skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think? I would guess he'd just be annoyed!

But it might be worth to connect with the other side of the pond and all that. Like we just did :)

Edit: btw, I thought I had met Armando so I just checked and we were both at the Dagstuhl conference on Inductive Programming (yet another byword for program synthesis) in 2018. I don't think we talked much but we were introduced and he gave a short talk. Small world!
Even looking within western EU, things could have been done so much better - remember how poorly Italy handled the start of the pandemic? But the true disaster is in Eastern and to a lesser degree central EU, as well as India, Pakistan, etc. Not to mention the trainwreck that was in the USA and to a lesser degree South America.

Try to look outside the box, the world is more than just western EU.
Ask HN: How to sell my profitable business running adrift
Pre-history:

This is a long established business in the UK sports/betting market, It's got a known brand, a community of dedicated users, profitable, lean with enough money in the bank to cushion bad months or invest in further growth.

I'm one of the two partners/shareholders, myself holding 33% as engineering director and the other the remaining 67%.

This other partner passed away quite suddenly in May 2020 after a cancer diagnosis, leaving the ship to myself, a family member inheriting his share, and onboarding an old friend with a finger on the pulse of this market, which would supposedly take care of the financial aspect and help us sell the business. Selling was always the goal.

Current history:

* Business expert friend that is supposed to find us a buyer is dragging their feet preparing a proposal and the necessary documents, profits are going down rapidly as no business deals have been closed since 2020, they're mostly idling collecting their pay check.

* The family member holding 67% doesn't know anything about the business, the market or how to run it. I am in excellent terms with them.

* I have been taking care of the day-to-day, tech side, staying on top of everybody while trying to keep the whole business afloat, and it is rapidly destroying my mental and physical health.

--

Since we're not making any progress and just losing money, I now have to sell the business myself. I am a software engineer, I'm no business nor sales expert, I'm extremely stressed out trying to get ourselves out of this situation, and I have no idea where to go from here.

My only desire right now is to help our 5 employees land on their feet and take a long break from total burnout. What's the best way of going about this? I am running out of time and energy.

I don't have the expertise nor interest in growing the business further, and no idea how to find an interested party and good hands to carry the torch of what is a profitable and well placed business with no one at the helm. Do I need a business broker? Do I need to do the first step and contact competitors and prospective buyers myself?

Please, I am not interested in what we _SHOULD HAVE_ done better. I am interested in where to go from here.
> let's say they take a year to become net productive

That's some crazy long time for becoming productive. Do you have any examples of the kind of projects where this would happen? As a freelancer I expect myself to be productive within a week, preferably from the second or third day onwards with smaller tasks. May be that I'm finding just easy projects.
Looks like that trial's currently not accepting new participants, but thanks for the link - I'll keep an eye on it in case that changes.

The retrofit plan that an eco-retrofit architect is currently drawing up for me indicates that the biggest benefits are on the "windows=>triple-glazing" (3->2 tonnes Co2e/year) and "external-wall-insulation" (2->1.1 tonnes CO2e/year) steps, but I don't have cost data to establish a cost-benefit ratio for them yet. I'd always suggest that someone who's looking to make their house slightly more efficient start with good triple-glazed windows, though - single glazing and some types of older double glazing can be really surprisingly lossy. The airtightness and MVHR work is spread out among several stages, so is harder to analyse, but older houses leak like sieves and anywhere you can feel a breeze in the winter you can be fairly sure that you're paying to heat air that's escaping the house.

"What works best" is really a bit of a rabbithole. The standards I'm working to are here: https://aecb.net/aecb-retrofit-standard/ and the AECB site in general is full of information though it can be quite dense and jargonized. You may also find https://passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/?nId=867 interesting - it's a report on retrofitting an entire block of flats by stripping and rebuilding the interior using /Internal/ Wall Insulation instead of the more common EWI - it's less popular because it can be a pest to do electrical and plumbing work around, but it's an option. The three strong pillars of eco-retrofit, at least as I've seen them to be so far, are airtightness (and ventilation!), wall insulation and triple-glazing, and competently made and installed glazing will be the easiest sell to the management company I imagine (if you don't already have it). The other two are more involved.
This argument is so old that it's almost endearing to see people arguing about it time and time again. Code isn't law, and it never was. Consensus is. This is true for all blockchain-based cryptos.

Miners are free not to upgrade every time a new protocol version is proposed. Why do they upgrade then? If consensus was established around the older set of rules, that would be it. But instead there's consensus around the newer rules. And that's simply because miners individually decide that the newer rules are better, for whatever reason.
Edit: didn't know about wet-bulb temperatures (was confusing it with perceived temperature). Here is a link for a wet-bulb temp. map: https://meteologix.com/th/observations/701-e-263-n/wet-bulb-...
> The treatment of school children during the pandemic in Germany is a disgrace.

Why? This seems pretty safe compared to other countries.
The scarier but more likely version of that theory is that the Australian Govt leads the way so the other 4Eyes don't have to follow. Similar to the recent AN0N bust, as our citizen protections are more lax, the FBI etc can route data through Australia where the Govt can intercept it; once intercepted it can be shared with FVEY without consequence.
I think you're underselling it a bit. Our ancestral heritage gives us sweating. If that doesn't work, we sort of fall back to fight or flight, with a racing heart rate. move the blood around as much as you can, and hope some part of the body can cool it.

Heat stroke is a real thing, and it's not fun. There seems to be automatic systems you can't think your way out of that make things worse. Fast heartbeat is burning more calories, adding heat, and friction from viscous blood adding more heat. I imagine it's a pretty unpleasant feeling. I tend to go into shock, so I get to dodge most of that horrible sensation.
I blame NewsCorp and Nine Entertainment as well as the “she’ll be right” attitude of most fellow Aussies. It’s kind of funny the way the media cried when the Federal Police raided the ABC and they cried victim. Yet dodgy law after dodgy law gets passed and no one bats an eyelid.

The relationship the media has with government is disturbing but I guess they are bought and paid for now that the News Media Bargaining Code is a thing.

With due credit to your friends they kind of have a point with the Assistance and Acess Act 2018 in effect. How do they know that the signal app they are downloading is the real deal.

Read up about Firearm Prohibition Orders in NSW too. No need for judges or warrants if you have a rookie police officer and a police commissioner.
We thought about subscription (free and premium) for individual and corporation; also totally free with ads revenue is an option.
To be honest, right now we are most focusing on developing the product and we haven't make decision about the business model yet. Please feel free to share your thought, I'd love to hear.
It can get pretty hot in the summers, but I noticed that this is far less of a problem in brick buildings, and especially if they're built right.

I think far more emphasis can be put on which materials to use, strategic placement of windows, to make pretty energy-efficient buildings. In fact, some office buildings here in Norway, not far from where I live, are already energy positive.

On a slightly different tangent, I live in a really old building. This means it's pretty expensive to heat in the winter. On the other hand, there was a terrible water leak earlier this year, and it took days before the landlord finally checked in. In a new house that would instantly mean risk of mould. But due to the house being old and thus "very well ventilated" the moisture dried up pretty quickly. So there are pros and cons for everything, I guess. And there's more to the indoor climate than just temperature.
Tell that to the conservatives/climate change deniers. They are already in favour of "moving inland" to combat rising sea levels due to climate change. I'm sure they are also in favour of evolving mankind to be able to survive harsh climate.
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it makes total sense if you realize it is all about control
Isn't that the Grudger strategy that's introduced early on?
"Over 80% of respondents oppose its application to end-to-end encrypted communications"

I suspect that is nothing like the actual feeling of the residents of the EU
> Presumably whatever anti-plagiarism software journals are using today is similarly limited.

Sadly, I am guessing the problem here is the anti-plagiarism software was never run, nor was the article ever even read. Especially given that the issues were found disproportionately in one specific journal, this seems to be outright corruption on both sides of the equation.
As I remember Skype was a Luxembourg company with effective HQ in London, and developers in Estonia.
Curious what you're implying happened in the US in the last 4 years. Maybe I'm missing some important event other than Covid but that affects all countries.
Dublin is a mere presence used to funnel out due taxes and contributions. Some real tech stuff might be happening in London though.
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You'll need to still have that old email that was used in the online order of the M1.
When do we expect a change-up in vaccines?

Ones that specifically target COVID-Delta ?
I do similar weekly updates using notion.so templates. New pages are created manually every week. Am I your target customer ?
ohhhh thank you Ennea for pointing this out. Our website is built in Wix, do you have any idea why this happens?
Seems to be lots of startups launching in Sweden these days!

If anyone wants to keep up with Swedish startup news I can warmly recommend Martin Weigert’s formidable news letter, Swedish Tech Weekly.

https://swedishtechweekly.com/
Since the system can't detect new CSAM, doesn't it actually incentivize the production of new material? This mechanism could then actually increase the amount of abuse going on.
What is actually going to happen is displacement. The hundreds of millions of people most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change don't have much choice but to start walking. The 2015 refugee crisis in Europe was nothing compared to that, never mind the tiny trivial inconvenience that is current illegal immigration across the Mexico–US border.
> Everything has tradeoffs. There's no 'objective' better.

Yes there is.

Every chess move has advantages and disadvantages, yes. But some are objectively better.

Every algorithm has advantages and disadvantages. But some are objectively better.

Believing that nothing can be objectively better than Bitcoin, and calling people who disagree delusional, is less than useful.
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> I'd say most of the US Big Tech have their European HQ in Dublin.

That's due to tax reasons. US companies extracting value from Europe while avoiding taxes at all costs.
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Evne Apple has discovered this. Of course they still implement at-will employment and they pretty much exclusively hire people from their Scientology contracting partner - I am surprised no one in Sweden has caught on to them.
You can print the QR code too.
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I think you don't understand what wet bulb temperature is.

Wet bulb temperature is a combination of humidity and temperature.

Wet bulb temperature of 35C means your body physically cannot get rid of heat and you WILL die, rather quickly, even in shade. There is no escape unless you have ability to control humidity (ie. remove some humidity from the air).

Up until recently we did not have situations on earth where wet bulb temperature would reach 35C. Even in the most hot places the air would be dry enough to bring wet bulb temperature down under 35C meaning, things can cool below human body temperature.

The issue is that a lot of people in hot places simply do not have the means to control their climate in their houses, assuming they have any.
That's a lot of money being used in defi (whatever that means) but do you have a single example of financing through defi? Financing means providing borrowers with resources (such as money) that they don't already have. I think you'll have a hard time finding examples, because it turns out financing requires the ability to seize assets from a defaulting borrower, an ability which defi lacks.
What can Avengers Endgame teach us about Git?
For people who can afford new technology. For hundreds of millions to billions of people that's not an option.
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That's why the sentence had a second half: ", which is less common to begin with." That's the purpose of a vaccination.
That seems very in line with GDPR and it's carve outs for the EU and member state governments
The interesting thing here is the rate of change in the social media space. Facebook took about 10 years to gain the global reach that it did, and TikTok only took about 3 years. The next winner may come and go within the span of a year.
The businesses aren't any more ethical in welfare states. Welfare states set the financial burden on individuals - the contributions on employment contracts, dividend and capital gains taxes there are obnoxiously enourmous. An individual there basically gets a job to take a mortgage and that's it regarding life aspirations.
Perhaps here? Article: Norway is pioneering energy-positive buildings https://www.theexplorer.no/stories/architecture-and-construc...
Thanks so much for letting me know!!! First time seeing this...
The miners do have the power to hard fork - they can choose to run a node that implements the fork

> A hard fork is determined by the users, who have to upgrade their software.

Who are 'the users' here? Light clients? Users of wallets? None of these have the power to adopt a fork, soft or hard. The collective action of the miners (or validators) defines which chains still retain liveness. For example in the hard fork between Ethereum Classic (ETC) and Ethereum (ETH) ETC was able to exist only because miners chose to to mine it. This in turn did give non-mining users the choice of how to distribute their demand and create extrinsic value for the ETC token. I wouldn't say this gives non-mining users any control over a hard fork since it happens after-the-fact.

> If the software updates automatically, then the power of hard forking lies with the developers

I don't know of a node distribution for Ethereum that works this way.

The core developers have power as in knowledge and power as in authority, the later being the traditional form of political power.
> Or make daily life dependent on showing your NHS number? Easy to fake, so we'd need NHS photo id-cards to get a coffee, ... sounds a bit police-statey to me ... etc

Exactly, yet this is exactly what Germany, France and Italy are doing right now.

You need the QR code which contains your name / DOB + Photo ID
+1 for haze figuring (cloud computing)
Of course, there are lots of cities who wants to be the Silicon Valley of Europe. I wonder if there are any objective facts one could compare in order to make the discussion a little more fact-based.

Amount of invested venture capital per capita…? Or maybe there are better measures.
Is it me or is there a clear pattern here. Seems like the major governments in the world are creating China-like surveillance under the guise of the trojan horse called CSAM.
It's worth knowing that you don't need to generate N hashes - you can use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_hashing to generate all N hashes from just 2 hashes.
It only seems fair that employees also make financial sacrifices when working from home, considering that the employer is also sacrificing a lot of expenses related to providing office space for the employee, and since productivity has been shown to grow when working from home, which means the employer suddenly has to do a lot more to keep track of all the increased profits. /S
Nurse in Germany suspected of replacing Covid vaccines with saline solution
20 years ago the area around Edinburgh was known as "Silicon Glen". Then there's "Silicon Roundabout" on Old Street in London. Every area where there's tech gets compared with "Silicon Valley".

It's telling that everywhere is compared with SV, not with Scotland or London.
Don't forget the silicon shortage. I've seen 6-9 month lead times for corporate laptop/desktop procurement.
After a Covid-free year, delta arrives in Wuhan, China
What ? I use the stock kernel like the immense majority of arch users. This isn't Gentoo lol
"10.000 websites"

A lot of fuss over ten websites.
Is that the case? The last thing I read was: For the delta variant it most likely won't matter if you're vaccinated/ill or not, you'll spread it either way. So when I get the delta variant and contract the disease but it won't do any harm because I'm vaccinated I can still spread it. If that's the case the

> vaccination does not prevent transmission

statement is a very valid one. I'm vaccinated but I really dislike the decision to cut public funding for the tests.
If China gets into war with anyone sizable (in practice, the U.S.), the trade flow will stop anyway.

US stayed out of WWI for three years, but American trade with Germany was toast once the British started blocking German ships and ports.
Note that there isn't yet any concrete proposed legislation for mandatory screening, if there ever will be any - there's only the linked initiative requesting comments (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...).

I strongly believe such a legislation would not be able to pass EU parliament if it would require actually breaking E2E encryption.
> - Platform: We made this, we know better than you, you cannot use anything else. If you need new thing/improvement, create a ticket we will get back to you in 6 months to say we cannot do it due to other company wide very important initatives.

I think it is due to cynical takes like this that the industry is evolving towards “Use whatever you want, so long as you are open to being on-call for it yourself. Or you can use this Platform maintained by other people.”

Nothing sucks as much as being woken up by pages because some new, shiny, and untested piece of technology was used in production and broke in an unknown way.
Not completely true.

Dogecoin for example has some config changes to block size that make transactions cheaper.

It's factually "better" as far as code goes.
"Social distancing should be employed until the end of time" is totally unsustainable. Technically speaking it means the end of casual sex.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/people/developers-programmer...

According to this, 9% of the population in Dublin are software developers. By comparison, London seems to be at 7.7% according to the same metric.
That looks like nothing so much as Season 1 of The Good Place.
Surprise surprise, the cypherpunks and crypto-anarchists were right all along, but you'll still find people that want to ban technologies like cryptocurrencies and Tor.
> My country hasn't hired more nurses, built more ICU beds, legislated for or supported better air circulation indoors, or subsidised antigen testing - but they have implemented a vaccine passport for cafes and restaurants, against the advice of our council on civil liberties, our data privacy chief, and the WHO covid envoy. We're told it's a temporary measure, and I have no doubt that it will be as "temporary" as the Patriot Act.

Yeah this is what bothers me too. We're bound to see some more waves and continued pressure on the health system for a long time to come yet nothing seems to be done to actually fix that.

When Covid first hid the excuse was "we can't ramp up that quickly" but now that it's here to stay that excuse is still there. But every week they wait makes the wait even longer.

I agree natural immunity is good too. It's automatically adaptive to new variants (and the vaccine can help there as it'll be much less risky to get covid so everyone gets exposed to it a bit).

What I said about accomodating the unvaccinated, this was mainly because the government presents it as such. "We can't force vaccination so we have to check everyone every time". So many basic rights thrown in the trash without any debate. I agree there's probably ulterior motives. And I know it likely won't go away, this is why I'm so strongly against.

I think in the long term I will move to a country that doesn't do this. I've already been moving around all my life.
> current global users 9251

now dropped to 1100 due to new changes at freenode.
Australia has always been quietly very authoritarian. It tries to pretend that it's all beer and barbecue on the beach, but having an open alcohol container in a public place is illegal, and barbecues are only allowed in specific places (and the beach isn't one of them).

There's a term for it: Wowsers [0] - people who police others' behaviour. The Wowsers and the Larrikins [1] battle for Australia's soul. The Wowsers are winning.

Appealing to Australia's Wowsers is always politically beneficial. Any law that strengthens police powers goes over really well.

And then add Murdoch, who owns all the newspapers, controls both major parties, and hates the internet with a passion (because it's destroying his business and power base).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wowser
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrikin
Well, to me it sounds like: "Yeah, it showed that all the old chemical party drugs are bad in the long run, but this new party drug makes you feel really good, so why worry about the future?"

I mean do it, if you want. But I also have the opinion that I do not want to base my happiness and wellbeing in something that has shown to have a short timed luck - followed by darkness. And I do not see society benefitting. When I watch my young nephews as mindless TikTok zombies - I do not see them happy really. They are occupied. But happy?

I see them happy, when they do real kids stuff - running around, jumping, fighting, doing stupid things. Also gaming together. And if they watch some videos - why not. But they seem just addicted to me already. It is all about a healthy balance - and those "social media apps" have the goal to maximize engagement - that means addiction and not a healthy balance.
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> You would just have to check in with your vaccine passport to prove that you can enter rather than check in for contact tracing; exact same problem either way.

The QR code is the vaccine passport. The test with the 2-day validity is simply another way to get it temporarily.

And if everyone is vaccinated, why do we still need to do contact tracing? The idea was that it doesn't have enough hosts to reach R > 1 so it'll fizzle out anyway.
It's already happening. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dematerialization_(economics)
NASA's 'Quiet' Supersonic X-59 Jet Approaches First Flight