Seems like it would be really useful in a hospital setting as well. Instead of having to wear the heart rate monitors, etc. during recovery or a stress test it could be wireless.
I am a backend dev, and I needed a website that was temporary for an event. I thought to myself this would be a good opportunity to learn some frontend development.
After looking through the 20 different popular front end frameworks and getting confused by SSR, CSR, etc. I decided to use Nuxt. I thought oh this is great, Vue makes a lot of sense to me and this seems like it makes it easer to make Vue apps. I could not have been more wrong. I integrated it with Supabase + Vercel and I had so many random issues I almost scrapped the entire thing to just build it with squarespace.
With so much money flowing into the massive funds, do you think more and more unicorn startups will just stay private? It seems like there are liquidity opportunities for employees/founders via tender offers, secondaries, etc.
If you are a profitable unicorn who can raise money in the private markets when needed, is there really a benefit to going public? Maybe I am missing something, but going public doesn't really seem to be as important as it used to be.
I think the MCP will take off because it can inject ads. Lets say a ecommerce store exposes an MCP so you can order your stuff with a prompt. The MCP can still rank and serve results based on paid ads. Now I am sure people will figure out a way to ignore paid results with prompts, but that is really no different than ad blockers today. It will just be an arms race of prompts filtering and MCP vendors figuring out how to get around it.
> This blog post discusses an old type of issue, vulnerabilities in image format parsers, in a new(er) context: on interactionless code paths in popular messenger apps. This research was focused on the Apple ecosystem and the image parsing API provided by it: the ImageIO framework. Multiple vulnerabilities in image parsing code were found, reported to Apple or the respective open source image library maintainers, and subsequently fixed. During this research, a lightweight and low-overhead guided fuzzing approach for closed source binaries was implemented and is released alongside this blogpost.
> I used LLDB to examine the testHeader functions, it turned out there are three new testHeader functions for different file formats, such as KTX2 and WebP and ETC, so because they were fairly new I thought maybe they have not been fuzzed by Project Zero... I ported Project Zero’s harness to Jackalope fuzzer.. My fuzzing effort found several vulnerabilities [fixed by Apple]..
Lots of experience in what are common exploit tactics are and where to look and test if things will break.
Identifying an exploit in iOS requires a significant amount of knowledge in how the OS works, what existing exploits are and how you could chain them together to create a larger exploit.
I've have very limited experience, but reading about how some people identify and exploit these things is extremely impressive.
Yeah seeing the innovations DJI is making in agriculture makes me wonder why VCs do not want to fund other startups like it. I know the margins are worse and it takes way more capital to fund hardware companies, but that has to be better than funding another chat-gpt wrapper. I guess that is why I am not a VC though lol.
I've seen US startup people deal with manufacturing. There is a class gap that leaves no real space for skilled blue-collar work to exist and also be business critical, and fully integrated into the team. That is how a three-week turnaround for a milled prototype part ends up being tolerated.
How is boston dynamics doing? They do very cool stuff but it feels like they struggle commercializing their technology. I remember they were once bought by google I think? And then spat out...
Hyundai is a massive conglomerate doing a ton of different things. Having a side bet on hydrogen isn't bad, especially considering it's potential potential in applications such as aviation.
It was also the Korean automaker’s best July sales month since launching its first vehicle in 1986.
The growth was mainly driven by electrified vehicles, including EVs and hybrids (HEVs).
The infrastructure to rapidly iterate and manufacture just isn’t here anymore, so everything costs significantly more to the point where we’re noncompetitive. Even VCs with no experience see the top line numbers for hardware startups and nope out.
Contrast this with biotech venture capital which has been doing well for decades, often investing more capital in a year than software VCs. The difference is that all the research, clinical trial, and manufacturing expertise is already here and concentrated in a few localities like South San Francisco, San Diego, and Boston.
Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Way easier to iterate when you have access to a machine shop vs having to upload a CAD file and have a part shipped from another country.
There isn't even anyone here competing with eg JLCPCB just for PCBs let alone all the other prototyping stuff. It makes sense, somehow China is able to do it for less than the materials cost.
I think that's why most people just aren't that upset about tariffs. It would be nice to be able to participate in our own economy other than by grifting off real estate or software.
I agree there will be some breakthrough (maybe by Nvidia or maybe someone else) that allows these models to run insanely cheap and even locally on a laptop. I could see a hardware company coming out with some sort of specialized card that is just for consumer grade inference for common queries. That way the cloud can be used for sever side inference and training.
I completely forgot about prompt engineers. I remember now startups offering insane salaries to them a few years ago. IMO the next iteration will be planning engineers since the new thing seems to be the plan/execution split of these vibe coding tools.
I have toured a few converted buildings in NYC. You end up with weird apartment layouts for reasons you mentioned. For example, a lot of the layouts were really long and narrow to satisfy the window requirement since office buildings are generally just giant square floors where you can have desks without direct window access. I think the other issues are running plumbing and electrical to each unit where an office building just needs a central room with plumbing for a common bathroom area.
Overall the economics seem to work in NYC since rents are so expensive, but I would imagine converting an office tower in a MCOL or LCOL city would be harder to make profitable.
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