skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How would you go about selling a website in 2022?(Legal Education Space)
TLDR: How about you approach selling a website in 2022? Not just where to list it, but also what strategies would you use to find buyers who would get the most value from a property?
In detail:

I've want to sell a site called Oxbridge Notes https://www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk/ that sells study materials for law students. It's been around about 13 years and gets about 350,000 organic/direct users per year.

The current monetisation model is selling what are essentially e-books about law exams. Due to having a copious amount of public-facing content, there are also quite a few non-students looking up the law via the website, but I never found a way to monetise this segment.

So, from my perhaps simplistic point of view, I think the ideal buyer is either: - a larger player in the third-level study materials/college notes space - an entity in the legal space (e.g. a law firm) that would be able to use the traffic to draw attention to itself or get link juice (search advertising is super expensive in this space)

Aside from listing on websites like Flippa, are there things I can realistically do to proactively search for a fitting buyer? (E.g. I don't think cold-emailing the "info@POTENTIAL-BUYER.com" address would be effective -- but happy to be convinced otherwise.)

Thanks in advance.
presents your bill for you, with the waiter splitting the tab for you.
> The dia-paying group’s membership and internal rules are defined by explicit contract.12 In most cases it is made up of a number of jiffo-paying groups, each of which may consist of the descendants in the paternal line of a single common ancestor, or several such.

The jiffo-paying group is a subset of dia-paying group
Quite sure this is just false, as I've done this in some contexts before, would be great to hear from an eypert. - Consulting pro bono, even during hours on another company should generally be fine, it might just make it more likely to be tax audited.
That comment took a turn.
Very cool! It seems to have a flicker effect on my iPhone. This effect could be used for other things as well not just cards.
It really is. There are thousands of more hateable public figures who have done far less good and far more bad who get only a tiny fraction of the hate I see on hackernews and reddit. Heck, pick a billionaire that's not Bill Gates...

Musk has an actual hatedom of people who try and downplay every good thing he's done and every good trait he has while spreading bad rumours about him, both well founded (impulsive, stubborn, optimistic to delusional levels and not good with peoples feelings) and not (Musk knows nothing about rockets, paypal money came entirely from superrich daddy's slave labour emerald mines and no one wanted the mini submarine).
I feel like the standards are starting to get ahead of implementation. It's almost 2023 and C++20 still doesn't have even full support in any of the main compilers.
While this isn't the root issue it is definitely a major concern that should be addressed. It's deceptive by nature.
Yes? in Singapore they have Michelin stars.
> whisker controls

Tried a quick search and couldn't find it. Is it like the scoll wheel on a mouse? Would be nice to have those on the steering wheel instead of up/down buttons.
What Japan Makes of Ikigai
Agreed, I'm very happy that a lot of things we just accepted would become norms post-pandemic have just been completely forgotten and life today is largely indistinguishable from 2019.
Of course you can. I'm freelance and code-review & tricky-bug-fixing is practically all I do. And I'm quite good at it. Clients devs are usually stuck in fixed ways of thinking so it makes sense to bring in an outsider to dig into the code in ways they couldn't have predicted.

The trick is this: after reviewing enough code, you develop an intuition to where bugs are hiding.
> Is a robolatch cheaper

Doubt it. It's still a latch but now you need a power release and some wires. Glovebox cover is still made in 1 operation regardless if it have the opening for the latch on front or not, you still need someone to install that latch in the cover, but now you need to trace wires to it.
In my experience going to a QR code restaurant with friends means everyone spends their time fiddling with their phones instead of discussing with one another the food that they are actually at the restaurant to eat. The pictures are useless, since in China the vast majority of them are stock photos that don't depict the reality of what you get. It is much easier to choose from a menu board which just says "dry fried green beans", "red cooked eggplant", "celery and dry tofu" etc than get the (much more common on QR code menus) "house special secret recipe greens" plus a random blurry photo that doesn't even make clear what green it is.

I don't expect a restaurant owner to entertain me, but I do expect them to be able to tell me what is in a dish, suggest a suitable equivalent if the restaurant doesn't have exactly what I'm looking for, tell me what's good or fresh that day or bring me something with more or less spicy depending on my preference. Any of these very short and simple interactions about exactly the product they are selling are much easier to have in person than trying to express every possible branch of a back-and-forth conversation in a tiny text box on your phone - and that's assuming there even is a text box.

I've walked out of several restaurants where they had real humans "serving" who either were completely ignorant about the food they had on offer or too lazy to bother engaging with a potential customer. "Just check the app." (Which doesn't have the answers.) What's the point, then? If all you care about is talking to your friends and not getting restaurant service, then just order online from a delivery service and enjoy your meal with friends in the park, in a square, in your office kitchen, in a hotel room, at home, wherever.

And please don't think I'm asking for American style "service" where you practically have servers begging you for tips every 2 seconds. There is a comfortable middle ground, and pretty much every small restaurant and da pai dang in China does it perfectly fine without a QR code menu.
Went out for a meal with my 77-year old father last week and as always he brings a magnifying glass and flashlight as the restaurant lighting is too dim and menus too small almost universally for people with poor eyesight. He’s pretty tech capable and has a big bright phone with large text though so seems to me there’s a potentially huge accessibility opportunity here if they were done well.

(Sounds like they’re not well done in practice although don’t have much personal experience- maybe haven’t hit the UK as much yet)
Not sure why you're being downvoted, but this is the right answer
He's mostly not lying, he's just delusionally optimistic.
If the team hasn't agreed to not allow this kind of messages, they will get through. And if you're the only one asking for better messages, your colleagues will start seeing you as pushy, and the requested changes as personal favors.

The problem is that if good commit practices aren't established very early in the project, they're unlikely to be adopted later when the team grows (assuming that the whole team has a say on the decision).
ahhh ! I too want a list of viable "stick-up" targets :) Too many a times ive got "sure, i can get you the money in 3 to 5 days" excuse in my career as the 'HandsomeBandit' /s
Was in Norway 2 weeks ago.

Went to several restaurants, took the train, stayed at a hotel.
I didn't have to use my phone even once for anything.

As a tourist, the only adjustment I had to make was how comfortable things were and polite people were.
I dont understand what makes Stock not liquid? Unless you want to sell it all, you can borrow against your stock for cash.

If you want "Cash" only. I believe that point of owning cash is privacy and not having to disclose them.
I would like to have an invitation too if that's possible :)
I hate how 1/3rd of this article is just the author describing his or her experience from using the traditional menu in the past and what a QR code is.

Maybe it’s just me but I would really like author to get to the point. Also QR code menus are great.

Edit: One thing to add is that the QR code restaurants I have went to have the physical menu as well so if you forget your phone you can still order.
Asking specifically what you don't think rings true or for examples is different than condescension
I suggest you ask at hn@ycombinator.com

It does seem odd.
Namecheap told everyone with a Russian billing address to f off and use another service. Even if the dirty russkie was hosting a dissident site, unless you beg them to let you stay.
Speaking as a millenial, Tesla takes a reckessness we developed, lovingly and jokingly while tech savvy at risk youth in the 2000s, and applies it to his conduct in day to day life as a grown ass man with wayyyy more resources than we had... in the physical world, where people can die.
The checkout one is down right stupid. Like you have to put in effort to do something like that (design something like that) - like it is so easy to NOT do that.

Not sure how people end uo designing websites like that by damn. Also that Xbox HDMI cable was hilarious - I need one too because those viruses can easily enter my home network through a virus noise (like COVID) that attaches to the HDMI!
Assuming you meant "just to avoid any confusion" :)
Lol in my experience... that is the norm of namecheap customer support service !
Were they? The article said they were told to "stop printing". As in "stop the presses", perhaps. Still sounds weird, though - maybe the author of the invite is not a native English speaker?
No. Forget "XYZ networks". Get yourself a good consulting-bureau (aka. a manager / contracting agency) and let them sell you into the right clients for your talents. They take a cut, yes, but it'll save you a ton of frustration, if self-selling isn't your strength.
Musk's, Gate's, Zuckerberg, other-tech-billionaires spawn point was about as good as any other upper middle class American kid's. If you exclude genes were they probably got a bit luckier than average.
Think about music for example. There's plenty of good music made by people with broken lives.
Nice proof of concept. Might be good enough for basic visualisations but once you det into labelling it becomes unwieldy.
> Both feel themselves correct, and in some narrow way, are.

The side that is attempting to stop people being who they want to be is correct?
Why did the F-14 Tomcat retire decades before its peers? (2021)
Both the vision systems at Tesla and the bot-detection at Twitter are classifiers. Both would have trained on large datasets. Both would have domain specific feature detection sitting below a more general algorithm. Both would have a similar basis for evaluation. Both have real-time constraints on the classification problem. An engineer (who is probably an ML specialist) familiar with one would not be starting from scratch in understanding and evaluating the other system.
Unfortunately, his son and associates have taken down most of the full length lectures within the last five years, as you probably already know. Other than purchasing the audio directly from his son on his site, I believe they did release many of the transcripts of the full length lectures on his and other sites, so you can still read them.
Ya saying Zuck is just too evil even after investing in an unproven market?
Ship wreck databases are very useful for recreational fishing, as fish tend to congregate and feed near underground structures.
> If you can extract useful work from it, it's an energy source. Everything else is just a question of degree

No, this is ridiculous. If humans have to put in more energy than you get out of it, it’s just a transfer mechanism. What you’re saying is no different than claiming your outlet is an energy source.

Geothermal steam vs steam generated by burning coal is qualitatively different in multiple critical ways. Trying to muddy that is nothing more than pro-fossil fuel propaganda.
The iron law of friendship: Friendship = proximity * time

The equation is incredibly simple, but not very easy.

Most people will recommend clubs or activities to get proximity. As a nomad, community living, such as hostels, can be invaluable. Most people will be ephemeral, but some will not.

Time is exactly that. You must be around the same people for extended periods of time. That often means facing rejection by inviting people to spend time with you.

So go be somewhere that is not your home where social interaction wouldn't be frowned upon for at least a few hours a week.
Every time I read about plugs, I remember Tom Scott's video about why British plugs are the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
We use datadog logs. It’s quite pricey though so we have short retention but the interface is great so if your volumes aren’t huge I think it’s a good choice.
I think you have a pretty big misunderstanding if you think that electric cars are driven like petrol cars where you always charge to 100% and then don't charge until the battery is at 0%.

Your link has a graph[1] that indicates that while using 75%-25% charging states, which is what most of the electric cars use by default, you would get 10 000 cycles and still retain 80% of the original capacity. On a 500km range electric car, like that hypothetical Tesla Model 3, that would be 80% capacity left after 2 500 000km. You can Google quite easily that there are for example Tesla Model S cars with over a million kilometers driven.

[1] https://batteryuniversity.com/img/content/capacity-retention...
It all depends on supply, as well as safety. As long as we have an excess of supply of the materials needed to produce the batteries and the increased production doesn't lead to safety issues with the batteries (remember -- Lithium ion battery packs are essentially incendiary bombs under the right circumstances) then all will be fine. However current trends do not indicate continuing trends. If the switch to battery stored power occurs very quickly, there is potential for a price shock.
That's very limited

If you're Jeff Bezos there's no bank that is going to lend you 100B$ against your stock, because:

1. they don't have this money available themselves

2. there's less than 100B$ liquidity to dump these stocks on the market if they go down in value and Jeff's assets have to be liquidated, so the bank will limit the amount of money it will lend
Excellent point. There are a lot of people for whom the #1 goal when purchasing a car is to stake out as high a spot in the "Who's Got More Bling?" pecking order as possible. If a car company CEO developed some weird obsession with maximizing profit, it wouldn't take much genius to start ignoring the practical & thrifty car buyers in favor of the bling maximizers...
There had to be a rust ad in here somewhere.
> some common geographic mental misplacement for continental United States residents
Thousands of mosques targeted as Hindu nationalists try to rewrite history
I don't have it in front of my right now to go into detail but one thing I find very frustrating is functional. When there is a merge conflict its a 50/50 coin toss if the conflict can be displayed in the UI or not.
This is one of those places where we need regulators so step up I think. The Nissan Leaf has been so thoroughly reverse engineered that people can transplant almost all of its components into another Leaf or even an ICE car.

However, there are so many cars coming out (particularly from startups with manufacturing in China) at the moment that it could quickly overwhelm the efforts of the limited number of car hackers to keep up. There should be a reasonable path to detailed specifications if / when manufacturers no longer are willing to supply a replacement battery.
Word “most” doing a lot of heavy lifting. I drove a lot of different types of hire car, and I’ve never seen an option to lock or unlock the glovebox, nor had a situation where it’s been locked.
The Shapes of Our Dreams
Is part of that red tape elsewhere that you need to winterize your turbines just in case?
> It's detrimental to mental health and society

Got a source for that? Sounds like you expanded that personal anecdote a bit too much.
Efficiency on scale instead of detail.

A hash method would quickly run out of disk space before it could be used to verify every single file. Hence hashed b-tree for xfs (or is it jfs? I forget), and stuff like that.

A verify once used many times method is more efficient on a large scale.

I'm no maths expert, heck i don't even know calculus.
In the old days of ASCII several characters were heavily overloaded. On teletypes it was not unusual to create accented characters by typing ` or ' (which looked more like ´), then backspacing and typing a vowel, to get (e.g.) è or é. The same could be done with ~ to create ñ, if the tilde were high up like ˜, or with " to simulate an umlaut.

And of course there’s the overload of hyphen and minus, such that Unicode gave up and named U+002D “hyphen‐minus,” and created two separate characters U+2212 “minus” (−) and U+2010 “hyphen” (‐) to use in situations where the typography matters. Most fonts seem to use identical glyphs for hyphen‐minus and minus, but I’ve seen some that try to split the difference, giving hyphen‐minus a glyph with a height and width somewhere in between hyphen and minus.

If you find minus and hyphen‐minus hard to distinguish visually, just remember that a true minus sign looks just like a plus without the vertical part. Compare the alignments:

- example (U+002D hyphen‐minus)

+ example (plus)

− example (U+2212 minus)
How does this work in a plain-old car with child locks set on the rear doors?

My children had opened the doors while the car was moving at least once before I had to use the child locks; now, as far as I can tell, nobody is getting out of the back doors unless they're opened from the outside.
Thank you for that, in hindsight I should have chucked that info in!
> PNAS was established in 1914

Unrelated, but they have been running an org called "penis" for almost 90 years. Wild.
This is not entirely correct, many places still do accept cash and allow you to order without your phone. It just so happens that most people prefer to order and pay by phone.
No they couldn’t. Fiduciary responsibility doesn’t mean you have to only do things that shareholders agree with. It means you have to act in good faith to represent their interests.

In this case Musk could easily say he had spare capacity, and if there’s crossbilling (which can happen retroactively if there was an objection) there’s really nothing to sue over. If he can get tesla engineers to try to build a cave rescue submarine to buff his public persona he can get them to do this.
Isn’t that a E-GPU basically?
Parag is not an entrepreneur, he has 0 track record. I expect him to start a podcast:D
Isn't OP 14?
This is my experience as an adult studying calculus, linear algebra, dynamic programming etc.

Calculus is mostly algebra. If you can’t reliably solve algebraic equations, derivatives and integrals will probably be a step too far.

Algebra is mostly arithmetic. If you can’t reliably add and multiply rational numbers, solving for unknowns is going to be patchy at best.

The key part as a student is learning to recognise when I needed to re-tread the primitive operations. Having to go back and practice the mental arithmetic I first learned in primary school was a hit to the ego, but at least I could recognise and take that step. When I was in my late teens / early 20s I was much less able to swallow my pride and back-track.
BlazingCDN has now reduced all prices for corporate clients, starting from just $0.005 per Gb without any contract requirements. That makes them 70% cheaper than one of the market leaders in Akamai moving forward.
The BlazingCDN servers can be found in all geo locations and the company has invested in premium datacenters and the lowest latency networks latency to maintain next-level quality of service for each and every customer. This makes BlazingCDN the best static content delivery service in the world when it comes to speed and price – the perfect storm!
However, they do not expect you to simply take them at their word. For any results-oriented company looking to save money on IT infrastructure, BlazingCDN is holding free test events and will even quote individual offers for your specific situation.
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We build our computer systems the way we build our cities
"We build our computer systems the way we build our cities; over time, without a plan, on top of ruins."

-- Ellen Ullman
The function is to sell more good looking cars.
That’s unfortunately a common archetype in the “tech” startup world, yes…
Except that you can't "not buy" a vehicle you need for transport just because the manufacturers decided to remove the latch from the glove compartment.

Your logic only works in healthy markets like TVs where you could buy _EQUIVALENT_ device without the curvature or 3D.

Meanwhile with cars this isn't true - the touchscreen crap trend is being implemented across the market (since its cheaper) and many people can't freely choose a model and brand of their car (either due to costs, dealer availability or other factors like interior space or fuel consumption requirements).

If you'd be able to buy the same car, just with different control stack, THAT would enable the behaviour you describe.
Invisible hand etc
I assume they mean the levers on the steering wheel, indicators and wipers... They look like whiskers in a cat's face that is the steering wheel (and you find them by touch, which is a nice double entendre)
The rich keep 10% of their portfolios liquid to react quickly during "fire sales" like right now when house prices fall.

The rich have very little cash as a percentage of net worth, they still have higher absolute levels than the not rich. I don't know why this internet meme is so popular. If all the rich people don't have money than who are the people with money if they aren't rich? Did we somehow manage to wealth equality with money?
By cash I also include cash equivalents like treasuries with very short durations.

Also, as counterproductive as it might sound, banks give more loans to those who already have money, so if you assume that the rich have enormous lines of credit it is precisely because they have liquid cash in case their debt based investments perform less than than they hoped.

What you are right about is that central banks want people to use cash as a medium of exchange so 3% inflation is basically a "circulation safeguard". The problem with this inflation is that it only exists because you cannot charge a 3% fee on cash directly. If you could do that then 0% inflation would be optimal.
I would love to agree but it's simply not correct. They are buying existing tunneling machines and there is nothing yet to suggest a step change.

The radical proposals in terms of stripping out safety equipment for operational tunnels may prod some development, but ultimately any gains here are not going to be captive and will just result in revised client expectations (outside Boring funding & delivering projects worth $10bn+ individually themselves, with no public involvement).
VC++ is mostly crossing the finish line already.

GCC is getting there thanks Red-Hat support.

Clang well, apparently all those compiler vendors that profit from it, see only a value in LLVM itself, after Apple and Google switched focus to their own languages.
Much of the toxicity and misinformation on twitter stem from the fact that there are no controls to filter out the garbage on the receiver's end, but there is a perverse incentive dir tweeter not to add these controls because the more tweets they see, the more ad slots Twitter can fill.