Subj : Apple ends car project 🚗, inside the blind moon landing 🚀, dev salary negotiations 👨‍💻 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Wed Feb 28 2024 11:35 am --6sZrpU_d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Apple has reportedly ended work on its electric car project.=C2=A0=20 Si= gn Up [1]|Hire [2]|Advertise [3]|View Online [4]=20 =09=09TLDR=20 =09= =09TOGETHER WITH [TLDR] [5] TLDR 2024-02-28 TLDR IS HIRING A TAL= ENT ACQUISITION DIRECTOR ($80K-90K BASE=C2=A0+ BONUS, FULLY REMOTE US TIM= E ZONES) [5]=20 TLDR is hiring a talent acquisition director to help us= build out our recruiting pipeline. As our first talent hire, you will be= responsible for managing our recruiting process, including resume screen= ing, interviewing, salary negotiation, and moving candidates through our= pipeline until onboarding. 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The project faced high sta= rtup costs and a difficult regulatory environment, making it hard for the= company to find the profit margins it hoped for.=20 META MIGHT DEMO A = PAIR OF =E2=80=98TRUE=E2=80=99 AR SMART GLASSES LATER IN 2024 (3 MINUTE R= EAD) [7]=20 Meta may reveal a pair of augmented reality smart glasses a= t its Meta Connect event later this year. Orion will be a 'true' AR devic= e. There is a lot of internal pressure at the company to produce a high-q= uality demo. Company insiders are now experimenting with advanced prototy= pes. The glasses likely won't be available to the public until 2027.=20 = =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY IT TURNS OUT TH= AT ODYSSEUS LANDED ON THE MOON WITHOUT ANY ALTIMETRY DATA (5 MINUTE READ)= [8]=20 Intuitive Machines believes that its mission to land on the Moo= n was a complete success, despite Odysseus toppling over after touching= down. The moon lander's range finders were discovered to be inoperable= a couple of hours before it was due to attempt to land on the Moon, so= the company rewrote its software to take advantage of three telescopes= on a NASA payload for altimetry purposes. While the patch mostly worke= d, Odysseus' onboard flight computer was unable to process the data in re= al time - its last accurate altitude reading was more than 12 minutes bef= ore touchdown. This forced the lander to rely on optical data, resulting = in it coming down much faster than planned.=20 VARDA=E2=80=99S DRUG-COO= KING WINNEBAGO WILL BE REMEMBERED AS A SPACE PIONEER (6 MINUTE READ) [9] = Varda's Winnebago series is designed to bring pharmaceutical researc= h specimens back to Earth for laboratory analysis and eventual commerci= al exploitation. The company's business plan involves producing pharmaceu= ticals and other goods in low-Earth orbit inside an automated laboratory = for a fraction of the cost of a human space flight mission. Some goods be= nefit from being produced in a microgravity environment. The success of t= he mission may mean that the FAA will see the same increase in demand for= reentry licenses that it has seen for launch licenses.=20 = =F0=9F=92=BB=20 PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE INGESTR (GITHUB= REPO) [10]=20 ingestr is a command-line tool that can copy data betwee= n databases with a single command. It can copy data from any source to an= y destination without any code. ingestr supports incremental loading wi= th append, merge, or delete+insert.=20 THE UNWRITTEN RULES (TILL NOW) O= F NEGOTIATING WITH META (20 MINUTE READ) [11]=20 Meta is hiring more = engineers than any of the other FAANGs. Its centralized hiring process is= completely divorced from the teams candidates might end up on. Interview= s are conducted with people whom candidates might never work with again. = After initial interviews, candidates will go through a team-matching phas= e, during which recruiters will likely down-level them. Candidates will t= hen be made lowball offers with just a few days to make a decision. Meta = will refuse to negotiate unless candidates can show other offers from c= omparable companies. This post shares tips on how to navigate the process= and negotiate the best deal.=20 =F0=9F=8E=81=20 MISCELLANEOUS = WENDY=E2=80=99S WILL EXPERIMENT WITH DYNAMIC SURGE PRICING FOR FOOD IN 2025= (2 MINUTE READ) [12]=20 Wendy's will start testing dynamic pricing a= nd AI menu features in 2025. Dynamic pricing means that prices for food i= tems will automatically change throughout the day depending on demand. Th= e company will invest approximately $20 million to install digital menus= capable of displaying real-time variable prices across all of its comp= any-operated locations in the US. 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After a decade of stops and= starts, Apple kills its electric car project (2 minute read)

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Varda=E2=80=99s drug-cookin= g Winnebago will be remembered as a space pioneer (6 minute read)

Varda's Winnebago series is designed to= bring pharmaceutical research specimens back to Earth for laboratory analy= sis and eventual commercial exploitation. The company's business plan invol= ves producing pharmaceuticals and other goods in low-Earth orbit inside an = automated laboratory for a fraction of the cost of a human space flight mis= sion. Some goods benefit from being produced in a microgravity environment.= The success of the mission may mean that the FAA will see the same increas= e in demand for reentry licenses that it has seen for launch licenses.
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Meta is hiring more engineers than any = of the other FAANGs. Its centralized hiring process is completely divorced = from the teams candidates might end up on. Interviews are conducted with pe= ople whom candidates might never work with again. After initial interviews,= candidates will go through a team-matching phase, during which recruiters = will likely down-level them. Candidates will then be made lowball offers wi= th just a few days to make a decision. Meta will refuse to negotiate unless= candidates can show other offers from comparable companies. This post shar= es tips on how to navigate the process and negotiate the best deal.
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Wendy=E2=80=99s will experi= ment with dynamic surge pricing for food in 2025 (2 minute read)

Wendy's will start testing dynamic pric= ing and AI menu features in 2025. Dynamic pricing means that prices for foo= d items will automatically change throughout the day depending on demand. T= he company will invest approximately $20 million to install digital menus c= apable of displaying real-time variable prices across all of its company-op= erated locations in the US. Dynamic pricing is a common business practice f= or several industries, but its application in the fast-food sector is large= ly untested.
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Wonder, Marc Lore's $3.5 Bi= llion Startup, Has Launched a Food Hall in Walmart (2 minute read)

Wonder has opened its 11th location ins= ide a Walmart in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The company plans to open two mo= re locations inside Walmart stores in Ledgewood and Teterboro, New Jersey. = Wonder is a 'fast-fine' food startup that until last year operated high-tec= h food trucks. The company achieved a $3.5 billion valuation after a $350 m= illion capital raise in 2022. Its pivot away from its curbside delivery mod= el netted a $100 million loss.
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