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Fleek (YC W22) Is Hiring
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Fleek is a marketplace to sell vintage clothing. We are an international market where whoelsalers and retailers buy vintage clothing in a video first experience.

We're looking for a creative, motivated, and talented human to help our team with UI/UX, branding and building a kickass user experience.

The responsibilities will be:
- Take our existing website joinfleek.com and reimagine it for a video first world
- Help with wireframing and mocking a UI/UX experience for the mobile world
- Talk to customers to understand where product is not working and use design to help address those bottlenecks
Dell quality control is russian roulette but with half the bullets loaded.

They consider an actually working laptop to be a premium feature reserved for the latitude business line.
> keeps saying

Well yes, but I'm looking for something substantive rather than just repeated disagreement [Edit: this was unfair, Fabian2k's comments are all thoughtful and substantive, even if I disagree with where the balance falls].

My claim is that smart contracts can provide value by providing a payment process that is more transparent and verifiable.

I'm still not clear whether the disagreement is based on

* believing that having a more transparent and verifiable payment process is not valuable,

* or that smart contracts don't provide more transparent and verifiable payment processes than the typical insurance industry approach,

* or that smart contracts do provide more transparent and verifiable payment processes, but that there are other technologies that would be better at doing that (in which case, what are they?)
I've switched two 60+ relatives from a cheapo supermarket laptop to an iPad + Chromecast combo.

Both are happy as clams. Zero support requests, FaceTime just works and they know they can just press the One Big Button to get to the start screen if they get lost. Combined with Chromecast on their old TVs both can stream anything to their TV for watching.
https://houseind.com/hi/photolettering
North Korean Nuclear Weapons Program Financed in Crypto: Report
Every time i read this 'intel managment engine issue' i am like 'oh, it's that time of the year again'
The Chimp Paradox is probably my #1 general book recommendation because I think we would all be better off if we could better identify and manage our irrational impulses. It's one of those books that can genuinely improve almost every aspect of your life if you take it onboard. It's helped me with countless things in life, from sticking to diets and just being a more reasonable person generally.

There is also a book by the same author called, "My Hidden Chimp" which I believe is a child-friendly version of the The Chimp Paradox. I've not read it myself, but my girlfriend teaches at a primary school where the kids are reading it at the moment. She seems to think highly of it so that might be a good alternative for younger audiences.
It seems that website has a "blackhole links with a HN referrer" rule. copying into a new tab works.
The market is even more obsessed with shaving thickness, and the keyboard must typically sit above the mainboard, heatsinks, speakers etc. which leads to ultra-thin designs for that part. There's no way to make that properly ergonomic, the best you can do is let users cope with a "low travel" design that still provides some feedback to the fingers.
This HN post should be a poll of how many you guessed correctly. 9/15
Car infrastructure is far, far too expensive. The U.S is already deep under water in its maintenance, and as this problem continues to be ignored, the lower the viability of cars will be.

It's actually pretty interesting to see people on the economic right being so staunchly in favor of this incredibly socialized waste of money - it's a testament to the marketing and lobbying efforts by the car industry for sure.
I wonder why we are not seeing more completely server-side analytics. With tricks like this you can get by with no or only minimal JavaScript. You can also set a session cookie to be more accurate. If the cookie is neccessary for the functioning of the site, you don't even need GDPR consent.

Practially, and I know this is cynical, but you don't really have to follow the GDPR, you just have to make sure there is no outside sign you are tracking users. And frankly, if I had a website, I would want accurate statistics, but I would want to avoid a cookie prompt, and I would want as little external javascript as possible. So it is weird that there is no black-hat stealth visitor analytics yet.
Wayland is the new option, that surprisingly (since X is quite ugly) manages to have a much worse design than X.

Wayland (as a consequence of its design) isn't really a single option, rather each DE and WM does it's own implementation of lots of stuff, with different interfaces. So please don't use it as you would be supporting fragmentation and death of the Linux desktop.
> You'd think people learn

The ones who did are no longer in crypto.
>That being said when you look out at the competition the bar is low.

Bluebrixx, Cobi and Xingbao are probably much better.
But you are surrounded by people whose parents contributed to your economy, who were more or less raised with at least a decent amount of shared values.

People don't just come to a new country and just abandon their past. They bring their values, ideals, beliefs, problems and solutions. As the number of foreign people coming, cosmopolitanism increase.

Then you quickly reach a point where you can eat a raclette anywhere, soccer is the most famous sports, Hollywood is the main entity broadcasting entertainment. There is no point in traveling, because every place more or less lost their spirit.

And I am not talking about the fact that, if countries completely drop their requirements based on nationality, they will keep their "usefulness" requirements (who is able to take a job we are looking for)

What's going to happen? Well educated people are going to move easily. Further depriving countries of the very ones they need to develop their countries.

It will be a one way street. I don't imagine hundreds of thousands of Americans moving to eastern Africa anytime soon.
Obviously it's share something e.g. session state and database state.

But architecture of PHP applications is simple and it works. I like simple.
As someone who prefers private offices to cubicles and cubicles to open offices, I prefer working from home purely because it’s the only way to balance the business’s unwillingness to pay for private offices with my unwillingness to work in an open bullpen.
Hot-swappable batteries may be less relevant, but easily-user-replaceable batteries are sorely missed. I still do some work on a T60 (from 2006, I think) whose battery was obviously toast. It took $15 on eBay and ten seconds to pop the old one out and get a brand new one in. Meanwhile my wife's MBP's battery is also about dead and figuring out how to replace it is just enough effort that we haven't made it happen yet.

While I'm here: other features I miss include the Thinklight, literally everything about the keyboard (layout, not being chiclet, key depth), dedicated trackpad buttons, the lid latch, …
It's common in countries where Telegram is popular.
It's notable that Firefox performance is a lot better on Wayland. Depending on the compositor of course.

Which leads to a big misconception that many users have, even here on Hackernews.

"Wayland doesn't support Y" or "Z doesn't work on Wayland" statements only make very limited sense.

Wayland is just a protocol. Unlike X, there is no shared codebase that is used by all implementations - aka compositors.

There are several important compositors, all with their own individual quirks. Which is part of the problem...
Be aware that some other unixes are often corned as Linux.

I use Firefox on FreeBSD and most third party websites identify me as Linux (except Firefox itself). I can't run Wayland because KDE on Wayland is currently broken on FreeBSD :)
This is what I don't get. Wayland seems not to have started with solving some of the X11 problems first but on a strong framework, it seems to just be reinventing the wheel and hoping to catch up and fix the problems somewhere along the way. So users just wait for that moment and X11 works 'fine' for the majority in the meantime.
NFT ‘Color Museum’ Claims You Can Own Hues and Gain Royalties from Them
> [...] I expect it to completely explode within the gaming community when these low and no-fee blockchains take over [...]

What use do block chains have for gaming that can't already be done more efficiently?
> every single intel chip is easily able to run arbitrary code and is vulnerable on a hardware level

Isn't this what we want?

What's the alternative? Your CPU can't run arbitrary code? Having hardware access doesn't give you complete control of the hardware?
May I add this chart to the discussion?

http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/editorcharts/EU-GOOGLE-...

Sure, a lot of American tech companies on the list, who were fined for their absolutely egregious and illegal actions.

Daimler, Scania, DAF, Saint Gobain, Philips, Deutsche Bank and others are very European companies.

It just seems more an issue that the American press in general just isn't very interested what happens in the rest of the world. Except if it involves an American company that is.

If you don't believe that I suggest that you compare international reporting in The New York Times (arguably one of the papers with the highest proportion of international news) with a Frankfurter Allgemeine, or Neue Zürcher Zeitung, say.
Interesting language analysis, but I disagree with the conclusion. Authors merely stating "conclude" or "determine" instead "believe" or "feel" doesn't prove they actually were any more or less rational or logical. The latter use could be more truthful to ones internal thought process.

[If I write "I believe <blah blah>" because I believe something and state the reasons why I believe something, it is probably more informative than the output produced if I believe <blah blah>, then search Google for some random authoritative looking sources that say something that superficially matches what I want to say, and then write "these authoritative sources conclude <blah blah>"].

The observation indicates that popularity of some turn of phrase and "key words" over another have changed over time, which is interesting. But for determining how the actual "rationality" of content has changed, one should pick some set of random articles from different periods and actually analyze structure of arguments presented.
Depends on the days really, I generally don't like WFH anymore (was fine during lockdown#1); I am going to the office daily now, even when it's empty. Better lights, better desks, a monitor, seats, noise. I do quite like hiding away in a coffee/restaurant etc, if I don't have meetings. But having a buzz and people around is important indeed.
Or don't, if you have a business data model that is more complex than a hello world.
What makes the lan port so critical that the M1 max macs are out of the question despite their surpassing performance in your other listed metrics?
Looks like people are using matte screen protectors, https://community.frame.work/search?q=matte
> Literal years. Unless you're using hardware vendors that are hostile to FOSS.

Except new GPU hardware at reasonable prices has been unobtainable for 2 years now, and AMD's new Linux friendly stance was only a couple of years before that. So there's like a 2-3 year window where you could have said "Well, you should have known to buy the FOSS friendly hardware". (Which came with other tradeoffs, AMD had uncompetitive hardware and poor GPGPU support in that time period)
Im on my t460 right now :)
With Ubuntu I honestly don't see much drama. It kinda a bummer in some regards. It just keeps working so I have no good excuse after 5 years to get another laptop.

I've broken it a few times dropping it. And being able to download the manual, order parts and then repair at home has been really nice. I hope lenovo understands that this is a big feature of thinkpads.
it fits fine, it's only about 4ft/120cm wide. I can touch both sides with my hands when sitting normally in front of it.
Basically most of my field of view when working is available retina screen space, it's really nice. :)
Crates don't add new APIs every day, but if you allow a revert to a 5-year-old version, there will definitely be an API difference. I know that without testing you don't know which version exactly is the right one, but it's safer to err on the latest side, than the oldest side.

Serde specifically had an issue with exposing and renaming some APIs that were meant to be private and got used in other crates (let's not even get into how that relates to semver, and whose fault was that), so IIRC serde 1.0.123 is the lowest version you can safely allow these days.
The broadest version is that you can let a junior do that if the system is well managed: has tests, the reviewer has good knowledge, there are good rollback procedures, good metrics exist; whatever it is that's appropriate is functioning.
If you look at the art, it's all just derivative permutation based animal nonsense, self referential crypto memes, or stolen intellectual property. There's nothing of value there.

If you look at the "smart contracts", you find that the majority of NFTs are just links to urls hosted on a server somewhere else. So what you are actually buying is akin to a pamphlet advertising where the Louvre is, when what you thought you've bought was the Mona Lisa. The content behind the URL can change at a moment's notice. Want to put the full content on the blockchain or even a hash of the content? Look at the gas fees for ethereum and tell me it's worth it.

Everything in the NFT space is going to zero.
Almost every single website, especially anything involving articles, is completely unusable without an adblocker. I don't know how those who don't use adblockers do it...
That's a difficult question - i don't have experience outside of Russia so no idea what is unique and what isn't.

It is harder to get funds from foreign clients, primarily because customers are wary of paying money to a russian company (because of hackers and scammers, i think). But you can solve it by registering a US company.

There is a "local market" trap: Russian market is obviously smaller than US one, but still large enough to be considered as a viable single option. That's why many russian companies go solely for the russian market, and that's why companies from Belarus or Ukraine (where local market is not large enough) are often focused on US/Europe from the start.

As for the recent events, I am not a fan, and hope that the situation resolves peacefully.
I absolutely hate, hate this NFT scam. I even hate all the metaverse talk. I've been watching every iteration of VR since the early 90s, and it still looks like a gimmick. But how is vaccine tracking, with temperature information, lot numbers, location, etc, being logged to a secure, fast, carbon-neutral DLT not a good use case? Maybe not any better than a regular database owned by the vaccine buyer, but I can see quite a few benefits (many different buyers, each with their own quirky, sometimes less robust database, for an example). A lot of people are losing money with this moon propert...NFT fad, but I'm seeing quite a few use cases of real value popping up here and there. The example above is not my area of expertise, so I might be wrong, and would really like to hear a good rebuttal, but it's difficult. People seem to eithe love crypto/DLT too much or hate it too much to even bother discussing beyond "The whole entire planet will use crypto for everything" or "There's not a single use for this crap".
YMMV and you do need to change your habits a bit, which is anathema to the HN crowd.

"It can't run my custom i3wm setup and doom-emacs and I can't even cargo install stuff on it, completely unusable!"

I could, and have, done my work just with an iPad and an external keyboard. Blink shell[0] to SSH into a remote environment. VS Code or a similar browser-based editor for code[1].

Of course a full 16" laptop would be better, but before the M1 the battery life was nothing near what the iPad could bring.

[0] https://blink.sh
[1] https://vscode.dev
> Of course, if I just send the artist some money, then he is under no obligation to give me anything, tell anyone about it, or even say "thank you". But that's not what I do when I want to buy a piece of art.

Correct. But NFT people want to show everyone that they support artists they like. Others are free to ignore them, but with public and independently verifiable transactions no one can objectively deny that NFT people actually support the artists.
If you're talking about money, targeted ads and attention grabbing algorithms maybe.

If you're talking about added value to our lives, probably better disease detection (computer vision models for cancer detection etc...), or maybe energy saving
I don't think fibers are that great. There's no indication that a function call will create a fiber and do things[1] that might screw with your current state. When you know fibers are around, you need to code more defensively.

[1]: https://withinboredom.info/blog/2022/01/04/thoughts-on-php-f...
So compared to JS and $DYNAMICALLY_TYPED_LANG, PHP is "decent these days".

These languages all suffer from very similar problems.

Compare to C#/MVC.net, Kotlin/whatever, Go, Rust to get something noteworthy.
The problem is that this is always, always harder to sell than a new feature/launch/whatever addition. You might be a master developer but you'll not be the highest paid / highest level.
Those people who don't believe a notarized document are unlikely to believe a blockchain entry either. After all it could be hacked? Or faked?
Aren’t fibers designed from the perspective of usage in underlying libraries, rather than something for everyday end users in the fashion of async/await?
> The laptop is gradually losing hassle-free hardware support from the latest popular Linux distributions.

That's disappointing. How well do Debian and Fedora hold up from that POV? Even if support has also regressed there, those are probably the distributions where tracing and reporting that regression would be easiest.
My only complaint about the T460 is they have already discontinued replacement batteries.

They are still available in the channel but it's hard to know whether you are getting the real thing or not.
> What's the point of copy notification if apps can just read all your emails and steal all your files anyway.

We are discussing "paste" notifications. Knowing that an "app" is constantly pasting(fetching) the contents of the clipboard seems suspicious behavior and I as a user would like to be made aware of it.
What is flawed?

The difficulty arise from the complexity of the problems to solve.

In a x11 world, the assumption is that everything that a user runs is fully trusted, any software has access all the inputs, all the audio, everything that is displayed without any restriction. This wasn't a problem 30 years ago, but is quite a blocker for modern approach to security with granular permissions.

The architecture of x11 itself does not fit a modern graphical stack, some problem cannot be solved properly like monitors with different framerates, fractional scaling etc...

Wayland is just one part of the big efforts that are ongoing to address those issues. This impact the whole desktop ecosystem, it's a massive effort.

Wayland will replace X though indeed (coupled with other things) that's the intent.
> Then there are issues about how it was written by man, in the literal sense. Female testaments were left out.

> My point was that the sincerity and authenticity of the Nee Testament is comprised because they withheld accounts.

You spoke only of one withheld account, that of Mary, and you said it was because of her gender.

And when you say it lacks authenticity, is it because it's a mans account? Meaning a mans account cannot be authentic in its own right.. it has to be balanced by someone else's account? Is this a court of law where two people (genders in your case) are fighting for I don't know what and both sides have to present their case to the jury/readers? Is this the test for authenticity.. that a female point of view must be included for it to be real?

> So while you’re free to disagree with me, please at least disagree with the actual argument I’ve made rather than creating these straw man arguments that even I wouldn’t agree with.

You are still saying the same thing: the bible is fake/"not authentic" because it was written by men.
> If it's the company that offers the insurance, it's a nonstarter - it doesn't help with trust. If it's some third party, then it's precisely as useful as the trust the customer has in that third-party.

Don't oracles have the same issue?
The fair comparison: PHP/Laravel to Ruby/Rails...

How is PHP/Laravel better? I'm of the opinion it loses hard in every aspect.
X11 is an ancient protocol originally developed for network use (with many graphical terminals connected to one server), it's mature in terms of features but has some inherent security issues. Apps can easily monitor your entire and there's no easy way to block that. It's also more prone to tearing. It was never intended to be frame-perfect in terms of timing. It supports network transparency which is great because you can start remote GUI programs over an SSH session.

Wayland addresses some performance and security issues of X11 but still lacks some features. Apps need to be developed specifically for it (though dual stack is possible) which hinders adoption also. For example screen recording is often an issue. This is partly due to security but also because of it not being recognised as a major usecase from the start. Also, drivers are more of an issue with Wayland. Wayland doesn't have network transparency which I miss a lot.

Personally I still use X11 :)
The high power intel chips prior to Alder Lake are unable to be sufficiently cooled in a laptop of 2kgs or less. The result is excessive throttling, terrible battery, and heat.

The Ryzen 4x/5x chips handle these chassis nicely however and I'm unsure about new Alder Lake ones.
Supporting efficient blockchains for in-game assets, those blockchains with near zero fees, enable (1) robust secondary markets as well as (1) interchangeable assets when desired (such as avatar customizations.) Right now the game industry tends to offer walled garden and fractured solutions here.
The issue here is you’ve focused on the political context and not on the actual reason I disagreed with the recommendation, which was:

1. It’s not authentic for a plethora of reasons (you disagree on that point, which is fine)

2. Even treating it’s stories as just stories, they can differ a lot from one translation to another. Even when you look at different versions of modern stories, at least the basic premise remains roughly the same. Some of the translations of the Bible change key events in hugely significant ways. Which then begs the question, which version of the Bible should one read?

3. It’s also just not well written by modern standards.

It’s fine to disagree with some of the political context but you’re being disingenuous to my original post by distilling it down to an argument about gender and politics.
I think try sticking to something for more then 1-2 years… no wonder you feel lost… can’t really accomplish much in so little time. Spend the next decade on one thing
> It's notable that Firefox performance is a lot better on Wayland

I would like to know more about that. Have you some resources that demonstrate that?

> Depending on the compositor of course.

Which one do you use?