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[NirSD @nirsd]

Hiring ML/AI engineers, researchers at multiple levels.

We are building the intelligence layer (hardware+software+AI) to improve sleep and health @Eightsleep.

If you are a strong programmer with science/ML experience and want to build the future of personalized health, dm me.

[NirSD @nirsd]

@donalddhoffman @burny_tech Is there a way to participate without writing my current job and joining the institute? I spent quite a bit of time doing this during my qoqi PhD.

[NirSD @nirsd]

Incredible, Meta is so boomer tech and far behind that they are getting scammed by AI video generators.

[André @oracles]

Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.

People losing handles they’ve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands.

I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this happen in real time, which I haven’t been in years.

Obama White House account got hit.

These aren’t some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.

The thing is the exploit is so simple it’s almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the target’s location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).

Instagram’s AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.

They grab a photo from the target’s profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the person’s face moving around, upload that to Meta’s AI as proof.

And Meta’s AI just accepts it because it can’t tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someone’s face
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Once verified they change the email to theirs. Password reset link goes to their email. They own it now. 2FA gets bypassed somehow in the process but honestly I don’t know exactly how, just that it did.

Point is even locked down accounts went down.

Then you try to recover your account and you’re talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.

You can’t escalate to a human. You’re just stuck. Your asset is gone and there’s no one to call.

The whole thing just highlighted how stupid it is to automate account security without any human in the loop.

One AI fooling another AI while there’s literally no person anywhere to catch it.

Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.

Now thankfully it’s patched but I don’t think it will be the last one. Stay safe!

[NirSD @nirsd]

@thinkingshivers When their valuation ~~ gdp of rest of the world

[NirSD @nirsd]

Everyone quoting this is like -
"100hrs a week is an impossible, irresponsible thing to do. It wrecks your health, family, friendships. And the work isn't even good because without sleep you only operate at 10% productivity. These SV poser kids ngmi.
Trust me I know, I did that for 4 years..."

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose".

Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups.

- The company works 7 days per week.

- Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office.

- He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7.

- 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo.

Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years.

My condensed notes below:

1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose:

Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it.

2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre:

Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers.

3. Lead from the Front Lines

You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them.

4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning

Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning.

5. Lifespan vs. Victories

Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories."

6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting."

If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility.

Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.

[NirSD @nirsd]

This is the real blackpill. The 1970->today the world got a lot richer, but US relative strength and bargaining power has decreased.
Unfortunately, the reverse is also true, when the world gets shittier, the relative value of US increases.
Which creates a very perverse incentive

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

@scaling01 OpenAI's wealth fund proposal also only gives money to American citizens. For anyone who doesn't live in the US, your government would probably have to work something out with the USG (trade something big). American citizenship is about to become much more valuable.

[NirSD @nirsd]

@boneGPT Father of robodildonics

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@Stubbs_GunGuy Why doesn't it happen with the new Twitter

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@RaminNasibov @elonmusk Max Payne

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@jwt0625 It's a carbottleneck

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@blc_16 @AnthropicAI Thank you for your service

[NirSD @nirsd]

@bscholl Mission accomplished already, on to mosquito genocide.

[NirSD @nirsd]

@krishnanrohit B obviously.
I hear the underground scene in Moria is 🔥

[NirSD @nirsd]

@not_ellington corgi insurance - insure your furbaby
silicon valley was too early

[NirSD @nirsd]

This is inevitable. Self driving companies will have to be insurance companies. The blackpill is that Chinese companies understood this essential market dynamic before US companies.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

This is a first.

Yesterday, BYD announced that they will offer full damage coverage for owners using their God’s Eye Level 2+ Urban NOA system in China.

BYD is providing one free full year of 100% damage coverage (vehicle repairs, third-party property damage, and personal injury liabilities with no payout cap) at no extra cost, as long as the system is used properly and in compliance with traffic regulations in China.

They’re also fully guaranteeing coverage for owners using their Intelligent Parking System (their version of Tesla Summon).

This is the first time an automaker has ever provided damage reimbursement for an advanced driving system.

[NirSD @nirsd]

@martin_casado Open source fell off a long time ago. China is brute forcing it at a fraction of the cost like they do everything (chips, compute, brilliant engineers, RL data).
How long can they keep up?
Who knows. But they probably have other levers they can pull so I would not bet against.

[NirSD @nirsd]

wow claude code 4.8 is literally teaching me cutting edge research stuff, writing verbose descriptions and making sure I get the nuances.
The terminal is the new textbook.

[NirSD @nirsd]

@suchenzang Why would this be true? What if verification is easier than generation?

[NirSD @nirsd]

The issue with spectral autoregression, with all ar, is you can't undo past steps.
Once a token, or spectral token, is out, it can't be undone. In language, it can follow with 'wait, actually it's the opposite'.
But images gen is in the fourier pixel basis so it can correct wrong trajectories.

[NirSD @nirsd]

@uncledoomer @growing_daniel Unfortunately, kids are famously the major reason why people stop trying to prove their point and just protect their family instead.
This war cannot be won by citizen protest, too many desertors.

[NirSD @nirsd]

@WillManidis With AI, the need for language acquisition has gone down even faster.