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Hello HN community!

We at LABS3, a global innovation agency, recently published a video analyzing Walmart's Metaverse campaign on the Roblox platform. In the video, we take a close look at the campaign from the perspective of Gen-Z customers, examining what works well and what doesn't, and exploring potential future improvements and possibilities.

To gather insights for the video, we invited young interviewees between the age of 8-18, both gamers and non-gamers, and from a variety of cultural backgrounds. We looked at Walmart's two experiences on Roblox - Walmart Land and Universe of Play - and analyzed them based on three key areas: what works well, what doesn't work as well, and what has a lot of potential.

Here's a summary of what we found:

What works well: The look and feel that Gen-Z perceives well, the casual games that effectively capture Gen-Z's attention, and cultural hooks that update regularly to bring Gen-Z users back.

What doesn't work as well: The world design and games' lack of "Progression design" confuses new players and creates resistance for them to try again, buggy and lack of polish for parts of the virtual world, and disconnection from Walmart's brand message, making the Metaverse experience contribute less to the brand.

What has a lot of potential: Utilizing Roblox' creator economy to achieve new creative ideas, creating experiences and games that encourage connection between players, and designing the virtual world to highlight the brand's mission and purpose (e.g., sustainability).

Whether you're a brand looking to enter the Metaverse or just interested in the latest trends in this exciting space, we think you'll find the video informative and valuable. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0PsVdFDOiU

We hope you enjoy the video and find it helpful. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to comment down below, or reach out to us through social media. We'd love to hear from you!

Find us at:
https://www.instagram.com/labs3.io/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/labs3/

Best regards,
Bruce from Labs3 Production Team
For self-contained stuff, there is AppImage that's just a filesystem subtree [1], or a Docker container. The latter doesn't need Docker, or even Podman; you likely already have systemd, and it knows how to run a container.

If you want to depend on system-wide stuff, or, worse yet, provide shared system-wide stuff, it's time to create a proper OS package (a bunch of them: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Nix, etc).

The curl | bash approach has only one upside: you can store the script, inspect it, then run. I did that a couple times. Because otherwise it's a pretty scary operation, a very literal RCE.
What’s the most Canadian-flag-waving part of the country (if any)?
There WAS a LOT of misinformation about covid, and a lot of it could cause real harm.

Quite true. Thing is, there wasn't that much of it before the CDC spent over a month spewing bullshit telling people not to wear masks because masks don't stop the spread of COVID. It was obvious to everyone and their dog that masks help stop the spread of respiratory infections. That irrevocably shattered a whole lot of people's faith in the CDC and the government in general. People saw that the agency tasked with protecting their lives had lied to them, and once the truth was revealed discovered those lies had done nothing but open the door for price gougers to buy up the entire mask supply. What the CDC had told them not to buy for a dime a piece they now told them to buy for ten dollars a piece, and the new law now required them to have it. Once they threw their own credibility on the fire, people had to go looking for something else to believe in. For many of them it was crazy conspiracy theories and demagogues.
Yes, google is shit. But it is far from being the only case.

People, the internet is decentralized. Use it.

Stop using social media, build your website. Own your domain. Don't buy it in google, don't host on AWS.

Nobody visits it? Good.

Use use smartphone less, use your laptop more. Buy a dumbphone.

Use Linux.

Be unashamed of pirating stuff, if you have to pay yet another corporate rent.

Buy shareware from independent developers. Don't use the corporate stores.

Overall: create, don't just be a consumer.
Saw this earlier: https://twitter.com/AtSouthwest/status/1607554851025850369?s...

Anybody know how significant this is?
Discussion: The irony of this whole situation
I know this is a massive stretch but it's an interesting realisation - Google should have called the "Code-Red" half a year ago?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gender-toys-children-toy-pref...
One of us. Welcome to your new google-lite life (for nobody can truly escape Big G). Things are better here.
No.

Why do female chimpanzees prefer to play with human dolls more than male chimpanzees if it's not a DEEP GENETIC DRIVE?
I think they mean conscript armies of the US.
By population it’s Colombia, by land it’s Peru
The electricity is not free (it would be paid under a low consumption unmetered arrangement, similar to things like public BBQs or traffic lights).

Telstra is contracted to provide payphone service under the Telstra USO Performance Agreement with the Federal Government, at a cost of $44 million.
There’s apparently a lot of people upset about Twitter for trying to manage misinformation. I’d like to see equal information leaked from Fox for comparison, who should have journalistic integrity since they’re a news company.

It seems weird to me that Twitter is the only one people seem to be up in arms about, and not the times the US president did things like suggest to the public, on live national tv, that consuming bleach could cure Covid.

Given that extreme level of ridiculous harmful misinformation being presented, it seems obvious to me that any reasonably ethical link in the communication chain should attempt to speak up.

Twitter didn’t even really block most things, they just added a small banner alongside some statements that amount to being a reminder to check your sources.
If I give you an rpm package, that isn't really any better. It can run any script during installation and you'll already be running it as root.
When this happen, I do just download the movie (or book or music) illegally. I bought it, I own it, and companies trying to not let me have it despite that should expect this.
I did some Java development on windows NT 3.51 and a 486 (33Mhz?) back in 1996. Worked fine. That was considered a fast machine at the time. I used Ultraedit and IBM's jikes incremental compiler. We were building some applet. Builds took a few seconds with jikes (as opposed to using javac that came with the jdk). There were no ant, maven, or gradle wasting more time. I had a little batch file that set up the classpath just right and then called the compiler.

That setup was actually faster than building kotlin projects on my current mac M1 laptop. Of course it's doing more stuff these days but build times seem a constant through the ages. Better hardware just leads to more complicated tooling.
Nurses work with people more than things? Im not sure how much face time a nurse gets in a day but Ive talked to a few and its a lot of paperwork… do accountants work with things?
Isn’t the actual problem still nonsensical anti piracy DRM/requirements pushed by studios and that any distributor will have to try to implement to sell the movie in the first place?

I’m not justifying the absolutely garbage user experience here though.

Personally: I refuse to buy digital movies on any platform because it’s deceptive marketing. You can never actually “buy”, only rent. So I go for that option if I really have to. If pirating is easier than paying (which on appletv is just one click) then you have failed and I will rather pirate it instead.
Have you tried discussing these points on the submission page for those other Twitter stories?
I think there is a good chance this is the case. There would likely be unused pairs available at that location that could provide a wired data service to the billboard.
The issue here isn't that it's Google, it's that Google is doing what they're told to do.

Movie and music licensing has been absolutely destroyed recently and the hoops that you have to agree to are becoming untenable. Recently, I mentioned to a band it was sad they pulled their music off Spotify. Puzzled, they were not even aware that the licensing was pulled, and they had to go yell at their record label (who was unaware they were even on Spotify because they made less than a dollar in royalties per year on it) who has sat on it for over a year and refused to release the rights back to the artist so they can have it available on Spotify.
I'm always reminded of Gabe Newell's quote on piracy[1]:

>Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem

And by in large I still agree with it. For me I've only ever turned to piracy when the legitimate service has become a complete mess of red tape and user frustration.

[1] https://www.escapistmagazine.com/valves-gabe-newell-says-pir...
Confidently incorrect.

That isn't how any of this works.
If you don't have a file or physical media, assume that you're renting, no matter what the company calls it.
> She has a copy of it I got on google play for her which she can play on her tablet.

> So I pirate the movie (please don't arrest me, it's google's fault).

Is it pirated if you already own a legally valid license?

How about rips of blu-rays you own, which you solely use and do not intend to share? Is that pirating or using your legally owned product on a different medium?
I'm content with a tiny service called posteo from Berlin, Germany. It's a euro per month and it offers email and calendars with a lot of focus on security.
The diagram shows Numpy (orange line) below "Rumpy" (blue line). Since the y axis is time, less is more, so Numpy is faster indeed.
Or Bochs, more specifically. Qemu is a frontend to various CPU emulators and hypervisors (KVM, NVMM, HAXM etc.).
I do that too (but i skip the first step).
It's not at all dishonest, the article itself highlights that Trump's administration was also concerned about misinformation, especially early on in the pandemic in regards to things like economic stability and availability of goods.

> The United States government pressured Twitter to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19 and the pandemic. Internal emails that I viewed at Twitter showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s content according to their wishes.

> At the onset of the pandemic, the Trump administration was especially concerned about panic buying, and sought “help from the tech companies to combat misinformation,” according to emails sent by Twitter employees in the wake of meetings with the White House. One area of so-called misinformation: “runs on grocery stores.”

It goes on to talk mostly about the Biden administration, but that's an editorial decision. The author in no way claims that Trump's administration wasn't sending moderation requests to social media companies. This is not a Republican vs Democrat thing; every government under every administration coordinates with social media companies.

If you're going to approach censorship through a purely partisan lens, you're not going to get very far.
This cannot be the case. More than 5% of the male population is old, weak, and/or disabled that it can't possibly be true that 95% of all men have stronger arms than 95% of women. And if you include children I don't see how this could possibly be true. Unless you mean something else?
Curious to know the history here. Was it scrapped because 3d was replacing this format? Duke Nukem 3d was also released in '96.
Only those who go full Stallman can avoid Youtube.
That won’t monetize it, though.
I've known more than one music studio owner in the past who used a cracked Cubase despite owning a legal license because their anti-privacy dongles created lots of compatibility problems. The pirated copy simply worked better.
This is just my story, but I had a situation where a close friend's mother died from COVID. Someone else from the social circle, who knew that person well but was antivax, their first response to hearing them pass from COVID was, "but she had diabetes right? And wasn't she overweight? So it wasn't just COVID?".

So it didn't matter if people lost friends or loved ones, the political war has casualties in their minds.
Yes - bang for the buck, you probably couldn't do much better than improving some part of cut/copy/paste/drag/drop. I think what's needed is an inverted Infinate Canvas approach with ring fenced buckets for each copy/cut event. I sort of use that now keeping a web service page open on multiple machines to push/pull through.
That is likely going to be its Achilles heel :-/
> So I pirate the movie (please don't arrest me, it's google's fault)

I really like the frank tone of the article and I wish people in general would just write unabashedly more often when it comes to stuff like this. Writers online love to dance around the idea of "pirating" their digital goods when communicating on the topic: "Ooh my 'friend' may or may not have downloaded 'xyz' movie from 'abc' website, but I don't advocate piracy".

I pirate music. I pirate movies. Who gives a fuck? I'm not selling it for money. I love having mp4 files, I love having mp3 files. I ESPECIALLY love pirating mp3 files ever since Spotify and the streaming/subscription model has taken over. spytify automatically records mp3 files with metadata tags while you personally listen to Spotify https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify

Adhering to file-based digital possessions has saved me countlessly over the years and it will continue to. I had my music uploaded to Google Play Music, and once that was shut down (the equivalent songs are not in the replacement), I swore off streamed music as a way to organize my personal library, forever. When I end up liking enough content from an artist, I try to find best avenues for compensation, like Bandcamp or SoundCloud.

The things I could be doing better in this regard is better file organization and encrypting everything to safeguard against when cloud file-hosting services come for me based on some dystopian DRM file-content scanning scheme. I've not hit that extreme point yet, however, although I should get around to it sooner than later with rclone (makes it trivially easy) https://github.com/rclone/rclone

And when a situation like the article arises, getting your auntie access to The Wizard of Oz might just be an Airdrop away.
Tablets and Android don't mix well. On an Android phone, you use it every day, so your auth doesn't get stale and everything stays up to date. On a tablet, if you leave it off for a few days or longer, turning it on prompts a bunch of updates and reauthentication.

Also, the boot process is pretty slow, and most tablets I've tried are pretty slow in general (responsiveness). I think they need to de-bloat Android, especially for tablets. The hardware I've used these on is plenty quick.
Zero Vibration Engine
Perfect balanced combustion engine with no vibration.
I know that this article is about Google, but the same arguments apply to digital media bought on almost all major platforms -- Amazon, Netflix, Apple all have similar shady practices. If you want to truly own a media file for "life", there are only two options: (i) buy a BluRay/DVD/CD-ROM version and rip it yourself for posterity and easy access, (ii) pirate it.
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I don’t think it’s unattainable, intuitively it feels like a couple of extra layers to reflect on where the information might have come from could do it (as well as obviously capturing attribution along with the data).

The cynic in me says they would rather keep it ambiguous and not investigate the possibility though. Attribution means everyone can ask for their fair share of the profits made by running the systems trained on the data they supply. Shareholder value and all that.
Well, I just told YT Premium that I will happily give them money if they let me download their videos normally. If Steam and porn sites can manage, so can Youtube.

I also cancelled my HBO because they removed Westworld which I was just about to watch. Thanks but no thanks.
Are you serious? Nurses are not secretaries. They work with people. Just because they have to fill forms, it doesn't give away the fact that their primary job is to tend/care people, help in operations, etc... mostly interacting with people.

An accountant can stay deep down in quicken for days, and it is ok. Just because they interact occasionally with an client, doesn't make them a people's job.

On the other hand, most Sales job are all about people.
Google Movies and the like have never been a means of ownership. The only way to own your media is to rip it from physical disks or pirate it.
It's not all the same people, though. Anti-vax nutjobs were primarily fringe leftists, through 2019. For a few reasons, Covid policy drew a ton of fringe right-wing nutjobs into the movement.

In my experience, possibly the worst thing that was done was labeling people who argued against forced vaccination as anti-vaxxers, no matter whether they were against vaccines or not. That made a large number of reasonable people very hostile, and reasonably so; they were being declared an enemy.
Even a hardcore pirate like me tried to do the right thing when it comes to music - I got Spotify. But when I moved to Taiwan, I tried to switch my payment location to get regional pricing and they refuse to accept my Taiwan debit card. Now I pirate music or use Vanced (YouTube).
>Is it pirated if you already own a legally valid license?

I imagine it depends on who you talk to. If you talk to the company lawyers, they'll say it's illegal and you need to pay up. If you talk to a different lawyer that believes in better IP rights, they'll tell you it's not illegal but hasn't been tested in a court of law.

Ultimately, the only way to know if something is illegal, in the US, is to do the possibly-illegal act, then get yourself sued for it (or worse, arrested, since some IP violations can be prosecuted criminally), so that it can be decided in a court of law whether it's actually illegal or not. Once a court precedent has been set, then we know if something is truly illegal or not. Though this can change if another case ends up with the court (usually a higher court) throwing out the precedent.
Their features section says something else:

> With free email forwarding, get up to 100 alias email addresses with your domain. Design as many sites as you need with up to 100 sub-domains.

So not infinite, but up to 100. Unless I'm misunderstanding something.
Some time ago I wanted to download a couple episodes of a Netflix series as I had to spend some time offline. Apparently they don't have an app for macos, and their recommended browser Safari doesn't support download. So I couldn't download what I paid for on the only device of mine where it made sense to do it.

Spent way too much time trying to figure out how to solve it... pirated it in the end.

It's amazing how they still cannot understand that all this DRM and antipiracy bullshit does is annoy their paying customers.
With all due respect, I feel like Google is large enough to refuse to be told what to do. If they really cared...
Yep. I've worked in places that paid Allen Bradley tens of thousands of dollars a year but actually only used a pirate copy someone had downloaded in 2004.
It started on the day the memo was written: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_December_2022_North_Ame...
More importantly, Android tablets let your trivially install bittorrent clients.
People infected with COVID and beset with parasites do better if their parasite load is brought under control. This is a serious consideration in many tropical countries.

For the rest of us, not.
We've heard a lot of stories about scheduling systems getting overwhelmed at airlines in the past few years. I wonder if any airlines are making a push to modernize them. Or is the business so low margin that they can't afford it?
All these evolutionary arguments (e.g. “head of penis is shaped as such to clean out semen of competitors”) all sound conveniently convincing, but I’m curious if there’s any data validating them?

It’s easy to shoehorn any number of plausible theories, but how do we know one evolutionary theory is the correct one?
I agree with you that the Nix language is a problem, and most likely a mistake in hindsight. Even for someone with lots of functional programming experience it's ugly with bad usability. I'm not familiar with Guix, but I am with Nix and

> Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system

This sounds like it competes (?) with NixOS, but not with Nix. A reason for the popularity of Nix is that it's not only an operating system. Most Nix users probably haven't touched NixOS, but they use Nix as a package manager, build system, development environment, etc on their local machine. That target audience is a lot larger than those who want to adopt a whole new operating system.

This adoption of Nix outside of the operating system context naturally leads to more adoption of NixOS. If you already work with Nix anyway, it's not that huge of a jump towards adopting NixOS.
Yep, and I love android for that as well as sideloading/root.
He also suggested UV lights applied from the inside of the human body could cure COVID. It remains unclear which orifice was recommended, but one was heavily implied. [1]

What a weird time that was.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG0ciGfJ1xY
Well, when you see it, you know the person isn't really saying something; they're repeating a slogan.
And then I think the fact that they're always unobstructed by the phone booth is meaningless too. If you're going to put a billboard next to a phone booth, obviously you're not going to want to deliberately obstruct the billboard.
Honest question, what's the difference between a pricing and service problem?
Is there any meaningful/significant security benefit from doing this?

Whatever executable such a script installs could itself later download + run arbitrary commands.
Ask HN: Elevator Pitch for a Polymath?
Dear HN,

So far in my (admittedly fairly short, at 7--8 years experience) professional life, I've always entered employment as a software engineer.

However, I study a lot of things outside of this: leadership, economics, site reliability engineering, writing, queuing theory, product development, extreme value theory, lean, survival analysis, etc. This means when I find the right employer, my job often extends well beyond the programming I was hired to do, into things like:

- statistical analysis of customer health,

- cross-functional KPIs for alignment on current priorities over a diverse set of departments,

- improving development methodologies and workflows,

- adjusting on-call compensation to improve join rates and employee satisfaction, and more.

Over and over I encounter the advice to "come up with and practise the elevator pitch of what you do". I struggle with this. In an ideal environment, I do so many things I have trouble summing it up -- and if I do, it ends up being something too abstract like "I optimise all your systems".

I realise the things I do are basically the job of a CTO, but with my short professional experience it would be ridiculous if I said that's what I wanted to work as -- I know I lack a lot side skills that would be necessary for that job. (And I don't think everyone would appreciate the joke "assistant to the regional CTO".)

I can sell myself as a software engineer and hope that I end up in a crowd that appreciates the other things I do, but I would like to try to find a good summary of what I do to begin with.

How have you approached this?
#LicensesAreForLosers #AbolishCopyright #LiberateIdeas
It's also ridiculous how I pay for netflix, but during traveling in asia I had to use VPN to watch it. So idiotic. I should just do the same thing and not to pay.
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