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Ask HN: How to reach out to big footwear brands in order to tie-up with them?
Hi HN Community,

I've been working on this startup [https://unfake.carrd.co] where we are helping footwear brands fight counterfeits effectively. We are doing so using the power of NFC tags combined with the uniqueness of NFTs.

I've made a prototype. You can check it out on the website mentioned above or here: https://youtu.be/fHCxnHlQIjk

I would like to know the best possible way of reaching out to big footwear brands for demonstrating them the concept in order to tie-up with them.

Let me know if you have any other suggestions/feedback as well.

Peace
Hammad Nasir
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Doesn’t GR always agree with Newtonian gravity when objects aren’t accelerating?
12900K breaks overclocking world record
Interestingly, from the perspective of the individual, the real world is also an augmented reality version of of the real world.
It's good that having a reproducible build process is a requirement for the Gold rating, as is signed releases.

Perhaps there needs to be a Platinum level which involves storing the hash of each release in a distributed append-only log, with multiple third parties vouching that they can build the binary from the published source.

Obviously I'm thinking of something like sigstore[0] which the Arch Linux package ecosystem is being experimentally integrated with.[1] Then there's Crev for distributed code review.[2]

[0] https://docs.sigstore.dev/

[1] https://github.com/kpcyrd/pacman-bintrans

[2] https://github.com/crev-dev/crev
In bash, such things are documented in the help system:

$ help command
command: command [-pVv] command [arg ...]
Execute a simple command or display information about commands.

Runs COMMAND with ARGS suppressing shell function lookup, or display
information about the specified COMMANDs. Can be used to invoke commands
on disk when a function with the same name exists.

Options:
-p use a default value for PATH that is guaranteed to find all of
the standard utilities
-v print a description of COMMAND similar to the `type' builtin
-V print a more verbose description of each COMMAND

Exit Status:
Returns exit status of COMMAND, or failure if COMMAND is not found.
Can you have a cooperative with limited liability? I'm sure you can emulate it with a limited company and particular arrangements of stock ownership and voting rights, but I doubt that's easy or cheap to set up.

The John Lewis Partnership in the UK is a public limited company whose shares are entirely owned by a trust that pays shares of profits to all of its employees, which isn't quite "ownership" but close, and they have a $15bn revenue. Publix Super Markets in the US has a $45bn revenue and is privately owned with all employees receiving stock.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/051316/6-succ...

Financing is probably an issue at a certain level but it doesn't seem to be limiting otherwise. They're just unusual, although if you consider startups giving employees a stake isn't that strange today.
Someone make you a counterfeit with one bit hnged an sells it cheaper, so it doesn't solve anything. Maybe oehing ith neural hashes could, but nothing in Tracy's popular nfts.
Agreed. Such a contrast to all the shouty, gossipy, attention-seeking channels. Just lays out the facts or opinions with high production values and (apart from sometimes repeating himself a little) no filler.
Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – research hints at why
In the U.S. South, "learn" can mean "teach", as in: "I'm gonna learn you some manners, young man!"
This really isn't "News" at all. We know there are breakthrough infections and those infected can spread the virus.

Anyone who gets infected is a playground for the virus to mutate.
It’s not really that advantageous for energy storage. The round trip energy efficiency is less than 50% so half of any stored energy is wasted.
On the brain itself:
Edelman

Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind

On brain and drugs:
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/...
> Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli historian and a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, outlines how big brains are not necessarily better brains in his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Our brains use around 25% of the calories we eat a day but account for only 2-3% of our body weight (Harari).

Interesting that our brains are so resource-intensive. It doesn't seem that surprising that natural selection would favor smaller or more efficient brains in many cases.
suggesting that this is a function of some aspect of personality.
Ask HN: What roles can you pursue besides web development?
Hello HN,

I’m stuck in between choosing roles and having a hard time in figuring out where should I specialized

Long story short what other roles can I pursue besides web development
Not really a question of transitioning, but how to get a paid web developer job starting almost from zero.

Web development is a big field with lots of tools, languages, frameworks, application domains. Anecdotally a person needs to put in a few years of motivated practice to get productive. Of course that depends on the person and the project/job. I’ve been in web development since the web started and I’ve never known anyone to get to professional level in less than two years.

I wrote this several years ago. Possibly useful.

https://typicalprogrammer.com/things-you-need-to-know-to-do-...
Sure: literally everything past the first chapter of any microeconomics textbook. Come on, your position is "it just seems obvious", so I'll just say that it _is_ obvious that economics -- a social science full of interconnected and confounding factors -- is not so simple as "if everyone has 10 more dollars then everyone's cost of living goes up by exactly 10 dollars."
It is, that's why I'm saying it would be nicer if I could upgrade RAM myself without giving up my $$$ kidney $$$
The overwhelming majority of slow code isn't slow because it's failed to do this kind of microoptimization, it's slow because it used the wrong algorithm.

If you have "months to write fizzbuzz" levels of resources available, sure, you can microoptimize everything. Except in practice you can't, because the amount of effort needed for this kind of microoptimization is quadratic or worse in the complexity of the problem you're actually solving.

For a realistic-sized problem, if you write solutions in C and Python with the same amount of effort from equally skilled programmers, the Python version will almost certainly be faster, because they'll have had a lot more time available to spend prototyping and picking good algorithms rather than debugging undefined behaviour because they used the wrong combination of integer bit lengths.
People didn't mind Unroll.me either, until they discovered jt was reading purchase data in emails and selling it via their parent company.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/17/21027159/unroll-me-email...
The main reason I always turn to finite differences is because the formula are so easy that I can get it right the first time without looking anything up. But the cancelation problems are very real, so I might have to look into this, because the formula isn't more complex.
Other drugs already are legal. Alcohol is legal, and marijuana is effectively legal in Seattle, where people apparently do a lot of meth.
If the hardware is subsidized - can the device then be used for parts? Weren't some game consoles used for computational tasks, as they were quite competitive there? Or I'd assume a company can emerge which would gladly take a fee for removing hardware - and software - limitation of such products; I'm sure the concept of ownership would serve everybody well here?
if you proved P=NP, time-stamping a hash might not be too secure :)
> In your opinion, should we just not discuss our experiences with companies at all, since the descriptions will be mere projections of what actually happened?

I don't think I can answer that question without more context. It largely depends on the situation.

In this case he could have simply omitted the name of the company:

> I was rejected by <insert succinct description of what these coding tutorial sites are> three times, so I built my own

He's sharing the same story without throwing jabs at a particular company. I could have done the same in my above example with the same result:

> I tried to start a company with someone 3 times and failed, so I became a solo founder instead and succeeded

--

IMO it comes down to professional etiquette. Don't broach muddy topics in public because the audience doesn't have enough context to see the complete picture. It's sort of like airing your dirty laundry in a public restaurant.
The recepient configures an auto reply with “No thank you” just keeps receiving money?
That's absolutely something a compiler can do, and it's easily verifiable:
https://godbolt.org/z/3Tze5q594
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META: Make Everything Terrible Again
This seems like a pretty silly way to look at performance - If I'm working in C++, I 'care' about performance, but performance always exists on a continuum.

If I "truly cared" I could write it in assembler; but I don't, because chasing down the diminishing returns isn't worth it.

C++ w/STD is a perfectly valid (and extremely powerful!) point in the continuum that runs from Python to Assembly :)
The subject here is biological evolution.
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29033358

but I'll add my dup comment for good measure:

META: Make Everything Terrible Again
Meh... The majority of the largest and most popular CDNs are all running Linux stacks.
OP here. I think Codecademy, Scrimba, and freecodecamp are great resources for new learners. Middle school though, that’s tough…

If you’re interested in writing your own tutorials for your students, I think codeamigo would be great for that. Feel free to email me (email in profile) if you want help with that!
I'm not. No one can deliver as CTO if they haven't come through the ranks. Best they can do is fake it and take the credit.
I have been absolutely delighted by Let's go Brandon, but annoyed that it's always Trump as the alternative. I agree with the person in this thread who said there is a lot more discontent outside of Trump’s contingency. I’ve been really shocked how powerful rampantly repressive neoliberal corporate takeover is if you just sprinkle a little identity politics on top. Seriously, the same people who were critiquing globalization, pharma and bad trade deals, and supporting free-speech are... where? These issues used to be firmly the territory of the left. What’s... left? Now anyone questioning power can’t even get an interview anywhere but Christian, libertarian and conservative media. my question to those who still think Trump is the great hope is: what on earth makes you think that man is going to do anything substantively different about those issues? I feel like it’s time to stop talking about the office of the presidency entirely.
> I was on SSRIs for a time until my thoughts became so irreversibly cloudy that I weened off and stopped. After that I coincidentally stopped drinking, my weight dropped, and now I've stopped using weed for the most part. My anxiety doesn't go away, even if I go ride my bike for hours.

You may want to try a primarily anaerobic exercise like lifting weights to supplement your cardio. Your mileage may vary, but I personally get a huge endorphin rush from a heavy[1] deadlift. It's so powerful that it takes an effort to not start hugging other people at the gym.

> I've noticed relying on my friends to vent just sours relationships. As much as people gloat about support systems, it's mainly a farce. People will only tolerate hearing so much of your internal dissonance, concerns, and stressors. People want to enjoy you, for the most part. Maybe a partner will be there for you, but not likely in my experience (though, I'm unmarried, so take what I say with a grain of salt.)

More than anything else, people remember how you make them feel. If you're always dumping your negative issues on them, even if they like you, subconsciously they'll learn to associate you with feeling bad and avoid you.

A much better approach is to show an interest in your friends and try to sympathize with what's going well in their lives. And I mean really sympathize. Let yourself feel happiness on their behalf. Encourage them to keep it up. Then they will learn that being around you makes them feel good. Once you build up a good feelings battery in the relationship, you can draw down from it a bit when you're feeling down.

Dating is a different ball of wax. If you're having trouble with basic friendships then it's probably best to establish some healthy habits there first.

[1] https://exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/StrengthStandards. Bear in mind these are single rep maximum effort, which an untrained person isn't likely to properly do.
Ah that makes sense. I can imagine Chinese brands may have bad support for Japanese.
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You said "Are there unknowns that are likely huge threats? Maybe, maybe not. Who's to say?", to which I replied "climatologists".

I'm not sure why you want me citing something entirely different - opposite, really - that I haven't claimed.
Where in canada were you? I've lived here my whole life and never experienced anything like this. And I've been to Germany, out drinking with Germans, a handful of times and never felt any material difference in demeanor between partying with those folks and with canadians.
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> if you had someone's email you could be sure the message directly reaches him

You don’t get it. I don’t want your message to directly reach me. I want you to kindly f-off and don’t waste my time with endless offers of shit that I don’t need. You think your message is worth it? Pay me for my time to look at it then. I think it is a great idea. I wish someone did it for phones as well. “p2t2p won’t answer your call as you’re not in the list of approved callers. Press hash sign to make a paid call for a small fee of 1 AUD a minute if you really think your phone call is worth it."
I don't know, I use the video tag for videos served from an S3 bucket with great performance. Way better than YouTube for videos under 5 min. Seems to be pretty easy. Maybe the author's issues are more for long videos?
Bad in terms of hard drugs disguised as a more desirable drug.
Thanks! I'm slightly busy today (reading papers) but I skimmed your link and bookmarked it. Useful! I'll definitely get back to it for a more thorough read.

Thank you again.
Imperial Japan was heavily dependent on amphetamines for wartime production and military stamina, and even gave the drug a patriotic-sounding name. It is definitely a useful tool for a totalitarian regime.
It looks like you are anti-vax and you'd like to debate with someone who's pro-vax. I'm one of those pro-vaxxers. In fact tomorrow I'll be getting my booster shot, and I'll get my annual flu shot too.

So, what exactly is your theory? That vaccines are water? That they are not? Is it a single theory, or you have multiple hypotheses? Who is trying to fool whom? Who are the "masters", and what "illusion" are they trying to keep?

I'm not sarcastic at all. Please articulate your thoughts, and I'll argue with you with complete honesty.
Yes! Check us out on twitter to follow along on our progress @codeamigo_dev
Structural editing is something that seems like a great idea to me but that I feel wouldn’t work for me in practice. The context sensitivity of actions would drive me crazy. While it’s smart, I feel as though I prize consistency over cleverness in this regard since it makes it easier to make the usage of the commands second nature, but maybe I’d get used to the context sensitivity just the same.
I agree with this more than Ryan Peterson.

Governments need to be built up to handle 100 year floods. Businesses standard life time don't last long enough to spend a ton of resources on betting towards those kinds of time scales.
> "community, shared culture, shared religion."

I don't pretend to be an expert on Ethiopia, but I was under the impression that it's a multi-ethnic state of different tribes who don't necessarily share those things with each other.
re. paper towels: strictly non-essential items, yes, but it takes some lifestyle reconfiguration to make the alternatives work. My household is (I speculate asymptotically) approaching zero paper towel use, but we have ready access to laundry, the capital and bandwidth to have built up a comfortable supply of rags and towels, and our only occasionally messy coinhabitant is the cat (and you can bet that if he vomits, I'm using a paper towel to clean it up).

We can make the conscious choice to reduce our dependence on disposable products, but at some point (for everyone, for every "easy" solution x) it's not worth reducing any more.
Also:

> I already have a master's thesis. This was harder.
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Yeah after I commented I read the wikipedia link in a sibling comment -- which basically says what you said. Having programs/Turing Machines generate 'proofs' and checking them in P does seems legit.
Same reason so many people object to censorship: nobody can be trusted with that kind of power.
Deno Deploy is a hosting service by the team that develops the Deno language
its not bad luck when you buy something thats only made one place on the planet.
Looks like there's NASA sold in spray form, how would that compare in efficacy to subcutaneous injection?
But since then have you gone back and learned all of that stuff from those classes? Is the point of school to make you interested in the first place or just assume you already found the topic interesting and see the value and you want to learn more
"UPnP Device Architecture V1.0 Annex A – IP Version 6 Support":

* http://upnp.org/specs/arch/UPnP-arch-AnnexAIPv6-v1.pdf
If you hold the stock for more than a year it is part of the qualification, and with some exceptions most will be.
> Stole or just copied, the 'idea' of a social network wasn't novel by the time fb came around.

IIRC, the idea he stole wasn't "social networking," it was "social networking for elite kids at Harvard."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#Facebook:

> Just six days after the launch of the site, three Harvard University seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, but instead using their idea to build a competing product.[21] The three complained to the Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. Zuckerberg knew about the investigation so he used TheFacebook.com to find members in the site who identified themselves as members of the Crimson. He examined a history of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com. In the cases in which they had failed to log in, Zuckerberg tried to use them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts, and he was successful in accessing two of them. In the end, three Crimson members filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg which was later settled.[21][22]
Meta’s goal seems to become a “3D-Internet” browser/platform. But unless the concept of a “3D-Internet” is widely adopted and the related standards/technologies are built/adopted by the major players it might be gargantuan task for one company to pull this off. IMHO the Vision is great and inevitable.. but needs Industry support.
ScryptMail？
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”

though, when is that ever not true...
You can do symbolic algebra on symbolic function definitions. What's interesting about this stuff is that it works for "real" functions - plain Haskell functions that we can't inspect the definition of, just call in the normal way (there's no macros or monkeypatching or anything like that going on). It's like being able to use numerical methods but still somehow solve everything exactly.
A depressing statistic. But it's by downstream traffic. So it's heavily skewed to video. Also, Google may include Google cloud (video conferencing/video search/image search/mail/pics/video/whatever).
Far before civilization too, so I guess we can't blame sedentarism either.
This is already playing out at a global level:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

"There were strong negative correlations found between national IQ and three national indicators of fertility."

I think we should look on with worry that there are people with smaller brains that we are now giving unlimited resources to (food, technology, medicine), via aid and welfare programs. The dysgenic potential is immense.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/12/how-are-capital-...

For the 2020 tax year, you pay 0% on long-term capital gains if you have total income of $40,000 or less; 15% if you have income of $441,450 or less; and 20% if your income is greater than $441,450.
And for the client side there is FreeTDS:

https://www.freetds.org/
you don't use the good potatoes for toys...
Raw materials are seeing issues, which is trickling down to nearly everything. Metal costs have gone up >25% from what I've seen, plastics are nearly impossible to get from the large suppliers, etc.

Many electronics components are majorly supply constrained right now, is isn't just silicon components, passives also have shortages everywhere.
FreeTDS – open-source client for Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases
Because it seems to be a recent revelation for Zuck that childhood friendships could be more important than work - it's poignant and it makes me suspect he was lonely as a kid
pivoted. please.
So real answers -

It's not just the port mind you - the whole logistics system is straining.

Broadly, too few workers to move too many things and a heavy reliance on "just in time" manufacturing techniques.

Like the ports are just one component of the issue, so are labor shortages at domestic manufacturers, overseas manufacturers, disruptions from COVID, and all of these things interplaying with one another.

We went from a self optimizing system, that had some risk of someone having too much of something, to a highly optimized system where there was no slack in the system - largely in the name of saving money - if there is less inventory on the shelf, there is less sitting on the balance book, and less that needs financing. Furthermore moving the kind of manufacturing overseas that we have, has increased fragility, both because because it adds obvious choke points - and because it's components that we've moved, so now the ports break down, and it takes 4 months to get a new car.
This is really about "at home first" work rather than remote work. The prevailing model seems to be "don't come to the office unless we want you there" as opposed to "work from anywhere". I understand the reasons for why companies want you at home but local rather than remote, just saying it's very different that real remote working.
Can you mention some downstream effects such that your life was changed?
>> ...but I am not?

We all have differences in our immune systems. Could be you have one that does a good job at fighting off covid.

Could be you got it but barely felt it or didn't notice it at all but you built an immunity to it just the same.

Could be you've not been exposed to enough of the virus to get infected and you will get it.

Could be none of the above.

One thing is for sure, those who've been vaxxed are less likely to get it for now. A variant could come up that changes that but we won't know until it does.