the UPenn study and a 51% drop in maternal mortality
04:17 why tech keeps solving "rich people problems"
06:00 bringing Zipline to the US and going back to square one
07:28 why every 10x breaks the company
09:16 running teams like special forces
10:42 people patting the droid to say thank you
11:19 the case for 50 billion US instant deliveries
13:30 from pro rock climber to "happy to fail"
@zipline
Corey O’Neal retweeted
Zipline CEO @keller on how drone deliveries went from "Jesus Christ himself is delivering blood from the sky" to "it's 30 seconds late" in just 7 days:
"You'd go and meet nurses and doctors at a remote hospital and say, now you just send a text message, and an autonomous vehicle's gonna deliver it 10 or 15 minutes later. People are looking at you like you're totally crazy."
"One doctor told me, it's as though Jesus Christ himself is delivering blood from the sky. People would form these huge crowds to watch deliveries for the first few days."
"What is amazing to me is that by day 7, people are 100% bored of it. It's completely normal. I had one doctor come out, and we were watching a delivery together, and she just picked it up, looked at her watch, looked at me and was like, it’s 30 seconds late."
"Humans are so good at adapting to the new normal that something goes from science fiction to entitlement in approximately 7 days."
@zipline
The Method E1: Inside Zipline with Keller Cliffton
It was illegal to fly autonomously in US airspace when Keller Cliffton started Zipline, and most investors "weren't willing to invest in illegal things." Zipline launched in Rwanda instead, flying blood to 21 hospitals. It's now valued at $21.5 billion.
@Keller, co-founder and CEO of Zipline, sat down with @sophiadew at Zipline's South San Francisco factory to break down why they started in Rwanda, why each 10x jump in scale breaks everything, and the case for 50 billion US instant deliveries:
00:00 the closest thing to teleportation
01:38 why Zipline launched in Rwanda first
03:14 the UPenn study and a 51% drop in maternal mortality
04:17 why tech keeps solving "rich people problems"
06:00 bringing Zipline to the US and going back to square one
07:28 why every 10x breaks the company
09:16 running teams like special forces
10:42 people patting the droid to say thank you
11:19 the case for 50 billion US instant deliveries
13:30 from pro rock climber to "happy to fail"
@zipline
Corey O’Neal retweeted
In the private sector, making a loan to someone who is unlikely to be able to pay it back is called "predatory lending."
In the public sector, it's called an "affordability measure."
A top Biden administration economic official is pitching Democrats on a low-down-payment proposal to bring millions of new homebuyers into the market, as incoming congressional leaders take stock of affordability measures that might help them notch early legislative wins bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Corey O’Neal retweeted
there is not a single person in government alive today who has improved my life even a fraction as much as amazon. and most have made it worse.
RT @US_Stormwatch: The new @united nonstop from San Francisco to Sapporo (CTS), starting December 11, is going to be legendary for snow lov…
Corey O’Neal retweeted
The part that stands out about Prop G is that No is ahead in both Districts 1 and 4. The loudest voices made it sound like the whole west side was fed up with traffic and wanted the Great Highway back.
Yet another reminder that Twitter does not reflect the real world.
From local battles on Sunset Dunes and Pelosi’s replacement to the state’s billionaire tax and voting rights, these maps show political divides across San Francisco and California.
Explore all of our interactive election results maps: sf.news/4zeEPOi
Corey O’Neal retweeted
Today, I stood with Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky to announce his $100 million gift to San Francisco’s parks. This is the largest single-donor gift to the city in San Francisco’s history, and will support the development of new parks, upgrades to existing spaces, expanded hours at recreation facilities, and much more.
An initial $39 million will help unlock five projects in neighborhoods across our city. SoMa, the Mission, Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, and downtown will all see transformational projects finish sooner, bringing more welcoming public spaces to residents across San Francisco.
As Mayor, one of my top priorities is making San Francisco a city where families can put down roots and build their futures. Earlier this year, we launched our Family Opportunity Agenda—a citywide effort to bring down the cost of living and expand economic mobility for San Francisco families.
We're building more housing, protecting tenants, expanding access to affordable childcare, and keeping public transportation safe, reliable, and affordable. We're also investing in the public spaces families rely on every day.
Our parks are an essential part of what makes San Francisco such a special place to raise a family. Our recreation programs provide exceptional and affordable opportunities for San Francisco families. With this investment, we're bringing those opportunities to more neighborhoods across our city, expanding access to recreation, and making our parks even better for the families who use them.
San Francisco has created enormous opportunity for the people who have built their businesses here. And with that success comes a responsibility to give back to the city that helped make it possible. So, my ask to every leader who sees what Brian has done today is simple: help us create more opportunities for the people who call San Francisco home. Now is the time. Our city is coming back. Don’t just watch it from the sidelines. Be a part of it.
Corey O’Neal retweeted
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.