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Big Tech & Startups

Mass resignations of iPhone workers after unrest (3 minute read)

More than 20,000 iPhone workers have resigned due to not receiving bonuses and growing fears about a Covid-19 outbreak within the plant. Foxconn offered workers an exit payment equivalent to up to two months salary for new workers who wanted to leave. Up to 30% of production could be lost. iPhone 14 production is already falling behind in the run-up to the holidays. Apple has issued a warning that iPhone 14 Pro availability will be very constrained during the holiday sales period.

Elon Musk says Twitter will begin manually authenticating Blue, Grey, and Gold accounts as soon as next week (2 minute read)

Twitter's check mark program could return on Friday with a new procedure for verifying identities. Identities will be manually authenticated. There will be three types of check marks - gold for companies, gray for the government, and blue for individual accounts. Individuals will be able to display a secondary logo showing they belong to an organization if verified by that organization.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing (4 minute read)

OpenAI created a Minecraft-playing bot by making it watch 70,000 hours of people playing the game. The bot showcases a new technique that could be used to train machines to carry out a wide range of tasks. One of the biggest problems with imitation learning is that every step in each video needs to be annotated, and doing it by hand takes a lot of work. The OpenAI team trained a neural network to label videos automatically.

Universal flu vaccine may be available within two years (3 minute read)

An mRNA vaccine was found to be effective in protecting mice and ferrets against severe influenza. The vaccine protects against all 20 subtypes of influenza A and B. It could provide protection against viruses with pandemic potential. Researchers are now moving on to human trials. The vaccine could be available within the next two years.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

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Miscellaneous

It’s not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse (12 minute read)

Most of the search results Amazon displays on the first page are advertisements. Amazon displays twice as many ads as Walmart and four times as many as Target in its search results. The company has shifted from helping customers with recommendations to building better advertising technology. Many other apps and online marketplaces are following Amazon's lead and displaying shill results.

Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (Hacker News Thread)

Many tech workers have recently been laid off. This Hacker News thread looks at how these recently unemployed workers are finding the current job market. Many workers are finding the process difficult, with slow responses and a lack of interviews. It is important to remember that there is usually a slowdown in recruitment at this time of year due to holiday absences.

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Goncharov: why has the internet invented a fake Martin Scorsese film? (4 minute read)

People started making content for the fake movie after a Tumblr user commented on a photo of a pair of knockoff boots someone else had ordered online.

Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore – so how do they connect to the Internet? (16 minute read)

Soft-unicast allows for IP addresses to be stored on the cloud, resulting in great efficiency gains at a sensible cost and with no loss to performance and reliability.

Tesla Semi completes first 500-mile trip with a full load (2 minute read)

Tesla is finally bringing the Tesla Semi to market with deliveries expected to start this week.

Lumi (GitHub Repo)

Lumi is a framework for converting Python functions into REST APIs.

Twitter new user signups at an ‘all-time high,’ says Elon Musk (2 minute read)

Twitter's daily signups are up 66% compared to the same period in 2021.

Cache invalidation really is one of the hardest problems in computer science (5 minute read)

False sharing is when the cache controller invalidates cached non-stale data that is on the same cache line as stale data.

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20K iPhone workers resign 📱, multicolor Twitter checkmarks 🐦, current state of job hunting 👨‍💻

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